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**aaronburke** · July 23, 2007, 17:49

Re: Official Black and White Balls Line up...

minibosses are not confirmed yet but please stay tuned

**Deviant Ollam** · July 23, 2007, 21:13

Re: Official Black and White Balls Line up...

Originally posted by aaronburke View Post

minibosses are not confirmed yet but please stay tuned

fingers remaining crossed here.

**Voltage Spike** · July 24, 2007, 17:32

Re: Official Black and White Balls Line up...

Originally posted by aaronburke View Post

minibosses are not confirmed yet but please stay tuned

Wouldn't this be the first public show with the new line-up? I thought I was going to have to wait until August 18th...

Plus, I didn't realize Deviant Ollam could move like he did at last year's show. It was a little frightening but certainly helped contribute more energy to an already great show.

Oh, and if you do make it, don't forget to stop by the [forum=335]Guitar Hero II[/forum] contest.

**programatick** · July 25, 2007, 00:25

Re: Official Black and White Balls Line up...

I can't wait to hear some sick Jungle. better throw in some wicked scratches.
btw. when does the saturday ball kick off?

**TheCotMan** · July 25, 2007, 01:02

Re: Official Black and White Balls Line up...

Originally posted by programatick View Post

[By the way,] when does the saturday ball kick off?

https://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-1...-schedule.html
Schedule says Friday is "Black" starting at 20:30 (8:30pm)
Schedule says Saturday is "White" starting at 20:00 (8:00pm)

Schedules can change with little or no notice.

**Exist** · July 25, 2007, 06:57

Re: Official Black and White Balls Line up...

Everyone's waiting for minibosses! Don't forget to post a time.

**barkode** · July 25, 2007, 18:59

Re: Official Black and White Balls Line up...

Hey guys,

Wanted to nip this in the bud before the villification began - the Minibosses are booked for the Ninja Party on Saturday night, so at this point they won't be playing B&W.

I wrote a much longer post explaining this, but the short version is we had them out a couple years ago for the Ninja Party before they'd ever played B&W, and last year they had expressed an interest in coming back out to play the party again, so we booked them quite a long time ago. B&W hadn't contacted them about coming back this year at that point, so they went ahead and booked with us. We're paying the band, their expenses, their travel and lodging, etc, and handling the performance logistics. It's pretty much already all set up and has been for quite a while.

No intent on messing up the B&W rotation, I didn't even know there was a conflict until just recently. If we had time to rebook we would but we're many thousands of dollars into it at this point with a week to go, so it's more or less locked up. I didn't handle the band planning myself, it was taken care of by other Ninjas, so this just kind of popped up on me.

B&W has plenty of great performers, I'm sure it will be great as usual.

Thanks,

-barkode

**TheCotMan** · July 25, 2007, 20:15

Re: Official Black and White Balls Line up...

Originally posted by barkode View Post

Wanted to nip this in the bud before the villification began - the Minibosses are booked for the Ninja Party on Saturday night, so at this point they won't be playing B&W.

I don't see why someone should consider someone a "bad guy" for honoring their agreements agreements. If they promised to play for the Ninja party first, why should anyone cry foul for not being there sooner?

Hope they have a great time playing at the Ninja Party, and those present have a blast.
:-)

**Voltage Spike** · July 26, 2007, 01:33

Re: Official Black and White Balls Line up...

Originally posted by TheCotMan View Post

I don't see why someone should consider someone a "bad guy" for honoring their agreements agreements. If they promised to play for the Ninja party first, why should anyone cry foul for not being there sooner?

Hear, hear. (Or rather "hear, all ye good people, hear what this brilliant and eloquent speaker has to say!" if the Straight Dope is to be believed.) It kind of stinks that it will be more difficult for the general public to see the Minibosses and the audience will be smaller, but it will be a dedicated audience (in other words, the back of the room won't be waiting for the guitars to get off stage).

Oh, and I'm glad the announcement is a little more public this time around. I was sitting around at a party two years back lamenting how the Minibosses weren't performing when someone mentioned a rumor of the Ninja party. Trying to get last-minute access to a party like that when you are pissed, in the British sense, wasn't exactly my idea of fun.

**Exist** · July 26, 2007, 09:07

Re: Official Black and White Balls Line up...

Thanks for the heads up Barkode! Anytime yet or is it going to be an all night performance type of thing?

**aaronburke** · July 26, 2007, 12:10

Re: Official Black and White Balls Line up...

yeah, this announcement didn't turn out the way we planned and that's kind of our fault, we kind of dropped the ball on that for some weird reasons (don't ask). but we'd just like to say there is no love lost from our camp to the b&w ball, we love all involved and hope to continue to be asked to play in the future. we've played three b&ws before and they've all been an awesome, fun time.

**zziks** · July 27, 2007, 03:32

Re: Official Black and White Balls Line up...

To clear any confusion this IS the set list

Black ball// Friday night

Winamute DJ 9p
Great Scott DJ 10p
Sailor Gloom DJ 11p
REGENERATOR Headline band 12a
Catharsis DJ 1a
Kriz Klink DJ 2a
Closed* 3a
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White ball //Sat night

Rustcycle DJ 9p
Dual Core Live Nerdcore 10p
Jackalope Headline DJ 11p
Casey DJ 12p
Crashish DJ 1a
Mitch Mitchem DJ 2a
Closed* 3a
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I will be posting fliers with this info around defcon as well .

Zziks

**zziks** · July 27, 2007, 03:35

Re: Official Black and White Balls Line up...

Originally posted by aaronburke View Post

yeah, this announcement didn't turn out the way we planned and that's kind of our fault, we kind of dropped the ball on that for some weird reasons (don't ask). but we'd just like to say there is no love lost from our camp to the b&w ball, we love all involved and hope to continue to be asked to play in the future. we've played three b&ws before and they've all been an awesome, fun time.

of course we want you for next year ! we will work out the details starting jan 1st this time.

Zz...

**zziks** · July 27, 2007, 03:38

Re: Official Black and White Balls Line up...

Originally posted by barkode View Post

Hey guys,

Wanted to nip this in the bud before the villification began - the Minibosses are booked for the Ninja Party on Saturday night, so at this point they won't be playing B&W.

I wrote a much longer post explaining this, but the short version is we had them out a couple years ago for the Ninja Party before they'd ever played B&W, and last year they had expressed an interest in coming back out to play the party again, so we booked them quite a long time ago. B&W hadn't contacted them about coming back this year at that point, so they went ahead and booked with us. We're paying the band, their expenses, their travel and lodging, etc, and handling the performance logistics. It's pretty much already all set up and has been for quite a while.

No intent on messing up the B&W rotation, I didn't even know there was a conflict until just recently. If we had time to rebook we would but we're many thousands of dollars into it at this point with a week to go, so it's more or less locked up. I didn't handle the band planning myself, it was taken care of by other Ninjas, so this just kind of popped up on me.

B&W has plenty of great performers, I'm sure it will be great as usual.

Thanks,

-barkode

its no biggie you just owe bink and myself a beer !

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