Reply To: Does JoCo have a legion?
I have a Legion report. This is about going the next step beyond spreading the word — and really acting like responsible, productive fans. At tonight's Joco Jammin Java performance, I took 25 smallish stuffed monkeys — well, mostly monkeys: there was a zombie and a squid and a lobster, and technically some apes, but still — and fastened a safety pin on the back of each one and passed them out to willing people in the front four or five rows with the suggestion that it was like a tip jar — pin money to the monkeys and toss them gently onto the stage during the applause after "Code Monkey". As a way of saying "thank you, JoCo, for making all this neat music."
There were problems. With audience members who came for Paul & Storm and who had never heard this Mr. Coulter sing before. With introverts or possibly just tourists who may have thought I was trying to sell something. But you could tell who was a legion fan, because the idea of a flying monkey tip jar lit up their faces.
Alas, the first monkeys were thrown DURING "Code Monkey," which kind of messed up the performance of a fan favorite song. And not every flying monkey wore wings made of money. But no eyes were put out, no one tripped on the stage littered with monkeys, and there was a vehicle for some solid monetary appreciation of JoCo by (some of) the legion of fans.
Try it in your town!