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Martin Atkins' Tour: Smart: See You On The Road...

THURSDAY DECEMBER 20 2007 12:00 PM

Submitted by Martin_Atkins. Edited By erin_broadley.

Happy Holidays boys and girls! This is one of those good news-bad news columns. I’m spending a lot of time on the road doing free seminars and helping out bands in person where I can. The book is doing very well (thank you to all those who purchased it and for those of you who haven’t, the best deal in town is still Amazon). But unfortunately, today, as I put pen to paper I’m saddened to tell you this is my last column.

As has become a tradition with this column, I’ve already lied to you in the first 200 words. I’m not putting pen to paper, I’m sitting here sipping a red bull listening to my China Dub Soundsystem album dictating this to my assistant Katie. This last year has been terrific. I met some great people, both at and through the SG office and through this column. Anyone getting ready ask me for some free advice, you can always catch me on MySpace, through the Tour:Smart website, or send me a message to my SG Page.

Get out there and do something mother fuckers!

Peace, Love, and Respect,

MarteeeeeeeeeeeeeeN

23 Comments

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FunkySkunk

Gainesville, FL

July 2004

DEC 20, 2007 12:06 PM

Bah, that sucks. Even though I don't have my band anymore I enjoy reading the articles. Why are all the columns disappearing all of a sudden?

Paleenchantress

Adams, MA

April 2003

DEC 20, 2007 12:16 PM

thank you for everything! you are amazing and i will definetly keep in contact with you

dufsmash13

Santa Fe, NM

August 2007

DEC 20, 2007 12:50 PM

the column was great man.

scott_evil

Lincoln, NE

April 2007

DEC 20, 2007 01:23 PM

bummer

Vanessa

SUICIDEGIRL

New Mexico, USA

DEC 20, 2007 02:20 PM

Ugh. All the good writers are leaving

_margot_

Los Angeles, CA

December 2007

DEC 20, 2007 03:23 PM

Wow, best of luck. This bums me out.

jtemperance

Chicago, IL

January 2004

DEC 20, 2007 03:45 PM

Your t-shirt in that picture is so delightful.

I enjoyed your column; best of luck with all the many things you do!

Maat

Jamaica Plain, MA

January 2004

DEC 20, 2007 03:59 PM

First Brad Warner gets cut to bi-weekly, then Geek in Review gets the axe, and now Tour: Smart? As nice as the nekkid girls are, I haven't looked at all the sets since they started being more than one a day but I always read everything on the Newswire. Please, keep the writers! Don't kill my beloved Newswire!

Weso

Santa Cruz, CA

July 2002

DEC 20, 2007 04:51 PM

Fucking lame dude. Im gonna miss your advice. Good luck in whatever you do.

squee_

Grand Marais, MN

September 2004

DEC 20, 2007 04:58 PM

Seems to be a lot of that going on lately...

Good luck in the future.

SonOfAPunk

Maple Ridge, BC

January 2006

DEC 20, 2007 05:43 PM

Fuck!

Just as soon I was getting into this, you up and leave!

You haven't heard the last of me, Atkins! You hear me?! I'll show you!

(...So I'm totally going to beg for more advice from you. SG page or MySpace or homepage. You'll hear from me yet! )

Thanks this far brotherman. Take care!

Illyria

SUICIDEGIRL

Texas, USA

DEC 20, 2007 10:37 PM

That's just depressing

Bev_Antain

Italy

February 2004

DEC 21, 2007 01:26 AM

It's bad news week i guess here, two of the greatest columns (obviously this and the Geek Review) are closing down...SG just got a little poorer. Nevertheless thanks for all the wonderful insight you provided all this time