The Dylan Paul Band wins!
Here's how it went ...
Finals
May 3 @ Liberty Hall
Vegetable: 141.4
(J1=71; J2=52; J3=71; J4=63; J5=80) (Avg=67.4)(crowd=74)
The Dactyls: 161.1
(J1=81; J2=78; J3=84.5; J4=80; J5=92) (Avg=83.1)(crowd=78)
WINNER- The Dylan Paul Band: 178.3
(J1=76; J2=73; J3=82.5; J4=70; J5=90) (Avg=78.3)(crowd=100)
Guse: 122.2
(J1=78; J2=66; J3=71; J4=25; J5=81) (Avg=64.2)(crowd=58)
View judges' scorecards (PDF). You can still listen to the finals podcast preview.
And relive the glory, to be aired soon on The Turnpike.
Here's how the preliminary rounds went...
Round 1
April 8 @ Fatso's
Rachel Anderson: 119.67
(Judge1=77; J2=62; J3=79)(Avg=72.67)(crowd=47)
WINNER- The Dylan Paul Band: 181.33
(J1=89; J2=73; J3=82)(Avg=81.33)(crowd=100)
The Noise FM: 177.33
(J1=84; J2=83; J3=86)(Avg=84.33)(crowd=93)
Midnight Vinyl: 163
(J1=84; J2=68; J3=76)(Avg=76)(crowd=87)
View judges' scorecards (PDF).
Round 2
April 15 @ The Replay
WINNER- Vegetable: 189
(J1=90; J2=89; J3=88) (Avg=89)(crowd=100)
Psilenus:154
(J1=85; J2=72; J3=86) (Avg=81)(crowd=73)
Censura (cancelled due to death in the family)
The Graves End: 148
(J1=100; J2=89; J3=90) (Avg=93)(crowd=55)
View judges' scorecards (PDF)
Round 3
April 22 @ The Jackpot
Jolly Roger: 172
(J1=82; J2=79; J3=79) (Avg=80)(crowd=92)
WINNER- The Dactyls: 189
(J1=85; J2=91; J3=91) (Avg=89)(crowd=100)
Deep Thinkers: 117.67
(J1=100; J2=87; J3=85) (Avg=90.67)(crowd=27)
Guse: 174.67
(J1=96; J2=85; J3=85) (Avg=88.67)(crowd=86)
View judges' scorecards (PDF).
Each round is judged by these rules (PDF). Crowd score is determined by raw number of people at the show supporting a given band-the band with the largest crowd gets a score of 100 and the other bands receive a score proportionate to their relative crowd size.
The Deadwood Derby was created in 2006 to be an annual showcase of Lawrence bands, with the goal of bringing together the wide variety music in this town and putting it all in front of other bands' fans. And thanks to donations by our sponsors, we're able send some bands home with pretty kickass prizes. See the results from 2007 or 2006. Watch the 2007 finals on The Turnpike.
The 12 bands were selected half by online vote and half by the Derby organizers and promoters. At Rounds 1 through 3, a panel of three judges from around town-promoters, venue owners, musicians, etc.-score the bands on musicality and crowd response (see rules). The winners from each round plus a wild card* advance to the finals. A panel of five judges-including representatives from last year's winner and this year's sponsors-will determine who goes home with the prizes.
*note: The wild card band is selected by a panel of judges (from lawrence.com, Hunt Industries and A&E Legal Services), not necessarily by the judges' scores from individual rounds.
Prizes include...
- ¢ $1000-worth of studio time at Black Lodge Studios (must be used within 6 months of Derby)
- ¢ $1000-worth of studio time at Mixtape Meditation (must be used within 6 months of Derby)
- ¢ Music video production by Through A Glass Productions (Up to $950-worth of shooting/editing fees to be used for concert video, music video or epk promo videos)
- ¢ A full-rights-use professional photo shoot, from which a photo will be printed as a full color, double-page spread poster in lawrence.com Deadwood edition
- ¢ Graphic design development by Red Hand Media (Creator of our Derby logo; prize includes design for T-shirts, posters, website, etc.-5 hours total)
- ¢ 50 2-color screen-printed shirts by Blue Collar Press
- ¢ 24 1-color screen-printed shirts by Big Deal Merch
- ¢ 90-minute legal consultation and copyright registration by A&E Legal Services for the Derby champion
- ¢ 30-minute legal consultation and copyright registration by A&E Legal Services for the other Final round finalists
- ¢ Gift certificates from Love Garden
- ¢ The Final round finalists will appear on The Turnpike
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smerdyakov (anonymous) says…
wildcard: The Noise FM!!
bobbie (anonymous) says…
Guse for the wild card!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
piercetara (anonymous) says…
Psilenus!
longbeachca77 (anonymous) says…
The wild card should be Jolly Roger!
phodge (anonymous) says…
Psilenus for the WildCard
instantkarmapolice (anonymous) says…
GUSE!!!! They were robbed last night. I'll be disappointed if I don't see them at the finals. Go Lawrence music!!!!
jenhaaga (anonymous) says…
Psilenus should definitely get the wildcard.
lheck (anonymous) says…
My wildcard suggestion is psilenus!!!!
luvlyzero (anonymous) says…
Guse for the Wild Card!!!
glycerine12 (anonymous) says…
was at fatso's for the first round. the third band, Noise FM, was definitely the best there.
azward (anonymous) says…
The NoiseFM should be in the final round for sure. Best out of the compitetion
ajusauce (anonymous) says…
I went to the first two rounds, and I thought hands down, the best band out of both of them was the Noise. They seriously rocked. so hard.
cooper37 (anonymous) says…
noisefm noisefm
seanmcc (anonymous) says…
I've got the sure thing, Guse for wildcard.
jrswift (anonymous) says…
I'd really like to see Guse be the Wild Card entry in the Deadwood Derby. They are excellent, hard-working musicians and play with a lot of heart.
truelew (anonymous) says…
I think GUSE would be the best choice for wild card. Those guys would blow the doors off Liberty Hall.
TurkManistan (anonymous) says…
The Graves End!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
miles_suzanne (anonymous) says…
I would really like to hear the band "Psilenus" perform at the Deadwood Derby. They have a really great sound and original compositions by Jay Robken that sound different to other bands. Theirs is a really polished act. I think lots of other people would enjoy their music, too. I suggest them as a wild card. Suzanne
kelseyyankey (anonymous) says…
Guse rocked it out last night and should be the wild card in the finalsGuse rocks!!!!
nick1 (anonymous) says…
Guse should be the wild card winner
biteme (anonymous) says…
Please choose Guse as the wildcard for the finals of the Deadwood Derby!
count11 (anonymous) says…
the graves end!!!Put some hardcore in that Derby!!!!!!!
edwinga (anonymous) says…
Guse!
beatmastermatt (anonymous) says…
Guse for the wild card!
lisaward (anonymous) says…
The Noise FM received the judges' vote and had one less person voting than the winning band--they deserve to be the wild card!!
coryg721 (anonymous) says…
jolly roger!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It would bring a better balance to the array of acts to have something a bit harder thrown into the mix. jolly roger!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
box_social (anonymous) says…
guse for the wildcard!!!(sorry for shouting)
faceplant (anonymous) says…
Too many hippie bands every year. I liked what I heard at the Replay Lounge in round 2. Straight forward metal from Lawrence,KS. Damn Coalesce left us so we need something around here.
reddoggy (anonymous) says…
The Graves End.
savanahsmiles (anonymous) says…
Yeaaahhhhh....Go The Graves End Go!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
scuba13 (anonymous) says…
If you don't give The Graves End another chance, I will stop recycling!
AngelKing (anonymous) says…
guse for president!!!! (and wildcard)
md_pinks (anonymous) says…
Throwing in my hat for Guse as the Wildcard...good friends and good musicians!
kufirst (anonymous) says…
All the winners had a crowd score of a 100. Maybe that tells you something. Popularity contest or not a real judgement of talent. Who knows?
jayahn2 (anonymous) says…
Guse rocks!!!!!! awesome!!!!
bob_leponge (anonymous) says…
Guse must be your wild card pick. They are wild, after all.
forussp (anonymous) says…
These guys put on an awesome show at Wakarusa last summer. Give them the Wild Card spot and we'll see it again May 3rd.
shphipps (anonymous) says…
Guse is a high energy group that always puts on an exciting show. They rocked Wakarusa!
sphipps (anonymous) says…
Give the wild card to GUSE.
sandsphipps (anonymous) says…
We want to see GUSE at Liberty Hall.
rmchannel (anonymous) says…
GUSE for the wild card. Love that Ketar!
helloyou (anonymous) says…
I vote for The Graves End.
Psilenus712 (anonymous) says…
This Derby gives me a fever..... And the only cure is more Psilenus!!!And more cowbell.
sewashburn (anonymous) says…
Jolly Roger is an excellent band and deserves the wild card slot. They have a great guitar sound and make good use of all their member's significant skill. Drums, bass, guitar and vocals all work together to create a great sound.
swinneyg (anonymous) says…
GUSE is a great wildcard choice. They will rock your soul & your bones and you will leave feeling musically satisfied!! Their original songs and music are what the crowd wants to hear!!
Bassdude (anonymous) says…
Do Psilenus for the wild card.
ryanerate (anonymous) says…
Highest overall judge's score: The Graves End
editer (Phil Cauthon) says…
and the wildcard is...GuseIt was tough to pick just one band. Good arguments can be made for all the bands listed above, particularly Noise FM-off all the runners up, they likely had the hardest time getting people out to their show because of the KU championship the night before.We ultimately settled on Guse because they brought out the most people of the runner-up bands and because we felt like their style would best add to the variety of the finals.We sincerely appreciate the participation of all the bands and all the supporters who came out to the preliminary rounds. We hope you'll come to the finals even if your band didn't make it this year. -homies
ryanerate (anonymous) says…
WoW a lot of diverse bands showcased. Another smart choice derby people........
hankscorpio74 (anonymous) says…
Posted by shphipps (anonymous) on April 24, 2008 at 7:03 a.m. (Suggest removal)Guse is a high energy group that always puts on an exciting show. They rocked Wakarusa!Posted by sphipps (anonymous) on April 24, 2008 at 7:14 a.m. (Suggest removal)Give the wild card to GUSE.Posted by sandsphipps (anonymous) on April 24, 2008 at 7:17 a.m. (Suggest removal)We want to see GUSE at Liberty Hall.i like how these 3 nearly identical names logged in and left 3 nearly identical comments in a 15 minute spanphipps also (unsurprisingly) appears to be the last name of a member of the bandsuper
cooper37 (anonymous) says…
good comments from everyone. maybe next year a little less of a popularity contest. but it was good!
faceplant (anonymous) says…
Hummm... This Derby seems to have to the same problems that people complained about last year. "We ultimately settled on Guse because they brought out the most people of the runner-up bands and because we felt like their style would best add to the variety of the finals."So having all your friends show up to a gig on a Tuesday night is what Lawrence.com is wanting? I guess having enough people at the show to tape the turnpike makes sense.
Taurus4889 (anonymous) says…
Guse totally deserves the wild card i've seen them play a few times and i think they rock..
md_pinks (anonymous) says…
It's great to see Guse will be playing the finals. The Noise FM are great too, I figured it would be close between the two of them.Lawrence.com did a great job this year getting a very diverse group of bands in the Derby. May 3rd will be an awesome show to catch!
proclubitras (anonymous) says…
when playing your guitar with your teeth and trying to light it on fire doesn't get you into the finals, it's nice to see you can always resort to stuffing the ballot box.
faceplant (anonymous) says…
Guse just got PWNED!!!!!
hankscorpio74 (anonymous) says…
"We ultimately settled on Guse because they brought out the most people of the runner-up bands"that's actually not true - just read the ballots (or even the computations above)in fact, in round 3 alone, guse was 3rd place in crowd votesdactyls had 37, which turned into 100jolly roger had 34, which turned into 92guse had 32, which turned into 86deep thinkers had 10, which turned into 27one can only assume that "brought out the most people" is euphemistic for "had the most posts on the internet"let's not conflate the two, please
truelew (anonymous) says…
The runner-up bands are the ones that placed 2nd in their round. These would be Round 1: Noise FM (14 votes), Round 2: The Graves End (18 votes), Round 3: Guse (32 votes). Of those three runner-up bands Guse did indeed receive the most votes (not voting percentage, but actual votes). Therefore, Phil's statement IS true.Let's not be sore losers here people. Your band lost. Now get on with your life.
truelew (anonymous) says…
oops. I just realized that the runner-up in Round 2 was Psilenus (24 votes), not Graves End. sorry about that.
faceplant (anonymous) says…
"Let's not be sore losers here people. Your band lost. Now get on with your life."I guess I just expected more from Lawrence.com. Club Wars and all the other battles are so bad sometimes they can't get their own band members to show up.Funny how the top voted bands had such a high vote count but yet their fans didn't show up? Lawrence.com needs a better system for this and not the "online voting" that they couldn't control to be fair.Oh well.....
editer (Phil Cauthon) says…
Agreed that the online voting has its shortcomings. That's why this year only half of the bands selected for the first 3 rounds were determined by online voting (vs the previous years in which all bands were determined that way). In selecting bands and then judging each round, we're doing what we can to strike a balance between more or less democratic factors (online voting, crowd size) and some relatively subjective factors (musicianship, stage presence, etc). This is just the third Derby, but I think the general consensus is that we're getting pretty close to a fair process that also makes for a solid showcase.We've done so largely through feedback on the previous two Derbys - so please, send us your suggestions or post them here.
momsy (anonymous) says…
All I want to do is zooma zoom zoom zoom and a boom boom. Just shake your rump. Check baby.Check baby.1....2....3....
oaas (anonymous) says…
dylan paul band? seriously??where did gtr love go?
editer (Phil Cauthon) says…
Thanks to all the bands and to everyone who came out and made the 3rd annual Deadwood Derby a big success! And we'd like to especially thank all the Derby sponsors whose donations make this local music showcase even possible-PLEASE support them every chance you get.The Derby is a constantly evolving event meant to provide increased exposure and opportunity for local bands of all kinds. Of course, when one band's "victory" necessarily means other bands do not enjoy the same rewards, there are bound to be some hard feelings. We sincerely hope those hard feelings on the part of bands and/or fans are minimal-and we think they are...after all, all 12 bands that participated this year-not to mention all those involved in the online voting-got the chance to perform in front of a diverse audience that might not have come out to see them otherwise. And the four finalists had the pleasure of playing Liberty Hall in front of a large, enthusiastic crowd. And obviously the winner and the runner up bands will enjoy their free studio time, too.Inevitably some will still doubt the legitimacy or fairness of the process though. We would like to offer this by way of explanation, and encourage ALL to send us your feedback or post it below to help improve next year's Derby.For the last two years, we have received criticism that the "crowd response score" should not be in the hands of the judges. So this year we put an even greater portion of the score in the hands of the crowd, through an actual vote. The crowd portion of the vote ultimately choose the winner in every round of this year's competition. Is that fair? Probably depends on who you ask. Regardless it was applied consistently to all bands.We all have different preferences in what we like to listen to. All the members of all the bands in the Derby are accomplished musicians who, for the most part, have spent years honing their craft. They are all talented. Ultimately, something has to decide a zero sum contest where some win prizes and such and some don't. Does that make it a popularity contest? Probably... the trick is to make it as fair and balanced (to borrow a tainted phrase) of a contest as possible.So here's where you come in-PLEASE tell us, from your point of view, what would make next year's Derby better than this year? Thanks in advance for your time and support. We love all yalls-homies
hankscorpio74 (anonymous) says…
so last year there were accusations of cronyismthis year mob rulewhile the cronyism claim was essentially speculative, the mob rule one is indisputablethe band who received the highest score from every one of the five judges didn't win the competitionthat just doesn't look goodwhat can you do besides tweak it a little more next yearthanks for putting it on regardless
banditteeth (anonymous) says…
Why even have the judges at all? If their contribution is essentially irrelevant, then just get rid of them and let it be what it truly is...a contest which determines who can make the most people shake their asses to "danceable music with solid production".
proclubitras (anonymous) says…
"Somehow I still doubt that we're the darling favorites of the Indie Rock community.. but we never really wanted to be. What we wanted was to see if people would get up and support unpretentious, soulful funk, jazz and pop music in a town inundated by indie rock- and you did."-Dylan Paul, actor/singer/culture warrior