WHERE"S STOMP!?!?!?!???!?!?! You can't have anything without Stomp performing live!!
> Carol Marvin and her coporate cronies are pulling a "Ken Burns" on the DEMF. > Appearing @ the 2002 FDEMF will be > John Tesh > Elton John vs Billy Joel (piano battle) > The cast of Cats > Bob Dylan > Wynton Marsalis > Blink 182 > and Gallagher with those crazy watermelons > > MEK > > > > > >From: matt hellige <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: [email protected] > >Subject: Re: [313] off topic DEMF comment. > >Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 18:03:33 -0500 > > > >[Giles Dickerson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>] > > > > > > And I'm speaking as someone who's been in the strategic marketing > > > business for almost 7 years, why create such a negative stir about an > > > event that makes its profit from people's enjoyment? If they are a > > > "promotion" or "event management" firm, how could they be so ( delete > > > expletive here ) naive as to send out these kind of negative concepts > > > into the minds of the public a week before their precious show? Which, > > > incidentally is so valuable to them that they are announcing the > > > dismissal of their creative director a week before the show? > > > > > > I have one answer and I've seen it before : > > > > > > Big ego's and short sightedness. > > > > > > >there another answer, and it's probably an even more siniter one: they're > >going > >after a target audience that they know will not only not care about the > >carl > >situation, but will never even hear about it. given the number and > >placement of > >advertisements for this year's festival, i think it's safe to say that they > >have their sights set on a much bigger fish than the techno scene, or even > >the > >serious dance music/electronic music community as a whole. > > > >i can pretty much guarantee that the vast majority of people who hear about > >this on mtv, fox or (for chicago people) q101, b96 and gci, have never > >heard of > >carl craig and will never know how things went down between the organizers. > > > >how much do you know about the beginnings of and the relationships between > >the people who organized lollapalooza, for example? > > > >i'm not blaming any individuals for this, and i don't know much about the > >way > >the festival was/is/will be run... but i can pretty much guarantee that to > >whatever extent large corporate interests (read: ford and others) have an > >interest this, that is the degree to which they will seek to appeal to the > >largest and richest possible audience, even to the direct > >disenfranchisement of > >the actual music community. > > > >m > > > >-- > >matt hellige [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >http://matt.immute.net > > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- > >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
