Ok, let me put a quash on all this talk about "how World Party was a flop".
Have you considered the fact that maybe the music wasn't there yet?
Meaning the event/concept was probably ahead of its time. How many
people were into techno as much as today? I seem to remember artists
like Derrick and Inner City were on the bill right? So if you are
referring to musical credibility, you can't get any more credible than
those guys. They were the big, superstar headliners, right ? And it
still failed. The bottom line is, not too many people were even aware of
Detroit techno, especially not early 90's Detroit. And certainly not
enough to fill an entire arena. After all the Music Institute couldn't
even last, and that club was the size of one closet in the Joe Louis
Arena (not Cobo). Besides, that was almost 10 years ago. You have to
figure that the people into techno now were kids back then and knew
nothing of this music.
If anything, Carol's mistake was that she put TOO MUCH faith in the
drawing power of this music at that time, to her financial regret.
--g.
Holly MacDonald-Korth wrote:
well, we all know what a great success World Party was!
what credibility!!
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I'll even say further that Pop Culture themselves has experience in
organizing (or have been involved in) huge events and festivals in the
past (i.e. as far as I know, the 'World Party' and the Jazz Festival) so
that's the 'promoter' component there. As if Carl had previous
experience in putting together a huge festival on his own. To be quite
frank, it seems to me alot of 'buddies' were picked to play the last two
years.
Flame, flame,
--G.
(Truth Be Told) wrote:
Why would it be necessary to have promoters? Don't they bring in their
favorites anyway or do they bring in big names for a big payday? If
you look
at the first statement if the Free Press article: "A seven-member board of
longtime Detroit techno musicians will choose the artist lineup..." the
panel is there only to choose the talent they don't need to know how it
works (festival producer/promoter = Pop Culture Media). I would think that
traveling and developing relationships with other DJs/artists, they
are more
then qualified to choose a lineup. The fact there are 7 shows there
will be
checks and balances where someone couldn't just bring in their buddies
(perhaps as before). Plus, most of them have been around almost 20
years and
know who was there from the start.
I'm hopeful too that they'll produce a good lineup and keep the spirit
alive.
Truth
I wouldn't have believed it if I didn't see it for myself...
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