--- In [email protected], Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > on 4/27/05 7:28 PM, Bob Brigante at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > >> My friend Charlie Gleuck (Dr. Gleuck's son) went to the Hartford > > concert. He > >> said it was agonizing. Maharishi opened for the Beach Boys and the > > kids > >> hissed and booed and talked to one another while Maharishi tried to > > lecture. > > > > ******** > >
> > Typical knuckleheaded play by TM mgmt -- let's give a TM lecture at a > > rock concert, making kids wait for their tunes! And, from these same > > marketing geniuses, the mall store coming to your location soon! (or > > later, maybe, which is what "soon" means in movement-speak). > > Uh, Bob. Same old discussion we always have. The knucklehead you're > referring to is Maharishi. His idea to do the tour. I'm sure he would have > preferred to open for the Beatles, but the Beach Boys had to do. ******* If you don't remind rehashing this, providing proper guidance for MMY is the job of TM management, not letting a goofy guy like Mike Love put him in a ridiculous situation which anybody in this culture with any sense (and this does include most rock musicians, whether they TM or not) would know could not work. As far as MMY initiating this idea, you can make that claim, but it's just nonsense -- this was Mike Love's idea, and no TM managers stepped forward to kill this doomed notion. MMY does let people tell him what to do if they are forceful -- an example of this being MMY at the Honolulu airport in 1959, when his driver grabbed his carpetbag out of his hand and took him home when MMY admitted he had made no arrangements for his trip to San Francisco: http://geocities.com/bbrigante/letter.html#HNL I know Mike Love has been a long-time ru -- his room was down the hall from mine at the Humboldt TTC in August 1970 -- but before he attended Humboldt, he ended up in a psych ward for a while after he spaced out from a marathon meditation session (a scene depicted in the 2000 ABC movie about the Beach Boys http://movies.msn.com/movies/movie.aspx?m=31330 ), and Mike Love and TM mgmt enthusiasm is no substitute for good judgement, and the bad judgement of letting MMY on that stage at a rock concert pretty much typifies the malfeasance of TM mgmt which continues to this day, and MMY can't be blamed for that. He's a Hindu monk who does not know how to operate in Western culture, and he said so when left India: http://geocities.com/bbrigante/comp.html#30 TM managers are goofy, because the TM community is goofy, and so they need to do reality checks with responsible and creative people outside the movement who like to solve problems -- these people are called consultants, and there many fine firms that do this type of work -- one of the most prominent is Booz Allen Hamilton http://www.boozallen.com/ , and if the TMO were to sit down with these consultants, they could come up a business plan that works, and not a fantasy based on the enthusiasm of eccentric people. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
