1. The review I posted yesterday about a fake show at the Charlotte Coliseum was intended to prove a timely point, it was NOT a real show, so please do not email me anymore asking if I taped the show and can run a copy for you. This is a serious request. 2. Putting SDRE with ANY huge band will "get them a large audience", so if that's the only point of putting them into an arena setting with a blockbuster group, why stop with DMB? I mean, the hell with all that Phish - Widespread - DMB noodling - jamming crap. Why not just pimp them around for the next year and a half, milking the songs from TRT, and then throw them on the Warped tour with a bunch of aggro bands? I really can't believe anyone would consider going to see them open for a humongous headlining outfit for $50 in an arena or stadium. That would royally suck. Such an experience almost killed REM back in the early years, as they schlepped from dome to dome opening for the Police. Same thing with the Pixies on the U2 "Zoo TV" tour, an experience which caused them (at least indirectly) to break up. 3. I wonder if this now means SDRE will start selling scarves at shows. You can usually tell which bands have "made it" when they start selling scarves with their album covers on them. I can't wait to see the merchandising table at a SDRE arena show. I want a scarf that has the little figures from "Diary" on them so I can sport it at work, and the little figure would be RIGHT ON MY FOREHEAD, and everyone will say, "hell yeah, man, what a fucking awesome show, dude!!!" Of course, nobody would buy a Pink Album scarf, though. And there could be temporary removable tattoos of the HIFTBSO sun-design, and little hand-made Guatemalan bracelets in the parking lot that have the heads of the Diary figures, and baseball tee shirts with the black sleeves. 4. Getting a little too cynical? Or a tad bit pessimistic? Or are you thinking I'm blowing soething out of porportion? Think of this: "Killed By An Angel", blasting through the sound system at the Megaplex World-Dome Arena Centre in Yourtown, USA, with about ten thousand aggro-kids, Jnco baggy pants and glittery eyelids, hands in the devil-horns position, bearing out the latest corporate-rock creed: everyone has known for about a year now that "emo" (there's that word again) is THE NEXT BIG THING.
