Stomp will be performing via ISDN because it's too expensive to bring their
entire dance studio on tour.
MEK
From: "darw_n" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "M Elliot-Knight" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <313@hyperreal.org>
Subject: Re: [313] off topic DEMF comment.
Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 19:45:11 -0400
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: 313@hyperreal.org
> >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
> >
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