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Re: Don't go see.....




In a message dated 2/13/98 1:14:56 PM, Trev wrote:

<<I think that as far as performances go, what brings a lot of people out
to see a show is that they will (imagine italics) not (imagine italics)
hearing something new.  They want to see the same crap recycled, or
better still, a cover band.>>

Case in point:

I saw U2 at a stadium this past summer, the (classic rock born and bred) 
crowd
went wild during their older hits, and became mysteriously quiet and
distracted when U2 tried to play a couple of songs from their new
album.....same thing with the Stones later that fall.....

Marshall