From: Marc Coleman, marc.coleman@mwcia.org
Subject: RE: sellout(NC)
Date: 2/4/2002 6:24:47 AM
To: seance@lists.no-fi.com


Yeah, I agree.  I was trying to say they haven't sold out, no ads yet!  And a great performance yesterday, wow.     marc

-----Original Message-----
From: John L. Micek [mailto:jlmicek@mindspring.com]
Sent: Monday, February 04, 2002 8:26 AM
To: Marc Coleman; seance
Subject: RE: sellout(NC)



> U2.  I think...

> 

> - CAN ANYBODY ON THE LIST NAME A BIG=20

> ARTIST WHO HASN'T NOW JOINED THE CORPORATE COMMERCIAL BANDWAGON?

> 

> d.o.(oardodo)

> 

I've just got to leap to U2's defense here.
Granted, playing the Super Bowl halftime show is about as corporate and
commercial
as you can get.
But I think for a band of their stature, they pulled it off with power and
grace. It's easy
to slam the big guys, but I think for most of the people here who have ever
seen that band in a room,
they know that it's about as close as you can get to a transcendant
experience.
They did it well -- and if you want a comparison, just think about that
frigging Britney/Aerosmith/N*Sync
cluster-fuck of a halftime show last year. That, friends, was corporate.

John 
(transplanted New Englander glorying in his team's win!)





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John L. Micek
Harrisburg Correspondent
The Morning Call
Allentown, Pa.