From: John L. Micek, jlmicek@mindspring.com
Subject: RE: sellout(NC)
Date: 2/4/2002 6:26:10 AM
To: Marc Coleman, marc.coleman@mwcia.org
seance, seance@lists.no-fi.com



> 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.