From: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org (believers-digest) To: believers-digest@smoe.org Subject: believers-digest V5 #287 Reply-To: believers@smoe.org Sender: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk believers-digest Saturday, December 29 2001 Volume 05 : Number 287 In Today's believer's digest: ----------------- in defense of joe... ["mosh" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2001 13:39:54 -0500 From: "mosh" Subject: in defense of joe... just another two cents here: anthony wrote: "This abusive and uncaring attitude towards his fans explains why Joe Jackson went from playing soccer arenas and stadiums in the 1980s to bowling alley bars and state fairs today." i respectfully disagree. ron made a great point about changing musical tastes in society. jethro tull has done the same downsizing of venues, going from fifteen thousand seat arenas to 2,500 seat theatres without having radically changed their musical style. sadly, there just aren't as many people who are interested in seeing them. joe jackson now also plays the smaller venues, but i think this is because he was much more interested in stretching his musical creativity. unfortunately, there are a lot of people who aren't necessarily fans of the artist as much as they are fans of a particular song. the few thousand people who now go to see joe are usually true music lovers. sadly, there are those who never got beyond "stepping out" and have no interest in hearing him play swing or classical. these are the folks that scream out their (in my mind) selfish requests and disrupt the show for the majority of the audience who are there to hear joe. not "is she really going out with him." not section two of his first symphony. not his rendition of "is you is or is you ain't my baby." they are there to hear joe. ron posted, "But if there are 100-200 people at a show, why should the requests of two or three people be honored? Maybe all the requests should be put into a hat and drawn at random." moxy fr|vous did something similar to this. they put every song they knew into a hat and murray picked four songs throughout the show to play "at random." this was great because it gave the show a sense of spontaneity but they didn't have the crowd shouting "suggestions" throughout the show. each time murray reached into the hat, every person in the crowd had an equal chance of having his or her "request" played. however, fr|vous is a much more interactive act than susan is. this works for them. i would not suggest it for her. rock on! stephen/MOSH "I came from Israel as a child, a stranger in a strange land. I studied to be a rabbi basically to keep me off the streets, and along the way I was saved by rock & roll." - Gene Simmons HELP! owner-believers@smoe.org Send mail to believers@smoe.org Susan's CD's are available on your desktop at World Cafe CDs http://worldcafecds.com ------------------------------ End of believers-digest V5 #287 ******************************* --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------- This has been a posting from the Susan Werner believers-digest To unsubscribe send mail to Majordomo@smoe.org with "unsubscribe believers-digest" in the body of the message