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Date Posted: 19:35:51 04/18/05 Mon
Author: Jen Stacy
Subject: Re: An excellent essay on fan communities
In reply to: Joseph Kobs 's message, "Re: An excellent essay on fan communities" on 10:23:03 04/18/05 Mon

The part that stood out to me the most in this article was the ever increasing cost of concert tickets, and what that has done to being able to create community. It is insane how much some shows are these days. Take Red Rocks as an example with tickets being $40-70 a show it becomes increasingly harder to enjoy music there. Fans are having to pay so much money to see live shows that it makes it hard to ever build a community when money, or lack there of, is a constant issue. Also the difference in the larger cultural climate between today and when the Grateful dead were touring is so much different, and money seems to be one of the major differences. Drugs are also a major issues, while there was drug use at Dead shows back in the day I think the kind of drugs have changed and might be less conductive to community building. He mentioned Bonnaroo at the end of his article and I have been to the last three years and will probably never go again. The first year was awesome there was a real excitement and energy to the festival, people were really nice. There were a lot of people, but it has increased in size so much over the last two years. Last year was horrible...there was a lot more people, a lot more coke, which I personally feel like that is a sketchy drug! The people were really unfriendly and hostile to each other. I saw a lot more fights last year than in previous years. What this change signals I'm not so sure, but I think he has it right if you want to experience a friendlier music community like he describes it has to be on the much smaller scale.

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Re: An excellent essay on fan communities -- Natalie Almon, 20:24:05 04/18/05 Mon