good post --- Sam Kington <sam@illuminated.co.uk> wrote:
Teri Kronberg wrote: [...]
The fact is that ALL of us here are real fans, with true enduring feelings about The Police and their music.
I don't even think it has to be that extreme. (Are there fake fans?)
See, I dislike statements like (and I don't mean to target anyone by this) "Hey, (Sting / Andy / Stewart / whoever), I'm your greatest fan". First of all, you're being amazingly presumptious, by assuming that you *are* that person's greatest fan. Secondly, so what? Most people's greatest fans are stalkers.
Ok, so that's unfair. But I do feel that being a Sting fan is not some sort of competition. If you're a Sting fan, you act according to your own nature - you might go to a hell of a lot of concerts, you might collect rarities, you might put up a website, whatever. Sure, if you've got a history of going to Sting concerts, if the management knows you, if your company has tickets to rare concerts *anyway*, sure, you're going to get to concerts the guy in the street with a website doesn't get to. Big deal.
I think part of being a member of this mailing list - and by extension the Sting fan community - is that if you get privileged information, because you got an early release of a new album because you're a journalist, or because you got to a concert that most people couldn't get to, or you got backstage, you tell people. You share.
And I don't think any of the people who have announced they'll be at the HOF concert, wouldn't share their experiences.
Anyway, it's three songs or possibly more, it's not going to be the tightest band in the world as they'll have rehearsed for a week or two at most, and frankly I don't expect it to be that good. And if it *is* that good, well, I'll get the MP3 off Turning Leaf or something. It *is*, after all, just a novelty concert.
Sam -- Home page: http://www.illuminated.co.uk/ Sting by the numbers: http://www.illuminated.co.uk/sting/
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