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Re: Popularity vs Obscurity

i have to agree....

i don't post much, as i consider myself a novice of OtR's music...but this
brings me out.

commercial success has two courses...either it ruins a deceptively talented
band, or it gives wings to a truly talented band.  a decent example i guess
would be, say, U2.  imagine how crappy a VoL show would be with
pyrotechnics!  Laser-Rhine...hope i have not offended any Laser-Floyd fans.

   what do you guys think...how would OtR handle huge commercial success?
would they flee from it...embrace it...or get sucked into their new-found
Hootie status?  i would like to know what you old timers think.

                        non-omnipotent jay




----- Original Message -----
From: "Gardner McPherson" <yavin at mindspring_com>
To: <Over-the-Rhine at actwin_com>
Sent: Sunday, February 11, 2001 3:19 PM
Subject: Popularity vs Obscurity


> "More comercially friendly" songs and albums is how I got the musical
taste
> that I did.  If The Cure never released Love Song, Love and Rockets never
> released So Alive, Jesus and Mary Chain never released Head On and The
> Sisters of Mercy never released More I would not have developed the
musical
> tastes I have today.  Period.  These songs gain exposure for the bands who
> created them, and then enterprising young lovers of song search out their
> old creations, hoping to find more, and better things.  That's how I got
> here, listening to Over The Rhine in the first place.
>
> HOWEVER... concerts are never quite the same once a band reaches
mainstream
> popularity.  IF Over The Rhine becomes popular, the only thing that I will
> miss, are the days when I could look around the concert venue and honestly
> state that I know 70% of the people in attendance, even if I wasn't in my
> home town.
>
> Gardner.
>
>
> --
> "Though I'm usually pacifistic
> you are mercifully sadistic
> and I didn't know
> that murder
> could be good."
>
> Over The Rhine, "Within Without"
>
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