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- From: Ken Kaufman <kaufman@gmuvax2.gmu.edu>
- Subject: Re: Yay! Dead not as popular?!?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.194036.16068@uvaarpa.Virginia.EDU>
- Sender: mmdf@uvaarpa.Virginia.EDU (Mail System)
- Reply-To: kaufman@gmuvax2.gmu.edu
- Organization: The Internet
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 19:40:36 GMT
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- From: jjmckay@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Jim McKay)
-
- | (From "USA Today", 12/22/92)
-
- | U2, $67.9 Million (M$); Metallica, M$40.4; Guns'n'Roses, M$37.2; GRATEFUL
- | DEAD, M$31.9; Bruce Springsteen, M$27.9; Neil Diamond M$25.8; Elton John,
- | M$23.2; Hammer, M$19.3; Lollapalooza, M$18.6; and Garth Brooks, M$18.4.
-
- | (MY COMMENTS:)
- | Last year the Dead were first so naturally I'm elated that they appear to
- | becoming less popular. Maybe concerts will return, scene-wise, to pre-1987.
-
- Unlikely. Don't forget that 20+ shows were probably lost due to Jerry's
- illness. If Fall Tour, October and December go on as originally
- scheduled, the Dead are no doubt comfortably in second on that list,
- especially with a pricy MSG benefit show.
-
- A better gauge would be to count the sellouts vs. non-sellouts. Such a
- statistic should be sufficient to convince you of today's unpremcmlxxxviiness.
-
- ==Ken (who incidentally attended 4 Shows in 1992 - more than I did in 1982-87)
-