Conduct unbecoming and Miss Sarajevo


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Tue, 15 Sep 1998 12:59:08 -0500 (EST)


I'm amazed that after spending just two days on the mailing list, I'm
already posting.

I'm also sorry it couldn't have been for better reasons. Abe's little
posting from yesterday - the one that included the excerpt from Tre's
message to him, and his subsequent response that he's "sleeping with
[Tre's] mother" - has proved to me that some people, unable to overlook
their personal feelings, would rather use this as an intellectual
frathouse rather than a forum. At the risk of sounding like mother, shame
on both of 'em. While there wasn't any call for Tre to be that hostile
toward Abe, ABe was (in my opinion) violating the house rules when he saw
fit to post what Tre said publically, and fire back at him with the same
medicine.

Guys - and everyone, really - spare us the intimate details of your
bickering. If you want to ride each other's backs about the Best Of album
being a sell-out or a gift to the fans, go ahead, but for God's sake, if
you're going to be so juvenile, keep it to yourselves.

. . . Now that I'm done chastising, I can get to the meat of what I wanted
to say.

First (and this having to do with a posting about what Bono says at the
end of "Miss Sarajevo" on the Pavarotti and Friends album) .
. . well, I haven't got to listening to it again lately, but as I remember
(and I'm probably wrong) he's just thanking the crowd. Then again, I might
be thinking of "One" on the same album. Probably am, actually.

Lastly, I have to admit, when I read that U2 is soon to put out a Best Of
album, I was horrified. I thought that, just as Abe did, it was a sign
that things were running dry and we were reaching the end.

Then it occurred to me that, whether this is or this isn't such a sign
(and I don't believe it is, because right around the time Pop was
released, Edge was quoted in Spin saying that the band probably had three
or four more albums ahead of them - I assume not the Best Ofs) we, as
their fans, should consider ourselves not only lucky, but proud, to have
had the joy of experiencing a band with so much talent, and feeling their
presence in the world of music for so long.

All good things do come to an end, but only in the sense that they don't
continue to increase in magnitude. This band will exist, by virtue of its
work, long after its members are gone.

As I said, I don't think this is the end. Whether Pop Mart sold badly or
not, they're aware that we're out here cheering for them, and waiting
with bated breath for their next move. That's what the b-sides are there
for. They want us to be happy, in the interim, while we wait for
something completely new.

Later,
Tracy



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