Why why why are U2 not playing at the Nobel Peace Prize concert?!

Shary T. ([email protected])
Mon, 14 Dec 1998 19:42:29 -0800

I know this has been hashed over, but could someone bang me over the
head with it again? I just can't accept the idea that U2 would be too
busy for something like this. And another thing, where are the other
veterans of the Amnesty International benefit concerts like Sting? Is
this just another commercial ploy by the TV moguls?
  If you can think of other bands, let me know, but I only know of U2 as
being the only band to include Amnesty Intl membership info in their
album sleeves CONSISTENTLY. In other words, I don't know of any other
modern rock musicians so conscientiously devoted to the cause of human
rights as U2. Yes, there are artists like Miriam Makeeba (pardon
spelling), who devote their LIVES to the cause, but I'm speaking of
commercial artists like the ones who ARE set to play at the concert like
Alanis Moreupset. Sheesh. Where's the sense in all this? Where's the
fairness? Where's the reason for the treason? :/ Shary

P.S. I'm hearing more music these days with more serious and thoughtful
content in their lyrics that are merely riding the coat-tails of
70's/80's veteran deep thought artists like U2, the Clash, blues singers
and folk musicians. However, bands like U2 are getting snubbed and
ignored in the name of youth and a pretty face because these things
supposedly equal fresh and new. But, they aren't. It's the same song,
just a different voice singing. For example, I like musicians like
Alanis, Jewel, Third Eye Blind, the Goo Goo Dools and Sarah McLaughlin,
but as a sore loser I sort of resent them knowing that the origins of
their particular genre of music began with bands like U2 who
deliberately avoided musical cliches and sang with their souls inside
out, but got ingored in the past year or so. Geez! Bands like U2 gave
these new bands a place to fit in. And, now that they're in, they've
gotten kicked out by the market game. Baa hum bug! :C Shary

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