Word: concert
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...days of heavy rain was not the only problem with Mixfest '98, the seventh annual, two-day concert event sponsored by Boston radio station MIX 98.5 (WBMX). Fans who braved the weather to spend a disastrous afternoon at City Hall Plaza soon realized that they were duped by a manipulative publicity bonanza on the part of MIX radio. In hindsight, it seems that this concert had little to do with free music, and a lot to do with free publicity for the radio station. That should have been apparent from the weeks of obnoxious, on-air hype that...
...still this concert was free. It could not have been that bad, right...
Fans who arrived early Sunday morning and camped out in front of the stage in eager anticipation for Bare Naked Ladies probably enjoyed themselves. But for those who were not directly in front of the stage, it would have been nice to actually see the concert. With an estimated 100,000 people crowded into City Hall Plaza (a dumb, dumb, dumb place to hold a crowd of this magnitude), fans were lucky enough to see a bunch of umbrellas, some puddles, and rain. And the back of the guy in front of them...
Event organizers were smart enough to move the concert stage this year out of the pit it had been in last year in front of the old City Hall, but that did little to help. Mixfest used to be held on Boston Common, an ideal location for such an event. Because the stage there was elevated off the ground, even people at the edge of the Common only had to tilt there heads up to see. Apparently pressure from Beacon Hill residents unhappy with the crowds and the noise resulted in the move to City Hall Plaza. Yet the Hempfest...
...Naked Ladies to draw the crowd.) And after three songs, I decided I would rather listen to them at home. At least it was dry there, and by flipping through their album cover, you can actually see them while you listen. That used to be the point of a concert...