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After unsuccessful attempts to negotiate with music groups Digable Planets and Blind Melon, the council sponsored a large scale, sold-out concert by They Might Be Giants in April...
...role of organizer (and student representative), Mann talked to students and developed a realistic opinion of which bands would be popular at Harvard. He then followed through by talking to the band's management and tour schedulers to make sure the show would actually happen, unlike the failed Blind Melon and Digable Planets attempts. The concert was well-publicized and well-attended, unlike the De La Soul disaster of 1992. And ticket-buyers seemed to get exactly what they expected. Daniel S. Quint '97 even called the show "awesome...
...only hints of incompetence people have been able to point out in the council all year are the failures to bring Digable Planets and Blind Melon. First of all, I think TMBG is better than either of the above. More importantly, as the point man on this project, I expressly stated when these packages were approved by the council that the proposals were contingent upon acceptance of our monetary offers and possible dates...
Although the council had voted almost unanimously to bring in Blind Melon, Gabay said in an interview yesterday that he had expected some opposition to the Giants resolution...
Gabay thought the $18,000 price tag for They Might Be Giants, 20 percent more than the cost for Blind Melon, would sway some voters...