Word: touring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...years of experience. No, you can only look at them, don't touch; their career is something precious and out of reach for you musicians. Enjoy your platinum albums and adoring fans while you can. When you're cashing in on your one hit with a reunion package tour with your fellow one-hit wonders in twenty years, you'll finally understand the importance of creating good music...
...Tweeter Center was: an amazing night of good music. Age be damned, R.E.M. put on an energetic and mind-blowing show. The proof was in the writhing mass of swirling bodies and hoarse voices screaming the lyrics aloud. The band fed right off of this enthusiasm and ended their tour with an incredibly high-kicking, electrically charged show...
...What? No, no, no. R.E.M.'s tour was certainly not a nostalgia trip. Yes, they were raucous and rollicking during versions of early '80s classics "Radio Free Europe" and "Wolves, Lower," as well as passionate on mid-career faves like "Fall On Me" and "The One I Love." But because like wine the band has only grown sweeter and more potent with age, the oldies sounded as great as the new songs...
There would be nothing inherently wrong with the Key's lack of diversity if it were not the only University-sanctioned student tour group. But, as Oppenheim observes, there are plenty of good storytellers in the student body who don't wear khakis, don't enjoy the mindless drinking rituals, and won't reduce themselves to mindless, sycophantic club members. I saw personally how the Key's comp systematically excludes people outside the elitist, insular circle in which so many members travel...
...joined the Crimson Key Society so I could give campus tours, and I stayed despite discovering its shallowness. Unless the Key chooses to reach out to this larger community, it should not remain the University's exclusive student tour group. Mend...