Stop thinking about it and jump on it if you can!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Just imagine if this next album does what we all expect, OBH next year won't be what you'll get this year.
Quote from: gluvmiller on Oct 28, 2014, 03:32 PM
Stop thinking about it and jump on it if you can!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Just imagine if this next album does what we all expect, OBH next year won't be what you'll get this year.
True that! And this one selling out will make it much different than OBH1 - 1,700 lucky souls got that present!
Gluv what do you mean by that? Are you saying that the new album could put them over the top and into mainstream territory, thus enlarging and watering down the fanbase at special events like that? Or...?
Quote from: Stevie on Oct 29, 2014, 10:56 PM
Gluv what do you mean by that? Are you saying that the new album could put them over the top and into mainstream territory, thus enlarging and watering down the fanbase at special events like that? Or...?
EXACTLY!!!! Actually, I don't know about "mainstream" per se, but still they are about to move up the ranks. There is this feeling that the industry is coming around to what we all know. Seems many very respected artists have embraced them. Rolling Stone, Live Nation and Pollstar are next...
And please don't take this as my wishes
I ran into a writer for Rolling Stone in the Cancun airport after OBH. He told me that he would have a small article about the festival. I told him there should be at least a page. He told me RS was not really interested in MMJ. Nothing was ever published about it after it happened.
SOLD OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!! No more rooms left!
Quote from: rincon2 on Oct 30, 2014, 08:27 AM
I ran into a writer for Rolling Stone in the Cancun airport after OBH. He told me that he would have a small article about the festival. I told him there should be at least a page. He told me RS was not really interested in MMJ. Nothing was ever published about it after it happened.
Yeah that's true, even though they did do an article before hand.
However, what I have noticed is, since Jim's solo album, there has been a blurb about either Jim or MMJ in just about every Rolling Stone magazine (up until the past 4 months when my subscription ran out so IDK). Before ROLSOG came out, I never saw anything about MMJ in Rolling Stone.
I agree that their fan base will continue to grow mostly because they put out great music, play great shows, and from word of mouth. Could they grow and tour basketball arenas soon? I don't think so.
Many respected musicians and Rolling Stone mag has been praising MMJ for years. I just checked their website, and it says four stars for each of the last three albums while including Z in the top 100 albums of the 2000s. MMJ opened for Elliot Smith, the Foo Fighters, Peal Jam, Bob Dylan, played the Bridge School concert a few times, and the list goes on.
I wish them all the success possible but hope getting tickets will continue to be pretty easy (and Ground(Ctrl) does the right job).
On this very computer I am typing on I have the Rolling Stone archive. Every page from every issue from #1 to 2007, even the classifieds. It is searchable. ISM gets 3 stars, Z has several mentions and #6 for top album of 2005. In the "Buy this now" segment they say Z makes MMJ vie for band of the year. Not much else in the early days. Nothing more than 3 paragraphs in any mention. That is simply fucking ridiculous.