[atlantaprog] Re: DT/QR/FW

john wrote:
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Paul W. Cashman" <pellaz@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <atlantaprog@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, April 05, 2003 4:39 AM
> Subject: [atlantaprog] DT/QR/FW
> 
> >
> > It's a cool tour and one which I will almost certainly attend if there's
> > an Atlanta date for it...but one problem with the booking is that there
> > isn't too much crossover between fans of the three bands.
> 
> you don't think so?  wow, that's interesting.  i remember when
> fates warning and dream theater came to atlanta the same night,
> when kevin moore was with fw (pleasant shade of grey).  that
> was a major dilemma for all the dt fans i knew, who also dug
> fw.  in fact, i don't know of any fans of dt who don't dig qr
> and fw as well.  i might just be provincial in my experience, though.
> :-)

Aha, I think I should have phrased my comment a bit better.   Duh.  My
bad.  :)

What I intended to say was that fans of one of the bands are typically
fans of the others, so there isn't too much of a crossover effect
between genres when you put the bands together.   DT and FW fans are
virtually cut from the same cloth overall; most DT fans are also fans of
QR.   This doesn't work in reverse; there are many QR fans of old who
don't care for DT or, in some cases, don't have any idea about DT and
the current underground prog-metal scene in general.   

The question is, are there enough of them to make a difference?   QR's
luster has faded quite a bit from their days of headlining the Omni; on
one of their recent tours they were barely able to draw 3,000 people at
Lakewood; on the same tour they drew about 2,000 people at the Sharks'
arena in San Jose, an embarassment when you consider the venues can
hold  seven times that number.

> btw, i really dug white wolf awakening - that was a good story.

Thanks!    I hadn't thought about it in a while, but a friend of mine
just brought me a hardback copy he found in a used-book shop and it was
fun to re-read it (and think "What WAS I thinking, there?" :)).  
There's a bit more interest in the Elric series now that the stories
have been optioned for film.



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