Orthography Enthusiast wrote:The Paradise roster has a lot of oldies acts and acts-lacking-an-essential-original-member. Basic county-fair fodder, in other words...But at least Paradise did a great job of getting bookings for Al's Brain... oh, well. Never mind.
Exactly. I don't want to beat up on them too much, because like it or not they were in large part responsible for everyone's concert memories on this board (or at least in North America, anyway), but it did seem as if Al was getting too big for them to properly handle. The tour itineraries definitely kept going over familiar territory to the point of redundancy...unless they
really expected Al to sell out the Keswick for the fourth time in just four years. Al isn't exactly a "state fair" act at this point in his career--this isn't 1997--so yeah, something needed to change.
As for "Al's Brain," I have no clue how well Paradise pitched that around if at all...or if the Orange County Fair somehow got involved in the process and slowed it down. It seemed as if they just sort of stuck the info on their site and thought that was enough to entice parties. One of the local places I contacted that seemed the most likely in the Northeast to host the exhibit never even heard of it.
