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Live Nation has launched a "blog" for the Philadelphia venue now known as (ugh) the Fillmore at the TLA for reasons that I can't quite seem to figure out; sure, the concert-promotion behemoth's one-size-fits-all Web sites are lacking in things like good design and a place to actually get a feel for the bands on the bills, but shouldn't the company at least have enough money so that it can invest in a content-management system for these sorts of things, instead of relying on Blogspot? (At least the Electric Factory's blog is actually on its own server.) [The Fillmore at the]
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Um, when exactly did "The Fillmore" become a brand name worthy of replicating throughout the country? I didn't realize that concert halls were the same as department stores.
ASIDE: For those who don't follow (or care about) branding, Macy's has wiped out dozens of regionally-known store chains through the initial agglomeration of Federated Department Stores and then its acquisition of the competing May's chain. Any mid- to up-scale department store that isn't Sears or Nordstrom is at risk of being renamed "Macy's" any day now if it hasn't already happened.
I realize this is a classic MRR "sellout" or "damn, they were better before ..." rant, but I don't care. I want the FILLMORE brand to belong to two concert halls, one in NYC and one in San Francisco, and that's it. Period. Beyond that, it's self-mutilation.
[Yes, I'm a former trademark attorney, so maybe I care too much about these things. And Liverpool threw away Champions League points AT HOME today in an event that even your sister site Deadspin barely cares about. Grrrrrrr.]
The dayglo paint started getting thrown around back in April.
At least they get a blog. At the actual Fillmore in San Francisco all we get is the cookie-cutter, Live Nation piece of crap. Tiny venues that fit like 200 people generally have websites twenty times more functional than this one. It's all part of Clear Channel's brilliant plan to ruin music for everyone forever.
Hope they paid for the clipart.
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