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okiedoke — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 20:48:37 EDT

Hope they paid for the clipart.

okiedoke

Airsank — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 19:41:49 EDT

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.

Airsank

Maura Johnston — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 19:39:48 EDT

The dayglo paint started getting thrown around back in April.

Maura Johnston

Deadly Tango — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 19:36:12 EDT

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.]

Deadly Tango