No, i did not say that. Diane is also a legend. Together they were the Supremes. That is what matters not this made up competition by delirious fans...........
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Alas, in the 3 decades since your last Diana Ross concert, her demo has changed. If I were you, I wouldn't comment about shows you did not attend. I dare say that I attend more shows of both Ross & Wilson than you and I am quite amazed at the number of new, young fans at Ross' shows. A lot of 20 somethings in Austin, ditto Milwaukee where I befriended a group of nine young women and asked what they were doing there. They had become fans because of Double Platinum and always see her shows in the area. In Austin, they acted like everyone knows her music. In Nashville, I met young fans from Detroit, CT, PA, SC it's quite interesting. Many of the younger fans are dismissive of The Supremes years - a surprising number - especially the HDH stuff. They like Someday, No Matter What Sign You Are, Love child, and YCHL and Back In My Arms Again. Not Stop! or Baby Love etc. They like stuff that my generation didn't embrace as much like The RCA Ross album, Workin Overtime etc. You might consider attending the MSG show so you could at least have a pretense of knowing what you are talking about. The cult is growing, Marv. It's getting bigger and bigger and younger and one day, will come for YOU. Be ready with your Oooh Child cassette to ward them off!
QUOTE=marv2;223427]That is called a cult. Kinda like those people that use to follow the Grateful Dead around from concert to concert ; seeing them multiple times in a year. Those were not new and interested fans. Why? LOL!!!![/QUOTE]
I thought Miss Ross was broke and was playing dumps like the Hollywood Bowl where the vermin, rats, moths, fleas and spiders outnumber the people, most of whom are seedy and strung out? And she's going to be playing a room in the basement of MSG where it's quite common for the floor to be overrun by sewage leaking from the faulty pipes of the NYC Sewage System, which has never been the same since Ed Norton retired. Po' Diana.
The cult is 18,000! Where does that put the 18?
You could get put out of the audience of 18, I guess. But, you'd have to draw lots of attention to yourself to get tossed out in a crowd of 18000.
Only Marv could do it and some of the convoluted logic here shows me why it happened.
I'm not sure I agree with this. To be fair, Dreamgirls generated a lot of buzz in Diana Ross, particularly among the younger Beyonce crowd as did the BET Awards the next year. The crowds at both the Hollywood Bowl and NJPAC last year had a good deal of folks in their 20s and 30s in attendance. The bigger Diana Ross fan groups online, particularly "The Ultimate Fans" have quite a few members as early as high school through folks in their 20's, 30s and early 40s. Diana and The Supremes are recognizable "legacy" artists right up there with The Beatles, Elvis and The Stones. They certainly aren't AS widely favored as those other acts but in terms of female artists, there really aren't many from that era that continue to draw an age-diverse crowd. Cher perhaps although I can't speak from experience. Barbra Streisand's audience tends to lean a little older.
My friends in Los Angeles who attended [[different groups of friends went to see her) are hardly the "Cult of Ross": many enjoyed her run with the Supremes but given the age and demographic, most of them were more "Love Hangover"/The Boss/diana lovers and would probably also turn out for Nile Rodgers/CHIC, Blondie, etc.
The internet has changed everything. There is video of The Hollywood Bowl concert last summer that clearly shows the age of the peeps attending! LOL!!!
This is the same concert YOU said was pre-sold to subscription holders and people were going because they had no choice. Then it was proved to you that it was an added event, not even on the schedule, and no seats were pre-sold! LOL!!!
HAPPY EASTER! LOL!!!
From Marv2:
Jobeterob, have you ever met Diane? Would you like to?
I would not call it meeting.
I'm ambivalent. She or I would have to go a long way.
I've seen how she writes and I'm not wildly impressed.
I know what she did when a fan lost his grandchildren; I've seen how her own children have done; I see how she never comments. I'm impressed by those things.
I've seen how you've acted; if she acts like you, then you are both miserable old goats who need to be put out to pasture.
Here's Mary singing "A Bad Case of Loving You" on the Earth Day television special in 1990:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkhPb3f4JSQ
"Love Hangover" is prime disco along with Donna Summer's work, "I Will Survive", KC & The Sunshine Band and The Bee Gees. Today's club DJs have reverence for their predecessors like Larry Levan [[who was also fond of and spun the 70s Supremes quite a bit...), David Mancuso and Tom Moulton. It's not uncommon to go to a club in New York or Los Angeles in 2014 and hear Ross, Summer, Sister Sledge, Gaynor and Chic. Dimitri From Paris, Horse Meat Disco and Joey Negro often include these artists in their sets. The gay community has embraced "I'm Coming Out" for 33 years now and it is still revered by young and old gay people alike.
Again, this simply is not true. I mentioned Diana Ross: The Ultimate Fans and I'm sure those of us who are members in Roger's Group could find more than a few members who are in their early 20s or teens and have them join SDF. There is also a Supremes group which Roger administers that likely has the same folks on the members roster as the Diana Ross group. The Supremes group, by the way, celebrates ALL of the Supremes although the DMF lineup is the most discussed as it, as we all know is the most widely known.
I'm not sure what the point is of these generalizations and why we are muddling opinions with facts again. I feel no need to weigh in on Mary Wilson because I simply don't care. I do, however, consider myself a fan of the Supremes and Diana Ross and also have no interest or need to distort the facts. I am confident that I can back up everything I've said with examples, screenshots, testimonials and footnotes but there is no need for me to take it any further as I am confident in my truths.
Can everyone go enjoy Easter peacefully, please? Jesus would not be down for all this bickering!
Now here is one of my favorite performances of Mary doing the song! She absolutely ROCKS! One of the few women I've ever seen that can rock and looks so damned hot at the same time! LOL! No other of the Supremes were as effective singing Rock music than Mary Wilson! Enjoy.........
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abZrYb7s25U