I’m not sure what to say about the INXS show last night. It was a mixed bag. The Atlanta Civic Center is the WORST place in the ATL to see a show and I had forgot about that until last night. Marty and the Lovehammers opened up and all I can say is the TV show made him look a lot better then they are. I thought they stunk up the joint. Marty needed to take INXS’s advice and quit screaming all the time. His band was not very good.

On the INXS side: JD is a superstart, plain and simple. He is going to be a great frontman and showed signs of it last night. He has got to learn two things: 1.) How to interact with the crowd. 2.) How to stay sober. By the end of the show he was flying high and was getting vulger. You could tell it was early in the tour and that they haven’t played together much. The transitions were rough. They did a good mix of old and new and JD carried the show. I was taken back by how rough the show was. The music was good, the show needed some work. We are doing a better job with lighting and video then they are. Their video was awful.

I might be being to hard. After seeing Bon Jovi last week, this was a let down. It was less of an event and more about just a band playing. That isn’t bad if you like that type of stuff.

Bon Jovi is like the modern church - They do a great job getting the message out in an event format and they draw huge crowds.

INXS was more like the postmodern church - Everything was scaled way back and the crowd was fractions of the Bon Jovi crowd.

Neither is better, just different.

Give INXS a little time to get use to JD and I think you might start seeing big things from them again.

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