Generosity, by the band. Options

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Guys, is it really thansgiving today in the US? We do not celebrate it, but now I have something pretty symbolical to tell and now we can compare Ed and CCCP not from the musical side or even the money (who cares about the money anyway). But from another point of view.

Generosity.

I will start this thread with a simple comparison.

I love the only thing about Ed in the last couple of years. His donations to the children. However, could anyone please tell me whether we have any proof the children are really helped and receive that water (or money or whatever it was)? This is my only question.


The next point. After reading Nick's comparison about the touring etc for the 100500th time today, I thought about generosity. Is ed generous enough to invite his fans to his shows for free? Let e remind you that my humble self was invited to come over to the Netherlands to see TGF by the Chad Taylor himself.

While touring TGF were not that busy with promotion. They had some cool local stuff with starting the band from the very beggining, playing pubs, tiny clubs and what not. The spirit of this is enormous. However, if we talk about generosity, remember An Honest Deal? Anyone who was in the area could come see the band for 10 BUCKS! 10 fucking dollars! While Ed's tickets are.... More than 30 or even 50?..

anyway, back on topic. A couple of months ago someone posted a pic in a new Live tshirt. Remember, the one with LIVE + CCCP. I try to always comment on pics like those, as I do like them.

Guess what.

Today I went to the post office and received a parcel from The Thrill himself (yea, I know his ad now woot ) and you know what was in it? There was a LIVE + CCCP and a TGF tshirt. Two shirts just as a gift, without any payment, without any wish to get my money or smth else.
He contacted me via FB to say that it was the gift for me from both bands and from him as well. So I will def. try and take my time to make nice pics and share them with everyone interested.


now THIS is generosity I think.

Who cares about money after all?

[Badman]

Ed: Back when Ed was in live like right at the end they gave me the opportunity to meet them after the show for free which was super cool. I recall Ed gave us a free recording of his acoustic shows (waterrats) Free downloads of his singles too but we already had them. That's about it for Ed.

TGF: I got a free shirt just for going to the show. They gave us downloads of appetite and trecedim before we had leaks.

Live: Mallrat and photograph was the best gift ever. I also consider the post that chad probably took hours to type in response to Merica's request to be a gift. It was like a "behind the music" post.

I haven't seen any Ed or Live shows so naturally they can't be as generous. I can say this though; TGF and LIVE are nowhere as bad as Ed when it comes to trying to scrape money from the fans. I think my TGF ticket was 15 dollars and I got a shirt for free. Ed's tickets cost way more and if you want a shirt you are going to have to fork over $20 and dig it out from a mountain of unsold coffee. As for Live's tickets... did you guys get charged for the secret show?

This post has been edited by Badman: Nov 22 2012, 1:45 pm