Here we've got this band, fronted by someone at least as intelligent as Morrison, who hasn't released anything new in 14 years, who berates his fans in interviews and in songs ("Save me from the grave" on Marian, for example), who tours once in a blue moon, but who receives almost unquestioning loyalty from fans who spend a good chunk of their disposable travelling the world to see the shows and tracking down bootlegs. This loyalty is thrown into sharp relief when someone posts something derogatory (and perhaps even ill-informed) in a forum devoted to discussions about the band - the response is hostile, to the extent of name-calling.
It occurred to me last night that
may be trying to see how far we (the fans) can be pushed. He posts something about the shows being on DAT (DJ AEternam, AE = Andrew Eldritch?) to see what our reaction would be, and is gratifed to read that we won't hear a word said against the band. So are we merely pawns in his experiment? Are we likely to see in the near future a gig where it's just him sitting in an armchair doing the crossword, just so he can see what we will do? Answers on a postcard above the chemist, please. I'll keep listening, going to the gigs, and buying the bootlegs (which, who knows, might be official output because it's easier than going to the effort of writing new material), but is anyone else wondering whether we're putting up with the shampoo in our eyes just so we can keep pushing the lever to get the pellets?
