MirORich
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1st convert ever. 1989 at the Coliseum. I was 11. Dad took me. Lenny Kravitz opened up. The 4 hr Bogdanovich doc is excellent.
Sad to see it happen.
Around the late 70's, the game changed in terms of sheer number of celebrities. First cable TV added to the traditional 3 networks and movies. Then the internet. Then satellite TV. The ability to create micro niches of bands, films, actors, artists, etc.
The point being, every year, it is going to seem like more and more celebrities/artists are dying but the chief reason is that the mediums in which we create and maintain connections to these artists and celebrities has multiplied hundreds fold in 50 years, which creates hundredsfold more celebrities.
It's sad, especially for their families and the people they worked with and came in contact with, but it's not some "world spiraling out of control" thing.
RIP Mr Petty
Sad to see it happen.
Around the late 70's, the game changed in terms of sheer number of celebrities. First cable TV added to the traditional 3 networks and movies. Then the internet. Then satellite TV. The ability to create micro niches of bands, films, actors, artists, etc.
The point being, every year, it is going to seem like more and more celebrities/artists are dying but the chief reason is that the mediums in which we create and maintain connections to these artists and celebrities has multiplied hundreds fold in 50 years, which creates hundredsfold more celebrities.
It's sad, especially for their families and the people they worked with and came in contact with, but it's not some "world spiraling out of control" thing.
RIP Mr Petty
