Re: Chicken or the egg........

["Schrade, Scott" <sschrade@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> It just happened.


True but after seeing the crowd's reaction to the equipment smashing
one can imagine Kit Lambert telling the band, "Keep doing it, keep
doing it!"

The first auto-destruction moment was supposedly an accident.  We know
*that* wasn't planned.  But I think after that the band & its management
realized they had stumbled onto a great promotional tool.

I'm not discounting the sincerity of the smash-ups - the lads were
angry.  And it seemed to give the audience a cathartic exhilaration, as
well.  

I see the equipment smashing more as an angry, sincere, manager-approved
gimmick.  But a gimmick nonetheless.


- SCHRADE in Akron

To pursue science is not to disparage the things of the spirit. In fact, to
pursue science rightly is to furnish the framework on which the spirit may
rise. 
   - Vannevar Bush, 1953

He that increaseth knowledge, increaseth sorrow.
   - Ecclesiastes 1:18