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Kis, this is not true. ML has never been Amzn's biggest cheerleader. That award goes to Morgan Stanley and the pimp Mary Meeker.Actually, ML was one of the last of the elephants to convert to Amzn bull status, and that didn't happen until they hired the pimp Blodget. Trust me on that.
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Be careful about bashing the I-net stocks. We did pretty well in MP3.
>>MP3.com, a thorn and fast becoming a force in the music industry, said yesterday it is co-sponsoring an upcoming Goo Goo Dolls tour of college campuses nationwide.
The San Diego-based company, which bills itself as having the Internet's largest library of digital music, has been busy recasting itself as a name-act concert promoter.
MP3.com is sponsoring the highly acclaimed Alanis Morissette and Tori Amos "51/2 Weeks" tour, and the company helped boost classic rocker Tom Petty's most recent outing.
The Goo Goo Dolls, darlings of campus and pop radio with hits such as "Slide" and three-time Grammy nominee "Iris," lend additional hip credentials to the company that went public last month.
The Music and Technology Tour, sponsored in conjunction with the William Morris Agency, kicks off Oct. 5 at the University of Iowa and tentatively ends Nov. 19 at Stanford University's Maples Pavilion. However, dates may be added.
The Goo Goo Dolls are scheduled to appear at UCSD's RIMAC Arena Nov. 17. (UCSD is the alma mater of MP3.com's newly minted billionaire CEO, Michael Robertson.)
Opening for the Dolls is Tonic, which won accolades for its 1996 debut album "Lemon Parade," and more recently "You Wanted More," off the soundtrack from the teen flick "American Pie."
The tour includes an "MP3.com Village," with a technology and "extreme lifestyle" fair. On display will be MP3 software and portable digital players, as well as clothing and gear for extreme sports, such as snow boarding, mountain biking and BASE jumping. (BASE is an acronym for building, antennae, structure and earth.)
In an era when aging rock stars are charging $45 a ticket, the Music and Technology Tour is charging $20 for access to the concert and the MP3 Village, or $10 for village-only passes.
"We are carrying the general philosophy of our Web site over to the Music and Technology Tour -- maximum exposure to music, information and entertainment and minimal cost," said John Diaz, MP3.com's vice president for industry relations.
The village will feature performances by name acts as well as local MP3.com artists from each of the cities on the tour.
Portions of the tour will be Webcast via the as-yet-unlaunched MP3radio.com sites, said Perry Serpa of Nasty Little Man public relations in New York.
Tickets for the tour go on sale next week and will be available through the tour.mp3.com Web site.<< |
