re: #14 Belafon

I remember a documentary about them probably about ten years ago, and when they went back to their original performing places, they had to do it when the club was closed because their old fans resented them for going corporate.

It’s the life cycle of music acts in America: Start out playing small-time venues to tiny crowds, finally start getting notice when you play as the warm-up act for some rising star band that finally “made it,” get all sorts of praise for finally getting mainstream attention..and then have all your old fans sit around bitching that they don’t like anything before you signed your contract because you “sold out.”