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The Lively Arts have been working for years to have concerts in the stadium.  MTL was not supportive of having concerts there, Levin is.

WOW. Talk about squeezing all the fun out of Stanford. I can't believe it took a change in Stanford President to get one of the top bands in the world to come to Stanford.

K-Pop group BTS? l'll take Louis Prima, Keely Smith, Sam Butera, and the Witnesses. They could really cook and were a tight, disciplined group. Is Stanford expecting to fill up Stanford Stadium with teens who find the BTS guys arousing? Maybe DAPER will get a major cut to use on NIL deals...I suppose booking BTS is better than booking "the Village People" introduced by you know whom with his infamous "dance." Look for the Village People to be co-headliners with fellow geniuses Kid Rock, Ted Nugent, Jon Voight, and, as a bonus, a UFC Cage Match at the WH between Lil Marco and Vance in the decadent new Ballroom on July 4, 2026, to celebrate the nation's 250th birthday. Where's my Pepto Bismol?

You should tell everyone to get off your lawn while you're at it. 

BTS is one of the most popular bands in the world. Their fans from when they last had a real tour have real jobs and real disposable income now.

Re "You should tell everyone to get off your lawn while you're at it," if it was actually my private lawn and I was reasonably well off, then I would not tell "everyone" to get off my lawn, but I'd certainly decide which parties I would allow to use my lawn to make big bucks for themselves. Part of what would go into my decision making about 'which to allow' would be the degree to which each party wanting to use my lawn was a progressive or a decadent social and/or cultural force. One of the major results of the last decade is the massive erosion of U.S. cultural standards, typified by the preposterous renaming of the Kennedy Center. I wouldn't be surprised if you denied any such erosion and believed that, at bottom, any value judgments about the relative cultural value of different 'artistic' phenomena in the same genre were purely subjective. I regard that aesthetic relativism as just as noxious as its ethical cousin. If so, we'll just have to agree to disagree. No problem. Reasonable people can differ reasonably.

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The Lively Arts have been working for years to have concerts in the stadium.  MTL was not supportive of having concerts there, Levin is.

WOW. Talk about squeezing all the fun out of Stanford. I can't believe it took a change in Stanford President to get one of the top bands in the world to come to Stanford.

K-Pop group BTS? l'll take Louis Prima, Keely Smith, Sam Butera, and the Witnesses. They could really cook and were a tight, disciplined group. Is Stanford expecting to fill up Stanford Stadium with teens who find the BTS guys arousing? Maybe DAPER will get a major cut to use on NIL deals...I suppose booking BTS is better than booking "the Village People" introduced by you know whom with his infamous "dance." Look for the Village People to be co-headliners with fellow geniuses Kid Rock, Ted Nugent, Jon Voight, and, as a bonus, a UFC Cage Match at the WH between Lil Marco and Vance in the decadent new Ballroom on July 4, 2026, to celebrate the nation's 250th birthday. Where's my Pepto Bismol?

You should tell everyone to get off your lawn while you're at it. 

BTS is one of the most popular bands in the world. Their fans from when they last had a real tour have real jobs and real disposable income now.

Re "You should tell everyone to get off your lawn while you're at it," if it was actually my private lawn and I was reasonably well off, then I would not tell "everyone" to get off my lawn, but I'd certainly decide which parties I would allow to use my lawn to make big bucks for themselves. Part of what would go into my decision making about 'which to allow' would be the degree to which each party wanting to use my lawn was a progressive or a decadent social and/or cultural force. One of the major results of the last decade is the massive erosion of U.S. cultural standards, typified by the preposterous renaming of the Kennedy Center. I wouldn't be surprised if you denied any such erosion and believed that, at bottom, any value judgments about the relative cultural value of different 'artistic' phenomena in the same genre were purely subjective. I regard that aesthetic relativism as just as noxious as its ethical cousin. If so, we'll just have to agree to disagree. No problem. Reasonable people can differ reasonably.