“And it’s one, two, three, who are we playing for? Don’t ask me I don’t give a damn, next gig is ...”
Imagine the CARBON FOOTPRINT! I can’t believe all these bright musicians — most of whom are almost certainly FLAMING LIBS — would participate in this rape of the planet.
Where IS Algore when we really need him.
At the time of their visit to North Korea, their music director at the time, Lorin Maazel, said that the US was just as guilty as North Korea with respect to human rights violations - so US citizens had no justification for complaint.
In addition to being hypocritical dumb as**s, these people are all about publicity (notorious or otherwise). Lots more publicity from a visit to Vietnam or North Korea than a visit to plain old Japan- which would hardly be mentioned.
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Who is paying for this? I can’t image ticket prices even cover a signficant portion of it.