Comments on: Reunion timing

By: GospelMusicFan

GospelMusicFan — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 11:40:51 +0000

All is not lost in Crabbs’ country.
Check out this story appearing in today’s Huntsville Times.
Wonder how many units of 1,000 True Fans the Crabb Family has developed over the years traveling the countryside?

By: CVH

CVH — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 22:25:18 +0000

I’m with Wade on this one. Personally, I wouldn’t walk across the street to see any variation of the Crabbs, but their ‘reunion’ demonstrates two truths.

First, because audience’s tastes are so easily satiated and because they don’t discriminate between a reunion of significant magnitude and one of trivial importance, they’ll probably fill quite a few seats. And commercially speaking, more power to the Crabbs if they can.

But the second truth is that to call a concert a ‘reunion’ after barely two years cheapens the whole concept and contributes to the entropy that southern gospel music finds itself in. But hey, why maintain a sense of dignity or good taste when you can make a few bucks on an audience that doesn’t care.

The Crabbs remind me of guests at a party who say they simply must leave because they have other pressing matters to attend to…and they say they’re leaving and say they’re leaving and say they’re leaving until…they’re the only ones there and no one cares.

By: Wade

Wade — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 06:21:49 +0000

The RIGHT TIME to have a REUNION is whenever you can sell tickets and put a butt ever 22 inches or so.

I have always been surprised Gold City has not done more reunion type things. But the last time I checked about it they were all to worried someone involved would make more money that THEM or that one of the parties to the reunion would make more than another.

Still some hard feelings if you know what I mean???

By: Glenn

Glenn — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 02:51:07 +0000

I guess we need to separate Southern Gospel Music (why do I capitalize that?) from the other genres. To me, the only group I would pay extremely more to see than I would have, I’m not sure how many years ago, would be the Eagles. Probably the only group I would pay significantly more money to see these days is the Cathedrals, and, duh, that is not going to happen. I guess southern gospel (why did I not capitalize that) performers just live longer.

I still would love to see the Crabb’s together again; just not as a reunion (I am so sentimental).

By: cdguy

cdguy — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 23:00:38 +0000

Well, I’m not a promoter weighing in, but we seem to forget the kids said, when they first announced the “retirment” (or whatever it should be called), that they would, from time-to-time, all perform together, or with 2 or more of the newly established entities together, and separately. Just not full time.

Isn’t that what’s happening?