You gotta understand something there. This music is the glue of the world. It holds it all together.

Without this, life would be meaningless. What are you getting so crazy about? It's just music.

There's nothing better than discovering a terrific new band, even for grizzled veterans like

us.

I'm Greg Kott of the Chicago Tribune.

And I'm Jim Deregatus from W be.B.E. Z. and Columbia College. We dig up a batch of buried treasures

to share and review the new album by singer-songwriter John Hyatt. That's coming up on sound opinions. on Sound Opinions.

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From W.B.E.Z. Chicago and distributed by PRX, you're listening to sound opinions and time now for some music news. The Jim, we're coming to the end of the summer concert season and as long time concert

goers, we know that with the good comes the bad.

In fact, tragedy broke out last week at the Indiana State Fair Sugar Land concert when a stage collapsed during

a storm leaving five dead and dozens more injured.

But many less extreme incidents are also caused by fans themselves.

Everyone has heard stories about drinking, drugs, violence at shows, in general, really bad behavior.

And they aren't just a bummer for the concert goers, but also for the artists themselves. and they risk

risk earning bad reputations and being banned from venues

so some acts are taking steps to control their crowds we're talking about

groups like o-a-R and Fish who rely heavily on

touring for their bread and butter. They've posted open letters to fans and

recruited volunteers to keep the peace at their shows. Now John Jorgensen recently wrote about this idea

of the fan code of conduct in the Wall Street Journal and he joins us now.

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