I feel obfuscated!

  Now that SCAD has officially sent their official press release officially confirming the official time and place of the James Brown concert in Forsyth Park this Friday night, I feel officially comfortable in letting you in on the whole silliness surrounding this thing.

Everyone and his brother has known for weeks this concert was going to happen. We’ve had confirmation for nearly three weeks from James Brown’s publicist that the gig was going to happen.

But last week when we talked to SCAD things weren’t quite so clear.

The Kabuki Dance the college’s PR staff often puts us through has become a running joke around the office. Not because the PR staff is in any way unprofessional or incompetent — quite the contrary, they’re very good at their jobs and very nice people to boot — but because they so often feel a need to keep a secret when there is simply no secret to keep anymore.

When our music editor Jim Reed asked a college spokesperson last week — the only one officially allowed to speak on the subject — about the concert, the staffer refused to confirm or deny that James Brown was playing.

However, the staffer did allow that there would be a free concert in Forsyth Park this Friday night.

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