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Posted on 12/07/2004 6:07:57 PM PST by weegee
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the concerts i went too (all at harpos and were death metal) were packed houses
Entertainers are just going to have to accept a pay cut.
Or else the entertainment industry is going to have to uncover/market the NEXT big box office entertainers.
Things are certainly stagnant.
This year the only reserved seating shows I went to were Brian Wilson and Paul Anka, Glenn Campbell, and Monica Mancini (all 3 of these shows with my parents at an old opera house in Galveston).
Everything else I went to was at small clubs (I think that the Brian Wilson show may have been the only Clear Channel show I went to of ANY size).
I went to a 3 day festival in Las Vegas (small promoter) at a hotel/casino and the SXSW festival.
I see a lot of music. I just don't pay a lot for it.
I will admit to having paid around $100 for Rolling Stones tickets in the past but I didn't even go to the most recent tour (at the Reliant Stadium). I hear the sound was awful in there.
At a club I can get right up to the stage. I see quite a few road acts and probably see live music on average 2 nights a week.
I listen to new rock and roll but have no false hopes that what I listen to will ever get on commercial radio.
Here in Houston, we are now down to ONE station that plays SOME new rock releases (and a lot of 10+ year old songs). And they have the nerve to call the rock they play "alternative"? If it is on the charts, it is ESTABLISHMENT music (especially when the bands get Grammy nods and have been on the charts 5-10 years). Alternative to what? Oh yeah, GOOD music.
music biz gets it. How about professional sports?
BTW, all 3 shows I saw in Galveston were sell outs.
Brian Wilson was not.
Same here im a big scandinavian metal fan
thats gotta be some of the best stuff out right now
I thought that the first album was alright. I heard it on the radio a year before it "took off because of the Grammy wins". I heard it on one of the two stations that broke her on commercial radio.
Fair. I gave the album (new) as a gift to my mom for birthday I believe.
I never put the album on. If the music industry were raising up other talented singers, she may have just been a blip. In the absence of such singers, she "went to the top".
The material on her followup album did nothing for me.
Perhaps it was the "packaging" that the industry tried to do to make her more like other "big singers" today.
Can this kind of music be played in a large venue? I don't know. I know that my parents saw Frank Sinatra where the Houston Rockets used to play. Must have been a horrible atmosphere and bad accoustics.
I know that some great rock and roll bands would have a hard time projecting the energy that they have on the stage to a large crowd (especially when they are dwarfed by a large stage).
On the radio, all bands are equal though (no theatrics are necessary).
I saw bands like the Hellacopters years ago. They went to the top of the charts over there.
Here we get The Darkness on radio. Pfft.
the darkness sucks so bad there not even there band..there a really bad joke..one that was probably aimed at us musicians..after all TRL tells us what to listen to (barf)
The only band I'd pay more than $12 to hear live is Crooked Fingers. And they're coming to L.A. in February. YES!
no way can i pay the prices groups are asking for. plus i really dont enjoy the huge crowds at some of the old shows.
we have a small club here in st. louis called generations.
has caberet seating and holds maybe 150-200 people.
they have some unbelievable acts come in there.
the last concert i saw there was savoy brown. table next to stage 12 feet from kim simmonds. wow. $15 IIRC
before that it was johnny winter at mississippi nights.
holds about 500 or so (just a guess) probably cost about
20-25 bucks. now thats acceptable. left me enough cash for a CD and T-Shirt with my own flask, it was a good night.
When I saw Simon and Garfinkle the tickets were $2.50. The Lovin' Spoonful opened for them.
We refused to see the Beatles because the tickets were $8.80 and NO group was worth that much.
I beg to differ. James Brown is worth at LEAST $8.80.
I don't know about many other artists reaching that level of value though.
The last big thing I went to was THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA at the Majestic Theatre on Broadway in NYC ($100 seats).
The industry shunned The Ramones until the singer was already dead and in the following 2 years, 2 more members passed away.
We are only around 5-10 years away from ALL of these performers being out of circulation (dead, retired, unable to perform...).
Rock isn't dead but the industry side of it is on the way out. We don't want $20 CDs and we don't want $80-120 concert tickets ($35 for a blanket on a hillside).
Sure people will shell out some cash for "one last chance to see..." but those artists WON'T always be around.
The music world has successfully been balkanized. Who gets exposed to new artists through radio anymore?
This was a good year for concerts for me: Lambchop, Danny Barnes, Josh Rouse, Buddy Miller, among others.
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