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Cat Stevens cancels New York show, blames scalpers
Associated Press ^ | Sep 24, 2014 8:36 PM EDT

Posted on 09/25/2014 8:49:14 AM PDT by Olog-hai

Cat Stevens is canceling his New York performance just weeks after announcing a six-city tour.

Stevens said on his Facebook page Wednesday that he would not keep the New York engagement because its requirement for paper tickets has led to exorbitant resale prices. …

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TOPICS: Music/Entertainment; Society
KEYWORDS: bluezones; canceled; catstevens; islam; nyc; rop; scalpers; yusufislam
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To: C. Edmund Wright

Eddie Vedder always whined about scalpers and ticketmaster

I bet Lars Ulrich hated scalpers too...money grubber he is


61 posted on 09/25/2014 9:46:21 AM PDT by wardaddy (Ferguson MO...but i thought blacks went north to escape the racism of mean ol southerners)
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To: Kirkwood

You may be right - but my point was on scalping per se - and not about Cat Yusef specifically.


62 posted on 09/25/2014 9:48:08 AM PDT by C. Edmund Wright (www.FireKarlRove.com NOW)
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To: wardaddy
Eddie Vedder always whined about scalpers and ticketmaster

Poor little ignorant Eddie doesn't realize that it takes more to put on a concert than just the musical talent.....and that everybody deserves their piece of the action if they do in fact help the whole thing come about.

63 posted on 09/25/2014 9:49:42 AM PDT by C. Edmund Wright (www.FireKarlRove.com NOW)
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To: dangus

He could fill 2-5000 seaters in progressive locales...with boomer age group

I liked some of his stuff...spent some wistful afternoons smoking dope listening to Tea for the Tillerman

He had a powerful voice and acoustic style

But it was still chick music.......something we kept around for the girls moods

Girls didnt do Sabbath and Alice......back then


64 posted on 09/25/2014 9:51:16 AM PDT by wardaddy (Ferguson MO...but i thought blacks went north to escape the racism of mean ol southerners)
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To: wardaddy
But it was still chick music.......something we kept around for the girls moods

"Mention modern art, civil rights or folk music, you're in like Flynn."

65 posted on 09/25/2014 9:54:51 AM PDT by dfwgator (The "Fire Muschamp" tagline is back!)
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To: Jane Long

hes bein followed

by a MOON -god..Shadow


66 posted on 09/25/2014 9:56:15 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill)
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To: Olog-hai

I thought this enemy islamist scumbag was on a no-fly list.


67 posted on 09/25/2014 10:02:46 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: Olog-hai

I thought he renounced his music career when he became a mussalman.


68 posted on 09/25/2014 10:14:39 AM PDT by Disambiguator (Who is John Galt? Kristoffer Polaha.)
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To: Olog-hai
♫♪"Cause out on the edge of darkness, there rides a peace train"♫♪


69 posted on 09/25/2014 10:16:05 AM PDT by DannyTN
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To: Olog-hai
Cat Stevens? I thought he was Yusef Islam theses days. And leaving the ROP, I.e. Apostasy, is punishable by death.
70 posted on 09/25/2014 10:40:09 AM PDT by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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To: Olog-hai

Scalpers? Does he mean head hunters?


71 posted on 09/25/2014 10:41:15 AM PDT by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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To: Olog-hai

Ah , going Mussy not paying the bills


72 posted on 09/25/2014 11:01:00 AM PDT by molson209 (Blank)
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To: wardaddy
Most ticket scalpers in Nashville are black

Maybe, but it's New Yawk that "Yusef Islam" is worried about.

73 posted on 09/25/2014 11:01:42 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.)
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To: Fresh Wind

Oops, make that “Yusuf Islam”.


74 posted on 09/25/2014 11:02:53 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.)
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To: Fresh Wind

Indeed i lived in Manhattan in 80s

If Jews are his issue i bet some of the promoters are too

I worked a bit with a talent buyers...more Jews than any other group

William Morris agency sort of stuff


75 posted on 09/25/2014 11:15:12 AM PDT by wardaddy (Ferguson MO...but i thought blacks went north to escape the racism of mean ol southerners)
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To: pepsionice

A lot us people in our 50’s still enjoy his music and are mature enough to respect his right to practice his religion. The NY venue insists on paper tickets which makes scalping too easy. If the prices are too high there must be a lot of us old parts who want to see him.


76 posted on 09/25/2014 11:16:35 AM PDT by HonorInPa
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To: pepsionice

Gee - 18 month career that started in 1967 and was one of the top selling artists until the early 1980’s.


77 posted on 09/25/2014 11:22:21 AM PDT by HonorInPa
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To: Olog-hai

What happened? Did the scalpers behead everybody in the ticket line?


78 posted on 09/25/2014 11:31:30 AM PDT by RichInOC ("In the name of Allah, The Inexorable, The Irresistible...")
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To: pepsionice

Ever heard of ACDC?


79 posted on 09/25/2014 11:38:17 AM PDT by apostoli (Time to thump the nose of the parrots.)
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To: sarasota

“...he doesn’t drink, smoke and only sleeps with his wife.”

I can understand not drinking and smoking, at least in that business...


80 posted on 09/25/2014 4:20:15 PM PDT by BobL (Don't forget - Today's Russians learn math WITHOUT calculators.)
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