Did you buy a Fog Hat?
Posted on 07/24/2022 3:25:10 AM PDT by Libloather
(CNN) - Paying for some Bruce Springsteen tickets these days may be “Tougher Than The Rest.”
That’s because Ticketmaster’s “dynamic pricing” has some seats reaching $4000 to $5000 a seat.
The high prices are not going over well.
“I’m sure you won’t see this @springsteen but you or your management need to have a word with the abhorrent criminals running @Ticketmaster who are charging exorbitant amounts to see you in concert,” one person tweeted. “Please listen to your fans, nobody can afford these ridiculous ticket prices.”
Writer John Semley tweeted that Springsteen should “write a song about a working man refinancing his car and home to purchase bruce springsteen tickets.”
“i got a sixty-nine chevy /with a three-ninety-six fuelie heads /and a hurst on the floor/i had to sell it to go see the Boss at the Wells-Fargo Center,” he suggested as lyrics.
Stevie Van Zandt, “The Sopranos” star and a member of Springsteen’s E Street Band, responded to the uproar by tweeting in part “I have nothing whatsoever to do with the price of tickets.”
**SNIP**
Prices started around $60 for some of the seats furthest from the stage.
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Back then, rock music was a lot more regionally based. For example, Molly Hatchet was huge in the Deep South but hardly heard of outside that area. J Geils Band was big in Boston for years before finally hitting it big at the tail end of their career (thanks to MTV). You could probably say the same for ZZ Top in Texas and a lot of other bands. Every big city had their home based bands that got a lot of local airplay. I remember WBCN in Boston playing a lot of local Boston music like Til Tuesday, The Neighborhoods and Jon Butcher Axis before they got bought out by a radio conglomerate.
MTV and the radio conglomerates pretty much nationalized rock music and took the local flavor out of it. The consultants took over and playlists got much tighter and more predictable. You either made it with the big boys or you didn't make it at all, sadly.
I agree about Ms. Nicks!
I also hate REM and change the channel when they come on.
the only U2 song i can listen to is With or Without you.
BOC at Cap?
I saw them there in 77 with Uriah Heep opening.
She sure did, in all her narcissitic, whiny glory.
:)
I saw them there in 1981 with Foghat.
But man would I have ever lost my mind if Uriah Heep was there, instead.
Underrated epic band.
/nothing left to save but my life
Did you buy a Fog Hat?
LOL!
No.
I couldn’t afford any of either band’s swag back then but OMG, while I was typing my post, i was thinking of those hats.
;D
U2 is why I dread every new year’s day.
And every Sunday.
Assume for a moment, Springsteen wants to be a good guy and sell his tickets for $5 a pop. People will buy them, and resell at whatever the market will bear. Maybe in the $1000s of dollars for front row seat.
So in this case, the middle man will make big bucks, while the artist doesn't. The price per ticket might still be $1000. Should the artist get that money, or the middle man?
In this case, whether you like Springsteen or not, I guess I'd rather see the money go to the artist than the middle man.
as an aside, I think Springsteen sucks, but I'll give him props that he does appear to give a good effort to give his fans a good show.
LOL
Although, in all honesty, “Still haven’t found what I’m looking for” could be my theme song as I misplace my keys and other things every day of my life.
;)
U2 and REM were two bands I used to love in the 80s, until their lead singers started popping off, now I can’t stand them.
Yep.
They both also had awesome videos.
REM’s Losing My Religion was great and so was With Or Without You.
New Year’s Day was tad low budget but Bono still had his skunk stripe hair back then, too.
“Numb” from Zooropa is probably my favorite just for Edge’s reactions.
[so, how do you feel about Monster Magnet?]
One I love for the memory of the last time I loved someone to the point of pain.
/uncomfortably numb
“Later, when the “master recording” albums hit the market, I went to town on Spyrogyra, among others.”
That’s when I discovered Steely Dan. The audiophile stores I went to carried showy production stuff. I remember the Telarc classical albums having a warning on the cover that the high dynamic range could hurt your speakers.
I don’t recall ever seeing a Mobile Fidelity vinyl of Bruce Springsteen there.
Tramps like us, baby we were not born to afford Bruce
And it’s FULL of badass muscle cars that he collects speeding tickets in.
Sounds like paradise, to me.
:D
The Dems rip the bones from your back.
They’re a death trap.
We gotta deprogram all their young.
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