Re: Getting page/plant tickets + RnRHoF

[tiverson@xxxxxxx (Thor Iverson)]

Grant:

>It's true that management company's have been able to provide services in
>the past to get tickets for fan club members. Many of the bands that do this
>type of thing have an "official" fan club that works with the record
>company. I did put a proposal to Trinifold Management about this three years
>ago and it was explained to me that there were a lot of practical reasons
>why this task would be like opening a large can of worms. I don't need to go
>into all the details, but to do this type of service for the fans would have
>proved to be a major task that would have proven to be very costly and time
>consuming to people like Hugh, Mark McFall, Dave Lewis, Liz Hames and myself.

It doesn't have to be done through one of the existing unofficial fan
organs, though.  Melissa Etheridge, for example, has an official "fan club"
run by her record company and her management.  They support themselves with
merchandising, and provide prime seats for all members.  There's a
reasonable fee to join (about the cost of a ticket), but for the serious
fans likely to attend more than one show, it's definitely worth it.  If
Atlantic and Trinifold wanted to do such a thing, they could easily arrange
it at moderate startup costs -- costs that could be completely covered by
merchandise sales.  The fact remains that they just don't see the need, or
just don't care.

Julie:

>P.S. On a music-related note, wasn't the broadcast of the Rock &
>Roll Hall of Fame awards DULL? The absence of a jam session
>really hurt the proceedings.

Judging by the official statement (something about a jam session being
logistically impossible) I would guess it has a lot to do with a largely
non-jam-oriented class of inductees this year.  Sure, you have
Santana...and if they could reach back into their memory I'm sure Mick
Fleetwood and John McVie would remember how to jam.  Joe Walsh probably
could have held it together, too.  But then you have the most song-oriented
people possible -- Glenn Frey, Stevie Nicks, Lindsey Buckingham, Christine
McVie, Michelle & John Phillips -- that would be totally lost in a
free-for-all jam session.  It's too bad, but I would be that's the reason.

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