Re: Ticket Fiasco

[yesabilene@xxxxxxx]

Its called GREED!!!





-----Original Message-----
From: John C <blackcountryman@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: zeppelin@xxxxxxxx
Sent: Thu, Jan 27, 2011 2:54 pm
Subject: Ticket Fiasco




he ticket companies are wrecking live music.  They've made decent tickets 
ompletely unavailable to the general public, priced them out of the range of 
he ordinary fan, or sold them all directly to scalping outfits who operate 
nder the semi-respectable rubric of "ticket clubs" and so forth.

t's certainly short-sighted on their part.  I used to go to 5 or 10 shows a 
ear.  If a band I liked played NY I would go.  But now, the only tickets 
vailable in arenas are way the heck in the nosebleeds.  AND they cost way too 
uch.  The result?  I don't much bother anymore.  Obviously, I break the bank 
or more likely, cash in favors through work) to see Zeppelin alumni, but that's 
bout it.  I'm not going to drop a couple hundred $ to sit in the Blue Seats for 
2, or what's left of the Who.

n another 10 or 15 years there won't be a single touring act I would cross the 
treet to see.  I'll sit in my recliner and listen to Zep bootlegs and Elvis CDs 
nd yell to my grandkids that their music sucks.  



GM

ate: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 18:26:11 +0100
rom: Dragonlady <dr4gonlady@xxxxxxxxxxx>
ubject: Re: ticket bastards and NYC

've never heard anything more unfair than this lottery thing, how is 
hat even legal? You stand there for hours and the guy who walks in at 
he last minute get to draw a better seat?

t's already such a lottery to get good seats when you are a fan. Of 
ourse one can't expect the venues or ticket companies to think about 
he actual music fans, they're only interested in selling their tickets.

t's the same everywhere. Here you have to be a paying member of the 
ompany to have a chance for better tickets. It's really a privilege of 
he rich. And often a venue will reserve the first rows for big 
ompanies like banks, they buy all the good seats and give them to their 
lients or employees who of course rarely care about such things. So 
ans will only have bad seats and the artists will play to people who 
on't even want to be there.