From: Gary Dell’Abate
To: Bob Lefsetz
Subject: Springsteen

You should do a piece on the Springsteen tour.
I am on an e-mail chain with about 50 fans.
Not one of them could score a ticket through the web.
It looks like the scalpers won this round.

From: Bob Lefsetz
To: Gary Dell’Abate

This is very complicated.  Been on the phone with many of the players at length.

1. Paperless

They sold the Loge, the inner bowl around the floor, paperless where they could to prove to Cuomo that anti-paperless laws are ridiculous.

2. Springsteen insisted on selling the floor GA at a low price. He was told there would be chaos, but he didn’t want to raise the price.

Ultimately, this is Springsteen’s fault.

Springsteen shows either have to be totally paperless or scaled as to the true price.

But now Bruce gets to look like a man of the people whereas in reality he doesn’t care about the people.

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(Note: Did you hear Little Steven on Howard Stern today? So interesting when a fan interviews you, someone knowledgeable whom you trust.)