Archive for the 'Live Shows' Category


More Blue Dot Fever

1 Concerts are now a luxury item. The heyday of classic rock is over, when boomers and gen-X’ers went to multiple shows a year, sometimes a month, for under ten dollars. Now you don’t go to a show on a whim, it’s a splurge. As for the economics of the country, I point you to […]

Blue Dot Fever

Many shows don’t sell out, who’da thunk? Yesterday everybody was complaining they couldn’t get a ticket and now they’re saying no one wants to go, which is it? What we’ve got here is the internet, where everybody reports, mostly without background knowledge, and then things are repeated as fact and… Suddenly you’ve got an issue […]

Stiff Tours

KID ROCK – FREEDOM 250 TOUR He hasn’t had a hit in eons. Even for the show tonight, at the Dos Equis Pavilion, it’s a sea of blue dots on the Ticketmaster app. I’d put it at around 30% unsold. Now it is an amphitheatre, with its attendant bonus charges…i.e. drinks/food/merch/parking, and it is run […]

Ticketmaster/Harry Styles/Scalpers

“Jack Antonoff Reacts to Ticketmaster Canceling Some Harry Styles Ticket Sales After They ‘Caught Scalpers’: ‘You Caught You?’ – The ticket giant & Styles announced that they’re working together to sell tickets to fans at face value.” https://ca.billboard.com/music/music-news/jack-antonoff-reacts-ticketmaster-refunding-harry-styles-tickets-1236229435/ No good deed goes unpunished. In case this didn’t come over your transom yesterday, Ticketmaster canceled Harry […]