Archive for the 'Live Shows' Category


Season Pass

We’ve got to get more people to go to more shows. It’s not like it’s a hidden lesson.  The cell phone companies learned this long ago.  You drop the price, you get more people signed up.  My ex-wife had a cell phone twenty years ago.  It cost $1100 and calls were a buck a minute.  […]

Ticket Prices

You can’t get a good ticket.  Not unless you’re an insider or you’re willing to pay a ton of dough on the aftermarket.  To what degree is this hurting the music industry? There’s a fascinating analysis on ESPN’s site that claims that the luxury box, high-priced ticket stadiums in the NFL have eviscerated home field […]

Black Magic Woman

If Van Morrison can play "Astral Weeks" at the Hollywood Bowl can’t the original Santana get together there and perform "Abraxas"? Hey, it doesn’t even have to be the original players.  Just as long they only perform music from that era.  Not the bogus "Supernatural" crap from the Clive Davis period.  Create new stuff like […]

A Few Responses

From: Andrew Loog OldhamSubject: Re: Mitch Mitchell bob;the cruel master indeed.no one up above warned the invincibles of the road they’d have to hoe.guess mitch was not up to signing on for the next episode.as i’m sure you know the hendrix experience, with mike jeffries , was really brutal. quite a suppressor and difficult to […]