Archive for the 'Live Shows' Category


Russ & Julie’s House Concert

I won’t go see the Stones anymore.  I don’t want to hang with those people, calcified, trying to relive a youth that in most cases they never had, being too scared of the English band in its prime, all the while being hawked overpriced merchandise as Jagger shouts the lyrics and the band plays and […]

Social@Ross

It’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll — at $15,000 a Seat What kind of crazy fucked up world do we live in where people pay $3,000 a ticket to hang with 999 other assholes and have to commit to five shows, for a total of 15 grand, for the privilege? That’s not exclusivity, that’s a clusterfuck. […]

TicketMaster/iTunes

This is TicketMaster’s idea of cool?  Overcharge me for the ticket (maybe not their fault, we can blame that one on the greedy act/manager/agent), then hit me with all kinds of bogus fees and then give me ONE FREE SONG?  Whoop-de-doo! Boy has TM got an image issue.  The public hates them.  If they wanted […]

Festivals

If you weren’t at Coachella are you a loser?  Hopelessly out of touch?  Living in a world where the memo never gets to your inbox? It’s Bon Jovi night on "American Idol".  Funny to think that Jon Bongiovi was once a hungry musician from New Jersey who would do anything to make it, and now […]