DON’T TAKE ME ALIVE I’m a bookkeeper’s sonI don’t want to shoot no oneWell I crossed my old man back in OregonDon’t take me alive I drove cross-country with six cassettes purchased at Odyssey Music in Salt Lake City. Oh, I had thirty one other tapes, but they’d been played to death. I needed new […]

MadonnaTD Banknorth Garden/Boston-Thursday thru Monday-7/6-7/10Gross: $6,337,115Sold/Capacity: 36,741/36,741Ticket Price(s)-$350.00/$55.00 What ever happened to the BOSTON Garden. What bothers me is we no longer complain about the creeping commercialism.  What next, Citibank Yankee Stadium?  And we wonder why the acts have all sold out too.  It’s part of our CULTURE! As for Madonna…  Who do we blame […]

Jets Overhead/AcrobatGreen Room/Montreal-Thursday 6/29Gross: $256Sold/Capacity: 36/100 Mmm…  Seems that I don’t have too much influence.  I raved about this act, word didn’t seem to get to Montreal! But maybe the point is different.  If you’re not actively building your touring base, since the guys in this band are really managers, then nobody cares. In other […]

Sitting on the black leather couch in Michael Rapino’s office I was reminded of Steve Jobs’ legendary reality distortion field.  How in his presence, the world looks just a little bit different, how it seems to favor him, how you’re powerless in the face of his presentation.  That’s how it is hanging with Michael Rapino.  […]