Archive for the 'Live Shows' Category


Willie Nile At McCabe’s

How early did I have to get there to get a good seat? Then again, how many people were going to show up to see a 78 year old act who never had a breakthrough hit? A full house. That was surprising. But not as surprising as Willie Nile’s show. I bought that first Willie […]

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 […]