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PAPERLESS TICKETING<\/span><\/p>\n

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From: Matt O
Subject: Thom Yorke tix avail a week after release?<\/p>\n

14 US shows, 2 in california.\u00c2\u00a0 A week after release there are still Thom Yorke tix available for the tiny Santa Barbara Bowl.
At first I thought it was a misprint.\u00c2\u00a0 Turns out, you have to swipe the credit card you used to buy the tickets in order to get in to the show.\u00c2\u00a0 Not a scalper in sight. <\/p>\n

Atoms For Peace
Santa Barbara Bowl<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Whoa.\u00c2\u00a0 Is scalping the new Internet bubble?\u00c2\u00a0 In other words, what exactly IS the demand for tickets?<\/p>\n

Could it be that there’s been an artificial frenzy, of brokers buying up tickets creating fake shortages that fuel further buying just to get into the building and that demand is actually lower than perceived?\u00c2\u00a0 In other words, is the perception different from the reality?<\/p>\n

Miley Cyrus goes on tour and there’s mass hysteria, parents complain they can’t get their little girls in.<\/p>\n

Miley goes on tour with paperless ticketing and there’s no problem getting a seat.<\/p>\n

Oh, maybe Miley’s a has-been.<\/p>\n

But Thom Yorke’s credibility is as high as ever.\u00c2\u00a0 Maybe it’s not Radiohead, maybe people don’t know who the act is…\u00c2\u00a0 Then again, could a performer have more rabid fans?<\/p>\n

I’m not saying Taylor Swift isn’t selling out.\u00c2\u00a0 Or Lady GaGa for that matter.\u00c2\u00a0 But I’m questioning what the demand for shows really is.\u00c2\u00a0 Even when there isn’t paperless ticketing.\u00c2\u00a0 Bon Jovi blew out tickets at 55% off in Kansas City<\/a><\/p>\n

APPLE SURGES PAST WAL-MART TO BECOME 3RD MOST VALUABLE U.S. COMPANY<\/span><\/p>\n

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Apple surges past Wal-Mart to become 3rd most valuable U.S. company<\/a><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

How does a mercurial bastard who ignores conventional wisdom end up running a company bigger than Wal-Mart?<\/p>\n

Isn’t it funny.\u00c2\u00a0 Today’s acts are told by managers and agents and labels to sell out, quick, to do it just like everybody else, but the big winner, Steve Jobs, does it his own way, listens to nobody, doesn’t license Apple’s technology, prices his products high and makes you believe your life will be empty without them.<\/p>\n

Steve Jobs is a rock star.<\/p>\n

You remember rock stars, don’t you?\u00c2\u00a0 Those people beholden to no one, who wrote their own rules?\u00c2\u00a0 Who created music totally different from what came before, which people flocked to?<\/p>\n

And Apple is Warner\/Reprise.\u00c2\u00a0 The old company.\u00c2\u00a0 Run by Mo Ostin.\u00c2\u00a0 You know, the one where every band was good. Sure, the ultimate recording might not capture the magic, but if it was on Warner, it was worth checking out.\u00c2\u00a0 There might be some duds, like Apple TV, but the winners made it all worth it.<\/p>\n

When Steve Jobs does his keynote, I get up early to see what he has to say, I watch the endless presentation unspool, a condensation by some tech reporter just will not do.\u00c2\u00a0 I want more.\u00c2\u00a0 The same way I wanted to know everything about Led Zeppelin and had to go see the Who perform "Tommy" at the Fillmore East.<\/p>\n

The rabidity has left music and entered tech.<\/p>\n

And who do we have to blame?<\/p>\n

The boomers.\u00c2\u00a0 So inured to their lifestyles that they don’t want change, they just want it the way it used to be.\u00c2\u00a0 Overpriced CDs and concerts performed by bands who perfected their music on a spreadsheet.<\/p>\n

Steve Jobs specializes in selling us what we didn’t even know we wanted.\u00c2\u00a0 Remember when the music business used to do this?<\/p>\n

FREE MUSIC<\/span><\/p>\n

Just had a conversation with Marty Winsch, manager of Corey Smith.\u00c2\u00a0 He said he doesn’t consider giving away MP3s online as free.\u00c2\u00a0 People are paying with their time.<\/p>\n

What a concept.\u00c2\u00a0 That’s the one thing we just don’t have enough of.\u00c2\u00a0 The one thing that’s precious.\u00c2\u00a0 If people give you their time, you’ve got a chance of building a relationship.<\/p>\n

If you ambush somebody with an unsolicited e-mail, you’re just pissing them off.<\/p>\n

Remember this.<\/p>\n

PEREZ HILTON<\/span><\/p>\n

I like Mario, I really do.<\/p>\n

But he’s toast.<\/p>\n

TMZ killed him.\u00c2\u00a0 One person can’t compete with an army.<\/p>\n

And now he’s getting desperate.\u00c2\u00a0 Evidencing the behavior of his generation.\u00c2\u00a0 Promoting himself, begging to be a judge on the new "American Idol" or "X Factor".<\/p>\n

It hasn’t worked that way forever.\u00c2\u00a0 Sure, you can line up to be in the audience for "The Price Is Right" and clamor to play, but if you’re lucky you leave with a toaster, it’s the producer who makes all the money.<\/p>\n

People have to come to you.\u00c2\u00a0 The Internet has allowed individuals to amplify their message, but that doesn’t mean anybody’s paying attention.<\/p>\n

CLASSIC ALBUMS<\/span>

Don’t pay too much attention to the Pink Floyd\/EMI skirmish.\u00c2\u00a0 That’s not about albums, that’s about money.\u00c2\u00a0 As in how can the legendary band extricate its early albums from the clutches of its label.<\/p>\n

The Internet unbundled the album, and no one can put Humpty Dumpty’s pieces back together again.<\/p>\n

But that doesn’t mean we don’t like the albums of the past.<\/p>\n

Jake was telling me about seeing the Musical Box.\u00c2\u00a0 You know, the Genesis tribute band:<\/p>\n

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The Musical Box<\/a><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

He went one night, and then had to go the second.<\/p>\n

Tribute bands have been building for years.\u00c2\u00a0 Now’s the time to elevate the concept into the equivalent of a Broadway show.<\/p>\n

They bring back "South Pacific", why not bring back "Sgt. Pepper", "Beggars Banquet", even "Rocket To Russia"?<\/p>\n

It’s the music that survives, unlike many of its makers.<\/p>\n

License the rights from the original band or its heirs and tour it, playing a classic album from start to finish for a fair price, in the neighborhood of $40-$50.<\/p>\n

Let’s just canonize the music of yore and get it repeated endlessly.\u00c2\u00a0 Shit, sell it as a series.\u00c2\u00a0 There’s no hype, no smoke and mirrors, it’s not the original band, it’s an experience, that mimics the original, that reminds you if you were there and clues you in if you were not.<\/p>\n

Yup, we’re gonna tour "Physical Graffiti".\u00c2\u00a0 And "Aqualung".<\/p>\n

Doesn’t matter if the originals are still alive.\u00c2\u00a0 Do they use the original performers when they restage a play on Broadway? No, they use younger performers.<\/p>\n

It’s the material, stupid.<\/p>\n

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