{"id":2969,"date":"2010-05-29T07:37:33","date_gmt":"2010-05-29T15:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/?p=2969"},"modified":"2010-05-29T07:37:33","modified_gmt":"2010-05-29T15:37:33","slug":"kevin-lyman-speaks-the-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/2010\/05\/29\/kevin-lyman-speaks-the-truth\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Lyman Speaks The Truth"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Country Throwdown Cancels Four Shows Citing Low Ticket Sales<\/a><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

There are multiple stories here:<\/p>\n

1. The shit has finally hit the fan in the touring world.\u00c2\u00a0 From big to little, from the Eagles to Country Throwdown, from has-beens like Bizkit to Top Forty artists like Christina Aguilera, cancelled shows and tours have become de rigueur instead of the exception.\u00c2\u00a0 And then there are those dates where the show still goes on, but you can get in free, with oldsters like Foreigner, Styx and Kansas, and even Bon Jovi is offering two for one<\/p>\n

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Bon Jovi 2 for 1 Offer<\/a><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The newspaper tells us the economy is improving.\u00c2\u00a0 Shit, Apple sales are through the roof.\u00c2\u00a0 But people just don’t want to go to the show.\u00c2\u00a0 Not to see these acts at these prices.<\/p>\n

2. Kevin Lyman is trying to do something new, and good.\u00c2\u00a0 He’s trying to build something as opposed to developing new ways to rip off the public, with gold circles, meet and greets, mortgaging your future to go to a show.\u00c2\u00a0 But the public is so jaded, has been ripped off so many times, that they’re not about to take a chance, they don’t want to experiment.\u00c2\u00a0 Their idea of experimentation is signing up for a new social network.\u00c2\u00a0 To go to a gig, to endure the Ticketmaster process and its bogus additional fees, to actually show up and find long lines for the bathroom and overpriced food…the product must be really damn good.\u00c2\u00a0 And the only product that good is old stuff, and people aren’t necessarily eager to see that in droves either.\u00c2\u00a0 With radio calcified and MTV dead, promoters now have to build acts, and that’s what Lyman is trying to do.<\/p>\n

3. He may go on too long, but he’s speaking the truth in this video!\u00c2\u00a0 Lyman is reaching out to those affected, giving them special privileges if they come to another gig.\u00c2\u00a0 Isn’t that amazing in a business that keeps on delivering less?<\/p>\n

We’re all in it together.\u00c2\u00a0 Lyman expresses this.\u00c2\u00a0 There’s no subterfuge, just reality.\u00c2\u00a0 He’s imploring his audience to help him, to stick with him.\u00c2\u00a0 And the only way you achieve this is by establishing trust, which comes from the truth.<\/p>\n

4. Major labels build flashes in the pan, acts can’t make much money selling recordings, it’s supposedly all about the touring but now that’s faltering?\u00c2\u00a0 The labels are paying for years of rip-offs, people feel justified in stealing, after paying twenty bucks for crappy CDs with only one good hit.\u00c2\u00a0 Argue all you want, but file-traders have no guilt.\u00c2\u00a0 And now the same thing has happened in the touring sphere.\u00c2\u00a0 After years of abuse, people are crying NO MAS!\u00c2\u00a0 They’ve seen all the acts.\u00c2\u00a0 And the ones they haven’t, they don’t want to take a chance on.\u00c2\u00a0 There’s plenty of blame to go around, but I’m not blaming Kevin Lyman, he’s trying to solve the problem.\u00c2\u00a0 But it’s tough doing something new.\u00c2\u00a0 He needs our support.\u00c2\u00a0 Hell, at least the people on this tour CAN ACTUALLY PLAY!<\/p>\n

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