{"id":3015,"date":"2010-06-07T15:29:22","date_gmt":"2010-06-07T23:29:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/?p=3015"},"modified":"2010-06-07T15:29:22","modified_gmt":"2010-06-07T23:29:22","slug":"from-the-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/2010\/06\/07\/from-the-road\/","title":{"rendered":"From The Road"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote dir=\"ltr\" style=\"margin-right: 0px;\">\n<div style=\"margin-left: 40px;\">From: Harvey Goldsmith<br \/>Subject: RE: Rip Off&#8217;s <br \/>Date: June 7, 2010 2:29:19 PM PDT<br \/>To: Bob Lefsetz<br \/>Cc: Rob Light, Peter Grosslight<\/p>\n<p>Rip offs<br \/>I am here at Wolf Trap with Jeff Beck.<br \/>We have sold very well including apparently quite a lot of Lawn Tickets. This is unusual I am told as most venues give them away.<br \/>We are paying full rent (including a lot of rent overage). <\/p>\n<p>Yet this venue has the audacity to charge 35% for merchandising.<\/p>\n<p>I have been trying to sort this for 3 weeks.<br \/>The person in charge Peter Zimmerman decided to go home rather than discuss this with me.<br \/>Most acts will virtually double their prices for merch. to deal with this.<br \/>A lot of artists complain and then don\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2t bother.<br \/>The venue manageress Barbara told me that if I thought the charges were too high I should NOT sell merchandise!!!!<br \/>She said a number of acts don\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2t sell.<br \/>What kind of an answer is that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1<br \/>I am sick of it.<br \/>Why are we constantly having to rip our audiences off dealing with these bad practices because the &quot;business!&quot; is too lazy to confront.<\/p>\n<p>I have knocked our prices down for merch. to stay the same or better.<br \/>We are very proud of the range we have produced and want people to buy at fair prices.<br \/>We are touring to promote and sell CD&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>Why in Washington do I have to sell at more than retail just to satisfy this GREEDY venue.<br \/>Why does the Wolftrap audience have to pay more than any other city.<br \/>Why do the agents and managers just carry on as if nothing has happened when this year ticket sales are haemorrhaging.<br \/>It&#8217;s time to stop otherwise there will be no 35% to charge.<\/p>\n<p>Harvey Goldsmith.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From: Harvey GoldsmithSubject: RE: Rip Off&#8217;s Date: June 7, 2010 2:29:19 PM PDTTo: Bob LefsetzCc: Rob Light, Peter Grosslight Rip offsI am here at Wolf Trap with Jeff Beck.We have sold very well including apparently quite a lot of Lawn Tickets. This is unusual I am told as most venues give them away.We are paying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-business"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p96vPs-MD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3015"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3016,"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3015\/revisions\/3016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}