{"id":3958,"date":"2011-03-22T06:09:41","date_gmt":"2011-03-22T14:09:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/?p=3958"},"modified":"2011-03-22T06:09:41","modified_gmt":"2011-03-22T14:09:41","slug":"another-slow-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/2011\/03\/22\/another-slow-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Slow Summer?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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"Slow going for Rihanna tour"<\/a><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

It might not be too early to call the summer of 2011 a disaster.<\/p>\n

Christmas spending and a burgeoning stock market seemed to indicate the contrary, but the problem is the acts.\u00c2\u00a0 Either people don’t want to see ’em or they’ve burned out the audience to such an extent that there’s no reason to go again.<\/p>\n

I love Def Leppard, but what have they done lately that makes them think people want to spend $400 to sit in the first row or pay $150 for a seat twenty five rows back?<\/p>\n

The sheds are artistically bankrupt.\u00c2\u00a0 They’re like bowling alleys with busted pinsetters, expecting people to come like lemmings to drink overpriced beer and eat crummy food at the snack bar.\u00c2\u00a0 Hell, the experience sucked when the acts were young and good!<\/p>\n

Level ’em.\u00c2\u00a0 There’s no reason for them to exist.\u00c2\u00a0 Few can sell that many tickets and you just can’t feel the music. Indoors is better.<\/p>\n

And indoors people are loath to overpay to see acts from decades past or those who will be unknown seemingly minutes from now.<\/p>\n

This is a business so out of whack with reality it’s a head-scratcher.<\/p>\n

The acts are delusional, thinking they matter when all they really want to do is support their lifestyle and the audience knows it.<\/p>\n

And Live Nation is a public company so it can’t exercise its wrath and impose discipline on the market by saying no.<\/p>\n

We’re building new touring acts.\u00c2\u00a0 Mumford & Sons is a good example.\u00c2\u00a0 But they underplay and undercharge, what a concept.\u00c2\u00a0 Hell, that’s why paperless is good, for acts with real fans, who want said fans up close and personal at the show, as opposed to mercenary performers who just want the largest gross.<\/p>\n

MTV is dead.<\/p>\n

And so is radio.<\/p>\n

The only format that means anything, Top Forty, can’t sell tickets.<\/p>\n

We’re starting all over.<\/p>\n

If you’re old you’ve got to charge less and play small, as opposed to the Stewart\/Nicks disaster.<\/p>\n

Give Grace Slick credit.\u00c2\u00a0 Sometimes you’ve just got to give up and retire.<\/p>\n

And if you think these Top Forty flavors of the moment are the savior of the touring industry you probably bought a ticket to see Jordin Sparks.<\/p>\n

There is good music out there.\u00c2\u00a0 But those in the industry looking for an instant buck don’t want to support it. They want the easy way out.\u00c2\u00a0 They want instant stardom, they want to get paid, it’s like everybody’s working for Smith-Corona and they’re stunned that no one wants the old typewriter and are banking their economic future on the sale of bulky PCs in an era of iPads.<\/p>\n

We watched this movie with the labels.\u00c2\u00a0 We watched them die over the course of ten years.\u00c2\u00a0 Is Live Nation next?<\/p>\n

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