{"id":4976,"date":"2012-02-01T10:13:22","date_gmt":"2012-02-01T18:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/?p=4976"},"modified":"2012-02-01T10:13:22","modified_gmt":"2012-02-01T18:13:22","slug":"re-springsteen-tickets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/2012\/02\/01\/re-springsteen-tickets\/","title":{"rendered":"Re-Springsteen Tickets"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote style=\"margin-right: 0px;\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<div style=\"margin-left: 40px;\">From: Gary Dell&#8217;Abate<br \/>To: Bob Lefsetz<br \/>Subject: Springsteen<\/p>\n<p>You should do a piece on the Springsteen tour. <br \/>I am on an e-mail chain with about 50 fans. <br \/>Not one of them could score a ticket through the web. <br \/>It looks like the scalpers won this round.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>From: Bob Lefsetz<br \/>To: Gary Dell&#8217;Abate<\/p>\n<p>This is very complicated.\u00c2\u00a0 Been on the phone with many of the players at length.<\/p>\n<p>1. Paperless<\/p>\n<p>They sold the Loge, the inner bowl around the floor, paperless where they could to prove to Cuomo that anti-paperless laws are ridiculous.<\/p>\n<p>2. Springsteen insisted on selling the floor GA at a low price. He was told there would be chaos, but he didn&#8217;t want to raise the price.<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, this is Springsteen&#8217;s fault.<\/p>\n<p>Springsteen shows either have to be totally paperless or scaled as to the true price.<\/p>\n<p>But now Bruce gets to look like a man of the people whereas in reality he doesn&#8217;t care about the people.<\/p>\n<p>_________________________<\/p>\n<p>(Note: Did you hear Little Steven on Howard Stern today? So interesting when a fan interviews you, someone knowledgeable whom you trust.)<\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From: Gary Dell&#8217;AbateTo: Bob LefsetzSubject: Springsteen You should do a piece on the Springsteen tour. I am on an e-mail chain with about 50 fans. Not one of them could score a ticket through the web. It looks like the scalpers won this round. From: Bob LefsetzTo: Gary Dell&#8217;Abate This is very complicated.\u00c2\u00a0 Been on [&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":[3,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-shows","category-music-business"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p96vPs-1ig","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4976","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=4976"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4977,"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4976\/revisions\/4977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}