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You know you’re just dying to try out the new and improved online signup form for tonight’s open mic at the Tree House in Collingswood, NJ. As usual, the show starts at 8:00PM.
So far we have the following signed up:
leo
Sairy Allen
ray mcgeehan
Pat Hipp
Roz King
There’s a good chance we could see Willie Tapps as well. See you tonight!
You know you’re just dying to try out the new and improved online signup form for tonight’s open mic at the Tree House in Collingswood, NJ. As usual, the show starts at 8:00PM.
So far we have the following signed up:
leo
Sairy Allen
ray mcgeehan
Pat Hipp
Roz King
There’s a good chance we could see Willie Tapps as well. See you tonight!
I doubt anyone is surprised at the latest Ticketmaster scheme. Tickets for a typical sold out show are routinely found on ebay for many times their face value. A quick check on ebay confirms this practice and now Ticketmaster wants to get their hand in. They may start auctioning their best seats off instead of selling them at a flat rate.
Why should I disagree with this? If the market will bear higher ticket prices, why is it wrong for Ticketmaster to charge whatever they can? It’s because Ticketmaster is a monopoly and can set their own prices within a certain range. Ticketmaster’s price is the service charge and shipping cost for each ticket, which for me has been as high as 60% of the ticket’s face value. Without competition they have no incentive to lower their prices and venues seem uninterested in Ticketmaster alternatives.
Ultimately, bands should be held responsible for the ridiculous prices they charge for shows. Some bands, like Pearl Jam and the String Cheese Incident have sued Ticketmaster with little success.
All this and I’m still going to see the White Stripes on the 23rd for $41. Please hit me.
I doubt anyone is surprised at the latest Ticketmaster scheme. Tickets for a typical sold out show are routinely found on ebay for many times their face value. A quick check on ebay confirms this practice and now Ticketmaster wants to get their hand in. They may start auctioning their best seats off instead of selling them at a flat rate.
Why should I disagree with this? If the market will bear higher ticket prices, why is it wrong for Ticketmaster to charge whatever they can? It’s because Ticketmaster is a monopoly and can set their own prices within a certain range. Ticketmaster’s price is the service charge and shipping cost for each ticket, which for me has been as high as 60% of the ticket’s face value. Without competition they have no incentive to lower their prices and venues seem uninterested in Ticketmaster alternatives.
Ultimately, bands should be held responsible for the ridiculous prices they charge for shows. Some bands, like Pearl Jam and the String Cheese Incident have sued Ticketmaster with little success.
All this and I’m still going to see the White Stripes on the 23rd for $41. Please hit me.
4th and Girard seemed a lot closer this week. Adrien Reju, Sarah Allen and I stopped by the Fire’s open mic last night featuring San Francisco’s John O’Brien. O’Brien played 4 or 5 pop-folk songs including the fun, “Ghost Projection Machine,” a song about love, fear, and how those Scooby Doo ghosts look so real. John Francis played an awesome couple of songs accompanied by a violin player. I liked the guy after John, too, but I didn’t hear his name. Sarah did two covers including a great version of Coldplay’s “Shiver.” I subjected the audience to a slightly modified “99%” and one of my older songs, “Thesis.” I thought Thesis sounded like a good title for a song when I wrote it in 1996, but now I think it sounds too important. It needs a dumber title. Adrien played her new song, “Balls of Fire,” and mentioned some other song shared the title. I couldn’t tell if she was joking or if she meant a song other than Jerry Lee Lewis’s “Great Balls of Fire.” A cool title for a song could be, “Mostly Insignificant Balls of Fire,” but I don’t know if Adrien should use that for her song. While she played an old guy in the back started plucking the strings of a broken piano and for a few seconds I wondered how the heck Adrien was making those notes.
That night I came home to a nice power outtage and this morning my computer said the CPU needed reconfiguring. Luckily, it worked ok once I poked around in the BIOS for a minute.
4th and Girard seemed a lot closer this week. Adrien Reju, Sarah Allen and I stopped by the Fire’s open mic last night featuring San Francisco’s John O’Brien. O’Brien played 4 or 5 pop-folk songs including the fun, “Ghost Projection Machine,” a song about love, fear, and how those Scooby Doo ghosts look so real. John Francis played an awesome couple of songs accompanied by a violin player. I liked the guy after John, too, but I didn’t hear his name. Sarah did two covers including a great version of Coldplay’s “Shiver.” I subjected the audience to a slightly modified “99%” and one of my older songs, “Thesis.” I thought Thesis sounded like a good title for a song when I wrote it in 1996, but now I think it sounds too important. It needs a dumber title. Adrien played her new song, “Balls of Fire,” and mentioned some other song shared the title. I couldn’t tell if she was joking or if she meant a song other than Jerry Lee Lewis’s “Great Balls of Fire.” A cool title for a song could be, “Mostly Insignificant Balls of Fire,” but I don’t know if Adrien should use that for her song. While she played an old guy in the back started plucking the strings of a broken piano and for a few seconds I wondered how the heck Adrien was making those notes.
That night I came home to a nice power outtage and this morning my computer said the CPU needed reconfiguring. Luckily, it worked ok once I poked around in the BIOS for a minute.