Ticketmaster/Live Nation merger...oh man

fiddyfootroman

Granted both are terrible in their own right (don't get me started about Live Nation's handling of the sales for Phish at Alpine Valley), but this would be terrible. My favorite part of the whole article "What Ticketmaster has done to ticketing, they've really revolutionized it as far as the old days, when you had to camp out for a high-demand show." I used to love getting up early on Saturday morning and hanging out with all the other jam heads at the grocery store that had ticketmaster. So now instead of die hard fans putting themselves in the best position to secure tickets, a couple of companies and any guy in his scibbies with internet wizardry buy up all the tickets in a matter of minutes and sell them for many times face value. What a revolution.

Flutter Girl

The part of it that really gets under my skin is the disabled seating. Often times the disabled seating can be either for the disabled, or for able-bodied joe schmoe. so like when I bought tix for me and a wheelchair-bound friend for stone temple pilots, there were 2 handicapped sections. We could only get tix for the furtherest seats back, it was all that was left. When we went to the concert. Only 3 people in either section were disabled. All 3 were in the further back section. a few rich-looking(their clothes looked high-end) snotty whores were right up front tho :evil:

Basically whoever can afford to be on the fan club at the last moment to get the choice seats get to buy them up. There is only one venue I have ever been to where they actually make sure the w/c seats are for the disabled and their companions. No lame excuses about your paraplegic brother is supposed to have met up with you and he bought the tix, accepted. No joke, that one actually happened at the last PJ concert here.