Live Concerts
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DOJ need to break up the brokers, forbid them from owning venues or having stakes in businesses that do, forbid them from exclusive contracts with venues, forbid them from owning stakes in secondary market brokers, and disembowel their executive leadership and board in front of a live audience at the Gorge in Washington.
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@mclaincausey I’d buy tickets to that…
I briefly looked at tickets for Taylor Swift for Laura and the girls a few months ago and decided it was cheaper to go on a vacation.
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Unrelated thought: Pearl Jam exclusively issues electronic tickets and exclusively allows sales on the ticket broker’s site, with a cap on how much can be charged over face value. This kills scalping in one stroke.
At this point; any act you see who fails to do this is just an asshole.
Think it, be it.
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Independent venues in the US are a dying breed. This unspeakable conglomerate has been buying them up like crazy, which is why my proposed regulations included a wall of separation between the ticket brokers and the venues.
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@tody if there’s one thing I learned in Berlin, it’s that Germany is behind the US in the enshittification process. I really enjoyed it there and we could learn some things.
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@mclaincausey I've been using cashortrade.org for years. No tickets sold over face are allowed, and they've created an awesome community on there so the process is pretty seamless. Generally pretty jam or jam adjacent focused but you can find tons of other other acts on there too.
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@TENDREL yep! Great service
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Went to see Mike Watt and his Italian sidekicks Il Sogno Del Marinaio
Fantastic concert. I have a huge respect for everything MW did throughout his carreer
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10 more sleeps until I see Tool in London, cant feckin wait! Any one else going?
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@endo lol I so hope they do Pneuma
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@jiminstitches I'm seeing them Birmingham on Thursday, first time! And KGLW the night before, woo!
“𝑁𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑙𝑒𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑢𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑏 𝑦𝑜𝑢. 𝑌𝑜𝑢 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑚𝑒𝑒𝑡 𝑖𝑡, 𝑖𝑓 𝑦𝑜𝑢 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑡𝑜, 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑤𝑒𝑎𝑝𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑜𝑛 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑐ℎ 𝑡𝑜𝑑𝑎𝑦 𝑎𝑟𝑚 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑎𝑔𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑠𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑡.”
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@prpx Mike Watt is an absolute hero in the punk scene and one of the ones I admire most.
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@Matt what he and the Minutemen did was enough to establish him as a legend and he’s been nonstop ever since. Just wish Boon hadn’t died so young.
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@T4920 ah mate, yeah its my first time too! What a week you'll have! We'll catch up after
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Yeah, also seen Watt with the Secondmen and that gig was one of the best ever. He is doing well, has some temporary issues - walks with a crutch, yet still performs with perfection and preciseness of a true legend. And for sure, ends every gig with a scream “Start your own band!!!!”
Wonderful guy
