Holiday Wish List
Keeping with the theme of the holidays and Christmas, I've decided to create a little holiday wish list (though it's also a complaint list of what I wish would stop).
Feel free to leave your own in the comments area.
1. They're old, but I'd love for Pink Floyd to reunite and record another album. Heck, just bring 'em all back together for one final fantastic reunion tour too.
2. How about some new clubs or venues for original bands to play. Forget the cover bands - let's hear something good for a change. We need places like this in the Triad area of North Carolina, and all over the country for that matter.
3. I wish the club owners would give more original bands a chance (see previous entries).
4. I wish radio would play a wider variety of new music (again, see previous entries).
5. I wish people would stop lip synching. If we wanted to hear the album, we'd buy it. If we wanted to see you perform live, we'd spend $60 for a ticket - not to see you jump up and down like a monkey, but to hear you sing or watch you perform. Stop taking advantage of your fans, you jackass.
6. Speaking of taking advantage of your fans - I wish you'd stop letting promoters charge an arm and a leg for concert tickets. Sometimes I'd love to go to a nice venue and see a great band, but I can't afford to donate a kidney in order to do it. What happened to the good old days of charging $20 a ticket?
7. You're getting old, you need to retire. Every three years, The Eagles have a reunion tour and call it the final tour. No one wants to pay $100 a ticket to watch your last tour - again.
8. One wish came true when Eric Clapton announced he was reuniting with Cream for a tour. Unfortunately, the closest they'll come to North Carolina is probably Atlanta, but I hope not.
9. I wish actresses and actors would stop making albums. Act or sing, but don't act like you can sing.
10. I wish they would make more music-based movies. "This is Spinal Tap," "The Last Waltz," "Almost Famous," "Festival Express" - whether it's fact or fiction, I don't care. I can't get enough of these movies.
There are plenty more - but I'll leave it at 10.
Look for more grievances and complaints in future columns, as always.
Feel free to leave your own in the comments area.
1. They're old, but I'd love for Pink Floyd to reunite and record another album. Heck, just bring 'em all back together for one final fantastic reunion tour too.
2. How about some new clubs or venues for original bands to play. Forget the cover bands - let's hear something good for a change. We need places like this in the Triad area of North Carolina, and all over the country for that matter.
3. I wish the club owners would give more original bands a chance (see previous entries).
4. I wish radio would play a wider variety of new music (again, see previous entries).
5. I wish people would stop lip synching. If we wanted to hear the album, we'd buy it. If we wanted to see you perform live, we'd spend $60 for a ticket - not to see you jump up and down like a monkey, but to hear you sing or watch you perform. Stop taking advantage of your fans, you jackass.
6. Speaking of taking advantage of your fans - I wish you'd stop letting promoters charge an arm and a leg for concert tickets. Sometimes I'd love to go to a nice venue and see a great band, but I can't afford to donate a kidney in order to do it. What happened to the good old days of charging $20 a ticket?
7. You're getting old, you need to retire. Every three years, The Eagles have a reunion tour and call it the final tour. No one wants to pay $100 a ticket to watch your last tour - again.
8. One wish came true when Eric Clapton announced he was reuniting with Cream for a tour. Unfortunately, the closest they'll come to North Carolina is probably Atlanta, but I hope not.
9. I wish actresses and actors would stop making albums. Act or sing, but don't act like you can sing.
10. I wish they would make more music-based movies. "This is Spinal Tap," "The Last Waltz," "Almost Famous," "Festival Express" - whether it's fact or fiction, I don't care. I can't get enough of these movies.
There are plenty more - but I'll leave it at 10.
Look for more grievances and complaints in future columns, as always.
posted by "Dakota" at
12/26/2004 05:28:00 PM
1 Comments:
5. Depends on the artist. Do you think people really want to listen to Britney singing, as opposed to watch her prancing about on stage in next-to-no clothes?
Also, some of these "artists" can't sing anyway; they have to be digitally tweaked to be in tune.
Now, as for the ticket prices: why do you think they all do arenas and not stadiums any more? Because they can sell 6-10K tickets for $60, but if they went to a stadium they'd sell 30-40K for $10-15 and the stadium would still only be at 80% capacity. They'd have a hell of a lot more happy customers, but that's not really the issue.
[Actually, they could fill a lot of larger venues if they put on a real show, with multiple major acts - but they all want to "headline"]
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Richard Gadsden, at 9:25 PM
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