Music: Re: [Classic_Rock_Forever] Re: Dylan, Mellencamp say Music Business Should Return to the Past

That's what I would like. Here, unless I go to the venue or a licensed ticket seller, I see the layout of the venue then choose a section. Then they assign best available. One of the sections that is choice is the lower level in a hockey rink. Well that could mean anything from the blueline near the stage, to behind the net at the opposite end of the arena. I want that ability that you and others have to pick, row 5 seats 23-24.

Clint

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From: Ben

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Sent: Monday, August 30, 2010 5:05 AM

Subject: [Classic_Rock_Forever] Re: Dylan, Mellencamp say Music Business Should Return to the Past

To buy tickets here, you go on-line, look at the set-up of the arena, see what costs what and pick your seat. It's all labeled.
Ben

--- In Classic_Rock_Forever@yahoogroups.com, Cfh <cfhiebert@...> wrote:
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> With all due respect for Sir Bob of Dylan, standing in line for general admission tickets would be the last way I'd go to a concert. I like ordering online and not having to do the 3 hour wait in a line up, or the marathon phone calls only to get the all ccts busy message.
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> I would however hope that someday the venues I haunt catch up with the rest of the world, and let me choose the 'exact' seats that I want. Recently I check out the Saskatoon Centennial auditorium and found that's the way they do things these days. Beautiful. My venues typically say 'best available'...well, my idea of best and their's are not always in sync ; )
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> Clint
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> From: itsgaryman
> Sent: Saturday, August 28, 2010 9:40 AM
> To: Classic_Rock_Forever@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [Classic_Rock_Forever] Dylan, Mellencamp say Music Business Should Return to the Past
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> Dylan, Mellencamp say Music Business Should Return to the Past
> Sunday August 22, 2010
> By Dave White, Classic Rock Guide
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> Music album sales have a hit a new low. During the week of August 8-14, U.S. album sales totaled 4.95-million, the smallest weekly number since Nielsen SoundScan started keeping records in 1991. The week's best selling album (Eminem's Recovery) managed sales of 133,000 but the second and third highest sellers managed just 52,000 and 41,000 respectively.
> John Mellencamp and Bob Dylan, who have seen many ups and downs in the music business, both seem to think the music business should look to the past for answers.
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> It is the Internet that has "destroyed the music business" and is "going to destroy the movie business" according to Mellencamp (whose latest album, No Better Than This was recorded on vintage analog equipment) in remarks at a recent Grammy Museum seminar. Even though his new album is available as an MP3 download, Mellencamp decries the digital compression of music because it results in such a poor copy of the original. And, he says, that will spell the end of rock music as we know it.
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> Dylan, meanwhile, has set his sights on rising concert ticket prices and declining sales. His answer to the issues of credit card fees, surcharges, and scalping: sell only general admission tickets at $60 each, one to to a customer, cash only (no credit cards or checks) available only at the box office (beginning at 5:30 PM for an 8:00 PM show.) That's how it will be for Dylan's August 25 show at the Warfield in San Francisco. The music industry will be watching closely to see how it works.
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> Coincidentally, Mellencamp and Dylan are doing some old-fashioned touring together out west over the next few weeks.
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> What do you think? Should we go back to "the way we were" or continue on in the digital world? Or something in between? Discuss.
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