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strat72
Love The Boss, but he cannot do soul.
As for the outrageous ticket fiasco...... Bruce is a typical Champagne Socialist but with a fake working man persona added in. Talking and writing about the blue- collared worker while making sure they cannot afford go to his gigs.
It's not a good look Bruce.
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strat72
Love The Boss, but he cannot do soul.
As for the outrageous ticket fiasco...... Bruce is a typical Champagne Socialist but with a fake working man persona added in. Talking and writing about the blue- collared worker while making sure they cannot afford go to his gigs.
It's not a good look Bruce.
He is and has been that way for these days, since his Broadway stint in particular.
The ticket price was reasonable and affordable for the blue-collared workers up to the 2016 River Tour, though.
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Dan
How many "blue collar" workers are left in the United States and how many actually listen to Bruce Springsteen?
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GasLightStreet
Do Stones fans throw their noses at old men's/petty morals?
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Dan
How many "blue collar" workers are left in the United States and how many actually listen to Bruce Springsteen?
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The Perfect Boy
Revealing the depth of Robert Smith’s involvement in the band’s career, Mitha tells IQ, “Robert is the only artist I know in the world who discusses ticket prices, sightlines, scalings with every promoter – it was the same with the 2016 tour. So, when you send over scaling plans with those colour seating maps and everything, he literally goes into every detail and changes the colours. It must be crazy time-consuming for him, but he’s very involved.”
Spanish promoter Mercader comments, “They care deeply about the ticket prices – the only other act I can think of who care to the same extent is AC/DC. Robert wants sensible prices to make it as affordable as possible for all fans.”
It’s something that Hopewell knows well. “Promoters will put forward a ticket price they think is achievable and a lot of the time Robert will come back and say thank you very much, but I think the prices should be lower,” he says. “He’s also very keen to see ticket scales that are neatly structured rather than appearing to be haphazard from the fans’ point of view.”
Production manager Broad notes the positives, “Robert is like management. He wants to know the sales numbers, how everything looks, where everything is – he is very hands on. It actually has its advantages: if anyone asks ‘Why do you do X?’ we can answer, ‘Because Robert wants to!’ And that’s the end of the conversation.”
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The Perfect Boy
Revealing the depth of Robert Smith’s involvement in the band’s career, Mitha tells IQ, “Robert is the only artist I know in the world who discusses ticket prices, sightlines, scalings with every promoter – it was the same with the 2016 tour. So, when you send over scaling plans with those colour seating maps and everything, he literally goes into every detail and changes the colours. It must be crazy time-consuming for him, but he’s very involved.”
Spanish promoter Mercader comments, “They care deeply about the ticket prices – the only other act I can think of who care to the same extent is AC/DC. Robert wants sensible prices to make it as affordable as possible for all fans.”
It’s something that Hopewell knows well. “Promoters will put forward a ticket price they think is achievable and a lot of the time Robert will come back and say thank you very much, but I think the prices should be lower,” he says. “He’s also very keen to see ticket scales that are neatly structured rather than appearing to be haphazard from the fans’ point of view.”
Production manager Broad notes the positives, “Robert is like management. He wants to know the sales numbers, how everything looks, where everything is – he is very hands on. It actually has its advantages: if anyone asks ‘Why do you do X?’ we can answer, ‘Because Robert wants to!’ And that’s the end of the conversation.”
A large number of The Cure tickets are sold through Ticketbastard in the U.K. Indeed the artists can have a say in pricing if they want to.
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RisingStone
I’m a fan of Bruce myself but I have to say, a bunch of the Goth rockers care about fans’ finances more than The Boss, “the friend of the common man” does.
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crholmstrom
If anyone is interested you can pre-order cds of the whole upcoming tour at a discount on the link below. Link is for US but the same holds for Europe. It's too spendy for me but I'll most likely pick up the show I see later.
[live.brucespringsteen.net]
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crholmstrom
If anyone is interested you can pre-order cds of the whole upcoming tour at a discount on the link below. Link is for US but the same holds for Europe. It's too spendy for me but I'll most likely pick up the show I see later.
[live.brucespringsteen.net]
This just completely killed any motivation for me to go, at least for real money. Not that I am complaining, I love stuff like this. One of the reasons I record everything is because I prefer to listen at home.
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RisingStone
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The Perfect Boy
Revealing the depth of Robert Smith’s involvement in the band’s career, Mitha tells IQ, “Robert is the only artist I know in the world who discusses ticket prices, sightlines, scalings with every promoter – it was the same with the 2016 tour. So, when you send over scaling plans with those colour seating maps and everything, he literally goes into every detail and changes the colours. It must be crazy time-consuming for him, but he’s very involved.”
Spanish promoter Mercader comments, “They care deeply about the ticket prices – the only other act I can think of who care to the same extent is AC/DC. Robert wants sensible prices to make it as affordable as possible for all fans.”
It’s something that Hopewell knows well. “Promoters will put forward a ticket price they think is achievable and a lot of the time Robert will come back and say thank you very much, but I think the prices should be lower,” he says. “He’s also very keen to see ticket scales that are neatly structured rather than appearing to be haphazard from the fans’ point of view.”
Production manager Broad notes the positives, “Robert is like management. He wants to know the sales numbers, how everything looks, where everything is – he is very hands on. It actually has its advantages: if anyone asks ‘Why do you do X?’ we can answer, ‘Because Robert wants to!’ And that’s the end of the conversation.”
A large number of The Cure tickets are sold through Ticketbastard in the U.K. Indeed the artists can have a say in pricing if they want to.
Definitely. Also see: Pearl Jam, Rage Against the Machine, Garth Brooks… If artists care, they can make it happen. Bruce doesn’t give a shit.
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RisingStone
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The Perfect Boy
Revealing the depth of Robert Smith’s involvement in the band’s career, Mitha tells IQ, “Robert is the only artist I know in the world who discusses ticket prices, sightlines, scalings with every promoter – it was the same with the 2016 tour. So, when you send over scaling plans with those colour seating maps and everything, he literally goes into every detail and changes the colours. It must be crazy time-consuming for him, but he’s very involved.”
Spanish promoter Mercader comments, “They care deeply about the ticket prices – the only other act I can think of who care to the same extent is AC/DC. Robert wants sensible prices to make it as affordable as possible for all fans.”
It’s something that Hopewell knows well. “Promoters will put forward a ticket price they think is achievable and a lot of the time Robert will come back and say thank you very much, but I think the prices should be lower,” he says. “He’s also very keen to see ticket scales that are neatly structured rather than appearing to be haphazard from the fans’ point of view.”
Production manager Broad notes the positives, “Robert is like management. He wants to know the sales numbers, how everything looks, where everything is – he is very hands on. It actually has its advantages: if anyone asks ‘Why do you do X?’ we can answer, ‘Because Robert wants to!’ And that’s the end of the conversation.”
A large number of The Cure tickets are sold through Ticketbastard in the U.K. Indeed the artists can have a say in pricing if they want to.
Definitely. Also see: Pearl Jam, Rage Against the Machine, Garth Brooks… If artists care, they can make it happen. Bruce doesn’t give a shit.
I get the anger against Bruce. But in 2014 his shows in Australia were AUD$220 a ticket. The Stones? AUD$520. Go figure, no vitriol directed to The Stones? Yeah, I know, I’m just goading..
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Topi
Image or not, Bruce isn't exactly running a charity either. Its true his tickets were going for a better price for a long time, but now he plainly admitted he's just doing "what everyone else is doing" and "why should he care, he's 73". Whether those are very good arguments is another matter.
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Topi
My girlfriend defended her PhD thesis in human geography on Friday the 16th at the University of Eastern Finland.
Here's my speech to her at the celebration dinner:
It's a bit of a show and tell here. [Places wood print of Bruce Springsteen on the window sill].
This man is Bruce Springsteen.
I'll place him here far enough from the candles so he doesn't catch fire. It's made out of wood. I also don't want my coat skirts to catch fire...
What can I say here, really? I told a couple of people at the thesis defense that I was just bursting with pride, and probably smiling like a butcher's dog.
We've actually got a lot to celebrate this Christmas. Because at Christmas, it's our nine-and-a-half year anniversary. You can round that up to ten years, right?
Me and E, we met online. Match dot com. I don't even know if that exists anymore, it was the time before Tinder. Somebody all the way from Joensuu was writing to me? I was like, what's going on? Joensuu? I gotta check this out.
So we got to talking on Messenger and stuff, and our first date was June 10th. It was the Canadian prog rock band, Rush.
At Midsummer I was preparing to move house, so I asked E to come and help me wash the windows. And from there on it all kinda started.
How does Bruce Springsteen come into play? Our first selfie together was taken in Pikku Huopalahti, on a bench down by the shore at this little bay cove. I was wearing a T-shirt with the "Born To Run" cover.
And "Born to Run", that song is all about running away. Escaping. This little town is a death trap, gotta get out. That theme of going away repeats itself in Springsteen's work over and over.
As far as sense of place goes, in 2019 I was fortunate enough to visit some of the places Bruce writes about in his songs. "Oh, so this is the house Born To Run was written in? That's the factory? This is E-street?" And that's when things really hit home. You had to be there to figure it all out. I've also seen Springsteen on his home turf in Newark, NJ, from the front row. He's just a great performer.
Now, we've had some amazing trips together. Just recently we took a two-week trip to Australia, finally got around to doing it after more than 2 years of postponing it. We had originally booked the whole thing in January 2020 - and then somebody decided to eat a bat.
We've been to Canada, we've been to Italy numerous times, Spain...
But to me, some of our best trips have been to England. Been to London, Manchester, Liverpool. And to me, London is really the place. I know you always say it's not "the real England"; and that's correct, it isn't. But you can actually take the train out of London and get to the countryside if you want to. There's always something happening in London. In 2014 we saw Monty Python live. I have had the pleasure of taking you to see my favorite band, The Rolling Stones, twice.
It just so happens that in July, a bit after our 10th anniversary, a certain Bruce Springsteen is playing Hyde Park. So I bought us tickets to the Golden Circle. My friend was kind enough to let us use her guest room in Maida Vale. We'll be flying in business class.
When the boss man calls, you gotta go!
"Oh, someday, girl, I don't know when
We're gonna get to that place
Where we really wanna go and we'll walk in the sun
But 'til then, tramps like us
Baby, we were born to run"
Here's to E!
The road bends.
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crholmstrom
If anyone is interested you can pre-order cds of the whole upcoming tour at a discount on the link below. Link is for US but the same holds for Europe. It's too spendy for me but I'll most likely pick up the show I see later.
[live.brucespringsteen.net]