Sometimes I really get frustrated with how negative I can be about the events of life. I am sure that if you asked my wife whether I emphasize positive or negative things, she would say negative. I am not sure why that is. Perhaps it is a reflection of my personal paradigm and view of the world. Or maybe it is that a really bad day is so much more satisfying to vent about than a good day. It is somehow therapeutic to describe the unfortuante events of bad traffic, some idiot you encountered, or a clumsy injury you sustained (I recently ran full speed into a closed sliding door but that's another blog). So, as a reaction to my normal tendency I want to share some positive news. I just found out that some friends of ours have secured my wife and I 2 VIP tickets to the upcoming Dave Matthews concert. Apparently they are in some box right by the stage where we are served food? Okay that's insane. I went to a DMB concert like 2 years ago and I saw the VIP box and was consumed with massive concert jealousy. As a sidenote I think the concert pecking order is so funny and weird. It's like the moment we enter the venue we all digress into a temporary caste system based on our seat location and VIP status. That is why mosh pits and general admission is such a favorable survival of the fittest. Anyway, the moral of this story is that I am going to enjoy this concert with all the power I possess and if I start getting down on a bad day I have to remember my VIP night with Dave and company by singing a song from their concert set list, I'll have about 15 songs to choose from. So look for me on the 405 in traffic singing "satellite" at the top of my lungs.
8 comments:
SOOOOOOO JEALOUS!!!
On my soul if we had 2 more tickets we'd be rolling king style. I am excited to get together asap!
Too bad Dave Matthews sold out years ago. Oh wait... was that negative?
Oh... and as a sidenote. Remember the Dave concert way back when when we discovered Jack Johnson? Those were the days.
Woah. The earth stopped spinning...what I thought to be the greatest dave fan is sour? what do you mean sell out? can a band stay indie and grass roots forever? Being a fair weather fan because a band turns mainstream is just as lame as only liking a band because they are mainstream. Its about the music and as long as I like it who cares. Slight correction on the Jack Johnson... I am pretty sure it was a Ben Harper concert at the Delta Center and no one was really even listening to him.
Treidi - I didn't stop liking them because they went mainstream, I stopped liking them as much because they stopped being fan friendly. They started charging an arm and a leg for concert tickets (and concert paraphernalia and their newer albums were just okay. The last DMB concert I went to just didn't cut it... I was kind of mad I spent the money afterward. I say this as someone who was at one time obsessed with the band. I still listen to their older stuff a lot and maybe a song or two of their newer albums.
Indeed you're right about the Jack Johnson/Ben Harper concert though.
Okay... the detailed explanation is alot better. I agree about the last few albums, I didn't even buy the most recent one. I probably wouldn't go so far as to call them "sell outs" but it seems like they have hit that phase in a band where their best albums are kind of behind them. So they just put out new albums that are so so and tour with a mix of one or two new songs and then all their old compilations. As far as the ticket prices and merchandise, it's a hard argument that when the demand is there you don't respond. I learned about the the black ticket market the other day where basically milion dollar businesses exist just by buying tickets at retail and then selling for higher prices down the road. If I was an artist and I saw a guy on the front row whose ticket cost 100 but he payed 800 to a middleman that would cause me some evaluation.
There are plenty of big name bands that play for reasonable prices. Rage Against the Machine at the height of their popularity came to Utah for a whopping $15 dollars and hawked their shirts for $10. Pearl Jam has been doing stuff like that for well over a decade now. I have a hard time paying much more than $30 (especially for a concert at a big venue)... luckily there are plenty of artists like Ben Folds and others who still have reasonable ticket prices in that range (or below)... at least around DC. Last time Dave came here I believe his tickets were around $75 bucks. I think that fleecing his fans.
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