Pearl Jam Writes Its Own Ticket
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Third, note that ETM’s $2.45 includes a 40-cent mailing fee; Ticketmaster tacks on at least another $2 per order for mailing. Fourth, ETM will print the service charges on the ticket, which Ticketmaster claims to do but actually doesn’t; and ETM isn’t picking up bucks on the side by putting advertising on the ticket.
The only bad thing about the whole deal is that, to avoid Ticketmaster-only arenas, Pearl Jam will perform this summer in some unusual places. In effect, the band will be making fans bear some of the burden of its war with the agency–one thinks about the security problems and demands on facilities when tens of thousands of people converge on a nontraditional venue. If a tragedy occurs, Ticketmaster’s sins will seem small by comparison.
To save harried Sun-Times editors a little work, Hitsville has agreed to print the following correction: “In Jae-Ha Kim’s April 9 interview with Del Amitri’s Justin Currie, a number of incorrect and misleading statements were made. The song ‘Kiss This Thing Goodbye’ appears on the Del Amitri album Waking Hours, not Change Everything. Second, Waking Hours came out in 1989, not 1990, as was stated in the story; since Change Everything came out three years later, it was incorrect to say that it ‘quickly followed’ Waking Hours.
