Take It to the Limit
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While the top price on the closest seats was brought down significantly, little noticed is the fact that many thousands of tickets actually increased in price. Now the top ticket price at the World is $118; the rest of the pavilion seats are $88, and the lawn’s $38. At Alpine, there’s one $120 price in the pavilion and about 32,500 $40 lawn seats.
Still, the high ticket prices rankle, and it turns out that there is, after all, a limit to shamelessness–witness the price retraction. Secondly, there’s the issue of fairness: Pearl Jam and many heavy-metal and country acts make it a point to keep tickets affordable so the rock proletariat at least has a chance to get good seats when the tickets first go on sale.
Last week Hitsville merely mentioned the Jon Spencer Blues Band and still managed to misspell Spencer’s first name. Sorry….Rumor is Big Star will announce a local show soon, possibly for June 8….On their last album, Saturation, Urge Overkill sing an ode to All My Children’s “Erica Kane.” The show returned the favor last week in a scene that included Trevor Dylan and kids Jamal and Timmy in a restaurant. (Janet, the evil sister of Trevor’s dead wife Natalie–who’d gone to prison for kidnapping Natalie, hiding her in a well, and conceiving a child with Trevor after assuming Natalie’s identity but is now out and unrecognizable due to plastic surgery–was listening at a nearby table, but that’s neither here nor there.) “You guys want to hit the jukebox?” asks Trevor. “Yeah,” responds Timmy. “I’d love to hear Verge Underkill’s latest,” chimes in Jamal. Unfortunately, the jukebox turns out not to work….Overheard in a laundromat: “A really terrible thing has happened since Kurt Cobain died. I’ve been listening to the Smashing Pumpkins a lot.”…A “certified and notarized copy” of the death certificate of Kurt Cobain “detailing the causes of death” can allegedly be had through PostMortem Productions, 2922 Western Ave., suite 510, Seattle, Washington 98121. The place is charging $25 (an additional $5 gets you a copy of the medical examiner’s report as well) and it doesn’t have a phone, so Hitsville suggests writing ahead for confirmation…. Overheard later in the same laundromat: “If I hear Eddie Vedder singing ‘I’m still alive’ one more time…”
