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I can't see them restricting dynamic pricing. They would have to do it across all industries. Unlikely. If it was the EU putting a cap on exploiting your commercial appeal, there would be outrage 🤣 Ticketmaster/LiveNation monopoly, yes, that needs to die in a fire. The internet has afforded every band the facilities to do away with "the industry" to a large extent. It has also facilitated the realtive worthlessness of recorded music. Why would you want to put power back into the hands of the industry which served so many so poorly? Dynamic pricing affords bands and musicians the abillty to get the most out of their appeal with only tangental reliance on the old ways. There is a minimum ticket price, just like there is now but if some grown-ups are happy to pay more, why would you not take the money?

Tickets were advertised at "Prices from...", no? There's no deception there. It's like booking a flight or a hotel. It's not even new in music ticketing, I recall those Ozzy gigs they advertised in 2019 which never took place were also "Prices from". People will get used to it quickly enough and cut their cloth accordingly. As Paul says, personal responsibility and all that. Widen your scope a bit, you say bands and venues are struggling to break even, so would you not say something needs to change? Perhaps this is it. Perhaps people who are priced out of the "major event" gigs like this see the value of smaller level gigs and might invest into lower profile music instead. Maybe it won't happen but is it healthy for things to stay as they are? Revenue streams have been cut-off for bands. If this is a potential way for bands to get money and not have resort to being vendors of branded tat, then I'm all for it.

Not the same thing at all and we both know it.

Perhaps the way to look at it is that it's allowing musicians to exploit the actual value of the service they provide and, if it does start to proliferate through the industry, fantastic, it might help smaller bands make an actual living out of music instead of squeezing tours into work holidays from the shitty jobs they're having to hold down. Maybe it'll help people become genuinely professional musicians and not live below the poverty line. Maybe it'll mean people aren't asked to play for exposure because musicians are respected and taken seriously for their art and maybe, just maybe, it'll eventually mean your band gets a decent payout for the travel, time and energy behind playing two sets down the Goat and Lobster? I don't understand the thinking behind how musicians getting paid well could be a bad thing.

So what? If you don't like the price, don't go. Why shouldn't musicians fully realise their actual value? The music has been rendered pretty much worthless, we expect one revenue stream to be largely nullified and then point the finger of shame if musicians try to make money a different way? If the experience is worth it to them, then they haven't been ripped off. It's not worth it to you, not worth it to me either but who's to say how others would value it in the context of their lives?

They're not really concerts, they're events and, as such, draw in vast quantities of people who wouldn't regularly attend music performances not in stadiums. They shouldn't be thought of in the same pricing category as regular concerts. Hence, super high demand and people prepared to pay a premium to be able to make duck-faced poses on their Insta with a band playing in the background, all living their best lives, singing the wrong words to Live Forever with their bezzies, you almost literally can't put a price on it. Anyone truly interested in the songs would have gone to see Liam play them in much smaller venues a few weeks ago. This is for people to check an empty box in their lives which says "I have seen Oasis!" They don't actually care about seeing Oasis, really, they just want to be able to say they have had the experience. I don't begrudge any band/brand exploiting their market worth in these circumstances. Besides, since almost everyone here says they can't stand Oasis, why the kerfuffle?

Bonehead is back and I hear Alan White is back too.

That's a fairly extreme EQ shape on the Ashdown, full on disco smile by the looks of it? Are you bypassing that or EQing on the bass and on the head?

There's a lot more to this than the recent offer and simply saying Marr is turning down money ignores a lot of the interaction between them since the breakup of The Smiths. They continually get offers and have been close to reuniting more than once, only for Morrissey to ghost Marr. The Joyce/Rourke lawsuit had them on opposing sides too and seemed to be the point where they really stopped getting along. If you don't need the money and you certainly don't need the ballache, why would you chase the first when you know the second is part of the package?

Send the earths to the sleeve.

Only Guigsy is real.

Thick indeed. Love him for the old stuff but the 21st century has been a bit of a car crash for him.

The solo, when it's present, should be a melodic/atonal addition which enhances the emotional impact of the song. Too often, however, it's just lads with no imagination cycling through variations of the five blues licks they know simply for the sake of it. Mostly filler, yeah, but there is some killer out there too.

Impressive. There are more people keen to express their dislike than you'd find in a Eurovision thread. Long live rock 'n' roll.

How do you EQ your amp? Is it too quiet if you bypass the EQ?

As mentioned above, it's a Jacaranda made in Italy.

DR Neons?

Is the pickup a digestive biscuit which was dunked just a little too long?

I wouldn't do it. If I'm not good enough or the right fit without botox then I won't be the right fit with it either.

By "many" I mean I didn't count but, from memory, I'd guess at least 60, probably more. There were 12 Ritters in the doorway, just to start off with 😂

I posted about him a little while back. Many of his basses are hanging on the walls in Zwick bar in Hamburg, too close to the junkies of Reeperbahn for comfort, including a large array of Ritters as you walk in the door all within touching distance. The wife and I were there in May. There are a few Alembics and other desirables further in along with plenty of spurious no-name and budget brand stuff. Worth a look all the same if you're in the city.

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