“The mismatch is the match”
From the book Creative Quest
- @questlove
#empathy + #music #obsession makes me a good #DJ #hire me. I #love this
#epiphany
$180.02. This is how much a standing room ticket costs to see @khruangbin in #ATX in 2025. @ticketmaster & @livenation have created a #monopoly that has turned #LiveMusic into a luxury good.
Pretty soon there will be no clapping at concerts. Just the sound of rattling jewelry #iykyk
P.S. This is a resale ticket. “The seller sets the price” and @ticketmaster collects the “fees” on both the original sale and the resale, effectively incentivizing #scalping.
Are we cool with this?
As “social” media drives a deeper and deeper wedge between all humans… HELL between humans and all life… the nature and structure of live music and other performing arts, inherently combats loneliness and isolation by bringing folks together in The Here And Now.
Watch “what Ticketmaster doesn’t want you to know: concerts were cheap…” on YouTube for an easy to understand explanations of how the Ticketmaster and livenation monopoly is perpetuating human isolation by dominating venues, artists, and fans alike… while paying CEO’s 9 figure salaries and transforming live music into a luxury good that fewer and fewer people can afford.
P.S. We’re in the thick of a class war that oligarchs will have you believe is actually one of social values. They use the big media that they own to spread propaganda and get you all to hate each other as a distraction, while they profit off of your emotionally charged state and continue to grown in control and influence.
Find the shared values with those on “the other team”. Understand that you are being manipulated away from doing so. Finding camaraderie and common ground with all life is punk as fuck.
Grateful for the staff, performers and opportunities offered by @04center. Started training on sound, bar and box office a few weeks ago. The sound system and acoustics are really impressive. As is the way they run the bar and the business as a whole: shared space with a church that makes for some decent synergy.
Seen here: @guyforsyth and @78specialatx on 2/1/25 . Not only are they a quality musical act, but also quality humans. At the end of the night, an audience member experienced a “heart event” and went into a coma in the parking lot. The band and staff all rushed to help save the man’s life until paramedics arrived. The gentleman is alive and well and even got to go to the Super Bowl a few days after being released from the hospital, thanks to the heroic support offered by @guyforsyth .
