why does everything sell out so fast?

[timcorsi]

I'd have to agree with dr. doom.  I've been going to shows in the area for roughly 10 years, and it used to be that you had to regularly attend shows at the black cat or the 9:30 to know who was playing, or check the listings in the city paper to be up on stuff.  
 
 Now, just a few clicks on the computer and you now what is coming up, plus you can buy the tickets online as well.  No more treking to the box office or a ticketmaster outlet, or whatever.  
 
 Between the websites kosmo mentioned, the bands' sites, etc., it is just easier to get the information.  
 
 Just a question - is this a good thing in a way?  I mean, if the 9:30 can virtually guarantee a sellout to even a moderately well known band, is it more likely that bands will stop through dc to play?  Which would benefit the fans.  Just a thought.

[MindCage]

Originally posted by HERR PROFESSOR DOKTOR DOOM:
  The reality is, though, that the days when a typical 9:30 Club audience might consist of music echoing across a largely empty room, a spike-haired alcoholic slumped over the back bar, 10-15 die hard fans, plus a Marine or two strayed from Georgetown and looking to pick up punk girls or slam dance, are probably gone for good.

I've got dibs on being the spike-haired alcoholic slumped over the back bar!!!!!!!
 
 MindCage
 Mindless Faith
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[Dr. Anton Phibes]

Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer:
  I think a lot of non-scenesters (i.e. people who talk through an entire show, or get on their cell phones and babbly away) just like to go to the 9:30 Club because they think it's the hip thing to do.

>> I think the hip thing for myself & others to do, would be to start punching these folks solidly in the back of the skull when they least expect it!......well,that's at least what I do in my mind everytime I spot one of these jackoffs....  :mad:

[HoyaSaxa03]

have the deftones gotten more popular lately?  i thought they were at their biggest in the late-90s ... "my own summer (shove it)" is still my favorite "nu-metal" song OF ALL TIME!

[Herr Professor Doktor Doom]

Originally posted by MindCage:
 [QB] I've got dibs on being the spike-haired alcoholic slumped over the back bar!!!!!!!
 
 

heh... you weren't the Marine looking to slam dance?

[Bags]

Originally posted by MindCage:
  I always bring a party to the 930 Club

I AM a party at the 930 Club.
 
 I think organizedconfusion's initial point, though, is true -- far more shows sell out.  Whether in minutes or the day before the show.  Without pointing to particular shows, but overall, the sellout ratio is incredibly high, much higher than it used to be.  It's amazing, and I think good for business and good for DC as a "must stop" city, but it does suck for me personally.
 
 I think it's the internet not just in terms of the information about shows, but also the new one-hit wonders (Arctic Monkeys, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, etc) that become huge MP3 phenoms.  And the kids are savvy with the MP3 world.

[Jesse]

Originally posted by HoyaParanoia:
  have the deftones gotten more popular lately?  i thought they were at their biggest in the late-90s ... "my own summer (shove it)" is still my favorite "nu-metal" song OF ALL TIME!

perhaps the Taste Of Chaos tour might've given them a bit of a popularity boost.

[palahniukkubrick]

People want to be able to say that they saw whatever is the next big thing before they became big. Arcade Fire, Sufjan, Franz Ferdinand, even Maroon 5 were getting tons of buzz when they booked their 9:30 shows, and people wanted to tell their buddies that they saw them in a little club. Indie really is the new mainstream.
 
 As for why Deftones, a band whose popularity peaked years ago, sold out 9:30, I don't know.

[thebirdsflyhigh]

i think its a good thing shows are selling out, it makes bands feel more welcome when they come to dc. this board is incredibly pretentious talking about the kids who talk and their phones and what not, those are the kids that are going to keep going to the shows when everyone who has been active in the scene for the past decade get out of it. if you don't like the state of the current 930 club then stop complaining and go to like the sidebar or some backstage show at blackcat.

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

It has nothing to do with pretentiousness. It has everything to do with respect for the performers and the people around you.
 
 

Originally posted by dia:
   this board is incredibly pretentious talking about the kids who talk and their phones and what not, those are the kids that are going to keep going to the shows when everyone who has been active in the scene for the past decade get out of it.  

[nkotb]

But they're keeping the scene alive!
 
 

Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer:
  It has nothing to do with pretentiousness. It has everything to do with respect for the performers and the people around you.
 
   

Originally posted by dia:
   this board is incredibly pretentious talking about the kids who talk and their phones and what not, those are the kids that are going to keep going to the shows when everyone who has been active in the scene for the past decade get out of it.  

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[chaz]

Originally posted by dia:
  this board is incredibly pretentious talking about the kids who talk and their phones and what not, those are the kids that are going to keep going to the shows when everyone who has been active in the scene for the past decade get out of it. if you don't like the state of the current 930 club then stop complaining and go to like the sidebar or some backstage show at blackcat.

Take a lesson from yourself.  If you don't like the pretentious old farts on this board then take a hike over to the hfs board or wherever all the teenyboppers go these days.

[hostiledm]

Originally posted by you be pickup:
  As for why Deftones, a band whose popularity peaked years ago, sold out 9:30, I don't know.

because they keep making great music.

[organizedconfusion]

I dont know anyone who stops going to 930 because there is too many young people. Thats just bullshit.
 
 I think the problem with selling out so fast is that, people have the money to throw around and casually go to 930 to see bands that they dont really KNOW about. So it could be the complete opposite. The more people who make 100,000 a year get season tickets to 930.

[Jesse]

Originally posted by hostiledm:
   

Originally posted by you be pickup:
  As for why Deftones, a band whose popularity peaked years ago, sold out 9:30, I don't know.

because they keep making great music. [/b]

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