Seth on NPR talking about slumping ticket sales...
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128473078
Maybe because you're a mod you couldn't post the quote, but I will because I loved it:
After a brief discussion on Live Nation....
"Sales are down in bad situations, like they should be," Hurwitz says. "But, you know, talking about the concert business as a whole, as it relates to the large companies that try to run the whole industry, is a little like asking BP, 'How's the oil business these days?' "
hehe.
And then:
The Concert As 'Product'
According to Hurwitz, a promoter's first responsibility is to make sure the concertgoing experience is a good one.
"Buying a band for the entire country is treating it like it's product," Hurwitz says. "And, although it's product in that we're all trying to make money at this, if you treat the country and if you treat everyone like it's product, then that's how they're going to treat you."
