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This kind of thing doesn't surprise me at all. I hope the extra million, which amounts to chicken feed in the grand scheme of things, was worth it considering there was a huge moat of mooks and soshes between the stage and the real fans.

He said "arse"?

Yeah, the ticklets sell, so who's going to lower prices? Is there a breaking point? Or will there always be a new crop of "fans" to fill the seats that the likes of you and me refuse to pay for? I remember being slightly shocked that David Bowie tickets for his Sound and Vision tour in 1990 were in the high $20 range ($28 before fees, if I remember correctly). At that point, I had never heard of a concert costing more than $20, or say, $25 after fees. Most arena shows were in the teens or low $20s. After that tour, $20 arena shows practically ceased to exist. Also, the concept of front

I love the bizarre lineups Ringo puts together. The year I saw him he had Greg Lake, Ian Hunter, Howard Jones and Sheila E. (plus a multi-instrumentalist...some guy who has backed up Billy Joel for a long time). Howard Jones was surprisingly good. They played a pretty incredible variety of material. During Ringo's break Greg Lake, Sheila E. and Howard Jones did an insane meg-jam on Emerson Lake and Palmer's "Karn Evil 9". But back to the topic, I saw Bruce Hornsby with the Grateful Dead in '90 (give or take a year). He played really great and added a lot to the band's sound.

I'd probably go. He's an excellent pianist, and I'm sure he has a good band. A few years ago I won tickets to two concerts at once. Ringo and the Backstreet Boys. I didn't bother with the Backstreet Boys, although I regret not scalping the tickets. Ringo was great, though.

In that case, cancelling my account was a wise decision.

I have a myspace page. Two actually. Can't remember the last time I looked at either of them. I used to have a Facebook page, but I cancelled it because I didn't understand all the poking and other nonsense.

I remember seeing that name in the Atlanta show listings. I don't think I ever saw them, though. My Atlanta favorites circa mid to late '90s were: Flap Joybang! Toenut (although they did achieve a brief moment of national/international attention) Seely William Carlos Williams Butterflies Bob Gold Sparkle Band

Did you get any Ham Burglar photos as a result of that search?

Good point. They'll have to throw in something like this to make it add up to six:

Ol' Glenn's tennis look-a-like-ness spans the ages. "Glenn Frey" returns this result: Which looks sort of like this dude:

Prior to the VMA's, was Kanye (openly ) scheduled to appear on the premier of Leno's new show?

You seem to think the concept of "enough" exists.

$50 says Taylor Swift's publicist winds up in the Obama administration.

Yup, still awesome. I can hardly believe this is 27 years old. This album holds up better than just about anything I was listening to at the time. My buddy Rafael loaned me his cassette (in exchange I loaned him my copy of Black Flag's "First Four Years"). My parents got ahold of the tape before I listened to it and withheld it from me, based only on the name of the band. They didn't seem to have a problem with my Circle Jerks and Suicidal Tendencies tapes, though.

Pre-sale takes place more than a year before the event. Has that ever happened before?

It would have been a lot cooler if she ate the ball and then smashed her racket over her head before throwing the broken racket at the line judge and spitting the chewed up ball all over the court.

And Beyonce for being so gracious as to hand her speech time over to Swift. I could be wrong, but the first thing that popped into my mind after Beyonce's win/Swift's do-over was that it was an ingenious publicity coup organized between all three camps. Expect it to keep happening.

I'm there. Hopefully they'll practice first this time around.

INXS after Kick, now that's guilty pleasure. For the most part, I think I'd probably still enjoy my 24-7 Spyz records.

I suspect if I were not from Atlanta, I would have absolutely no idea who this thread is about.

Yeah, me too, and I stand by my selection, as unintentional as it may have been. Bill Maher endorses my choice.

It took me a while to figure this out, too, but here's how I do it: Find the image you want. Right click your mouse on the image. Left click on "properties". Copy and paste the address/url into your post. Type directly after the url. edit, wait, it's not letting me type the image tag, so you need to type img, in brackets, before the url, and type /img in brackets, after the url. Damn, this probably no longer makes sense. I'll try it now: EDIT: Cool , it worked! Oh yeah, I'm listening to Nels Cline "Coward". I've been negelecting this one for a while.

That's my point. I never got the people who said Let's Dance is cheesy or bad. I'd rather listen to Let's Dance than most anything by Prince...and I like Prince.