Please Call My Pretty Rock and Roll Operator...REALLY!

[sleepy]

I'm listening to the classic AOR radio station (100.3 FM & HD; The Sound in Los Angeles) two days ago and the DJ announces that the seminal group Buffalo Springfield will be performing a national reunion tour with a concert stop at The Wiltern Theater on the 4th and 5th of June with original members Steven Stills, Neil Young, and Richie Furay.
So I go to the Wiltern site to check out the ticket prices, too high for my wallet, but note the picture of "The Wiltern Theater Operator".
Lovely and waiting for your Buffalo Springfield ticket orders, right?
Here she is..

http://theatere.org/ResultsTicket.aspx?evtid=1596391&event=Buffalo+Springfield&ppcsrc=6973606931

Today while at vpforums.org I click the banner for Wild Blue Satellite Internet service with their current "Zero Dollar Days" promotion and note the picture of The Wild Blue Operator...

http://www.wildblue.com/zero-dollar-daysg.jsp?src=may2011

 

[sleepy]

I do want to mention that the ticket prices for Buffalo Springfield at other venues Are much more affordable but the distance...the distance.

 

[faralos]

damn 1000$ for pit? they better give me a happy ending for that kind of money!!

 

[sleepy]

That's the Wiltern price. Yep.
Their prices are higher than most, but they justify the price due to being a smaller venue, a converted movie theater, so the seats are closer to the stage than would be at a conventional concert theater.

Still, I'm looking at the Santa Barbara Bowl. Better prices.

 

[sleepy]

What about "The Operator"?

 

[LeeVanCleef]

Jeezum crow! The cheapest price is $258? And I have to listen to Stephen Stills? Fuck that! They'd have to pay me that much to sit through "What It's Worth"!
That girl sure does get around!

 

[sleepy]

Good God, and I think she lives here too..
...some kind of Operator anyway...

 

[sleepy]

Jeezum crow! The cheapest price is $258? And I have to listen to Stephen Stills? Fuck that! They'd have to pay me that much to sit through "What It's Worth"!
That girl sure does get around!

You know, "For What It's Worth might be worth it
if they let us smoke in the theater. :)

I have a feeling that, even at those prices, the concert will still be policed
as "a family-friendly event".

I was trying to remember what they charged for Woodstock tickets back in '69, but I can't...

 

[LeeVanCleef]

I was trying to remember what they charged for Woodstock tickets back in '69, but I can't...

According to my good friend Google, $25!!! Divide up BS's set list at the venue listed above and that's probably the price just to hear "For What It's Worth".

 

[sleepy]

But hold up. I found out the prices as quoted are from a scalper site.
The Wiltern has no page and operates on the web through a co-op arts network website by another name (Live Nation), so when I Googled for The Wiltern I got the scalper's site in it's absence.
The theater and BS are only charging $89 to $280 max.

Can we just shoot the scalpers and take what they got?

 

[LeeVanCleef]

After taking another look, that site does seem to be pretty unprofessional and cut-and-paste... like stealing the picture of the rock and roll operator!
"Tickets may be above face value." No! Really?

 

[faralos]

woodstock tickets

You know, "For What It's Worth might be worth it
if they let us smoke in the theater. :)

I have a feeling that, even at those prices, the concert will still be policed
as "a family-friendly event".

I was trying to remember what they charged for Woodstock tickets back in '69, but I can't...

woodstock tickets started at $10 and went up from there my uncle went and didn't come home for about three weeks, he still has his stub somewhere, his admission price was $15!

 

[RockWizard]

Jeezum crow! The cheapest price is $258? And I have to listen to Stephen Stills? Fuck that! They'd have to pay me that much to sit through "What It's Worth"!
That girl sure does get around!

I'd like to see what's left of Buffalo Springfield, but NOT at those prices. Stills - his voice is shot to hell. Damn shame raping the public like this to see somebody perform - small theater or not!

If all goes well, our local theater built back in the 1920's the Saenger Theater is supposed to re-open in 2012. Almost scared to see how much tickets would be if they do concerts again.......

 

[RockWizard]

woodstock tickets started at $10 and went up from there my uncle went and didn't come home for about three weeks, he still has his stub somewhere, his admission price was $15!

Amazing the incredible range of talent and how little it cost to see a gig back in the day.

My co-workers(who are much younger than I) are amazed at the number of concerts I've seen over the years - since summer 1977. I had to explain to them that back then, NO Ticketbastard/rape charges. My first arena show was $7.50 and those in my age range know, the concerts were plentiful. Sure, I had to commute from New Orleans to Baton Rouge, but gas wasn't $4.00/Gallon either!

First time I saw the Stones was in 1981 on a triple-bill in the Louisiana Superdome. We bitched about the price being $18.50!!! Now the damn charges are at least that for some shows........

 

[sleepy]

Yeah. Those are scalper prices for sure.

 

[LeeVanCleef]

Since we're reminiscing about concerts in the good ol' days (and because we all seem to be "men of a certain age"), here's a great song that probably encapsulates a lot of our concert-going experiences (I, too, saw Randy Rhodes right before that plane crash), as well as the various substances we were on!

 

[sleepy]

EDIT: I went to John Muir Jr. High. He was in 6th grade when I was in 9th, so he came in as I left.
But I didn't know him.

 

[sleepy]

Good God the Horseshit!

http://www.guitarworld.com/randy_rhoads_hollywood_knights

The two grew up together in sunny Burbank, California. Rhoads taught Garni how to play the b ass, and the two honed their chops in countless backyard bands before making their move to the sunset strip.

In those days, Burbank was a sheltered suburb. Neat green lawns and tidy little shops clustered along streets kept clean and crime-free by a Mormon-dominated local government. Just a few miles away lay the glittering temptations of Hollywood, whose rock scene was rife with drugs and decadence. Prostitutes openly strutted their stuff on the grimy sidewalks of Sunset and Hollywood boulevards in that pre- AIDS era, while transvestite hookers, leather boys and other rough trade catered to different tastes on Santa Monica Boulevard. Randy Roads and Kelly Garni were two wideeyed adolescents when they first started sneaking over the hill into this modern-day Sodom and Gomorrah.

Clean and crime-free Burbank in 1973? Aw Hell No!
There were Juvies in and out every other day pushing drugs while you might remember me telling you about the local teenage Nympho stripper.
In my Burbank circa 1967, a strange kid that you never met before calls you over and you ride your bike up to him and say "Hi", and the next thing that happens is, he pulls out a pair of wire cutters and snips you in the ribs straightaway.

Now, if you call the cops, he then goes back to Juvie as a repeat offender and his friends hunt you down like a dog.

But if you say nothing, then he feels safe with you and offers you a joint from his local business stash.

Among the normal families who lived down the street, many teenage pregnancies, mod parties, and mucho domestic violence.
It was The Burbank Police who told me and my friends that if you put a bar of soap in a sock and use it as a blackjack on someone's head, that there was nothing they could do about the assault, as long as you removed the bar of soap from the sock before the cops arrived, no weapon.
Those cops also stated that verbal threats of violence were non-enforceable.

At the local Cornell Theater, 1969, I was 15, buying cigarettes from the vending machine in the theater lobby and smoking them outside like everyone else my age who smoked, stepping out during intermission and then going back inside. Nobody was complaining.