Jarkko--My routine for getting tickets through ticketmaster when it's a seated concert is to drive to work (if tickets go on sale on the weekend like the LA tickets did) because we have T1 lines and I figure the faster the better. I did the "not tickets available/refresh" routine starting ...

Actually the most telling point is that the American Express presale was before the "fan club" or "friends and family" presale times. Good, bad, or indifferent, at this level big time music (or entertainment of any kind for that matter) is more commerce than art when it comes to ...

Personally I refuse to believe Leonard Cohen has any knowledge of or interest or participation in scamming people, ripping anyone off, etc etc. Not possible, sorry, but that's about the only thing of which I am truly sure in this world anymore. Anything else I at least take as possible. That being s...

Sorry to join this conversation so long after it began, but there is one part of the trading as theft discussion that I don't recall seeing here. It seems to me, and to most of the very serious traders I know, that the deciding factor in the legitimacy of trading (and taping for that matter) is whet...

Phil Spector has always been known for his fondness for guns. The Ramones talk about him pulling a gun during one of their recording sessions and during an interview around 1992 (or 94?) Leonard Cohen discusses him doing the same thing and pointing it at the fiddle player (who apparently wisely pack...