If I know Leonard like i hope I know Leonard, he´ll go to great lenghts to keep the ticket prices reasonable. Any "Streisandesque" price setting is, in my opinion, simply out of the question. Were not dealing with a diva here.
All´the best.
Cortez
He shouldn't be a "sale" item. If there was a market for mere prints at high prices (there seemed to be) then his personal presence at a concert holds that same high standard, higher, really. There is nothing divo about it.
Laurie
I simply cannot see where there is to get to. Plath
Even despots have access to 'Welcome' mats. Me
Desperation is easily confused with enthusiasm. Me
Hey Laurie - any chance of a loan?
The euro is not quite as swish as it used to be.
Cortez - you write: "We're not dealing with a diva here."
Do you mean in you or in Leonard??????
PS
Just using some of my emoticon quota here - we're not allowed use them in the poetry forum anymore
Red Poppy wrote:Hey Laurie - any chance of a loan?
The euro is not quite as swish as it used to be.
Cortez - you write: "We're not dealing with a diva here."
Do you mean in you or in Leonard??????
PS
Just using some of my emoticon quota here - we're not allowed use them in the poetry forum anymore
I really hope Leonard has some influence to keep ticket prices within reason. Most of us here may be older but we are not particularly rich. My own income is very modest and it requires careful budgeting to pursue my Cohen interest and travel. There is no question of Leonard not being worth it! Of course he is, but most of us would find it difficult to pay the sort of prices recently attached to someone like Barbra Streisand.
Can I be the first to claim the position of 'Unpaid, go anywhere, sit as close as possible, European roving special correspondent,' please ?
Everyone who gets the earliest go-ahead to be allowed into the concerts, (by any means possible) will be given an extended course in Video Photography by Wijbe and his gorgeous Wife. This will mean that several videos of each concert, can be edited into a full pictorial and audiotronical masterpiece, for the rest of the Forum and close fans to enjoy at their leisure.
As for the cost of tickets and bums on seats, market forces will be clearly evident, whatever prices and method(s) of allocation are used.
For your information, Margaret and I went to a concert last night to see, 'Show of Hands.' The duo have been gaining many followers for some years now. They make it a practice to tell their audiences to make copies of their CD's if they want to, and pass them on to their friends. They feel that it is far more important to have their work listened to, by as many people as possible, rather than to have a smaller fan-base and not be appreciated by more people. They're great musicians and they want to be heard by a larger audience.
And who should be sitting at the table next to us? Daveeliver!!!!!
Last seen by me at the Goodall Gallery. Last seen by Marg and lots of you, in the Green Note and Barbican! Talk about it being a 'small world.' He lives in Lancaster; we live in Chester; we got adjoining tables in the Pacific Road Arts centre. It made our night. We had a really good chat and caught up on what he and 'ken' had been doing after the Barbican event. With this Cohen Forum it is wonderful to meet friends again, and again, and again.
"Bipolar is a roller-coaster ride without a seat belt. One day you're flying with the fireworks; for the next month you're being scraped off the trolley" I said that.
ps. In no way shall unofficial bootleg videos be countenanced by anyone of us in this Forum!!!!!
"Bipolar is a roller-coaster ride without a seat belt. One day you're flying with the fireworks; for the next month you're being scraped off the trolley" I said that.
There is a difference between selling the very best seats (first few rows, at least) at a Premium price and the cost of the less desirable seats, but still all quite good if you are in a decent theatre. I'm not saying every ticket should be high, but there should be an elite level that pays for prime viewing...much like first class on an airline, no?
Laurie
p.s. I'm not wealthy. I do realize life is short and you weigh what is worth the life experience vs. the $...it's just money....
I simply cannot see where there is to get to. Plath
Even despots have access to 'Welcome' mats. Me
Desperation is easily confused with enthusiasm. Me
Can I be the first to claim the position of 'Unpaid, go anywhere, sit as close as possible, European roving special correspondent,' please ?
No. Well, not officially the 'Unofficial Correspondent' just try being the Impromptu Correspondent (I.C.) and put everyone involved on the spot. It's tried and true.
I simply cannot see where there is to get to. Plath
Even despots have access to 'Welcome' mats. Me
Desperation is easily confused with enthusiasm. Me
No. Well, not officially the 'Unofficial Correspondent' just try being the Impromptu Correspondent (I.C.) and put everyone involved on the spot. It's tried and true.
No, it's not. Even less so when you don't know what you're talking about, Laurie.
~ Lizzy
"Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken." ~ Oscar Wilde
Alan Alda wrote: just try being the Impromptu Correspondent (I.C.) and put everyone involved on the spot. It's tried and true.
Really!!! Wow, has this been done before, thus enabling the device that is known in Law as a 'precedent' to be instigated ? If this is so, then I claim the right to be the " I.C. - Europe, for the Roving in, anywhere, anytime, any condition ( physical, mental, corporeal, ex-corporeal, spiritual, amoral, chaste, available ) without let or hinder, transcendentally motivational," plus expenses and a PA called Margaret.
In other word...I asked..... FIRST!!!!!
"Bipolar is a roller-coaster ride without a seat belt. One day you're flying with the fireworks; for the next month you're being scraped off the trolley" I said that.
Precedents Rule #1: Research, research, research.
Precedents Rule #2: Precedent must be relevant and applicable.
Precedents Rule #3: Application of precedent must have desirable outcome.
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"Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken." ~ Oscar Wilde
I shall award a special prize to those who adopt me as their 'I.C.' Each of you will be granted the right to append a universally recognisable signature to your details, as seen on the board next to your name. The idea arose from a recent BBC Radio 4 Play, and after much negotiation and some considerable reorganisation, the new signature that I shall bestow on my supporters is as follows...
Cut me and I bleed Cohen
"Bipolar is a roller-coaster ride without a seat belt. One day you're flying with the fireworks; for the next month you're being scraped off the trolley" I said that.
lizzytysh wrote:Precedents Rule #1: Research, research, research.
Precedents Rule #2: Precedent must be relevant and applicable.
Precedents Rule #3: Application of precedent must have desirable outcome.
Rules have always been made to be broken. Ask ANY politician.
Precedents are the natural evolution and progression of the societal imperatives, redefining language and the mores of linguistic growth in relation to the accepted norms of current communal behaviour.
Also, I asked first. Any negatory responses to this current offer, shall render the negator, compulsively ambivalent and therefore, without sufficient support. This is not a Rule per se, but simply a warning that will be followed by transcontinental raspberries. I asked first.
nudge, nudge, don't dig a hole for yourself.
"Bipolar is a roller-coaster ride without a seat belt. One day you're flying with the fireworks; for the next month you're being scraped off the trolley" I said that.
