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Yeah, after I made this post, I thought about what their customer demographic likely is, and it makes more sense.

Yeah, I know that’s how it will go down. I was just making the point that, if he says he’s not doing something, then he is absolutely 100% doing it. Whether it’s a third term, or a never-ending second, he doesn’t intend to go anywhere. No matter what drools out of his mouth.

My best interviews were the two where I was calm, relaxed, and myself. And I was offered the job each time.

Granted these interviews were for a better job than the one I had, but, at the time, I had a pretty good job and didn’t technically need the one I was interviewing for. That allowed me to be more relaxed, I made a few well-placed jokes, and was just myself, which is ultimately who you want them to hire anyway - the person you really are, not some stuffed shirt, stiff version of you.

….oh, he realizes.

Is that what he said? Then he is definitely seeking a 3rd term.

I never guessed Greyhound would be one of the first to make a rights stand, but ok. You go Greyhound.

Anazisayswhat?

A man came up to me... a big man.... a marine.... and he had tears in his eyes. He said to me, "Sir, please break up that woke Live Nation."

Alright now, let's not get into an argument about The Monkees. In 1967, they outsold both The Beatles and The Rolling Stones, so they're not nobodies. And just to clear up a few fallacies, Mike was an accomplished guitarist and bassist, Peter could play banjo, bass, and keyboards, and Davy was a drummer. (They didn't want to put Davy behind the drums because he was short, and they were afraid he wouldn't be seen.) They were not allowed to play their instruments or even have any input on the songs they recorded on the first two albums by Don Kirshner, the person hired by Colgems as music supervisor for the TV show. It was their 3rd album (not 4th) that they were finally able to get control. The resulting album - Headquarters - Rolling Stone magazine called one of the 500 you should hear before you die. They went on to make six more albums up to 1970 where they had complete control over the songs and played on them. They even had a top 20 album in 2016 on their 50th anniversary called Good Times, with all four members contributing (a previously recorded vocal track by Davy, who was deceased at the time, was digitally cleaned up and put over new music).

Yes, they were the Prefab Four, but Micky likes to use the metaphor that Pinocchio became a real boy. They were put together to act like a band, but they actually became a real band.

Or - see my post above - they just keep my money for a cancelled show and make it impossible for me to get it back.

Right, because if I don't buy the ticket to go see Micky Dolenz, no one else will, Ticketmaster will see the error of its ways, and they will change their business practices. And while we're at it let's tell dads not to buy tickets to Taylor Swift for their teenage daughters, so no one will go to her concerts. That will change everything.

You live in a fantasy world if you think "Don't go" is a feasible alternative. If I don't go, someone else will, and all I've done is deprive myself of something that I want to make a point - a point that won't matter a tinker's damn to Ticketmaster. There's no way that there would realistically be a public boycott big enough to make any difference.

I'm absolutely not one for big government, but this is the definition of a monopoly and should be dealt with. But while the CEO of Ticketmaster has three gold toilets, they've bought and paid for four golden toilets for those in Congress through lobbying (aka "legalized bribery"), so nothing will be done. So again, it's pay up or give up something that I want. I don't buy tickets to events that I don't care about just to have something to do, but there are acts that I don't want to deprive myself of just to make a point to Ticketmaster or try to force them to change their ways through boycott. Because neither of those things will make a single solitary difference as long as they have their paid governmental exception.

I get that, but my wife and I are huge fans of The Monkees. The only one of the 4 alive is Micky Dolenz, who is still touring at 80 years old. How much longer will he be doing concerts? I don’t want to miss out on seeing him perform when he’s near in what, at any time, could be his last concert just to make a stand against Ticketmaster.

Understand, we don’t go to multiple shows a year, but when there’s something that we really want to see, they’ve got me by the short and curlies. Either pay up or don’t go. There are times when its more important to pay up than to prove a point, but that doesn’t make me hate them any less.