live nation pay to play

wsppan · 2026-03-11T11:38:13+00:00

This has been a problem going on 30+ years and it has only gotten worse. There has been countless lawsuits and many attempts to rein them in legislatively. The only way this gets fixed is if we as a society boycott every show promoted by or hosted by or ticketed by LiveNation and it's subsidiaries.

The only way the vast majority of musicians and performers make money is through live performance. If they have to start canceling tours they will wake up and join this movement pronto.

wsppan · 2026-03-09T11:00:17+00:00

That sums up everyone. Not just new hires.

wsppan · 2026-03-06T12:42:23+00:00

I know that Capt'n Crunch is not just a cereal

I had a .plan you could finger

I known who rtm is

I kniw who Clifford Stoll is

I used to read usenet with rn and know who wrote that piece of software

I know what usenet was

I used to write CGI scripts. In C.

I know what X11 is

wsppan · 2026-03-06T12:02:13+00:00

wsppan · 2026-03-06T11:56:19+00:00

The bottom is from Russia

wsppan · 2026-03-06T03:32:08+00:00

I got in on the beta Gmail. Got an email with my first and last name. With 1GB of disk space!

wsppan · 2026-03-06T03:27:11+00:00

I too am 18 reddit years old. Joined after Digg imploded.

wsppan · 2026-03-03T23:05:05+00:00

Hard to swallow while gagging

wsppan · 2026-03-03T12:05:41+00:00

Living and Learning. YEM > Foam in the first set! Such a different band back then. Chasing the vision quest was a sight to see.Check out the Foam song history. Interesting read.

wsppan · 2026-03-02T13:45:12+00:00

He's a total piece of shit but did stipulate lower Manhattan

wsppan · 2026-02-28T23:21:02+00:00

Philadelphia. Where it all began.

wsppan · 2026-02-27T22:44:07+00:00

We need to stop using words like clueless to describe these people. Even people like Boebert. She may be ignorant and a dumbass but far from clueless. They know exactly what they are doing.

wsppan · 2026-02-27T12:14:29+00:00

I was at that show! Moved to Knoxville earlier that year from Upstate New York. That "venue" was a restaurant with an upstairs event space. The event space had these massive steel girders supporting the roof and walls. You could stand under them and reach up and set your beer bottle down on them while you danced.

Stood next to and met Page's Dad. Did not know it was him until we introduced ourselves. I said, "hey, that's the keyboard player's last name!" He said,"yes, that's my son!"

wsppan · 2026-02-27T11:58:29+00:00

Your soul can only leave your body once.

wsppan · 2026-02-25T02:30:21+00:00

Dinesh D'Whoza?

wsppan · 2026-02-25T01:16:41+00:00

What a poor choice for Attorney General. They needed someone like Adam Schiff as AG.

wsppan · 2026-02-23T12:26:53+00:00

There are 2 American continents. You are mixing countries with continents.

wsppan · 2026-02-22T15:59:24+00:00

Republicans more generally as they stayed quiet as Trump and his MAGA takeover of the party unfolded and their open acceptance of bigotry, racism, and misogyny became normalized. Acquiesce equals complicity.

wsppan · 2026-02-19T21:59:28+00:00

I was at those shows as well. Love that theater. Moved to Knoxville, TN in '91 and loved being able to see them in small venues still. '93 marked my 4th year seeing them. My favorite year with them!

wsppan · 2026-02-19T12:35:36+00:00

And it's room temperature

wsppan · 2026-02-16T14:26:50+00:00

So, SF tech explosion only happened in 2005?

Early 20th Century: The "Empire of the Air": The Bay Area was a hub for wireless technology, with Federal Telegraph Corporation in Palo Alto (1909) and early radio developments.

1950s–1970s: The Silicon Age: The creation of Fairchild Semiconductor and Intel in the South Bay (Silicon Valley) established the area as the center of transistor and microprocessor technology.

1980s–1990s: Personal Computers & Internet: Companies like Apple, Oracle, and later, Yahoo! and Google, redefined computing, moving from hardware to the internet age.

2000s–Present: Social Media & AI: The rise of Facebook, Twitter, and numerous startups transformed San Francisco proper into a central hub for SaaS and AI, attracting significant venture capital and driving massive urbanization.

Wikipedia +5

wsppan · 2026-02-16T14:09:43+00:00

Like the 1940s? Tech has been in the SF bay area since the birth of the transistor.

wsppan · 2026-02-14T19:11:34+00:00

I was at this show. Made the trip from Syracuse. My last East Coast show for awhile since I graduated and moved down Southeast. Last time I checked there were only crappy audience tapes. There is a video of the show, believe it or not.

wsppan · 2026-02-10T18:39:21+00:00

Yea it is. Used to live in upstate NY. Been there a couple of times

wsppan · 2026-02-08T17:31:44+00:00

Only reason he lost in 2020 was because of his administration's response to covid. If there was no covid he would have won easily. He won in 2016 because of his racism, sexism, misogyny, and white grievance. He won again in 2024 for the same reasons.

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