Bruce Springsteen

I would’ve loved to have seen this show!  At the time of the tour, I was in Phoenix, AZ.  Tickets, I believe, started at $75 a piece!

That’s really not very populist.  At all.  Tell the Boss to cut the price a bit, maybe more of us ‘blue collar’ folk he loves to sing about so much would actually be able to pay for a ticket, without sacrificing meals and/or rent.

Comment by Ryan Tobias from Portland, OR — July 23, 2007 @ 1:32 pm

Thank you, Ryan.  I’m glad I’m not the only one who feels this way about Springsteen’s ticket prices.  How can a poor (or even middle class) man stand to pay such prices as these?  Love of the common man my ass.

I appreciate this review, but I think it’s very one-sided and disingenuine about what kept people away.  Certainly some of it may have had to do with rigid musical tastes, but much of it also had to do with Springsteen’s poor execution of the tour.  $100 tickets to play socially conscious folk music with an unknown band in a huge amphitheater?  How arrogant and presumptious is that?  I know it’s politically correct to bash the midwest and south (and where exactly did Bruce play in the “south” anyway?), but let’s not let our blind faith in him make us oblvious to the possibility that he put profit ahead of the music, and ended up excluding a lot of US fans from what should have been an amazing tour.

Comment by Jim Mitchell from St. Louis — July 23, 2007 @ 5:38 pm