West Words

Good ones, LWJ! (hmmm….will need to think of some more names for myself…) 😉

‘Chick’ not only put on a great music show, but was also a great stand-up comedian that night.

Thanks for posting the video clips. 🙂

P.S. Chuck told us a story about how he had just gotten home to San Francisco after a 9-hour Southwest Airlines flight returning from a tour, and was starving because they’d only fed him the tiny bags of peanuts. The phone rings that Lucinda is at the Fillmore, and to hurry up and get down there. Chuck’s starving so he was rushing around the house trying to scavenge some food. In his haste, he just about sliced off the tip of his finger and there was blood everywhere –

… sounds like a song to me! 😀

Absolutely “the best musician you’ve never heard”! (Chuck’s words)

And, another True Blood soundtrack contributor with “You Did (Bomp Shooby Dooby Bomp)”.

“WOO-HOOOOOO!” 😀 I got my San Diego ticket in the mail today. 🙂

Hey Paul – Chrissie is not the Pretenders this time, so don’t be afraid. 🙂 Check this out -http://www.1019rxp.com/News/Story.aspx?ID=1235972, or if that doesn’t work http://www.jpchrissie.com/home.php . Not loud, Americana-ish. On one of the songs, JP reminds me of Leonard Cohen.

(P.S. I have delicate ears and almost never had to use earplugs at a Pretenders’ show, unless there were sound issues that could happen anywhere.)

Hmmm, if this sad situation has to become a reality, could it be transformed into a PR opportunity to help ticket sales at the rest of the shows, a la ‘Power to the People’? i.e., see if we could get some press on the wires about the tour with an artist taking up for her fans? (…and if you do, could you please wait until after we freak devotees get our tickets? 🙂 )

Here are a couple similar stories:

Pearl Jam – the group attempted to cap ticket prices at $20 to make their tickets more accessible to fans. However, Ticketmaster began tacking service fees on top of the cheap ticket prices, so Pearl Jam canceled their tour in protest of the ticketing industry giant. (don’t get any ideas….!!!)

Tom Petty – ran into record company trouble when he and the Heartbreakers prepared to release Hard Promises, the 1981 follow-up to Damn the Torpedoes. MCA wanted to release the record at the list price of $9.98, which was a high price at the time. Petty refused to comply to their wishes, threatening to withhold the album from the label and organizing a fan protest that forced the company to release the record at $8.98.

I don’t think a lot of ‘normal’ fans find out about Lucinda’s schedule in time. None of US can relate 😉 , but ‘normal’ people are busy surviving, going to work and taking care of their kids, and don’t obsessively check this site, Ticketmaster, etc. But it doesn’t mean they wouldn’t love to see a show. For example, at the last night in NYC last fall, I went up to the balcony at Irving Plaza just to see the show from a different perspective. I think(?) there was a long break before the first encore (perhaps because Lu was figuring out how to do Minneapolis for that uber-fan young guy, Ben, who kept yelling out for it.) So anyway, I got to talk with a bunch of people upstairs, and heard several times that they had only just found out about the show at the last minute, or that their friends would have loved to have been there if they had only known.

So…perhaps this unfortunate turn of events could result in a lot more people hearing about the tour? What do y’all think?

Travel planning:

Flights booked – check
Hotels booked – check

Tickets –
Sacramento – next Saturday 7/16 @ 10am PDT
Napa –
Long Beach
Sandyeggo – check

For San Diego, I got Section B3, Row 8, which I think is the front of the cheap seats. Probably got closer than you guys, Tom, because I was only buying a single. Then I tested to see what would happen if I went upscale, and the dinner ticket would have gotten Row 4, and the ultra premium hotel package would have been Row 3, so no biggie.

Woo-hoo!!!! 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀