{"id":1091,"date":"2004-06-28T22:18:00","date_gmt":"2004-06-28T22:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=1091"},"modified":"2018-08-13T14:22:54","modified_gmt":"2018-08-13T19:22:54","slug":"1091","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2004\/06\/28\/1091\/","title":{"rendered":"I Blame Peer-To-Peer Music Sharing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2004\/06\/28\/DDGLL7CFCT1.DTL\" target=\"new\">Summer concerts are failing to attract crowds &#8212; Lollapalooza is the latest victim of the trend<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Bongiovanni saidticket sales went south about the middle of April, when shows already on sale dramatically slowed and new shows failed to ignite.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Price has got to matter,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Ticket prices are elevated to where they are not a frivolous expense.&#8221; But industry insiders say it&#8217;s not simply high ticket prices and a bad economy that caused ticket sales to drop, but a variety of larger issues, ranging from the lack of exciting attractions to a growing reluctance to patronize the suburban amphitheaters (called &#8220;sheds&#8221; in the business) where most of the summer tours play. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Quickly, Senator Hatch, do something to force people to pay $75 dollars to sit on a patch of dirt to watch a band play a number of songs the listeners won&#8217;t even recognize.  Or else music promoters can key the cars in movie theatres&#8217; parking lots to penalize consumers for misusing their entertainment time and money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summer concerts are failing to attract crowds &#8212; Lollapalooza is the latest victim of the trend: Bongiovanni saidticket sales went south about the middle of April, when shows already on sale dramatically slowed and new shows failed to ignite. &#8220;Price has got to matter,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Ticket prices are elevated to where they are not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1091"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23145,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1091\/revisions\/23145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}