Live in the Age of Covid19

won't be college football

The Big Ten presidents have voted to postpone the 2020 college football season with hopes of playing in the spring

So much for the trump tweet

the wrote:
won't be college football

The Big Ten presidents have voted to postpone the 2020 college football season with hopes of playing in the spring

So much for the trump tweet

or maybe it was because of the trump tweet: "don't tell us how to do our jobs.  we won't put our people at risk to support your false, self-serving narrative."

apologies if this has been posted before (and technically, it's pre-covid…)

A Writer Reflects on the Last Concert He Saw Before Coronavirus Shut Down Live Music
A meditation on Destroyer at Black Cat in early March

so now PJ is getting on on the rebroadcast-for-pay-per-view thing.  $15 for an HD stream of one of their famous "home shows".



Step back in time to August 8, 2018 and experience the first night of The Home Shows in its global premiere.

This show was not only the band’s first time playing at home in Seattle in almost a decade but also raised nearly $11 million for 100 organizations working to reduce homelessness in Seattle and King County. Immerse yourself in remastered audio and high definition visuals with Pearl Jam’s first rebroadcast event prepared especially for home-viewing.

The full length concert, hosted through Nugs.net, will air Friday, September 4th at 5PM PT and will be available for on demand streaming through Monday, September 7th at 11:59 PT. A portion of each ticket will support the ongoing work with non-profit partners from The Home Shows.

https://nugs.tv/live-webcasts/5,321/Pearl-Jam-09-2020-8-18-2018-Safeco-Field-Seattle-WA.html

The problem nobody talks about are the numbers


I mean how many people can fit in those pods? Enough to make which shows economically viable?

I know, to set up each pod probably cost $500 a pop (that's on the low end) and probably 2 hours labor just to set up 1

20% capacity

are we ready to spend $750 a pod to see a show from 150 yards away

the pods hold up to 5 people and supposed to only family members in each od

my guess it's a per pod cost to attend and pods are more expensive the closer you are to the stage and I believe this was setup to be "permanent" so they probably cover the pods after the shows..

kosmo wrote:
the pods hold up to 5 people and supposed to only family members in each od

my guess it's a per pod cost to attend and pods are more expensive the closer you are to the stage and I believe this was setup to be "permanent" so they probably cover the pods after the shows..

I’m down with this. My own luxury pod with extra space right up front where my disposable income protects me from the prying eyes of the proletariat is Julian’s Concertgoing America.

much maligned on this board…Joe Strummer gets the quite the posthumous birthday party
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/bruce-springsteen-bob-weir-lucinda-williams-joe-strummer-livestream-tribute-1045908/

DISGRUNTLED wrote:
much maligned on this board…

Hes properly maligned. I could probably name three hundred bands better than The Clash.

Julian, wrote:

DISGRUNTLED wrote:
much maligned on this board…

Hes properly maligned. I could probably name three hundred bands better than The Clash.

dunno if we hit 300, and certainly not sure that all of them are better than The Clash.

and let's face it, some bands are worse.

You’re so controversial Julian!

DISGRUNTLED wrote:
much maligned on this board…Joe Strummer gets the quite the posthumous birthday party
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/bruce-springsteen-bob-weir-lucinda-williams-joe-strummer-livestream-tribute-1045908/

I'm shocked that Bruce isn't first on this list… and how thinks to invite HR to something like this? 

gavroche wrote:
I'm shocked that Bruce isn't first on this list…

you do realize it's listed alphabetically, right?

sweetcell wrote:

gavroche wrote:
I'm shocked that Bruce isn't first on this list…

you do realize it's listed alphabetically, right?

Yeah that was pretty weak
He was first on the RS article

HatchOil wrote:

sweetcell wrote:

gavroche wrote:
I'm shocked that Bruce isn't first on this list…

you do realize it's listed alphabetically, right?

Yeah that was pretty weak
He was first on the RS article

Admittedly, I wasn't paying enough attention to notice that it was listed alphabetically by first name (who does that).  But that's still a weird way to list things…. we are not communists.

I think we are socialists…at least that what Team Trump keeps telling me

https://fortdupontparkconcerts.live/schedule/
FORT DUPONT Park in SE DC 48th SUMMER CONCERT SERIES is online only.
Starts Aug 22 w/  We are One X-Perience Band & New Soul Searchers; Finishes Sept 19 w/ Backyard Band 

First I've ever heard of this series.

HatchOil wrote:
https://fortdupontparkconcerts.live/schedule/
FORT DUPONT Park in SE DC 48th SUMMER CONCERT SERIES is online only.
Starts Aug 22 w/  We are One X-Perience Band & New Soul Searchers; Finishes Sept 19 w/ Backyard Band 

First I've ever heard of this series.

Have it on good authority Fugazi is playing.