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Post by 4EverAdam on Jan 5, 2018 14:46:38 GMT -5
Agree
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Post by 4EverAdam on Jan 5, 2018 15:04:40 GMT -5
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Post by lurleene on Jan 5, 2018 15:07:19 GMT -5
Thanks to all who are posting these gorgeous and sexy pictures of Adam. Never get tired of looking at and admiring pictures of him.
Congrats and best wishes to Ashley. Loved her when she was in Adam's band. Her vibe was everything.
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Post by Craazyforadam on Jan 5, 2018 15:15:54 GMT -5
I am not quite understanding that Ticketmaster approach to recognizing fans. a) They seem to want to make sure that no new people can become fans throughout any given year. It seems more of a seniority principle than a fan selection process. b) Why is the present system of fan club pre-sales not in principle the way to establish who is a fan and can therefore buy early? I did not think that this method did not work, I just thought that the volume released for the pre-sale was usually a tad too limited or selective (i.e.certain blocks in the arena). c) Why are bots so successful at circumventing the process, even though they have these captcha, as well as purchase volume restrictions. Never quite understood that. While I am fighting to get through the 'how many dogs are in the picture' captcha crap that is presumably set up to reject the bots, it turns out that they get through in large numbers, while I am still 'counting and clicking squares' or something. d) Would hate to lose my phone or have it out of juice, if that is the way you get entry to venues in future. Usually makes me nervous about flying too. I still like my good old paper ticket and boarding pass printed at home. One day, I will kicking and screaming arrive in this 21st century, I promise. I understand what you are saying and I too have learned how to get tickets for Adam or QAL....but even at that, the system is completely slanted against the fan who does not know the system or does not belong to a fan club. I have sat and tried many times...always unsuccessfully...to get tickets for a person or group I really like but have not joined a club for. Most famously, Leonard Cohen who was furious that people were unable to go to his shows because re-sellers got all the decent seats and up-sold them out of the price range of ordinary people. If you are a mega fan with plenty of cash[you have or are willing to spend] you are OK but if not, you have little to no chance as it is now. Canada is in the process of making it illegal for resellers to up the price more than 50%....which is likely one of the reasons Ticketmaster is being pro-active. I think it is a very good thing....not everything should always be driven by more and more money...a number of artists have tried various means to alter access but only a few, and the odds are not in their favour...till now. There will still be expensive tickets for those willing and able to pay...but the system as a whole should be much more fair. It will also be easier, perhaps, for people who work at inflexible jobs to actually get tickets rather than only those able to sit at a computer for an hour or two..in the middle of the work morning. You have a ton of really good and valid points here. Yes, I too have encountered the situation when I tried to get tickets to events where I was not a fan. Even managed to take my - at the time Bieber crazy - daughter to one of those, and found out how hard it is to not overpay for those tickets. So, I understand that. I guess, I took the word fan in the more narrow sense, like we are here, not in the sense of a true customer who plans to personally attend, but who is not a typical fan (at least the paying parents are not). This latter case, the casually interested attendee, is not helped by either system, because that person is not part of a fanclub community, and does not have an attendance history that makes them privileged under that new model. I guess, it mostly comes down to catching these bots and that somehow seems to be trickier than we think. I am not sure why it is so hard for TM to work that out. Curbing the markup profit to i.e. 50 % is certainly a good way to disincentive the re-sellers. I always thought that it is so unfair that the actual artist/promoter is getting such a small slice of what the customer is actually paying. Given that most people have a limited budget for entertainment, it also means that the music industry as a whole is not getting revenue that could otherwise be spread across many more musical events. That does not help with the most popular shows, that obviously cannot be endlessly multiplied, but certainly would help with events that are less close to capacity. In the end, customers evaluate their costs based on what they really pay, not based on some artificial ticket price. Yet the principle provider of the event (the artist) sees only a small portion of that. if the tickets were cheaper, people could attend more events. The 10 am rush could easily be avoided by using multiple such release windows, instead of just one. i.e. one third goes to market at 10 am, one third at 6 pm at night, and one third only 3 days later (or something like that). Would help everyone out with scheduling.
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Post by 4EverAdam on Jan 5, 2018 15:19:05 GMT -5
Not sure this was posted from NYE.
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Post by bamafan on Jan 5, 2018 15:26:42 GMT -5
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Post by bamafan on Jan 5, 2018 15:35:35 GMT -5
I suppose it would be a stretch to think the Manchester post has anything to do with the rumored show there prior to the Wembley shows.
Nothing from Adam or Sauli on IG, other than likes. Wonder if Adam is in the studio...or not...yet.
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Post by AnnAdoresAdam on Jan 5, 2018 16:17:14 GMT -5
I suppose it would be a stretch to think the Manchester post has anything to do with the rumored show there prior to the Wembley shows. Nothing from Adam or Sauli on IG, other than likes. Wonder if Adam is in the studio...or not...yet. Yeah, it's a stretch but on the other hand, why post it now? The caption reads "adamlambert Bites the Dust in Manchester". Adam Lambert biting the dust on his Queen career in Manchester? Would make more sense if it were Wembley, the final show - but maybe he didn't have a biting the dust clip for that.
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Post by 3ku1 on Jan 5, 2018 16:51:52 GMT -5
I hope the certain ones are confident about JCS happening. I'm still on the fence hahah. Just in case he is not involved in the production. We'll see in the coming days.
As for his IG video. I doubt their is any real meaning to it. He post vids like that all the time. Might be related to possible show at Wembley Stadium. That is one show QAL we'll obviously want to tick off the bucket list. Same ground of Live Aid.
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Post by msloyalfan on Jan 5, 2018 17:16:30 GMT -5
I suppose it would be a stretch to think the Manchester post has anything to do with the rumored show there prior to the Wembley shows. Nothing from Adam or Sauli on IG, other than likes. Wonder if Adam is in the studio...or not...yet. Yeah, it's a stretch but on the other hand, why post it now? The caption reads "adamlambert Bites the Dust in Manchester". Adam Lambert biting the dust on his Queen career in Manchester? Would make more sense if it were Wembley, the final show - but maybe he didn't have a biting the dust clip for that. I certainly hope that this does NOT mean that QAL will be ending their touring for good in either Manchester or at Wembley. The original Wembley Stadium was demolished from 2002–2003 and that's where Queen played with Freddie. The new stadium has 90,000 seats so how could QAL possibly fill Wembley Stadium for 2 nights as a solo act this spring? That would mean 180,000 tickets sold and fans have already seen QAL in the UK this past fall both in Manchester and in London.
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