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Posted in industry | music on November 11, 2009
"False Hopes Fuel Keith Urban's Ticket Frenzy"
"When country music superstar Keith Urban announced his latest project -- a charity benefit to raise money for the Country Music Hall of Fame -- Nashville's music community was quick to sing his praises."To have someone of Keith's stature step up and do this today -- and who all he's bringing to play in October -- is overwhelming to us," Vince Gill told reporters at the time
The benefit -- "We're All for the Hall," as it was known -- was advertised as "all tickets just $25."
But even before tickets went on sale to the general public, they showed up on scalping web sites like Ticketmaster's TicketsNow -- listed, in some cases, for hundreds of dollars each.
"When you have a highly desirable product with incredible demand, all kinds of shenanigans go on," said music industry analyst Bob Lefsetz, who writes The Lefsetz Letter blog." [NewsChannel5]
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Posted on November 11, 2009 11:48 AM
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Comments (5)
Lefsetz is not an analyst. He rants. He does not check facts. He should be described as a music industry observer. A commenter. The observation he made here is pure genius, however. He must have majored in economics.
Posted by Anonymous | November 11, 2009 12:30 PM
Lefsetz was (is still?) a lawyer i think...
Posted by reheatedspaghetti | November 11, 2009 1:03 PM
Keith Urban is playing at MHOW next week. Also, great thing about this post is that there's a CMA Awards banner on the screen, too. Did BV move to Arkansas?
Posted by Anonymous | November 11, 2009 1:18 PM
He was a lawyer. Now he lives off his lady's money and speaking gigs. He must have a great cock.
Posted by Anonymous | November 11, 2009 3:12 PM
Sad shit pop fake country.
Posted by Anonymous | November 12, 2009 1:28 AM