Van Morrison

mjp

mjp

Founding member
So I thought, hey, why not go see Van Morrison perform Astral Weeks at the Orpheum theater here in Los Angeles. Nice venue, excellent songwriter, seems like a mellow night out for old people who don't know anything about heavy music.

So I logged on to see if any good tickets were available, and what do you know, 12th row, center aisle, perfect!

Price? A mere $350.00.

Per ticket.

What am I, an unemployed AIG executive? Who the fuck pays $700 for a couple of tickets to a concert? A nostalgia concert at that.

Sweet bleeding Jesus. Gary Glitter is turning over in his grave. You know, when he dies.
 
mjp

mjp

Founding member
What?! Well that settles it. I would need to drink to forget what I was spending.
 
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slimedog

If it was a Gary Glitter concert-now you're talking.

How about a Michael Jackson/Gary Glitter concert with procedes going to the Catholic Church?
 
mjp

mjp

Founding member
Michael Jackson/Gary Glitter/Iron Maiden/VALERIAN - now that's a $350 ticket. Imagine the all star jam at the end, when they all sing and play VALERIAN'S Bluebird!
 
bospress.net

bospress.net

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I had tickets to see Van 15 years ago, but did not go. I believe that they were under $20 back then.

Van is a notorious prick. He has been know to call out audience members and walk off and leave if people don't show the correct reaction to his songs.

Trust me, 12th row is too close. If he don;t like the expression on your face, he can call it quits, leaving a bunch of pissed off soccer moms and frat boys that were just waiting for "Brown Eyed Girl".

Bill
 
CRBSMILE

CRBSMILE

He wants adults to pay adult prices but does not want them to do what adults are allowed to do.

..."Morrison battled alcoholic addiction in his younger years and is now teetotal. However, his spokesman insisted that the ban is not related to the singer's personal history."

BULLSHIT!!:)
 
Purple Stickpin

Purple Stickpin

Interesting. He was addicted to alcoholics in his younger years.
I have to say, I really like Tupelo Honey, Into the Mystic and a few others, but just go away, Van. I hope nobody shows up.
 
CRBSMILE

CRBSMILE

I love so much of his music too. It really sucks when people turn into jerks. Can you imagine back in the day someone telling him that he or his audience couldn't drink/get high?
He would of never let that fly. He would of refused to play.Cindi B.:)
 
Gerard K H Love

Gerard K H Love

Appreciate your friends
Out of respect for an older person and a fine artist, if I had the money I would pay it and not buy a drink there.

1. that's easy to say since I don't have the money.
2. I would bring a flask-but with good scotch.
3. My wife likes Van Morrison.
 
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slimedog

Out of respect to Van I would not drink if I was going but I would dress up like Gary Glitter and have simulated sex with Asian marionettes during his performance.
 
strangegirl

strangegirl

slimedog said:
I would dress up like Gary Glitter and have simulated sex with Asian marionettes during his performance.
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I'm guessing more people might be watching you then the show. Actually they would be recording it on their I-phones so they could watch and remember later.:D
 
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slimedog

I didn't want to take any of the attention away from Van but actually my puppet show is the opening act for this tour & I believe i have extra tickets for MJP if he's interested. Of course, he would be expected to help in "preparing" the marionettes.
 
mjp

mjp

Founding member
I can prep a marionette with one hand tied behind my back. I expect to see my name (plus one) on the list at the door.

Van Morrison may be a tremendous asshole, but few great songwriters or creative types of any kind are without fault. And he's written some great songs. Maybe not lately, I don't know. I don't really follow his career. I see him like a Bob Dylan or Paul Simon, Paul McCartney - you get the idea - really, really talented songwriters whose best work is long behind them (easy now Dylan fans, you know it's true - the first step is acceptance). But at least that old work is still there.
 
Short Bus

Short Bus

I know Paul Simon deosn;t get the air play but he still is pumping out some good stuff that isn;t a repeat rehash of a tried and true formula me my guitar and some guy named Art-I've always thought Art was the 2nd luckiest person in music-you know from a coat tail perspective.
check out the new stuff you will be pleasantly surprised-and there were otjher pinoneers I'm sure but his willingness to use (and don;t shoot me here) world artists broke soome ground for people who normally wouldn;t listen to that music or those artists.
I saw Van in a hockey arena so the music lost meaning between the hash marks and the blue line.
 
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slimedog

mjp said:
I can prep a marionette with one hand tied behind my back. I expect to see my name (plus one) on the list at the door.
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I'm not quite sure if you understand what the prepping involves, MJP. If you are aware what a fluffers job is in the adult film industry than you have a complete understanding. By the way the marquee will read Tonight Featuring Van Morrison and underneath Slimedog & his Dancing Asian Marionettes-I know we should get top billing but I'm getting more of the take so I can't complain. And this invite is not just offered to MJP, I'm extending to all on this forum. Just show up outside two hours before the show, I'll be the one dressed in a white jumpsuit (like Gary Glitter along with the marionettes) who appear to be Asian. Hope to see you all there.
 
LickTheStar

LickTheStar

Sad Flower in the Sand
He was interviewed about in Rolling Stone a couple issues back and... well, he sounded like an ornery old guy... complaining about how people try to make him folk, or rock, or whatever... then complaining about how musicians today just scream over guitars...

I dunno, I started having flashbacks to my relatives back east and took the time to reflect on why I moved 3000 miles away... so I never finished the interview. I'll assume he probably said something about movies having too many special effects and then talked about how when he was young... water was wetter dammit!
 
connswater

connswater

I'm a long time Van fan. In fact my username (connswater) is from a Van song. I've seen him over 50 times in past 20 years.

Is he cranky? Not chatty with audience? Yes. But I believe he is the best improvisational singer of the past 30 years and certainly one of the best songwriters ever.

Here's a recent interview Van did:


"The only thing I love is the music. The rest of it is pure shit." - Van Morrison, Village Voice
 
Black Swan

Black Swan

Abord the Yorikke!
About him, seeming to handle fame well, I liked his answer. "Seem is the key word" he said. Simple but right on. I love his early stuff very much. I have "Into the mystic" on my desk top.
But I would not pay $350. for a live show, anything can go wrong, like someone singing along in the seat next to yours.:(
 
CRBSMILE

CRBSMILE

Black Swan said:
But I would not pay $350. for a live show, anything can go wrong, like someone singing along in the seat next to yours.:(
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...or they ask you to hold their i-phone and film while they go out to find something to drink ...
The man is a fantastic talent...
But he should let his fans have a fucking drink if they so choose to do so.
How much is a ticket to see Gary Glitter? If the Marionettes like to party,I'll 'BYOB' and share.CRB:)
 
mjp

mjp

Founding member
Now he's doing a show at the Greek in October. Ticket price? $375.75 for the good seats. Hey, that's only a $25 increase over last year! Van Morrison, sensitive to your ongoing unemployment, and keeping prices low for you!

In all fairness, you can get a ticket for $77.70 if you want to sit on a metal bench way in the back and watch through binoculars.

What happened, man? When did it become okay to charge hundreds of dollars for one ticket to some show? We don't go out much, but whenever something does catch my eye, it's at a point now where if the tickets are $75 I think, "Oh, not bad!" That's pretty fucked up.

I have a bunch of ticket stubs from the 70s and very early 80s, and it was unusual to pay, at the very most, more than $10. When I was a teenager going to the arena shows, it was not uncommon to see three bands for $4 or $5. Not rinky-dink bands, either. I'm talking about Led Zeppelin, Queen, The Who, Deep Purple, Pink Floyd - big, famous, bloated arena groups.

Okay, I just went and pulled out the crusty old envelope of ticket stubs, and the first one that is more than $10 is U2 in May of 1983; $11.50. That would be a $25 ticket in today's money. Something tells me you'd pay $25 just to park your car at a U2 concert now.

Looking at it the other way, Van Morrison's $375 ticket today would have been like charging $95 to see him in 1975. Almost twenty times what a concert ticket went for in those days.

WTF, indeed.
 
Ponder

Ponder

"So fuck Doubleday Doran"
RIP
I'm wondering how much one will pay to see Sonny Vincent this month.
Wild guess: €15 - €20.
 
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