An interesting email that was sent to rant fanatic Bob Lefsetz

Jaimie Vernon,
President, Bullseye Records
"Not Infecting Our Customers' Computers Since 1985!!"
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Author, Canadian Pop Music Encyclopedia
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>Date: 16 Mar 2006 04:00:18 -0000
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>From: Sam Pocker
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>Re: The New Cars
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>umm bob you're leaving out THE DETAILS
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>i sold tickets for 10 years let me tell you some things
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>1 - the cars are from BOSTON apparently don law doesn't know this since he 
>booked them a venue 1/2 the size of the new york gig
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>2 - the face value on rows 1-5 is roughly 400 dollars - then 6-10 is 
>roughly 300 dollars - who the fuck does anyone think is going to buy these? 
>the front row sat on ticketmaster all day for boston its probably still 
>there - the front row NEVER CAME OUT in new york, so the second row is 
>still sitting there - maybe they're holding it for rick o. to sit in?
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>3 - they sell a "meet and greet" ticket where you "meet" todd and the 2 
>original members, but you DONT meet debbie harry the only person on the 
>bill any weirdo would actually pay to meet
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>i could go on and on about this i mean the ticket is MORE THEN DOUBLE what 
>they wanted for stevie nicks and don henley last summer and that didn't do 
>so well
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>someone at "live nation" is on crack, well most of them seem to be on crack 
>but what can i tell you? i can tell you the audience is not on that much 
>crack since the more trouble they have selling tickets the higher the 
>prices seem to get - remember last year they had an initiative to LOWER 
>ticket prices? got a lot of press - well as usual they have short-term 
>memory!