ConcertCrowd provides personalized concert listings on Facebook

Posted by cendrinemedia under Technology
From http://digitaljournal.com 4848 days ago

New application turns concert discovery social by offering users suggestions based on the bands they and their friends like.

Whether you are located in Canada, the United States or elsewhere in the world, San Francisco-based ConcertCrowd wants to help you stay in the know with your favorite artists and make it easier for you to discover new bands.

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Written by yoni67
4847 days ago

Pay-per-walk was a joke! I'm in shock. Would it be according to the mile? Certainly those going for a stroll would pay less than a jogger. Per-hour maybe? What if you just wanted to enter the area and sit on a bench. There is no end to the lunacy in this world!!!!!!!!!!!!!

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

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Written by yoni67
4846 days ago

Steve Vai rules! as does Yingvey Maumstein (probably misspelled). YT has become great, lots of free music.

BTW, on a career note, it must be truly earthshattering to be a concert cellist and see an ad like:

WANTED: E.L.O. seeks cellist to join the band. Call 555-7623.

Maybe we should make the BizSugar Album: 25 great hits to listen to while you work.

I'd probably shell out big bucks to see Neil, provided he was touring with Crazy Horse.

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Written by businessavante
4846 days ago

I saw both ELO's - they're very good, but Neil Young reaches a deeper part of me inside - I feel an emotional connection (which is ultimately what makes music the "universal" language - instrumental, or vocal). I've seen Greg Howe in Guitar Player magazine a couple times (I rarely see it anymore). I got out of touch with what was happening decades ago - in my late teens & early 20s. I searched out music from all over the world, and all periods in history. I really like serious Medieval & Renaissance choral music - masses & motets. Since it's all in Latin with over-lapping words, there need be no religious association. I just like it as music. I also like the classical music of N & S India, Bulgarian folk music - and many others that don't involve a rhythm section like pop music. Because I've heard so much variety, I'm free to be ignorant of what's new. Steve Vai is great for a "young" guy - truly amazing. It was several years before I'd even heard of Eddie Van Halen, but but he was a hard-rocker after I'd heard Fusion - and Ornette Coleman (avant guarde jazz sax). There's not much excitement in Metal (which only pretends to be outrageous & cutting edge - mainly the costumes & coifs) after Ornette goes nuts on sax. Besides, Metal has been around so long its originators are all old geezers. How is it then outrageous & 'new'?

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Written by yoni67
4846 days ago

Duncan,

Allan, I see jammed with Greg Howe, a guitarist who lived for quite a while in my hometown, Easton PA, otherwise known by me as Purgatory PA. Have you heard of him? He won the guitarist of the year one year. I never spoke with him though I used to see him at at pubs and parties.

BTW: I would pay $25 just to see this one song live:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SfaVIVSwxE

I love cellos and violins in rock music!

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Written by businessavante
4846 days ago

The only YT video of Allan Holdsworth I like is a studio cut:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbE4B8vstcg

It just shows a pic of the 1986 cover. I saw him open his show with it at the Allen Theater in Cleeb'm in '86 or '87. Needless to say, my jaw dropped. It's all "SynthAxe" guitar synth - there's no keyboard on the album. (Some YT live videos of it do have keys.)

I don't know why, but I'm not satisfied w/any of his live YT stuff except one early one with Soft Machine. He was but a wee lad:

http://www.Youitube.com/watch?v=JIC-nJRcgeU

His style & technique is unique - he seldom picks notes, almost all the notes you hear are from left-hand legato. He wanted to sound like a sax.

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Written by businessavante
4847 days ago

No, it was an entrance fee - you wouldn't be allowed in w/o paying something like $5.00. At the time, I was going almost daily, taking photographs - over 9,000 in all.

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Written by yoni67
4847 days ago

My first concert...Ted Nugent at Stabler Arena in Bethlehem, PA. Would have been around 1981. I don't think the ticket and a really cool t-shirt came to more than about $15. These days the prices are outrageous. Jethro Tull came to Tel Aviv a few years back and I really wanted to see them. Tickets (the "cheap" ones) were going for over $100 - the average prices here I guess. No way was I going to shell that out.

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Written by yoni67
4847 days ago

Duncan,

You have got to be F$#@ING kidding me!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Written by businessavante
4847 days ago

The city/county briefly considered charging people to walk in the park here about 10 years ago. Someone must've reminded them that our taxes Already pay for it.

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Written by yoni67
4847 days ago

Addendum:

That $305:

The Fan Cost Index calculates the average cost of four tickets, two beers, four small soft drinks, four hot dogs, parking, and two game programs.

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Written by yoni67
4847 days ago

Duncan,

"The Music of the People" sounds very Soviet.

I think the only band I would pay $100 bucks to see live is E.L.O. though I doubt they'll be coming around anytime soon.

Until then there are, fortunately, more affordable alternatives: miniature golf, Shakespeare-in-The-Park (about $3) and walks in the forest (though maybe one day they'll start charging for that).

I also saw an article, much to my chagrin as a sports fan, that the price of sporting events in the States has become rather astronomical. I saw this gem recently:

The cost of taking a family of four to see a Cubs game at Wrigley Field this year is estimated to be $305.60 according to the 2011 Fan Cost Index, a dollar amount calculated annually by Wilmette-based Team Marketing Research.

WTF!!!!!!!!!!!

I remember going to see the Phils at the Vet with friends in the late 70s/early 80s...we sat in the bleacher-bum section for about $4.

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Written by businessavante
4847 days ago

That is ridiculous - what ever happened to "The Music of the People"? Most big-name rock acts are outrageously priced here, too. But I saw English guitarist & Fusion pioneer Allan Holdsworth at the Winchester Tavern here last September for a whopping $20.00. One of the greatest guitarists alive - and he had a great night.

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Written by businessavante
4848 days ago

Hi Cendrine.

Most touring musicians have their own official websites now - their shows should be listed there, too.

Duncan

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