On 2021-02-03 4:36 a.m., Cindy Hamilton wrote:

> I've never been interested in seeing big names in big venues. There's a
> folk music venue in Ann Arbor that started out in a big Victorian house.
> All the first-floor parlors were opened up into an L-shaped space. The
> center parlor had the performers and people sitting on cushions on the
> floor; the two parlors on the legs of the L had folding chairs.


I got turned off big concert events when I saw the Beatles. My friends
and I were thrilled to have got tickets, and they were pretty good
tickets, about a dozen rows from the front and near the middle of the
row. The opening act was King Curtis. They did their set and then the
Beatles came on. Fifteen thousand teenage girls started screaming and I
never heard a note, just the screaming.


>
> I saw some amazing acts there. One memorable one was a guy who
> was used to playing nightclubs. He said he was a little weirded out
> by people just sitting there and actually _listening_ to him.
>
> Sadly, that house is no more; the new location is much bigger but
> it doesn't have the intimacy that the old house had.

I thought I was ready for a larger venue event, but then I learned about
the ticket sales scams. A few years ago my son was going to get me
tickets for Mark Knopfler for my birthday. Tickets were to go on sale
at noon on a particular day. He called and suggested I try to, just in
case he could not.

I set up and account and sat at that site there until noon, all set with
an order for 4 tickets. They were sold out. However, they were
available on a ticket reseller site..... for twice the price.

Screw it. I am not going to play that game.