For what it's really worth

I see that Buffalo Springfield tickets go on sale friday for the new tour. Tickets at the Wiltern theater run from $89 to $250. Don't think so. Loved them at the Bridge Benefit but can not and will not do it.

We had a thought about seeing Devo, one of my favorite seventies/eighties bands at the Belly-Up Tavern last week but demurred when we saw that it would cost a cool $180 before drinks. For two of us. Devo.

I don't know what the hell happened? I can remember going to absolutely great concerts for five bucks when the music was great and performers weren't sidelining as real estate developers like U-2's Edge. I know you have to make that payment on the little chateau in Provence but could you give us all a break?

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Everyone wants to romanticize their coming of age era, (and apparently exploit it) but it was the free love era remember, not the shall we go to a show or not eat for a month era, or maybe the kid doesn't need a college education, lets go see the Buffalo Springfield instead era.

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I don't think that Bill Graham would have put up with this Live Nation, Ticketmaster monolithic monopoly stuff for long. Bill did his best to keep things reasonable.

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Friend went to the happiest place on earth this weekend with the family. The ticket these days at Disneyland? One hundred dollars per. I believe that Legoland and Sea World will both set you back about $70 a ticket. Things have gotten totally insane. Rather go to the library and get a good book. It's free and you don't have to feel guilty if you aren't having a good time. You can just borrow a different one.

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I go back pretty far at Disneyland, when they had the mule rides up the side of the hill. Don't remember the cost of admission but I bet it was under a ten spot. I once paid $400 samoleans to see Bowie when I was a high roller. Those days are long gone. Will listen to myself play bad guitar before I pay $250 to see Neil Young and Co. get out of their walkers and sing about their gout and failing prostates. Or anyone else for that matter.

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And finally, Wisconsin freshman congressman Sean Duffy, you guessed it, a Republican, is bummed because he is struggling to pay his bills on $174,000 a year. Feel your pain, Sean.