Word: concertized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most practical solution to the problem of obtaining tickets is to keep abreast of concert dates and information. Reading music magazines and the arts section of the paper helps. A couple of subscriptions will run you about $35. Periodically to the various box offices, aren't a bad idea either Say another 20 bucks. Of course, everyone else is doing this too so to get a jump on them, you might want to take out a few misleading ads in the paper. (Sample format "See Bono live at Briggs Cage! Call...") This will run about $100 if you get caught...
...sleaze tickets you can get there early, steal a front row seat and rely on survival of the fittest as you battle the real owner when he shown up. There is at good chance you'll be higher up on the evolutionary scale as many tock concert patrons lack opposable thumbs Of course your chances with this method are better at either Judas Priest on Twisted Sister shows...
Since these legal changes will probably require a Constitutional amendment to institute, you'll probably never see the Springsteen concert while you'll just have to lower your standards. Check out that Pat Boone concert. Or how about The Cramps? The Circle Jerks might be in town. And if you get really desperate, you might want to catch a Harvard basketball game...
...door when someone sold her a counterfeit Dead ticket. She was sitting outside the hall, crying, when a stranger came up and gave her a real ticket, and a rose. But drug burnout is a problem among these nice people. Keep your ears open just before a concert and you hear an LSD vendor saying, "Trips, trips," without moving his mouth. "Yeah," says Monica from Santa Monica, Calif., a pale 20-year-old who looks 14. "My girlfriend was using acid, and she couldn't stop dancing at the end of one concert. They had to bring her down with...
...work. Normally at his desk by 7:30 a.m., he puts in a twelve-hour day and leaves with a briefcase full of paperwork. Weinberger enjoys making appearances on the cocktail circuit, though he is a nondrinker. He also spends an occasional evening at the theater or a concert, with an Anglophile's preference for Purcell and other English composers. Indeed, such is his enthusiasm for Britain that last year he accepted an invitation from the Oxford Union to debate British Historian E.P. Thompson on the proposition that "there is no moral difference between the policies...