Word: pearls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...clash of rock-world titans. In one corner, with more than 20 million albums sold: the alternative rock band Pearl Jam. In the other, with more than $1 billion in annual ticket sales: Ticketmaster, the powerful ticket-distribution service. Not so much boxing as wrestling, the bout has got so messy that it's hard to tell who's left in the ring...
Just after the tour started, Pearl Jam manager Kelly Curtis reportedly said the band might relent and use Ticketmaster. That brought an outcry--from Pearl Jam vocalist Eddie Vedder, who insisted that Ticketmaster was out. Then, on June 24, Vedder got sick with the flu, ended a San Francisco concert early and decided to cancel the entire tour-sort of. Days later, the band reinstated concerts in Milwaukee and Chicago and hinted at more...
...Milwaukee shows, it turns out, are part of a local festival whose tickets are being sold by ... Ticketmaster. A Pearl Jam spokesperson said the band was simply honoring a "pre-Ticketmaster-controversy commitment" and had no future plans to use the ticket service. But a press release from Ticketmaster announced "Pearl Jam Sells Out" --before coyly explaining it referred to the shows, not the band's values. Its fans will have to judge the latter...
...show will go on at Ticketmaster now that the Justice Department has declined to bring an antitrust case against the nation's largest distributor of concert tickets. Justice launched an investigation last fall intocharges by the rock group Pearl Jam and others that the company's service charge was excessive and amounted to price gouging.Ticketmaster sold an estimated $1.6 billion in tickets last year, taking in $240 million in service charges...
...like the way the magazine smells." He makes no apologies for comments he made in the '80s expressing support for President Reagan's arms buildup: "I say what I believe in at the time. It may not be the same in four years." Now he's an advocate of Pearl Jam's effort to boycott Ticketmaster, the ticket-distribution service, in protest against its high prices. "Even if Pearl Jam fails, it doesn't matter," he says. "At least they've solidified their bond with the audience...