Word: scalpers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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EXCEPT FOR THE RAMONES and Soles, there's little to recommend Rock and Roll High School. Most of the jokes are silly, like this one--a fellow in Indian dress walks along the ticket line for the Ramones gig: "A scalper," one fan tells another knowingly. The soundtrack is good--music by Eno and Nick Lowe side by side with Alice Cooper and Todd Rundgren. (If you want to hear live Ramones recordings, though, don't buy this soundtrack album; get a double-album import called It's Alive, four uninterrupted sides of lobotomized thumping...
...newcomers are entering a world that until recently has been a mystery to all but a tiny circle of insiders, one that has its own language (scalper, old crop, new crop, cash grain) and rules. Technically, anyone who buys a future agrees to take delivery of-and pay for -a certain amount of a commodity that can be sent to him anywhere from a day to a year and a half after purchase. That arrangement has given more than one investor nightmares about having 5,000 bushels of wheat or five tons of sugar dumped on his doorstep. In fact...
...Christ Superstar, already jingling along three days after its opening with one of the largest ($1.2 million) advance sales in Broadway history, will become the one show of the season that must be seen to be believed ?or doubted. Superstar tickets are $60 a pair from your friendly scalper...
...Saturday night I'd given up. Wherever I called, performances were sold out and scalper's rates left my date and me with enough for a preztel but not for subway tokens back to NYU. The Philharmonic with Leonard Bernstein was packed, the Knicks were in town and Madison Square Garden didn't answer. Theolonius Monk was weathering something in Canada. I'd had too many jackhammers that day for the Fillmore East to beckon, and even the movies-well, Zabriskie Point wouldn't open until Monday...