{"id":1000086,"date":"2006-07-12T06:47:05","date_gmt":"2006-07-12T11:47:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/new-york\/2006\/07\/12\/why-i-never-go-to-concerts\/"},"modified":"2006-07-12T06:47:49","modified_gmt":"2006-07-12T11:47:49","slug":"why-i-never-go-to-concerts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/pop-culture\/music\/2006\/07\/12\/why-i-never-go-to-concerts\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I Never Go to Concerts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>God damn it. Roger Waters is coming to Madison Square Garden, will play Dark Side of the Moon, I actually noticed far enough in advance to get tickets, and I&#8217;m going to be out of town at SD Best Practices those two nights. :-(<\/p>\n<p>Usually I don&#8217;t even notice a band I&#8217;d like to see is touring until they&#8217;ve come and gone, or at least until tickets are sold out. I think the last rock concert I saw was X in San Jose in 2001. Before that maybe Joan Jett at Central Park Summer Stage or Meatloaf at Radio City Music Hall a few years earlier. That concert was weird: a lot of thirty and forty-somethings with their preteens in tow. One of the backup singers was Meatloaf&#8217;s ~20 year old daughter. Could it really be 40 years ago that Roger Daltrey first sang &#8220;I hope I die before I get old&#8221;? Even 90&#8217;s icon Liz Phair is now singing about dating men too young to know who she is. <\/p>\n<p>Surely somewhere there&#8217;s a service that will let me enter a list of my favorite bands and e-mail me when tickets are about to go on sale? Ideally one that doesn&#8217;t spam me with a lot of needless HTML e-mail, advertising, and other junk. Any suggestions?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>God damn it. Roger Waters is coming to Madison Square Garden, will play Dark Side of the Moon, I actually noticed far enough in advance to get tickets, and I&#8217;m going to be out of town at SD Best Practices those two nights. :-( Usually I don&#8217;t even notice a band I&#8217;d like to see [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[410],"class_list":["post-1000086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-flash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1000086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000086\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1000086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1000086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1000086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}