Tickets Are for Remembering
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Tickets Are for Remembering
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Re: Tickets Are for Remembering
#2Not to be confused with the more familiar type of tickets.
Those tickets are for forgetting.
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#3The lack of even an OPTION to get a proper, physical ticket makes TicketMaster's obscene rip-off even more outrageous.
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#4I have a small tin box that something or other came in as a gift. It stored concert tickets and other small memorabilia (like the movie ticket from a great first date) for every event I'd gone to for well over a decade.
Gradually, as physical tickets got phased out, I had fewer and fewer items of memorabilia to add. At this point, I have no physical record of shows we see. I feel like something has been lost. But I suspect far fewer people kept these tickets for nostalgia than threw them away, so I guess I'm not mad; I'm just disappointed.
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#5No, for those of us who care about the actual play rather than the hip ephemera, tickets are for getting in.
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#6They tell us what it was like to be there.
Personal memories can be made in innumerable ways. The absence of tickets doesn't mean memories, or physical representations of memories, are going away.
As for academic interest, I have to imagine there's a digital repository of playbills or the information therein somewhere that's easily searchable. After all, these types of resources exist for other performances like pro wrestling and mixed martial arts in the form of cagematch & sherdog. I may not have my ticket stub from my first match, but I can still look it up by venue, year and the matches I remember. I can find contemporary news reports and reviews. This can be supplemented with web forum discussions and other social media, blogs, etc. people crave this type of discussion, documentation and artifacts that prove their fandom. I don't think they care about the medium.
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#7No, for those of us who care about the actual play rather than the hip ephemera, tickets are for getting in.
I've been working on a system for my own bluegrass shows of free-to-enter, pay-for-a-ticket-if-you-want-to.
Not sure how it will go, but an interesting experiment I think.
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#8The lack of even an OPTION to get a proper, physical ticket makes TicketMaster's obscene rip-off even more outrageous.
Can you elaborate? I don't see how physical tickets factor into this. I mean, it seems like it's the same outrageousness either way to me.
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#9I have a small tin box that something or other came in as a gift. It stored concert tickets and other small memorabilia (like the movie ticket from a great first date) for every event I'd gone to for well over a decade. Gradually, as physical tickets got phased out, I had fewer and fewer items of memorabilia to add. At this point, I have no physical record of shows we see. I feel like something has been lost. But I s…
I've been doing this for over 20 years, but I confess that I've never gone back to look at the tickets. Maybe one day, out of nostalgia, I'll look at the dusty box full of old tickets and have good memories of shows, movies, good and bad. For now, what matters is the feeling that part of my life's memory is being preserved for something that I don't even know what exactly it is...
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#10No, for those of us who care about the actual play rather than the hip ephemera, tickets are for getting in.
I've been working on a system for my own bluegrass shows of free-to-enter, pay-for-a-ticket-if-you-want-to. Not sure how it will go, but an interesting experiment I think.
Why not offer posters at the merch booth (or something more ticket-sized, I guess)? I always look forward to show posters. It helps foster a sense of community too, when you work with printers and a cadre of artists.