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By adamg on Tue, 09/04/2012 - 10:28pm
Madonna's show at the Garden was supposed to start at 8 p.m. tonight. At 10:16, Gary Waldeck, seated close enough to touch the stage, tweeted she was still a no-show.
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In the early 70s
In the long forgotten early 70s, when the Orpheum was known (however briefly) as the Aquarius Theater, the Citi Wang was the Music Hall, and the TD Garden was the plain old (un-air conditioned) Boston Garden, it was the norm for concerts to start an hour and a half or more late. No self respecting concert started on time. It was just what was done in those days. That didn't make it any less annoying for an impatient young fan like myself, but since it was a given nobody got too annoyed about it. The item being passed around (yes, passed around in those generous times) mellowed everyone out anyway.
yup. This is why I refuse to
yup.
This is why I refuse to pay a dime more to see Madonna in concert. She's done this for the past few concerts, and people are pretty miffed about it. Considering that her tickets cost over 200 bucks (for seats that don't suck).
I refuse to go.. the last time I went in 2008, was 'reinvention'. I saw the tour before that, she was excellent. Great show. "Re-Invention" sucked. Waited over 2 hours and had to endure this fake DJ 'spinning' records (he was totally faking it and it was obvious). THEN she lip synced her songs.
I walked out by the 3rd song. i was pretty ticked off. I didnt pay 200+fees+parking+everything to have someone go on 2 hours late, have a fake DJ, and then LIP SYNC. no thanks.
You Deserve It...
I have no more sympathy for "you people (tm Anne Romney)" who shell out money for the overrated frauds who populate the mass-marketed recorded-material industry than Willard Romney had for the person in Louisiana whose home was flooded ("call 211") or for students with overwhelming debts from going to school ("borrow cash from your parents"). Some people who milled around Fenway Park listening to the "music" being performed inside during the Springsteen show had the right idea. The sound emanating from the stage is from amplifiers, mixers and loudspeakers anyway, so the main "added benefit" from being inside the venue is to view actual photons from the body of the "star". Get high on any substance that you can safely use and crank up an audio system you possess to eleven and get pretty close to the "live" experience, or failing that, read a book or something. (Right now I'm reading Elaine Pagels' new book on The Book of Revelation"; that John of Patmos was probably higher than anyone at the Madonna show for months on end. What grows there?)
Do you need a ladder?
That horse is pretty high. How ever will you get down from there?
Comparing a Madonna show with
Comparing a Madonna show with a Springsteen show is one of the most comical things I've ever heard. Springsteen plays for 3+ hours, improvs regularly, has never charged north of $120 for even the best seat in the house, and always rewards fans in every city with a couple of songs that will never be played anywhere in the world on that tour. Oh, and he usually on stage by 8:30 and still shells under tons of money each tour for breaking curfews (see the incident in London with McCartney). Madonna's shows, with all of their preproduction, allow for no such connection with the audience but instead a cookie cutter product and each stop along the way. Coming out 2.5 hours after the ticket time only adds to the absurdity of it all. Madonna's shows are an experience, to be sure, but they aren't a musical one. You'll never hear such universal panning after a Springsteen show because that is live MUSIC in its truest sense.
I hate to complain...but
I typically wouldn't complain but was pretty disappointed about last night. I have seen Madonna three times previously and always have been fine with my $100 balcony tickets. We were sitting almost behind the stage to the point where you could barely see... tickets should've been listed as "obstructed view" but my biggest complaint is that we could barely hear her singing! The acoustics were terrible! It was very distorted and could really almost hear her with an echo. Shame on Madonna and the Garden for selling these tickets. They may have been the cheapest seats but we deserved to at least have a speaker or two aimed in our direction.
This will be my last Madonna concert.