Subject: Re: Hollywood upset with AI female action star
remember seeing some of the world's most famous rock stars during the late 1960's and early 70's at NYC's small venue Filmore East at aa price a college pauper could afford (10 or 12 bucks, I think).

The internet inflation calculator tells me that 12 bucks in 1970 is equivalent to $100 today.

I would also note that today’s “big” shows are a far cry from what was offered in 1970, which was generally a group of 3 or 5 musicians standing on a stage playing songs, all of whose equipment could comfortably fit in a Ryder truck. Nowadays you can’t even get in the game unless you have multimedia television screens behind you, fireworks at the appropriate moments, and it takes a dozen fully loaded semis with scenery and set designs to go from city to city.

(Not to mention that several middlemen have inserted themselves into the ticket buying process; when I wanted a ticket I went to the box office and bought a piece of paper from the lady behind the cashier window. Nowadays it’s an app, controlled by some third party entity (for a fee) with laser scanners and bar codes at the door, and a resale market controlled by some *other* third party (for a fee) because computer bots have already filched all the available seats before the lady behind the window even opens for business.)

Yeah, it’s a different world. On the other hand, I didn’t have to stand behind 1,000 people holding up their phones and blocking the view for everyone behind them, so there’s that.