{"id":993,"date":"2011-08-06T11:05:34","date_gmt":"2011-08-06T15:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/?p=993"},"modified":"2011-08-07T17:39:19","modified_gmt":"2011-08-07T21:39:19","slug":"how-much-is-music-worth-or-is-john-mellencamp-worth-125","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/2011\/08\/06\/how-much-is-music-worth-or-is-john-mellencamp-worth-125\/","title":{"rendered":"How much is music worth? (Or: Is John Mellencamp worth $125?)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"e26b170012445c56d240655bdd03f7bf\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: left; margin: 10px 10px 10px 0;\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"ca-pub-5595881567027133\";\r\n\/* Medium Rectangle *\/\r\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"8584504377\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 300;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 250;\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"269\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/2011\/03\/06\/savannah-stopover-preview-7-sanders-bohlke\/window-17\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/window6-e1299440530555.jpg?fit=67%2C77\" data-orig-size=\"67,77\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;4.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON D40&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1244646881&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;38&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;200&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.033333333333333&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"window\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/window6-e1299440530555.jpg?fit=67%2C77\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/window6-e1299440530555.jpg?fit=67%2C77\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-269\" title=\"window\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/window6-e1299440530555.jpg?resize=67%2C77\" alt=\"\" width=\"67\" height=\"77\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/>On Wednesday morning, when the presale tickets for John Mellencamp&#8217;s Nov. 11th show at the Johnny Mercer Theatre in Savannah went on sale, I hopped online at 10 a.m., got the presale password, jumped over to the Savannah Civic Center <a href=\"http:\/\/www.savannahcivic.com\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a>, and considered buying a couple of tickets.<\/p>\n<p>For a few minutes, I was holding a couple of second row seats, center orchestra. With the &#8220;convenience fee&#8221; and &#8220;delivery&#8221;, the cost was going to be about $135 per seat.<\/p>\n<p>So I started looking at the next pricing tier &#8212; the $89 seats. Those are pretty far back on the lower level.<\/p>\n<p>During the 2011 Savannah Music Festival, I consistently paid around $50 for amazing seats to hear some of the world&#8217;s greatest musicians, including several shows in the spectacular Lucas Theatre. I&#8217;ve already bought two front row Johnny Mercer seats for the State Ballet Theatre of Russia in January &#8212; $45 each.<\/p>\n<p>Did I really want to spend three times that much to hear John Mellencamp? Or twice as much to see him from a mediocre seat in a less-than-wonderful venue?<div id=\"attachment_994\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-994\" data-attachment-id=\"994\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/2011\/08\/06\/how-much-is-music-worth-or-is-john-mellencamp-worth-125\/nothin_matters_and_what_if_it_did\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Nothin_Matters_and_What_If_It_Did.jpg?fit=150%2C150\" data-orig-size=\"150,150\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Nothin_Matters_and_What_If_It_Did\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Remember this?&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Nothin_Matters_and_What_If_It_Did.jpg?fit=150%2C150\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Nothin_Matters_and_What_If_It_Did.jpg?fit=150%2C150\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Nothin_Matters_and_What_If_It_Did.jpg?resize=150%2C150\" alt=\"\" title=\"Nothin_Matters_and_What_If_It_Did\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-full wp-image-994\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-994\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Remember this?<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p>As it turned out, the answer was no. I let the seats go. I could probably finagle a press seat, but I honestly like to support worthy performers &#8212; I can afford it. But John Mellencamp is going to have to live without my dollars this time around.<\/p>\n<p>And I guess I&#8217;m not alone. Tickets went on sale to the general public yesterday, and there are still seats available at all the pricing tiers. <\/p>\n<p>Now, the show will probably still sell out. But I hope the lack of an enthusiastic rush will make promoters and Mellencamp rethink their prices. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s obviously ironic that a performer who has so long portrayed himself as a friend of middle America would price his good seats so far beyond the reach of many working people.<\/p>\n<div class=\"e26b170012445c56d240655bdd03f7bf\" data-index=\"4\" style=\"float: none; margin:4px 0 4px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"ca-pub-5595881567027133\";\r\n\/* Another large rectangle *\/\r\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"0042810896\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 336;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 280;\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n<!--CusAds0-->\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday morning, when the presale tickets for John Mellencamp&#8217;s Nov. 11th show at the Johnny Mercer Theatre in Savannah went on sale, I hopped online at 10 a.m., got the presale password, jumped over to the Savannah Civic Center&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/2011\/08\/06\/how-much-is-music-worth-or-is-john-mellencamp-worth-125\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":994,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-livingsavannah"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Nothin_Matters_and_What_If_It_Did.jpg?fit=150%2C150","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1gN9R-g1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}