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Remembering the legendary film title designer Saul Bass, born on this day in 1920 ❣️With his mesmerizing graphic compositions, Bass transformed opening credits into an art form, collaborating with directors such as Otto Preminger, Hitchcock, Kubrick, and Scorsese.
NEW LONG FORM VIDEO: The rise and fall of Ticketmaster
So you find out your favorite artist is coming to town for a concert. You log in the moment tickets go on sale, only to discover that 40,000 people are somehow ahead of you in line. And by the time you finally get through hours later, the only seats left cost five to ten times the original ticket price.
Now you have a choice: skip the concert of a lifetime or put it on your credit card and deal with the debt later.
This has become a familiar experience for millions of people, and much of it traces back to one company: Ticketmaster.
But now, for the first time in decades, the company may actually be under serious threat. Taylor Swift, Metallica, Pearl Jam, the U.S. government, and state attorneys general have all become part of the fight against Ticketmaster’s dominance.
This is the wild rise and possible fall of Ticketmaster.
@KeithWhitemusic My band opened for Ratt in NOLA back in 2008 and I had the pleasure of hanging out with Warren and Carlos Cavazo. Warren told me a story about how they had to borrow an acoustic from Kevin Dubrow to record the intro to Back For More!