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Aggie1906
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Darling Granddaughters (first cousins) 17 & 18 were there. A big night, and trip for them! A fine time, I hear. Mother of one, aka, Darling Daughter, scored the tickets and accommodations and went along.
New fancy dresses, tricked out cowboy hats, and lots of fun. Who knew?
No complaints from me. Looked, first time, at some Utube from then just now. Fine production!
New fancy dresses, tricked out cowboy hats, and lots of fun. Who knew?
No complaints from me. Looked, first time, at some Utube from then just now. Fine production!
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I have nothing against Taylor Swift. She's making money hand over fist.
Certainly not my cuppa.
I guess she's like the Beatles were 60 years ago. Bunch of screaming teenage girls in the crowd.
Those ticket prices though
The price for her tickets start out at $49.00.
The ticket scalpers have computers set up to buy thousands of tickets before most fans have a chance. The scalpers are the ones blowing up her ticket prices.
Yeah, reminds me of the Seattle grunge music movement of the 1980's. Teenaged angst at it's finest. (Nirvana's "Smells like Teen Spirit" comes immediately to mind).
I was never into that, maybe because I had already moved on from that stage of life by the time it became the "in" thing?
Any reference to Taylor Swift immediately makes me think of Dwayne Johnson's line about "TayTay concerts and manii-pedies" in one of his movies (Hobbs & Shaw? Maybe? I can't recall...)
I would post my favorite Taylor Swift vs Stevie Nicks meme, but it would just be deleted and get me gigged.
I thought they were going to stop that from happening years ago.
Blued eyed blondes has been a nice habit since I was 5.
All the wealthy musicians, I've ever met, donate bucks and time to charities and youth programs in the arts.
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RobertJ.
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I paid sixteen bucks to see the Stones...
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It's really not possible now days since most tickets are sold online.
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I paid $10.00 to see this show. Somebody tore the fence down, so I never needed the ticket.
Taylor Swift: Perfect face, perfect body, perfect voice, doesn't wear many clothes. What's wrong with you guys?
On the other hand:
The Steve Miller Blues Band performed for me and three other guys. For free.
I sat next to Richie Havens along with a few other people as he performed on the campus mall. For free.
My date and I had front row seats to see Johnny Cash and the Statler Brothers. For free.
I attended a concert with The Grateful Dead, The Jefferson Airplane with Grace Slick, and Big Brother and the Holding Company with Janis Joplin. That one really cost me: $4. But for that price, you could dance while they performed.
Yep, I'm spoiled. No $2,000 tickets for me, even if Taylor is The World's Most Perfect Woman.
On the other hand:
The Steve Miller Blues Band performed for me and three other guys. For free.
I sat next to Richie Havens along with a few other people as he performed on the campus mall. For free.
My date and I had front row seats to see Johnny Cash and the Statler Brothers. For free.
I attended a concert with The Grateful Dead, The Jefferson Airplane with Grace Slick, and Big Brother and the Holding Company with Janis Joplin. That one really cost me: $4. But for that price, you could dance while they performed.
Yep, I'm spoiled. No $2,000 tickets for me, even if Taylor is The World's Most Perfect Woman.
2K is a like new 27-2 with any barrel
You want in the case with accessories.
And a bottle of bore cleaner.
You want in the case with accessories.
And a bottle of bore cleaner.
Remember when a concert and an LP cost about the same?
Most singers now have me remembering the commercial, but paraphrased:
Is it live or is it auto tune?
And concerts:
Is it live or is it lip synching of an auto tune?
I know if I suggested to Wendy we spend that on a concert she would be all for me spending the dough, but for a head shrink for myself.
Unless someone is wealthy enough to consider those amounts as pocket change I wonder if they have a screw loose or have been belting the bottle especially if they do it online. Or like one of my favorite lines from the TV Stan Against Evil: I don't know what you have been drinkin', but you've had too much. LOL
Is it live or is it auto tune?
And concerts:
Is it live or is it lip synching of an auto tune?
I know if I suggested to Wendy we spend that on a concert she would be all for me spending the dough, but for a head shrink for myself.
Unless someone is wealthy enough to consider those amounts as pocket change I wonder if they have a screw loose or have been belting the bottle especially if they do it online. Or like one of my favorite lines from the TV Stan Against Evil: I don't know what you have been drinkin', but you've had too much. LOL
And it was another singer - the sublime Ella Fitzgerald - who became the face of that Memorex ad in 1975
"Is it live or is it Memorex?
Who knows?
In our most recent test, we asked Ella Fitzgerald's old friend and long-time jazz arranger, Nelson Riddle, if he was listening to Ella live, or Ella as recorded on a Memorex cassette.
He couldn't tell."
I remember seeing her on the Johnny Carson show many many years ago. She was a young girl at the time. She worked on her parents Christmas tree farm picking prying mantis off of them before they were sold. She was an impressive youngster at the time. I remember talking with my wife that she was gonna be something,
I do not know any of her music but must say she is one good looking young women now! Pull up about any picture of her!
As to ticket prices, people are NUTS. Same as any other superstar or the football games.
She has a boatload of songs!
List of songs by Taylor Swift
She was an impressive youngster at the time. I remember talking with my wife that she was gonna be something,I do not know any of her music but must say she is one good looking young women now! Pull up about any picture of her!
As to ticket prices, people are NUTS. Same as any other superstar or the football games.
She has a boatload of songs!
List of songs by Taylor Swift
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THE PILGRIM
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There’s a full time Rv-er YouTube- er who tows an enclosed cargo trailer.
He calls it Trailer Swift.
He calls it Trailer Swift.
^^^ Whether one likes her music or not, she has tied into the youthful zeitgeist very successfully indeed. I was only into pop music for a short time until classical caught me, but I remember The Beatles , Simon & Garfunkel etc. very well. And I still like their music. Diff'rent strokes for diff'rent folksrule3 said:I remember seeing her on the Johnny Carson show many many years ago. She was a young girl at the time. She worked on her parents Christmas tree farm picking prying mantis off of them before they were sold.
@F4phantom, re "Alice's Restaurant". Today the refrain could refer to "Amazon's restaurant."
She is one of the richest celebs in America. I don't understand the attraction. I wouldn't walk across the room to see/hear her. My daughter and SIL Saw her Show in Philadelphia a while back. They liked it okay. Tastes in all things will vary.
Solid truth!
Musical taste is indefinable. There are some folks here that listen to music that I consider to be the aural equivalents of waterboarding but I don't besmirch anyone's choices of entertainment. Folks like what they like and don't have to explain why.
Puller
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Hmm, Johnny Carson retired from the Tonight Show in 1992.
Taylor Swift was born in December, 1989 and started singing at age 10, several years after Johnny retired. She performed for the first time in 2006 so the dates don't match up that she ever was on with Johnny Carson.
A Google search shows her first appearance on the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon was in 2017.
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