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Sales method results in lame
crowd
I had never really given the idea of the
concert ticket time much thought until I went to see the Smashing Pumpkins
perform at Elliott Hall of Music.
Although this was the only rock concert
that I have seen while at Purdue, it was extremely clear to me and to
others present that the fatal flaw with the concert ticket time idea is
that it presents a huge deficit in crowd energy.
Normally, the biggest fans will camp out
all night in order to get the best seats, but the concert ticket time
eliminates this — often scattering a band's biggest fans throughout
the audience instead of where they should be, which is right in front
of the stage raising hell.
I was personally embarrassed by the apathetic
and aloof crowd that the Pumpkins had to perform to. I was able to see
them at Market Square Arena in '96, and the entire stadium was shaking.
Seats for that concert were on a first-come, first-serve basis where the
people that showed up three hours early got to sit where they belonged.
Those people created the energy at the front, which soon spread throughout
the crowd.
Perhaps it's time that the Student Concert
Committee re-evaluates how it goes about distributing tickets.
Brian Rowe
senior, School of Electrical Engineering
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