On Sep 29,  3:18pm, RANDY NORRIS wrote:
> Subject: weeknight concerts
>
> i understand that there are college students out there on flexible schedules,
> but i'm being selfish and feeling really discriminated against that there
> are so many great concerts on weeknights, and so many bands i've never heard
> of on weekends.  those of us in the working world can't drive an
> hour-and-a-half to see a band that starts at 10:00, get home at 2:00 in the
> morning, and then get up at 5:30 to go work the next day.  just because
> we're over the age of 22 and can't skip class the following day doesn't mean
> that we no longer like cool music and clubs!!!!!!!!!!  so i miss out on a
> lot of awesome shows simply because i can't stay out 'til the early morning
> hours like i did in college.  ok, enough griping, i really don't have it out
> for you college students ... i guess i'm just jealous!
 
HEAR HEAR!!  I couldn't agree more, regardless of whether you have to
drive an hour and a half or not.  There are plenty of good shows right
here in town that are out of the question for me, just because they're
on a weeknight.  What is up with that?
 
For that matter, why DO the shows have to start so late?  Am I supposed to
believe that people can't get their act together in time to get to an
8:00 p.m. show?  Compound this tendency with the practice of scheduling
the shows on Tuesday night and...well, I'm dumbfounded.  Are there really
enough jobless party animals out there to make 11:00 shows on weeknights
economically feasible?  I've missed at LEAST two Peter Case concerts
because the man was playing Poor David's Pub at some ungodly hour on a
night in the middle of the week.
 
I guess I'm just (in the immortal words of Warren Oates) gettin' too
old for this s**t.
 
 
--Steve