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Tell me why neil young live12/17/2023 ![]() The Cure opted out of dynamic pricing, calling it “a greedy scam – and all artists have the choice not to participate … if no artists participated, it would cease to exist”.īruce Springsteen was criticised for using dynamic pricing last year. The Cure also criticised Ticketmaster over its “dynamic pricing” policy, introduced in the UK in 2022 and used by artists such as Harry Styles and Coldplay, which inflates the price of remaining tickets for in-demand concerts. ![]() ![]() Ticketmaster offered a $10 or $5 refund on tickets, depending on the original price. “The idea I had at the time was to present these new songs in their purest and simplest form, just as they had been written,” Young said, citing the bare bones recordings of Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie and “1960s folk music.” However, Young’s record label deemed the album as a simple collection of demos and ultimately shelved it.After questioning Ticketmaster over the fees, the band announced that the company “have agreed with us that many of the fees being charged are unduly high”. Young said that producer David Briggs and Young’s friend, actor Dean Stockwell, were the only people to witness the session. “I had no accompaniment but my guitar, harmonica and the studio piano as I sang the songs in the order you still hear them today. The album was called Hitchhiker,” Young says. With Hitchhiker finally due out September 8th – exactly 41 years and one month after Young recorded the album in one night in Malibu, California’s Indigo Studios – “Uncle Neil” detailed the LP’s hurried recording session and why it was never released. Neil Young shared the story behind his long-lost acoustic LP Hitchhiker during a Colorado public radio appearance that simultaneously streamed via Facebook Live.
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