Sean Daly of the Tampa Bay Times appears to have an issue with the rock bands Marilyn Manson and the Smashing Pumpkins, who will be touring together this summer in what is being called "The End Times" tour, which he seems unafraid to admit in his latest article, entitled, "Former scary rocker Marilyn Manson now on ... Groupon?"
While the article can be read in its entirety at the link in parentheses (http://www.tampabay.com/news/business/retail/former-scary-rocker-marilyn-manson-now-ongroupon/2225295), I thought I'd share it anyway:
"Remember when taboo-tweaking rocker Marilyn 'The Dope Show' Manson was considered the most dangerous man in America, a sign of the apocalypse, a satanic Pied Piper who would lead our children to the fiery pits of damnation?
Yeah, Manson's on Groupon now.
So is Billy 'Rat in a Cage' Corgan and whoever's in the current iteration of Smashing Pumpkins.
The '90s-dominant musicians are coming to MidFlorida Credit Union Amphitheatre on July 23.
Apparently, there's less than rabid excitement for the show.
In many respects, Groupon, an online app that even your mother loves, is asking for less than half of the original ticket price at tbtim.es/gm8. You can now get a pretty sweet view of Corgan's glorious bald head for about $30.
Listen, I'm not making fun. In fact, I'm listening to Manson's The Beautiful People as I write this. That's a good thumping metal track. And Corgan's songbook is even richer: Today, Disarm, 1979.
But this is also a poignant reminder that the party always ends, for all of us.
Gather ye groupies while ye may.
We all wind up on Groupon some day."
Granted, Daly may have been trying to be funny, but if that was his true intention, as the saying goes, he may not want to give up his day job. If his day job is making people laugh, then how he got this day job is beyond me.
Tickets for this tour went on sale not very long ago and this Tampa Bay concert is over three months away, so how a Groupon listing indicates that "there's less than rabid excitement for the show" and that it's a "poignant reminder ... the party always ends, for all of us" doesn't make a great deal of sense to me. This isn't even mentioning the fact that Groupon struck a deal with Live Nation in 2011 to help sell out concerts. Yes, even contemporary big-name act Arcade Fire has been listed on Groupon as part of this deal, not to mention Bruce Springsteen and others.
Greg Rudin, vice president and general manager of GrouponLive, said the following about the deal:
"The Groupon audience is significantly broad ... we've reached them in a really simple way, giving them the easy opportunity to say yes and buy a ticket on the spot ... And I think that if we weren't frankly reaching the casual fan that was not necessarily going to buy a ticket anyway, that we wouldn't have a strong relationship with our partners."
He added this:
"We've increasingly seen that we don't have to discount as much as we might have originially thought we did, and we have a big initiative internally without our group ... to discount less. The people that buy are not necessarily significantly price sensitive, they just don't know about it."
Lastly, he said:
"Whereas with other sites you may just get a ticket, you may just get a discount, but what we want to provide you with (is) a ticket and an experience or a value item. Everyone wants something that's a little more personalized these days."
Also, while neither Marilyn Manson nor the Smashing Pumpkins are as popular as they once were, they're still well known and well respected commodities in the world of rock. The Smashing Pumpkins are set to release their tenth studio album this year (Day for Night), have 42 singles under their belt, and have sold over 20 million records in the United States alone. Their most recent album, 2014's Monuments to an Elegy, received a very solid 70/100 score at Metacritic (based on 31 reviews).
Artist Direct gave the album a perfect 5 out of 5 stars, saying, "You'll hit replay on Monuments to an Elegy the moment it finishes. This belongs in the pantheon alongside Corgan's greatest work and history's best alternative rock albums. Smashing Pumpkins evolve once more, and the results couldn't be more magical."
Marilyn Manson, meanwhile, has also officially released nine studio albums, has 24 singles, and sold over 50 million records worldwide. The band's most recent album, The Pale Emperor, which was released earlier this year, earned a very solid 71/100 score at Metacritic (based on 19 reviews).
Dean Brown of The Quietus said this about Manson's latest album:
"[The Pale Emperor is] the best album Manson has put his name to in fifteen years ... [It includes] memorable, mature songs full of devilishly addictive hooks without trying to relieve the past, [the album] breathes new life into Manson's career."
So while Sean Daly may have been attempting to both prompt laughter and dismiss these two bands as things of the distant past, he failed with the former, is wrong about the latter, and I hope the show sells out so I can read his concert review, entitled, "Following the sold out Marilyn Manson-Smashing Pumpkins spectacle, I may be the lead star in The Dope Show."
http://www.groupon.com/deals/gl-smashing-pumpkins-and-marilyn-manson-6
http://concerts.livenation.com/event/0D004E78C0C5A068
http://www.billboard.com/articles/business/6243889/groupon-livingsocial-concert-tickets
While the article can be read in its entirety at the link in parentheses (http://www.tampabay.com/news/business/retail/former-scary-rocker-marilyn-manson-now-ongroupon/2225295), I thought I'd share it anyway:
"Remember when taboo-tweaking rocker Marilyn 'The Dope Show' Manson was considered the most dangerous man in America, a sign of the apocalypse, a satanic Pied Piper who would lead our children to the fiery pits of damnation?
Yeah, Manson's on Groupon now.
So is Billy 'Rat in a Cage' Corgan and whoever's in the current iteration of Smashing Pumpkins.
The '90s-dominant musicians are coming to MidFlorida Credit Union Amphitheatre on July 23.
Apparently, there's less than rabid excitement for the show.
In many respects, Groupon, an online app that even your mother loves, is asking for less than half of the original ticket price at tbtim.es/gm8. You can now get a pretty sweet view of Corgan's glorious bald head for about $30.
Listen, I'm not making fun. In fact, I'm listening to Manson's The Beautiful People as I write this. That's a good thumping metal track. And Corgan's songbook is even richer: Today, Disarm, 1979.
But this is also a poignant reminder that the party always ends, for all of us.
Gather ye groupies while ye may.
We all wind up on Groupon some day."
Granted, Daly may have been trying to be funny, but if that was his true intention, as the saying goes, he may not want to give up his day job. If his day job is making people laugh, then how he got this day job is beyond me.
Tickets for this tour went on sale not very long ago and this Tampa Bay concert is over three months away, so how a Groupon listing indicates that "there's less than rabid excitement for the show" and that it's a "poignant reminder ... the party always ends, for all of us" doesn't make a great deal of sense to me. This isn't even mentioning the fact that Groupon struck a deal with Live Nation in 2011 to help sell out concerts. Yes, even contemporary big-name act Arcade Fire has been listed on Groupon as part of this deal, not to mention Bruce Springsteen and others.
Greg Rudin, vice president and general manager of GrouponLive, said the following about the deal:
"The Groupon audience is significantly broad ... we've reached them in a really simple way, giving them the easy opportunity to say yes and buy a ticket on the spot ... And I think that if we weren't frankly reaching the casual fan that was not necessarily going to buy a ticket anyway, that we wouldn't have a strong relationship with our partners."
He added this:
"We've increasingly seen that we don't have to discount as much as we might have originially thought we did, and we have a big initiative internally without our group ... to discount less. The people that buy are not necessarily significantly price sensitive, they just don't know about it."
Lastly, he said:
"Whereas with other sites you may just get a ticket, you may just get a discount, but what we want to provide you with (is) a ticket and an experience or a value item. Everyone wants something that's a little more personalized these days."
Also, while neither Marilyn Manson nor the Smashing Pumpkins are as popular as they once were, they're still well known and well respected commodities in the world of rock. The Smashing Pumpkins are set to release their tenth studio album this year (Day for Night), have 42 singles under their belt, and have sold over 20 million records in the United States alone. Their most recent album, 2014's Monuments to an Elegy, received a very solid 70/100 score at Metacritic (based on 31 reviews).
Artist Direct gave the album a perfect 5 out of 5 stars, saying, "You'll hit replay on Monuments to an Elegy the moment it finishes. This belongs in the pantheon alongside Corgan's greatest work and history's best alternative rock albums. Smashing Pumpkins evolve once more, and the results couldn't be more magical."
Marilyn Manson, meanwhile, has also officially released nine studio albums, has 24 singles, and sold over 50 million records worldwide. The band's most recent album, The Pale Emperor, which was released earlier this year, earned a very solid 71/100 score at Metacritic (based on 19 reviews).
Dean Brown of The Quietus said this about Manson's latest album:
"[The Pale Emperor is] the best album Manson has put his name to in fifteen years ... [It includes] memorable, mature songs full of devilishly addictive hooks without trying to relieve the past, [the album] breathes new life into Manson's career."
So while Sean Daly may have been attempting to both prompt laughter and dismiss these two bands as things of the distant past, he failed with the former, is wrong about the latter, and I hope the show sells out so I can read his concert review, entitled, "Following the sold out Marilyn Manson-Smashing Pumpkins spectacle, I may be the lead star in The Dope Show."
http://www.groupon.com/deals/gl-smashing-pumpkins-and-marilyn-manson-6
http://concerts.livenation.com/event/0D004E78C0C5A068
http://www.billboard.com/articles/business/6243889/groupon-livingsocial-concert-tickets
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