Episode 131 - Metallica and Ticket Scalping

METAL UP YOUR PODCAST - All Things Metallica

Clint Wells

Clint Wells, Ethan Luck, Heavy Metal, Arts, Nashville, Metal Up Your Podcast, Metal, Music, Society & Culture, Thrash Metal, Metallica

4.9 • 775 Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2019

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Summary

News broke via Billboard.com over the weekend that representatives for Metallica and Live Nation worked together prior to the 2017 North American Stadium tour to dump nearly 90,000 tickets into the secondary market, effectively acting as their own scalpers to capitalize on true market ticket value. What does this mean? Were the members of Metallica involved? Is this a common practice? Exactly what is the relationship between an artist's camp (band members, management, agent) and a promoter? Is this legal? What are the future ramifications? All of these questions are addressed plus a detailed breakdown and our personal opinions on the issue. We also read fan mail, listen to "Creeping Death" from Moscow, talk through our black metal jingles and debut our two Alice In Chains covers (Nutshell/Down In A Hole) from the forthcoming EP, Cover Our World Blackened, Volume III which drops exclusively for patrons August 1. Enjoy! If you think Metal Up Your Podcast has value and are able to, we encourage you to support us on Patreon. A donation of $5 a month will automatically get you both Cover Our World Blackened EP’s, Lunar Satan tracks, eligibility for a future Metal Tales episode and future giveaways like the Deluxe Boxsets, rare vinyl, posters and more! Get involved here: http://www.patreon.com/metalupyourpodcast An easy and free way to support the show is to leave us a positive iTunes review. It only takes a minute and you can do it here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/metal-up-your-podcast-all-things-metallica/id1187775077?mt=2 You can purchase Cover Our World Blackened, Vol. 1 here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/cover-our-world-blackened-vol-1/1442721389 Official Website: http://www.metalupyourpodcast.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/metalupyourpodcast/?hl=en Twitter: https://twitter.com/metalupyourcast?lang=en Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/metalupyourpodcast/ SEND QUESTIONS AND COMMENTS TO: [email protected]

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0:00.0	Metallica, here they come, the kings of metal!
0:23.4	So fucking what?
0:24.1	Hey, what's up? It's Dan Canter, and you're listening to Metalup Your Podcast, I'm Ethan Luck.
0:57.5	And I'm Clint Wells.
0:58.2	This is episode 131. And we're going to dive into some very, very current news.
1:02.6	We're talking about the old ticket scalping scandal that's kind of reared its ugly head this weekend.
1:07.8	Right. And is it a scandal? Is it not a scandal? We don't know.
1:10.0	We're going to get into all that.
1:11.0	When this broke a few days ago, we got, in pretty much every avenue that people
1:14.8	contact us, we got requests to talk about this.
1:17.8	Right.
1:18.2	Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, even like DMs on Instagram.
1:22.3	We got emails about this.
1:24.4	A lot of people are upset to sort of catch everybody up. It recently came out
1:29.7	through Billboard that a representative for Metallica negotiated with Live Nation to take
1:36.9	4,000 tickets, give or take. Well, actually, it's an exact number. Forty-four-hundred. Forty-four-hundred
1:42.5	tickets per show on the stadium tour that we saw.
1:45.7	Yeah.
1:46.3	And directly put them in the resale market.
1:48.9	Right.
1:49.3	Like, typical places like Stubhub and whatever.
1:51.2	Right.
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