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Originally Posted by Nikolaj
Totally agree with your sentiments that Mr. Azoff is a force and did brilliantly by the Eagles with their cd and would only hope for him to do the same with Fleetwood Mac.
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You're not posing an unanswered question. Azoff's self-dealing game has been clear since I started reading about him in the nineties, when he sold Eagles tickets for a (then) unheard of $200 a pop.
I don't think anyone here or in the media has praised Irving Azoff, Ticketmaster or Live Nation for being ethical. I never said that he did "brilliantly" by the Eagles or anyone else. I think the corruption aspect of his manipulations has been addressed nicely and much more extensively elsewhere, most recently in that WSJ article I just linked. And everyone has been talking about the ticket price travesty since the minute this tour was announced. So, I didn't see a need to comment on that. I think that's been answered many times over.
That's why my comment was not directed at concerts at all, but only to wonder whether moolah would entice FM back into the recording studio, even if the need to express themselves creatively would not.
Michele