If you’ve read any number of past posts on this blog, you’ll know that I’m a fan of Jack White and all of his various musical projects. Now the Third Man has a third band – The Dead Weather. This brand new rock outfit consists of White playing DRUMS, Alison Mosshart of The Kills handling lead vocals, Dean Fertita of Queens of the Stone Age on guitar, and Jack Lawrence of The Raconteurs and The Greenhornes on bass. The band was debuted to the world last month during a private showcase that also served as the grand opening for White’s brand new Third Man Records offices in Nashville.
As you can probably imagine, this is a radical departure from both of Jack White’s other bands. Although he’ll undoubtedly be the main draw and driving force behind the band (as the producer, owner of their record label, etc.), it will be interesting to see how his relative absence from the spotlight will influence the band’s direction. Their first full-length, Horehound, is scheduled for a June release, and two tracks are available to stream on the band’s site and to download from iTunes.
Last night I learned that The Dead Weather would play their first show EVER for the general public next Tuesday night at the Bowery Ballroom here in New York, so naturally I had to get tickets the moment they went on sale at 10am today. But apparently logging in at 9:45am and refreshing the site every 30 seconds until the tickets went available at 10:00 was not a good enough strategy, because as soon as I got into the site, tickets were gone. Thanks a lot. And this isn’t the first time I’ve been screwed over by Ticketmaster either.
I don’t know what’s worse: Ticketmaster being a horrible place to buy tickets, or the people who get tickets and then put them up on Craigslist immediately for $200. It’s one thing to buy a ticket, realize you can’t go, then put it up for sale. I can even understand trying to make a little profit if this is the case. But to buy a $25 ticket and then immediately post it for $200 is truly a crime worthy of public flogging. It’s clear you have no interest in going to the show and are trying to ruin the lives of people who actually care about the music. To all of you people who are posting tickets to this show on legalized scalping outlets, I wish you the best of luck – tickets are will call only, so no shady exchanges on crowded street corners can possibly take place.
And if anyone out there from Ticketmaster is listening…EVERYONE HATES YOU. We always have.
Tags: Alison Mosshart, Bowery Ballroom, Craigslist, Dean Fertita, Jack Lawrence, Jack White, Queens of the Stone Age, The Dead Weather, The Greenhornes, The Kills, The Raconteurs, Third Man Records, Ticketmaster
