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Originally Posted by riverboatking
ya and that's totally cool.
but when you promote something to a fan base of thousands of people in that area in advance so they can all wait in line for hours and only let 45 ppl in thats a significantly diff then showing up announced at a club.
I go to ton of small shows at clubs on weekdays and have had people like chris rock show up unannounced to work on some new material.
that's not even remotely similar to what I'm talking about.
you're right, i didnt read what you wrote before as accurately as i thought. but i still see the value, from the comic's perspective, of doing a show and only having a small crowd. other than announcing it to all his fans, how else is he going to fill the seats? however they announce something ahead of time is going to reach thousands of people, i dont see it as a negative to only let in a small crowd. if its planned and marketed that way, of course. if its announced like "BIG SHOW COMING" and then you find out only the first 50 people who show up get in, thats terrible.
louie once did a show in brooklyn and only let people get tickets if they bought them ahead of time that day at the theater/bar. it was an added show, so he had a show earlier that night that sold out tickets online quickly. i got in to the later show (cause i happened to be home that day and i lived right around the corner from the venue) and he started off by saying that he did that on purpose because he wanted to do a show just for "you stupid brooklyn people who would show up at the door to get a ticket".