<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bruce-springsteen-fans-furious-as-concert-tickets-explode-under-greedy-pricing-scheme" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bruce Springsteen</a> announced on Wednesday that he was postponing the remaining 2023 tour dates amid an ongoing health issue.
In a post on <a href="https://x.com/springsteen/status/1707064991172476946?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">X</a> to his 1.3 million followers, the 74-year-old singer said per &#8220;doctor&#8217;s advice,&#8221; he was postponing all remaining shows until next year as he continues &#8220;to recover steadily from peptic ulcer disease&#8221; and continues treatment. He had previously postponed his August and September shows.
&#8220;All remaining 2023 tour dates for Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band will be postponed until 2024,&#8221; the message read. &#8220;Rescheduled dates for each of the 2023 shows, including those postponed earlier this month, will be announced next week, all taking place at their originally scheduled venues.&#8221;
&#8220;When the new 2024 dates are announced, those unable to attend on the new date who purchased their tickets through official ticketing companies have 30 days to request a refund,&#8221; it added. &#8220;All tickets for postponed performances will remain valid for the newly announced dates.&#8221;
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(1/5) Bruce Springsteen has continued to recover steadily from peptic ulcer disease over the past few weeks and will continue treatment through the rest of the year on doctor&#39;s advice. <a href="https://t.co/rMgZZsKcfo">pic.twitter.com/rMgZZsKcfo</a>
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&#8220;Thanks to all my friends and fans for your good wishes, encouragement, and support,&#8221; Springsteen said. &#8220;I&#8217;m on the mend and can&#8217;t wait to see you all next year.&#8221;
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Earlier this month, Springsteen <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bruce-springsteen-says-hes-heartbroken-to-postpone-all-september-shows-due-to-medical-concerns" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> he was postponing the remainder of his September concerts under the recommendation of his medical advisors to deal with his medical condition, which caused him to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bruce-springsteen-cancels-concert-hours-before-show" target="_blank" rel="noopener">postpone a show</a> at Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia in August just hours before it was supposed to begin.
&#8220;Over here on E Street, we&#8217;re heartbroken to have to postpone these shows,&#8221; the statement read. &#8220;First, apologies to our fabulous Philly fans who we missed a few weeks ago. We&#8217;ll be back to pick these shows up and then some.&#8221;
&#8220;Thank you for your understanding and support,&#8221; it added. &#8220;We&#8217;ve been having a blast at our US shows and we&#8217;re looking forward to more great times. We&#8217;ll be back soon. Love and God bless all, Bruce.&#8221;
Springsteen&#8217;s tour was set to conclude in December in San Francisco.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bruce-springsteen-says-hes-heartbroken-to-postpone-all-september-shows-due-to-medical-concerns" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bruce Springsteen Says He&#8217;s &#8216;Heartbroken&#8217; To Postpone All September Shows Due To Medical Concerns</a>

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/bruce-springsteen" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bruce Springsteen</a> announced Wednesday that he’s canceling the remainder of his September <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/music" target="_blank" rel="noopener">concerts</a> under the recommendation of medical professionals. 
The 73-year-old <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/entertainment" target="_blank" rel="noopener">singer</a> has been dealing with symptoms from peptic ulcer disease, which caused him to previously cancel a concert at Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia on August 16 just hours before it was supposed to begin.
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&#8220;Over here on E Street, we’re heartbroken to have to postpone these shows,&#8221; The Boss shared in a statement posted on social media. 
&#8220;First, apologies to our fabulous Philly fans who we missed a few weeks ago. We’ll be back to pick these shows up and then some. Thank you for your understanding and support. We’ve been having a blast at our US shows and we’re looking forward to more great times,” the update continued. “We’ll be back soon. Love and God bless all, Bruce.&#8221;
The statement said the cancellations were made due to the recommendation of Springsteen’s medical advisors. 
Springsteen has been touring since the beginning of February. The tour kicked off in Tampa, Florida, before heading to Europe for a while. The musician hasn’t taken much time off in between, but he postponed shows prior to the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bruce-springsteen-cancels-concert-hours-before-show" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Philadelphia cancellation</a> due to illness, which he didn’t elaborate on at the time.  
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The tour is currently scheduled to continue through the rest of the year on the West Coast, with his final concert scheduled for December 10 in San Francisco. There’s no update on whether those dates will also be postponed or changed.
Besides just having a grueling tour schedule, Springsteen has also been blamed for musicians being expected to play for hours. Former Beatles band member Paul McCartney said the musician started the trend that’s continued over the years.
“These days it’s pretty much the main act and there might be a warm up act,” McCartney <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/paul-mccartney-says-bruce-springsteen-is-to-blame-for-musicians-being-expected-to-play-for-hours" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> late night host Conan O’Brien during an interview for his “Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend” podcast in July. He said that never used to be the standard.
“Now, people do three, four hours. I blame Bruce Springsteen. I’ve told him so. I’ve said, ‘It’s your fault,’” the 81-year-old songwriter continued. “You can’t now do an hour. We used to do a half hour. That was like The Beatles’ thing. Half an hour, and we got paid for it.”

Bruce Springsteen Says He’s ‘Heartbroken’ To Postpone All September Shows Due To Medical Concerns

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bruce-springsteen-freed-of-drunk-driving-charges-slapped-with-500-fine" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bruce Springsteen</a> canceled his concert hours before he was set to take the stage at Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia on Wednesday due to an unknown illness.
The 73-year-old singer&#8217;s X account let his 1.3 million followers know that he had &#8220;taken ill&#8221; and would be postponing the August 16 show and another scheduled for Friday. Both were part of the &#8220;Springsteen &amp; E Street Band 2023 Tour.&#8221;
&#8220;Due to Bruce Springsteen having been taken ill, his concerts with The E Street Band at Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia on August 16 and 18 have been postponed,&#8221; Springsteen <a href="https://twitter.com/springsteen/status/1691872953414115424?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>.
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Due to Bruce Springsteen having been taken ill, his concerts with The E Street Band at Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia on August 16 and 18 have been postponed.
We are working on rescheduling the dates so please hold on to your tickets as they will be valid for the rescheduled…
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&#8220;We are working on rescheduling the dates so please hold on to your tickets as they will be valid for the rescheduled shows,&#8221; he added.
Looking on the &#8220;Born In the U.S.A.&#8221; hitmaker&#8217;s social media accounts, there is no other information as to what kind of illness the singer is dealing with or the dates for the rescheduled shows.
The post was made around 2 p.m. with things set to start at 7:30 p.m. Fans who made the trip to go to the concert reacted on social media to the short notice, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/bruce-springsteen-cancels-concert-hours-before-start-time-illness" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fox News</a> noted.
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&#8220;Flew all the way from Sweden to see this concert,&#8221; one wrote.
Another person added, &#8220;Sorry to hear about Bruce being ill, that sux!&#8221;
While another shared, &#8220;But when and how are refund details going to be available? I am in town from London (UK) and have 6 tix to Friday&#8217;s Bruce show, how do I get my $2K+ back?&#8221;
Springsteen&#8217;s next scheduled tour date is set for August 24, 2023 at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts, according to his <a href="https://brucespringsteen.net/tour/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">website</a>.
The tour kicked off in February in Florida, and in March the &#8220;Dancing In the Dark&#8221; singer postponed a handful of shows due to another illness, the outlet noted.
Shows in Albany, New York, Columbus, Ohio and Uncasville, Connecticut, were postponed with an announcement similar to Wednesday&#8217;s, with no information as to what kind of health issue forced the postponement.
His tour is set to conclude in December in San Francisco following several stops in Canada, Arizona, and throughout California.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ticketmaster-responds-to-fans-irate-about-5k-bruce-springsteen-tickets-insists-most-of-them-are-cheaper" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ticketmaster Responds To Fans Irate About $5K Bruce Springsteen Tickets, Insists Most Of Them Are Cheaper</a>

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Paul McCartney complained that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/music">performers</a> are expected to put on hours-long shows due to the influence of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/bruce-springsteen">Bruce Springsteen</a>.
The former Beatles band member explained that before “The Boss” came along, crowds were fine with major <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/music-industry">musical acts</a> appearing for much shorter periods. 
&#8220;These days it’s pretty much the main act and there might be a warm up act,&#8221; McCartney told late night host Conan O’Brien during an interview for his &#8220;Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend&#8221; <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/paul-mccartney-blames-bruce-springsteen-performers-long-shows-your-fault">podcast</a>. The British star said back when the Beatles were popular, bands never played for that long because one show featured so many other major acts.
&#8220;Now, people do three, four hours. I blame Bruce Springsteen. I’ve told him so. I’ve said, ‘It’s your fault,’&#8221; the 81-year-old songwriter continued. &#8220;You can’t now do an hour. We used to do a half hour. That was like the Beatles&#8217; thing. Half an hour, and we got paid for it.&#8221;
“He ruined it for everyone,” O’Brien agreed.
McCartney went on to say that back in those days, playing for 30 minutes was considered extensive. 
He said promoters would ask, &#8220;‘How long can you do? Four minutes? Can you do four minutes?&#8217; And the guy would say, ‘Yeah,’ so they would do four. So, we thought, ‘Half an hour, that’s like epic.’”
&#8220;But that was it,” McCartney told O’Brien. “Big Beatles show. We were on and off like that. It didn’t seem strange.&#8221; 
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Springsteen previously told O’Brien he accidentally set the precedent of playing for a long time and felt he had to keep it up.
The “Born in the USA” composer said he &#8220;screwed the whole thing up by playing too f***ing long&#8221; during a 2020 interview with O’Brien, saying he was now forced to keep it up because fans expect it. “Now I have to do it,” he said. 
McCartney also <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/paul-mccartney-blames-bruce-springsteen-performers-long-shows-your-fault">said</a> he considered quitting the music business after the Beatles broke up in 1970.
&#8220;The main question I had was whether to keep going after the Beatles because it was a hard act — some might say, an impossible act — to follow,&#8221; the musician said in his newsletter. &#8220;There’s a couple of times in life when you are forced into taking a risk. After the Beatles, this was my situation: ‘Do I keep going with music, or not?’&#8221; he said. &#8220;The risk paid off.&#8221;

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Sometimes the only appropriate response to the headlines about the Biden White House comes from the great Vince Lombardi: &#8220;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyRSV9eqTUY" target="_blank" rel="noopener">What the hell is going on out there?</a>&#8221;
Consider that President Joe Biden campaigned on the idea that he would bring &#8220;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/delaware-wilmington-elections-joe-biden-election-2020-6244e909e537dcd78f6b88dc08714c65" target="_blank" rel="noopener">dignity</a>&#8221; back to the Oval Office. Yet in the past few months alone, we&#8217;ve had reports of <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/01/us/politics/hunter-biden-daughter-arkansas.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">deadbeats</a>, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/secret-service-confirms-cocaine-found-in-white-house-west-wing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">dime bags</a>, and disrobed drag queens disgracing the People&#8217;s House.
For example, a new report from The New York Times revealed that White House staff and Biden&#8217;s team are effectively under strict orders to pretend that Joe has six grandchildren — not seven. Meanwhile, the president and first lady have never publically acknowledged that Navy, Hunter&#8217;s four-year-old daughter in Arkansas, exists.
In turn, Hunter has recently finished a lengthy legal battle to block his daughter from having the family name while he worked to lower child support payments. To top it all off, Hunter reportedly gifted Navy <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/con-artist-victim-of-hunter-bidens-latest-scam-is-his-own-daughter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">practically worthless paintings</a>.
Then, on Wednesday morning, the U.S. Secret Service confirmed that a bag of cocaine was found somewhere on White House property Sunday night.
We don&#8217;t know where exactly it was found or who left it, but it should be noted that Hunter was there on Friday. Thoughtful readers can draw their own conclusions as to how it snowed in July at Biden&#8217;s White House.
It&#8217;s probably a good bet that that baggie won&#8217;t be fingerprinted anytime soon. Much like the mystery of the January 6 pipe bomber, the feds will probably never be able to track down the culprit behind it, despite having all the evidence in the world.
Gee: I wonder why.
And then there was that man with the fake breasts who took his shirt off at the White House&#8217;s Pride celebration in June. &#8220;Rose&#8221; Montoya got his start as a drag queen before he &#8220;transitioned&#8221; into his new identity. He thought the White House South Lawn was the perfect place to show off the work he had done. Montoya lives with a certain &#8220;no regrets&#8221; kind of attitude that would make even Hunter blush.
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UPDATE: Trans TikToker Rose Montoya reacts to the backlash over his topless video at Biden&#39;s White House Pride event, saying that outrage over the video just affirms his &quot;female body&quot;. 
No you&#39;re not a woman, you&#39;re wearing a surgical costume, dude. <a href="https://t.co/rlsXLbJ6hX">https://t.co/rlsXLbJ6hX</a> <a href="https://t.co/A8ZUcYX8bR">pic.twitter.com/A8ZUcYX8bR</a>
&mdash; Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) <a href="https://twitter.com/charliekirk11/status/1668659066967838720?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 13, 2023</a></blockquote>
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The White House <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-admin-claims-it-is-outraged-at-transgender-activist-who-went-topless-at-white-house" target="_blank" rel="noopener">subsequently</a> condemned Montoya and barred him from future events.
Now, certain readers might remember that in the 2020 election, Bruce Springsteen penned a popular anti-Trump poem about the supposed lack of familial joy and normalcy in the 45th president&#8217;s White House.
&#8220;There’s no art in this White House. There’s no literature, no poetry, no music. There are no pets in this White House,&#8221; Springsteen <a href="https://consequence.net/2020/10/bruce-springsteen-anti-trump-poem/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said.</a> The poem continued, &#8220;There are no images of the first family enjoying themselves together in a moment of relaxation. No Obamas on the beach in Hawaii moments or Bushes fishing in Kennebunkport. No Reagans on horseback. No Kennedys playing touch football on the Cape. Where’d that country go?&#8221;
Whether you agree with that or not, the impression left by the poem was that Biden would return the White House to its proper merriment and honor.
Instead, Biden and his brigade ushered in an era of degeneracy — to the surprise of nobody with half of a brain.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/bruce-springsteen">Bruce Springsteen&#8217;s</a> manager is doubling down on ticket prices for the 72-year-old rocker&#8217;s latest tour, which have some seats costing as much as $5,000 apiece.
In this economy, such prices have left fans shocked that the musician who once championed the working man has allowed his ticket sales to &#8220;rip the bones from their backs.&#8221;
In what has become a controversial &#8220;dynamic pricing&#8221; method under Ticketmaster&#8217;s monopoly system, which determines ticket prices by the demand to discourage scalping — The Boss&#8217;s manager defended Team Springsteen, despite the number of &#8220;platinum&#8221; tickets hitting excessively high costs.
&#8220;In pricing tickets for this tour, we looked carefully at what our peers have been doing,&#8221; Jon Landau said in a statement, per <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/26/your-money/bruce-springsteen-tickets.html">The New York Times</a>. &#8220;We chose prices that are lower than some and on par with others.&#8221;
Ticketmaster broke down the sales to combat consumer misconception of the astronomical ticket prices representing only 11.2% of the total number of tickets sold. Prices for mid-floor tickets costing more than $1,000 were at only 1.3%, per their last statement earlier this week.
The rest of the breakdown calculated that 56% of tickets were sold for less than $200, and 27% ranged between $100-$150. Another 18% sold for under $99, and the remaining 11% of tickets went for roughly $150 to $200.
Springsteen&#8217;s manager said, &#8220;regardless of commentary about a modest number of tickets costing $1,000 or more,&#8221; the true average price for the concert stands at approximately $250 a stub.
&#8220;I believe that in today&#8217;s environment, that is a fair price to see someone universally regarded as among the very greatest artists of his generation,&#8221; Landau said.
Still, whether or not the American rockstar holds legendary status, the average fan might have to think twice before purchasing a ticket as the country enters a recession.
&#8220;I saw nothing under $299 and as I tried for those the seats suddenly shot up to $515 and higher,&#8221; one fan <a class="editor-rtfLink" href="https://twitter.com/suewahler/status/1551395682233339904" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>. &#8220;I had no idea what was going on. Whole rows, then sections shooting up in price, then gone. It took a minute to realize prices were changing like the National Debt ticker. $750 for 2.&#8221;
Another fan said in a <a class="editor-rtfLink" href="https://twitter.com/zanzibarstar/status/1551427832420524033" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tweet</a> that a single nosebleed seat cost her $125, which she asserts is usually the price for a floor seat.
Although The Boss has yet to address his fans, E-Street&#8217;s guitar and mandolin player Steve Van Zandt made sure he stayed out of the controversy when asked on Twitter if he&#8217;s seen the ticket costs.
&#8220;I have nothing whatsoever to do with the price of tickets,&#8221; Van Zandt <a class="editor-rtfLink" href="https://twitter.com/StevieVanZandt/status/1549800932476682241?s=20&amp;t=kXB-cpdK3uMsecTZwS_4JQ" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.
&#8220;Nothing. Nada. Niente. Bubkis. D***,&#8221; Van Zandt, who also played the infamous Silvio Dante in HBO&#8217;s hit series &#8220;The Sopranos,&#8221; added.
Tickets for Springsteen and his E-Street Band&#8217;s 2023 tour went on sale Wednesday. The group, who haven&#8217;t performed together in six years, begins touring early next year with shows scheduled in arenas and stadiums across Europe and North America.
Amanda Harding and Greg Wilson contributed to this report.

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Ticketmaster issued an official response after <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/entertainment">fans</a> flooded social media with criticism for higher-than-average ticket prices to see <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/bruce-springsteen">Bruce Springsteen</a> in concert.
The controversy has to do with “dynamic pricing,” a method of determining <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/rock-and-roll">ticket prices</a> by demand to discourage scalping. Per the company’s <a href="https://www.ticketmaster.com/platinum/buyerfaq.html">website</a>, this “enables market-based pricing (adjusting prices according to supply and demand) for live event tickets, similar to how airline tickets and hotel rooms are sold.” 
Fans began reacting strongly when “platinum” tickets with variable prices soared as high as $5,000 apiece on the first day of sales, per <a href="https://variety.com/2022/music/news/ticketmaster-bruce-springsteen-dynamic-pricing-defends-1235324318/">Variety</a>. But now Ticketmaster says those astronomical ticket prices only represent 11.2% of the total number of tickets sold so far.
“Prices and formats are consistent with industry standards for top performers,” the company said in a statement. They did confirm that 1.3% of the Springsteen tickets cost more than $1,000. In an unprecedented move, Ticketmaster gave an exact breakdown of ticket prices so far to combat misconceptions.
They claim 56% of tickets were sold for less than $200, and 18% were sold for under $99. Further, 27% went for between $100-150, and 11% sold for between $150-200.
Ticket sales for The Boss’ 2023 U.S. tour are being staggered over ten days, the publication noted. The company is releasing this financial information in hopes that fans will not be discouraged from purchasing tickets in the coming days.  
Springsteen hasn’t released a statement on the situation yet, but fans are especially irritated that a rock star known as the champion of the working man would have such expensive concert tickets. 
E-Street Band guitarist Steven Van Zandt did speak up, telling angry fans not to blame the musician for pricing that he doesn’t control.
“I have nothing whatsoever to do with the price of tickets,” Van Zandt <a href="https://twitter.com/StevieVanZandt/status/1549800932476682241?s=20&amp;t=kXB-cpdK3uMsecTZwS_4JQ">tweeted</a> in reply to a fan venting about high ticket prices. “Nothing. Nada. Niente. Bubkis.”
Ticketmaster’s statement seems to be doing little to soothe fans’ tempers. Many tweeted in response to the article, insisting these alleged cheaper tickets don’t exist. 
“I saw nothing under $299 and as I tried for those the seats suddenly shot up to $515 and higher,” one fan <a href="https://twitter.com/suewahler/status/1551395682233339904">wrote</a>. “I had no idea what was going on. Whole rows, then sections shooting up in price, then gone. It took a minute to realize prices were changing like the National Debt ticker. $750 for 2.” 
“I bought a single ticket. $125. But it’s in the nosebleeds. Literally the worst seat I’ve had for a Bruce show since the mid 80’s. Usually I’m on the floor, for about the same price,” someone else <a href="https://twitter.com/zanzibarstar/status/1551427832420524033">shared</a>.

Ticketmaster Responds To Fans Irate About $5K Bruce Springsteen Tickets, Insists Most Of Them Are Cheaper

Ticketmaster Responds To Fans Irate About $5K Bruce Springsteen Tickets

He’s supposed to be the bard of the working man, but tickets to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/bruce-springsteen">Bruce Springsteen</a>&#8216;s legendary shows are selling for as much as $5,000 apiece under a “dynamic pricing” system that has fans cursing &#8220;The Boss.”
Ticketmaster has used the same method to wring top dollars from fans of Drake, Paul McCartney, Harry Styles, and Taylor Swift, too. The idea is that prices rise and fall based on what they would fetch on the scalper market. So if a reseller can get $5,000 for a great seat on <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bruce-springsteen-freed-of-drunk-driving-charges-slapped-with-500-fine">Springsteen</a>’s upcoming tour, Ticketmaster will simply undercut the secondary market.
“Simple rule: if you&#8217;re the kind of person who is in a Bruce Springsteen song, you absolutely can&#8217;t afford to see him perform,” <a href="https://twitter.com/HeywoodFloyd10/status/1550305583663824896?s=20&amp;t=kXB-cpdK3uMsecTZwS_4JQ">tweeted user Heywood Floyd</a>.
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This is all going to blow up. <a href="https://twitter.com/Ticketmaster?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Ticketmaster</a> say this is to prevent scalping. IT IS OFFICIAL SCALPING.
&mdash; WMD (@rain_again) <a href="https://twitter.com/rain_again/status/1549776829023756295?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 20, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Tickets for Springsteen and his E-Street Band’s 2023 tour went on sale Wednesday, and Ticketmaster quickly labeled many floor and lower-level seats as “Official Platinum Seats.&#8221; That “enables market-based pricing (adjusting prices according to supply and demand) for live event tickets, similar to how airline tickets and hotel rooms are sold,” according to <a href="https://help.ticketmaster.com/s/article/What-are-Official-Platinum-Seats?language=en_US">Ticketmaster’s website</a>.
Prices for mid-floor tickets quickly climbed to as much as $5,000 apiece, with “cheap seats” bringing in as much as $1,000.
For fans of the New Jersey rocker, who built his brand on immortalizing the downtrodden and working class in classics like “Jungleland” and “Born to Run,” charging the price of a used pickup truck for a pair of tickets is sacrilege.
“Springsteen and Ticketmaster playing fans for fools,” <a href="https://twitter.com/RyanPanton/status/1550213478060724225?s=20&amp;t=kXB-cpdK3uMsecTZwS_4JQ">tweeted Ryan Panton</a>. &#8220;They see the outrage from &#8216;platinum tickets&#8217; and rebrand them all as &#8216;verified resale.&#8217; The joke continues.”
But E-Street Band guitarist Steven Van Zandt told fans not to blame &#8220;The Boss&#8221; for a pricing scheme that is out of his control.
“I have nothing whatsoever to do with the price of tickets,” <a href="https://twitter.com/StevieVanZandt/status/1549800932476682241?s=20&amp;t=kXB-cpdK3uMsecTZwS_4JQ">Van Zandt tweeted</a> at a fan who complained about the exorbitant prices. “Nothing. Nada. Niente. Bubkis.”
New Wave band Crowded House has forbidden promoters of its concerts from using the system, and Kid Rock, who keeps his ticket prices at $20, has also <a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/kid-rock-on-his-20-tour-and-dumbass-republicans-243987/">railed against Ticketmaster</a>.
Rockers Pearl Jam <a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/pearl-jam-taking-on-ticketmaster-67440/">took a stand</a> against Ticketmaster years ago, accusing the promoter of creating a monopoly by buying up competitors and then charging outrageous prices. But earlier this year, the band <a href="https://www.ticketnews.com/2022/03/pearl-jam-fans-furious-over-band-charging-scalper-ticket-prices/">employed dynamic pricing</a> for its current tour. It only works when the tickets are digital and non-transferable, but New York and Colorado have consumer protection laws that require consumer choice in ticket format.

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Bruce Springsteen Fans Furious As Concert Ticket Prices Explode Under Ticketmaster Policy

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Unwilling to follow his presidential predecessors into a languid stupor after leaving office, Barack Obama’s latest effort to reinject himself into the domain of public discourse comes packaged as the latest modern fad: podcasting. With the bulk of his former staffers having already convened on the digital medium to form Pod Save America – and his wife having launched “The Michelle Obama Podcast” last July – the former president has one-upped them all, recruiting the venerable Born to Run hitmaker, Bruce Springsteen to cohost his new show, titled, Renegades.
In a conversation that could comfortably be sourced from the moneyed foyer of Leonard Bernstein’s Upper East Side penthouse in the pages of Tom Wolfe’s Radical Chic, the former president and Bruce Springsteen, over the first two episodes of their show, honed in on a litany of topics, though the issue of race in America seemed to dominate their conversations. 
Opening the discussion, Obama immediately excoriated his presidential successor, lambasting Donald Trump on every issue from race relations to the Capitol Hill riots. “For 3 years I had to watch a presidential successor who was diametrically opposed to everything I believed in. And witnessed a country that seemed to be angrier and more divided with every coming day. In the middle of all of this, there were the nation-wide protests triggered by the murder of George Floyd. Yet another tragic reminder of just how powerfully racism continues to stain so many aspects of American life. And all that was before the world witnessed a violent mob spurred on by lies and conspiracy theories storm the US Capitol, where I once served.” 
Through their dialogue on racial tensions in America, Obama and Springsteen conceded that despite their differences, they have always perceived their respective selves as outsiders and outcasts in society. Obama remarked in his introduction, “On the surface, Bruce and I don’t have a lot in common. He’s a white guy from a small town in New Jersey. I’m a black guy of mixed race born in Hawaii, with a childhood that took me around the world.”
Springsteen, in turn, explained that his own yearning to become an entertainer and stage performer stemmed from years of feeling voiceless. “If you weren’t quiet you wouldn’t have so desperately searched for a way to speak. The reason you have so desperately pursued your work and your language, and your voice is because you haven’t had one. And you understand, you realize that, and you feel the pain of being somewhat voiceless. And so, the performance becomes the mechanism through which you express the entirety of your life, your philosophy and code for living. And that was how it came to me. And I felt previous to that, I was pretty invisible. And there was a lot of pain in that invisibility.”
As the conversation continued, the pair rarely strayed from dissecting in their echo chamber what Obama referred to as, “the central dilemma of America since its founding: the issue of race.” 
First fiddling with race relations through the lens of art and music, Obama asked Springsteen about the impact and influence of black music in post-WW2 America. Springsteen explained that, “to play south of Freehold, you had to know some soul music. Because it was called greaser territory. Grease is where the guys had ¾ length leathers, shark-skin suits, ties, hair slicked back, pointy black shoes, nylon see-through socks, all of it, taken from the black community. And that was the style, including the music that they loved… As a young musician, you are immersed in music and in the African American culture that inspired the music that you loved.” 
Obama added his observation on Western culture’s adoption of black music, saying, “there is this notion that black folks are the other. They are demeaned, they are discriminated against, they are looked down upon. And yet the culture is constantly appropriating and regurgitating and processing the style that arises from being an outsider and knowing the blues and having suffered these scars and having to make stuff up out of nothing. And rock and roll is part of that process.”
Springsteen, in agreement, took Obama’s remark a step further, “in America we have loved black people and brown people when they’re entertaining us. But when they want to live next door, we remain a tribal society. It’s part of our tragicness, that continues obviously to this day. I don’t think it’s ever been more essential a subject as it is at this very moment. And I think, why is it so hard to talk about race, why am I pausing here? To talk about race you have to talk about your differences, you have to talk about, to some degree, deconstructing the myth of the melting pot — which has never fundamentally been true. Admitting that a big part of our history has been plunderous and violent and rigged against people of color. We are ashamed; ashamed of our collective guilt. We would have to admit and to grieve for what’s been done. We would have to acknowledge our own daily complicity. And to acknowledge our group membership and that we are tied to the group history of racism.”
As the conversation continued into the second episode, Springsteen elaborated on the formation of his famed E Street Band, and the ineffaceable, booming saxophonist, Clarence Clemons, whose iconic solos adorn and elevate such unforgettable staples in Springsteen’s canon as “Jungleland” and “Rosalita.” “The integrated aspect of the E Street Band obviously was when I saw Clarence. Clarence was just great. He just had a sound that raised the roof, he was just one of the greatest sounding sax players I’d ever heard.”
Meandering back to present day, Springsteen and Obama shifted the discussion to the death of George Floyd and his confrontation with police last summer. “After George Floyd’s murder, I started reading James Baldwin,” Springsteen explained. Quoting a passage from Baldwin’s 1963 essay compilation, The “Fire Next Time,” the New Jersey rocker went on to endorse collectively paid reparations, saying, “Here we sit today, where it feels like a reckoning is being called for. Is the country ready to deconstruct its founding myths, its mythic stories, its mythic history? Or is it prepared to consider reparations? Do you think we are at that place right now?” 
Obama replied in consensus, adding that in his view, America’s centuries-long economic boon was largely fueled by the 89-year period of slavery between the country’s founding in 1776 and the adoption of the 13th Amendment in 1865. “If you ask me, theoretically, are reparations justified? The answer is yes. There’s not much question that the wealth of this country, the power of this country was built in significant part — not exclusively, maybe note even the majority of it — but a large portion of it was built on the backs of slaves.” Springsteen was quick to add, “they built the White House.” 
The former president continued, and towards the end of the show, effectively went on to blame the American public, specifically white American voters, for what Obama described as an inability to unanimously agree with his policy agenda. “This then brings us to, could you actually get that kind of justice? Could you get a country to agree and own that history? And my judgement was that as a practical matter, that was unattainable. We can’t even get this country to provide decent schooling for inner-city kids. What I saw during my presidency was that the politics of white resistance and resentment, the talk of welfare queens and the talk of the undeserving poor and the backlash against affirmative action, all that made the prospect of actually proposing any kind of coherent, meaningful reparations program, struck me as politically not only a nonstarter, but potentially counter-productive.”
Renegades is available to stream on <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/42xagXCUDsFO6a0lcHoTlv">Spotify</a>.
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Federal prosecutors in New Jersey dropped two drunk driving charges against music icon Bruce Springsteen on Wednesday.
Authorities arrested Springsteen in November and charged him with DWI, reckless driving, and consuming alcohol in a closed area. Prosecutors decided to drop the first two charges after tests showed Springsteen’s blood-alcohol level below legal limits at the time. The singer pleaded guilty to the third charge and paid a $500 fine, according to <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/prosecutors-drop-drunken-driving-charges-against-bruce-springsteen-11614185086">The Wall Street Journal</a>.
Springsteen was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bruce-springsteen-jeep-celebrity-spokesman-arrested-for-dwi">arrested</a> on Nov. 14 at Gateway National Recreation Area in Sandy Hook, New Jersey. His arrest was not reported on until February, however, days after he appeared in his first-ever Super Bowl commercial for the vehicle brand Jeep.
After the revelation, Jeep pulled the commercial saying, “It would be inappropriate for us to comment on the details of a matter we have only read about and we cannot substantiate. But it’s also right that we pause our Big Game commercial until the actual facts can be established. Its message of community and unity is as relevant as ever. As is the message that drinking and driving can never be condoned.”
The Jeep commercial, titled “The Middle,” sparked a wave of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bruce-springsteen-called-trump-threat-democracy-ripped-for-pushing-unity-super-bowl-ad">backlash</a> over Springsteen’s role in the message. The ad featured a series of clips of Springsteen, a Jeep, and open stretches of highway with a voiceover of the singer urging Americans to work past division and toward “the middle.”
“There’s a chapel in Kansas standing on the exact center of the lower 48. It never closes. All are more than welcome to come meet here in the middle,” Springsteen says in the ad. “It’s no secret, the middle has been a hard place to get to lately, between red and blue, between servant and citizen, between our freedom and our fear.”
“Now fear has never been the best of who we are. And as for freedom, it’s not the property of just the fortunate few. It belongs to us all, whoever you are, wherever you’re from. It’s what connects us, and we need that connection,” he continues. “We need the middle. We just have to remember the very soil we stand on is common ground. So we can get there. We can make it to the mountain top, through the desert, and we will cross this divide. Our light has always found its way through the darkness. And there’s hope on the rode up ahead.”
Springsteen has been outspoken in politics and a frequent critic of former President Donald Trump, once calling the chief executive a “threat to democracy.”
“I believe that our current president is a threat to our democracy,” the singer said last year. “He simply makes any kind of reform that much harder. I don’t know if our democracy could stand another four years of his custodianship. These are all existential threats to our democracy and our American way of life.”

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Former President Barack Obama and music icon Bruce Springsteen are making an eight-episode podcast series together.
Spotify announced the series, titled “Renegades: Born in the USA,” on Monday and released the first two episodes. Obama and Springsteen’s recorded conversations “will explore topics of race, fatherhood, marriage, and the future of America” over the course of the first season, according to <a href="https://newsroom.spotify.com/2021-02-22/president-barack-obama-and-bruce-springsteen-join-forces-in-the-new-podcast-renegades-born-in-the-usa/">Spotify</a>. The announcement did not say whether the show will be around for future seasons.
“How did we get here? How could we find our way back to a more unifying American story?” Obama says in the first episode. “That topic came to dominate so many of my conversations last year — with Michelle, with my daughters and with friends. And one of the friends just happened to be Mr. Bruce Springsteen. On the surface, Bruce and I don’t have a lot in common. But over the years, what we’ve found is that we’ve got a shared sensibility. About work, about family and about America.”
“In our own ways, Bruce and I have been on parallel journeys trying to understand this country that’s given us both so much,” he continues. “Trying to chronicle the stories of its people. Looking for a way to connect our own individual searches for meaning and truth and community with the larger story of America.”
The podcast is the second show to come out of the partnership between the Obamas&#8217; production company Higher Ground Productions and Spotify, which has exclusive rights to host the new podcast. Michelle Obama announced the launch of her podcast in September.
Obama and Springsteen’s podcast is comprised of conversations the two recorded at Springsteen’s New Jersey studio from July to December. A recent DWI charge against the singer did not impact Spotify’s plans to release the podcast, and no references to alcohol were redacted after news of Springsteen’s arrest went public earlier this month, according to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/22/arts/obama-springsteen-podcast-spotify.html">The New York Times</a>.
Springsteen was arrested in New Jersey on a DWI charge in November. As <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bruce-springsteen-jeep-celebrity-spokesman-arrested-for-dwi">The Daily Wire</a> reported:
<blockquote>Music icon Bruce Springsteen was arrested for DWI in New Jersey last year, reports revealed days after he appeared in a Super Bowl commercial for Jeep.
Authorities arrested Springsteen, who is due in court in several weeks, on Nov. 14 at Gateway National Recreation Area in Sandy Hook, New Jersey. He was cited for DWI, reckless driving, and consuming alcohol in a closed area, according to <a href="https://www.tmz.com/2021/02/10/bruce-springsteen-arrested-dwi-november-new-jersey/">TMZ</a>, which first reported the arrest. A spokesperson for the National Parks Service confirmed the arrest to <a href="https://nypost.com/2021/02/10/bruce-springsteen-arrested-for-dwi-in-new-jersey/">the New York Post</a>.</blockquote>
News of Springsteen’s DWI charge came after the singer appeared in his first ever <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bruce-springsteen-called-trump-threat-democracy-ripped-for-pushing-unity-super-bowl-ad">Super Bowl</a> advertisement. The Jeep ad featured clips of Springsteen and a Jeep with a voiceover by the singer calling for Americans to move toward “the middle” for unity. The ad stands in contrast to previous comments made by the singer, most notably about former President Donald Trump, who Springsteen referred to as a “threat to democracy.”
After news of the arrest went public, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jeep-pauses-springsteen-ad-following-dwi-arrest-report">Jeep</a> pulled its ad featuring Springsteen, saying, “It would be inappropriate for us to comment on the details of a matter we have only read about and we cannot substantiate. But it’s also right that we pause our Big Game commercial until the actual facts can be established. Its message of community and unity is as relevant as ever. As is the message that drinking and driving can never be condoned.”

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The unity-themed <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bruce-springsteen-called-trump-threat-democracy-ripped-for-pushing-unity-super-bowl-ad">Jeep commercial featuring Bruce Springsteen</a> appears to have been removed from YouTube, only days after it aired to the millions of Americans watching the Super Bowl.
The ad, titled &#8220;The Middle,&#8221; appeared on YouTube for several days, and was one of the most-watched commercials of the Super Bowl on YouTube, <a href="https://deadline.com/2021/02/michael-b-jordan-bruce-springsteen-timothee-chalamet-super-bowl-ads-most-watched-youtube-waynes-world-marvel-paramount-plus-1234689434/">according</a> to Deadline. It&#8217;s not clear when the video was taken down, but Jeep made the decision to &#8220;pause&#8221; the commercial after TMZ reported that Springsteen had been arrested — back in November — for a DWI in New Jersey.
A Jeep spokesperson told InsideHook in a statement Wednesday: “It would be inappropriate for us to comment on the details of a matter we have only read about and we cannot substantiate. But it’s also right that we pause our Big Game commercial until the actual facts can be established. Its message of community and unity is as relevant as ever. As is the message that drinking and driving can never be condoned.”
According to <a href="https://www.tmz.com/2021/02/10/bruce-springsteen-arrested-dwi-november-new-jersey/">TMZ</a>, Springsteen was arrested at Gateway National Recreation Area and will appear in court in the coming weeks. Officials cited him for a DWI, drinking alcohol in a closed area, and driving recklessly, law enforcement sources told the outlet. A spokesperson for the National Park Services told the <a href="https://nypost.com/2021/02/10/bruce-springsteen-arrested-for-dwi-in-new-jersey/">New York Post</a> that Springsteen was &#8220;cooperative&#8221; during the incident.
The two-minute Super Bowl commercial, Springsteen’s first, called on Americans to look past division and to focus on unity. Springsteen&#8217;s narration is featured throughout the commercial, and at various moments, the 71-year-old singer was shown in a jeep.
“There’s a chapel in Kansas standing on the exact center of the lower 48. It never closes. All are more than welcome to come meet here in the middle,” said Springsteen in the commercial. “It’s no secret, the middle has been a hard place to get to lately, between red and blue, between servant and citizen, between our freedom and our fear.”
“Now fear has never been the best of who we are. And as for freedom, it’s not the property of just the fortunate few. It belongs to us all, whoever you are, wherever you’re from. It’s what connects us, and we need that connection,” Springsteen added. “We need the middle. We just have to remember the very soil we stand on is common ground. So we can get there. We can make it to the mountain top, through the desert, and we will cross this divide. Our light has always found its way through the darkness. And there&#8217;s hope on the road ahead.&#8221;
According to <a href="https://variety.com/2021/tv/news/bruce-springsteen-super-bowl-commercials-jeep-1234902575/">Variety</a>, Springsteen only agreed to do the commercial at the start of 2021, and it was filmed in late January. The commercial still appears on his Twitter account:
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The Middle. <a href="https://t.co/dbsgWV35i0">pic.twitter.com/dbsgWV35i0</a>
— Bruce Springsteen (@springsteen) <a href="https://twitter.com/springsteen/status/1358606430383689728?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 8, 2021</a></blockquote>

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