What is entertainment and what is not? I suggest what is not entertainment is a rock star jumping up and down, wildly flapping his or her arms and shrieking loudly into a microphone. Neither is this “art.”
But people pay huge sums of money to suffer through rock concerts and have their hearing rudely impaired.
Scalpers drive ticket prices to astronomical heights, and now we learn fans pay for airline tickets to Europe where rock concerts are cheaper. Duh, what am I missing here?
Gee, Calpurnia, you want 15,000 sestertii to see a rock concert when the Colosseum is free?
Netflix, Amazon Prime, YouTube, SiriusXM, Spotify and many other venues offer all forms of music entertainment for little or nothing.
I am proud to announce that not once have I spent even a penny to see a live “entertainer.” And you could not pay me a thousand sestertii to attend an acid-rock concert.
However, I must regress. On one occasion I encountered a blind violin player on a downtown street corner. She played Mozart beautifully. I tipped her five bucks.
Music, etcetera
And the tuba player disappeared
Lessons from a jazz bar shooting
