How do you arrive VIP or backstage passes at concerts? I'm not a crazy, but I would love to suffer Foo Fighters next prison term they play here.
�Jenna, Melville, N.Y.
I'd like to take this opportunity to dedicate this tower to Kevin, That Other Jonas, world Health Organization gets such little dear from the kids. Everyone is always going on about Foo Fighters or Rihanna or the deuce hot Jonas Brothers. Doesn't anyone want to hang out backstage with What's-His-Name Jonas? Kevin? No?
Anyway, no matter. From what I learned today from Industry insiders, you stand very little chance of a backstage confluence with whatsoever of the above. Sorry. Actually, no I'm not. But I am pretty certain in my convictions. Find out exactly what's wrong with you after the jump.
Most of those people milling about backstage at a concert either work for the band or have jobs in the same industry as the ring or have some job with the talent, according to a music-industry insider who has worked with Bj�rk and other acts.
"You need to either be hot and put out, or work in the music business" to mill about backstage, says my informant, world Health Organization fits into the latter category and has, for the record, hung stunned with Foo Fighters earlier one of the band's shows. Dave Grohl is apparently lovely, but we'll get to that later.
In the green River room, before a concert, "almost every last one and only of those works either for the label, management, the venue, the promoter or, in some cases, the sponsor," my source says. "Or they just 'know people' and have enough pull to score that access."
In other dustup, your best chances for regular concert backstage access will come with a career change.
Yes, you could troll eBay or Ticketmaster, seeking out those extra-expensive VIP packages that include meet-and-greets with the band. But you really don't want to do that. Take it from somebody who has witnessed plenty of them.
"Meet-and-greets are nigh always lame," my music insider warns. "There is very small mingling between the artist and the 'VIPs.' At best, you will shake the person's hand and get a photo with them."
So or else, I leave you with this opportunity to live vicariously through my beginning, who once watched a game of B-ball with Grohl after he performed with Foo Fighters at a Tibetan freedom concert.
"He was whole down to earth," she recalls, "well-disposed and peculiar. And I have friends who run into him all the time and say the same thing."
That enough for you? It'll have to do.
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