Have You Ever Been To A Concert?

While I agree that U2 peaked in 1989, Amy Holmes just sounds silly in her attempt to bash them:

Dems love them some Bono, even though U2’s best anthems are long behind them.  I went to a U2 concert years ago at the MCI Center (is it called that anymore?) as a guest of Bobby Shriver who was escorting Bono around town.  I told him that it says a lot about a rock star’s appeal when all of the black people at the stadium are outside scalping tickets.

Umm, have you ever been to a rock concert before. I’ve been to plenty – and from the Rolling Stones to the Arcade Fire (even The Streets and Lyrics Born), the dynamic was the same. White people inside, black people hawking tickets. Hell, for every event that has tickets, it’s black people scalping them, in the Bay Area at least. This is as true for sporting events as for concerts. For some reason, the overwhelming majority of ticket scalpers are black (in the Bay). And the overwhelmingly majority of rock music fans, of all ages, are white. Nothing shocking here.