More APE in Golden Gate Park?
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gonna be another expensive tix ( and probably acts I'm unfamiliar with)
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https://datebook.sfchronicle.com/music/exclusive-s-f-plans-to-expand-sum...
gonna be another expensive tix ( and probably acts I'm unfamiliar with)
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The city needs the momney, it
The city needs the money, it's a slam dunk.
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65.000 attendance cap makes
65.000 attendance cap makes for some big shows.
The Stones could finally get their concert in GGP.
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I prefer when they didn't
I prefer when they didn't have fences for shows in the park. The whole idea of a concert in the park surrounded by chain link is just antithetical to SF ethos.
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The city needs the money>
The city needs the money> that may be true
it's a slam dunk> not so fast, It's SF, nothing is strait forward when it comes to public space use
plus APE has run afoul with it's proposed plans for the Castro Theater...
.https://www.savethecastrotheatre.org/save-the-seats
APE paved paradise (polo field) and put up a parking lot (main stage footprint, and the surrounding trails to ease load in/out)
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My friends who live in the
My friends who live in the Sunset aren't thrilled but yeah I don't see anything stopping this.
The cluster fuck of getting out of there after will probably keep me away. Having a handicap placard for parking your car is really the only way to navigate an event there.
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This a smart, fairly obvious
This is a smart, fairly obvious move, and as usual Another Planet is three steps ahead of everyone else.
It's a shame but sadly predictable that the self-important folks in the Castro may drive APE completely out of that Castro Theatre deal. As usual, the locals want ONLY what they want but they expect someone else to pay for it. If they're not careful that cool but musty old dump of a theater will be replaced by just another faceless building of over-priced condominiums.
As for these extra show/s in the park, they'll be smaller than Outside Lands, which sells out at about 75,000 a day, so compared to the epic throngs of 200,000 who pack into Hardly Strictly, 40,000/50,000 will be a relative walk in the park.
As WALSTIB said, it's unlikely that any of the artists playing will be of interest to an old fart like me, but there are few venues in the world that are as awesome as the Polo Field can be, and APE does things the right way so I'm sure these will be good events.
If there is such a thing as a "San Francisco ethos", doing a thing the right way AND having it make a profit is what that is.
It's a shame the folks in the Castro don't understand that.
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The housing crises and the
The housing crises and the resulting homeless problem is driven by the same kind of arguments that are driving the Castro Theater resistance. San Francisco is not a museum piece that needs to be preserved in amber.
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>>The whole idea of a concert
>>The whole idea of a concert in the park surrounded by chain link is just antithetical to SF ethos. <<
it's why we quit hardly strictly
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helo folks
helo folks
and hell yes
many, many fabulous memories
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If they're not careful that
i hate to say it, but it probably should be
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"the fewer bands you have
"the fewer bands you have heard of, the hotter the chicks will be"...
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Careful Turtle, it could be
Careful Turtle, it could be your daughter you're talking about.
For a long time now, when I see one of those "hot chicks" my first thought usually is, "Cute kid. I wonder what her mom looks like?"
I think that's a good thing.
And Jammin' Joel! Good to see you on the black screen, you ol' grateful dog.