Inflation song (live and in concert)

Dig this crazy ticket stub — from The Police web site. I attended this show way back in the day (a great show, as the review says) with my brother (then just 13), Annie (six years before our wedding) and her cousin Gerry (who almost had her ticket swiped by some guy running by. The police (the uniformed, law-enforcement police) stepped in and righted things.

I bring this up now, because Annie, Mark (brother), his wife Ana and I will be attending the Police show at PNC Arts Center on Aug. 3. Cost of tickets for section 405: $96.25, plus fees and parking. I still have the Ticketron (yes, Ticketron) stub from the 1983 show, pinned to my bulletin board — cost: $16 per seat for somewhere in the upper stratosphere of the soon-to-be-defunct Shea Stadium.

That’s a 500 percent hike.

I also attended this show, at Liberty Park racetrack in Philadelphia, which was an amazing festival with the Specials and the Go-Gos and featured songs from the then-unreleased Ghost in the Machine. Cost: $15.

Author: hankkalet

Hank Kalet is a poet and freelance journalist. He is the economic needs reporter for NJ Spotlight, teaches journalism at Rutgers University and writing at Middlesex County College and Brookdale Community College. He writes a semi-monthly column for the Progressive Populist. He is a lifelong fan of the New York Mets and New York Knicks, drinks too much coffee and attends as many Bruce Springsteen concerts as his meager finances will allow. He lives in South Brunswick with his wife Annie. View all posts by hankkalet