My podcast co-host Scott ‘Haggard Music Elitist’ Hudson weighs in on the Events Center decision

I kind of chuckle how all of these stories are coming out ‘AFTER’ the vote. Anyhoo, Lalley was trying to be clever with Hudson’s name;

There’s no question that The Haggard Music Elitist was deeply opposed to the plan for the events center. He is a skeptic — if not an outright cynic — on many of the issues facing our fair city, so this is not a surprise. He’s also been involved on and off in the entertainment business and pays attention to what sells and what does not.

Cynic? Get outta here!

Hudson goes on to talk about the percentage of population that would have to attend concerts/events in SF is much higher then in competing markets (I think he commented on this site about it also);

“There are roughly 228,000 people in the Sioux Falls metro area. What’s that translate to?”

“I didn’t bring a calculator.”

“Five point three percent.”

“That is a lot. They’ll have to draw from a wider area to make it work, I suspect.”

“Yes, they will. And there’s this myth that having more seats than the Arena means the ticket prices will go down,” he continued. “How many promoters do you know who drop the price of a ticket from one city to another?”

“I don’t know any promoters.”

“I do. They don’t.”

I did however enjoy this comment from a reader;

I really didn’t care for the article. And I really don’t quite know why. Maybe because I don’t care for the “as I was walking down the street an old friend came up” approach.

Actually, it pretty much went down that way, and Pat and Scott have known each other for longer then they both would have liked to admit.