my response

[Joseph Presley]

Matt Condon wrote:
[snip]
> I was suggesting that tickets be made available to band members to sell 
> beforehand.  No pressure, no *requirement* to sell them . . .  But 
> obviously, if they want an audience, it would be in their best interest 
> to try.

This sounds like an interesting idea, if as you stated, it's provided as 
a service for the opening bands. The only way I can see that happening 
is if the deal for the band included a percentage of the door after a 
certain number of people show up. Then you can offer the band tickets in 
  order to help them out.

How would you deal with the logistics? It doesn't sound like a trivial 
problem to keep track of how many tickets the band sold and to get the 
money from the band for the tickets they sold.

Take care

Joe