Maoilbheannacht
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There's a couple problems with the boxscore.
75,000 different people bought a single ticket to a single event with a single act. Not 37,500 x 2 days.
it was not 2 shows, it was 5 sets totalling 16 hours of live music:
Dec 30: 4:30 set and a pair of evening sets. Probably 2 hours each.
Dec 31: 4:30 set and a "midnight set". Midnight set was 11:30-sun up, and the bootleg of the final set needs 6 CDRs.
$155 includes camping and parking on the original ticket order form I have a double checked. Since when do Boxscores, that you say are independantly audited, include camping fees?
Is 75,000 the single act record for the state of Florida?
Would you accept the record if the ticket was perforated with a "day 1" and "day 2" element with the boxscore listed at "150,000"?
The Boxoffice results show two sellouts.
You can call it what ever you want, 2 shows, 5 sets over two days, its all the same. What its not, is a single show on a single day, which is what people in the top concerts lists payed for. This is a different type of event from that, people are getting music on two different days. That alone disqualifies this special event even if we were to assume there was 75,000 people there on either of the days.
The top concerts list goes according to boxoffice results. Those are exact records, no speculating involved.
You can spend all the time you want to speculating about Al Jolson or Phish or someone else, but without official boxoffice results showing what you claim, all you have is pure speculation and nothing more.