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THE GREAT EQUALIZER

Nov 06, 2013 Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom

 

 
The last time I had been to an outdoor musical concert it was to a packed out audience at the National Stadium. The crowd was as thick as mud and stretched from the stage all the way to around fifty rows back. That night everyone was equals. It did not matter how much money you had, how fancy a car you drove or how big was your bank account. As a fan of the featured artiste on stage, everyone was equal.
The equality was seen by the fact that there were no reserved seats. If you came early, you got a place near to the stage where you may get a chance to go and gyrate with the singers and performers, if you were lucky enough to be noticed.
The front rows were filled with the young ladies and as my eyes cast a glance in their direction, something caught my attention. It was a young lady, scantily-clad, with movements that betrayed an elastic waist.
She looked familiar. I said to myself that I knew her from somewhere. Then it dawned on me where I had met her. It was on the very day at the concert. I had met her at a bank in the city. She worked there and when she saw me staring at her, she had turned her nose up at me in disapproval of my suggestive looks. She then strutted off like a prim and proper lady.
I never thought that I would see her gyrating like she was doing. Never thought this “backballing” queen was the same person that had seemed so prim and proper a few hours later.
This is what these massive concerts do. They are the great equalizers. There is no class distinction. The person next to you could well be one of the members of the bourgeoisie, but at this concert she is just another fan. And like you, she has experienced the crush of the crowds behind.
That is how it has been for years at these mega concerts that are held, whether in the United States of America or in Guyana. That is until recently when VIP tickets began to be sold for the mega concerts in Guyana.
The bourgeoisie have found a way to let their money talk. If you have the money you can have a front row view while seated at a table where drinks are served. If you are from the working class, you have to settle for the lower priced tickets which allow standing room only and some way back from the stage.
The bourgeoisie are not pleased with having to be standing next to the ordinary man, to compete for the front rows. They have now access to reserved areas by paying as much as five times the price of the lower cost tickets.
The mega concerts are no longer the great equalizers. Distinctions of class have now come into the picture. The rich are using their money to gain privileges at an event in which every fan is supposed to be treated equally.
This practice of reserved seating at mega concerts is an injustice to those faithful fans who bought their tickets early and turn up early only to find that there is a VIP section with seats, while their tickets is for standing patrons only.
There should be no VIP seating at mega concerts. If the rich want to go to these concerts, they should be able to mingle with the common man because this is what music does. It makes us all equal. That is until the bourgeoisie decided that their money could do the talking and that it can entitle them to the best seats in the house.

 

 

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