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(CBC) Amusing Charley Pride flies to Canada to personally refund overpriced tickets to his show: "I wouldn't want to pay this much money to see myself"   (cbc.ca) divider line 44
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Bruce Campbell vs Army of Farkness 2009-04-03 10:51:29 AM  
classy. very classy

 
Rickenbacker 2009-04-03 10:56:49 AM  
Cool tag have the day off?

 
waypat68 [TotalFark] 2009-04-03 10:57:19 AM  
I just became a Charlie Pride fan.

 
dstanley 2009-04-03 10:57:24 AM  
Where's the goddam Hero tag?

/KAWLIIIIIIGA!

 
jlinch 2009-04-03 10:59:37 AM  
Holy Crap! I had no idea he was still around. Very classy, indeed.

 
SlashW 2009-04-03 11:00:54 AM  
and this is what makes the legends of country music true legends..

Is anyone going to San Antone or Leduc?

 
goofoffgoose 2009-04-03 11:02:34 AM  
Wow, that's awesome. I hadn't thought about Charlie Pride in years, but what a righteous dude.

 
OldManDownDRoad 2009-04-03 11:02:57 AM  
Charley has always behaved as a gentleman of the old school. Too bad there aren't more like him.

 
linc654 2009-04-03 11:03:49 AM  
I know that you know that Germans love David Hasslehoff.
However, it has recently come to my attention that Canadians feel the same about Charlie Pride. Now I know why ...

CHEERS!

 
bottsicus 2009-04-03 11:08:45 AM  
Seriously, this deserves a Hero tag. What an awesome gesture.

 
Pengfish 2009-04-03 11:16:40 AM  
I have a best of Charlie Pride record that is at least twice my age. I'm gonna hug it when I get home.

 
Do What Now Question Mark 2009-04-03 11:17:39 AM  
Rock on, Mr. Pride. You were always supremely talented, and now we see what a great guy you are.

 
Tsar_Bomba1 2009-04-03 11:24:19 AM  
My old room mate works for his label. Music City Records.

This doesn't surprise me at all. Class act and a great guy. Cam be pretty funny too.

In the early days of his career not a lot of people knew he was black. They only heard his music on the radio. When he would come out on stage for the first time to perform live he would say something to the effect that he had fallen asleep under a tanning lamp. It would get a huge laugh and would be a good show. His autobiography is an interesting read too.

 
98K514 2009-04-03 11:27:36 AM  
He always was on our fighting side...

 
Mr. Potatoass 2009-04-03 11:28:00 AM  
Knock knock.
Who's there?
Charley Pride...

 
Kyosuke [TotalFark] 2009-04-03 11:28:41 AM  
I was fortunate enough to work a couple of shows with him, and he, his entire crew, and band have always been good people whose attitudes stood high above those of most performers

 
Sapper_Topo 2009-04-03 11:31:24 AM  
Hero Tag indeed!

/Loves some Classic Charley Pride

 
Juniper Jupiter [recently expired TotalFark] 2009-04-03 11:41:55 AM  
I always knew he was awesome!


With a voice like that, who could go wrong?

 
bullwrinkle 2009-04-03 11:45:54 AM  
He's a great guy Steve.

 
freetomato [TotalFark] 2009-04-03 12:00:12 PM  
98K514: He always was on our fighting side...

I am sure he was, right behind Merle Haggard.

I'd second that Hero tag.

 
kneubra 2009-04-03 12:24:03 PM  
WTF is wrong with the woman who bought the tickets though?

Jacqueline Sharp, 58, paid $933 US for two tickets to Pride's June 20 show at Edmonton's Jubilee Auditorium....

Sharp bought the original tickets in January.

"I saw him back in 1970 in Red Deer, and I thought it would be a good thing to go and see him again," she said.

It was the first time she ever tried to buy tickets online.

After putting the words "Charlie Pride, Edmonton" into a search engine, she landed on a website.

According to her bill, the site was abstix.com, a website operated by Absolute Tickets Incorporated from Los Angeles, a company that is not affiliated with Ticketmaster or its resale affiliate, TicketsNow...

According to Ticketmaster Canada, tickets for Pride's Edmonton show cost $58.50 and $67.50 before service charges.

 
John Buck 41 2009-04-03 12:31:53 PM  
OldManDownDRoad: Charley has always behaved as a gentleman of the old school. Too bad there aren't more like him.

Wanna bet Rascal farkin' Flatts will do something like this 25 years from now? Me either.

 
Tsar_Bomba1 2009-04-03 12:37:49 PM  
bullwrinkle: He's a great guy Steve.

Get back to work Greg/Bob!

 
MmmBadEggs 2009-04-03 12:45:12 PM  
Very cool.

 
Ditto 2009-04-03 12:48:43 PM  
A long time ago I used to by acid from his son.

 
Japancakes [TotalFark] 2009-04-03 12:51:22 PM  
One of the greats. I love this man and his music. He's every bit as deserving of being called an icon as Willie and Johnny and Tammy and No Show.

 
Caeldan 2009-04-03 01:41:58 PM  
Yeah... needs [Hero] or [Spiffy] for Charlie Pride since he had no requirement at all to do this, but [Fail] for the people buying the tickets in the first place.

Unless there's something more to the story where they weren't told up front how much they were getting charged by the resaler.

 
ChrisPC 2009-04-03 01:45:28 PM  
Tsar_Bomba1: My old room mate works for his label. Music City Records.

This doesn't surprise me at all. Class act and a great guy. Cam be pretty funny too.

In the early days of his career not a lot of people knew he was black. They only heard his music on the radio.


I saw his first album in a used record shop the other day. The text on the back actually called him a "Negro". That's an old album!

/roll on, Mississippi
/MS native, like Charley

 
freetomato [TotalFark] 2009-04-03 02:05:11 PM  
A buddy of mine, one of the few blacks I know who seriously loves country music, was the only black guy in the audience for a Garth Brooks concert years ago here in Atlanta. Somehow the dude running the camera for the big screens picked him out of a crowd of thousands, and kept his big brown bald head on screen for so long my buddy finally had to get up and move. I told him that's what he got for paying so much to see Garth Brooks.

I forget who it is (Sara Evans, maybe? happened in middle Georgia) but I remember hearing about a country singer who found out a mother and daughter had been in a serious car accident on their way to see her. Her tour bus pulled up in front of their house a couple weeks later and they did a private concert in the family's living room (they sought no publiciity but a neighbor spilled the beans to the press). It's good when the rich and/or famous do good things just like normal nobodies.

 
happydude45 2009-04-03 02:10:06 PM  
Yep. Before his music career, Charley was a minor league baseball player. Back in the 70's & 80's he worked out with the Rangers every spring training.

 
Kyosuke [TotalFark] 2009-04-03 02:12:34 PM  
kneubra: After putting the words "Charlie Pride, Edmonton" into a search engine, she landed on a website.

According to her bill, the site was abstix.com,


Apparently, this scam is becoming very common. Mostly because it works.

 
GrizzlyAdamsRox 2009-04-03 02:18:35 PM  
John Buck 41: OldManDownDRoad: Charley has always behaved as a gentleman of the old school. Too bad there aren't more like him.

Wanna bet Rascal farkin' Flatts will do something like this 25 years from now? Me either.


With any luck Rascal Flatts will all be dead in less than five years and all their music will suffer premature CD rot. Besides, anyone who pays to see RF is an idiot and deserves to have their money taken away.

Tsar_Bomba1: My old room mate works for his label. Music City Records.

This doesn't surprise me at all. Class act and a great guy. Cam be pretty funny too.

In the early days of his career not a lot of people knew he was black. They only heard his music on the radio. When he would come out on stage for the first time to perform live he would say something to the effect that he had fallen asleep under a tanning lamp. It would get a huge laugh and would be a good show. His autobiography is an interesting read too.


That is a helluva read. IIRC, his first few singles were released without his picture on them so that people would buy the music they liked and not have an excuse later on when they found out what he looked like.

 
buckeyebrain 2009-04-03 02:19:14 PM  
Did they celebrate the occasion with burgers and fries and cherry pies?

/Got nothin'

 
TimeWaste 2009-04-03 02:32:56 PM  
That's some good, cheap publicity.

I'm not saying it wasn't genuine or heartfelt, but if it was his manager's idea then he/she deserves a raise.

 
HST's Dead Carcass 2009-04-03 02:50:23 PM  
I thought he was the guy that lit fire the the Entertainer of the Year Award for John Denver. It was Charlie Rich, not Charley Pride, you can excuse my mistake, can't you all?

/it's Fark, I should know better.

 
freetomato [TotalFark] 2009-04-03 03:05:54 PM  
freetomato: A buddy of mine, one of the few blacksthe only black I know who seriously loves country music, was the only black guy in the audience for a Garth Brooks concert years ago here in Atlanta. Somehow the dude running the camera for the big screens picked him out of a crowd of thousands, and kept his big brown bald head on screen for so long my buddy finally had to get up and move. I told him that's what he got for paying so much to see Garth Brooks.

FTFM

 
Sin_City_Superhero 2009-04-03 03:50:10 PM  
Blue Eyes Cryin' In the Rain (new window)

/Rock on, song-man!

 
Beerguy 2009-04-03 04:14:35 PM  
Met him a few years back in a restaurant.

Nice guy and just as classy in person.

 
John Buck 41 2009-04-03 05:40:23 PM  
freetomato: I forget who it is (Sara Evans, maybe? happened in middle Georgia) but I remember hearing about a country singer who found out a mother and daughter had been in a serious car accident on their way to see her. Her tour bus pulled up in front of their house a couple weeks later and they did a private concert in the family's living room (they sought no publiciity but a neighbor spilled the beans to the press). It's good when the rich and/or famous do good things just like normal nobodies.

Sounds like something she'd do. She's a sweetie (not to mention being babalicious)

 
MorganFreeman 2009-04-03 09:59:47 PM  
A shocking case of integrity in music. This beer's for you, Charley.

 
davynelson 2009-04-03 11:12:05 PM  
supercool

AND brings attention to ridiculous mainstream scalping.

personally i will never pay more than $20 to see anybody.
it's just not worth it for a concert, since i'm short and claustrophobic

 
Phil Moskowitz 2009-04-03 11:15:29 PM  
I knew the minute Ticketrapist.com came online we were in trouble.

 
caknuck 2009-04-03 11:42:05 PM  
happydude45: Yep. Before his music career, Charley was a minor league Negro League baseball player. Back in the 70's & 80's he worked out with the Rangers every spring training.

Fixed. And yes, it's true.

I think it's safe to say that he's the only person who will ever show up on both of these two lists.

 
tetzy 2009-04-04 03:08:39 AM  
What a stupendous gesture - I hope he gets it back x1000.

/longtime fan.
//even more so now.

 
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