Pop music sensation Rick Brewster (Joey Travolta - John's older brother) is in San Diego for a stop on his tour. The Simon Brothers - Rick (Gerald McCraney) and A.J. (Jameson Parker) are tasked by their mom (Mary carver) with scoring concert tickets for their cousin Dianne (Kitty Moffat) to see Brewster - "the hottest act in rock "n' roll" (think Justin Bieber meets Nickelback).
Through a misunderstanding the private detective brothers stumble on to a scheme to sell counterfeit tickets for thousands of seats to the concert which don't actually exist.
The highly implausible criminal plot is issue one that anybody should have with this episode. A few thousand concert goers would hardly go to a show and stand in the wings without protest when they can't find seats that don't exist. It is rightly pointed out by the characters that such an occurrence would cause a riot. They certainly wouldn't be able to get away with doing it at multiple shows as they talk about doing.
Out of all the different ways musicians and their fans were getting ripped off by promoters, counterfeit tickets was the most easily traceable and had the highest number of complainants. Counterfeit merch however would have been an utterly perfect crime for the Simon brothers to investigate as it happens at many big concerts and to this day remains difficult to curb. Then there is ticket price manipulation/speculation. That would have made for a good rock "n' roll crime too.
For whatever reason I tend to get Joey Travolta confused with Frank Stallone. Can't imagine why, can you? Nobody would confuse him with being a real actor and his musicianship is over-rated. He somehow duped casting directors to win the role of Brewster and performed two not bad songs "I Want You" and "Can't Stop The World" which were composed by Barry De Vorzon and Dave Kahn.
Note:
At the concert promoter's office a poster of Led Zeppelin live at Knebworth 1979 can be seen. Led Zeppelin played San Diego Sports Arena multiple times. Does it make sense to have a poster of a show from a festival in England that happened two years after they last played San Diego than a poster from any one of the times they rocked San Diego where this episode is set? Just sayin'.
Through a misunderstanding the private detective brothers stumble on to a scheme to sell counterfeit tickets for thousands of seats to the concert which don't actually exist.
The highly implausible criminal plot is issue one that anybody should have with this episode. A few thousand concert goers would hardly go to a show and stand in the wings without protest when they can't find seats that don't exist. It is rightly pointed out by the characters that such an occurrence would cause a riot. They certainly wouldn't be able to get away with doing it at multiple shows as they talk about doing.
Out of all the different ways musicians and their fans were getting ripped off by promoters, counterfeit tickets was the most easily traceable and had the highest number of complainants. Counterfeit merch however would have been an utterly perfect crime for the Simon brothers to investigate as it happens at many big concerts and to this day remains difficult to curb. Then there is ticket price manipulation/speculation. That would have made for a good rock "n' roll crime too.
For whatever reason I tend to get Joey Travolta confused with Frank Stallone. Can't imagine why, can you? Nobody would confuse him with being a real actor and his musicianship is over-rated. He somehow duped casting directors to win the role of Brewster and performed two not bad songs "I Want You" and "Can't Stop The World" which were composed by Barry De Vorzon and Dave Kahn.
Note:
At the concert promoter's office a poster of Led Zeppelin live at Knebworth 1979 can be seen. Led Zeppelin played San Diego Sports Arena multiple times. Does it make sense to have a poster of a show from a festival in England that happened two years after they last played San Diego than a poster from any one of the times they rocked San Diego where this episode is set? Just sayin'.