On a Roll

As a wheelchair user, and longtime concertgoer, I appreciated your article on seating for patrons with special needs (“All-Access Ticket?” by Don Shirley, Aug. 5).

One of the most frustrating problems I have encountered is attending rock concerts through the years and having the audience on its feet, thereby completely blocking my view. I hope that sometime soon the various venues will address this problem.

My only salvation for now is the fact that at my age, most of the concerts I attend attract audiences of aging baby boomers with bad backs who poop out and sit down after just a few songs!

GEORGE BENTLEY

La Puente

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I want to publicly thank and enthusiastically commend the Hollywood Bowl for both its policies and personnel. I am disabled and, with trepidation, I attended a concert there the other night.

First, the ticket prices for the disabled are substantially discounted. More important, the facilities for getting me to and from my seat were truly amazing, and the staff who looked after me were unbelievably efficient, friendly and not at all condescending (an attitude the disabled frequently have to live with).

The final kindness: The Park and Ride MTA bus, which passengers had to walk about half a mile to catch, came and fetched me at the Bowl plaza at the behest of the staff.

BONNIE ROSS

Sherman Oaks