Concerts, the price of tickets

There were some good ol' days. :)

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Murrmurr said:
Did you have to spend your allowance, or were your parents being generous?

My brother saved up his allowance for 3-weeks, but my parents weren't willing to burn 30-cents worth of gas to take him to and from the Sacramento Auditorium.
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I'm pretty sure I coughed up the $2 myself, but if my best friend hadn't wanted desperately to see them, I probably would have found something better to spend the money on, like the midway rides or corn dogs. I wasn't a great fan at the time.

Oh, I screamed along with the other teens but not as much as my friend, who was convinced that Ringo had "looked directly at her".
 
jujube said:
I'm pretty sure I coughed up the $2 myself, but if my best friend hadn't wanted desperately to see them, I probably would have found something better to spend the money on, like the midway rides or corn dogs. I wasn't a great fan at the time.

Oh, I screamed along with the other teens but not as much as my friend, who was convinced that Ringo had "looked directly at her".
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Decades after missing out on the Beatles concert in Sac, my brother took me to see George Harrison and Ravi Shankar at the same auditorium. I'm sure the tickets cost well above $3.50 ea, but not nearly 3 1/2 weeks-worth of his earnings.

But whatever, it was worth it.
 
I was a visiting Canadian, still in my late teens, and how lucky I was. I got a ride from San Francisco to Berkeley to enjoy this afternoon concert in the open-air Greek Amphitheater. Bola Sete (Afro-Latin jazz solo guitar), Grateful Dead, and Charles Lloyd Quartet (high-energy jazz). One after the other. What an exciting concert it was!

I'd forgotten what I paid till I looked at the fine print on this photo of the poster I found on a Google search. I guess it was $2.50American. Unbelievable today.

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Concert tickets for major artists are obscene. Even when I was working and could well afford it, I stopped going.

I did read about things today, and it's pretty bad. For example, Yes wanted to tour the UK last year, but the insurance for the tour was so great, they couldn't make it pay. As these musicians get older, premiums go waaaaay up.

I also don't like the look of shows today. They're mostly (I'm talking major bands) big theatrical shows, like something on Broadway. Give me back the days when a few colored lights was sufficient, let me watch the band.

Don't even get me started on people who watch entire shows with their Cell Phone held aloft.

By the way, the trick for major shows is to wait. They use a priced by demand model now. So, tickets don't have a face value. If they're selling well, the cost of a ticket increases, if sales are slow, the price drops. You could pay $900 and be sitting next to someone who paid $100. Of course, you run the risk of missing out if all tickets go.....
 
VaughanJB said:
Concert tickets for major artists are obscene. Even when I was working and could well afford it, I stopped going.

I did read about things today, and it's pretty bad. For example, Yes wanted to tour the UK last year, but the insurance for the tour was so great, they couldn't make it pay. As these musicians get older, premiums go waaaaay up.

I also don't like the look of shows today. They're mostly (I'm talking major bands) big theatrical shows, like something on Broadway. Give me back the days when a few colored lights was sufficient, let me watch the band.

Don't even get me started on people who watch entire shows with their Cell Phone held aloft.

By the way, the trick for major shows is to wait. They use a priced by demand model now. So, tickets don't have a face value. If they're selling well, the cost of a ticket increases, if sales are slow, the price drops. You could pay $900 and be sitting next to someone who paid $100. Of course, you run the risk of missing out if all tickets go.....
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This is a great piece of advice but I still would take take advantage of itšŸ™ƒ
 
@JBR I saw the Grateful Dead and I am quite sure we paid very little. My boyfriend at the time paid so I don't know the price of tickets but it had to be low. Concert was outdoors in a big open field.
 
Concert tickets for these mega stars are just ridiculous! The last concert my son and I went to was the Mother's Day Celebration at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City. It cost us $180 for two tickets way up in the balcony seating. I couldn't wait to see Maze f/Frankie Beverly again (one of my favorite groups). It also featured Kem, whose debut album I love, Gladys Knight and a singer I'm not familiar with, but she was good too.
I kept having to put my hand over my face because of what they were doing with the bright lighting. For those of us "up in the sky", there were a couple of T.V. monitors, which really were not that big. I decided that never again would I pay for concert tickets when I can watch concerts of my favorite artists right on my T.V. via YouTube (using Roku). I have found some great concerts there.
 
Teacher Terry said:
The most I have paid was to see Celion
Dilon in Las Vegas about 20 years ago and it cost 200 each and we were not in the best seats. I know that I have spelled her name wrong:)) but canā€™t remember how to spell it.
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We saw Celine in Las Vegas 15 years ago. We had private box seats in the balcony for $115 each. My wife us a fan, not me.

I wanted to go see Lionel Richie a year or two ago, but not for $300 each.
 

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