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Location: Michigan | crazy crazy crazy , the prices are high enough but within reach for someone who really wants to see one of their favorite bands.
i hate seeing the scum bag scalpers come out of their holes to f%@k over the general public because they have a connection somewhere to get mega amounts of tickets and screw over people that will not get a chance to get tickets because of these a-holes who will buy up blocks of seats for the standard price and resell for a rip-off profit . wrong wrong wrong . GWB
http://music.yahoo.com/blogs/stop-the-presses/dollars-stones-ticket...
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Location: Phoenix AZ | I'm safe. My favorites are all dead.
Two or three years ago for our anniversary I took my wife to see McCartney in the primo seats. It was quite a freaking price tag. But as with guitar purchases, the actual price was never discussed. She says "If I know how much this costs I won't enjoy it."
Well, then you would REALLY enjoy this little 000 wide neck I just bought ... |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Yep, there have been a few times I have spent more than big bucks on a concert to sit center no more than 3-4 rows back. Always because it was one of my wife's favorites and she lets me indulge in my occasional TUS trips and buy a new instrument every now and again.
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Location: Fort Worth, TX | I paid a scalper $200 several years ago for row 3 seating to take my wife to see Neil Diamond. I asked the scalper how he acquired so many great tickets. He said he gets high school kids to skip school and stand in line for the ticket lottery. He gives them all $20 apiece and only has the ones who get low numbers buy tickets for him. He makes a full time living this way in the Dallas market. Ingenious, but I still wanted to bust him in the mouth. |
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Location: Flahdaw | DaveKell - 2012-10-20 9:41 AM
but I still wanted to bust him in the mouth.
Yeah, Neil Diamond has that effect on me too.
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Location: Texas | Yeah, Neil Diamond has that effect on me too. Bob, it appears that you consider Neil a wanker and cork sniffer...
Edited by jay 2012-10-20 9:17 AM
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Location: NH | DaveKell - 2012-10-20 9:41 AM
I paid a scalper $200 several years ago for row 3 seating to take my wife to see Neil Diamond. I asked the scalper how he acquired so many great tickets. He said he gets high school kids to skip school and stand in line for the ticket lottery. He gives them all $20 apiece and only has the ones who get low numbers buy tickets for him. He makes a full time living this way in the Dallas market. Ingenious, but I still wanted to bust him in the mouth.
But instead, the guy received 200 bucks! I dunno, kinda seems like buying stolen property to me.  |
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Location: Flahdaw | amosmoses - 2012-10-20 10:16 AM
Bob, it appears that you consider Neil a wanker and cork sniffer...
Nonsense! (but he COULD be corker and wank sniffer...) |
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Location: NH | Now I'm confused. Are talking about wankers and "cork sniffers" or "cork soakers"? (Sorry, I had to do it. I've been thinking about the SNL skit since bobbo first posted it. You know you were thinking about it too!  )
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lWuba4HKg4
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Location: Orlando, FL | I remember being shocked that tickets to see the Who cost $15 each!! That was by far the most I had ever spent on concert tickets at the time. Okay, it was 1980 for the Who's first farewell concert tour, and it turned out to be worth it.
Since then I have been shocked by concert ticket prices many times. Depending on the artist, my desire usually tops out in the $50-$60 range. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Try going to a broadway show. Was in town 2 weeks ago and last minute my daughter and I had the brilliant idea to go see "Once".
I didn't know it won Best Musical and was sold out for the next 7 months. Man, oh man. Although it WAS really, really good !!! |
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Location: Texas | Standingovation - 2012-10-20 8:38 PM
Try going to a broadway show. Was in town 2 weeks ago and last minute my daughter and I had the brilliant idea to go see "Once".
I didn't know it won Best Musical and was sold out for the next 7 months. Man, oh man. Although it WAS really, really good !!!
The film it's based on is very good also...
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Location: NH | I'm not exactly sure how the question was intended. My "favorite band(s)" don't exist any more. So if that's how it was intended, I think I would drop some good dough for a "LAST chance to see my favorite band(s)". There wouldn't be many of them though. I'd pay today's prices to see Frank Zappa again.
Today's concert prices have transcended what I'm typically willing to pay. Plus, with the larger venues I find that you're either too far back to enjoy it, or so close it's just way too loud for me.
These days we prefer to go a local restaurant/pub, plop down the nominal cover charge and listen to some of the locals play. It's way more enjoyable. I like to see it when a musician is having as much fun as the audience. |
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Location: Wichita, KS | Guitsome - 2012-10-21 4:24 PM
Today's concert prices have transcended what I'm typically willing to pay. Plus, with the larger venues I find that you're either too far back to enjoy it, or so close it's just way too loud for me.
These days we prefer to go a local restaurant/pub, plop down the nominal cover charge and listen to some of the locals play. It's way more enjoyable. I like to see it when a musician is having as much fun as the audience.
I'm with you on both of those points. I paid somewhere in the neighborhood of $70 a ticket for my son and I to see Rush on their Time Machine tour. I almost got into a fist fight with an @$$hole who, along with his girlfriend, insisted on standing in front of us the entire time. At 50+ years of age, I can't stand through a two or three hour performance without being miserable. The music was great. The production fantastic. But I missed seeing most of it. I've probably gone to my last major rock concert at any price.
Tonight, Debbie and I will go to a small bar to hear one of our favorite locals. Reasonable cover charge. Good drinks. It will me much more enjoyable and won't cost me a week's salary. That's my idea of a night out.
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I'm with you guys, except it's usually a bunch of Amazons who stand in front of me or talk about their leg waxing behind me (that actually happened). I generally give them one polite, but stern request to sit down and shut up, but by then I've missed a bunch of the concert and I'm pissed off for the rest of it. I avoid most concerts, but I'm looking forward to Brandi Carlile with the Seattle Symphony over Thanksgiving. The first time I saw her in concert was one of the aforementioned Amazon incidents. I hope that a symphony crowd will be a bit more polite. I hate paying a bunch of money to have my ears blasted in a facility with lousy accoustics or have a bunch of obnoxious people around while I'm trying to listen. I'd rather be home listening to the stereo or at a small bar or other venue where I can sit up close. I used to hate the bars because of all the cigarette smoke, but that's banned here now. It's not so nasty to hang out in the bars now. |
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Location: Flahdaw | Warning: Amazons LOVE the symphony. |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | My season tickets to the national Broadway touring shows that come into town average between $55 and $100+ per ticket. The 2013 season includes 10 shows and my subscription for two seats was just under $1,400 for Friday night, 25th row, center orchestra. That's an average of $70 per. The cheapest retail ticket price I ever paid (excluding the deals I sometimes get using a performer's discount) was for Joan Baez, late 1960's, $1 per seat, and that was from the box office. That was her price for every seat in the house, somewhere in Southern California. I have no idea how anybody made any money on that show. |
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Location: Hot Springs, S.D. | I used to subscribe to the Great Performances series at Woolsey Hall. I have seen Itzhak Pearlman, Yo Yo Ma, The St. Louis Symphony, The National Symphony Orchestra, The Vienna Boys Choir, and so many others. Even THEN, it was expensive and although the crowd behaved, there WAS a huge crowd that got my claustrophobia in a tizzy.
I stopped going to rock concerts back in the 80's after some clown threw up on my shoes waiting to get in to see Crosby Stills and Nash.
Now, I go to concerts at our little civic center here in Hot Springs. It only holds 420 people, the acoustics are GREAT, and it usually costs anywhere between two cans of food for the food pantry, to ten dollars. I've seen the University of Wyoming Symphony Orchestra, which I thought would be a big letdown after the famous names I mentioned above, but they were quite good. I've seen Dixieland jazz bands, Bluegrass bands, The Airforce Band, plus a bunch of local performances. Sometimes big names come to Rapid City, but I don't go. Fuddy duddy? You bet! And I like it that way. |
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Location: Texas | "I have no idea how anybody made any money on that show." Nickel bags... |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | darkbarguitar - 2012-10-22 4:15 PM
Warning: Amazons LOVE the symphony.
Dammit, I should have known. If Damon stands up in front of us and I can't see Brandi, I'm going to out him on this board. I wonder if the fact that she married her girlfriend recently will affect her fan club. There might be more Amazons standing up.
Without straying too far off topic, I have never been a big fan of live albums because I didn't like all the audience noise, although I have a few where it's not much of a distraction.
As I've said here before, one of my most enjoyable concerts was Preston Reed, which had the added benefit of being on a mountainside with an incredible view. Of course, someone behind us got tanked by intermission and talked loudly for a few minutes until we shut him up. I was especially shocked that someone would do that in such close proximity to the stage.
Another concert I thoroughly enjoyed was Craig Carothers, with some of you in Hot Springs. Thanks again for hosting that, Alison. |
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Location: Flahdaw | CanterburyStrings - 2012-10-22 6:39 PM
I stopped going to rock concerts back in the 80's after some clown threw up on my shoes waiting to get in to see Crosby Stills and Nash.
That was YOU??? |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | If it ain't on Youtube I ain't watchin'!
Actually, I unintentionally paid scalper prices online for the Police reunion tour. $200 bucks each for $60 face price tickets.
I would have paid the price (well, I did) if that had been the upfront price...cos I really loved 'em the first time they toured. (though they really are just a great bar band with a great front man.)
As it was, I got a full refund via Visa dispute resolutions because I wouldn't have enjoyed the concert with the taste of Ripoff in my mouth. |
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