Re: Ticket Prices

Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2003 04:53:02 GMT
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On Sat, 15 Mar 2003 04:16:52 GMT, devilgrrl
<devilgrrl@remove_earthlink.net> wrote:
>> So, what are everyone's limits? I'll pay $40-50 to see a band I really
>> like, but that's about it. Anything higher seems a real ripoff, unless you
>> get really good seats.
>
>Anything higher IS a rip-off PERIOD even if the band is good!
>
>Here's my personal ticket price experience, thoughts and such...
>
>My first ever concert was (don't laugh) KISS back in late 1976, tickets were
>a WHOPPING $6!!!!!! Indoor fireworks, fake blood, explosions and all.
>
>In the early 80's tickets increased slightly for top acts with prices
>hovering between $7 & $13. In '83 I got third row center for Peter Gabriel's
>'Shock the Monkey' tour and wasn't that ever exciting! He walked through the
>audience during 'Lay Your Hands on Me,' I was able to take his hand and help
>him through, it was too cool. :-) Bowie's were $13 for the 'Serious
>Moonlight' tour as well.
The first Broadway Show I ever saw (A Chorus Line) cost 35.00 to see
in 1979. I thought tickets were as high as they would ever get back
then.
I can remember paying 9.00 USD to see the Police in Memphis in
80?...82?...and people thinking it was outrageous.
Seeing the Ramones at Antenna(?) in Memphis in 82(?) 83(?) cost a
paltry 8.00.
Elvis Costello in Jackson, Mississippi (?) in 83(?) 84(?) was 16.00.
Seeing Hunter S. Thompson read from "The Curse of Lono" on election
night, 1984 cost me 8.00 and put a real fear of humanity in my heart
when they showed the final election results on the big screen TV
behind HST. As I slipped out of a fire exit door much later that
night, I figured I had seen the rowdiest audience ever until...
I paid 10.00 to get sublimely abused by H. Rollins and the rest of
Black Flag in 1985(?) at a show in San Francisco.
Student tickets to shows at the American Conservatory Theatre West
were 8.00 - 10.00 during the 84-85 season.
Tickets to see Geroge Carlin in 1986 were 12.00.
Watching one of my college dorm-mates get into a sodden argument with
Peanut of "Mike Dunham and - " set me back 6.00.
Seeing just-post Letterman or -SNL Penn and Teller ran somewhere
around the same price a couple of years later. (I'm awfully fuzzy on
dates to have never done drugs...Maybe its all the toxic art stuff...
Tickets to the "Escape from New York" tour featuring The Ramones and
Blondie cost somewhere around 25.00 in the early nineties.
Watching Elvis Costello Watching the Detectives in the early nineties
had a 22.00 pricetag.
In order for Sproutboy to see Stomp, I had to whip out 22.00 in 96(?)
The opportunity to see Lewis Black waggle his fingers up close and
personal at Zanies in Nashville ran around 19.00 the year before last.
Plus la change...Sproutboy wanted one thing for Christmas 2K1...
12th row aisle tickets to see Penn and Teller at Andrew Jackson Hall -
55.00 per person
Having a 6'6" magician stand over you and scream for volunteers -
tinnitus for the rest of the night.
Watching Sproutboy do his happy dance after getting "How To Play With
Your Food" autographed - priceless.
Having Amy Grant's agent* call everyone in your row sick, sad people
for laughing at Teller's carnivorous animal shadows during "Unicorn"-
also priceless.
* We found out this was Amy Grant's wonk long after the fact.