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Saw this article that was just posted concerning ticket prices for the solo tour.
Saw this article that was just posted concerning ticket prices for the solo tour.
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b) fan club members got a ticketmaster-free price
c) while i agree that $65 seemed steep for what will probably be, at most, a 1.5 hour show by Vedder, it is probably more expensive to do a short tour than it is a long tour. He will still need a crew, etc. Plus, the opener is coming from New Zealand, and he/they need to get paid.
On top of all this, let us not forget the band attempting to stay carbon neutral, the rising costs of oil (hello, $100/barrel), and the plummeting/plummeted value of the dollar.
In my opinion, everything in the world is too fucking expensive. Find something else to complain about besides concert tickets.
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yeah right......hehehehehehehehehe
Till there aint nothing left worth taking away from me.....
you know, rather than the guy(s) who tried to fight that company for three years.
The cost of gas/oil and electricity is much higher, now.
Vedder of course wants to make money. He's not in the business for the sake of just being there.
Vedder (and the rest of PJ members have been very generous in donating money to good causes and I suspect getting a tax break for it). But I think their hearts are in the right place.
shit, it is $20 to see a bad cover band... when they start charging $150 a ticket give me a call
dont forget who gets a piece of the pie... the theater and its crew's payroll, the opener and his crew, ed and his crew, ticketmaster, etc, etc ,etc
there are a lot of hands in the cookie jar
Great read. As a poster above me noted, it's kind of harsh, but the truth is told. Honestly, I wouldn't mind paying $90 bucks to see Ed, the show(s) will be memorable. However since I live in Tx, I'd have to travel, and I would be broke cause of all the fees like plane, hotel, food ect.
I agree with the article, but on the contrary, I have always had this opinion on concerts: If it's too much for me I don't go, otherwise I'll try to make it work.
As long as people keep paying the ticket prices (even shows that sell $200-300 Seats) then the prices will continue to go up or stay within that range. If people quit going to shows all together (don't see it happening, but it is possible) prices will go back down. We as customers has alot of say in the matter. If we aren't paying, the money, the prices will eventually come down because TM and artists are going to want to make money.
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95'
1) Cigs 2.10 a pack
2) 20 bucks would be good enoungh to go to the bars on Friday Night. (6 beers and a pack of smokes) change left over for tips
3) Case of Miller 9.99 at Jewel.
4) Gas was under $1.25 a gallon
Present 2k8
1) Cigs 5.00 bucks a pack
2) You need at least 40 bucks or more for a Friday Night dive bar. (6 beers and a pack of smokes) hardly anything left for a tip
3) Case of Miller 16.99 on sale
4) Gas over 3 bucks a gallon
Thank god I quit smoking and going to the bars so often.
Oh yeah ticket prices....
I paid 65 dollars to see pearl jam in soldier field for 2 tickets in 95.
Last year I paid $125 to see PJ and Tom Petty
Yeah, just about everything doubled....
http://blog.wired.com/music/2007/10/estimates-radio.html
and went to #1 at the commercial release:
http://bumpshack.com/2008/01/11/downloaded-radiohead-tops-billboard-albums-chart/
and they suck live!
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$65.00 is a bit high, but not ridiculously high like some of you are acting.
I don't know about anyone else, but I've been getting a feeling that PJ and Vedder have been making a strong push for the last two years with their tours and have been a bit more high profile than usuaul; and that after this they're going to disappear for quite a while.
And considering PJ is the only band from that era still around, I say they've earned that right as well. Plus, an Ed only show should cost more.....it's super special.
(just wait til 15 more years and tickets will cost $200 a piece to see a Creed Reunion Show.)
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I would gladly cough up the $65 to see Ed if he toured anywhere around here.
BOS-9/28/04,9/29/04,6/28/08,6/30/08, 9/5/16, 9/7/16, 9/2/18
MTL-9/15/05, OTT-9/16/05
PHL-5/27/06,5/28/06,10/30/09,10/31/09
CHI-8/2/07,8/5/07,8/23/09,8/24/09
HTFD-6/27/08
ATX-10/4/09, 10/12/14
KC-5/3/2010,STL-5/4/2010
Bridge School-10/23/2010,10/24/2010
PJ20-9/3/2011,9/4/2011
OKC-11/16/13
SEA-12/6/13
TUL-10/8/14
I don't know about, but even though things are more expensive I am also getting paid a lot more now than I was in 1995.
I think it's more that the band set themselves up for these kind of pieces when they were fighting for what they believed in back in the 90's.
I don't think it's that much. I mean Borgata tix were $95 3 years ago and it was a similar size venue.
So it's a pretty easy story to write if you're a hack writer. "Idealistic" band sells out. Sort of like everyone loves the underground band until they became famous.
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- 5/15/10, 5/17/10, 5/18/10, 5/20/10, 5/21/10, 10/23/10, 10/24/10
- 9/11/11, 9/12/11
- 10/18/13, 10/21/13, 10/22/13, 11/30/13, 12/4/13
True too.
BOS-9/28/04,9/29/04,6/28/08,6/30/08, 9/5/16, 9/7/16, 9/2/18
MTL-9/15/05, OTT-9/16/05
PHL-5/27/06,5/28/06,10/30/09,10/31/09
CHI-8/2/07,8/5/07,8/23/09,8/24/09
HTFD-6/27/08
ATX-10/4/09, 10/12/14
KC-5/3/2010,STL-5/4/2010
Bridge School-10/23/2010,10/24/2010
PJ20-9/3/2011,9/4/2011
OKC-11/16/13
SEA-12/6/13
TUL-10/8/14
No, it's not. Comparatively speaking, it's not a lot of money.
I mean, my buddies and I spend way more than that when we occasionally go out to the Bar/Grill to eat dinner, have a few drinks and sing some Karoakee.
Look at it this way........
Would you rather pay $65.00 and see Eddie Vedder doing and rare and special solo concert; singing some of your favorite songs?
Or would you rather spend much more than $65.00 and sit there with a drink in your hand, a puzzled and confused look on your face; while I massacre some 1970s Elton John, Steppenwolf and The Sweet songs:D:D:D
Good point. I think what's happening here is that the majority of long-time fans of Pearl Jam should be able to afford this. Those broke teenagers who had barely hit 20 when Ten came out are now approaching 40; they've settled into jobs, had families, and more importantly, have probably attained stability for a long while that means promotions, salary increases, etc. etc. The long-time fans have the money now because they've been working the same jobs for the most part for well over a decade. That's why these shows can be priced at this amount; I'm generalizing, but when I look around the venues it seems many if not most PJ fans are middle-aged. They can afford it.
However, those broke teenagers (such as myself), who got on the train a little while later are left out in the cold, unless mom or dad's paying for them. As a college student, the money's not there like it (hopefully) will be in ten years; I went to an Arcade Fire show for 40 bucks a few months back, and that was a strain. I think alot of people in this situation won't go. I think that is what irks people a little, since PJ also seemed like such a 'blue-collar' band in comparison to bands that charge much more.
hmmm, sounds like a toss up
Wake up and smell the inflation.
more OT: last show I visited was here in Holland where TicketMaster is like allovertheplacewithsugarontop and I had to pay 46 euro's, which today is 68 USD.
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