Ticket prices

JR86440

I don't have time to read all the comments about how high ticket prices are. Real quickly,  120 dollars for a 3 hour PJ show is dirt cheap in my opinion. Go search tickemaster and see how much it costs to see fucking Poison. 100 to several hundreds of dollars. Guess what, Poison sucks and I am guessing they don't play for 3 hours. Also, 120 dollars, and 6 people in band. Everything is expensive nowadays. I am no concert guru when it comes to all people needed to make sure the show goes on as planned but they have to pay people to set shit up, they have to pay fenway, they have to pay 10club employees yada yada yada. There are a lot of fucking costs that go into setting up a show. If PJ were greedy they would do what everybody else was doing and charge 1500 for first 10 rows. In fact I wish they would do that so I could buy the best seats in the house in Fenway instead of being 50 rows back.. 120 is a steal!!!

deadendp

JR86440 said:

I don't have time to read all the comments about how ticket prices are. Real quickly,  120 dollars for a 3 hour PJ show is dirt cheap in my opinion. Go search tickemaster and see how much it costs to see fucking Poison. 100 to several hundreds of dollars. Guess what, Poison sucks and I am guessing they don't play for 3 hours. Also, 120 dollars, and 6 people in band. Everything is expensive nowadays. I am no concert guru when it comes to all people needed to make sure the show goes on as planned but they have to pay people to set shit up, they have to pay fenway, they have to pay 10club employees yada yada yada. There are a lot of fucking costs that go into setting up a show. If PJ were greedy they would do what everybody else was doing and charge 1500 for first 10 rows. In fact I wish they would do that so I could buy the best seats in the house in Fenway instead of being 50 rows back.. 120 is a steal!!!

Thank you for this.

PearlJay

I'm done with worrying about ticket prices. They are what they are regardless. I'm a little sad because I feel like the days of following a tour might be over and those were some of the best moments of my life. It's just getting too expensive. Hotels, tickets, airfare.. it all adds up. I think the days of Pearl Jam playing full tours are over. Honestly I don't blame them..they are older (aren't we all), they have families, and not to mention they each have different projects that they are all involved in. I feel like my chances of seeing my favorite band are limited, so I'm just going to try and enjoy it while I can.

Lerxst1992

rey said:

Poncier said:

JimmyV said:

It's a cool kid thing to shit on Even Flow. If you are in the pisser when it gets played you are missing one of the great Mike McCready solos. Your loss.

Agreed

I totally agree.  Still love hearing Even Flow live.  I usually choose to step out during Elderly.

Glad Even Flow got some support.

Live Jones Beach 2000 just popped on my random . Mike is effing shredding it. Kicks Jeremy's arse every effing time.

vedpunk

It's evolution baby, deal with it folks.  Prices go up with time, just like inflation and the stock market (until very recently).  

hedonist

PearlJay said:

I'm done with worrying about ticket prices. They are what they are regardless. I'm a little sad because I feel like the days of following a tour might be over and those were some of the best moments of my life. It's just getting too expensive. Hotels, tickets, airfare.. it all adds up. I think the days of Pearl Jam playing full tours are over. Honestly I don't blame them..they are older (aren't we all), they have families, and not to mention they each have different projects that they are all involved in. I feel like my chances of seeing my favorite band are limited, so I'm just going to try and enjoy it while I can.

And there ya go.  If you can do it, great, and have a blast on any and all fronts.  If not (factor in time off from work too, plus the fuckery of traveling nowadays), so be it.  Sometimes life itself, and practicality, are a priority.

I am in love with that sweet-faced Pit in your av, by the way

mace1229

Unless you're one of very few who's seen them literally 100+ times, I don't get why you'd get tired of a song live.
If you've been to 20 or 30 shows and don't want a song played because it's played at 75% of the shows you go to, then I assume you don't buy any bootlegs? Because what would be the point of buying bootlegs if listening to a song 10 times makes you tired of it, right?
For my any song I enjoyed at my first show I will enjoy at my 19th show (granted I get tickets to Wrigley!). That includes Even Flow, Elderly, Betterman and especially Yellow Ledbetter.

PearlJay

hedonist said:

I am in love with that sweet-faced Pit in your av, by the way

Thanks! That's my boy Titus...he's a big blue eyed marshmallow of a Pit!

rvapete

Seattle is understandable.  $11.50 an hour minimum to every event staffer I'm sure makes the cost of the show more expensive.  Take it or leave it I guess

JB288319

I'd have no problem at all with the prices if there was GA at Fenway (the only show I can attend) or if I knew where my seats would be before I committed to buying them. Unfortunately the way things are I will probably be paying a large sum of money to be really far away. I'll still have fun, but I wish I had more control over the process such as being able to only put in for the front sections or at least the ability to transfer my tix/put them back in the pool if the seats are terrible.

mca47

Pricey, but it'll still be a good time.  Very few acts out there are worth a $100+ ticket, and PJ still puts on one of the best live shows.  My only wish is that we get some new songs sprinkled in.  They've been touring "Lightning Bolt" for what....6 years now?  

1STmammal2wearPants

rey said:

Poncier said:

JimmyV said:

It's a cool kid thing to shit on Even Flow. If you are in the pisser when it gets played you are missing one of the great Mike McCready solos. Your loss.

Agreed

I totally agree.  Still love hearing Even Flow live.  I usually choose to step out during Elderly.

It would take a lot for me to step out.....maybe Evacuation or God's Dice  

Lerxst1992

mca47 said:

Pricey, but it'll still be a good time.  Very few acts out there are worth a $100+ ticket, and PJ still puts on one of the best live shows.  My only wish is that we get some new songs sprinkled in.  They've been touring "Lightning Bolt" for what....6 years now?  

It's definitely a great price for the high seniority tickets. To charge the same price for upper decks, not such a great deal.

Jvfireman416

Attaway77 said:

We wake up, we go to our jobs. Some of us work on weekends, some of us just try like hell to make it through the week. We order delivery once in awhile when we want to stay in or just to lazy to cook. We buy random shit, clothes we need we won't fit in a few years later, stuff for the place we live in just to make it feel like home. Pick up the tab, buy your friends and strangers drinks. Add all that shit up for a year you have spent on meaningless feel good momentary things and compare it to:

We talk and preach how much a band has saved us or made our lives better, etc, so when we can we travel to see them....

It's pretty simple math. You get one life to live, spend your money on what you want but don't complain when the shit you don't need in life or spend it on adds up and is no longer there compared to what you could have spent it on enjoying a moment in a lifetime for.

Spending money sucks, so does having it and not enjoying it every once in awhile. 

Life eventually ends, go have some fun with the greatest band you love.

PJ4LIFE

Amen

rummy

Jvfireman416 said:

Attaway77 said:

We wake up, we go to our jobs. Some of us work on weekends, some of us just try like hell to make it through the week. We order delivery once in awhile when we want to stay in or just to lazy to cook. We buy random shit, clothes we need we won't fit in a few years later, stuff for the place we live in just to make it feel like home. Pick up the tab, buy your friends and strangers drinks. Add all that shit up for a year you have spent on meaningless feel good momentary things and compare it to:

We talk and preach how much a band has saved us or made our lives better, etc, so when we can we travel to see them....

It's pretty simple math. You get one life to live, spend your money on what you want but don't complain when the shit you don't need in life or spend it on adds up and is no longer there compared to what you could have spent it on enjoying a moment in a lifetime for.

Spending money sucks, so does having it and not enjoying it every once in awhile. 

Life eventually ends, go have some fun with the greatest band you love.

PJ4LIFE

Amen

Yep.

CopperTom

rummy

CopperTom said:

This is pretty damn funny/clever.

buck502000

Couple lines I always am reminded of:

Counts his money every morning, the only thing that keeps him horny

The suitcoats say, "There is money to be made."
They get so damn excited, nothing gets in their way

Jvfireman416

NewJPage said:

RoleModelsinBlood31 said:

kaw753 said:

RoleModelsinBlood31 said:

If you add the cost of the beer during your piss break, even flow costs you about $12.

I would pay $12 more per ticket if they guaranteed they would play Evenflow before the first encore break every show so that people could take care of some things.

Same.  I’d appreciate a program that told us when even flow, small town, sirens and alive we’re coming up.  I’m pretty busy and I have shit I have to get done.

Somehow I'm still cool with evenflow. Agree on the others. And add betterman

NewJPage said:

RoleModelsinBlood31 said:

kaw753 said:

RoleModelsinBlood31 said:

If you add the cost of the beer during your piss break, even flow costs you about $12.

I would pay $12 more per ticket if they guaranteed they would play Evenflow before the first encore break every show so that people could take care of some things.

Same.  I’d appreciate a program that told us when even flow, small town, sirens and alive we’re coming up.  I’m pretty busy and I have shit I have to get done.

Somehow I'm still cool with evenflow. Agree on the others. And add betterman

NewJPage said:

RoleModelsinBlood31 said:

kaw753 said:

RoleModelsinBlood31 said:

If you add the cost of the beer during your piss break, even flow costs you about $12.

I would pay $12 more per ticket if they guaranteed they would play Evenflow before the first encore break every show so that people could take care of some things.

Same.  I’d appreciate a program that told us when even flow, small town, sirens and alive we’re coming up.  I’m pretty busy and I have shit I have to get done.

Somehow I'm still cool with evenflow. Agree on the others. And add betterman

NewJPage said:

RoleModelsinBlood31 said:

kaw753 said:

RoleModelsinBlood31 said:

If you add the cost of the beer during your piss break, even flow costs you about $12.

I would pay $12 more per ticket if they guaranteed they would play Evenflow before the first encore break every show so that people could take care of some things.

Same.  I’d appreciate a program that told us when even flow, small town, sirens and alive we’re coming up.  I’m pretty busy and I have shit I have to get done.

Somehow I'm still cool with evenflow. Agree on the others. And add betterman 

Alive put Pearl Jam on the map and has one of the great guitar solos in rock history. Love the people who think being a "real fan" means you have to love the obscure songs. 
Face it.... Bugs is hard on the ears and to be honest I could do without tremor christ.
I like sirens because it is full circle from Black. In that perspective to me it is incredibly cool. It also is an obviously Gilmore influenced solo. 

jpdannabelle

CopperTom said:

Dumb.