STP tickets are 60 bucks

Joe2TheRevenge

BEFORE service charges

Are you fucking kidding me?

What the fuck have they done in the last 6 years that they think it's ok to DOUBLE their ticket prices?

They were playing House of Blues sized venues for 30 dollars before.

So....what? Army of Anyone bombs, and Velvet Revolver bombs, and suddenly they're worth double? how the fuck do you figure that? idiots.

i've seen them 5 times, and never once has their 90 minute show been worth 60 dollars.

30, yes.

60, no.

They better be playing a 3 hour set for that price.

HatredThrownDown

Carb Day in Indianapolis is a free show with a 10 dollar charge for Carb Day itself..finally it pays off to live in Indiana

Murderers.

This is Scott shitbag Weiland's call no doubt.

Gremmie95

when you know your band is going to last about 1/2 of a tour....you better get paid up front!

Joe2TheRevenge

Gremmie95 wrote:

when you know your band is going to last about 1/2 of a tour....you better get paid up front!

excellent point.

dharma69

Gremmie95 wrote:

when you know your band is going to last about 1/2 of a tour....you better get paid up front!

The logic is like a sledgehammer.

I expect to be reading about more "erratic stage behavior" by September.

1STmammal2wearPants

Id pay to see em, but not for a fraction of a setlist playing with bands like pennywise and everlast in boston. fuck that. or fork over 45 bucks for their fan club to get the best seats.

lastexit78

I hate to say it but this tour is a joke. This band died a long time ago. Bands that try to comeback like this only tarnish their legacy. Kind of like what Corgan is doing to the Pumpkins legacy. STP was a good band in their time. But it's over! Weiland isn't going to make it through half this tour anyway. So really what's the point? These shows will be half empty debacles, filled with fans that can't accept that it's not 1995 anymore.

josevolution

hey jimmy buffet tickets are in the hundred's catagory .....but really what is the over/under on this 65 date tour to implode on it's self because of weiland's drug infussed nonsense i say about the 37 show mark ...

lowlight10

its worth it to me. love this band. i'll be seeing them in Chicago.

i do expect a semi-big band to be opening most of the shows, but it wont affect my decision to go.

there arent too many amphitheater bands that i'm willing to spend my time and money on these days, but i'm excited as hell that these guys are back. i was fortunate enough to see them at the Riv on their last tour, and it was probably the best non-PJ show of my life.

intodeep

60 bucks before fees same as pearl jam that sounds about right.

They are gonna milk it as a reunion tour for cash.

Lukin2Not4You

only 25$-55$ where im going to see them.

http://www.musikfest.org/lineup/2008.asp

AiCPearlJamWeen

Joe2TheRevenge wrote:

BEFORE service charges

Are you fucking kidding me?

What the fuck have they done in the last 6 years that they think it's ok to DOUBLE their ticket prices?

They've noticed gas/food/supplies has all gone up in money. Gas will be $4 by summer and the economy sucks. Food and other shit is going up so why can't people get over ticket inflation?

keyser_soze

that's a pretty sweet, cheap price...

I'm going to see neil young in cork in ireland for eighty euro...

that's around.... 125 dollars!!!!!!!

so don;t bitch in america .... you got it pretty damn sweet!!!

Its Evolution Baby

AiCPearlJamWeen wrote:

They've noticed gas/food/supplies has all gone up in money. Gas will be $4 by summer and the economy sucks. Food and other shit is going up so why can't people get over ticket inflation?

I agree completely. Nothing costs the same from 6 years ago. Movies back then were under 8 dollars. Gas was just over 2 dollars. You could comfortably pay rent and eat on $12 an hour. Finally Concerts cost around $40 to see bands like the Foo's, PJ, STP, Green Day etc. Now all of these bands charge between $50 and $70 for seats.

Its just natural inflation.

SVRDhand13

STP was my favorite band leading up to the days of your break up. for the next three years i wished they would come back. now i realize its all for the money- theres no way they will be as good live as they used to. when shangri la dee da came up we were made to believe weiland was a different man- if we only knew.

brain of c

are you crazy? 60 dollars doesn't fill my car with gas.

allornone

Yes, there is inflation, HOWEVER, with the average person paying almost $4 for gas, either struggling to find a job or struggling to get a pay increase that is in line with the inflation rate, and paying more for groceries, who has the extra $$ left to spend $50-$60 on a concert?? Sure, the hardcore fans will do that, but is there enough hardcore STP fans to fill up 65 outdoor venues throughout the country?

Diamond Marmalade

I'm seeing them at summerfest and the tickets are $20, $35, and $45.

tybird

Hell....$60 ain't too shabby....if they were milking the reunion angle, the tix would be a lot higher than that.

lastexit78

allornone wrote:

Yes, there is inflation, HOWEVER, with the average person paying almost $4 for gas, either struggling to find a job or struggling to get a pay increase that is in line with the inflation rate, and paying more for groceries, who has the extra $$ left to spend $50-$60 on a concert?? Sure, the hardcore fans will do that, but is there enough hardcore STP fans to fill up 65 outdoor venues throughout the country?

Your 100% right. These shows will be half full at best. With fees your looking at around $140 a pair. I would possibly check them out if they were touring smaller venues at around $40 a ticket. No way I'm going to pay $60 to watch them play a half empty Greek Theatre in Berkeley. The whole inflation argument on ticket prices is stupid. Hard working, struggling Americans have to pay double what they were 5 years ago so bands can still turn the same huge profits they did before? It's like the music industry is completely oblivious to the current state of our ecomony.

mattosborne

lastexit78 wrote:

I hate to say it but this tour is a joke. This band died a long time ago. Bands that try to comeback like this only tarnish their legacy. Kind of like what Corgan is doing to the Pumpkins legacy. STP was a good band in their time. But it's over! Weiland isn't going to make it through half this tour anyway. So really what's the point? These shows will be half empty debacles, filled with fans that can't accept that it's not 1995 anymore.

I disagree with your point altogether. First of all, STP is all the original members not like this current version of the Pumpkins. Secondly, STP were relevant up until they went on hiatus. "No. 4" went platinum and "Shangri La De Da" (which came out in 2001...hardly 1995) went gold. There were always signs that STP would eventually get back together and do something, it wasn't a bitter seperation like G'N'R or several others, future tours and albums were always on the table. Thankfully, it isn't your decision whether they are relevant or not because that isn't your call to make. Velvet Revolver had issues, probably a lot of it had to do with Scott, I would submit that Scott wasn't the only culprit.

Joe2TheRevenge

intodeep wrote:

60 bucks before fees same as pearl jam that sounds about right.

but pearl jam plays for 2 and a half hours

STP plays for 90 minutes.

lastexit78

mattosborne wrote:

I disagree with your point altogether. First of all, STP is all the original members not like this current version of the Pumpkins. Secondly, STP were relevant up until they went on hiatus. "No. 4" went platinum and "Shangri La De Da" (which came out in 2001...hardly 1995) went gold. There were always signs that STP would eventually get back together and do something, it wasn't a bitter seperation like G'N'R or several others, future tours and albums were always on the table. Thankfully, it isn't your decision whether they are relevant or not because that isn't your call to make. Velvet Revolver had issues, probably a lot of it had to do with Scott, I would submit that Scott wasn't the only culprit.

I love STP, own everything they did, but Weiland is just not the same guy from 2001. That was 7 long abusive years ago. He needs to get clean and stay clean. Until then STP isn't really STP. This guy is nearly as bad as Britney. He can't go a week without having some kind of episode. If anybody really thinks he can make it through an entire tour they're fooling themselves. If he got clean, put together a decent album and then toured I might have a little more respect. But a reunion tour with no new album and a very sick Weiland is not what I was hoping for.

Rhinocerous Surprise

mattosborne wrote:

I disagree with your point altogether. First of all, STP is all the original members not like this current version of the Pumpkins. Secondly, STP were relevant up until they went on hiatus. "No. 4" went platinum and "Shangri La De Da" (which came out in 2001...hardly 1995) went gold. There were always signs that STP would eventually get back together and do something, it wasn't a bitter seperation like G'N'R or several others, future tours and albums were always on the table. Thankfully, it isn't your decision whether they are relevant or not because that isn't your call to make. Velvet Revolver had issues, probably a lot of it had to do with Scott, I would submit that Scott wasn't the only culprit.

The one thing I'd say to that is that STP broke up because of tensions between Scott and Dean. Scott's "erratic" behaviour with VR, while probably not as one-sided as we're led to believe, doesn't bode well for old wounds staying healed for too long.

nowayimfaithfull

I agree completeley with everything pretty much said.
They are not worth that much money.
But.
They maybee even took a pay cut themselves. Everything costs more nowadays, the government is pushing us to the max. For them to run their tour its prob at least double.

AiCPearlJamWeen

allornone wrote:

Yes, there is inflation, HOWEVER, with the average person paying almost $4 for gas, either struggling to find a job or struggling to get a pay increase that is in line with the inflation rate, and paying more for groceries, who has the extra $$ left to spend $50-$60 on a concert?? Sure, the hardcore fans will do that, but is there enough hardcore STP fans to fill up 65 outdoor venues throughout the country?

Yea and how much do you think it cost's the tour bus to travel from city to city not including all their equipment, crew and stage setup. The reason the tickets are so high is the economy. The truckers are about to strike and I could easily see tours being half assed to save some money. If you don't have $60 to spend on a show then don't go. It's not the artists fault that the economy sucks and most of the time the artists don't choose the ticket prices, their management does and does all the math to at least gain some profit. In todays economy most bigger bands will need to charge big dollars to go put on shows due to the inflation.

triangleman12

Lukin2Not4You wrote:

only 25$-55$ where im going to see them.

http://www.musikfest.org/lineup/2008.asp

Thanks for the heads up! Musikfest is a great time, caught the band Live there a few years ago. Look for Red Elvises on one of the side stages . . . they're a Russian rockabilly/rock band . . . very FUN!

NOCODE#1

Joe2TheRevenge wrote:

BEFORE service charges

Are you fucking kidding me?

What the fuck have they done in the last 6 years that they think it's ok to DOUBLE their ticket prices?

They were playing House of Blues sized venues for 30 dollars before.

So....what? Army of Anyone bombs, and Velvet Revolver bombs, and suddenly they're worth double? how the fuck do you figure that? idiots.

i've seen them 5 times, and never once has their 90 minute show been worth 60 dollars.

30, yes.

60, no.

They better be playing a 3 hour set for that price.

wow you dont know alot about how the economy works do you?

NOCODE#1

lastexit78 wrote:

Your 100% right. These shows will be half full at best.

yea you'd hate to see a venue fool of people who can afford to be there :rolleyes:

lastexit78 wrote:

I would possibly check them out if they were touring smaller venues at around $40 a ticket.

most americans have bettered themselves in 6 years. might want to look internally if you havent.

lastexit78 wrote:

It's like the music industry is completely oblivious to the current state of our ecomony.

Apparently you think that in the music industry, prices have remained exactly the same. i'd like to live in your fantasy world too.

intodeep

Joe2TheRevenge wrote:

but pearl jam plays for 2 and a half hours

STP plays for 90 minutes.

I saw pearl jam in 2000, 2003 & 2004 and they played for 2 hours each time or just a little under. I know they play some longer sets elsewhere, but not all the time.