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  • mca47mca47 Posts: 13,244
    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?  
  • 1STmammal2wearPants1STmammal2wearPants Worcester, MA Posts: 2,825
    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.


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  • Lerxst1992Lerxst1992 Posts: 6,094
    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.
  • 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
  • rummyrummy British Columbia, Canada Posts: 4,345
    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.
  • rummyrummy British Columbia, Canada Posts: 4,345
    CopperTom said:
    This is pretty damn funny/clever.
  • buck502000buck502000 Birthplace of GIBSON guitar Posts: 8,951
    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



  • NewJPage said:
    kaw753 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:
    kaw753 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:
    kaw753 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:
    kaw753 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. 
  • jpdannabellejpdannabelle T. Posts: 831
    CopperTom said:
    Dumb. 
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  • PureandEasyPureandEasy Posts: 5,769
    I'm confused, ten club tickets still don't include fees, correct?  Imagine what the final cost would be purchasing through general market. And, these are charity shows. And, have you looked at other artists prices?  I'm a huge Who fan but you can lump them in with The Stones, Springsteen, The Eagles . . .PJ fan club tickets are still best bargain around.  Maybe it's easy for me to say because I'm in a position that allows me pay these prices . . but I find them reasonable. 
  • CB6978CB6978 Posts: 49
    CopperTom said:
    Dumb. 
    Atta boy, CT. 
  • PJNBPJNB Posts: 12,624
    I'm confused, ten club tickets still don't include fees, correct?  Imagine what the final cost would be purchasing through general market. And, these are charity shows. And, have you looked at other artists prices?  I'm a huge Who fan but you can lump them in with The Stones, Springsteen, The Eagles . . .PJ fan club tickets are still best bargain around.  Maybe it's easy for me to say because I'm in a position that allows me pay these prices . . but I find them reasonable. 
    They are reasonable with the way the market has shifted. The problem a lot are having is the huge jump from just two years ago for the exact same shows. I do not mind giving the band my money and even paid more for Eddie in Taormina. I would do so again easily but that big jump still has to be jarring for some.
  • hrd2imgnhrd2imgn Southwest Burbs of Chicago Posts: 4,860
    edited February 2018
    Most Pearl Jam fans are no longer young teens/ college age either.  That was the fan base in 94, let's be real here, those of us still around from 94, many of whom dump cash all over for merch etc, are nothing like the days of 1994. Pearl jam have older and  less poorer fans these days as a majority.  I  am no rich guy, but if I  have to find 125 bucks I can, in 1994 I had to choose Chicago Stadium or West Lafayette, or which one night could I scrape enough for a set of ten club seats Milwaukee one or two in 95.  

    They tried hard to do things without ticketbastard, they lost, now we pay the price, because they had very little help (some but not enough)from their peers, and to be honest fans didn't give a shit they wanted to see the bands so they still paid to go, making the battle lost.

    They are older, rich, and our of touch with 1994 Pearl Jam, not a knock, inevitable with success...it is evolution baby
    Post edited by hrd2imgn on
  • Lerxst1992Lerxst1992 Posts: 6,094
    edited February 2018
    JR86440 said:
    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!!!

    Absolutely when it comes to pricing premium tickets, PJ is the best.

    But...
    Give up your seniority, have near 0% of getting the seat you're accustomed to, sit in the nosebleeds for the same price, then tell us it's a good deal. 
    Post edited by Lerxst1992 on
  • Lerxst1992Lerxst1992 Posts: 6,094
    JB288319 said:
    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.
    At least have more than four rows of Fenway with a chance of decent seats for newbies? Have a couple of sections with reverse seniority? At least have a couple reserved price lotto categories to address the value and cost of seats from further away?

    Could you imagine if Ticketmaster had a closed seniority ticket policy like TC does now, back in 1990?

    I could just visualize a certain talented band up in arms.
  • kaw753kaw753 Posts: 741
    PJNB said:

     The problem a lot are having is the huge jump from just two years ago for the exact same shows. 
    Maybe they added lots of lasers?
  • PoncierPoncier Posts: 16,170
    kaw753 said:
    PJNB said:

     The problem a lot are having is the huge jump from just two years ago for the exact same shows. 
    Maybe they added lots of lasers?

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  • kaw753kaw753 Posts: 741
    Poncier said:
    kaw753 said:
    PJNB said:

     The problem a lot are having is the huge jump from just two years ago for the exact same shows. 
    Maybe they added lots of lasers?

    That is known in the industry as "The Muse Starter Pack".
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  • IMHO, I believe ticket prices are, in part, a function of the type of venue and production complexity.  It seems like baseball parks would be more expensive venues to use.  You need to bring in a stage and build it out from scratch.  My question would be what did other performers charge for the same venue.  I know Paul McCartney played Safeco and the "average" ticket price was $180.
  • mace1229mace1229 Posts: 8,956
    IMHO, I believe ticket prices are, in part, a function of the type of venue and production complexity.  It seems like baseball parks would be more expensive venues to use.  You need to bring in a stage and build it out from scratch.  My question would be what did other performers charge for the same venue.  I know Paul McCartney played Safeco and the "average" ticket price was $180.
    it may have more expenses, but you sell way more tickets too that more than make up for that
  • Sprunkn7Sprunkn7 Posts: 5,275
    Ten Club tickets have always been very affordable.  I don't why the big bump in cost this but it's still going to be cheaper than doing it through TM.  The fees for each ticket  on there are just insane.
    Thank you fellow 10 clubber for saving my ass....again!!!
  • reyrey Monmouth County, NJ Posts: 270
    edited February 2018
    mace1229 said:
    IMHO, I believe ticket prices are, in part, a function of the type of venue and production complexity.  It seems like baseball parks would be more expensive venues to use.  You need to bring in a stage and build it out from scratch.  My question would be what did other performers charge for the same venue.  I know Paul McCartney played Safeco and the "average" ticket price was $180.
    it may have more expenses, but you sell way more tickets too that more than make up for that

    Pearl Jam played baseball parks (the exact same ones!) just two years ago and the Ten Club ticket prices for those shows were 30+% less than the prices for this year's shows.  Same act, same venue, 30% price increase over two years.  That is what people are having a  hard time with.
  • northerndragonnortherndragon somewhere, nowhere, anywhere Posts: 9,728
    lolobugg said:l

    I will tell you one damn thing.... these boards get way more exciting around tour time.

    I do feel bad for the people that will be in nosebleeds. it isn't worth it.

    if I were a 10club with a bad number, I would go GA in the lottery or try thru general onsale.


    You will damn well sit where you are told to sit and you will like it.
    Anything you lose from being honest
    You never really had to begin with.


    Sometimes it's not the song that makes you emotional it's the people and things that come to your mind when you hear it.
  • northerndragonnortherndragon somewhere, nowhere, anywhere Posts: 9,728
    edited February 2018
    I always laugh and shake my head when I see these threads.
    We knew we were underpaying to see PJ in major arenas and stadiums for years. We got a kick out of it. Now that we are paying a little closer to average our consumeristic middle aged asses get super whiney. 
    If it's too expensive then don't go. Otherwise pay up and enjoy the show. I have been front row to the last row in the building and behind the band. They have never disappointed. 
    The only thing that disappointing was the douche evenbros in my section at Wrigley 1 in 2016. That wasn't the band's fault. 
    I have paid and will do so again to just get in the building. Dont care where I sit.
    I swear it seems like for some people it's like they are more interested in the bragging rights than the experience of seeing the band. And that is sad to me.
    Post edited by northerndragon on
    Anything you lose from being honest
    You never really had to begin with.


    Sometimes it's not the song that makes you emotional it's the people and things that come to your mind when you hear it.
  • Lerxst1992Lerxst1992 Posts: 6,094
    lolobugg said:l

    I will tell you one damn thing.... these boards get way more exciting around tour time.

    I do feel bad for the people that will be in nosebleeds. it isn't worth it.

    if I were a 10club with a bad number, I would go GA in the lottery or try thru general onsale.


    You will damn well sit where you are told to sit and you will like it.

    The policies do smell a bit like socialism? But I like it, yes I do.
  • Lerxst1992Lerxst1992 Posts: 6,094
    I always laugh and shake my head when I see these threads.
    We knew we were underpaying to see PJ in major arenas and stadiums for years. We got a kick out of it. Now that we are paying a little closer to average our consumeristic middle aged asses get super whiney. 
    If it's too expensive then don't go. Otherwise pay up and enjoy the show. I have been front row to the last row in the building and behind the band. They have never disappointed. 
    The only thing that disappointing was the douche evenbros in my section at Wrigley 1 in 2016. That wasn't the band's fault. 
    I have paid and will do so again to just get in the building. Dont care where I sit.
    I swear it seems like for some people it's like they are more interested in the bragging rights than the experience of seeing the band. And that is sad to me.
    "We" underpay if "we" get prime high seniority tickets for $125. Not such a hot "deal" for nosebleeds. New members subsidizing old members. Truth needs daylight.
  • NewJPageNewJPage Posts: 3,295
    I always laugh and shake my head when I see these threads.
    We knew we were underpaying to see PJ in major arenas and stadiums for years. We got a kick out of it. Now that we are paying a little closer to average our consumeristic middle aged asses get super whiney. 
    If it's too expensive then don't go. Otherwise pay up and enjoy the show. I have been front row to the last row in the building and behind the band. They have never disappointed. 
    The only thing that disappointing was the douche evenbros in my section at Wrigley 1 in 2016. That wasn't the band's fault. 
    I have paid and will do so again to just get in the building. Dont care where I sit.
    I swear it seems like for some people it's like they are more interested in the bragging rights than the experience of seeing the band. And that is sad to me.
    "We" underpay if "we" get prime high seniority tickets for $125. Not such a hot "deal" for nosebleeds. New members subsidizing old members. Truth needs daylight.
    Subsidize? Hope that' a joke. Us old members have paid 100s of dollars in dues over the years to have the privilege of being an "old" member. The only benefit in that is if we are lucky enough to win a lottery we get better seats. The whole GA thing has actually lessened this as a benefit in favor of new members
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  • jpdannabellejpdannabelle T. Posts: 831
    I always laugh and shake my head when I see these threads.
    We knew we were underpaying to see PJ in major arenas and stadiums for years. We got a kick out of it. Now that we are paying a little closer to average our consumeristic middle aged asses get super whiney. 
    If it's too expensive then don't go. Otherwise pay up and enjoy the show. I have been front row to the last row in the building and behind the band. They have never disappointed. 
    The only thing that disappointing was the douche evenbros in my section at Wrigley 1 in 2016. That wasn't the band's fault. 
    I have paid and will do so again to just get in the building. Dont care where I sit.
    I swear it seems like for some people it's like they are more interested in the bragging rights than the experience of seeing the band. And that is sad to me.
    Feel the same. Thanks for saying it. I’ve been trying to stay away from the forums lately as to not let all the negative crap get to me. This the “fan club” right? All I’ve been hearing is opinions and conspiracies on how after all these years PJ has finally decided to screw their fans. Do us all a favour, for all the complainers, please stay home. We’ll all be happier. 
    ...........and Evelyn 



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