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Woodstock. Tickets were $18 bucks for the whole weekend but when the folks running the show realized that it would be impossible to collect, it became a free concert. The Who started at 5am on sunday. The sun rose during their set. Was there ANYBODY....ANYBODY who was completely high out of their fucking minds that witnessed that? ONE sober dude who saw that.
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I saw the Who this past week on their farewell tour (their first farewell tour was in 1982) Even the worst seats in the house were like $130, 140, 150. I tried the Will call last minute, cheapest seats available $209. I've looked at other dates around me, same thing, most expensive concert I've seen. And still TONS of seats available at every place. I said fuck it, stood outside in the parking lot with the other cheap SOB's and watched the screen and listened to whatever sounds I could hear through the wind.
Look I get it I'm not trying to say every rock show is Woodstock but at some point this thing got corporate, sanitized and expensive man. And you look at the "talent" coming up with Gen Z music and you realized the whole thing is FUCKED and never coming back.
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last commentWhy did it do that. 1. is supposed to be 1969. and 2. is supposed to be 2025.
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Oh I guess 1 and 2.
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I wrote 1999 and 2000 and it became that ^^^
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I wanted to take the Wife to Red Rocks to see the Goo Goo Dolls. When she found out the seats I wanted were $500 per seat, plus parking, she kiboshed the trip and we're going to Florida instead next month.
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I don't know maybe you guys like this format like this format but what's wrong with how I write in the box coming out the exact same. What's wrong with double and triple spacing. It helps people read.
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Ski I said the same thing. It's fucking nuts.
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In 1977 at the Boston Garden - floor seats for Pink Floyd were $15.00 and balcony seats $10.00. Of course I had an above minimum wage job that summer delivering bagels etc. at $2.50 an hour.
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What pisses me off these days are not only are the prices astronomical but you have to buy up to a year in advance.
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I saw Fleetwood Mac for free back in 1975 or maybe it was 1976.
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and a friend of mine took his then girlfriend to a Weekend concert at SoFi Stadium and paid $700 a ticket about a year or two ago.
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The most I myself ever paid was $25 for a dinner show to see Tony Orlando up in Tahoe with my wife back in the late '80s. I did not like paying that much to see Tony Orlando. The only saving grace was the opening act which was the Smothers Brothers.
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^ I know Fleetwood Mac toured in the summer of 1976 because I saw them in Foxboro Stadium with the James Montgomery Blues Band, Boz Scaggs and the Eagles. Don't recall much which is either due to age or the quart of Southern Comfort that I drank.
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Beyond how the tickets are handled, I really don't like the dynamics between the entertainers and the crowd.
Too many entertainers think their role is to preach during the concert more than play music.
And then you have the predictable shit at the end where the band leaves the stage and the crowd begs them to come back for first and second encores to "prove" it was a really awesome show and the stars really connected with the audience.
Then there is the general break down in how people behave in public, which leads to disputes among concert goers. Whole thing is fucking tiresome. Then you can look forward to the traffic jamb getting out.
Finally, anything that relies on porta-potties for toilet facilities is off my list any more. I honestly would rather shit in the woods.
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I think that happened a lot at Woodstock.
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The Who hitting “See me, Feel me…” is one of the most special moments of the entire Woodstock festival.
I saw them in the 80s. Don’t remember the ticket prices, but had to be cheap because we could afford it. Saw them mid 90s. I think I paid just over 100.
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I think the first lollapalooza was $30-35
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In 1982, I saw The Stones at a sold-out Carrier Dome for $15, and I had good seats. And no, Hell's Angels weren't security.
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I put a ton of blame on corporate greed, StubHub and Ticket Master. Scalping became easy with the ability to buy a LOT of tickets over the Internet then re-sell for stupid wicked prices. The Swifties got seriously burned and pissed of a few years back.
The only place I'll go now is a jazz bar.
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The only place I go now is a jizz bar.
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I get one hell of a lot more satisfaction watching and touching and experiencing girls than I do watching musical performers at high prices.
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