I saw Van Halen with David Lee Roth on their first time touring in like 20 years or something. I paid $25 and this was I wanna say '07 ish?
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I saw Dave Matthews in Austin for 20 bucks fifteen ish years ago. Great show. Tickets can still be affordable if you don't go to arena shows.
I went to a bunch of shows in the 80s and 90s for $20-25. I rarely go anymore, the prices are out of hand.
Yeah, some of us are over 25-30 years old and remember concerts being, like $10 to $20, depending on your age.
I was talking with my dad about this just a few weeks ago. He's Gen X and could go and see a big name band for 10 bucks. I'm a Millennial and could do the same for 20. Even as a high schooler, I was able to afford to go see a couple of concerts every summer just on an allowance of a few dollars per week.
I'd go to full day festivals for $30. Seriously. One year, I went to ozzfest and it was free! That year they dubbed it "freefest". This isn't even that long ago, I'm talking 15-20 years ago I was able to do this.
I was at that free Ozzfest. Shit was sick AF. How were they even making money? Merch and booze sales?
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I remember going to a music festival when I was maybe 18 or 20, and the heat was so bad that I decided to just leave before seeing any of the bands I wanted to see because the ticket prices were low enough that there was no sense of "oh no, what a waste".
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Capitalism is doing capitalism things, weird
Albums and singles make next to no money for the majority of musicians.
The only way to make money through music nowadays is touring and merchandise.
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It's a feature not a bug
I paid £22.50 for my Knebworth ticket to see Oasis in 1996. Beer was expensive but the lines were so long that two or three was all that was feasible. Instead I got stoned off my face and zoned out on a little hill behind the vip area. It was amazing but I was so smashed that my memory is fuzzy. Ah well. My sister just paid over £1000 for four tickets to oasis. I think I got a rather better deal than her.
Haha nice. That’s a damn good deal to be fair, cos if not confused then 1996 was more or less the peak of their career, so not like it was an early one where they would be cheaper.
I always hear of the Knebworth place and understand it’s pretty famous so I suppose that should be a clue that they were big then. Cos assuming it’s a big area (field if I’m not mistaken..).
£250 a ticket is pretty crazy. That’s gotta be close to a weekend ticket at Reading and Leeds I would think and you’d see loads of big bands there for that price, including the camping.
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Feel sorry for y’all missing out. I’ve gone to so many concerts for headliner bands, for $50-$100. Not in decades, though.
The only time I paid hundreds to see a band was y2k new years party at Paradise Island …. And that was three bands and a full day
Just off the top of my head, some of the bands I've seen live before moving to the US: Iron Maiden, Manowar, Megadeth, Anthrax, Metallica, Slayer, Rammstein, Uriah Heep, Volbeat, Mastodon, Alice in Chains.
All the bands I've seen live after moving to the US: Laibach, Trans-Siberian Orchestra. Both were a decade ago.
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