Most EXPENSIVE Concert Ticket you've ever bought?
 

Hi

My most expensive concert ticket was £80 to go and the rolling stones! Can anyone beat it!

Except for festivals obviously, I went to see the Eagles back in 2001 and they set me back 157 guilders, which is 71 euro's which is about... 99 dollars.
But I heard from my cleaning lady that a friend of hers went to see U2, which set her back a staggering 210 dollars. Which is insane.

I think I paid around the £50 mark to see The Who in Melbourne in 2004. Back then, the £50+ gigs were quite rare but obviously that isn't the case anymore. Especially when certain pop stars with only one proper album under their belts can charge around £80 to finance their stage show and ridiculous clothing habits.

$35, and I probably will never again.

:laughing:

who did you go see? and never again pay that much or never again go to a concert?

I'm not a big fan of concerts either.

What I saw doesn't matter, it was a good concert, and a fairly big name for the $35. It's just, I say Melt Banana at $12, and many other damn good bands at under $20. No reason why the best bands are charging bar rates, where most things in arena selling the $50+ are old farts, or lip syncing pop stars.

I got to concerts every once in awhile, though. They're cheap due to my strange tastes, yet they're rare due to my strange tastes.

I'm not a big fan of high rates either. The more expensive it is, the larger the venue and the less intimate the performance. I see plenty of great shows for $25 or less at small venues.

Most I ever paid was $60 to see Tool maybe around 2000. Too bad it was outdoors and most of the sound I heard was coming from the speakers on the hill, versus ones on the stage. Just about the least intimate concert experience ever. I've seen other shows at that venue, but they weren't bands I really cared about so it wasn't a big deal...it actually made it feel more like hanging out with friends and shooting the shit in the park.

$30.00 for Broken Social Scene, not a huge fan, but they were pretty good live. If I see Black Keyes live in June, it'll be $45.00.

$127 + fees.

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But it was ninth row, which was pretty awesome. I'll say it was worth it.

$60 to see Blondie back in 2005 I think

Worth it, they were great.

$90 to see B.B. King and Buddy Guy. Plus absurdly priced beers. But I would do it again in a heartbeat.

£42 to see tiesto. Although I'm sure stereophonics were expensive but it was a gift.

Muse for like £40 I think is the most expensive gig I have been to, I think using the T in the Park ticket I got would be a bit silly to mention.

Cheapest had to be seeing Glasvegas and Deamau5 for free, although the latter I am not a great fan of.

Excluding festivals the most expensive ticket i've bought was €64.50 to see Metallica in 2006.

It was a great gig though so i can't really complain.

No amps, no band, no instruments and 42 pounds?
I can't believe how expensive that is...

The Rolling Stones was $150.00NZ that is bloody good considering the group! But yeah my most expensive.

I agreed to go see Slipknot with a friend once. The cost: My dignity.

Bob Dylan was around 70 bucks.

Radiohead, for around 75 bucks.. It's funny considering I was able to see one of my favorite bands, Why?, for only 10.

Yeah, I've seen better shows than Bob Dylan for cheaper. Mighty Mighty Bosstones with Teenage Bottlerocket and The Flatliners was only 15 bucks I'm pretty sure.

Exactly.

I've actually never paid more than $20. However, if Dylan was in town.. I'd break.

For a single show I paid 16 to see Man Man.

I paid 90 dollars to go to a fest and it was worth it. I saw 32 band in 60 hours.

I went to see Slipknot with a group of friends too, and actually didn't mind it so much. This was after seeing them maybe twice before at festivals and absoluting despising them.

He was 50 bucks here :)

When I was in grade five or six, mom decided to surprise me and buy Rhianna tickets. We were all the way at the back and it cost way over 100$, if I remember correctly.

$106 to see Ravi Shankar was pretty ridiculous. The concert was ridiculously awesome though.

haha that's sort of a bizarre

DJ'ing is actually pretty complex, a few of my friends have Decks and midis and i tried learning at the weekend and couldnt grasp it at all. I'm very very good with technology and the like but decks just blew my minddd. It was so hard ad I was getting angry because it was too hard to grasp. it seems so much simpler than it actually is.

Pffft! I'd give my right arm to see him. $106 is nothing!

I paid $75 to see Tom Waits tour for his Mule Variations album.

At the time, I heard some hype that this was his "final tour (possibly)" which is what probably sent me over the edge. I'm glad I did, though. It was a great show and I otherwise certainly would've spent the money on less memorable things.

Yeah it's definitely not easy. Producing on the other hand, now that's just insane.

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I can't wait for the day that I will finally be able to make sense of it all.

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it was basically one of these babys I got my claws into. I loved every frustrating minute of it.

I know how it works. I should admit it wasn't too hard for me but then I've grown up using record players since I was four or so.
But what I meant, usually a band brings bandmembers, guitars, drum kit, amps, the lot. Tiesto only has to bring his equipment. I can't see how this can be just as expensive. The DJ'ing itself is probably as tough as playing an instrument if you want to do it right :)

Edit: Just saw your pic, I was using real turntables. I think that makes it easier in a way. You don't have beat detection but you do have a direct 'grasp' on what your music is doing.

2 turntables and 1 mixer is definitely easier to play than a fully equipped digital system. I think that was the point. it's like learning how to control an entire studio and every piece of equipment involved.

As for the value of a concert - it's based on how many people will pay, not how difficult the music is to play.

That's just a synthesizer, and nowhere near the totality of production. But even synthesizers are easier to figure out than you think. It's all logical.
Don't let the button count fool you. It's all still just very basic concepts. You just have to group certain concepts with certain functions.

If want tips. I have.

Not technically.
The primary aspect of the concept relies on you being able to adequately tell whether one beat is playing at the same speed as another. Beatmatching, incidentally, is the hardest thing for most people to learn if they're not rhythmically inclined. While there are techniques for mixing, like using equalization and/or effects to aid in transitions between songs, as far as being able to select the "right" tracks for the "right" crowds and situations, that's far more esoteric and mostly learned by experience, and is just as important.

I do have to admit though, CD decks are more difficult than vinyl decks, simply because they're less mechanically intuitive and have more features to distract you. If you throw on top of that a person who's clueless about "what those knobs do", well it's obviously going to seem pretty complex. But really, it's not. I'd say the hardest thing to actually learn about DJing is being able to do it well. Not how to do it.

a few of my friends dj in small venues in glasgow hence why he had decks. He explained it was very easy once you got the jist of it. I'd like to say I was musically inclined but I dunno. My music teacher always said I played drums differently from everyone else even though I was doing the exact same. However I totally agree its not the "how to do it" thats hard, its being good at it. I know loads of friends who know what to do with the decks and are complete gash with them. But the point still stands. Decks are ****ing murder when you're just staring at them with no pointers what so ever.

Agreed. You should start out with a simple pair of vinyl decks, and a simple battle mixer.
Get the feel of how to manipulate the speed of each deck, and how to bring in the next track in such a way that makes sense in the situation. You're better off starting with some 4x4 records like House or what have you, since they're easier to beat mach and mostly stay around the same tempos. When you get the feeling of what goes into it, you'll be able to expand, and the controls of digital decks will simply be additions to what you already know, save for the way you beatmach, which will take some getting used to when coming from vinyl.

The most expensive concert I paid to see was Prince...April 14, 2002. The tickets were $90.00 each before taxed and "convenience fees" and what not. Don't remember what the final total was.

And yes...it was completely worth every penny.

We were talking DJ'ing here, weren't we?
A Studio is something entirely different.
*looks around him*
Yeah I think I can manage a studio.
As long as it's not digital :D
I mean, there's a banner on my car saying ANALOGAUDIO ;D.
Rather obvious.