Basil C. Thurston III |
01-02-2016 12:25 AM |
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Originally Posted by Two Spirit
(Post 1665865)
The problem is that they're charging way above a simple $50-$60 ticket, which would easily turn a profit a couple times over with that many seats. I know veteran acts charge out the ass all the time, but $250 and up is just inexcusable, especially for a band that only has one great album, a semi-decent double album, a covers album that nobody asked for, and a "comeback" record that took fifteen years to record.
Any other band would have faded in popularity with such little material and band infighting that these guys have, and yet people are still willing to throw hundreds of their hard-earned money at these guys who haven't recorded anything together in over twenty years. How they're still relevant in any sense is mind boggling.
Appetite was a damn fine record and seeing most of that lineup again would be pretty cool, but too much time has passed for me for it to be worth it, not to mention the ridiculous ticket prices.
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I understand what you're saying, but the days of a $50-60 ticket for a mega-band concert are long gone. It's 2016 now, for a stadium-show, I fully expect prices to be over $100 for crappy seats- for ANY artist. I mean, Janet Jackson was scheduled to play here (now cancelled) and she was charging $150 for nosebleeds at the rear of the arena.
You have to consider that a GNR reunion tour is a mega-event. They were the biggest band in the WORLD for a 5 year period- nobody came close to touching them, and a couple of generations call them "their" Led Zeppelin. That's big. It will be a massive money-maker, in merchandise alone much more than ticket sales, IMO. The hard core GNR fans will eat this up and hit multiple shows. The casual fans will go because it's the thing to do in town that night- and they don't know the catalog, they're going to hear 3-4 songs at best anyways. Rock fans will go because it won't ever happen again and some of them missed it the first go round.
I personally don't think they put out a bad album. I was hugely disappointed in Chinese Democracy because it was too much production- if they ever go back and strip it down, go more with a live sound, it'd be much easier to swallow. Everything else is very, very good, IMO. Go back and revisit the early stuff, you might find you hear things you missed before. I know I dismissed the live album the first time around but now it's one of my favs.
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