crustine wrote:Wow Gail I am impressed 2000!! I guess I never really thought about this but I did work in a bar where we had live music every night (before bars were open on Sundays) and worked 3 nights a week for 3 years so that is 52x3x3=468..this being in my head so that is over 500 eeks. I was referring to stadium shows and yes going to concerts is way toooo expensive.
Haha Open on SUnday nights. I remember that. My friend and I use to go to this bar/club every Friday and Saturday between 18-2 years of age. We saw bands there. We saw Metallica back then.
crustine wrote:I wanted to see coldplay but the $70 was a bit steep and I realllly wanted to catch DMB with my son but it was going to be over $200 for the two of us. Ah for the days of $11 concerts.
The first time I saw the Grateful Dead in Rochester it was 11 bucks. Oh how times have changed. At least OLP hasn't been that much.
I got lucky with Coldplay this year. Night before their show I went on line and got a ticket for aboput $40.. Obstructive view. okay. here was my obstruction. The band on stage. The section I was in-front row( my seat) was right on stage. We had best seats in the house. If we were one section over the same ticket would of cost about $80.00.. I lucked out there. Actually I luck out alot in shows. Learned how to work the system over th eyears. They hold back tickets for arena shows here( usually guest list seats and such) they toss them back into the system so alot of tiems a few days before the show or day of you can get really good seats.. My friends and I don't do early sales anymore.. we wait till the show .
as for shows. I remember paying $7.00 for a show. They had the pier shows in NYC during the summer.. As for OLP-cheapest was Free-most expensive was about $50.00( they were the support act)
crustine wrote:Wow you are lucky to see U2. I cant seem to get tickets no matter how hard i try, they sell out in minutes. Oh how i miss mail order tickets from GD. It was always such a surprise when you recieved your tickets and they were special printed tickets with various band logos.
I tell people this all the time about U2-yet they never seem to believe me. the band holds tickets for all shows. THey release them the day of the show through box office. You have to be willing to wait or have someone wait for you.. I got tickets for shows like that on both this and last tour like that. Alot of U2 fans will tell you this. How else do you think they go to shows. I met people who went to about 30 shows on this tour. WOW. Most I ever saw any band on one tour was OLP..
I remeber when you could go to box office day of sales to get tickets. Not now.. YOu have to do ticketmaster and with perfessional scalpers out ther enow you don't get good seats anymore.
crustine wrote: am hoping to see Jane Sibery at the end of January and the Indigo girls in Feb and of course i am keeping my fingers crossed that OLP will be playing more shows in the new year.
I know OLP are suppose to do a Canadian tour sometime in the New Year and there was talk of Europe. other then that don;t know where they are playing. good lcuk with Indigo girls
MY next show is Secret Machines for a Katrina benefit and David Usher in a bar in NYC. he actually has atip bucket.. LOL.