For the cost of a Springsteen ticket...

[hurricane hugo]

You could buy 2 of these and have almost a thousand dollars left over!  https://www.premierguitar.com/news/fender-george-harrison-rocky-strat

[Doerfler]

don't know where you buy your tickets. 

I bought 2 tickets (pretty good seats, wanted to be on the floor but they were already gone)

to the DC show March 2023. A little pricey compared to some other shows I have seen recently, but total cost including fees was about 1/3 of the cost of that guitar you posted. 

 

 

[Winston Psmith]

One thing I've noticed lately, when checking on concert tickets - the first links that come up are almost invariably re-seller/ticket broker sites, NOT the link to the venue or the legitimate ticket seller. Very often, these sites will be posting prices for events where tickets haven't even gone on sale, and the prices listed are way beyond face value!

 

Not long ago, a noted D.C. comic, with a huge local following, was doing a show here in D.C., where the re-seller's prices for single seats were more than absurd, in the 4-digit range, but those were often the first prices people saw when they tried to search for tickets. This show was guaranteed to be a sellout event, and thus a serious opportunity for ticket scammers. The situation was so ridiculous, and had local people so angry, it made some local news reports.

 

FWIW, I paid $95 each for floor seats for King Crimson's last D.C. show, and $55 each for floor seats for Steve Hackett, going through the legitimate ticket vendors.

[desertbluesman]

he played locally at a place called Le Garage Discotheque on Long Beach Island Back when he was starting out. Don't remember if I went that night. Mid 70's I think was the era.

[Larryz]

12 hours ago, hurricane hugo said:

You could buy 2 of these and have almost a thousand dollars left over!  https://www.premierguitar.com/news/fender-george-harrison-rocky-strat

 

I'm not a Bruce fan, so I would just stay home, skip the George guitar and save another thousand bucks LoL! 😎

[KuruPrionz]

Live rock concerts by famous people have become so loud that I can only stand to be there with earplugs, which makes them sound like crap. 

 

I saw lots of great concerts back when bands toured to promote album sales and tickets were cheap - I saw the Who on the Tommy tour for $3.50 and the concert with Deep Purple, Fleetwood Mac and Rory Gallagher (who ate everybody's lunch) was $7.50. It's a long list and I have the hearing damage to prove it. 

 

I'll take a hard pass, I'm good...

[Ivan May]

28 minutes ago, KuruPrionz said:

Live rock concerts by famous people have become so loud that I can only stand to be there with earplugs, which makes them sound like crap. 

 

I saw lots of great concerts back when bands toured to promote album sales and tickets were cheap - I saw the Who on the Tommy tour for $3.50 and the concert with Deep Purple, Fleetwood Mac and Rory Gallagher (who ate everybody's lunch) was $7.50. It's a long list and I have the hearing damage to prove it. 

 

I'll take a hard pass, I'm good...

My parents paid $15.00 for Metallica tickets. It's about the bands you like, not the money! That's what a concert should be about!

[desertbluesman]

I never really cared for Bruce as an artist. I went to the same luthier he used, Philip Petillo. And I used to hang around with one of Bruce's friends who knew him, named Fran Moran.

Fran and I met at a local surf shop on Long Beach Island. And he used to hang with Bruce before fame and fortune at the local Surf Shop in Long Branch NJ or thereabouts. At least that was Fran's story.

 

[KuruPrionz]

33 minutes ago, IMMusicRulz said:

My parents paid $15.00 for Metallica tickets. It's about the bands you like, not the money! That's what a concert should be about!

That and the ability to enjoy the music. I'd bet Metallica was way too loud for me to enjoy. 

THAT'S what a concert should be about as well. Since lots of people probably like to hear Metallic at insane volume levels, I'd take a hard pass even if the show was free. 

 

We have some local shows here and there and some venues just don't crank the volume to insane levels. 

I saw David Lindley at the Conway Muse, it sounded great. I also saw him at the Mount Baker Blues Festival and it only sounded good if you stood center stage up close, then the massive stacks of overly loud speakers were off to the sides and not blowing your eardrums out. So that's where I stood, great concert. I had a comp ticket for that one, price was not the issue but volume could have been.

 

On the other hand, Emmylou Harris played a casino well south of Bellingham and tickets were $80 each. It's pretty loud there but not insane. If I hadn't seen Emmylou before (she's one of the greats), I might have gone but that's pretty steep, especially for a venue that allowed people to smoke tobacco indoors (nasty). 

[Doerfler]

10 hours ago, IMMusicRulz said:

My parents paid $15.00 for Metallica tickets. It's about the bands you like, not the money! That's what a concert should be about!

I paid $10.00 to see Led Zepplin. They were worth it.

[Doerfler]

10 hours ago, desertbluesman said:

Fran and I met at a local surf shop on Long Beach Island. And he used to hang with Bruce before fame and fortune at the local Surf Shop in Long Branch NJ or thereabouts. At least that was Fran's story.

 

I have read Bruce Springseen's autobiography. He actually did live and work at a surfboard shop for a while. His parents moved to California and he decided to stay in NJ, he would have been 18 or so, probably 1967/1968

[desertbluesman]

13 hours ago, Doerfler said:

I have read Bruce Springseen's autobiography. He actually did live and work at a surfboard shop for a while. His parents moved to California and he decided to stay in NJ, he would have been 18 or so, probably 1967/1968

I met Fran Moran several years after those years you posted above Doerfler, at a surf shop about 30 to 40 miles south of where Bruce may have hung out.

[p90jr]

On 7/28/2022 at 10:08 AM, KuruPrionz said:

Live rock concerts by famous people have become so loud that I can only stand to be there with earplugs, which makes them sound like crap. 

 

I saw lots of great concerts back when bands toured to promote album sales and tickets were cheap - I saw the Who on the Tommy tour for $3.50 and the concert with Deep Purple, Fleetwood Mac and Rory Gallagher (who ate everybody's lunch) was $7.50. It's a long list and I have the hearing damage to prove it. 

 

I'll take a hard pass, I'm good...

Concert volume has come way down since the 90s... most cities put volume/decibel limits in place., People I know complain about being in Arenas now and not being able to hear the band over the people around them talking on their cell phones.

[p90jr]

The thing about these really high concert tickets is that it is the industry fighting back in way against the high tech scalping operations that use computers to buy up the floor seats and then automatically re-list them for 10x the price... which people pay!!!

A scalping operation can buy out 200 tickets at $400 and sell them for $4000 each... but can they buy 200 tickets at $4000 each and sell them for $8000 each? Probably not... it is about selling the tickets at what the market obviously can and does bear but screwing the people gaming the system for profit.

[KuruPrionz]

8 minutes ago, p90jr said:

Concert volume has come way down since the 90s... most cities put volume/decibel limits in place., People I know complain about being in Arenas now and not being able to hear the band over the people around them talking on their cell phones.

That's good new, I've done my share of hearing damage. 

I've only been to a couple of shows in the last 10 years at venues that were big enough to be loud and they were LOUD. 

I recently resigned from a band that plays smaller venues and they were just too loud. For me, singing with earplugs in slowly drives them out and it's pretty much a no-no to stop the song and push them back in. Amicable parting of the ways, we are all great friends but I don't want to do that anymore or go hear it. Done it and done. 

[p90jr]

13 minutes ago, KuruPrionz said:

That's good new, I've done my share of hearing damage. 

I've only been to a couple of shows in the last 10 years at venues that were big enough to be loud and they were LOUD. 

I recently resigned from a band that plays smaller venues and they were just too loud. For me, singing with earplugs in slowly drives them out and it's pretty much a no-no to stop the song and push them back in. Amicable parting of the ways, we are all great friends but I don't want to do that anymore or go hear it. Done it and done. 

I just started playing with a band where I have to wear earplugs in practice, again... 

[KuruPrionz]

1 minute ago, p90jr said:

I just started playing with a band where I have to wear earplugs in practice, again... 

I hate that, there is simply no good reason for it. 

Now that I am recording all of my songs at home in my humble studio, I truly regret the hearing damage I've sustained. 
I've nobody to blame but myself and I still have most of my hearing but I'm not going to intentionally cause further damage. 

[Larryz]

Always protect your ears when playing gigs, playing at home, practicing, jams, playing large and small venues, listening to music at home or in a car, attending concerts, etc.  The bottom line is: if you think it's too loud, it is! 😎

[surfergirl]

My best friend Alana is deaf, so hearing protection has always been a priority. I learned ASL at about 4 so I could communicate with her and am her unofficial interpreter. Her boyfriend is our drummer, so is always with us at practice, gigs and concerts and she is in charge of the earplugs. 

 

     

[Kathleen Homm]

I saw Bruce when I was 15 (thank God I had a fake college ID from my coworker at an ice cream shop)...$4 if I remember correctly, ( it was almost 50 years ago!) at a place called "Le Garage" on Long Beach Island in 1974. I remember every single detail of it, he was just some skinny, kinda greasy looking guy like a million others on "our" Island.... then he opened his mouth and my heart felt like it exploded.....

[desertbluesman]

On 8/27/2023 at 3:54 PM, Kathleen Homm said:

I saw Bruce when I was 15 (thank God I had a fake college ID from my coworker at an ice cream shop)...$4 if I remember correctly, ( it was almost 50 years ago!) at a place called "Le Garage" on Long Beach Island in 1974. I remember every single detail of it, he was just some skinny, kinda greasy looking guy like a million others on "our" Island.... then he opened his mouth and my heart felt like it exploded.....

@Kathleen Homm I grew up and lived on LBI and went to the Le Garage Discotheque regularly, In fact I may have been there that night. I may also have been tripping that night (Tripping was a regular occurrence for me.back in that era).