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JumpinJackOLantern
Invite three friends and charge them $13.00 each. See the show for one dollar.
invite a dozen enemies and charge $20/head...and be like the band
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njlstones815
I agree with BV if you don't want to pay the prices then just stay home!
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Monkeytonkman
Oh I do hope the tickets for the proposed shows this year aren't as extortionate as last year.
I understand some people here who are comfortably secure financially really don't give a fig about prices. But from a band that recorded Salt of the Earth and began concerts with Fanfare for the Common Man. It does appear slighty hypocritical
Free gig I say in Hyde Park!
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njlstones815
I agree with BV if you don't want to pay the prices then just stay home!
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Edith Grove
At this point, it's a rather moot argument whether or not they can fill arenas at ridiculous prices.
As for if they can do that on an extended basis however, the debate remains and I appreciate having this thread open for discussion.
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Munichhilton
When they were at the top of their game and well worth it we could afford every show...now they are hardly worth it and we can't afford to go...
I'm losing track of the logic.
Is this just a chance for the folks who have passed on seeing them to pay up and get a final chance?
The words to Luxury come to mind
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Munichhilton
When they were at the top of their game and well worth it we could afford every show...now they are hardly worth it and we can't afford to go...
I'm losing track of the logic.
Is this just a chance for the folks who have passed on seeing them to pay up and get a final chance?
The words to Luxury come to mind
Meanwhile Clapton's at the top of his game and is coming to a town near you soon for a fraction of what these bastards charge.
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Munichhilton
When they were at the top of their game and well worth it we could afford every show...now they are hardly worth it and we can't afford to go...
I'm losing track of the logic.
Is this just a chance for the folks who have passed on seeing them to pay up and get a final chance?
The words to Luxury come to mind
Meanwhile Clapton's at the top of his game and is coming to a town near you soon for a fraction of what these bastards charge.
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Munichhilton
When they were at the top of their game and well worth it we could afford every show...now they are hardly worth it and we can't afford to go...
I'm losing track of the logic.
Is this just a chance for the folks who have passed on seeing them to pay up and get a final chance?
The words to Luxury come to mind
Meanwhile Clapton's at the top of his game and is coming to a town near you soon for a fraction of what these bastards charge.
Does that mean I saw him when he wasn't worth it? If 2013 is the top of his game where abouts was he in 1978-1985
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Munichhilton
When they were at the top of their game and well worth it we could afford every show...now they are hardly worth it and we can't afford to go...
I'm losing track of the logic.
Is this just a chance for the folks who have passed on seeing them to pay up and get a final chance?
The words to Luxury come to mind
Meanwhile Clapton's at the top of his game and is coming to a town near you soon for a fraction of what these bastards charge.
Does that mean I saw him when he wasn't worth it? If 2013 is the top of his game where abouts was he in 1978-1985
He was as bad as everyone else in the 80's. He's sorry, but it wasn't all his fault.
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Munichhilton
When they were at the top of their game and well worth it we could afford every show...now they are hardly worth it and we can't afford to go...
I'm losing track of the logic.
Is this just a chance for the folks who have passed on seeing them to pay up and get a final chance?
The words to Luxury come to mind
Meanwhile Clapton's at the top of his game and is coming to a town near you soon for a fraction of what these bastards charge.
Does that mean I saw him when he wasn't worth it? If 2013 is the top of his game where abouts was he in 1978-1985
He was as bad as everyone else in the 80's. He's sorry, but it wasn't all his fault.
Don't refer to Phil Collins in the 4th person...
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Munichhilton
When they were at the top of their game and well worth it we could afford every show...now they are hardly worth it and we can't afford to go...
I'm losing track of the logic.
Is this just a chance for the folks who have passed on seeing them to pay up and get a final chance?
The words to Luxury come to mind
Meanwhile Clapton's at the top of his game and is coming to a town near you soon for a fraction of what these bastards charge.
Does that mean I saw him when he wasn't worth it? If 2013 is the top of his game where abouts was he in 1978-1985
He was as bad as everyone else in the 80's. He's sorry, but it wasn't all his fault.
Don't refer to Phil Collins in the 4th person...
EC would have fared better with Phil Donahue producing....
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drbryant
I love Eric Clapton, and I've seen him countless times over the years in Tokyo (he is very popular here - he once played a month's worth of shows at Budokan). But he charges a fraction of what the Stones charge because people want to see the Stones.
I do hope that they play a couple festivals so that everyone will have a chance to see them one last time. That would be a nice gesture. But if you want to see them in an arena, I don't see prices going lower.
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Naturalust
They do it because they don't have other marketable skills. Never needed a backup plan. The market will bear these prices so let it rip, be proud that people value a good rock show so much.
My only complaint is that this kind of opportunity is almost non-existent for most acts in today's music market and culture. Only these dinosaurs from our past can create the hype necessary to pull it off. When they are gone I hope people contuinue to be willing to spend BIG $ for live original music acts. peace