RS tickets expensive... How much did you pay for your first concert ticket, year and who was it.

I remember my first concert in 1978. ALICE COOPER $7.50 at the Fresno Selland Arena. About 12000 seats and sold out.



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Dire Straits. Whitla Hall, Belfast (holds about 1700) Dec. 1979. Think it cost about £4.00

40 euro for Urban Jungle 1990.
Tickets in UK this year: 215 euro.

Alice Cooper-chicagofest 1978---free!!!!!!!!!!
priceless!!!!!!!!!

I think the face for my first Stones show (Steel Wheels) was $35. The going rate for tickets for other shows (in theaters & arenas) at the time was $16-$20.

In 1975 saw the Rolling Stones in Philly at the Spectrum (holds 18-19000 seats)- my first concert ever (!!!!!). Tickets were $8.50, holy crap that was cheap! Those were the days. Of course since they were my first rock concert....I was a bit spoiled after that!

First concert (other than free ones at friend's shows like Joe Ely) was Stones 89' Oakland - 1st show, I was 13yo. I think they were $30 or so...caught AC/DC at the Cow Palace soon after...that was $22.50 I think.

Stones - Toronto - 1975 - $12

Ironically that was alot of $ back then.

1975 Rolling Stones Tour of The Americas- $12.50. Inglewood Forum, Los Angeles,CA. My first concert!!

J.J.Flash Wrote:
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> Alice Cooper-chicagofest 1978---free!!!!!!!!!!
> priceless!!!!!!!!!


Must have used your VISA card! Or was it Bankamerica Card back then?

diners club!

I think I spent $18.50 or so to see the Stones at the Superdome in '78. My first ever show Was in '72 or '73 in Atlanta. Rod Stewart & The Faces backed up Three Dog Night at Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium. I bought tickets for my sister and myself to see the show and I was only 12 years old at the time! I don't remember how much the tickets were, but I remember I didn't have to break the piggy-bank to get them, even for a 12 y.o.

I can't remember the first...would've been Heart, Lynyrd Skynyred in 1977. Paid 7.50 to see ZZTop in 1978 and that was the most to date...1981 Stones $15.00.

First rock concert: Doobie Brothers ('76 or '77) Milwaukee Arena $7.50

First Stones concert(s): Steel Wheels at Alpine Valley - front row for 9/9 and 9/11/89 shows. $35 per ticket. I camped out (slept) on sidewalk in front of department store (Boston Store w/TicketMaster)with other Stones fans.

Most recent Stones concert: 10/11/06 at Soldier Field (Chicago). I won a radio contest on a Milwaukee Classic Rock station (WKLH). Priceless!!! (FREE)
The contest...I had to be the first to identify all 10 clips in order.

Go to the following link. Scroll down to the Stones montage and click LISTEN.
(the correct answers are now listed under the pic of the Stones)

[www.wklh.com]

I paid $5.50 for the ticket, it was 1969, Nov 8th at the LA Forum. Forget the name of the band but the lead singer came out in an Uncle Sam top hat and wore all black with a white Leo symbol on his black, long sleeve t-shirt. Singing something about being "born in a cross fire hurricane" There was no fancy stage, fireworks, smoke, backround singers, or any other complicated bullsh*t, just pure Rock and Roll by the best band in the world (at that time) for almost 90 minutes. They came, they turned an 18,000 seat arena into a club,The singer slapped the floor with his giant belt as he sang about being the "Midnight Rambler"...and he MEANT it (the album wasn't even out yet but the song was the highlight of the show), there was no encore - just let us know STREET FIGHTING MAN was gonna be the last one, The singer threw red rose petals into the audience from big baskets, the song ended and they left....and it never happened again after 1969 turned into the 70's - a magical moment, GIMME SHELTER doesn't even do that tour justice, comes close....

First concernt I paid for was The Who, in '79, $10.00....my first Stones show was '81, the expensive tickets for the time...$15.00!!

$10 was the horrifyingly expensive scalper's price for the first concert i ever went to:
the Beatles, 1964 (i was 9 years old and my grandfather paid for it, but i reckon it counts anyway)



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Beatles in 64? That's amazing!

My first Stones concert was May 1976 at Earls Court, London - cost was £2.50!

Bad Company 1979 at Lancaster University about £3.50. I remember being very impressed with the juke box in the student union bar as it had the IORR single on it!

1st show - Allman Brothers and Wet Willie - Macon 1975 - $7.50

1st Stones - W/Van Halen - Orlando 1981 - $15.00, far and away the most I'd ever paid for a ticket!

Johnny Thunders- early -80s. A small town in Sweden. After the show we shock hands and drank some bozze. He was really smacked. Didnt pay anything,sneaked in,as we use to in those days. He had some hot girls with him Ill remember.

Not my first concert, but once paid $2.50 to see Aerosmith, in a theatre...about 2500 seats, 1973.

Darn good show, too.

JR

Alice Cooper @ The Boston Gardens in 1970 ?

Ticket was probably around $10.00

Paid $13 for ticket to JFK in 1978.

Adjusting for US dollar inflation:

5.5 1969 dollars = $29.20 today
13 1978 dollars = $39.61 today
12 1975 dollars = $44.95 today
35 1989 dollars = $54.56 today

June 6,1975, Rolling Stones
$10 in advance/$12.50 at the door

Place:The WHO at the Pontiac Siverdome, Pontiac Michigan
Year: 1979
Price: $11.00 for General admission-Dome was sold out

Frank, Dino and Sammy - 1957 at the Copa and still had change left for a hotbath and a hand job.

Not my first but a special one: 13, featuring Lester Butler in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, January 29th 1998. Price: free (birthday present) :-)
Got a chance to talk with him also. Very nice guy; to bad he's gone.

My first one was - as I recall correctly after all those concerts - U2 with B.B. King in Rotterdam in January 1990. Price: something like 40 gulden (wich is about $50.00)



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trainarollin Wrote:
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> Frank, Dino and Sammy - 1957 at the Copa and still
> had change left for a hotbath and a hand job.


Let me guess - it was Dino who provided it. Amazing what some guys will do after a few drinks....