A mere snip at £6 to see Springsteen from the centre of the front row, for two consecutive nights, Manchester, May 1981 (re-arranged from March).

Well worth standing in line for two days.

LOGIE Wrote:
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> A mere snip at £6 to see Springsteen from the
> centre of the front row, for two consecutive
> nights, Manchester, May 1981 (re-arranged from
> March).
>
I was at the first Wembley show a few days after that, the night before I turned 18. Still to this day the best show I've ever seen. £6.00 also.

Elmo Lewis Wrote:
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> Oh, yeah, one more to my list -
>
>
> On a related note, my worst concert ever was
> Emerson, Lake, and Palmer. WTF was I doing there?

Drinking yourself into a stupor, I hope

In 1981 I saw Muddy Waters in a 300 seat club. I sat front and center, right under his microphone, perhaps five feet from the man himself. When he made his entrance, he smiled at me and held up both his hands. I held mine out, and he gave me skin, slapped me ten. I paid $8.00 for that ticket.

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> In 1981 I saw Muddy Waters in a 300 seat club. I
> sat front and center, right under his microphone,
> perhaps five feet from the man himself. When he
> made his entrance, he smiled at me and held up
> both his hands. I held mine out, and he gave me
> skin, slapped me ten. I paid $8.00 for that
> ticket.


That's amazing...!

Re: ELP

Yeah, Gazza, it was a concert on Thanksgiving night so it sounded like a good excuse to party. Listening to the stereo on the way there was a whole lot better than the show.

A few years later, I saw a better show on Thanksgiving - the first ever show of KR and the X-pensive Winos at the Fox in Atlanta. For those who weren't there - you shouldn't take it so hard!

tatters - that is a true bargain!

Shepherd's Bush - free (perserverance and luck)
Beacon 1 - free (perseverance, luck and big input from little queenie)
Beacon 2 - free (courtesy of paulywaul and his bottle)

Getting hired for the Beacon.

-Drake

Rolling Stones 1975- Tour of the Americas $12.50 U.S.
A.R.M.S. Benefit Concert Tour w/Clapton,Jeff Beck,Joe Cocker,The Firm,Preston/Wyman/Watts 1983- $25.00
Ted Nugent/Rush- 1975 $8.00
Aerosmith/Mott/Montrose- 1975 $8.00
The WHO- 1980- $22.50
Queen- 1977- $13.50
Led Zeppelin -1977 $17.50
Chuck Berry-1978 $12.50
Aerosmith/ACDC- 1978 $15.00
David Bowie/Lenny Kravitz-1990 $27.50
Bob Segar & Silver Bullet Band- 1995 $27.50
Rolling Stones/Guns & Roses/Living Color- 1981 $30.00
Lou Reed 1980- $15.00
The Police/The Fixx/Berlin-1983 $25.00

Stones @ Beacon 2006-$25

not counting the Stones...

all for $20 (give or take a dollar or two)

Chuck Berry; Tramps, NYC, about 10 years ago. i heard so mny horror stories about him, i was hoping for an hour show, we got 1 1/2 hours of great music and a great show (also a girl named Marcia Ball opened, and was so good, I have about 4 of her CDs now)

Johnny Johnson; Bottom Line, NYC another great show, I was sitting next to the stage where i could watch him play...awesome;

Chris Jagger; Bottom Line, again right on the stage, plus I got to meet MIck who was in the audience [if you ever get the chance to see Chris, go, he has some really good stuff]

probably a few other bargains i am not thinking of, but its late, the Vikings got knocked out of the playoffs and the wrong guy just won Survivor, so I am going to bed...

The Stones for FREE at the Staples Center benefit during 40 Licks tour.
Ended up with front row B-stage seats, and witnessed Midnight Rambler in all it's glory...
probably the single best highlight of any concert I've ever attended.

Gazza Wrote:
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> LOGIE Wrote:
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> > A mere snip at £6 to see Springsteen from the
> > centre of the front row, for two consecutive
> > nights, Manchester, May 1981 (re-arranged from
> > March).
> >
> I was at the first Wembley show a few days after
> that, the night before I turned 18. Still to this
> day the best show I've ever seen. £6.00 also.

After about the third song in, my older brother turned to me and said, "Is this really happening?".

Yes, it was THAT good!

Stones/J.Giels/G.Thorogood Candlestick Park 81- $15.50

U2 San Jose State Student Union 80-81? -free concert

U2- Embarcaderro San Francisco -86 -free mini concert

Afghan Whigs- Cactus Club San Jose -94 (free because I met the band by chance before the gig at another bar and after agreeing that Exile was the best album ever made they gave me a free ticket.- True story)



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In 1977, the Stones played a small club called the El Mocambo in Toronto. A local radio station held a contest, “send us a letter telling us why we should give you free tickets”. I don’t remember what I wrote now but they must have liked my letter.

You're a 'jammy' bastard, Mr Marmalade!

About 80-90% of the at least 200-300 concerts I attended in the 70's were for free. This includes Stones, Bruce, Who, Zep, Floyd, Dead, Zappa, Allmans, Clapton, Bowie, Roxy, Beck(Jeff, that is) and too many more to remember. One of my housemates was an FM DJ and another was the concert reviewer for the local newspaper. Those were the days when the record industry was fat, dumb and happy and there were freebies galore to be had. And because they were tix from the record company, they were usually in the first ten rows or first section side stage. Admittedly, there was some dreck too. But my reward for enduring the dreck was the quality shows like those mentioned above. The only band I ever turned down a free ticket to see was the always and forever utterly detestable Styx. A man has to have some standards!

The Stones played in 1978 at the Masonic Theater in downtown Detroit not the Michigan Theater.

The Rolling Stones + The Hives at Stockholm Globe Arena, VIP section, July 2003.
Flights from Italy, limo, 5 star hotel, meals, drinks and tickets for free courtesy
of SAS Scandinavian Airlines.
My company is their #1 customer in Italy.

Hey, Gazza, what is a 'jammy' bastard??

Rammstein at the Palace in 1998. Had no clue who they even were but I was in the neighborhood and someone on the street handed me a free ticket. Still hands down the greatest show I have ever seen in my life by anyone. Also found a hat in the pit and Rob Halford's Two opened.

others:
(Free) Rolling Stones NDRC STaples show 2003 the rest in 2006: Mark Knopfler/Emmylou Harris, The New Cars/Blondie, Ringo Starr & His All Starr Band, James Gang, Mudhoney (won tix - best show this year!), Cheap Trick.

Pixies - all 4 shows at the Wiltern Theatre 2005 for a total of $10

Devo/A Flock Of Seagulls/Bow Wow Wow 2nd row for $25

Aerosmith/Motley Crue 3rd row center $100 (price was reduced from $200 a few weeks prior then I got the ticket the day of the show on TM)

Bruce Springsteen Dodger Stadium 2003 $20
Beastie Boys Universal Amph 2004 2 tix for free and couldnt even give away the extra

The Who both Hollywood Bowl shows $10 each
The Cure/Interpol $5
Actually most concerts I pay in the $5-20 range. I don't really think they are worth much more to be honest, especially classic rock gigs. Sometimes I will pay a lot for a really good seat but only rarely.

Stones 1/13/2006 $30 a seat from a guy outside FleetCenter.
Stones 9/20/2006 $22.50 a seat on TicketMaster for teh Foxboro show.

This made up for the $250 I paid for the On Stage seats at Hartford in 2005.

Schaefer Music Festival in Central Park in the 70s; I think tickets were
five dollars for top notch acts; but then again, everything is relative
due to inflation..looking back, everything was a bargain back then;

Reading Festival 1972 - a three day festival with bands like The Faces, Ten Years After, Electric Light Orchestra and many many more great bands - for 3.25 pounds, camping and parking included.

Marmalade Wrote:
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> Hey, Gazza, what is a 'jammy' bastard??


Jammy means lucky.

Or - it can mean full of jam (as in marmalade). :-)

I think we ended up paying 40 pence per ticket ... it doesn't seem possible ... plus, the seats turned out not to be obstructed and were just to the side of the stage ... 1973 ... one of the top five shows i've seen ... probably no. 1 or 2 ...

Hmmmm... I don't remember how much it was exactly, but walking from the first Gothenburg concert in 1982 we - my then gf and I - were offered tickets for half the price for next days' concert by scalpers.

They were bona fide tickets - as I had the my own to compare with - and I can't for the death of me remember why I passed on the offer? Maybe because I was sober? You could not for the life of you get a drink at any concerts in Sweden back then.

Wonder if that has changed?

January 1973 - Stones at the HIC Arena in Honolulu. $6.50
October 2006 - Stones at the Beacon Theater. $28.50

Lynyrd Skynyrd.......Raleigh,NC........2/6/75............$5.00

Eric Clapton.............Greensboro,NC.......8/29/75........$6.50

Allman Brothers........Duke University........11/14/75......$5.50

The Who........Greensboro,NC.......11/28/75........$7.50

Grateful Dead (Blues For Allah tour)......Duke University.....9/23/76......$6.00

Little Feat (yeah, with Lowell George).......Charlotte,NC.....9/16/78.....$6.00


and in comparison.....this was a lot of money to me at the time (I was 15):
Elton John 11/8/74 Greensboro, NC $7.00



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