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pud
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Sportbikeville
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Topic Author's Original Post - Dec 19, 2007 - 04:21pm PT
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Zepplin - 3rd row at the Forum $7.25
The Dead - Folsom Field $12.00
Jethro Tull - Long Beach Arena $12.50
The Who - Colloseum $15.00
Black Sabbath - Long Beach $5.50
Queen - The Forum $7.50
Deep Purple - Long Beach $6.50
Rush - The Forum $7.50
Jeff Beck - Pacific Amp. $7.50
Kiss/Nugent/Segar/Flo&Eddie - Fesival at L Beach Stadium $10.00
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Starlight Amp. 10/01/76 $6.85
J.Geils - Starlight Amp. $6.50
Neil Young and crazy Horse - Universal Amp. $17.50
Blackmores Rainbow - Starlight Amp. $7.85
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screelover
Mountain climber
Canuckistan
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Dec 19, 2007 - 04:28pm PT
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A trip down not-so-clear memory lane.
If you want to see what inflation does to these prices, go here:
http://www.minneapolisfed.org/research/data/us/calc/
I ran the $12/1980 Grateful Dead ticket through - it comes to $30.05 in 2007 $$. Still sounds like a heck of a deal!
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FeelioBabar
climber
Sneaking up behind you...
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Dec 19, 2007 - 04:29pm PT
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$129.95, and getting that feathered hottie back to your freshly airbrushed van for some heavy petting...
priceless.
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TwistedCrank
climber
Ideeho
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Dec 19, 2007 - 04:33pm PT
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What about the blotter?
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bluering
Trad climber
Santa Clara, Ca.
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Dec 19, 2007 - 04:36pm PT
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Skynyrd in 1976, that was prior to the crash, right?
I woulda liked to see Ronnie Van Zant singin' in person. Just ain't the same without him (and all the others).
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scuffy b
climber
Stump with a backrest
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Dec 19, 2007 - 04:40pm PT
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Fillmore Auditoreum 8/67 $3.00
Electric Flag
Cream
Gary Burton Quartet
Winterland 1/68 $3.00
Jimi Hendrix Experience
Albert King
John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers
with unannounced bonus appearance of
Big Brother and the Holding Company
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goatboy smellz
climber
colorado
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Dec 19, 2007 - 04:48pm PT
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[url="http://www.archive.org/details/gd80-06-08.eaton.tome.7193.sbefail.shnf"]Ain't nobody messin with you but you
your friends are getting most concerned
loose with the truth
maybe it's your fire
but baby...I hope you don't get burned[/url]
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Clint Cummins
Trad climber
SF Bay area, CA
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Dec 19, 2007 - 08:07pm PT
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sorted by date:
1975 6 6.5 J. Geils Band
1975 10 10 Elton John
1975 10 6.85 Lynyrd Skynyrd
1976 3 6.5 Orchestra
1976 8 7.85 Blackmore's Rainbow
1977 11 ? Aerosmith
1980 1 7.5 Grateful Dead, Beach Boys, J. Baez, Devadip C. Santana
1980 6 12 Grateful Dead (2 tickets)
1985 2 6.5 Rush
1986 11 17.5 Neil Young & Crazy Horse
1988 1 25 Stadium Motocross
1989 10 30.5 The Rolling Stones, Guns N' Roses
? 6 7.5 Jeff Beck
? 8 15 Who (2 tickets)
? 8 10 Kiss / Nugent
? 9 12.5 Jethro Tull
? ? 7.75 Queen
? ? 7.5 Black Sabbath
? ? 8.75 Bad Co.
? ? 5.5 Black Sabbeth
? ? 6.5 Deep Purple
? ? 7.5 Led Zeppelin
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Gary
climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Dec 19, 2007 - 08:16pm PT
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1972 Canned Heat -- Roberts Stadium -- $2.50
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Hardman Knott
Gym climber
Muir Woods National Monument, Mill Valley, Ca
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Dec 19, 2007 - 08:39pm PT
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This thread is kick ASSSSSS™ ™ ™ ™ ™
I went to Day On The Green (Oakland Coliseum) in 1976 - I don't remember how much the tickets were,
but it was Fleetwood Mac, Gary Wright. UFO, and Peter Frampton. I was 14, and Stevie Nicks was HOT.
I got so stoned that I passed out, but when I came to, I was still standing - such was the crowd.
Peter Frampton was singing "Do you feel like I do"...Awesome!
Then in 1986 I saw John Lee Hooker play at The Last Day Saloon (4th and Clement)
for the princely sum of $6.00. And let's knott forget The Red Hot Chilli Peppers at
the Ibeam on Haight Street for $6.00 in '85...
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Dec 19, 2007 - 08:58pm PT
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Grateful Dead in Golden Gate Park c 1972-76 - free
Jefferson Airplane Golden Gate Park c 1972-76 - free
most "2nd tier" rock and roll bands touring the Bay Area - lower Sproul Plaza UCB c 1972-76 - free
Beach Boys, Central Park NYC, 1978 - free
Anti-Nuclear Rally, multiple big name acts, c. 1980 - free
let me think a bit more...
The Who, WInterland c. 1976 I think $10/ticket... by lottery...
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Hardman Knott
Gym climber
Muir Woods National Monument, Mill Valley, Ca
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Dec 19, 2007 - 09:13pm PT
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Ah yes - the Panhandle of Golden Gate park...
Jimi Hendrix (a week after Monterey Pop, 1967 - age 6; remember it well).
Grateful Dead - too many times to count.
Country Joe and The Fish, Big Brother and The Holding Company...
Edit: Damn, I still remember the chorus of my then-favorite song:
It's one, two three, what are we fighting for?
Don't ask me, I don't give a damn, next stop is Vietnam
And it's five, six seven, open up the pearly gates (whoopee)
Well there ain't no time to wonder why,
Whoopee! we're all gonna die.
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mark miller
Social climber
Reno
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Dec 19, 2007 - 09:16pm PT
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Yeah all the bands I've seen for under 10 bucks.
J geils
Cheap trick
Ted Nuggent
Van Halen
Yes
Y & T
Blue Oyster cult
Jeff beck
Foghat
Lynard Sknyard
Gregg Kihn
Tom Petty
A ST Fav. Eddie Money( excellent show actually)
Pat Traverse ( with Pat Thrall and Carmen Apiece)
Savoy Brown ( Kim Simmons was incredible)
Heart
Sammy Hagar
Montrose
Probably 50 more that I can't recall......
the late 70's were the sh#t.........
Sh#t in Reno at that time for a 2 drink minimum ($5) I have seen
Bo Didley
BTO
Sammy Davis
Humperdinck
Wayne Newton
BB KING Alot
I've Seen Pink flyod and the firm in Oakland but I think I had to cough up $20 for those tickets.....
In those days you could afford to see live entertainment, The Promoters have ruined it.
I've only seen 3 bands in the last year Marshall Tucker in Vegas $75 a ticket, David Matthews in Vegas in March $85 a ticket and G3 with Satriani and Paul Gilbert at $55 a ticket. I think I'll just keep downloading my favorite music off Limewire, and live in my cave.......
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Hardman Knott
Gym climber
Muir Woods National Monument, Mill Valley, Ca
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Dec 19, 2007 - 09:21pm PT
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Hey Russ - just looked up the lyrics to my favorite pinko commie anti-war song...
LOL!!
The Fish Cheer & I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-To-Die Rag
Gimme an F!
F!
Gimme an I!
I!
Gimme an S!
S!
Gimme an H!
H!
What's that spell ?
FISH!
What's that spell ?
FISH!
What's that spell ?
FISH!
Yeah, come on all of you, big strong men,
Uncle Sam needs your help again.
He's got himself in a terrible jam
Way down yonder in Vietnam
So put down your books and pick up a gun,
We're gonna have a whole lotta fun.
And it's one, two, three,
What are we fighting for ?
Don't ask me, I don't give a damn,
Next stop is Vietnam;
And it's five, six, seven,
Open up the pearly gates,
Well there ain't no time to wonder why,
Whoopee! we're all gonna die.
Well, come on generals, let's move fast;
Your big chance has come at last.
Gotta go out and get those reds —
The only good commie is the one who's dead
And you know that peace can only be won
When we've blown 'em all to kingdom come.
And it's one, two, three,
What are we fighting for ?
Don't ask me, I don't give a damn,
Next stop is Vietnam;
And it's five, six, seven,
Open up the pearly gates,
Well there ain't no time to wonder why
Whoopee! we're all gonna die.
Huh!
Well, come on Wall Street, don't move slow,
Why man, this is war au-go-go.
There's plenty good money to be made
By supplying the Army with the tools of the trade,
Just hope and pray that if they drop the bomb,
They drop it on the Viet Cong.
And it's one, two, three,
What are we fighting for ?
Don't ask me, I don't give a damn,
Next stop is Vietnam.
And it's five, six, seven,
Open up the pearly gates,
Well there ain't no time to wonder why
Whoopee! we're all gonna die.
Well, come on mothers throughout the land,
Pack your boys off to Vietnam.
Come on fathers, don't hesitate,
Send 'em off before it's too late.
Be the first one on your block
To have your boy come home in a box.
And it's one, two, three
What are we fighting for ?
Don't ask me, I don't give a damn,
Next stop is Vietnam.
And it's five, six, seven,
Open up the pearly gates,
Well there ain't no time to wonder why,
Whoopee! we're all gonna die.
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arsenalcrater
Trad climber
Vista, CA
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Dec 19, 2007 - 09:26pm PT
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Let's see, I was a creature of the 80's Bay Area thrash metal scene, but here is what I remember:
1985 Day on the Green @ the Oakland Coloseum w/ Victory, Y&T, Yngwie Malsteen, Metallica (the only band we were interested in), Ratt and Scorpion = $27.95/Gerneral Admission
1985 New Years Eve Fest @ the San Francisco Convension Center w/ Megadeth, Metal Church, Exodus and Metallica = $22.50/General Admission
1986 @ the Stone San Francisco w/ Megadeth and King Diamond = $16.99/General Admission
1987 @ the Omni Oakland w/ Vio-lence, Forbidden and Testament = $13.99/General Admission
Fast Forward:
2006 @ the Mystic Theatre in Pataluma w/ Groundation = $15.00/General Admission
2006 @ Caesars Palace w/ Stevie Nicks = $250.00 (section pcor3 - row NN - seat 309)
2007 @ the Orpheum Theatre Flagstaff w/ Testament = $22.00/General Admission
2007 @ the Dodge Theatre in Phoenix w/ Stevie Nicks = $500.00 (row 2 - seat 5...pretty much front and center stage)
Interesting thread; I had just as much fun (if not more) at the Reggae and thrash show then I did at the high priced Stevie shows, although a weekend in Vegas pretending to be a player is priceless.
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goatboy smellz
climber
colorado
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Dec 19, 2007 - 09:42pm PT
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Some highlights...
The Flaming Lips & Bad Brains
Night Owl Bottle Lounge, Pensacola '87 - Free
Public Enemy & a Tribe Called Quest
Brooklyn Arts Center '90 - $15
Sonic Youth & Sun Ra Orchestra
Central Park Summer Stage NYC '91 - Free
Pearl Jam & Bongwater
CBGB's '92 - $10
Rage Against the Machine
Red Rocks '97 - $20
Lee Scratch Perry & the Mad Professor
Fox Theatre '98 - Free
Aimee Mann & Richard Thompson
Chautauqua '05 - Priceless
plus a few miracles...[url="http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=%28collection%3AGratefulDead%20OR%20mediatype%3AGratefulDead%29%20AND%20-mediatype%3Acollection&sort=%2Fmetadata%2Fdate"]EVERYDAY...[/url]
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pud
climber
Sportbikeville
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 19, 2007 - 10:15pm PT
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I didn't keep the ticket stubs to these:
Blue Oyster Cult
Bob Dylan
Blood Sweat & Tears
Steppenwolf
Johnny Winter
The Guess Who
Oingo Boingo
Metallica
Jefferson Starship
Emerson Lake and Palmer
Genesis
and a few others I'm sure i forget...
Those were wild times. It was great :)
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S.Leeper
Sport climber
Austin, Texas
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Dec 19, 2007 - 10:20pm PT
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I paid 6.50 to see Rush on their moving pictures tour at Faverhalle in Germany in '81.
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Splater
climber
Grey Matter
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Dec 19, 2007 - 11:09pm PT
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Blasters (Phil Alvin, no Dave, but the lead guitar guy is great) Adams Ave street Fair Sept 2007, Free
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Gary
climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Dec 20, 2007 - 01:16am PT
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New Year's Eve 1974 -- Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Coliseum-- Bob Seeger and Ted Nugent in a Battle of the Guitars. Seegar won. Couldn't hear for three days after.
Priceless!
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nita
climber
chica from chico, I don't claim to be a daisy
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Dec 20, 2007 - 01:38am PT
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Me Dancing, playing-either the Dead or Los Lobos..Somewhere,I have a bunch of old tickets stubs.
Ok, not all Rock n'roll...
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mojede
Trad climber
Butte, America
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Dec 20, 2007 - 01:42am PT
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Fugazi--1992, $6.00, the Anaconda in Isla Vista, CA.
Man, I love the true punk mentality.
Cheap, never-ending mosh-pit, YOWZA.
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Jaybro
Social climber
The West
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Dec 20, 2007 - 02:24am PT
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Amazing stuff, too much to even comment on... Scuff, where you AT that 1/68 show? Jimi, Janis, Albert, nobody can ask that much of life, espescially for under n,$!
I was at the 'Who's Dead' Concert, (Grateful Dead, and the Who [obscure brit band with wind mill armswinging lead guitarist]) Oaktown Colonsee'um oct 9(?)1976. Pretty sure we got two tickets and a T-shirt for under $20.
btw, I'n eye be downloading all those dead links in the by 'n' by. Gathering what wasn't even spilled.
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Jaybro
Social climber
The West
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Dec 20, 2007 - 02:33am PT
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Moj, I saw X, with, the world's grestest Kissers, (what ever happened to them?)in Reno circa, '95. Drank maybe 10 G & Ts. ran the Mammoth marathon two days later. Felt every Gin and Tonic, as I crossed that finish line...
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healyje
Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
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Dec 20, 2007 - 02:48am PT
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Dylan - Hard Rain @ Fort Collins, May 23, 1976 - $16;
Climbing at Horsetooth before the show - $0;
Being fifty feet from Scarlet Rivera while tripping - priceless.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rssxrTmpm48
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nita
climber
chica from chico, I don't claim to be a daisy
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Dec 20, 2007 - 03:10am PT
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Jaybro, I've seen X about three times, last time..late 90's at- The Crest Theater in Sacto before they renovated. These days it's probably easier to catch the Knitters..I've seen them for free -several times lately. Band is usually- John Doe,Exene, Bonebrake and Dave Alvin...no Billy Zoom... They are Great Fun!
http://youtube.com/watch?v=PPuQPJLxW8o&feature=related
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Tomcat
Trad climber
Chatham N.H.
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Dec 20, 2007 - 07:22am PT
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Backstage in Philadelphia for The Who......like we had seats behind the stage...lol.Saw them from the front once too.
Genesis,Jackson Browne,Orleans(Great),Blondie,and god knows who all at those monster concerts they used to have at the Spectrum
I too saw ST favorite Eddie Money on tour #1 and it was great.
7th row sit down for Beck at Spectrum on Blow by Blow tour and that was unbelieveable.Beck was like 2 guitarists.
Date stood me up so did not see Skynyrd,right before the crash,woe is me....
Frampton.We used to go to this little theatre in Cementon Pa. that got big acts sometimes.Saw him there and a big venue later.
Several Cheap tricks.Couldn't hear after them....
J.Geils once on a whim,was outstanding.
And Springsteen all around Jersey.
Both Winter brothers,Edgar and Johnny.
Oh Yeah !! Joe Walsh was the first concert.Eagles too.
Thin Lizzy.
Tim Mcgraw in Vegas was pretty great too.Tradchick and I saw Roger Waters last year and it was like going back in time...
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AP
Trad climber
Calgary
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Dec 20, 2007 - 01:09pm PT
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World Music, not Rock, but Womad Seattle was a great deal when it was running in the late 90'-2002. $65 for the whole weekend with 6 or 7 stages. A few people I saw there: Youssou N'Dour, Peter Gabriel, Afro Celt Soundsystem, Ali Farka Toure, Bonnie Raite, Thomas Mapfumo, Joan Baez.
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scuffy b
climber
Stump with a backrest
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Dec 20, 2007 - 02:46pm PT
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Yeah, Jaybro, I was at those shows and lots more. Just gave two
examples of the 3-band 3-buck ballroom scene.
Seeing Cream at the Fillmore, the crowd was sparse enough that I
could walk up to the stage and watch Clapton from 3 feet away.
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the Fet
Knackered climber
A bivy sack in the secret campground
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Dec 20, 2007 - 07:16pm PT
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Cool thread, I was just thinking about scanning all my old tix.
Things were reasonable until the late 90s. 80s was still under $15. 90s got up to $25 to $35.
Then the greedy ass Rolling "lame" Stones jumped to $55 in about 1995. I almost canceled my purchase while on the phone to ticketmaster but went anyway. They performed well, but not worth it. Prices kept going up since then, and I've seen far less concerts.
VH is in Oakland Saturday. $60+ for cheap seats, $175 for floor and lower level, you kidding me??? I'm going to go to the parking lot and score some tickets for under face, since there's lot's of tickets floating around that people need to get rid of.
Funny that Hannah Montana is the hot, sold old concert this year, but VH still has tix available.
It will be interesting to see if Led Zep tours what will happen. I saw them on the Page and Plant tour (1995?) and was suprised that I was able to hit Cal Expo just before the doors opened and still got 2nd row in the pit.
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the Fet
Knackered climber
A bivy sack in the secret campground
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Dec 20, 2007 - 07:24pm PT
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On another note anyone scored some cool stuff from the musicians?
I've got a few guitar picks, but my best was seeing Blues Traveler at the fillmore. I hadn't heard of them before the show. I was blown away and loved em. This was just before they broke big with runaound.
And the end of the show John Popper's walking off the stage and looks me in the eye (I was 1st row), I gave him a big thumbs up. He stops reaches into his pocket pulls out a harmonica and tosses it right to me. I still play it.
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Gary
climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Dec 20, 2007 - 08:27pm PT
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On another note anyone scored some cool stuff from the musicians?
I interviewed Brownsville Station and Ted Nugent for the Evansville North High School North Star.
Those guys from Brownsville Station were out having the time of their lives. They were headlining, just having had their big hit Smoking in the Boy's Room.
My article was a big hit, though it failed to elevate me above dweeb status.
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Jaybro
Social climber
The West
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Dec 20, 2007 - 10:56pm PT
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A brilliant clip, Nita. I think it's those tight, minor chord, almost atonal, harmonies(among other things) that made, X and, seemingly, the knitters. Very cool stuff!
Mr Smooth, you continue to amaze me, wonder if Fred caught that one? I will direct him. His kind of story.
One time, when I was underage, my brother (Chasbro, the articulate lawyer) talked the bouncers that be, into letting Michele (Natalie's Mom) and I (we were both younger then than Natalie is now, 17 I believe)into an Elvyn Bishop Show at the Keystone™ in Berkeley. Gideon and Power (anyone remember him? he truly rocked!) was warmup. Halfway through EB's first set a guy stood up from the table next to us and joined the band;
"Here's my buddy, Dickie Betts!"
After a scortching solo, Mr Bishop fanned his hat in front of the betts guitar, to cool it off (fifteen years later I saw him do that for Jerry)
Now that, was part of the days 'those days', are made of. fortunately they still occur now and then!
$2 cover / $3 pitchers
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Dec 21, 2007 - 12:04am PT
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Never had the forethought to save my stubs. Damn.
But some of the best memories are available on disc because I used to regularly go to the Fillmore East where tickets ran $4.50 and, for the better seats, $5.50.
Santana, 4th row center comes to mind.
B. B. King blew the house down.
CSN&Y performed cultural icons.
The New Riders opened for the Dead and Jerry played all night.
Ike and Tina put the show on.
Free's live renditions sounded even better than the studio versions.
Buddy Miles was a great performer.
But absolutely, positively the best regular weekend bill was in April , '71 when Elvin Bishop was followed by Johnny Winter who was followed by,..... (well on the saturday there was a bomb scare that emptied the place before,.....) yeah baby; The Allman Brothers Band.
On the night of the scare Elvin Bishop brought out Dickey Betts and Duane Allman for a jam.
That "night" I got home at 6:30 and got busted by my mom, but it didn't stop me from going back to see the Allman Brothers close the house for all time that June.
Closed to the public on the final night I used my climbing skill to get in, but thats another story,..
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mojede
Trad climber
Butte, America
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Dec 21, 2007 - 01:10am PT
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Fet, I took my Dick Dale cd to a show of his at Toe's Tavern in Santa Barbara, and not only got a pick, but got my disc-case personalized. He seems like a class-act all the way around.
The pick is like a .90 (or higher) gauge smoothie. Also heard that his high E-string is like .18 or something crazy like that--heavy duty.
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Jaybro
Social climber
The West
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Dec 21, 2007 - 01:25am PT
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Chasbro has, framed on his wall, a Newspaper(?) photo of B.B King from a concert he was in attendence to. With the stub, $7.50(?)
play it lucille.
Post it, C-bro!
I recently heard an archival Dick Dale interview on Freshair™ it was amazing when he spoke of the gauge of the 'strings' he uses on his guitars, 747 flap wires, or something
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Mighty Hiker
Social climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Dec 21, 2007 - 01:33am PT
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So, anyone here see the Beatles - live? Not me - way before my time. Though I saw them on the Ed Sullivan show when I was teeny.
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Jaybro
Social climber
The West
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Dec 21, 2007 - 01:59am PT
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This young lady did, Anders
If my math is right, she, you, and I were all in high school at roughly the same time, They have HS in Canada, right?
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Mighty Hiker
Social climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Dec 21, 2007 - 02:08am PT
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I remember things called "high" and "school". Sometimes they were held in the same igloo. One day we were shown "Reefer Madness" in "guidance" class - after lunch. Guess what a lot of students did at lunch time? It certainly seem to enhance their appreciation of the movie.
Not me - I was too busy memorizing the latest issue of Mountain magazine, concealed inside some more innocuous book. And playing hooky, hitching to Squamish and going climbing. I missed graduation, and climbed the Grand Wall instead.
ps Ok, I give up. Who's the hottie?
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AP
Trad climber
Calgary
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Dec 21, 2007 - 10:46am PT
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MH sounds like we went to similiar high schools. I once dropped a hit of acid at noon just before social studies class. The cops were there with the big drug kit and gave us the LECTURE.
The most interesting part to us was speculating if the samples in the kit were real. Cops did not let us verify the quality.
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k-man
Gym climber
SCruz
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Dec 21, 2007 - 11:16am PT
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Jerry Garcia at the Catalyst, $6.
That was one of the most bang for my bucks, such an amazing show.
Neil Young at the Coconut Grove, 3 nights in a row. I think the tix were ~$5.
Now: I saw Tom Waits at the Paramount. 5th row scalper's special: $250.
Phish, "last shows" at the Shoreline. 2nd row....$250.
Both were gifts, thank you Friends!!
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Maysho
climber
Truckee, CA
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Dec 21, 2007 - 11:20am PT
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first ever concert was last Winterland show 78/79 Grateful Dead, Blues Brothers, New Riders of the Purple Sage. Tix by lottery, outrageous at $20 bucks but it went all night and they served us breakfast. (they played Dark Star which did not mean anything to me at the time, but sure got everyone excited!)
Peter
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k-man
Gym climber
SCruz
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Dec 21, 2007 - 12:28pm PT
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Peter, the closing of Winterland was your first show?!? Crazy.
I had gotten in line at 11pm the day before. Little did I know the line started 4 days earlier. I got no sleep that night. I remember my girlfriend waking me just before Midnight, as all the festivities began in earnest. Wild ass show....
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Lynne Leichtfuss
Social climber
valley center, ca
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Jun 10, 2009 - 12:34am PT
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mojede, danced my life away at Harmony Park Ballroom and Balboa Bay's Rendezvous. I envy your signed shee of Dick Dale and the Deltones...in the nicest way. Danced the night away with his guys many a Fun time.
Read this whole thread through. Married at 19, never went to a rock concert. I'm seriously workin' on it now. :DD
Just heard James Taylor will be a mile away from my home in September at Valley View Casino.....who knows ....love JT....Shower the People You Love. "
Thanks for the Fun Thread All. Peace, Lynne
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Reilly
Mountain climber
Monrovia, CA
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Jun 10, 2009 - 12:38am PT
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Late summer '69, a one day show at a farm outside Seattle:
Buffalo Springfield
Its a Beautiful Day
Spirit
Vanilla Fudge
Ike & Tina
The Doors
Led Zeppelin!
Not bad for $15 or $20, eh?
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Jun 10, 2009 - 12:39am PT
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Mighty, that hotty is Liz Schramm of Vail, (on the summit of Mt Dana) she taught me almost everything I know about climbing skins...
My ex-wife saw the Monkees when she was like 13, I don't know if that's historically of note, or sort of sad...
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nita
Social climber
chica from chico..waiting on spring days..
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Dec 19, 2010 - 10:40pm PT
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I just found these..
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Robb
Social climber
The other "Magic City on the Plains"
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Dec 20, 2010 - 12:53am PT
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FIFI LARUE AND THE EL PORTAL DOGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Tom
Big Wall climber
San Luis Obispo CA
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Dec 20, 2010 - 02:19am PT
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As mentioned in one of the first replies, inflation alone is not why the tickets are so expensive these days.
One, some of the acts (Rolling Stones) know they can charge $300 (or whatever) and people will pay it. Like a $3000 wrist watch, the overpriced ticket is a status symbol, of sorts.
Two, a decent guy like Kidd Rock has his birthday party at his hometown stadium, and wants everybody there. So, he prices the tickets modestly - and then scalpers buy them all up and invoke "supply and demand" pricing.
The concert ticket thing is emblematic of how the whole 60's vibe is almost completely dead these days. The only thing that matters now is shoving your way past the other guy - and damn him for getting in your way, or for even existing at all.
HA HA EDIT: when I tried to write "wristw#tch", the computer thought I was writing "tw#t" and censored my alleged filthiness.
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Chaz
Trad climber
greater Boss Angeles area
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Dec 20, 2010 - 02:23am PT
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Concert tours used to be the way bands promoted their latest album, like advertising.
Bands almost always lost money on tours.
And a concert ticket was priced about the same as the album.
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nita
Social climber
chica de chico, I don't claim to be a daisy.
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Apr 12, 2015 - 07:20pm PT
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*
Flip flop's TR reminded me of this thread..
Miss Throwpies,..or Mr ZBrown.. how much was the ticket to see ~The Dead ~in 1969?
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healyje
Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
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Apr 12, 2015 - 08:06pm PT
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Dylan 'Hard Rain' in Ft. Collins in '76. Can't remember what it cost and I doubt I would have remembered the day after it was all over either.
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survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
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Apr 12, 2015 - 08:06pm PT
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Garth Brooks, $972.00, nosebleed seats.....
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stunewberry
Trad climber
Spokane, WA
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Apr 12, 2015 - 08:14pm PT
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Saw Led Zep at Winterland at one of the two shows in 1969. Don't remember which one, 'cause Ah was too stoned to remember the other bands. It was right as II was coming out. About six of us nearly died driving home because the driver fell asleep (it wasn't me). Didn't save my ticket stub. The price for tickets I find are $3.50, which any high school kid could have afforded.
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujň de la Playa
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Apr 13, 2015 - 09:37am PT
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The standard price at the real Fillmore in 1967 was $3.00. Usually three groups played and you got a free apple and little postcard of the poster for the show on the way out the door.
I can not believe I didn't save at least one postcard (I have one my friend Robbie (the Menlo Park tooth carver) sent me from Nepal in 1969).
I think the Dead poster for the Greek in 1967 has the price on it. I'll look. It's a little faint, but students $1.50 to $2.50 and generals* (there weren't many in Berkeley at the time) $2.50 to $3.50.
*Well there was General WasteMoreLand
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k-man
Gym climber
SCruz
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Apr 13, 2015 - 02:39pm PT
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My buddy has an unused Hendrix ticket. Something like $3.50.
It's unused because he forgot the ticket at home and had to buy another when he got to the show.
Then, I remember I was in High School, and Bob Marley got booked at the Roxy. The tickets were $10 each, and I 'protested' the price by not buying one.
Silly me, he later released his Live album from those shows...
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hobo_dan
Social climber
Minnesota
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Apr 13, 2015 - 05:54pm PT
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New Years 1975 Steely Dan $2.00
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujň de la Playa
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Apr 13, 2015 - 06:10pm PT
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There was a time when when ticket prices were challenged on the basis of being a "ripoff of the people's culture".
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pud
climber
Sportbikeville & Yucca brevifolia
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 25, 2016 - 08:40pm PT
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For $60 you get really cool holographic tickets these days.
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Feb 25, 2016 - 09:06pm PT
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Then brain cells, from gels good 'n ( or bad if you did not know Lee )
Now just all that doh,
But no extra curricular colors , visuals, still the empty wallet yo-
The $ dollar cost to stand packed in with humanity has not been worth it for 20 yrs
Your milage cost and fun continent or quotient is adversely proportional to the number of other people going to said show...
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overwatch
climber
Arizona
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Feb 26, 2016 - 06:34am PT
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I have seen all of the bands in the OP and some, just about everyone you can name since 1985, except for Skynyrd and Zeppelin, and got paid for it by working the shows. I started out as a stagehand doing 16 hour days for 50 bucks and a t-shirt and ended making up to $50 or more an hour as a climbing rigger. A grueling business that takes its toll though
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