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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
Brujò 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
Brujò 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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