2016 The Year the Music Died

[DEL]

OK we all know that really happened in 1959 but this year has been no time to be a musician.
Greg Lake followed Keith Emerson, if Carl Palmer has any sense he's under his bed 'til the end of the year.
A quick google search makes for very depressing reading ........ and but for 3 days we would have been adding Lemmy to the list.
Thankfully we still have years of Justin Bieber, Harry Stiles and many other stellar talents to look forward too ........

 

[Helm]

oh yay

 

[megroot]

If I had to choose: Emerson, Lake and Palmer.
And in 2017 there are playing into the Netherlands: Deep Purple and last but not least Guns & Roses.....
Deep Purple ticket from 65 Euro's. Guns and Roses lowest ticket 135 Euro...and the highest price for a ticket: 1450 Euro.
Make my day....
Back into the days they where only a half of that price and then in guilders......Hfl: 30,-
I think the organisators are all thiefs.

Marc

 

[billyturnip]

I think the organisators are all thiefs.

Marc

Where have I heard that before?

The best bet is to go to the pub to listen to music, there's plenty of up and coming talent out there playing good music in small venues, along with good beer and the toilet isn't too far away either.

 

[Blind Pew]

If I had to choose: Emerson, Lake and Palmer.
And in 2017 there are playing into the Netherlands: Deep Purple and last but not least Guns & Roses.....
Deep Purple ticket from 65 Euro's. Guns and Roses lowest ticket 135 Euro...and the highest price for a ticket: 1450 Euro.
Make my day....
Back into the days they where only a half of that price and then in guilders......Hfl: 30,-
I think the organisators are all thiefs.

Marc

Marc, I read an article by Trent Reznor (Of Nine Inch Nails) and he talked about this side of the music industry. I'll see if I can find it. He talks about all the middle men and price hikes and stuff that goes on, frankly it put me off ever buying another concert ticket again.

 

[Blind Pew]

Here it is. Thoroughly depressing but very informative.

http://www.stereogum.com/58831/trent_reznor_blasts_ticketmaster_and_the_artists_w/news/

 

[megroot]

Thanks. Its indeed depressive.
I decide to go for the fourth time to Brit Floyd.
Impressive coverband from Pink Floyd. 2 1/2 hour of great music for only € 45,- . And this as close as we can get to the original.

Marc

 

[Babelfish]

Thankfully we still have years of Justin Bieber, Harry Stiles and many other stellar talents to look forward too ........

Not to mention the next generation of Beckhams .

I read somewhere yesterday that their youngest lad (who's 11) has just released a Christmas single.

As Marlon Brando once said: "The horror. The horror."

- Steve

 

[Babelfish]

Deep Purple ticket from 65 Euro's. Guns and Roses lowest ticket 135 Euro...and the highest price for a ticket: 1450 Euro.
Back into the days they where only a half of that price and then in guilders......Hfl: 30,-
I think the organisators are all thiefs.

The amount by which concert tickets have increased over the years is crazy.

First concert I ever went to (Manfred Mann's Earth Band at Sheffield City Hall in 1979) cost me GBP 2.50.

In 1982 I paid the princely sum of GBP 9.00 to see Queen in Leeds, and at the time I thought that was expensive!! By 1986 the price had gone up to GBP 14.50 when I saw them again at Wembley, but for that we also got Status Quo and INXS as the support acts.

Probably the most expensive gig I've ever been to was the Rolling Stones in Stuttgart in 1999, which cost me the DM equivalent of 70 Euros ... which was VERY pricey 17 years ago, and it would probably be twice that now (minimum) to see them.

I've got a load of concert ticket stubs that I've kept over the years, I'll have to dig 'em out and do some comparisons (this has got me interested now), but those are a few I remember off the top of my head.

- Steve

 

[Blind Pew]

It's in the last 10 years where the prices of gone absolutely ridiculous.
Refuse to go and they'll soon come back down.
Interestingly, this has been the period over which record sales has plummeted and people are (illegally) downloading stuff.
So they hike the concert tickets up to maintain revenue.

 

[chippy]

Here's your answer guy to a good nights music , Free entry and Cider £1 a gallon
chippy

 

[DEL]

Here's your answer guy to a good nights music , Free entry and Cider £1 a gallon
chippy

Wherever this is it's where I want the new Euro to take place

 

[Wayneb]

Well if you're a Greg Lake fan and want to DELv way back in time when the only people that existed were cave men...cave women....Neanderthal...............Troglodytes.................King Crimsom...In the Court of the Crimson King album.......... the song"Epitaph"..Greg Lake vocals...
That's where my head was back then and maybe still is......sometimes
Those were the days.....Yes they were...

Wayne

 

[Windy]

Here's your answer guy to a good nights music , Free entry and Cider £1 a gallon
chippy

That's proper job! Seen them a couple of times. They're usually the supporting act for the Wurzels. Drink up thy zider!

 

[DEL]

Well if you're a Greg Lake fan and want to DELv way back in time when the only people that existed were cave men...cave women....Neanderthal...............Troglodytes.................King Crimsom...In the Court of the Crimson King album.......... the song"Epitaph"..Greg Lake vocals...
That's where my head was back then and maybe still is......sometimes
Those were the days.....Yes they were...

Wayne

MMmmmmmmm.... never really got into KC or ELP. To me both seemed to try a bit too hard with their lyrics, mind you KC were never as pretentious and so far up themselves as ELP.
At this time I wasn't straying too far from home musically, following Stone the Crows fronted by the wonderful Maggie Bell.

 

[peedee]

This is all sll so sad for me.

If there is a heaven, there will be one heck of a supergroup jamin' along 'up there'.


On the subject of ticket prices, the first time I was asked to pay a handling charge for a ticket booking I stopped buying gig tickets, if we had all done this the situation wouldn't exist.
The price of a ticket is the price of a ticket.
That's all I will pay.
There's no additional handling charge from a supermarket at the till for buying Kellogs or Nestle cereal, it's in the price.

I am completely convinced the only reason the prices are as they are, is because there is no residual fee market for record companies any more, so they pile on the profit at the door.
They have to gig to earn the money they used too.
All the 80's bands have to tour again in their middle age because they have no pension thanks to downloads....good.

So... I always use the booking office at the venue, and if there's a Ticketmaster sign there as an agency handling the venues' ticketing, I just leave.

This ******** should be stopped and you can do it.
It's the same as giving your postcode at the till when I buy Batteries at Maplins, my answer is sod off it's none if your business.

Support your local band up the boozer...good on ya chippy.

Paul

Paul.

 

[Wayneb]

Amen to that Paul....and very well said I might add.......

Wayne

 

[megroot]

Well if you're a Greg Lake fan and want to DELv way back in time when the only people that existed were cave men...cave women....Neanderthal...............Troglodytes.................King Crimsom...In the Court of the Crimson King album.......... the song"Epitaph"..Greg Lake vocals...
That's where my head was back then and maybe still is......sometimes
Those were the days.....Yes they were...

Wayne

This whas for me Troglodytes. Remembering 1972


Marc

 

[Wayneb]

Yep....that's the one Marc....I used to have this song down to a tee...alas some lyrics lost.

Wayne