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To: Red Badger

Ahhh...for the good ol' days...

3 posted on 01/02/2018 9:45:25 AM PST by TomServo
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To: TomServo

Wow! Now that’s $5 well spent!


6 posted on 01/02/2018 9:46:49 AM PST by HombreSecreto (The life of a repo man is always intense)
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To: TomServo

WE have hit our limit on concert tickets. Have checked out on a bunch since they jumped well over $100 a ticket. Just not worth it.


9 posted on 01/02/2018 9:47:39 AM PST by rstrahan
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To: TomServo

That’s $22.92 today.

Not $150, much less $500.


14 posted on 01/02/2018 9:48:37 AM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: TomServo

I saw KISS in 1975!...................


20 posted on 01/02/2018 9:49:51 AM PST by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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To: TomServo

Ha Ha I can remember in the early eighties that it wa $8 to sit on the lawn at Blossom Music Center and $10-$12 to sit in most areas in the pavilion.


30 posted on 01/02/2018 9:53:14 AM PST by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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To: TomServo
I still have all my concert ticket stubs from the early 1970s. We would see our shows at the now gone Spectrum in Philly. I saw Dave Mason,Chambers Brothers and Roy Buchanan for 6 bucks. Also Bad Co.,Bedlam and Uriah Heep for 6 bucks too. Those were the days.
35 posted on 01/02/2018 9:54:16 AM PST by 4yearlurker (Merry Christmas to one and all!)
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To: TomServo
I was at this concert in Kiel Auditorium in St. Louis in 1969. Check out the opening act!

My summer jobs paid $1.65/hour, the minimum wage. I could go to top act shows for,two hours of minimum wage teen jobs! Good old days, indeed. Today, a min wage job would take about 10 hours to buy a TS ticket. (Does TS stand for Tough Sh!t"?)

KSHE was the "underground" FM station in St. Louis -- no commercials at all. That was so sweet.


42 posted on 01/02/2018 10:02:42 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: TomServo

You’d have to pay me $500 to go see those groups.


45 posted on 01/02/2018 10:05:31 AM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: TomServo

Lol, I saw KISS with my parents and STYX was the opener. I didn’t even know RUSH existed back then. Years later I got hooked on the sound of that Jetglo Rickenbacker 4001!


54 posted on 01/02/2018 10:14:28 AM PST by avenir ("But as for you, teach what accords with sound doctrine."--Titus 2)
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To: TomServo

$6.00? I think that was the monthly car payment on my folks’ 1974 Honda Civic. (I may be off one decimal, but still....)


80 posted on 01/02/2018 10:41:27 AM PST by Larry Lucido (Take Covfefe Ree Zig!)
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To: TomServo

The ticket for my first concert, Kiss with Uriah Heep in February of 1977 was a whopping $7.50. A little bit of inflation from 1975 with two better bands as the openers for the ‘75 show. I think I paid about 125.00 per for Rush a couple of years ago on the R40 tour.


83 posted on 01/02/2018 10:46:38 AM PST by Big Red Clay (Greetings from the Big Red State)
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To: TomServo

I still have my ticket stub for The Who at Rupp Arena in 1980.

$12.50.


87 posted on 01/02/2018 10:53:49 AM PST by henkster
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To: TomServo

Joe Walsh and the boys with Funk 49
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_qHU_6Ofc0


93 posted on 01/02/2018 10:58:10 AM PST by mazda77
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To: TomServo

My first concert. Van Halen for $7.50. Riot seating


138 posted on 01/02/2018 12:12:44 PM PST by enraged
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To: TomServo

Yeah the good ole days. 45 years ago you could go see anyone, including the Rolling Stones, and the ticket prices were never more than $10 to $15 bucks, if that. Money was made in selling records more so than touring. You toured to sell records, not so much that formula any more given the record business today.


142 posted on 01/02/2018 12:19:23 PM PST by Captain Peter Blood
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