Damn....BB King is charging waaay too much for tickets these days!

[Hardrock69]

He is playing at his club here in Gnashville on Oct. 26 & 27.

Granted the ticket price includes a 3-course dinner, but minimum price is 100 fucking dollars. Mid-range seating is $125, and expensive-primo seating is $175.

Granted, there are very few performers in ANY style of music who can say they have been performing for over 65 years.

As a matter of fact, the only ones I know of are all blues musicians! Honeyboy Edwards is still playing occasionally, and he began playing in the late 20s.

I saw Pinetop Perkins only 2 years ago in Helena, AR at the King Biscuit Blues Festival, and he is STILL performing, after starting in 1926.

Lawd bless dem blooze men!!!

But dammit, I am still irritated that BB is charging so much.

Last time I saw him though, was 1997 at the Century II Concert Hall in Wichita, KS. I had a front row dead center seat, and it was great!

Oh well.

If people are willing to pay that much, more power to them.

I CAN afford it....but I have other shows I would rather see....like Frank Marino & Mahogany Rush (whom I have never seen) on the 30th for $20.
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[EbDawson]

I just hope he's getting the main chunk of those tix and it isn't some middle-man that's fleecing him. I'm not sure I'd pay that, probably wouldn't, then again who knows how much longer he'll be around.

[ELVIS]

I really don't think it's terrible with a real meal included...

Ozzfest costs the same...

[EbDawson]

Originally posted by ELVIS
Ozzfest costs the same...

Well I'd rather give BB $100 than Sharon Osbourne. :D

[Last_Child]

Fuck that's expensive.

I saw Johnossi (swedish Band) last nite, and that did cost me 14$.

[Mr. Vengeance]

Ticket prices are insane, which is why I choose carefully when I go to shows now. James Taylor wanted $145 a ticket at CasinoRama this summer. I said no thanks. But I saw Chuck Berry at the casino a couple of years ago for about $40. It was so cool to see Chuck from the second row of a 5000 seat hall, have him walk up to the mic and say, "It's so nice to be playing tonight, espcially for a sold out house" and then launch into a tune.

Depends on the artst and promoter.

[mako_kimura]

Well, when ya really think about it, that's not a bad price compared to some people. Barbra Streisand's charging $750, no meal

[Terry]

Kinda hard for BB King to work that aging old bluesman angle when the dude is cleaning up at the box office, but then have never had any use for BB King anyway, so fuck him.

[sadaist]

Originally posted by mako_kimura
Well, when ya really think about it, that's not a bad price compared to some people. Barbra Streisand's charging $750, no meal

Well, if you consider a heaping pile of political rhetorical shit a meal, go for it!

It's sad when I look through my old ticket stubs and the prices on them. One Friday in High School, I bummed enough money to see Crue that night at the Sports Arena (Whitesnake opened). Just went around all day asking if I could borrow $0.50 for a Coke. I owed a lot of Coke's after that though.

Can you even get a Coke for 50 cents anymore?

[Mr. Vengeance]

My first show was the mighty Van Halen, at the Montreal forum, April 1984. Ticket price- $13.50

Tell me that wasn't a bargain!!!!

[Rebel]

I was thinking the same thing as Elvis, if the food is good, I think it's a decent deal. You can drop a hundred on a nice dinner pretty easy.