Topic: Old Ticket Prices
From my archives - 2 hometown gigs. Check the ticket prices (UK sterling).
Free 1972 75p
Led Zeppelin 1973 £1
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Hey Tres, how about some cheap US gigs from the past?
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My first concert, Robert Plant 1985 $15. Tee shirts (when you could buy them in the parking lot), $10.
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Let me think*****.....uh how bout "Journey" in Golden Gate Park around 74....$00....damn that Greg Rolie....and Neil Schon.....was killer with no filler....they didnt need to ride with Carlos Santana....they were stars
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Good old Golden Gate Shred. I could tell some tales. We've got the same thread running here and off topics. LOL
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Doobie Bros. & Marshall Tucker Band - approx. 1975 $4.50 US for seats in the very last row of Capital Center - an approx. 16,000 seat arena just outside Washington, DC in Landover, MD. Floor seats were about $6.50, and a friend of mine remembered they used to include a carnival in the parking lot!
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7 2011-02-14 09:53:52 (edited by ahsmith33 2011-02-14 09:55:46)
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Kenny wrote:
Hey Tres, how about some cheap US gigs from the past?
again, everything in this part of the country was $5, 6, or $7 in the early to mid 70's, with Zep topping out at $8.75 in 1978.
Alice Cooper was on FoodTV with Adam Richman Sat(rerun), and I recalled seeing him on his very first tour, also $5.
They put him at the state fairgrounds in the exhibition hall, another concrete floor with no seats. About 100 to 150 people showed, but 4 or 5 songs in there were only 30 to 40 of us left standing. yeah, he scared the bejusus out of some, and we laughed for days about it. Obviously they had not known what to expect.
And there were a lot of free concerts, notably I saw the Allman Bros, Freddie King and Boz Scaggs in college that didn't cost a cent.
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I was listening to the classic rock station here in Dallas, and one of the DJ's said that he saw ZZ Top in 1970 and that tickets were $2.00 in advance, $2.50 at the door. Wish it was still like that.
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my first concert was Boston with Hagar opening in Jan of 79.$7.50 on the 13th or 14th row at Tarrant County Convention Center.Held at least around 12.000- 14,000,You could get a ticket a couple of shirts and a Tour book back then for what most shows cost these days at the bigger venues.
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Me and my friends (my friends and I) used to go to the Roundhouse in Chalk Farm, London on a Sunday afternoon. Doors would open around 2pm and close around 10pm, there we would see over a number of years from 1974 to 1976 - which was last time I went - lots and lots and lots of amazing bands! Entrance fee 50p..or 50 New Pence as it was probably know then lol..
Here's Pink Fairies who I saw there a couple of times ...this video shows a bit of Chalk Farm!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=US& … VDrdm6NfAE
This is a bit better sound wise!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=US& … I976o34A9k
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1977 old Milwaukee County Stadium Pink Floyd Animals Tour $8.00
1978 old Milwaukee County Stadium Gran Slam Jam Journey, Cheap Trick, Heart and Ted Nugent $12.00
1983 Milwaukee Eagles Club Ratt $0.97 (saw a number of 97 cent shows that year as a radio promo the one station was doing including Black N Blue, Wendy O Williams WOW and Headpins)
1984 Rock Stage Summerfest Stevie Ray Vaughan the $7.00 it cost to get into Summerfest (also saw Alcatrazz with Ingwie there that year on the same stage and Alan Holdsworth at the Jazz Stage that same year)
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Remeber when tickets were kind of artful and because there weren't computers everywhere you had to call around to various outlets to see what kind of seats they had left at each location?
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12 2011-02-25 18:52:44 (edited by Brack 2011-02-25 18:53:17)
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used to go to the Roundhouse in Chalk Farm, London on a Sunday afternoon.
Well well..... me too, around the same time.. you must have met "Jesus" around this time? Good times! 
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Brack wrote:
JESSICAT wrote:used to go to the Roundhouse in Chalk Farm, London on a Sunday afternoon.
Well well..... me too, around the same time.. you must have met "Jesus" around this time? Good times!
Lol Yes I remember him well, he turned up at lots of other gigs too around that time, especially open air ones!
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Blue Oyster Cult at Aladdin Theatre for the Performing Arts Las Vegas July 13 1981 $12.00
The Scorpions at the Las Vegas Convention Center Rotunda Aug 29 1982 $9.20
Van Halen at the Aladdin Theatre for the Performing Arts Las Vegas Sept 17 1982 $14.00
The Kinks at the Las Vegas Convention Center Rotunda May 1 1983 $14.00
Journey at the Aladdin Theatre for the Performing Arts Las Vegas AUG 13 & 14 $16.00
Def Leppard at the Aladdin Theatre for the Performing Arts Las Vegas Sept 9 1983 $14.50
Lover Boy at the Thomas & Mack Dec 18 1983 $13.50
Rush at the Thomas & Mack May 10 1984 $15.00
Triumph at the Aladdin Theatre for the Performing Arts Las Vegas Mar 1 1985 $15.00
REO Speedwagon at the Thomas & Mack April 7 1985 $13.50
Bruce Springsteen L.A. Coliseum Sept 29 1985 $17.50
Van Halen at the Aladdin Theatre for the Performing Arts Las Vegas July 10 1986 $13.50
REO Speedwagon & Fabulous Thunderbirds Convention Center Rotunda Jul 7 1987 $16.00
Molly Hatchet at Krackers Night Club Las Vegas Dec 12 1988 $14.00
The Rolling Stones & Guns N Roses at the LA Coliseum Oct 22 1989 $30.50
Rik Emmett Calamity Jane’s Las Vegas Feb 12 1991 $12.50