Brief Cedar Fair and MA rant.

Timber-Rider said:
Well, in answer to that, what you don't know, is that the local radio stations buy up a huge portion of seating before the tickets go on sale in GR, not to mention the brokers who buy huge amounts of seats online, only to attempt to re-sell them for a higher price. So, what is actually left for the GP to buy is about 8,000 tickets in a 12,000 seat stadium. Not to mention what the arena might hold back, for at the door sales, where the ticket price is bumped up to make even more money.

Well, not quite exactly like that, but you're in the ballpark. And what you're talking has nothing to do with the face value of the tickets - which are close to $300 for covered seats and $50 for general admission lawn seats.

Actually, for the shows I was looking at you can't touch the first ten rows for less than $1399...and that's straight from Ticketmaster. No resellers, presales, promos, brokers or anything. They're selling 10 rows worth of seats at $1399, straight to the fans...and they're selling them all.

As for the prices of the KISS tickets you mentioned. No, even if I was the only person in the arena. I wouldn't pay that much. But, then I have seen them 4 times. Never seen Motley Crue, but, not paying that much for tickets. Sorry.

Exactly. But if you take a peek, you'll see that people are. The fact that these tickets are selling proves they're not overpriced. But for you they are.

That's the difference I keep trying to get across to you. Just because you feel it is overpriced, doesn't mean it is. The market determines that. And right now the market says the first 10 rows VIP package for the Kiss/Crue show is worth $1399 a seat.

I saw KISS on DWTS this week and it was free.

I paid 289 bucks for good Bette Midler seats and 600 for Barbra Streisand and didn't think either one was over-priced. But I'm gay like that.

I once saw Information Society for 10 bucks. Totally worth it, too.

Destructionnnnnnnnnnnnn... pure energy!

I saw Joan Jett for free, once. And she signed the inside of my shorts. It was a very hot drunk day in Chicago, and for some strange reason she was 'opening' for the main act - Peter Frampton.

INSIDE?

Heck, Jimi Hendrix once opened for the Monkees. There's been some strange pairings over the years.

^Yup. I was wearing a black and purple Stones tee and purple checkered shorts. She was signing stuff after the show and the only thing the sharpie would show up on, that I was wearing, was the insides of the pockets on my shorts. So I took them off, turned them inside out and handed them to her. The shorts are long gone, but I cut out the pocket and have a very cool souvenir. On par with the Gwar stained white tee and the shirts Debbie Harry and David Byrne signed for me, while I was wearing them :) I also had a red Devo *energy dome* hat that Mark Mothersbaugh threw out in the crowd during a show, but I gave that to my baby cousin.

The Monkees rocked. See, it doesn't have to be 'real' music to be good. But I think the Monkees did all their own stuff after the first year or so.

Owning a Devo hat is on my bucket list.

RCMAC said:
I saw KISS on DWTS this week and it was free.

No. You paid dearly by having to sit through DWTS.

I'd rather plunk down the $1400.

+1

That REALLY made me smile.

kpjb said:
Owning a Devo hat is on my bucket list.

I assume you are referring to the *energy dome*.

They used to be $30 but everything is going up, so they are $32 now; used to come in blue, too... It's quite expensive for a novelty made out of solo cup plastic material.

$32? That's way overpriced. No one will buy those.

My best cheap concert experience was the Ramones. I paid $2 to see them play the gym at Carnegie Mellon.

Hey, ho! Let's go!

My old band once played a free concert at the YMCA basketball court, and according to the fans, it was totally worth it too! :p

Brian Noble said:
My best cheap concert experience was the Ramones. I paid $2 to see them play the gym at Carnegie Mellon.

Hey, ho! Let's go!

The cheapest concert ticket I ever bought was $7.50 for the Ramones with the Divinyls in 1983. It was billed as a "recession special."

I saw them over thirty times, never paying more than $30 or so.

Gabba Gabba Hey!

The cheapest ticket I ever got was free to see Puddle of Mudd opening for Three Doors Down opening for Nickleback. I paid way too much for having to suffer through that. Only reason I went was it was a VIP ticket that included free food and alcohol, and even that wasn't worth sitting through Nickleback for.

I also saw Joan Jett for free in Grand Haven Michigan a few years ago, and if it wasn't for the a-holes who were slam dancing near the front of the stage, I would have stayed in the front row. I was so close to the stage I could have used it as a drum pad, but, having one too many morons thrown at me to the point where I was knocked on my butt a couple times, I had enough of that.

I have also seen Poison for free, at the Muskegon summer celebration, along with Pat Benatar, Heart, and Journey. But, that is only because I know where to go to watch the show free, and as for the Poison concert, my boss was lucky enough to be the openning act with his band. The Automatics. But, they weren't a hard rock band, so they kind of didn't go over well, but Poison was awesome as usual. Really good show.

Had the opertunity to go see Joan Jett again in Chicago at Pride, but the group I was with only stayed for the daytime activities, and we went home. But, the event was one of the largest in Chicago ever, with 750,000 just for the parade. Which I was in. And, one of the other disapointments was not going to Great America. But that was not in the plans.

Timber-Rider said:if it wasn't for the a-holes who were slam dancing near the front of the stage

Well, that's typically what happens at the front of the stage (though, I've never actually seen someone actually use the term "slam dancing" in real life). I typically follow the path of bringing the mosh or moving to the side; it's a lot easier than being annoyed with hundreds of strangers you'll never meet again.

Last year I saw Devo for free at NXNE in Toronto... and the last song of Men Without Hats' set- which was Safety Dance- which was all we needed to see anyways :p

What, no "Pop Goes The World"?

How about "Moonbeam"!?