I would guess that those are not the actual ticket prices...though I could be wrong...but just the jacked up cost of a ticket agency.
I'm sure the actual costs will be lower but still likely obscene. I wouldn't pay to go see them but I bet that most of those tickets will be snatched up by some corporate big wigs as "client entertainment giveaways."
I figure it's fine for them to charge whatever they want as long as someone is willing to pay it. Basically for those prices I'd expect Eric, Ginger, and Jack to do a week of shows in my back yard, mow my lawn and make me dinner.
I think it might have been a lot more fun to see Joe Walsh reunite with his old pals...plus they played clubs...I still don't like the idea of sitting in a hockey rink to see a band.
Oh, well...hopefully one of them will ask the crowd to "rattle their jewelry" rather than applaud.
I wonder how many people are out there that would pay a few grand to see Cream...I mean they are long past their glory days...I remember 70's rock behemoth ELO (though I think it was just Jeff Lynne), attempting to mount a comeback tour a few years back and he/they discovered they could not sell enough tickets to cover the cost of travel. I suppose ELO doesn't have the same stature as Cream but they sure sold plenty of records and tickets in their day. Of course there is always those nostalgia package tours...REO Speedwagon, Cheap Trick, and Journey split a bill with someone like Ricahrd Marx as the opening act while people are filing into their seats. The Steve Miller Band teams up with the J. Geils band and Heart to try and fill summer sheds...
Then there is always Krav's favorite the country fair circuit. Where you can catch Steely Dan with special guest 38 Special. Or the Six Flags circuit where you can see Frankie Goes to Hollywood and Boy George...and then there's the casino circuit...
Flock of Seagulls, The Psychedelic Furs, and that chick that sang the crazy 99 balloon song are opening a new Denny's with free fish sticks for all the kids...
"Yeah, but this goes to eleven. See it's one louder than ten."
