One afternoon, walking along Chartres Street in the French Quarter, I stopped in a shoe store looking for something comfortable. There was a couple, locals no doubt, and the wife was holding up a pair of incredibly gaudy platform sandals, with what I remember being a transparent pink six inch heel. The shoes were ugly. She held them up to her husband and asked, "What do you think?" He asked, "How much?" She said, "$250!" He barked back, "What's in that heel, $240?!"
I still laugh when I think about it and often use that joke.
Adele has announced a Las Vegas residency. One report says ticket prices start at $85 and go as high as $650. But most reports, including some Tweets from Adele fans claim the starting price is much higher.
"One impassioned Adele fan agreed: "I hate Vegas residencies… it’s such a slap in the face to your fans, who cannot afford to fly out/get a hotel/other travel accommodations…ON TOP of the cost of tickets… @Adele ... I cannot wait for the era of residencies to die." At the time of writing, tickets for Friday and night concerts in January 2022 begin at $2,161. The ticket prices are staggered and eventually become as expensive as $9,444."
"Tickets begin at $2161?" It's Vegas, so they must give you $2000 in quarters when you arrive for the show!
I know, I know. Go easy on her.
Tickets for Joe Jackson at the Beacon went on sales last week. A pair of decent (not awesome) Orchestra tickets would have set me back $300. As much as I love Joe, I couldn't justify that expenditure. I noticed he's also playing a theater in Ithaca. A pair for that show would have cost 50% less. But that means travelling to Ithaca and frankly there are other places I'd rather spend money at a hotel at. Like Vegas!
ReplyDeleteActually they give you $3000.00 in quarters.
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of New Orleans, there was an AP article over the weekend about Allen Toussaint. A city council member in NO wants to rename the street that honors Robert E Lee for Allen Toussaint. He wants to honor the man who meant so much to the musical legacy of that city. I'd vote for that...
ReplyDeleteI saw Led Zeppelin in St. Louis in 1973 for $4 which is about $25 in 2021 dough.
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I'd pay the $2200 to see Adele in Vegas if she promised to do a 30 minute "Dazed & Confused" complete with bow and theramin.
ReplyDeleteCan you say "Ticketmaster"?
ReplyDeleteAt some level I don't begrudge artists charging what they can get away with in these still-Covid times (and Vegas residencies have always been quite expensive anyway.) Adele gotta eat! (But not as much apparently!)
ReplyDeleteIf you want to see the big name artists live -- and for Adele a limited engagement (only Friday and Saturday evenings, between January 21, 2022 and April 16, 2022) -- you gotta cough up the dough.
Go see Chuck Prophet for $20 -- you'll have just as much fun (if not more.)
"If you want to see the big name artists live -- and for Adele a limited engagement (only Friday and Saturday evenings, between January 21, 2022 and April 16, 2022) -- you gotta cough up the dough"
ReplyDeleteAnd a lung, a kidney, a spleen and a few inches of intestine.
A tab of acid will get you that Adele 30-minute version of "Dazed and Confused", and all you'll sacrifice is your brain cells for a spell, instead of a bunch of dough and your lung, kidney, spleen and intestine.
ReplyDeleteC in California
£12 to see the Nightingales + Blue Orchids play a brilliant show a couple weeks back.
ReplyDeleteThese "celebrity" b(r)ands can eat shit.
Tickets to see Marty Stuart and the Fabulous Superlatives on 1/29/22 at The Newton Theater were $54 which seemed like a lot, but Adele just put that into perspective.
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