It’s nice to see live music, but it’s expensive these days.
Yea, no kidding. The wife and I have been going to some smaller regional locales. They are usually maybe $150-200 for both of us to see a big names from 50 years ago. These are the well known oldies that are still touring. Of course, most groups only have one or two original members left. We saw about ten of them last year.
ZZ Top tickets came up for sale, but the tickets were $220 a person. These tickets were all bought by a reseller. No way. I’ve seen ZZ Top several times before probably spending $15 a ticket.
I remember my first-ever concert in high school was at the old Kiel Auditorium in St. Louis. I’m pretty sure it was Iron Butterfly and cost $2.00 or so. I had a $1.60/hour job at the time, so it took about 1-1/4 hours of work to snag a ticket.