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.
> These are the well known oldies that are still touring. Of course, most groups only have one or two original members left. <
I read an interesting article about that. Whoever owns the rights to a famous group’s name will often license the name out.
So you could have, for example, the Four Tops touring up and down the east coast. And another Four Tops touring in the Midwest. And another Four Tops performing in California.
All have some resemblance to the original group. And they’ve all paid the licensing fee. But there’s no original members in any of them.
I wanted to go to AC/DC this spring in Vancouver, but Ticketmaster wants $1800 for FLOOR tickets! Not gonna happen.