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Top touring acts since 1990
Posted: Wed May 28, 2014 3:09 pm
by Bammer
Surprising absence from this list. Thoughts?
http://consequenceofsound.net/2014/05/t ... s-touring/
My take: PJ doesn't play as many shows as they used to, nor do they charge as much for tickets as bands like the Stones.
Re: Top touring acts since 1990
Posted: Wed May 28, 2014 3:13 pm
by stip
they need to moneygrab harder!
Re: Top touring acts since 1990
Posted: Wed May 28, 2014 4:03 pm
by Strat
stip wrote:they need to moneygrab harder!
This is where the like button would come in handy!
Re: Top touring acts since 1990
Posted: Wed May 28, 2014 5:27 pm
by bodysnatcher
interesting list. aside from a few names on there, most of them were well-established acts by the time the 90s rolled around, so they were already charging higher ticket costs from the beginning of this timeframe. PJ spent most of the 90s charging below $25-30 for shows (I'm assuming this list only counts the base ticket price, and not overall price with Ticketmaster surcharges).
Considering that, makes you realize how much some of the newer artists on that list charge for a show. I'll never understand Coldplay.
Re: Top touring acts since 1990
Posted: Fri May 30, 2014 3:59 am
by Bammer
bodysnatcher wrote: I'll never understand Coldplay.
Seriously
Re: Top touring acts since 1990
Posted: Fri May 30, 2014 1:24 pm
by McParadigm
Bammer wrote:bodysnatcher wrote: I'll never understand Coldplay.
Seriously
This world is chock full of "working professional" midlife parents who think that liking Coldplay makes them a little bit cooler in the eyes of their kids than their parents were to them, at that age.
I might actually choose a death sentence over having to sit through a Dave Matthews concert. Everybody else on the list has one or two hits that are kind of fun, in the way watching cartoons with your kids can be fun. But I'm forever near a stereo saying, 'What the fuck is this garbage?' And the answer is always The Dave Matthews Band.
Re: Top touring acts since 1990
Posted: Fri May 30, 2014 7:10 pm
by bodysnatcher
i knew a guy who lived behind Dave Matthews and his wife in Seattle. They shared a backyard fence. The guy had a party one night, and Dave Matthews poked his head over and said he'd play a song for a hot dog. Always thought that was a funny story until I realized how many hot dogs Dave Matthews could buy with one show's profit
Re: Top touring acts since 1990
Posted: Fri May 30, 2014 7:27 pm
by BurtReynolds
bodysnatcher wrote:i knew a guy who lived behind Dave Matthews and his wife in Seattle. They shared a backyard fence. The guy had a party one night, and Dave Matthews poked his head over and said he'd play a song for a hot dog. Always thought that was a funny story until I realized how many hot dogs Dave Matthews could buy with one show's profit
yeah. why didn't he just buy their house and kick everyone out? he wouldn't have to play a song and could eat all the hotdogs he wanted. what an idiot.
Re: Top touring acts since 1990
Posted: Fri May 30, 2014 7:56 pm
by bodysnatcher
BurtReynolds wrote:bodysnatcher wrote:i knew a guy who lived behind Dave Matthews and his wife in Seattle. They shared a backyard fence. The guy had a party one night, and Dave Matthews poked his head over and said he'd play a song for a hot dog. Always thought that was a funny story until I realized how many hot dogs Dave Matthews could buy with one show's profit
yeah. why didn't he just buy their house and kick everyone out? he wouldn't have to play a song and could eat all the hotdogs he wanted. what an idiot.
Post-Ants Marching Money Grab
Re: Top touring acts since 1990
Posted: Fri May 30, 2014 7:56 pm
by McParadigm
bodysnatcher wrote:i knew a guy who lived behind Dave Matthews and his wife in Seattle.
bodysnatcher wrote:Dave Matthews and his wife in Seattle.
bodysnatcher wrote:Dave Matthews and his wife in Seattle.

Re: Top touring acts since 1990
Posted: Fri May 30, 2014 8:21 pm
by bodysnatcher

tell me about it
i think his wife is from here. she went to the same small grad school as my wife
Re: Top touring acts since 1990
Posted: Sat May 31, 2014 3:57 pm
by Bammer
I am not ashamed to say I have seen DMB live (once, at the Gorge) and really enjoyed it.
PS - Their drummer is arguably the best in the business and regardless of their music or image or whatever, that is hard to deny.