Red Mosquito

For those interested in such a thing, the band is at #23 for the year

http://www.pollstarpro.com/files/charts ... nTours.pdf

1.2 million a night is nothing to sneeze at

MattA75 wrote:For those interested in such a thing, the band is at #23 for the year

http://www.pollstarpro.com/files/charts ... nTours.pdf

1.2 million a night is nothing to sneeze at

Wonder what the take-home is when you break everything down.
Taxes
Vitalogy Foundation
Crew
Roadies!
Fees
Transportation
Hotels
Stone's Throne and Sceptre
5 Band Members
Boom

The Vitalogy Foundation is largely funded by the Saudi royal family.

MissYouAllDay wrote:The Vitalogy Foundation is largely funded by the Saudi royal family.

One of the unearthed gems from the 28 pages (though most sections with regard to the Vitalogy Foundation remain heavily redacted).

How is Coldplay selling 195,000 tickets per show?

Bi_3 wrote:How is Coldplay selling 195,000 tickets per show?

Typo

Them and the Stones should each be divided by the number of gigs (3 for Coldplay, 2 for the Stones)

evenslow wrote:

MattA75 wrote:For those interested in such a thing, the band is at #23 for the year

http://www.pollstarpro.com/files/charts ... nTours.pdf

1.2 million a night is nothing to sneeze at

Wonder what the take-home is when you break everything down.
Taxes
Vitalogy Foundation
Crew
Roadies!
Fees
Transportation
Hotels
Stone's Throne and Sceptre
5 Band Members
Boom

Dylan's per-booking minimum was less than 1/2 of Pearl Jam's in 2002. His crew was nearly equivalent in size, his draw was much smaller, and money was still being tossed around like it meant absolutely nothing.

By contrast, late 90's Kiss was fairly close to Pearl Jam-level crowds, and their guarantee was a little larger, but their expenses were also much bigger (they had a massive road show with tons and tons of crew members). I read an interview where Ace Frehley was complaining about being paid like a hired hand on that tour, but the promoter contract I saw guaranteed at least $10,000 to each band member independent of other expenses and ON TOP of the booking guarantee, which is usually calculated as a double digit percentage beyond basic costs guaranteed to make see the band earns money...and on rough tours can mean the band gets very well paid while promoters go broke.

So in theory, that $10k was just "hired hand" money to him.

*edited to correct the number my faulty memory tossed out

Just going by the eye-test shows, Pearl Jam sells more merch than most bands. The majority of people I see are buying multiple items. I'm sure PJ cleans up in this respect.

I had no idea Martin Lawrence was still alive

evenslow wrote:

MattA75 wrote:For those interested in such a thing, the band is at #23 for the year

http://www.pollstarpro.com/files/charts ... nTours.pdf

1.2 million a night is nothing to sneeze at

Wonder what the take-home is when you break everything down.
Taxes
Vitalogy Foundation
Crew
Roadies!
Fees
Transportation
Hotels
Stone's Throne and Sceptre
5 Band Members
Boom

You left out: Whores.

Lots of whores.

Dude, forget ed's wife's cost. I was back stage at the global citizen last year and she was livin it up with the kids last year.

lowlight79 wrote:Dude, forget ed's wife's cost. I was back stage at the global citizen last year and she was livin it up with the kids last year.

what do they do back there? eat dip?

WtOB? wrote:

lowlight79 wrote:Dude, forget ed's wife's cost. I was back stage at the global citizen last year and she was livin it up with the kids last year.

what do they do back there? eat dip?

I bet they had a lot of fruit smoothies.

Springsteen just broke the billboard record for his two shows here in Dublin. Almost $20 million for two nights for 160,000 people. Great shows they were too.