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"stock those internet points"? what does that even mean? We're talking about doing free shows from a fans perspective and nothing more. I didn't realize you were going to get all technical about what is considered free. If I go into a venue without paying and hear a band, I consider it free, i'm sorry if i over-simplified that concept.

The argument is over chief, doesn't matter if it was 8 years ago or 20 years ago, point is, it does happen where big bands do free shows, so you're wrong, some people would!

so you're discrediting my point based on whether or not a band meets your approval? You kinda come across as a music snob. You can't deny that DMB is one of the biggest touring bands in the country over the last decade and that a free concert at central park was pretty cool for the fans.

Well let's seeI've seen Wilco, Andrew Bird, Buddy Guy, Jack Johnson, Ben Harper One night I saw Andrew Bird Wilco one night I saw Buddy Guy One night I saw Jack Johnson Ben Harper So I saw 5 quality bands (give or take jack johnson) for $30 when Wilco alone charges over $50 these days. Sure, it isn't free, but relatively speaking, it's cheap as hell How so?

people do free shows sometimes. There's Summerfest in Milwaukee where you pay like $10 to get in and then can go stage to stage listening to music all day. Also, just one example, Dave Matthews Band played a free show at Central Park in 2003

gotta be a joke, Neil wouldn't do free shows, obviously

hate to beat a dead horse, but check out the show at the Wiltern, cheapest seat in the house $106.00 most expensive $276. lots of fancy suits in that building i'd imagine, come show night

$125-$140 for bears games last year

really? i'm speaking strictly musically, the rhythm guitar since that's all we have, to me at least sounds similar to this

kinda reminds me of something in the same vain as impossible germany and one wing

i was just looking at the chicago shows

For what it's worth, and i know the concert is still over a month out, but there are STILL 3rd row seats up on ticketmaster. The shows will not sell out unless a third party is brought in to buy the tickets and scalp them for under face. You gotta figure anyone die-hard enough to spend $275 on a ticket would have been all over it the day they went on sale. Now it's 3 days later and there are amazing seats left

I don't know, it's in april I think. I thought it sold out but I was on the vic website and there are tickets. maybe they put more up?

For what it's worth, and this won't be popular here, I know, but I also just saw tickets to see Jeff Tweedy at the vic were $61 and I think that's a bit high too.

It is a beautiful theatre and there isn't a bad seat in the house. And I am looking at the higher end tickets because I think there were very very limited amounts of the cheap ones. From looking at a seating chart it looks like the majority of tickets are around $200 or higher. I'd love to see a seating breakdown on the number of seats. I really wouldn't be surprised if in the 3,600 seat venue only a few hundred seats were under $100

i mean, i know it's a business, but as a fan, you try not to think about that. it's like sports, you don't want to be sitting in a baseball stadium, thinking of how much money the players on the owners are making off you, you go to escape your every day life so to speak. And Neil Young probably has so much money from touring, records, the archives, all that, I can't see him strapped for cash. And if it takes a huge pay day to get him back on the road, then I don't want to see him anyways because he's doing it for the wrong reasons. I've got no problem paying to see concerts, I've seen band

i'm with you on all of this. i'd say neil is a legend, but unlike seeing dylan, just to see the guy play like crap, when you see neil, you see neil just emit his neil youngness. the scalper issue is good point i hadn't thought about. Neil Young definitely still has "it" when he plays! And I get wanting to stop scalpers, but at what cost? Me and my friends are all huge neil young fans. but we are teachers and waitresses and farmers and spending over $100 to see a concert is out of our price range, let alone $200 or $300. Does this mean we aren't as big of fans as people who will be sitti

i think for the tom waits tour he did a few years back he made every ticket will call ONLY, which greatly affected the amount of scalping. There's ways to try and stop scalping, and i guess doing something like blowing up the prices of your shows is one way, but it's also a way to lose fans, not that he cares

aah, thought it was smaller. but what difference does it make really? I saw Wilco at the Pabst theatre and had 5th row tickets that were like $50. I know wilco isn't neil young, but you can't tell me Neil Young is worth 4 or 5 times more than Wilco.

ok, well elton john is playing at a small venue in illinois and the most expensive tickets are $150. he's probably more popular than neil young, though i don't like that much, the fact remains, that he is a "legendary" type performer, who is playing by himself and charging $125 less for good seats. I have stood up for neil before and am a huge fan, but there's no way i can justify what he's doing now, no matter how hard i try

ok, well paul simon at the same venue is topped out at like $120 and i've seen Tom Petty for around $55. is that more comparable?

Well after a full days of being on sale I can still get two tickets for the first night in the 4th row, and for the second night in the 3rd row. It'll be a packed house i'm sure, but they aren't selling every ticket at face, because there aren't that many people willing to shell out almost $300 to see Neil young

Yeah scalpers are messing it all up and it does seem like ticketmaster gives tickets to them before anyone else. Look how ticketmaster refers you to a scalping site is tickets are sold out, it's pathetic. And the ticketmaster charges are getting out of hand as well. They are close to $20 for some shows and probably average about $15 for a show, it's horrible. That combined with already high prices makes it unaffordable. And the thing with Neil Young that gets me is that the tickets are extremely expensive and it ONLY him, it's not like it's u2 where the whole band gets paid, it's just him.

For someone that's notorious for doing things his own way, I have a harder time believing he doesn't have a say when it comes to prices. As I said, I'm going to the Auditorium Theatre to see My Morning Jacket and the most expensive Tickets for that were like $55. I can't see the price difference between booking those two places to be that high. And looking at other bands playing there like Jethro Tull and Paul Simon, the most expensive tickets for those shows are like $120 which is less than half what Neil is charging. And i'm not so much disappointed in not being able to go as I am tha

Yeah, for sure! I think last year I saw Blitzen Trapper, Built to Spill and the Sadies and for all three I paid like a combined $50! Much easier to justify than $80 or more for a single show