Re: While cleaning the basement....

On 9 Aug 2005 12:33:02 -0700, "Guncho" <cgunter@xxxxxxxxxxx> did
courageously avow:

>
>Jeff wrote:
>> "Guncho" <cgunter@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> >
>> > Jeff wrote:
>> >> "Guncho" <cgunter@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> >> >
>> >> > Jeff wrote:
>> >> >> "j647" <jfoote@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> >> >> news:J46Ke.113526$Kp2.8819457@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> >> >> > My first concert was Kiss, cost me $6, Buffalo, general admission.
>> >> >> > You
>> >> >> > can
>> >> >> > get Green Day tickets for $250 through a broker/agent/scumbag and
>> >> >> > let's
>> >> >> > not talk about Springsteen.
>> >> >> >
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Most of todays bands who are mediocre at best when compared to
>> >> >> 50's-70's
>> >> >> era
>> >> >> rock bands are so overwhelmed with themselves and take themselves so
>> >> >> seriously that they feel the outrageous prices for their concerts are
>> >> >> actually worth it. I prefer to go to clubs with unknown bands. If they
>> >> >> are
>> >> >> good, good, if they suck, still good because then I havent lost a ton
>> >> >> of
>> >> >> money in Travel-Time-Tickets-Concessions.
>> >> >
>> >> > "You kids call that music? It sounds like noise to me!"
>> >> >
>> >> > "They shouldn't call it rap, they should call it CRAP!"
>> >> >
>> >> > Back in the rocking chair grandpa.
>> >> >
>> >> > Yeah Peter Frampton. Not mediocre at all.
>> >> >
>> >> > And yeah none of those decadent cocaine addled 70's bands took
>> >> > themselves too seriously????
>> >> >
>> >> > Who was it Skunk Baxter who said they were so self indulgent in the
>> >> > 70's they would take a week in the studio to decide which chair to sit
>> >> > in? Not too mention they were all stoned out of their minds 24/7.
>> >> >
>> >> Yea, but the tickets back then only cost me 10 bucks or less. "It" was
>> >> passed around freely. No one cared about concessions really. And the
>> >> bands
>> >> actually had something to be serious about. I personally give a rats ass
>> >> about some band with a passion for feeding starving Africans with someone
>> >> elses tax dollars. Or curing Aids in Africa when thats not going to
>> >> happen.
>> >> Or anything else they try to make up as a "Cause" for thier music.
>> >
>> > Uhh it's called inflation.
>> >
>> > Yeah it's so much better having rock stars who are only concerned about
>> > mansions, gold bentley's and having models blow coke up their
>> > asses?!?!?
>> >
>>
>> Like they arent doing that today? Inflation? Umm so the rate of inlfation
>> has increased over 200% in the last 20 years? Dont think so! More like price
>> gouging.
>
>You're telling me that if Fleetwood Mac had thought they could get $100
>a ticket in the 70's they wouldn't have charged that?
>
>Yeah right.
>
>That just means they could buy more coke!
>
>Chris

Edmonton, AB, very early 70's. Kinsmen Field House.

Long John Baldrey (still British at the time), Fleetwood Mac and Small
Faces. $3 Cdn.

Ken Wilson

Amer. Dlx. Tele, Gary Moore LP, LP DC Classic w/P90s,
Jeff Beck Strat, Morgan OM Acoustic,
Rick 360/12, Std. Strat (MIM), Mesa 100 Nomad,
Mesa F-30

"Goodnight Austin, Texas, wherever you are."
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