theAudience said:

Yeah, those Jefferson Airplane and Grateful Dead one's were really OUT THERE, lol. Would love to see that thread, should you ever get around to it.

Concert prices vary from state to state according to what the people in the area can afford or are willing to pay. In the early 1980s, it seems like every year Shalamar, The Whispers, and Lakeside would come to Jackson on the same show and the ticket was always adertised around $7.50. The first concert I attended was in 1985 after I graduated high school and it was The Barkays, Con Funk Shun, and Klymaxx (at least I think it was Klymaxx, I was fucked up ). Those tickets were about $10 or $11 and that included admission to the fair also in the price of the ticket.

Even to this day, when groups come to Jackson, tickets are around $25, $30, or $40 at the most and that's just for average stars like Robin Thicke. Only huge stars like Luther Vandross can pull off selling tickets here for around $65. This is one of the lowest paid states in the nation. People down here either don't have big money to spend on tickets or aren't going to pay big money for concerts. And if a big star like Prince were to come down here on the same weekend as a Jackson State football game, the entire audience would be white because all the blacks would be at the football game.

Ticket prices vary with consideration to the wages made by the people in the area or the other events going on at the same time. At least that's what the smart promoters do down here. I've seen some that charge high concert prices and they have had about 300 people in the audience, it even that.
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vainandy said:

Look at the type of show you could see in 1980 for only $9!

Maybe my best price/performance ratio for a show I paid for.


1970 Strawberry Fields Festival (Ontario, Canada)...



...(3 days, 22 performers)

Procul Harum
Jose Feliciano
Ten Years After
Delaney & Bonnie & Friends
Grand Funk Railroad
The Youngbloods
Jethro Tull
Melanie
Hog Heaven
Freedom Express
Leigh Ashford
Fat Chance
James Ambrose
Mountain
Cactus
Syrinx
Crowbar
King Biscuit Boy
Luke & The Apostles
Lighthouse
Alice Cooper
Sly and the Family Stone

Ticket price = $15

Approximately $00.68 per performance.




Music for adventurous listeners



tA

Tribal Records

check out the prices.... 1 to 3 pounds

It was a typical Don King and Joe Jackson move. I remember reading that Michael didn't even know what was going on and, after hearing everything, tried to stop Don and Joe from leeching off the fans!

But it was too late and both King and Joe had already began exploiting the fans. Then the fans turned against Michael and, after realizing his son didn't want to exploit them [the fans], Joe, typically, sold rumors to the press and cried everywhere that Michael didn't care about him!

This is why Michael wanted nothing to do with his family when it came to business. And let's not even mention the Korean concerts, the Beat it movie, the Pepsi commercials and the list goes on and on and on. It's no surprise that Michael wanted to keep a safe distance from his family when it comes to business. Everything that includes his siblings and Papa Joe (and his convicted friends) turns into an ugly, greedy, fucked up mess.

MOL said:

this is exactly why I say that Michael should have distanced himself from his family when 'Off The Wall' was released.That album should have been his declaration of independence.He was 18,he should have moved out and concentrated on his solo career.No more albums and tours with his brothers.There has always been alot of "funny money" stuff going on with his father and other family members.

It sure seemed steep at the time & I was 1 of them that bought a ticket.
The Jacksons
Victory Tour
Buffalo NY. 1984

We paid $386.00 a ticket for an Elton John concert in 2008, and actually thought it was worth it. Thats about 270 American. I also recall paying $89.00NZD for Cher in 2005 and a mere $22.50NZ to see Dire Straits in Christchurch on March 2 1986, and the U2 Concert in December 1989 cost $35.00, my partner says he paid $15NZD to see the Rolling Stones in 1973 (That year the NZD was worth $1.25US). The Rolling Stones Concert in 1965 cost 5/- or about 80 cents in Invercargill. Theres some history for you.

SoulAlive said:

The problem is that the Jacksons got and still get mad whenever they aren't included in Michael's business.
They, mainly Joe, constantly invent every scheme and strategy possible in order to be included in his business or, if that is not be the case, ruin it. We all known what happened with the TII tour. We all know what the family, particularly Joe and pal Leonard Rowe, did in order to profit from it. Even worse: we all know what Joe, Rowe and the siblings did when they realized they weren't making money with that tour.

And let's not even mention the fight against the estate. They realized they aren't making money with whatever the estate is doing...so it's hell. They've campaigned agaisnt the TII movie (to the point of inventing rumours about body doubles), they refused to received Michael's life achievemnt Grammy award when they realized they wouldn't be making money or appearing in front of TV cameras, they raised a hell because of an appearance in the Grammy awards when they realized only the kids would be involved. Besides, now that Joe realized he is not going to make money out of the Cirque de Soleil thing, he has already started a campaign agaisnt it. The family is all over the TV complaining that they are not involved in the Cirque du Soleil stuff and rumous from "sources close to the family" have already started to pop up. Whenever the Jacksons aren't involved in something, whenever they aren't profiting from something, they will invent every scheme to be involved in that something. And, if they fail, they'll try to ruin it. And then mysterious 300 million lawsuits against the estate from Leonard Rowe start appearing. And then horrible rumours about Michael from "family insiders" start appearing as well. Then you have fanventions which consist in exploiting the fans. And then you have all this mess.

The estate is doing its best in order to promote MJ's legacy, but the family, realizing they are not making money with the estate ventures, does its best to stop it. And then we have a circus called the Jacksons. First, they'll do everything to be involved in Michael's business. They'll go to the limits. Then, if plan A, B...Z fails, they'll try to ruin that business. The most recent example of this is Julien's auction. Joe wanted money from that auction and did his best to leech off of it. He invented scheme after scheme to get money from it. When he realized he failed and, therefore, wanst' profiting from it...he tried to ruin the damn auction. Just read Julien's interview. He was blackmailed by Joe and when he simply refused to give Joe money, when he survived every attempt from Joe to get money...Poppa Joe did his best to ruin the auction. The funniest thing is that almost every item in the auction was sold by Michael's family members! But, hey, it's the Jacksons. They have a sick, dark, freaky, unhealthy obsession with money and Michael and his business were the chosen victims. But let's all pretend Joe jsut loves his son, OK?

^^ yep

SoulAlive said:

...and Jermaine is a chip off the old block.

uPtoWnNY said:

he's the worst.

You guys aren't saying those things just because you dislike the family right?


Its not gossip right?

If its not i kinda couldve guessed such behaviour goes on in the family.
Mainly thanks to what i saw on Family dynasty

What really pissed people off is that at first you had to buy four tickets.

therat said:

Yes i remember that but it didn't matter to me because i knew i
wasn't going.
I was saving money getting ready to go to college. I just
enjoyed listening to the Victory album.

I so wish i was older back then. LOLOLOL

How's everybody doing on this side

Greedy a$$ family. Them MF's.

SoulAlive said:

Those were the days man!!!

I think its funny in the escalation in the prices, and yet the only thing people bitch and whine about now is the fact that a cd costs 10-15 bucks?

So u bitch about 15 bucks for a 50-80 minute cd and say nothing about 100-250 tickets on a show that lasts 80 minutes and alot of times those prices are charged by artists that barely sing during there shows.

Chic35 said:

Yep

I would have killed to see that show. My two favorites on the same show.

I remember when that show came to Jackson. I begged my grandmother to take me (I was in the 7th grade). She was going to take me until she called the coliseum box office to get tickets. They heard this older white woman on the phone and said...."Ma'am, do you realize what you're going to see?". Then they told her that she would probably be the only white person in the entire building except for the stage crew. You can imagine how well that went over with an older Southern white woman who was born in 1913 who had been raised to be "scared" of black people, especially black men. She told me "hell no" and that she would be scared for her life. To which I replied, "you're being rediculous".

Anyway, they said The Commodores would be coming the next month and suggested that she take me to see them instead. They said the music was a lot "softer" (they had been doing things like "Three Times A Lady" at the time) and there would be more whites in the audience. When she offered to take me to see The Commodores, I said "Hell no" and then got slapped for cussing.

vainandy said: