phunkdaddy said:

Well without a big fuss you basically whether consciously or unconsciously minimized Maze in comparison to the pop acts you listed. You have done this before when the topic of black acts come up. You usually say they don't sell this or don't sell that in comparison to pop acts. Let's not sugar coat it. It's pretty much common knowledge that most black acts don't reach the base that the majority of pop acts do. You think the population have a lot to do with that? I was just letting you know that Maze isn't your run of the mill r&b act. These guys have been selling out shows for years. I don't have to look up the price of R&B acts ticket prices. I already know. Sometimes it depends on the venue. The Ojays and Gladys Knight played at a theatre for the performing arts in my city back in May and tickets were 150 dollars. You could have gotten them cheaper through Groupon for a limited period but 150 dollars was the going price. Of course r&b acts like Cameo and ConFunkshun couldn't pull this off but artists like Stevie, EWF, Chaka Khan can get that easily if they were doing a performance a venue for the performing arts.

If this was a thread about Herman's Hermits, Samantha Fox, or Three Dog Night, who are white and pop acts, I would have said the same thing if someone said their tickets were $200 or more. Barbara Striesand tickets were almost $400 each, and people pay it. It doesn't have anything to do with the size of her audience, but who is willing to pay whatever she is charging and has enough to do it. It's like when rich people in Abu Dhabi pay an act millions of dollars to do a private show, and the audience might only be their friends and not a stadium full of people. But it's not likely that Herman's Hermits can charge $200 for a ticket. Acts like Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson, EWF, & Lionel Richie don't just have a primarily R&B audience, so it's not the same thing.