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- Опубликовано: 16 мар 2024
- What if companies were honest about how the concert ticket industry works? Roger Horton investigates.
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"It's not your fault, but it *is* your problem" sums up so much of society.
Na just every one stop going for a year. Price will go back down
"It's our fault, but it's YOUR problem". I like that better.
I will never NOT be insulted by that "Delivery Fee" for *digital fkg tickets* (plus, you know, the rest of the insane markups). Go, Roger!
A "convenience fee" for ordering online instead of saving them labor of a ticket window. And we pay EXTRA for that.
That's like me doing click and collect when they have it in store and paying a delivery fee
@@deeps6979 what's even worse is that you can't even avoid fees by going to the ticket window/venue at most shows now!
@@deeps6979 Its because they can :3
Companies charging a "delivery fee", "service fee", and "convenience fee" when the service is the delivery and it's what makes it convenient.
It's not your fault, but it is your problem.
That needs to be put on a tee shirt.
It should be like "It's not your fault, but now it is your problem" because we never knew that before. 😅
You forgot to mention the cost of parking -- there's another $25 so you have to walk only half a mile instead of 2 miles.
Better hope you don't get caught in nightmare traffic jams just getting to the damn concert! Happened in Texas. Dinosaur British rock group. Fans paid 3 to 4 figures for tix and couldn't get to the venue at all. Talk about being Rogered!
$25 to walk 2 miles, $50 to walk half a mile
I had the same problem a few months ago. Amazing how "parking fees" not mentioned when you book.
In Seattle I think you hit the jackpot if you can find event parking for less than $75!
The last concert I went to, parking was $40!
There isn't a single person I want to see enough for all that.
Yeah, I'm done with all that.
Same here. I had other priorities. Such as paying off the mortgage.
Y’all should have also included LiveNation’s monopolistic practice of buying out and consolidating live venues, production, promotion, and ticket vending (plus of course the forced percentages from merch, beer, parking, concessions, etc.)
Also I fucking love you Roger! ❤
and dynamic pricing
Yep. LiveNation is a scalper that sells to other scalpers. Hell I wouldn't be surprised if half the reseller sites could be tracked to subsidiaries of theirs.
@@nobodyimportant2470 look into that because I know I watched or read something and it's true. Ticketmaster had their own scalpers, they got caught and now have their own resell service. It doesn't make sense....😔
the fact that anti-trust laws have been eroded to the point that illegal monopolies have become the norm, is sickening. Monopolies have been illegal in the US since 1890. And those laws were enforced up until the 2000s. Now every industry is fucked by billionaires that are addicted to seeing their profit margins grow faster than the speed of an accelerating Ferrari. And we can trace the moment live music got fucked back to the 2010 merger of Live Nation and Ticketmaster.
We used to call resellers scalpers
They're still called scalpers. They need to be put in jail for the kind of piracy they're committing. The record labels and ticket vendors don't do anything about it because there's no money in that issue.
@@CoasterMan13Official calling them resellers adds an air of legitimacy to them they don't deserve.
Elizabeth Warren got involved
Facts, but you also forgot to mention that live nation owns the venues and the ticket sellers, AND the ticket resell websites.
They also have a hand in the merch booth.
How this isn’t considered a monopoly is insane to me
@@analogsignalsee, cuz they have different NAMES, so obviously it’s different 🤮
@@barleymepodcast2301Because Robert Bork got the ban on trusts lifted in circa 1983.
From a fellow boomer, loved the "stairway to free bird" 😂😅😂❤
@Forthakine it's almost like u nailed it right on the head
@@esaua.7455”it’s almost like…”
“Imagine doing a,b,c and x,y,z happens like what the op post just said”
For the love of god, stop pretending to be witty on the internet.
@Forthakine And as the economic system rots in obsolescence and job opportunities close, people will turn to dirtier and dirtier schemes to strike it rich.
The parody names in this one are *chefs kiss*
Toyler Swoft sounds much better than Taylor Swift too.
Beyornce 🤣
"One Blind Foot" :)
And the song call out at the end "Play Stairway to free Bird!" LMAO
And the band listed between Toyler Swoft and Adorle: Eat The Poor
My son-in-law is a musician. This hit home. Despite him being a very popular solo artist they are by no means wealthy. Were it not for my daughter's good job, they'd be scraping by. In fact that happened during covid. He had a short tour in Australia booked quickly followed by a concert in Venice (and for once he was going to be able to take her. They had babysitters sorted for the whole weekend). Of course both events were at the start of each country's lockdown. He ended up getting a job selling wills (there's irony for you).
He lost all the money he'd put into the concerts and he doesn't get much from them to start with. Fortunately his manager deals with the ticket sales, but she still gets a percentage from them. Not as bad as these ticket sites!
A number of bigger stars are starting to sell directly to the public, sometimes via the venue but with strict limits on "extras", and not allowing resales. It's the only way to end these creeps from getting the vast majority of the money made on any tour. Imagine how much it costs one of those huge stars to go on tour; wages for musicians and backing singers, dancers and roadies, let alone travel and hotel costs, yet scalpers will still make enough to damn near retire on 🤬
TLDR but I'm gonna say that's BS
Yes, I go see Ghost every chance I get and Tobias has said that the merch store is their primary income source.
I'm old enough to remember Pearl Jam trying... If they couldn't accomplish anything at the height of the 90s, I just don't know.
Part of that is a rigged system that lets the old established acts rake in the money while new acts are sabotaged to never become big.
Sounds like it is better to just donate money or to have musicians sell something that is basically free or only costs a few cents and charge different amounts and say the purpose is to give money to the band.
Maybe sell a single grain of uncooked rice for $1, $5, $10, $15 all the way up to $100.
Each price option could be ranked and officially listed like "standard, good, better, best, bronze, brass, silver, gold, platinum, ultra, supreme, etc".
That way technically you are selling something which will collect tax money, but the out of pocket expense would be a very tiny fraction of a cent.
Sure the fans won't be able to keep track of it and will lose it or throw it away, but the only purpose is to give money to the band in a way that is taxed for selling a product.
Where I see many people go wrong, is the opposite extreme. Maybe they sell custom T-shirts, which let's just say it cost like $14 to get it made and they sell it for $15.
You just cost your fan $15 and you only got $1 minus the taxes, so really, you just ripped off your fan who is trying to support you. Wouldn't you rather have the fan buy a $1 grain of rice and pay taxes on $1 and the band get to keep around 90% of the money the fan spent instead of more like 6%.
If you go the other route, getting a $14 t-shirt and selling it for $25-$75 in order to make a profit, now you are just as bad. They are shelling out a very large amount of money, to donate some money.
After all, if the purpose of selling merchandise is to fund the band, shouldn't that be optimized and maximized instead of just barely being better than the situation you are trying to resolve?
If you go the online route, you could sell a digital copy of something that basically costs you nothing. Just make sure the fans know that the purpose, is solely to support the band financially and not to obtain something of value, otherwise fans will be very angry.
I would figure out a way to have zero cost or as close to zero cost as possible for some way for fans to get money to the band. Getting a $100 item and selling for $101 to fans is pointless. Maybe do stickers or something, but keep the focus on zero cost or almost zero cost if getting money is the purpose.
Accurate. And this is why I haven't bothered with a live concert in close to 20 years.
Depends on the country like mentioned. It pretty cheap to travel with frequent flyer miles.
@@southcoastinventors6583I went to Poland to see system of a down . Had way more fun and a great holiday.
If you like new music and the local scene you can go to concerts for just 15 bucks.
The irony when you see "Honest Ads Premeum Hoddie" sale in RUclips for $50. Lol
🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
As someone who used to work in apparel printing as a designer, it's the cost of print on demand. The cost of the regular tshirt (probably about 3-8 bucks depending on the quality and is much more for sweatshirts) + Probably 10-15 cost per side for printing as ordered(on the mid-low end) + 8ish percent for processing payments = around 24 Dollars to print a shirt on demand, even before setting profit or accounting for tax. This is likely 40 to get sweats printed. I can assure you that anyone selling clothes on demand on RUclips isn't making big bucks xD
@@blinkfraidmeanwhile the Chinese do it for pennies on the dollar
@@masterdecats6418 Today I learned how they keep their people working for peanuts - A vid about the chinese execution vans popped up and it made me question why we're buying their junk.
@@masterdecats6418 Yeah but once you consider the cost of shipping to the U.S. and storage, it comes around to just slightly under.
Ticketmaster "buys" their own tickets and resells them at double+ the price. You can have a code for early access sales and every center seat is gone even if you view it 1 sec after it goes live. It's not 3rd party bots, b/c the tickets are under their official resell seats.
Not to sound like a boomer but I used to camp out for tickets and paid $28.00 for the best seat in the stadium to see The Rolling Stones live in 1989 and the last time I saw them in 2015, I had to pay over $100.00 for a seat located in the very back of that same stadium.
local record store would bring in the acts back in the 70s for less than $10 a ticket.
I remember that.@@Zebra_3
I used to wonder about that. Is it really worth taking two days off work/school just to get better seats? 48 hours @ 1989 minimum wage = $200.
Concerts aren't wrong to charge hundreds more for better seats, because they can.
@@r5t6y7u8 That's a good point. I'm not actually a boomer since I'm 56 but at the time the tickets went on sale for that Stones concert, The Who, and others, I was lucky enough to have the days off that the tickets went on sale so I didn't miss any time and my supervisor wanted tickets for the Stones concert as well, so he actually let me have a paid personal day off and gave me the money for the tickets he wanted so it worked out to my advantage.
@@r5t6y7u8Yeah nah, fuck that lol.
As a frequent concert goer, this is dead on.
Yes, the cost of going to a concert is ridiculous. I have to plan for months in advance and still be very cautious with what I get, where I stay and maybe if I'm lucky I can eat wherever the show is. Continental breakfast is a lifesaver, it means you can eat that day.
As a "never going to a major concert again because it is a total ripoff" person, this is dead on.
@@ateamfan42The idea of going to a concert has really fallen apart in the New Millennium.
I love a good concert but getting affordable tickets is a rareity these days last year I got 4 concerts that were under a hundred dollars per ticket this year I will be going to very few under a hundred most are over 135 each
All Ticketmaster has to do to stop scalpers is add a name to the tickets. One name can get up to four tickets, show an ID when using the ticket. Problem solved, if Ticketmaster actually wanted to stop it. Hell, I bet Ticketmaster is half the scalpers.
You forgot that scaled pricing. If tickets sell fast, the price jumps exponentially until ticket buying slows down. Of course, that gouging is to prevent scalpers from buying all the tickets.
That would create a new problem though. If you have a really common name then the first John Smith can get tickets and the other 500 John Smiths will be told they already bought 4 tickets they don't actually have.
They could add SS as well but then fake web sites can be set up to steal peoples SS numbers.
Even setting up a site to recognize your IP address can be worked around by just using a VPN so it's not that easy to limit the amout of tickets 1 person can buy.
He missed out on mentioning that he also owns a ticket resale site so he gets a second cut of the higher resale price.
@@RialVestro they could use your driver's license number as well, since you're showing it to them anyway
As I understand it, Ticketmaster allows scalpers to sell tickets on the Ticketmaster website now.
I love Toiler Swaft.
Gotta love Adorle too! They're giving away those tix at only $40K. 🤫
toilet swab would have been a better parody
Swafties unite \o.
I'm now 40, and I've been going to shows since I was 13. I have a hard time justifying still going. You might be right, maybe I should vacation in Europe instead of driving a couple hours to see folks. The entire experience, from the cost, to the "packed like sardines in a can" feel, to the true to life hearing loss... my time is coming to an end.
According to RUclips this was posted 8 minutes ago. And 7 minutes ago people were posting how great it was
😂😂💯
that's just how they roll.
I listen at 10x speed.
@@paineoftheworld 2x is max tho if you use the built in thing and even that's too fast imo and especially listening to all these mf youtubers with already speeded up voices, lol
@@paineoftheworldno such thing, 2x is max
Gotta find a parking garage, pay for that, stand in a line for hours before they open the doors, maybe buy expensive merch, and stand as close to the front as you can where there will inevitably be taller people right in front, and once the show's over, you get to sit in the parking garage for possibly another hour or two while everybody slowly files out
One thing I forgot to mention is that for the price I'm paying for tickets, you'd think the audio mixing would be better? Last few concerts I went to, you could barely hear the singer during the louder songs.
@@doctorthemoworm Are there any genres where vocalists are still audible during these events?
@@dominicfucinari1942 sometimes! Devin Townsend and Unleash The Archers were just fine for their louder songs
I get around the parking garage hassle by parking near a metro station. $5 for a round trip ticket beats $20-100 for the garages.
Some places I know, charge a "convenience fee" if you pay online, where they don't need an employee or air conditioned building or a floor to clean, whereas if you go in person, where they have to have an employee and upkeep the building, you aren't charged that fee.
Of course they push you to pay online with text that takes up almost your entire screen, because they don't want you to track dirt into their building with your shoes and create longer lines for people waiting and they also want to pocket free money on top of that. If you are thinking "that's because you are using a bank/credit card", well you can use one at the business and you are not charged that same fee.
It's just a way to charge a few more dollars to most of the people who buy their service.
Yep, that's business - however one correction on the "if you pay online, where they don't need an employee or air conditioned building or a floor to clean"-part for ya; the online side of the business requires payment processors, banking costs, if it's their own site then add costs for domain name, hosting, web dev cost... then, obviously, the costs of them claiming to the customers that those costs are actually about 500 times higher than they actually are.... oh, also don't forget the "because someone has to get screwed on the transaction"-costs...
Actually, some businesses I go to do charge a bit more for you to use cards because that business has to pay a service charge for that card company allowing them to take their card.
December 30, 1979, Los Angeles Coliseum, Grateful Dead, Saint Stephen, $5 general admission ticket, bought in person the day of show at Tower Records. IYKYK
LOL you have to like the GD teeshirt on the actor. I put up my June 9, 1976 Boston Music Hall, don't remember what I paid through Deadheads, but entirely reasonable for what I got. June 11th they opened the second set with St. Stephen which was somewhat earth-shaking.
Oh man, I love "Eat the Poor". They're so relatable!
And deliscious
Left Foot Beef! Erhmehgerd! My FAVORITE!
Those guys are hacks, have you listened to Spoon Physicians? That's the real music 😂
Since Dirk Bustomenter left the band they've been totally Mid.
FleetwoodMac
@@davidbrown4540 , yeah, ever since they changed to szechuan style it hasn't been the same.
My cousins kids became friends with Bowling For Soup 2000s. Lol....
It’s actually deeper than this. Ticketmaster partners with scalpers and make deals with them (they will purposely allow them to buy all their tickets and then get money back from them.) Moat concerts don’t sell out as fast as they say, but it makes for good sales if it’s advertised as “sold out”. The touring acts actually do get VERY little on touring because Ticketmaster and the venue owners price gouge them as well. So unless you’re a huge act that can guarantee huge sales, you better book as many “festivals” as you can.
The last live concert I saw was at least 7 years ago. It was a $25 ticket for 2 opening acts(who were locals) and 2 headliners. No seats. The main act went so hard they blew out a circuit breaker. Best concert ever. Two bills for a show is unconscionable.
Fun Fact: you can join AARP when you turn 18. Lots of discounts on stuff.
no, you have to be 50
Yep, their strong stance on age discrimination but them in the rear. Too young has too be included as well as too old😂😂
I was sent an AARP card when I was like 25 😂
They tried to warn you or it was a glitch and you were supposed to get that 25 years ago no way you can retire at 25 now@@Brando56894
Wouldn’t that be difficult actually it’s gonna be super easy barely an inconvenience… And now they’re gonna tack on some fees watch we should’ve kept it on the hush oh at least the McChicken went down… My local McDonald’s $2.59
I might be OLD but I got to see ALL the cool bands BEFORE prices went into triple digits prior to the addition of fees! : )
Good for you!
Please, ticket master already has their fingers in the scalpers pie. They set it up so they can resale right on their website.
"No one knows exactly what these are"
The great unjustified mystery of every Ticketmaster ticket sold in the last 20 years 😂
I saw Blink-182 in 1997 for $19.25.... they have a show coming up this summer in the same city, floor tickets $1400.... yes, ONE THOUSAND FOUR HUNDRED per ticket.
Woah in Miami Florida?
My mom lived close to a major venue, apparently there was a discount for students at the time. She saw a bunch of bands for under $2 every time
I guess the days when your friend who worked in the theater box office would hand you ticket stubs out the side door, then appear around front to "tear" your tickets to a sold out Dead Kennedys show are gone. This happened to me in 1984.
I wouldn't dream of going to a concert now. But I'm old and poor.
this is quickly becoming one of my favorite parody channels
One of your favorite parody channels? You must consume a lot of parodies.
It pays not to be a fan. 😅 I always appreciate your enthusiasm while reading the script they give you, Roger. Keep up the amazing work. 😊
😂 $13.50 Whitesnake tickets in 1985, some years back when the Eagles had a reunion tour and the minimum tickets for $150 I just laughed 😅
Exactly why I quit going to concerts 20 years ago
It's crazy how most everyone in GA are average height, but somehow I always get stuck behind the 6'2 guy. Even if I move, there's another tall guy in front of me.
They teleport. Hope this helps
Stairway To Freebird.🤘🏾🤘🏾🤘🏾🤘🏾
This is so real it's insane. What's worse is in the last2 years I've purchased tickets to 2 venues thus perpetuating the problem. But I've basically sworn them off. These brokers need to seriously get outlawed
I remember once wanting to go to a towns local music festival. This was their second one, celebrating the first one they had 50 years ago. I couldn’t buy tickets from the town itself, or at the gate. I had to buy them from Ticketmaster!!! $100 +$35 fees! A local town music festival! “Own the venue you say?” It was outside on a golf course that the town itself owned!
This is why I tried to record every concert I attended just to make sure I got my money's worth & get to remember it by listening to it again & again!
And here I was..... complaining when ticket prices were twenty dollars lol 🤣
Yeah... when one of my favourite band was now 40 bucks I thought twice whether I should actually buy a ticket xD
This was last week tho
I can't agree more, a band I saw approx. 2017 tickets cost £50. 2023 tickets same venue £250, so I never went to the 2023 concert.
I know what you mean my late grandad lived not far from the Brighton center years a go I liked the pet shop boys and me and my brother saw them on there nightlife tour I think my grandad got hold of the tickets for £25 per ticket so we possibly only spent £100 for the evening out with goodies thrown in thay where doing a show in the same venue this year £250 upwards for a ticket also depending on where you where seated well it's no thanks I don't want to get mugged music changed and I am no longer into them these days I saw a few people back in the day now I just don't see the point of paying all that out its just now a way of mugging there fans my memory is still intacted I will just re member the old memories of lazy days and happier times instead
@@marksargent2440 Punctuation is your friend (or rather, it's not, but it should be).
@@Unknown-jt1jo thankyou wise teacher
The honest thing is that concerts over the past ten or fifteen years have become incredibly high tech which inflates the price greatly. The lighting fixtures have become more complex, LED walls are super expensive to rent, build, and transport, the audio end is really high tech as well. The concerts of today are an all immersive experience, albeit to enjoy the music you don't need all those bells and whistles.
Don't forget the insurance. I wouldn't know for sure (cough, cough) but back in day it was common for people to get in fights, get sick, OD, tear up the seats, trash the rest rooms, steal food/merch, get arrested, and hexual basalt the women. Lawyers are expensive.
This is why I don't bother going to live concerts.
LMAO! $200? I saw Pink Floyd back in the 70s for $15. It'll be a cold day in hell before I pay those kind of prices.
saw the Eagles for free w/ a $15 ticket.
$15.00 in 1970 is worth 120$ adjusted for inflation plus LP cost 20-40$ so while it was cheaper it not a huge difference.
@@southcoastinventors6583it's not just the cost, it's the change in culture. No cell phones back then, we held up Bic lighters for the encore, everyone listened, not all the talking during songs, merch tables had affordable items, you drank in the parking lot before shows, sparked up during shows, parking was free, people were considerate, a tall person stayed seated to not block those behind them, getting backstage or hanging out by the loading dock was not unachievable, it was a very different vibe and price.
@@southcoastinventors6583 $15 in 70s is the most expensive I saw (Aug 1978), I usually paid $6-7 at the local record store.
Here’s a secret: for a lot of concerts you can buy tickets at the venue and avoid those bonkers ”fees”.
Many years ago, I thought I could do just that. So, I went to the venue's box office to get my tickets instead of buying though Ticket Master. I *still* had to pay the Ticket Master service fees. When I asked about that, I was told that Ticket Master was the official seller for *all* tickets, regardless of where you buy them -- at the venue's location or online.
Often, even if you go to the artist's or the venue's web site to buy the tickets, you'll be redirected to the Ticket Master or Event Co website.
So just be aware.
The predatory streaming services aren't the only ways musicians lose out, and why they have to tour so long to make money.
Since the early '00s, in the wake of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, which was meant to open up the airwaves for wireless internet and to make entry into radio for new companies easier, a few companies like Clear Channel and Cumulus began buying up all the radio stations in the country and consolidating them. Before, there were dozens of smaller companies who owned radio stations regionally, and every radio station had their own program director, who was responsible for whatever got on the air. Radio stations prided themselves on being the ones who "discovered" a new artist, by trying out their songs on the market. DJs, for that reason, had a lot more autonomy. But, like any other corporation, they thought they could do away with all those redundant program directors, and direct all programming from the comfort of their corporate HQs. This greatly choked down the barrier to entry for new musicians into the market. If you've wondered why it seems most new music sounds the same, or that we're still playing a lot of the same songs from the 80s and 90s (the last Golden Age of Music - a veritable explosion of pop culture the likes of which the world hasn't seen since the 1920s), this is why.
Because of that, and streaming, record labels need to make money too. They jacked up the price to lease a recording studio, and hiring producers and renting out equipment and instruments. In the 90s, a new or existing band often didn't may much, if at all, to go into a studio because the labels saw it as an investment. Today, it can cost a band upwards of $50,000.00 a week to be in that studio.
It's no wonder why so many bands go overseas to record.
Don't forget parking. When Tay Tay played here in Los Angeles it cost $200 to PARK at Sofi Stadium.
I've missed Roger, I'm glad he is still around.
Bought a $50 shirt from the merch booth and a $20 one from a guy in the parking lot. The $50 one fell apart in the first wash.
Stairway to free bird XD
Well, this is also one other solution - stop attending. No one ever boycotts anything, but it would work and it wouldn't take much time. Just imagine one season of no one buying tickets. Now, after you have settled down from the absurdity of what you just read, also consider that as long as you keep attending AND funding these practices/policies you HATE - Nothing Will Change.
amen amen
Woohoo, another honest ad. Let's go!
*ad
Attended up to 3 major act shows a week during peak touring season in the early 1980s. I had a busboys min wage income, shows like Ozzy, Dio, RUSH, ZZ Top etc cost $7-9 a ticket from ticket master.
wow. those really were the days. hurray.
One of the keys to commercial rock and roll is to make your lyrics specific enough for every teenager in the world to feel like you're speaking directly to whatever non-specific teen crisis they're going thru while keeping it vague and poetic enough to not really be saying anything at all. They've been doing that since the beatles.
I got strep throat in 2009 from going to my first concert it was the band Disturbed worth it.
Next one should be “If Record Labels were honest”
We were going to take our kids to a famous circus. Tickets were going to be double with all the fees from TicketMaster. We found a local circus, drove two hours to see them, and enjoyed a much better experience. The kids can’t wait to go to this smaller show again.
"A phish cover band cover band" 😂
The cover band had some original material so naturally a tribute band had to be created.
Here’s your processing fee, your shipping fee, your convenience fee and oh! And your “not knowing why there’s a convenience fee” fee!
Yet again you have nailed it Roger. I seriously can’t remember the last concert I went to. I think it might have been Rush when I was a senior in high school back in 1984😂
I went to only two concerts when I was young. One was the Roar Tour and the other was OzFest in Tampa. Both times I had ringing in my ears for two weeks.... I'm pretty sure my tinnitus started from the first concert.
never attend a concert without ear plugs. it will save your ears from humming weeks later plus it just makes the sound sounds cleaner live. last 10 years it was my go to tool for live music (specially rock/metal)
OzFest! Did you get to see Marilyn Manson at that show? I just booked a ticket to Manson's upcoming show at Riverbend. Although I've been a fan since ~96-97, I've never had a chance to see him live. I will NOT miss him again.
@@JW-vi2nh I can't remember. I forgot my glasses and we were in the nosebleed section.
❤This was really spot on because it reminded me of my youth. Saw Van Halen 1982 and bought 6 tickets for $16/ea. And the tickets were 6th row! 😂
I love "Stairway To Freebird!" I request it at every concert I go to!
Roger and the Horton Team come up with another great one!
Roger thank you for being my main source for comedy as of lately. You’re always out of the park. Omg too on the nose though lol.
😂 Usted es un Crack, Don Horton! Una fuente de información honesta!
Play "Stairway to Freebird"!! 😂
Still waiting for "If Tattoos Were Honest"
I'm still trying to find out what happened to 'If the prison system was honest'...
🥱🥱🥱🥱🥱
I work in the live music industry. You got most of it right. What you didn't mention is the millions of dollars in the hire of production for the event.
Some big artist are fighting back at the mark ups now buy having names on the ticket and fixing the price to it.
that aarp line had me lol in irl- nice one roger
Just saw Journey and Toto a few weeks ago… $60 tickets with $30 fees tacked on, $50 TEE SHIRT that fell apart after ONE wash, barely fit in my seat with no room to dance/move, $6 soda they took the bottle cap off so of course it got knocked over and spilled out… it was my teenage sons first real concert experience and makes me sad that it has to be such a rare experience because of the ridiculous cost.
Yall notice the "Eat the Rich tour (you can't afford it)" had me rolling on da floor lol😅😅
I've been to exactly 1 concert in my life and it was cheap as hell to get in. Most if their money at the time was made from selling merch at the venue, thats where things actually got expensive. They intentionally made the tickets cheap to get more people in the door knowing once you're there you're already on the hook to buy SOMETHING from the merch store. Like a drug seller giving you the first hit for free cause they know you'll come back for more.
"Left foot beef" is a great band name :)
This man is a living legend 😂🙌🏻
If you happen to buy a ticket last minute to anything they will literally hold your *DIGITAL* ticket hostage for 4 hours less you give them more money.
Fun fact about Metal concerts. Ronnie James Dio started the trend of the, devil horns. When palms are facing out, it means keep the devil away, palms facing in means to welcome him. Roger Rules! 🤜👿🤛
And palms to the side means you only recently started dating.
Wasn't it to say I love you to his grandma or something? Or was that a different guy who started the same trend?
When interviewed, he said that he was encouraging fans to choose the good. Alice Cooper echoed that notion.@@Franimus
Are you saying that german "Heavysaurus" are not in fact agents of chaos that want to lead kids to evil with rock music and the devil horn ("Pommesgabel") sign but instead teach them to ward off the devil?! Neat!
But also kinda boring...
The palm thing was made up by one artist. This is in no way, a rule the Universe made, so to each their own on how they view it. Dio is by far, one of the best, but he's not the be all know all authority.@@dermeistefan
Could you guys make a video 'if literature agencys where honest'?
Thanks Roger and Co! Now I know better!
And knowing is half the battle!
My band shirt shrunk so much after two washes that I had to give it to my kid.
Regarding the resellers...
Only about 10% of tickets even make it to the shopfront.
So for a venue holding 40,000 for example, 36,000 won't go on sale in the first place.
Nobody can convince me to go to a concert
- the crowd
- the noise
- the traffic
- possible smells
- limited sight
I got tickets to a show last week and the fees were over 40% of the ticket price. Madness.
Last concert I went to was aic black gives way to blue tour,
my ex bought the tickets before we split, and we still went together.
Awesome show
😉👍
My first live concert, June 9 1976 Boston Music Hall, tickets direct from the band. You know who they were :)
Grateful Dead
With the amount of money I'd spend to see a big band in the states, I'd rather spend more to go to Wacken again. Got to meet a lot of people last time and made some lifetime friends. Also got so see several of my favorite bands and discover some new ones. Also a music festival offers way more bang for your buck in general.
I love these videos
place nere my house get so crouded takes whole mt. view pd to try stop people from getting shot at these events
I remember we had a "convienence fee" for paying online. The venue was close so I drove to try and buy in person to save the money. I ask if I can buy it in person and they said no. I said... how can you offer a "convince" fee to purchase something online if ONLINE IS THE ONLY WAY TO PURCHASE IT!?!?!?
This. Series. Has. Been. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Nailed it yet again!
Love this!!😂
Love you Roger and team.
I would pay to listen to you tell the cold hard truth at a show.
I already spent my concert money for the rest of the decade last year so with a heavy heart, it's time to lay back and pop on the headphones.
The shirt that will fade away in two days line hurt me the most. Lol
Hawaii 1970 tickets for dead legends $2.00 to $6.00
That feeling when the tickets for the next concert of the cool band you saw last year at your nice little local festival (which was 150 bucks for 3-4 days) start at 80-100 bucks
That's exactly the definition of rolling loud