Re: The Ethics and Eccentricities of Band Revival.
Posted: Tue Jul 02, 2024 2:34 pm
I think old rockers should keep rocking if they feel up to it and enjoy the performance themselves. If they have to drag ass on stage and hate every second of it? They should find something else to do with their time.
Now, that said, I do think a less-energetic nostalgia act should actually charge much less than the going rate for tickets, because you are not getting Ancient McScrotepull to play their face off like their did in their twenties while they're in their seventies and need three nurses to prop them up by the end of the night. By all means, they deserve to be paid, but I can't imagine wanting to pay a nostalgia act more than a fresh band playing much more complicated material. Instead they charge somewhere north of six times what normal tickets cost today just because they need a nursing home on wheels to transport them to the next gig. That I can't afford to support, so I don't go. Which is as much weight as any of our opinion has on this subject. Buy tickets and support if you think they're doing the right thing. Don't if you don't.
It's almost like these bands seem to think they get to charge by the years they've been in existence.
Year one = $25 a head
Year 10 = $50 a head
Year 500 = SEVENTY-ELEVENTY BILLION DOLLARS PER HEAD!
Now, that said, I do think a less-energetic nostalgia act should actually charge much less than the going rate for tickets, because you are not getting Ancient McScrotepull to play their face off like their did in their twenties while they're in their seventies and need three nurses to prop them up by the end of the night. By all means, they deserve to be paid, but I can't imagine wanting to pay a nostalgia act more than a fresh band playing much more complicated material. Instead they charge somewhere north of six times what normal tickets cost today just because they need a nursing home on wheels to transport them to the next gig. That I can't afford to support, so I don't go. Which is as much weight as any of our opinion has on this subject. Buy tickets and support if you think they're doing the right thing. Don't if you don't.
It's almost like these bands seem to think they get to charge by the years they've been in existence.
Year one = $25 a head
Year 10 = $50 a head
Year 500 = SEVENTY-ELEVENTY BILLION DOLLARS PER HEAD!