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Oct 2021
5:28pm, 8 Oct 2021
1,957 posts
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GeneHunt59
What are the ticket prices like Scorge? I probably could have seen them back in the early 70s for 50p - but that was when 50p was worth 50p!
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Oct 2021
5:30pm, 8 Oct 2021
929 posts
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Scorge
120 a pop, which was right at the top end of the eyebleed scale that i was willing to go. hackett would probably be around 50 i guess. probably could have got them for less if i'd waited, but that's always a gamble.
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Oct 2021
5:34pm, 8 Oct 2021
1,958 posts
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GeneHunt59
How times change. I remember most bands didn't make money touring in the 70s - in fact more likely lost money, but the tours were to promote their albums and push sales. I think you can make the top twenty with 2,000 album sales nowadays - but I may be wrong.
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Oct 2021
5:37pm, 8 Oct 2021
930 posts
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Scorge
yep - the internet has totally flipped the music industry the other way around. touring is where the dough is, unless you have a very profitable back catalogue that hipnogsis/etc are prepared to pay daft money for.
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Oct 2021
5:38pm, 8 Oct 2021
5,311 posts
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ThorntonRunner
If you've got an lft available do that, but the likelihood of you being sufficiently close to an affected crew member for a sufficiently long time is negligible - certainly I was never within 50 metres of them!!
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Oct 2021
5:41pm, 8 Oct 2021
5,312 posts
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ThorntonRunner
Yes £3 the first time I saw them in 1980ish.
Mimd you apparently they have 26 HGVs to cart all the kit around plus at least 3 crew busses, so with that scale of operation its not going to be cheap to put on
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Oct 2021
5:53pm, 8 Oct 2021
8,031 posts
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Eynsham Red
All the additional crew make for a much more polished show these days, but I look back to the 70’s with some nostalgia for the handful of roadies, sound guys and probably some locals operating a couple of spots.
The sound often quite ropey too. As a teen fan though I didn’t give a monkey’s.
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Oct 2021
6:21pm, 8 Oct 2021
5,314 posts
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ThorntonRunner
Agree ER - I quite like the fact that I've seen Genesis three times now - 1980 at the Lyceum Ballroom so low tech, 1992 at Knebworth, so 100000 outdoor gig, and then this year 15000 indoor venue high tech: it's given me the full range!!
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Oct 2021
7:44pm, 8 Oct 2021
19,377 posts
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Chrisity
50p Gene, you were robbed. The 6 bob tours of Chrysalis
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Oct 2021
10:05pm, 8 Oct 2021
1,960 posts
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GeneHunt59
Had to laugh when I read the article on the BBC website announcing Genesis cancellation of gigs. First sentence begins "Pop band Genesis..."
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