Rush is going to tour again🤘
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- KVRAF
- 16733 posts since 13 Oct, 2009
I will be going to the theatre for this one (Spinal Tap). A rare exception to my big-sci-fi-only rule for the theatre.
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- KVRian
- 1157 posts since 20 Oct, 2023
It's surprising more artists/bands don't do this. To sing, play 3 or more shows back to back is brutal especially if having to do that in multiple cities.
I suppose that's why bands lip and instrument sync.
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- KVRAF
- 16800 posts since 8 Mar, 2005 from Utrecht, Holland
Ouch...
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- KVRAF
- 14129 posts since 20 Nov, 2003 from Lost and Spaced
Geez. I paid $50 to see Fleetwood Mac back in the day....
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- KVRAF
- 12185 posts since 7 Sep, 2006 from Roseville, CA
Every show is still going to sell out and scalper prices will go for even more. Welcome to 2025...
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- KVRAF
- 16733 posts since 13 Oct, 2009
I don't disagree, but, to whom? Keep in mind that I wouldn't pay $9 to see Rush, unless it was Ed Rush, but I don't understand the mindset of someone who thinks that experience is worth $900 to $3k. I do understand that young people, e.g., Swiftees, might see things that way, but you would think that by the time you get to be old enough to remember Rush enough that you want to see them in concert that you'd roll your eyes at that kind of crap as well. I suppose I'm just out of touch, that's ok.cryophonik wrote: Fri Oct 10, 2025 9:06 pm Every show is still going to sell out and scalper prices will go for even more. Welcome to 2025...
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- KVRAF
- 8101 posts since 13 Jan, 2003 from Darkest Kent, UK
No, I agree, not out of touch just a 'generational' thing. I'm guessing we're both that genx demographic, used to get tickets for small/medium venues for about the price of the record, big stadium shows would be double or so (got a memory of trying to sell my friends ticket for Genesis in '87 to a tout, sure it was ~£23, double a CD at the time)(double the price of a CD today come to think of it...) Whereas someone like my daughter (gen-z...) loves her k-pop, has that spotify and collectible cd mentality and just accepts actually seeing an act live is 50/60//70 quid or more for the regular venues (dont ask about the BTS tickets...ghettosynth wrote: Fri Oct 10, 2025 10:14 pmyou would think that by the time you get to be old enough to remember Rush enough that you want to see them in concert that you'd roll your eyes at that kind of crap as well. I suppose I'm just out of touch, that's ok.
) So yeah, Rush were 'my band' back in my mid teens yet my eyes are rolling big time at these kind of prices. Each to their own....
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- KVRAF
- 14129 posts since 20 Nov, 2003 from Lost and Spaced
From $22.50 in 1992. (That's $51.96 in today's dollars - that's kinda hyper inflation, no?)
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- KVRAF
- 7156 posts since 23 Nov, 2016 from a small city
It would be if that ticket now cost you years wages!!!!osiris wrote: Sat Oct 11, 2025 1:19 pm
From $22.50 in 1992. (That's $51.96 in today's dollars - that's kinda hyper inflation, no?)
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- KVRAF
- 12185 posts since 7 Sep, 2006 from Roseville, CA
Arco Arena, that’s my town!osiris wrote: Sat Oct 11, 2025 1:19 pm
From $22.50 in 1992. (That's $51.96 in today's dollars - that's kinda hyper inflation, no?)
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- KVRAF
- 7156 posts since 23 Nov, 2016 from a small city
According to the BoE, that works out as ~£67 in today's money, so Blackpink et al are priced the same as the faxmeister and friendsGaryG wrote: Fri Oct 10, 2025 10:32 pm ticket for Genesis in '87 to a tout, sure it was ~£23, double a CD at the time)(double the price of a CD today come to think of it...)
(Edit: Although that's tout prices, isn't it?)
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- KVRAF
- 14129 posts since 20 Nov, 2003 from Lost and Spaced
It must be the $850 Ticketmaster fee.
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- addled muppet weed
- 111275 posts since 26 Jan, 2003 from through the looking glass
mainly bank managers and math teachers, who spent their misspent youths being studious and working hard.
now looking back on a life devoid of "moments" like these, that the rest of us had, during our formative years. they hear us discuss such things, look up at the 10ks worth of gibson on the wall, and think "i should have learned to play when i was young, maybe smoked a doobie..."
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- KVRAF
- 8101 posts since 13 Jan, 2003 from Darkest Kent, UK
I've got in my head the face value was about 23 quid, was offered peanuts obvs. Maybe my metric is screwed because CDs seem to cost the same...Bunny_boy wrote: Sat Oct 11, 2025 2:45 pmAccording to the BoE, that works out as ~£67 in today's money, so Blackpink et al are priced the same as the faxmeister and friendsGaryG wrote: Fri Oct 10, 2025 10:32 pm ticket for Genesis in '87 to a tout, sure it was ~£23, double a CD at the time)(double the price of a CD today come to think of it...)
(Edit: Although that's tout prices, isn't it?)
I know beth gibbons tickets were 66 (Roundhouse, not a stadium), jerry harrison/adrian belew at the o2 were 45 (the smaller venue... indigo?) which kind of follows then. Just looked at the O2 site and tickets for a band like Disturbrd are ~100 standing. Which makes the Rush ticket prices even worse imho.But, y'now, not going to begrudge anyone their fun, will be interesting what they go for if UK dates are announced.
Edit: On ebay... 15 quid for Wembly Stadium... (seller wants 25
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