Bloom County by Berkeley Breathed for July 09, 2020

Okay, old-timers: How cheap were tickets to major concerts 40-50 years ago? $5? Do I hear $2?

How about a fifty cent cover charge in a Cambridge, MA bar to see Van Morrison?

Why is this money-grubbing maggot still alive?

Well it was already up to 40$ a ticket in the 80s when this was made

$40 would be around $100 today.

Bought a single second row center for $6 for the Alice Cooper Billion Dollar Babies tour.

Then Ticketmaster got involved…

Only in America!

Seeing all these band names suddenly reminded me of a band I haven’t thought of in many years, Spooky Tooth. I never saw them live, but liked their music.

I remember $5 for lawn seats to Neil Diamond in 1975….in Perth WA….dang that was a good concert and a LONG time ago

Tell me that is NOT Don King.

I think I paid $7 to see Jethro Tull in 1973 at LSU.

C’mon, Don! Get your spiel together! You are the great Don King, legendary promotor!

$4.50 for the Mothers and Tim Buckley in 1969.