Rush.

[Misdee]

We all have a choice to make when it comes to ticket prices. I'm not complaining about high prices, I'm just not going. For three hundred dollars never mind a Rush concert, I would be expecting two nights bed and breakfast at Geddy Lee's house in Toronto, and it better be a decent breakfast.

 

In 1980 it cost me £4.50 for a ticket to see Rush.  I would value a ticket to a Rush concert nowadays at about £30 in today's money,  that's about a third more than what £4.50 from 1980 would be worth in today's money allowing for inflation. I acknowledge the fact that they are allowed to put the prices up a bit allowing for their now legendary status. Anything over that and I don't want to know. I've seen enough big time bands to be sure that none of them are worth these kind of admission fees. 

 

If Rush want to charge £300 or whatever that is their right, it's fine with me but I certainly wouldn't contemplate paying it. Others can make their own decision but I've never seen a gig that I would've paid anything remotely like that money and feel it was well spent. It's just absurd to me that an ordinary ticket to a gig at any gig, can be three figures.