You may remember the Black Crowes, a fairly talented and authentic late 80s-early 90s rock band that captured lightning in a bottle with the hit single "She Talks To Angels" in 1991 and then spent the rest of their collective career firing band members, deciding not to release excellent albums after recording them, and producing records of gradually diminishing merit and popularity.
Well, the Crowes are releasing their first studio album in seven years this March, and they're touring to support it. On the tour, on all but their SXSW date, they're going to play the entire new album start to finish, which is a departure from their norm.
For the privilege of attending these concerts, the Black Crowes would like you to pay a lot of money.
Not $40. Not $75. Not even $100.
Tickets on StubHub and TicketCity range from a low of $118 to a high of $195 (ignoring some jackanapes' $950 ask). The standard price seems to be $175.
What in the holy ******* name of high school football are these guys injecting? I'm about as big a Crowes fan as there is, leaving aside the crazy "I quit my job and followed the Further tour in 1997, it was great" people that keep them propped up as they make gradually more insane decisions.
This is essentially an REO Speedwagon county fair caliber act nowadays (in terms of popularity), and they're charging "front-row Led Zeppelin reunion John Bonham's reanimated corpse on drums" prices. I'm just ******* shocked at the prices on these tickets. I told my girlfriend the only way I'd pay $175 to see the Black Crowes was if I got to sit in on guitar, and even then I'm not sure, because at the rate they're going through guitar players they're bound to get around to asking me to join eventually.
Sheesh. The ****?
Well, the Crowes are releasing their first studio album in seven years this March, and they're touring to support it. On the tour, on all but their SXSW date, they're going to play the entire new album start to finish, which is a departure from their norm.
For the privilege of attending these concerts, the Black Crowes would like you to pay a lot of money.
Not $40. Not $75. Not even $100.
Tickets on StubHub and TicketCity range from a low of $118 to a high of $195 (ignoring some jackanapes' $950 ask). The standard price seems to be $175.
What in the holy ******* name of high school football are these guys injecting? I'm about as big a Crowes fan as there is, leaving aside the crazy "I quit my job and followed the Further tour in 1997, it was great" people that keep them propped up as they make gradually more insane decisions.
This is essentially an REO Speedwagon county fair caliber act nowadays (in terms of popularity), and they're charging "front-row Led Zeppelin reunion John Bonham's reanimated corpse on drums" prices. I'm just ******* shocked at the prices on these tickets. I told my girlfriend the only way I'd pay $175 to see the Black Crowes was if I got to sit in on guitar, and even then I'm not sure, because at the rate they're going through guitar players they're bound to get around to asking me to join eventually.
Sheesh. The ****?
