Backstage Borgata ticket info

Mmh, I wonder how they payed Shepherd's Bush which is even smaller than the Borgata when everything is sooo expensive. Tix for SBE only were around 44 Dollars and the concert was webcastet, too, and they didn't have such a big company as Samsung in the background.

Poor Jon must have lost loads of money back then.

This cleares it a bit

Question:
What's up with the prices for the tickets at the Borgata for the Nov 21 Bon Jovi show? Last year and now this year. These prices are so high! I always counted on Bon Jovi being the artist that I didn't have to sell my kidney to afford seeing in concert. Now I'm not so sure. I like both my kidneys.
asked by rumrunner on Tuesday, October 26, 2004

Answer:
First of all, I'm not gonna go thru all the entities involved in putting on a ONE OFF show like this because it would make your head spin around. You know when you go to a Bon Jovi concert it's a great show because the band brings in the best people at every position. It's like if you had a football team and you did the same, every player would be in the Pro Bowl. And I've been around for 20 years and I've never seen any organization fight harder to keep the ticke prices reasonable like this band or this organization. Look - this is not what the tickets will be when the band is out on a full-blown tour. When the band is our on tour, and you're doing 100 venues and the cost of that show is being spread out over 15,000 to 50,000 per venue, the ticket prices go down considerably. If GM only made one Corvette per year it would be one million dollars! This is a one-off show. We're bringing in crew members from around the world to make sure this is a great show and a great broadcast and a great webcast, so even if you can't afford to come to this one, you can still see it! It's gonna be a great show. If tickets are high, there's a reason - and it's not to rip the fans off. Not at all. This is the one band that works had NOT to do that. Look, even me, who wants to do the LEAST amount of work of anyone you've ever known, I have to be at the Borgata three days before the show just to make sure stuff on the audio broadcast side is gonna be great. That includes me, my crew, the audio truck, the broadcast truck, etc... There's alot involved and the most important thing is who is coming to buy me lunch when I'm at the Borgata for those three days? Thank you. Please drive thru.
answered by OBIE on Tuesday, October 26 , 2004 12:11 PM

I read this already but it isn't a plausible explanation. Shepherd's Bush for example was a single concert, too, and the price was waayy cheaper. And Jon's secret gig in Hamburg in 1997 was even cheaper than what concerts usually costed at that time and not nearly 3 times more expensive, even though the venue back then also only fitted 1.300 people.

I went to see Queensryche and Jerry Cantrell in a one off show at a venue that holds maybe 350 people??? Tickets were $25.

Pearl Jam did a one off concert at a venue for 500 people - tickets were $40.

Sting performed at the same venue as Deep Purple did - Sting ticket $130, Deep Purple $44. Sting almost sold out, Deep Purple didn't sell half of the tickets. I still believe it depends on what they can and cannot charge what determines the ticketprice.

Jon knows exactly what he is doing. It's all money making and don't think that the guys don't profit for this. There are fans who are willing to pay for these prices and so the band sees this and so does management and it will continue like this in the future. Unfortunately, it's the fans who pay regarding, who are making the prices like this in the future.

I am totally with you on this one Christine.
I am afraid , as you are, that prices for the concertix will go as high as this one is. When they( who they might be) we are willing to pay that much to see them....what`s going to happen after that?
And we all know the band hasn`t to play for money anymore. They are millionaires for a long time now, they can afford to play for free and don`t even feel that pain. So, 3why this extremely high prices?? No one really knows, besides th erecordcompany and maybe Jon too???
I still think it isn`t fair to ask that much cause we all know only a few can afford it. Whayt about the rest of the fans???

It's their job, even if they're millionaires it's easy to understand they want their money.

Also bear in mind that they have to pay for the venues and the stage and everything that a concert involves, which is certainly not cheap!

True, but JBJ solo in Hamburg and Shepherd's Bush both were sold out within a few minutes. So it's not that they had to take a reasonable price to sell out the venue.