Transcript of Conference call of Richie Sambora and Tico

I agree. Also, the Daughtry VIP package doesn't include a ticket for the show. You purchase that separately. The tickets here in Atlanta were only $29.50 and $39.50 . . . before the TM fees that took a $39.50 ticket up to $57.80. I know this is a whole other topic, but something is seriously wrong when the fees increase the bill by over 46%.

Gene Simmons has always been a businessman who has marketed merchandise such as coffins and toilet paper. Kiss is definitely a few notches below Bon Jovi but people still buy those VIP tickets. I know Daughtry is on the other spectrum. I am not blaming the band I am past that. Milomom is right they don't include the ticket price. I go to a lot shows and have paid various amounts of money. I saw NIN for $250 and Tool for the same price and that was through ebay which I know is not the same thing. That's the highest that I have paid for a show. So I am familiar with paying quite a bit of money to see my favorite bands. Not sure why I used Daughtry as an example, I just did.

Well Springsteen is a far bigger band than Bon Jovi and their tkt has never been more than $99 even at MSG

Even their Big Bang Tour the maxm FV of tkts was only $450

Your argument makes no sense. You can point that out again but it still goes back to what Terri said. If that "Big Bang" tour was going on today, you can bet the highest ticket prices would be more than $450.

Most likely the only reason that people paid those hefty ticket prices for the Stones is because they are not out there touring year after year and people want to know that if they never tour again, they saw them on their last tour.

Bruces ticket prices are less and yet on his last tour less of his shows sold out than Bon Jovi's.
Bruce's audience isn't increasing. His fan base is aging along with him and his music as great as it is hasn't caught the younger generation the way say IML did back in 2000 for BJ which brought them a whole new generation of fans.
When I go to a Bruce show, I am surrounded by people of a like age to me and see virtually no one under 35. At Bon Jovi shows, I have been next to 10 yr olds and 70 yr olds so in my mind Bon Jovi still has an expanding fan base while Bruces fan base is slowly contracting.
I'm not sure Bruce could pull 350.00 tickets and sell them, while Bon Jovi fans gripe about it but are still buying them.
I also find it funny that Richie can say what he did about tickets and it goes by virtually unnoticed but if Jon had made that comment he would have 12 pages of getting raked over the coals for it by now. Richie, I'm sure has the same access to the info that Jon does, he may choose not to look at it, but I'm guessing he has it.

According to Wikipedia, the Bigger Bang Tour ran from August 2005 to August 2007. There's no way the Stones wouldn't charge more than that now!

Here in the U.S., it still comes down to this - the vast majority of the tickets on this tour are being sold at about the same price as on the LH tour. The attention has all been on the packages and on the prices for pit tickets now that some have become available, but that's only part of the story. Yes, I've bought some expensive tickets, and I'd have loved to have paid less for them.* But I've also bought some very good floor tickets for the same price that I paid 2 years ago.




*BTW, in all likelihood, I wouldn't have gotten those good tickets at the lower price anyway. They'd have gone to scalpers, and the prices would have been MORE than what I paid the fan club. The prices on the secondary market for the premium tickets are out of this world. It remains to be seen if those tickets actually SELL at those prices or if we see them drop as the tour gets rolling.

Well, think about it this way. The price went down from a thousand plus to $500 and $350 minus a lot of crap.
Have you seen the discount offer for Hawaii? It's $29.50 and the place is at the beach.

I am insulted by this post. I'm only 18 and I live for Bruce

Know what I say to you?

POO YOU.

You guys, when did Ticketmaster release those individual VIP package tickets???? They never sent out any email notifications or anything. I'd purchase front row individual tickets for March 4 Staples Center in a heartbeat if I had known!! When I go to ticketmaster, the VIP packages are gone and those individual tickets aren't listed as well...