D&C 14 Night Residency at the Sphere..?

~jambase is reporting but no linky... cause i hate them.

Seems like a strong rumor.

Don't call it a tour. No one has lied yet

My brother (not the deadhead but his twin brother MAGA) saw U2 there on Saturday. His pics are absurd. Let me see if I can post them.

I had a couple friends at U2 that also sent some video. Looked cool, but it also looked like a LOT of people standing around talking about the lights during the music. 

It's technically not a tour, it's a residency. They've been hinting at this for a few years now. Don't be surprised when they announce a FTW60 tour in 8 months.

With that being said, I can't imagine how much ticket prices are going to be, but I assume insane. I'm sure i'll catch a cool band at the sphere one of these days when the allure wears off. I like being late to the party most times anyways.

I mean some of those porn stars may still have "it" ...you never know...

plenty of Musicians worth seeing who are up there in age imo, and plenty who aren't...

To me they worth seeing because I never got to see the real thing, so I will drop a little extra coin to see even a tenth of that magic recaptured.
As far as the sphere goes, i think it's a spectacle, just like everything else in Vegas and while i'm sure it will be an awesome experience, it's not a top priority, it will be around and plenty of great bands will get the opportunity to play it, i'm sure.

Man I can't afford this shit

older heads: was money ever that big of a check at the gate? Did you feel like you had to have money to see these guys?

It's a bummer I can't afford it, but I would be really disappointed if I was just discovering the band as an 18-20 year old and couldn't go.

Ticket from a show two weeks after my 18'th birthday.



I remember a few years before a ticket for the Stones being $21 or $23 and that being considered an expensive show so $15 for a successful rock act was normal. My summer job then was digging clams and I made about $100-120 a day, cash, no taxes. I went to a lot of concerts and ticket price was never a factor, even for friends who worked at shit low paying McDonald's jobs. Four years before I was getting $10 a week allowance from my parents which would've been close to covering the ticket price in 1980, so a ticket price was roughly a middle class teenager's weekly allowance.

Online inflation calculator/price adjuster says that 1984 ticket would cost $44.37 in Dec. 2023. 195.8% cumulative rate of inflation. Of course that doesn't take into account a band's change in popularity, but in this case with the Dead I don't it really matters since they weren't just starting out as relative unknowns. Don't remember what extras like parking cost (it wasn't much, esp. split between everyone in the car), but Ticketmaster charges probably added a buck or two at most. If you spent $20 on a ticket, fees, and your share of parking it would be $59.16 in 2023 dollars.

What are they asking for a Gen Adm ticket now for D&C or another established band? What tier band could you see for $60 for a ticket, fee, and say 1/4 of the parking fee?