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So here’s some acts coming to Madtown over the next few months, some of which you all have pimped at one time or another. So who should I go see and why? ($75 for Bonnie Raitt?):

BUILT TO SPILL w/ Helvetia and Sister Crayon: Tuesday, Sept. 18, 7:30 p.m., High Noon Saloon, 701 E. Washington Ave. Tickets are $20 in advance and go on sale Friday, April 27 through trueendeavors.com, $22 at the door. 18+

CAROLINA CHOCOLATE DROPS: Friday, May 4, 8 p.m., Capitol Theater at the Overture Center, 201 State St. Tickets are $19.75 in advance through overturecenter.com, 258-4141 or the Overture box office, $25 at the door. All ages.

TEDESCHI TRUCKS BAND: Wednesday, June 27, 7:30 p.m., Overture Center, 201 State St. Tickets are $35, $45 and $65 in advance through overturecenter.com, 258-4141 or the Overture box office, $38, $48 and $68 at the door. All ages.

BONNIE RAITT w/ Mavis Staples: Monday, Aug. 20, 7:30 p.m., Overture Hall at the Overture Center, 201 State St. Tickets are $75.50 through overturecenter.com, 258-4141 or the Overture box office. All ages.

BTSFTW

BTS is playing the Ottobar in Baltimore. Capacity: Less than 300. I saw Dinosaur Jr. there in 09 and suffered hearing loss.

BTS at $20 is a great value and your no-brainer selection.

Heard good things about Tedeschi Trucks Band, but don't know anything about them. At those prices they'd better be damn good.

I'll help you spend some money, Goobs...



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Affordable. You should be able to get change from a $20 bill.

Bottoms up, old pal.

Saw Tedeschi and Trucks twice last year (once on New Year's Eve in San Francisco) and have tickets to see them again closer to home in September. Personally, I wouldn't miss seeing them any time I have a chance. They're that good in concert. The one in September they are co-headlining with BB King. Not sure who they're getting to hold BB in an upright position.

Would love to see Bonnie Raitt as well. She's playing this summer at Humphrey's in San Diego but by the time I found out it was sold out. Saw her a couple of times, pre- hitting it big time, in the 70s at the Belly Up Tavern in Solana Beach.

The other two I never heard of.

$75 is a lot but it's what you have to pay these days.
Put it in perspective, we're going to see The Magic Flute (it's an opera, dumbfucks) in San Francisco this summer on our 25th anniversary. I paid $450.00 for two of the best seats in the house.

Mikey wrote:The Magic Flute

I wrote that.

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Sudden Sam wrote:Paying $75 is ridiculous.

Of course, this is coming from someone who paid $5-15 to see Led Zeppelin, the Stones, Tull, Allman Brothers, The Who, etc.

I just can't pay those ridiculous prices.

There are very few bands I'd pay $75 to see, but I can appreciate why a band would charge more for concert tickets nowadays, considering damn near every album ever recorded is available online for free...

MiketheangrydrunkenCUfan wrote:There are very few bands I'd pay $75 to see, but I can appreciate why a band would charge more for concert tickets nowadays, considering damn near every album ever recorded is available online for free...

I do like that trade off. At least the band gets more of the money this way.

You pretty much get what you pay for. I'm paying $70 per seat to see the Tedeschi Trucks Band and BB King in a venue that holds probably 2000 people or fewer, and I'll have some of the best seats in the house. Tedeschi Trucks has an 11 piece band and it can't be cheap to go on the road with 11 players and all of the necessary support, not to mention BB King's band. I'd much rather pay $70 there than pay $25 and sit with 40,000 close friends in a place where you probably can't hear or see very well, but at least you can say you were there.

Looks like I'm going to see Further in September, at the Edgefield, which is the coolest bar in human history.

Not down with the $60 tickets, but whatever. I won't be hitting the whole 3-night stand at that rate, though.