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Bob Seger is touring and coming to Halifax at the end of November. I would like to go and have someone to go with but the tickets? $150! I can't get my head around why the concert tickets seem to have skyrocketed so much lately! That price isn't just for floor tickets, it's for lower bowl and lower upper bowl. I asked my friend if she could get advance tickets through her Amex because sometimes you can. She mentioned the Bullet club, (Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band, right?). So I looked it up. They make you buy a $15 package in order to take advantage of the pre-sales the cheeky bastards. You get a digital download or cd with the basic package, or a tshirt as well if you go for the $35 one, it's not a tour tshirt, mind you, it's a Bullet Club tshirt. You know the tour tshirts will run around $40!

And Bob Seger, while I like him, he's not really had any hits for yonks. A lot of the bands that were big in the 70s and 80s are touring again. The Baby Boomers group is huge and love their old classic rock! They're playing to the crowd and why not? But I still fail to see why a band that isn't someone like the Rolling Stones, The Who or even Queen can get away with charging that much. Tom Petty came here last year or so and was charging even more!

I expect we may still go, not sure if i'll take the presale though, it just rubs me the wrong way but maybe that's standard for presales on tours? I don't know. I thought you just joined a fan club and aren't fan clubs free? Maybe not. What do i know?

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I saw Bob Seger in a small teen club when I was 15 for around $1.50. And, him with the Silver Bullet Band in the 1970s (for free, I was working for the promoters). I wouldn't pay $150 to see him!

The more I think about it, the more I am not so sure I'll pay it either.

In the olden days it was fun to take the kids to a concert or a play now and then. It seemed to me the tickets were never more than $15 or $20. Gosh, I sound like an old fogey, but I guess I've seen my last play as now many seats are over $100.

Yes theatre can be very expensive though our local one isn't quite that bad yet. I think 50 - 75 maybe though I haven't looked in awhile. The Shakespeare by the Sea that is in a local park used to be "pay what you can, $5 suggested" is now $20 suggested but in that case, I would pay it because it supports a local troupe who do a really excellent job of bringing Shakespeare to the everyday people.

In London, depending on what you see, you probably won't pay less than 40 or 50 pounds which is 100 dollars but New York prices are even higher. I was shocked. I really was under the impression that while NY would be expensive, London would be more but it was most definitely the other way around.