All you need is love...and a thousand dollars
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kitty55d wrote:
Ospreylady wrote:
I share the sentiments above. The last two times I saw paul I paid $275 and $300. Face value tickets....I am an old Beatle fan, yes I saw them in person in 1965. I so wanted to see paul in Oakland. I live in Minnesota so would have to travel to attend with my cousin. But I lost my job during the pandemic.....and none the less I saved up so I could get a seat....but the tickets were scalped, Ticketmaster turned all the good seats into platinum, now the venue is populated with verified resale and most tickets are over $1000, with a few over $800. Resellers have thousands of tickets at ridiculous prices. I tried at the presales and the public sale and every time I found a ticket that was less than $1000 it said another fan got the tickets. I tried and tried and tried. Got nothing. Now there are plenty of seats available at platinum or resale prices......NOT ONE FACE VALUE TICKET! It makes me so sad that Paul allowed this. Stars like Springsteen and Adele have gone to great lengths to try to prevent this so real fans could attend. Now Paul is an elitist performer....allowing greed to rule. I too wish for a tour with lower priced seats and NO platinum seats, no reselling.
I am so disappointed. I simply can't spend $1000 to see Paul again. And I really needed the lift that only a Beatle can provide. Sigh. I hope there is another tour, managed better, let SONGKICK manage it.....Ticketmaster is disgusting.
But Paul and his team have to decide that we are worth it....Lots of availability for the newly added second show. Give it a shot!
Correct, the show is WIDE OPEN. Grab some seats though. This is the final cash grab/tour
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Maccaroni1974 wrote:
As mentioned in another thread, this is most likely the final go around. This "he will rock 'til he drops" is pure nonsense. At some point the touring has to end, He is 80. To think he will be doing 15-20 shows 5 years from now is complete insanity.
Go see him now of you can. This is the final cash grab, which is why tickets are even higher this time around. We will still get a surpise show here and there, and maybe a couple of "special" shows once in a while, but the regular tours are over after this year. We predicted this
....and his voice is pretty much shot. I just could not bear to hear his hoarse voice for two hours or so...for any amount of money. He couldn't get through "Get Back" when he inducted the Foo Fighters into the Hall of Fame....unless Dave Grohl and the other Foos sang along with him. Paul, on his own, was hoarse on the first part of the song and listening to him just made me turn my head away. Don't want a full concert of that to be in my memory bank of Paul. I have loved all the concerts of his I have been lucky to attend over the years. Can't do any more.
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Beatles4Ever wrote:
Maccaroni1974 wrote:
As mentioned in another thread, this is most likely the final go around. This "he will rock 'til he drops" is pure nonsense. At some point the touring has to end, He is 80. To think he will be doing 15-20 shows 5 years from now is complete insanity.
Go see him now of you can. This is the final cash grab, which is why tickets are even higher this time around. We will still get a surpise show here and there, and maybe a couple of "special" shows once in a while, but the regular tours are over after this year. We predicted this
....and his voice is pretty much shot. I just could not bear to hear his hoarse voice for two hours or so...for any amount of money. He couldn't get through "Get Back" when he inducted the Foo Fighters into the Hall of Fame....unless Dave Grohl and the other Foos sang along with him. Paul, on his own, was hoarse on the first part of the song and listening to him just made me turn my head away. Don't want a full concert of that to be in my memory bank of Paul. I have loved all the concerts of his I have been lucky to attend over the years. Can't do any more.
Yep, that vocal was pretty awful and makes you wonder how good he will sound. The band (especially Abe) can help but they can only do so much. Let's face it, audience will not really care how he sounds. They will be happy to just sing along with him to Beatle songs. The media reviews of concerts will be interesting if he sounds as bad as we think he might.
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Beatles4Ever wrote:
Maccaroni1974 wrote:
As mentioned in another thread, this is most likely the final go around. This "he will rock 'til he drops" is pure nonsense. At some point the touring has to end, He is 80. To think he will be doing 15-20 shows 5 years from now is complete insanity.
Go see him now of you can. This is the final cash grab, which is why tickets are even higher this time around. We will still get a surpise show here and there, and maybe a couple of "special" shows once in a while, but the regular tours are over after this year. We predicted this
....and his voice is pretty much shot. I just could not bear to hear his hoarse voice for two hours or so...for any amount of money. He couldn't get through "Get Back" when he inducted the Foo Fighters into the Hall of Fame....unless Dave Grohl and the other Foos sang along with him. Paul, on his own, was hoarse on the first part of the song and listening to him just made me turn my head away. Don't want a full concert of that to be in my memory bank of Paul. I have loved all the concerts of his I have been lucky to attend over the years. Can't do any more.
Totally agree! (sadly)
I just saw Gary Pucket on the Flower Power cruise. He will be 80 on Oct. 17th and he sounds 100 times better than Paul. There were only a couple times he couldn't hit the note high, so he sang it lower. But he could SUSTAIN a pretty high note for a long time, which Paul can't begin to do!
I ran into him at the Oceanview Cafe and his bandmate asked if I wanted a photo with Gary! I complimented Gary on his singing voice. I told him I had some 45 picture sleeves of his and he said "Go get them, I'll sign them! Just bring a pen!" (no problem, I brought 4 Sharpies on the trip!) I ran down to my cabin and got them and he had walked away from his table, but came back (with no food!) He says "Oh, you got them!" He seemed so pleased to see them (originals in excellent condition from 1968) Here is a photo of him at the concert - I had front row seats!
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NJR wrote:
Beatles4Ever wrote:
Maccaroni1974 wrote:
As mentioned in another thread, this is most likely the final go around. This "he will rock 'til he drops" is pure nonsense. At some point the touring has to end, He is 80. To think he will be doing 15-20 shows 5 years from now is complete insanity.
Go see him now of you can. This is the final cash grab, which is why tickets are even higher this time around. We will still get a surpise show here and there, and maybe a couple of "special" shows once in a while, but the regular tours are over after this year. We predicted this
....and his voice is pretty much shot. I just could not bear to hear his hoarse voice for two hours or so...for any amount of money. He couldn't get through "Get Back" when he inducted the Foo Fighters into the Hall of Fame....unless Dave Grohl and the other Foos sang along with him. Paul, on his own, was hoarse on the first part of the song and listening to him just made me turn my head away. Don't want a full concert of that to be in my memory bank of Paul. I have loved all the concerts of his I have been lucky to attend over the years. Can't do any more.
Totally agree! (sadly)
I just saw Gary Pucket on the Flower Power cruise. He will be 80 on Oct. 17th and he sounds 100 times better than Paul. There were only a couple times he couldn't hit the note high, so he sang it lower. But he could SUSTAIN a pretty high note for a long time, which Paul can't begin to do!
I ran into him at the Oceanview Cafe and his bandmate asked if I wanted a photo with Gary! I complimented Gary on his singing voice. I told him I had some 45 picture sleeves of his and he said "Go get them, I'll sign them! Just bring a pen!" (no problem, I brought 4 Sharpies on the trip!) I ran down to my cabin and got them and he had walked away from his table, but came back (with no food!) He says "Oh, you got them!" He seemed so pleased to see them (originals in excellent condition from 1968) Here is a photo of him at the concert - I had front row seats!
Always loved his rich voice. He was great on "Lady Willpower" and "Young Girl." I'm sure he still is. It would appear he sort of dresses in the same style as back then too.
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^ He did all his hits: Lady Willpower, Young Girl, Over You, Don't Give In To Him, Woman Woman!
Yes, the band dresses sort of like The Union Gap did in the late '60s. He did take the jacket off after a bit.
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A-list concerts in the 2020s are brutal in my experience so far. Everything just costs more. It sucks. For example, I saw The Eagles in 2019, paid less than $200 for floor seats at United Center. They just came back last month and those same floor seats started at nearly $300.
I missed the last tour when Paul came to Moline, IL (closest show to me on that tour), and at the time I said I was good if 2017 was my last Macca concert, when I had 4th row center in my home town of Tinley Park, IL. It couldn't get better for me. Then the pandemic came and for the first time in my lifetime, I faced the grim reality that he may never tour again. Now the tour is here and after these last few years, I'm ready for one more ride. Closest show is an 8 hour drive and since I bought my ticket, gas prices are insane. Add that to my ticket price, I've had to accept this is going to be an expensive run. But if it's the last, so be it. But it's just me. If I took a whole family with, there's no way I could swing it. There should be family packs for sale.
At the end of the day, my complaints aren't with Paul. They're with Ticketmaster and their fees and atrocious "platinum seat" program that pricegouges based on demand. Turned a $200 seat into $700. I was lucky to get my ticket at face value, but after all their taxes and fees, it came out to much more than I wanted to spend. That's the aggravating part.