Adele Concert Flight

Jay Honeck

Jay Honeck

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Just scored three tickets to Adele in Austin in October. This will be the first time we have attended a contemporary artist's concert since the Stevie Ray Vaughan/Robert Cray/Eric Clapton concert in 1990 -- three years before our daughter was born! (Let's hope this one ends better than the last one...:sad:)

Jeebus, times have changed, price-wise! With musicians unable to make money on record sales anymore (thanks, kids, for stealing all their music) they have launched their live-concert ticket prices into the stratosphere. I am paying $553 for three tickets in the nosebleed section (dead-center, however) -- which is absolutely astounding, if you ask me.

Want to be on the floor? You're looking at 1 AMU apiece for tickets! Crazy.

Factor in the flight, the rental car, the hotel, meals, etc -- and I figure I could have bought 5,778 rounds of 9mm ammo instead... :D This will be for my daughter's 18th birthday, however -- so what the heck...

For those who have no idea who the heck "Adele" is, here's a link to her singing her mega-hit "Rolling in the Deep": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYEDA3JcQqw&ob=av2e
 
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Josh Groban tickets at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, 2nd level, $90 each plus tax. Floor level, double and triple. Be there this Sat, we live in town but we always like to get a room and dinner out before the concert. It's a luxury of being "empty nesters".

The wife likes Josh Groban, the things we do for our wives.
 
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BillTIZ said:
Josh Grobin tickets at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, 2nd level, $90 each plus tax. Floor level, double and triple. Be there this Sat, we live in town but we always like to get a room and dinner out before the concert. It's a luxury of being "empty nesters".

The wife likes Josh Grobin, the things we do for our wives.
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I had to search for him -- never heard of the dude.

Here he is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGLSk3AVcUU&ob=av2n

It's amazing what you can find on the internet.
 
I've seen every Bette Midler concert except the last one (3-4 years ago?). Cheap tickets were $250 each in Denver, no idea what her Vegas show went for. I haven't been to a live concert in years other than the free local summer music-in-the-park stuff with the local symphony, local bands, etc.
 
murphey said:
I've seen every Bette Midler concert except the last one (3-4 years ago?). Cheap tickets were $250 each in Denver, no idea what her Vegas show went for. I haven't been to a live concert in years other than the free local summer music-in-the-park stuff with the local symphony, local bands, etc.
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Port Aransas and Austin have really gotten me back into live music. Living in Iowa for 13 years, I had forgotten what it was like! (And I've got to say, I'm pretty tickled to be listening to -- and liking -- a contemporary artist. That hasn't happened in a long, long time.)

It's weird, even though we had a Big Ten university, with 35,000 students, Iowa City NEVER had any decent live music. The athletic department wouldn't give up their precious stadium for even a single concert, during the 13 years we lived there -- or even the basketball arena.

This left Hancher Auditorium, which was destroyed in the big 2008 flood. Even when it was functional, however, pickings were slim, since it could only seat a few thousand.

We're making up for lost time. :cheerswine:
 
You guys have nothing on the husband of a Sweet Adeline barbershopper... heh.

One whole bedroom is virtually nothing but costumes.

Rehearsals are two or three times a week, when you count the chorus, the quartet, and the small chorus halfway across the State on the other side of the Rockies.

I attend a *lot* of live performances a year... or I am in the dog-house. :)

Good thing I like Barbershop!
 
Adele's music is of the "****ed off women" genre, which has apparently become someone popular these days.
 
Sac Arrow said:
Adele's music is of the "****ed off women" genre, which has apparently become someone popular these days.
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For sure. I remember the first time I heard "Rolling in the Deep" (which is amazing in and of itself; when's the last time I could say THAT about a song?), thinking "Wow -- that is anger, hurt, and pain, all distilled into one voice, delivered in a song."

Soulful. Powerful. Absolutely impossible to get out of your head! :rolleyes:
 
denverpilot said:
You guys have nothing on the husband of a Sweet Adeline barbershopper... heh.

One whole bedroom is virtually nothing but costumes.

Rehearsals are two or three times a week, when you count the chorus, the quartet, and the small chorus halfway across the State on the other side of the Rockies.

I attend a *lot* of live performances a year... or I am in the dog-house. :)

Good thing I like Barbershop!
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I love barbershop, too -- have since I was in Swing (now called "Show") Choirs back in the '70s. But I am a minority of one in my family. :nonod:
 
Wait till you see the price of concessions (drinks/food/use of the toilets)...
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OK, Jay.

We gotta get you guys up to Luckenbach some time.

Live music, under the trees, maybe a little dancing in the open-air dance hall.

That's live music you can really enjoy.
 
SCCutler said:
OK, Jay.

We gotta get you guys up to Luckenbach some time.

Live music, under the trees, maybe a little dancing in the open-air dance hall.

That's live music you can really enjoy.
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Sounds like Greune (or however that town is spelt)? Very cool.
 
Jay,

You need to start reloading.

Haven't been too a concert in a few years because I was spoiled by Red Rocks. Even if you didn't like the artist that much, (John Mayer :rolleyes:) the scenery is still awesome.

Those prices are out of control!
 
I never really got into the whole stadium/auditorium concert experience. I always preferred club or bar bands. There is just something about being able to feel the music that you don't get at a larger venue. Of course, in college, I got into most clubs free because my roomate was a drummer for a really good local band that played somewhere in town most weekends.
 
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OK, Jay.

We gotta get you guys up to Luckenbach some time.

Live music, under the trees, maybe a little dancing in the open-air dance hall.

That's live music you can really enjoy.
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Didn't they write a song about that place? :D
 
SCCutler said:
OK, Jay.

We gotta get you guys up to Luckenbach some time.

Live music, under the trees, maybe a little dancing in the open-air dance hall.

That's live music you can really enjoy.
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And don't forget the BBQ!
 
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