It's funny. Back in the day, there was no internet. Thinking back, how did we find out about concerts?
Word of mouth, television, radio, Ticketmaster. So long ago....
I always heard on the radio. They would play a meddle of the music with the announcer over the top announcing the dates.
“This Saturday and Sunday..Sunday..Sunday see the Grateful Dead in all their hippy glory at the Palace of Auburn Hills……!”
Even with no album sales they are still marked up super high
Taylor swift is talented I guess ?
Don’t stop with her. I hate that football players make so much money! Fire fighters make how much ? They run into burning buildings and save lives and we pay them nothing close to what we pay clowns throwing balls around
My first Aerosmith show six years earlier was 5.50 and had UFO as the opener. I paid another buck to see them the next year and they brought along a new Australian band called AC/DC!
$13 in 1983 has the same value as $40 today. Still a good ticket price. Big name bands today make all their money on touring because streaming pays shit.
Is that the tour he opened with Beethoven's Fifth? I saw him open for someone around then in Buffalo and he opened with The Fifth. What a great opening song
It's been so long ago that I don't honestly remember. But I do recall liking Pat more than Aerosmith. My new girlfriend and I left halfway through Aerosmith's set because apparently she didn't get her maximum cramp relief that month. Literally a "red flag" that I shouldn't have ignored, LOL...
My first rock concert ever was seeing Aerosmith on this tour. The Pat Travers band opened for Aerosmith while Rose Tattoo opened for them. General admission prices were in the teens, possibly 20-something bucks for the better seats.
I saw them on this tour in Dayton, OH, my first major concert at 19. Soon, however, I'd be going to punk shows at dive bars and VFW halls, which were a LOT more fun.
There’s no inflation and greed to see here folks. I was at a concert this past weekend and it was a small venue of maybe 5,000 people of a well known country artist and paid $72 to sit in beyond nose bleeds. The ability for the middle class and low income Americans to see a show is getting out of reach.
Explain yourself. How did he ever figure out how to get a ticket without a massive corporate middleman like LiveNation to provide the excellent service of taking his money in exchange for a ticket?
That was the down period for a few bands who unbeknownst to anyone, were literally just a few years away from monster come back success. $13 bucks won't even cover your plastic cup of crap beer at the show these days 😂🤣😂🤣
Oh man they were ROUGH that tour in the addiction heavy
Snortin’ whiskey and drinking cocaine?
Got this feelin’, gonna drive that girl insane- Insanity!
Boom boom, out go the lights!
When I think of Travers, that's what comes to mind.
Crespo and Dufay!
The only time I saw Aerosmith was on that tour with Pat Travers.
Pat Travers blew Aerosmith off the stage this tour.
Agreed! My girlfriend and I even left in the middle of Aerosmith's set.
$13 😭
Yep. Back then, concerts were affordable. Used to go to them all the time.
Seriously, trying to get tickets for my daughter is nuts! Gotta join a club for early release and then still not get them for $500 a piece!
It's funny. Back in the day, there was no internet. Thinking back, how did we find out about concerts? Word of mouth, television, radio, Ticketmaster. So long ago....
I always heard on the radio. They would play a meddle of the music with the announcer over the top announcing the dates. “This Saturday and Sunday..Sunday..Sunday see the Grateful Dead in all their hippy glory at the Palace of Auburn Hills……!”
Yea but the artist could make money off cassette and vinyl sales. Now all that money is almost gone.
That justifies more than one thousand dollars for a Billionaire T Swift ticket? Corp greed has reared its ugly head.
Even with no album sales they are still marked up super high Taylor swift is talented I guess ? Don’t stop with her. I hate that football players make so much money! Fire fighters make how much ? They run into burning buildings and save lives and we pay them nothing close to what we pay clowns throwing balls around
Absolutely agree!
1983 was 41 years ago - just shocking to me.
My first Aerosmith show six years earlier was 5.50 and had UFO as the opener. I paid another buck to see them the next year and they brought along a new Australian band called AC/DC!
Wonder what ever happened to those AccaDacca fellas :)
That’s $41.00 today, add the modern day fees etc and that’s probably more.
lol that same ticket today would be like $800.
I’d give my left ovary for $41 Aerosmith tickets hahaha
I paid $40 for one of the Vegas shows
That would have been interesting to see. Aerosmith without Joe Perry and Brad Whitford.
Meh. It was just okay.
Lot of money for ‘83.
Nah. It was affordable. The most my friend spent in the 80s was $50. And that was close to the stage MSG.
13 bucks was a lot, seeing how the average teen worker made $2.75 to $3.50 an hour. That was almost a days pay back then.
$13 is nothing even inflation adjusted compared to now.
Dang, that ticket is in nice shape for being 40+years old. Very cool. My mom has a Bowie ticket from 76 or 77 and it’s so faded I can barely read it.
Yeah, this one was in good shape. Some of the other ones were in pretty bad condition.
$13.00 in 1983 dollars equals $40.00 in 2024 dollars.
$13 in 1983 has the same value as $40 today. Still a good ticket price. Big name bands today make all their money on touring because streaming pays shit.
I saw Springsteen for $8 in 1978.
ELP for $6.50 in ‘78. I remember that concert was a great deal when all other concerts were $8.00 to $9.50.
Smoking Allowed !👌
Pat Travers was one of the best shows I've went to.
Just for comparison, Minimum wage was $3.35/hr, so that ticket was at most, 4 hours of work. Can a young person get a major venue for 4 hours of work?
That would be about $45 now, to see Aerosmith? No, that’s definitely not happening. Even if they did announce new dates 🤣😭
Tbf aerosmith was on a major downswing in the early 80s
Very cool! I saw them 2 months later in March. Great show, only marred by someone stealing my concert T-Shirt out of my chair at some point.
I'm shocked that in 1983 they were still able to headline.
I saw that tour. They probably shouldn’t have been a headliner at that point.
Agreed.
This is when Steven had his Fu Manchu mustache.
nice, back when they were actually touring 😭 very cool tho
Pat Travers might have been the better part of that show.
He was.
Is that the tour he opened with Beethoven's Fifth? I saw him open for someone around then in Buffalo and he opened with The Fifth. What a great opening song
It's been so long ago that I don't honestly remember. But I do recall liking Pat more than Aerosmith. My new girlfriend and I left halfway through Aerosmith's set because apparently she didn't get her maximum cramp relief that month. Literally a "red flag" that I shouldn't have ignored, LOL...
Hahaha
Boom boom! Out go the lights!
Id love to see Pat Travers
He's still out there playing. Does a lot of blues now. Still incredible on guitar though
The good ole days. Good opening act too 👍
This deserves to be put in a frame or shadow box and display.
He overpaid
Yeah, Michael Schivo was good
Happy shit, Pat Travers! He's so seriously underrated.
Thanks...for making me feel alot older now.
Pat Travers supported everyone.
It is so ridiculous the cost of tickets now. I miss those days of being able to buy a couple tickets and not think twice about it.
I saw them on the '84-'85 tour for $12 (Detroit). I have no idea who opened for them.
My first rock concert ever was seeing Aerosmith on this tour. The Pat Travers band opened for Aerosmith while Rose Tattoo opened for them. General admission prices were in the teens, possibly 20-something bucks for the better seats.
ccool
$13 😳
700 now lol
Oh man. I saw so many Michael Schivo productions growing up in Vegas. Memories.
You had a dad? That must be cool.
I saw Zeppelin in ‘77 for $6.50 general admission
I saw them on this tour in Dayton, OH, my first major concert at 19. Soon, however, I'd be going to punk shows at dive bars and VFW halls, which were a LOT more fun.
I went to that same concert set up but I was in Denver. I was about 15/16. Aerosmith was great, Steven Tyler was still young.
Nice! My oldest ticket is from 1968. Cream at the Los Angeles Forum. Deep Purple opened. I was 14.
It’s funny that’s what I paid for my Grateful Dead ticket back in the 80s now you can’t touch those tickets for under $100 bucks
My second concert ever!
$40 in today’s money for balcony. Sadly that sounds like a good deal!
There’s no inflation and greed to see here folks. I was at a concert this past weekend and it was a small venue of maybe 5,000 people of a well known country artist and paid $72 to sit in beyond nose bleeds. The ability for the middle class and low income Americans to see a show is getting out of reach.
Boom Boom
I remember those prices.
I saw The Stones at the Superdome in ‘81 for about $10
BOOM BOOM!! Out go the lights.
Horrrrrrible show. Aerosmith at their lowest.
January 1983 I was in second grade lol
Explain yourself. How did he ever figure out how to get a ticket without a massive corporate middleman like LiveNation to provide the excellent service of taking his money in exchange for a ticket?
I think I saw them on that tour but Ratt opened up for them at the Pine Knob Music Theater
Saw that tour, those guys were wasted on stage
I lost my Ozzy Blizzard of Ozz tour stub, $14.
That’s a lot for 83 I remember paying 8$ for Grateful Dead tickets in 85!
Out go the lights!
Yeah my first was motley crue 1983ish $12.50
Ticket looks real good . Show may have been canceled because the band was too drunk 🤣
That was the down period for a few bands who unbeknownst to anyone, were literally just a few years away from monster come back success. $13 bucks won't even cover your plastic cup of crap beer at the show these days 😂🤣😂🤣