The Great King Crimson Ripoff

No. That was the price at Ticket Master.

Nogbad_The_Bad wrote: Of course you shouldn't go if you think its too much. They are one of the very few bands I would pay that to see.

Truth. 

Firth time they rolled through last summer, paid $50 for a ticket, probably the best value per dollar I ever spent on a concert. Second time, I opted to go for better seats, easily paid the most I've ever paid to see a concert, and still felt it was a good use of my limited monies. If they come through again, I'll have no problem paying in that same ballpark again.

But the OP doesn't seem to care about any of that. This just seems to be a kvetching thread, which is fine, but shouldn't be treated with any amount of seriousness. 

when I started driving gas in the US was about 19 cents a gallon...now it's $2.49 here in Indiana.

And so it goes.......this is not about KC ripping anyone off it's the sign of the times in general.

Hi,

There are some artists, that are way far and above the status of many folks, and the history of THEIR music will live far beyond the top ten hit factories and the popular stuff.

It is the same with many well known folks ... do you think that Nureyev tickets were any less? Or Misha? Or Pavarotti? ... the answer is NO ... but these folks only come around once in a lifetime, and if you do not have the chance to see them, you will miss them, and when you look at the continuity of their work, and its presentation, you will know that you missed something.

I think that too much stuff is placed with the "top of the pops" area, and it was the same thing a few years back with the Eagles and Fleetwood Mac, both strictly ripping off the fans, but for them it was the only chance they had to see them, so i will not judge it.

However, in many of these cases, part of their appeal is that these folks WERE/ARE special in concert and the price is just making up for the fact that they are playing a more intimate location than otherwise (in KC's case), instead of a larger venue to cash in, which FM and the E's did.

The other one, and I have written about it, is Roger. It's not PF, but it is the best chance you have to actually see a large part of the incredible experience that it was, in every aspect, not just the music.

KC's, for all intents and purposes, is the best "classical music" concert that you will ever see, and you would not be there to dance your tush, and neither will you be there to scream "rock'n'roll".

I don't know how one measures the value of moments in your lifetime. Mine, even though I have never had the ability to be free of financial constraints, never allowed PF, TD to be ignored. And I do not regret this. And every day, when I get to go around to see a band or two at a bar, and/or at some venue here in Portland, I am glad I got to see some things during my life. I bought tickets for my close friend to see KC, which he was not 100% onto yet, and when the whole thing was over and we're walking out, the only thing he said ... this certainly shows the difference in what should be called "music".

You won't likely get that many times in your life, and when you get older, there are some things that you saw that still bring you tears ... I still cry when I think of YES, at the Long Beach Arena doing their TFTO tour, and when I left I cried, because I knew right then and there that I would not likely see too many more special shows of music in my life. I got lucky. Later I saw the original Space Ritual Tour, then TD's first tour at the Santa Monica Civic, and then later with Laserium all over the trees at the Greek Theater (pictures on the live album), and later a photo op trip with GONG for a couple of shows ... I wish I could tell you how valuable these were, as opposed to a couple of different shows here in Portland by OT that had sound problems, even after I warned them that this city hurt bands with keyboards, because they only knew how to do guitars and screaming, and of course, the band's music was literally ruined by the missing of the rest.

You get what you pay for most of the time ... KC, may not be one of your favorites, but they will be remembered with the biggest of the best for a long time, and their compositional and performing angle is insanely stupendous. One of the best!