Reply With QuoteI’ll go with Deep Purple for £125 quid👍👍👍👍
Eddie
Whole chunks of my life come under the heading "it seemed like a good idea at the time".
I’ll go with Deep Purple for £125 quid👍👍👍👍
Deep Purple £125 what a bargain
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Great minds and all that!Originally Posted by Enoch
I’ll go with Deep Purple for £125 quid
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Couple bargains there, Pink Floyd and Deep Purple jumping out
£250 for Pink Floyd!
Alexis Corner (sic). I assume it was Alexis Korner you could hire for £100.
I'd have a bit of The Pretty Things for £125
500 sheets for Fleetwood Mac? Greedy bastards.
500 sheets for Fleetwood Mac? Greedy bastards.
Prices probably directly proportional to their drug/alcohol requirements.
1960's. Good, clean livin'.
Joe Cocker liked the odd shandy
Forwarded to my girlfriend who's a bit older than me and has seen some of those live in "them" days.
Got a new watch, divers watch it is, had to drown the bastard to get it!
Entirely personal view but I think Pink Floyd were overpriced lol
Bonzo dog doo dah band, dearer than the Floyd !!
Started out with nothing. Still have most of it left.
Using some tool form Google, it’s cost the equivalent of £4000 in today’s money to book Pink Floyd. Quite cheap as i’d imagine the figure would be more like £400,000 atleast
£450 in 1969 equivalent to £7300 today.
http://www.in2013dollars.com/uk/infl...969?amount=450
The Rolling Stones would cost you $8 million.
When you look long into an abyss, the abyss looks long into you.........
A Mini in 1969 was costing £ 600 !
I recall a couple of chaps from the music biz being interviewed on the radio about booking bands for the uni socials.
They were saying you always booked unknown bands early in the hope they would become the next big thing and then pay to get out of the contract and allowing them a ‘better’ band foc from the manager as part of cancelling the contract.
It's different now. Acts are charging what they want now as opposed to getting a fee. Back in the day Led Zep/peter Grant reversed the thing of the band getting 10% and the promoter taking 90%. the Stones really took it from about 1981 when their financial adviser Price Rupert von Lowenstein (really!) made them see what they were/could be worth. It's worth reading about him - financial nous superceded the bands fame. Nowadays Zeppelin are rumoured to have been offered £100s million for a tour and there is apparently a standing offer of $1 billion for Abba to do series of shows in LV. Springsteen has poss the highest guarantee in showbiz ie he gets $x amount even if no one turns up
On behalf of my mate and former colleague David: thank you very much!
My mate Dave was a school drop-out during the late 60s and he became a roadie for British rock bands. He mostly worked for Humble Pie. A few of his years "Went up in smoke!" (his words...). He met a nice girl from Holland, got married and he became a teacher, teaching English.
He's full of great stories about the bands from that era! A great way to spend an evening with him in a bar! This letter will add some new stories, I am sure.
Menno
My old boss was a roadie in his "yoof" and by his own admission was a rather innocent and not very wordly-wise.
One story he told was a rock star, who shall remain unnamed, handed him a fiver to have "a sniff". He went to the bar instead and bought himself a G&T!
There are a few when he worked with Culture Club and FGTH but that's an entirely different level of naughtiness!
Great post🤩 Bring it on home, is a great read if your interested in Peter Grant & how the whole British sixties music scene evolved!
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By today’s standards that still seems reasonable if you put fleetwood mac or pink floyd on id be delighted for that money
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Last summer I hired s few bands for an event I was helping on and for the money being asked in the 60's you couldn't get a less than average covers band these days.
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Totally agree - they're not even worth that much today!
A very good friend of mine (now deceased) hired Julie Felix for an event that finished at 1.30am so he had to have her put up in the local 5 star hotel after the performance.
This was back in 1969 when I first met him and he showed me the bill, £400.00 plus £28 B&B. I would guess the average wage back then was about £25pw.
For a hippie style singer, she certainly lived well.
Ah my google skills were lacking. Still significantly less than what they would cost to book now. Those Ferrari’s have to be paid for somehow
I worked at an event a few years ago (2017), the Blockheads were the main act, they were £20k and their Rider of booze must have run into a fair few quid too.
Great thread.
fascinating , if it costs £350 for the band wonder how much a ticket would have been ?
Ironically what the bands cost then is what you would be paying for a single ticket these days.
My mates dad had the Quarrymen (well John, Paul and George) play at his wedding at no charge. One of the memorable moments was when Lennon tipped his pint of beer over an elderly ladies head and said "I anoint thee David".
the prices changed when someone realised that bands were part of the Entertainment Industry and like football there was a thought of 'what won't the fans pay? With booking fees and VIP packages etc there doesnt seem to be a ceiling although an article I read recently by a promoter said the big acts were now hitting a pricing ceiling and it depends how many acts are out there. If The Stones/U2/Springsteen/Foos all go out at the same time then they may cut into each others market. Only so many stadiums full of punters happy to shell out £100+ although it seems to me people seem to be desperate to give the money to see a lacklustre Fleetwood Mac or others
Fantastic! That was mentioned in one of the Beatles documentaries I saw recently.
Fleetwood Mac, Green's Playhouse Glasgow, 16.10.69 was 17/6 (or 77 and half pence in decimal money). Note: two shows that night.
Great 'who played when?' info for the Green's & Apollo at http://www.glasgowapollo.com/index.asp?s_id=1&m_id=14
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Jim.
That would be the Scorsese Documentary on George. I was surprised to see Harry and Pete on it, that clip was part of a longer one recorded before Pete died in 2007.
I reckon 87.5p. A typo I guess.
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