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There are very few bands/singers I would spend more than £25-£30 to go and listen to.

I don't think this theme's for me...

I paid about £7 for Neil Young's Decade triple album in the mid 70s. The price of an album was about £3.50 at the time and it was a bit more than the price of a double.
It shouldn't really have been value for money but I don't think there is a weak track on it and I never regretted the outlay.
Appropriate track for the time of year....

WINTERLONG

Paul from Ayr

Can't think of anything. Haven't really even doubled up on vinyl/tape/CD. Standard prices paid for anything I've bought and would only rate as expensive if not worth the money - therefore why would I want to hear it now?

I did send away for a T-shirt following The Silencers' Burns night for Cha shortly before he died. I thought that was a frivolous extravagance, but I quite like the T-shirt and it was undoubtedly one of the best and most special concerts I've ever been at. Unbelievable atmosphere.

Cellar of Dreams - The Silencers

I bought a very expensive (by my standards and I can be mean) limited edition package of something by Nine Inch Nails a few years back but the music would be of even more limited interest to most GIO listeners so it has to be something else. What about £40 for a song that wasn't played? ;o) Only kidding - it was absolutely worth it.
Giving it a miss, too, but wouldn't mind hearing what other people think is worth spending silly money on - some of it has to be special, surely.

My son has just paid a fortune for The Promise box set by Springsteen. I also paid the highest amount I've ever paid for a concert - £55 - to see him live, but it also represents the best value for money.

Please play: Hungry heart.

Imelda recently paid £60 for a mint vinyl copy of dark side of the moon plus cover in a special display frame as a birthday pressie. I've nothing to play it on but it looks cracking on the wall.

Great gig in the sky / pink floyd

Like most people here I have spent a lot of money buying music and tickets, not to mention the time and money travelling to gigs...I have a few things which I paid a lot for and a handful that have subsequently become worth more than I paid.

Anyway....this album has not been released officialy on CD though you can pick up a poorly mastered Australian import..and tracking down a mint vinyl copy took me years. Might only be worth £15 or so...

Bobbie Gentry - Delta Sweete

I'd pick Okolona River Bottom Band or Big Boss Man

I'm not sure I should be confessing to this on a public forum just in case Mrs C finds out.....

I have booked tickets to see The Wall (30th anniversary tour) - Roger Waters at the Manchester Arena next May.

The cost of the tickets were £170 each and I shudder to think how much the hotel costs will come to.......

A good track to play is Run caws that's what I'll be doing when she finds out!


DC

IF TP & TH were to come to Britain I would pay to go to wherever they were playing since it's very likely the only chance I'd get - they don't seem to tour much, certainly not outside the US.

So I completely understand your profligacy, DC!

#8 WHUT!???

My hugest regret was not getting to see it in Berlin in 1990.

*starts saving*

£55 FOR SPRINGSTEEN IS GREAT WHEN YOU THINK OF WHAT THE STONES STADIUM GIGS COST THESE DAYS.PERVERSELY ,I FORKED OUT MORE TO SEE THE BOOTLEG BEATLES THAN I DID TO SEE LEGEND PATTI SMITH A COUPLE OF YEARS BACK!IN 1997 THE GREAT AND SADLY UNDERRATED LAURA NYRO DIED AT ONLY 49 OF OVARIAN CANCER. IN THE LATE 60S SHE WAS PUSHING THE BOUNDARIES OF ROCK EVERY BIT AS BOLDLY AS THE BEATLES AND DYLAN.A TRIBUTE CONCERT WAS HELD AT THE BEACON THEATRE IN NEW YORK SO I UPPED AND OFFED TO MANHATTEN BLOWING ABOUT £1500 ALL TOLD!IT WAS WORTH IT TO SEE A LINEUP INCLUDING RICKIE LEE JONES,PHOEBE SNOW,JANE SIBERRY,ALICE COLTRANE AND SOUL DIVA PATTI LABELLE PAY TRIBUTE TO ONE OF ROCK MUSIC'S TRUE INNOVATORS.IT WOULD BE GREAT TO HEAR"STONED SOUL PICNIC"FROM THE GREAT "ELI AND THE THIRTEENTH CONFESSION"ALBUM,THANKS WILLIE BARTKE

#6

You could have had mine for zilch, Paulo. Mind you, I suppose all my old hippie albums in storage are maybe worth a few quid - they really are 'works of art' and deserve to be displayed. Good idea, Imelda!

#12

Huge 2nd for Laura Nyro, Willie.

I've long thought Marc Bolan nicked 'Hot Love' from Laura's 'Blowin Away'

regardez vous

henri

(Apart from the trip to London to take The Daughter to see The Jonas Bros for her 16th Birthday), Think the most I've spent on a concert is the Coldplay/Jayz/White Lies gig at Hampden. It was well worth it...superb show...just loved it!

'Lost' - Coldpay (featuring Jay-Z)

And many thanks again to a certain taxi driver for the lift to Hampden!

Most expensive ticket was for Jackson Browne and David Lindley this year. Hawked the obsolete wedding rings to pay for it.


I'm Alive - Jackson Browne and David Lindley from Love is Strange

#12

The Bootleg Beatles have been at it for 30 years and are better live than The Beatles were.

Gaie Jackson Browne tickets have always been outrageously expensive, he is almost always the most expensive ticket in any year he tours.

I spent £250 on a front row at Madison Square Gardens Theatre Roxy Music concert in 2001. I already had a complimentary but was too far back so I sold that and just decided if I was coming this far I want front row.

It was worth it because I met David Bowie backstage after that show as he was a guest.

On the other hand I bought the only 'yellow' copy in existance of Roxy Music's 'Siren' for £65 from someone who worked for the record company. I have been offered £2000+ by a few well off (and stupid) Roxy fans. (Maybe I am the stupid one for not accepting it)

You can see it at the end of this wee documentary that I did.


Guess who is a guest on Janice Forsyth this Saturday morning?

J.O'B.

#17 Wonder why when he's supposed to be a sort of moral conscience? Och well, I really enjoyed the concert anyway.

I always wondered about that as well Gaie.

Great stories as always RJ

# 18 fascinating clip

#18 you on the show RJ?








DC

#18
I have been there and had no idea. The things you learn on this blog.
Well put together though.




I also thought you meant yellow vinyl. I've given myself a slap.

Hopefully I'll get thess shouts in before JfE comes on ranting and raving.

I've developed a fairly hedonistic streak when it comes to music related matters.

I can't think what the most expensive concert tickets I've purchased are, but I'll happily travel about to see acts I'm interested in - though nothing like the Finns.

I met a bloke from Finland (one of a party) at a Jack Bruce gig in Birmingham a couple of years ago who follow Jack around the world, so much so, they are all now good mates. It must cost thousands of pounds a year.

Since I frequently leave it late with concerts I often end up paying over the odds at the last minute.And taking the extended family to see Macca at Hampden this summmer (remember the summer) cost a few quid.

Apart from memorabilia 'boxed' sets, of which I seem to have quite a few, the most expensive single cd I can think of buying was to replace one I'd had years before and lost: it cost £29:00 for 'All You Need Is... Love & Money' - the cheapest I could get.It's interesting how 'out of print' stuff is fetching this kind of money.

Immediately after her death, Lesley Duncan's 'Sing Children Sing' was going for £250:00 but I just managed to restrain myself. I've always felt it was unklind of GIO to ignore Lesley's passing whilst crowing on about Malcolm MacLaren.

And a few years ago I paid really rather a lot of money for a limited edition reprint of a John Lennon lithograph, which is a treasured possession.

But it's the charity do's that get me - I paid £300:00 for RSNO tickets recently.And at an awards dinner about three years ago (our hero Bryan was the compare) I spent an obscene amount on a charity auction item: a signed Jimi Hendrix album. Of course I'd had a few at the time - the next day when I looked at it closely, I was fairly unconvinced about the signature, concluded I thought the presentation was quite tacky, and put it in the attic where it has lived ever since.Well, it was for a good cause. Maybe I should take the album out of the tacky presentation and have it simply framed, like Paulo's DSOTM?

Tracks: We had John (& Paul, nice touch) last night so they're out:

Make Love - Jack Bruce

You're Beautiful - Love & Money

Purple Haze - Jimi Hendrix

Sing Children Sing - Lesley Duncan

regardez youse

henri

Nothing comperes to a good compare

:-)

#7 and #13,Bobby Gentry was great.Remembered how to spell Mississippi after her great song "Mississipi Delta"!Whatever happened to her?Charlie Callello who produced Ode to Billy Joe went on to produce Laura's amazing "Eli"album.I agree,Henri about "Hot Love",very similar.She has been nominated for the Rock'n Roll Hall of Fame next year,Cheers Willie Bartke

OOPS!DONT BELIEVE I SPELT MISSISSIPPI WRONG AFTER MY COMMENT!HAHAH ,WILLIE BARTKE

#25/26

you see, we were all spelling quite proficiently while Norrie was on holiday:-)

Ha! ;o)

#18
RJ, I am shocked that you were given such a duff complimentary ticket!!
You of all people. I bet you David Bowie was down the front.
Should have asked him how the skip business was going.

#29

ah?

#18

This could be the pilot for a Coast-style series featuring music-related locations in Britain which would have world-wide interest and have a tourism spin-off.

Poor turnout from the Blog again tonight. Couple of dodgy themes this week.

"Bells" tomorrow should be better,.....Bob.

Missed that there. Who bought the Frank Wilson single. As far as I know there's only two in existence.

Wants to buy it.....

#18 Fascinating stuff RJ, and that rock formation is interesting to us geologists!

#33, Very poor Adam, maybe if they had also gone with the obvious one and included sweet courses we would have had More Songs About Spending and Pud!

#34

Presumably a lack of confidence in sales prospects.

Hooray Henri!Wonderful to hear Lesley Duncan.Havent heard this one since the 70s.Lovely.Cheers WILLIE B.

#24, #38, I can't even remember hearing it in the 70s but your right Willie, it was absolutely superb!
It struck me listening to it that it might have "inspired" not one but two Travis songs.

Outstanding shout Henri!

And I get no praise for the finest exponent of pixie magical mysterious pop?

Phew!!! Just as well Bryan didn't play my Pink Floyd request and went for that absolutely fantastic "Celebration" song there just now! I would have hated "Run" to have edged that track out!






















DC

Well that was a conversation stopper.

Right now I'm on the kind of barren run that Scotch Git would be proud of but.......

Here I go again / Archie Bell and the Drells


for ding dong friday, in the absence of a new thread!

AC/DC - Hells Bells

Bob Dylan - Ring Them Bells

Feist and Grizzly Bear - Service Bell

3 quite different tunes, all great.

'Les Trois Cloches' - Edith Piaf with the wonderful backing of Les Compagnons de la Chanson. Better than any of the versions translated into English (The Three Bells). Listen and you'll instantly recognise it.

#45

I had suppressed memories of Dylan's Christmas in the Heart until now. Of course it has now been replaced as the worst Christmas album of all time by the dire Christmas Cornucopia.

Gonna Knock on Your Door - Eddie Hodges

Gonna knock on your door
gonna ring on your bell

FRIDAY

'One Less Bell to Answer' - The 5th. Dimension


(If Bryan plays this we won't have to listen to 'Wedding Bell Blues' again).

>8-D

The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down - Joan Baez - still my preferred version

the night they drove old Dixie down
and all the bells were ringing

Quasimodo - Lifehouse

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