Bitch wrote on Oct 1
st, 2017 at 10:07am:
That was the tour where the ticket prices started to skyrocket. I remember paying a whole weeks paycheck.
'No Security' in 1999 was the first tour where they did that as a matter of course for every show.
I think the BTB tour prices in the US were generally around $65, which was pretty normal at the time. Although when they did the MSG shows in early January 1998 (which I assume were the ones which would have affected you) they priced the tickets around the $100-200 range. Vegas may have been high too (the Hard Rock club show in Feb '98 certainly was) and they'd sold a show at the MGM in '94 at high prices too. The final US show in March '98 was at the UC in Chicago and instead of the 'normal' $65 prices they sold them at something like $150-300 as an 'experiment'.
The show sold out, with the inevitable result that the next US tour the following year saw those prices as being the norm and not the exception.
We have Chicago to blame for all the gouging ever since.
Plus The fucking Eagles of course, as they started this nonsense before the Stones did.