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There has been some talk around here about Jimmy's ticket prices being too high. I started seeing these at the start of last year's tour (although I am sure they have floated around before). I have been fortunate enough to see some of the other so - called "greats" such as the Stones, Pink Floyd, Paul Simon, even Dave Matthews (although "great" isn't the exact word I would use).

They all have ticket prices similar to Jimmy's - if not much higher. Although I will say that these, and other bands, put on great shows it is not a great over all experience. As I am sure you all know, people tend to show up maybe an hour or two before show time (or closer to show time) and basically just park, maybe crack a beer, and head into the show - then leave right after.

If you are fortunate enough to live near the places where Jimmy tends to play year after year and don't have to pay for travel or lodging the 150 (or so) one would pay for a box seat and 50 (or so ) one would pay for a regular ticket is, in my opinion, A GREAT DEAL, considering you get 10 hours of the best tailgating and partying of the year for free and great friends to share those times with.

I can't help but think if Great Woods, or Alpine forced people to get inside early and charged 9 bucks for a Margarita or 7 bucks for a beer (they do at Gillette for Pats games). I won't the 5 dollar hot dogs - s***, I just did.

I know that I am preaching to the choir on this, but I can't help but wonder why folks bring up ticket prices being too high when it is such an obvious bargain. Just my two and a half cents.

drunkpirate66 wrote: I know that I am preaching to the choir on this, but I can't help but wonder why folks bring up ticket prices being too high when it is such an obvious bargain. Just my two and a half cents.

It is all relative. Sure a $125 ticket is a bargain compared to others who charge 150 to 250 and even 400 a ticket. But Jimmy went up from 85 to 125 for a top ticket, which is a 40% increase in one year. Now 2 tickets cost what 3 used to. That is not much of a bargain in my opinion. I know a lot of people who could not justify spending that much on one concert and therefor did not go. Sure it did not hurt Jimmy he still sold out. But ask those people if 125 is a bargain. Like I said at the begining it is all relative. For some people 125 is a huge bargain and for others it was/is the straw that broke the camels back for them.

I work for Directv I have chislers want free stuff (or discount)
stuff all day..

either buy or don't buy.. if you feel there is no value in it don't
buy.. If everyone who thought it was too much didn't buy then
maybe the prices would adjust..

this is my thinking, I have to travel to every show I see.
for the Dallas show last year..
my Air travel was around 275$
my hotel for three days was around 150$
my tailgate was..... well over 100$
plus my food and extra $$ over 300$

my ticket?? under 100$ hardly the largest cost..

Advance tix to the Austin City Limits Music Festival are $35, that's a bargain. $126 to see anybody is not.

spooner the dog wrote:AWW WHO NEEDS MONEY U CANT TAKE IT WITH YA. THE WHOLE BUFFETT EXPERIENCE IS WORTH EVERY PENNY I THINK. HOPE MY LAND LORD DOESNT NEED HER RENT THIS MONTH

As long as the arenas continue to sell out. The prices are too low.

Like Mick Jagger said once, no one has a problem shelling out thousands of dollars for Knicks regular season tickets, why is there a problem to pay for one Stones show?

Somewhere someone will pay. The rest of you too gotdamned bad. Walk or sqwwwuak. Do or don't, etc.......

I stopped going for a number of reasons, more so than the cost. But the cost is a large part of it. More so than the rest. But not the deciding factor. If I really really really wanted to go see JBATCRB I would cough it up.

I don't. So that's me. You or I don't HAVE to keep paying money for Jimmy to keep buying stupid float planes instead of flying boats (at least with flying boats he was spending his money on something meaningful and romantic).

I will buy another live album for sure.

JustDucky wrote:Like Mick Jagger said once, no one has a problem shelling out thousands of dollars for Knicks regular season tickets, why is there a problem to pay for one Stones show?

Somewhere someone will pay. The rest of you too gotdamned bad. Walk or sqwwwuak. Do or don't, etc.......

I stopped going for a number of reasons, more so than the cost. But the cost is a large part of it. More so than the rest. But not the deciding factor. If I really really really wanted to go see JBATCRB I would cough it up.

I don't. So that's me. You or I don't HAVE to keep paying money for Jimmy to keep buying stupid float planes instead of flying boats (at least with flying boats he was spending his money on something meaningful and romantic).

I will buy another live album for sure.

on the ticket issue we are in accord..
even if I continue to pay and you do not.. we agree..


now the live CDs? I only want the ones that I attend..
but I suspect I fight the jealousy factor there

Oh. Well my point about a live record is it's cheaper than a ticket, especially if you can't make the show, and I guess the second best thing to being there. But only in a sense.

Well hell, better than nothing at all.

When Feeding Frenzy came out, I was astounded at even then the same ol' songs being on it instead of tunes from OTSTL! Not ONE song from OTSTL was on FF!

JustDucky wrote:Oh. Well my point about a live record is it's cheaper than a ticket, especially if you can't make the show, and I guess the second best thing to being there. But only in a sense.

Well hell, better than nothing at all.

When Feeding Frenzy came out, I was astounded at even then the same ol' songs being on it instead of tunes from OTSTL! Not ONE song from OTSTL was on FF!

I only own some of the shows I have attended and
TT and S , I don't have YHTBT or FF



Oh wait I do own live by the bay... I got that before I knew I was a PH...

Well then I think it's safe to say you're missing out on some great performances. Of course, not all of the Tiki Time albums are great - the Hawaii album is the best of all of them I think. You HAVE to get YHTBT. It's just a must. It's superb - probably the best live album you'll ever get and or hear. There is that group of albums in every artist's career and with JB it's HD, CILCIA, SOASOAS, YHTBT, V and CT that are a great collection of his albums in one group (just as in the 1990s with F, BS and BW).

It's the same as being a Stones fan and having the Beggars Banquet, Let It Bleed, Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out! (live album), Sticky Fingers, Exile On Main Street and Goats Head Soup.

I could see possibly doing without Feeding Frenzy. It's good but it's not anything to swear JB's career on like YHTBT.

thanks for that I (as a child of the 70s) just don't have much live stuff..
so now I have another CD for my list

Yeah you right!

jimsig wrote:For some people 125 is a huge bargain and for others it was/is the straw that broke the camels back for them.

Exactly. Ticket prices are getting too high for me these days. I won't spend $125 (plus gas, food, lodging) to see Jimmy - or anyone else, for that matter. Not when there are other priorities. I saw him when there was a mid-range price (between the lawns and the lower bowls) but those were largely eliminated last year.

I certainly don't begrudge anyone going who can afford to go, though. I just wish I was one of them!

We took the cheap way out and spent $39 for lawn tix at charlotte last year instead of $100+. It rained the whole concert. While Buffett in the rain is still a great show, the value of the $100 tix increased with the bad weather.

yes, the high end tickets took a big jump, from the $85 range to the $126 dollar range.... but lawn tickets didn't go up all that much (if at all?)...

everyone has to decide for themselves what's important to them and what's worth it to them.....

For some acts free tickets would be too expensive but I don't think the ticket prices at Jimmy's shows are at the level where I'd stop going to the concerts. At some point I suppose they will be, but I don't know what that point is yet.

For some it's All Or Nothing.

For others it's What I Can Get.

For me, it's what it is to my means. And the past few years, it's too far beyond my means and, ha ha, it's usually way too far away and it doesn't mean anything or not enough to justify it. If I'm gonna spend a ton of money to drive faraway and spend...I'd rather just go to the Bahamas or for that matter just go chill on the beach in Pensacola.

I've done it all. Seen JB a million times. 'Back in the day' and all that. Whoop dee doo.....it's done. No one can tell me what I'm missing - I've seen it all baby. I watch those DVDs and hear something different. I like it but it's not the same as, har har, 'back in the day'. Back when it meant something. Back when Jimmy Buffett had to EARN it.

More power to those who can afford it, those who can go, those who want to spend the time, money and effort. Good times for all (hopefully). JB puts on a great show. I think it's getting beyond the money worth - you're really there just for a feeling, a temporary feeling that is, possibly, a financially permanent reminder. It's just about getting beyond that mental state now - which is, in turn, directly related to about how much money you spend.

Money is no matter - either you have it or you don't - to spend/blow on a Buffett/Stones/U2 etc...show. Live DVD, t-shirt, program, poster...

No one give me any crap - I'm not preventing anyone from getting a ticket. I've had my fill. My fun tickets are expunged. I'll enjoy the past with albums and t-shirts from past tours and hopefully forthcoming new records, whatever other new books there may be, any other live albums that will come and perhaps a DVD or few still to come out. I'm still a big JB fan and always will be.

I guess you can sum this one up by saying That's someone who won't be complaining about rising ticket costs.

Yeah you right.

JustDucky wrote:I've done it all. Seen JB a million times. 'Back in the day' and all that. Whoop dee doo.....it's done. No one can tell me what I'm missing - I've seen it all baby.

And on the flip side, there are those for whom (for a wide variety of reasons) there is no 'back in the day', so even though the tickets are steeper now, they're worth it.... in my case, although a fan, I was always in the wrong place at the wrong time (stationed overseas, etc) and didn't get to a live show until 2001.

Different strokes for different folks and to each his own...