"Eventually,we're going to run out of headliners."

[Benny Profane]

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/25/ar...=1&oref=slogin

"This summer, a remarkable number of the projected best-selling tours are led by people eligible for AARP membership. Tom Petty is 55. Jimmy Buffett is 59. Eric Clapton and Pete Townshend are both 61. Madonna, whose tour is the hottest so far this year, is a youthful 47.

Last year, according to the concert trade journal Pollstar, 6 of the 10 highest-grossing tours starred artists in their late 50's or 60's, among them the Rolling Stones, Paul McCartney, the Eagles and Elton John. Those six alone accounted for more than $470 million in domestic ticket sales — about 30 percent of the total for the year's 50 biggest tours."

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"The whole family loves Ozzy," she says. "They all pray to Ozzy."

[Squatch]

looks like being cool 30 years ago and selling on nostalgia is a great business model. Just look at Harley...

[Benny Profane]

Harleys weren't that cool 30 years ago. I could go into a rant about old white guys needing Viagra like products....but I won't.

[Arty50]

Further proof that the record industry just needs to go away. Those guys haven't been in touch with reality for a long time. Fucking morons.

[leroy jenkins]

Ok, a few things.

1. I don't get why people aren't sick most of this music. I mean, classic rock is great and all, but how much do you have to hear something before you just don't want to listen to it any more.

2. I fucking hate harlies.

3. I would prefer to have old jaded, no longer hearfelt or soulful classic rockers be our headliners than to have a 60 year old britney spears still trying to look sexy. I pray people will get sick of the current wave of "icons" before we reach that stage, but who knows, people are retards.

[Arty50]

3. I would prefer to have old jaded, no longer hearfelt or soulful classic rockers be our headliners than to have a 60 year old britney spears still trying to look sexy. I pray people will get sick of the current wave of "icons" before we reach that stage, but who knows, people are retards.

Personally, I can't wait to see a 60 year old Flea jumping around in a diaper.

[irul&ublo]

Personally, I can't wait to see a 60 year old Flea jumping around in a diaper.

He'll probably really need it then.

[Plakespear]

Last year, according to the concert trade journal Pollstar, 6 of the 10 highest-grossing tours starred artists in their late 50's or 60's, among them the Rolling Stones, Paul McCartney, the Eagles and Elton John. Those six alone accounted for more than $470 million in domestic ticket sales — about 30 percent of the total for the year's 50 biggest tours."

I would be willing to bet that they also had the highest ticket prices.

The music business fucks itself in the ass better than any other business. Now more than ever thanks to the fact that a few corporations control almost evrything. I wouldn't pay $100 to see some old geezers, especially from the back row of a football stadium*

*although I would probably pay $60 again to see Springsteen & the E Street band, even if the only people sitting behind me were in cars on I-95.

[Ripzalot]

count me in as a lemming. i'm going to see what's left of The Who in july!