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Gideon
Joined: 24 Feb 2004
Location: Seoul
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 Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 8:25 am Post subject: Eric Clapton Jan 23 |
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Anyone going to this concert?
Just looked on interpark website and there are under 1000 tickets left. not to mention they are crappy seats for 90,000
Anyone know where i can get front row floor seats. interpark is selling them for 180,000 each but they are sold out.
anyone have information on tickets please let me know.
i'd love to see this guy perform.
pm me!! |
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eamo
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.
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| Posted: Sun Jan 14, 2007 2:20 am Post subject: |
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I quite like Clapton but I won't pay 180,000 for a floor seat. That's just a crazy price.
180K is a scandal. Do all performers charge that much these days? I haven't been to a concert of a big-name western artist for a few years. Not many big names come to Seoul and when they do the tickets are always stupidly high prices. I wonder who the greedy people are. Claptons people or the Seoul promoters? |
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Ianinilsan
Joined: 05 Dec 2006
Location: South Korea
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| Posted: Sun Jan 14, 2007 5:48 am Post subject: |
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How much are tickets?
What do we get for that? An extra 25 minute guitar solo during "Cocaine"? 
I like Clapton, but that's too much to pay to see him. |
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jaderedux
Joined: 10 Jan 2003
Location: Lurking outside Seoul
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| Posted: Sun Jan 14, 2007 4:25 pm Post subject: |
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| Isn't he dead yet? |
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hogwonguy1979
Joined: 22 Dec 2003
Location: the racoon den
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| Posted: Sun Jan 14, 2007 4:52 pm Post subject: |
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| jaderedux wrote: |
| Isn't he dead yet? |
he will be this year if the James Brown rule is applied |
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Rteacher
Joined: 23 May 2005
Location: Western MA, USA
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| Posted: Sun Jan 14, 2007 6:34 pm Post subject: |
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When seen in perspective to what other top (older) acts are getting, 180,000 won for front row to see rock-and-roll legend , Clapton, isn't bad. The Rolling Stones on their world tour last summer charged up to $450.00 for best seats. Madonna (and even Barry Manilow...) are pricing their tickets as high as $375.00.
Promoters (and performers...) are trying to hurt scalpers profit margins by steadily raising ticket prices. In 1985, the average price for concert tickets for the top 25 acts (like U2) was around $15.00. By 1995, the average ticket price for the top 50 acts was around $25.00 per ticket. And by 2005, the average ticket price for the top 100 acts more than doubled to about $57.00...
http://www.businessweek.com/autos/content/may2006/bw20060517_822999.htm |
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Chamchiman
Joined: 24 Apr 2006
Location: Digging the Grave
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| Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2007 4:26 am Post subject: |
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Did anybody go to the show this evening? How was he? And how was the sound at the venue?
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skindleshanks
Joined: 10 May 2004
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| Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2007 7:00 am Post subject: |
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I wanted to take my wife to see Il Divo next weekend, but those tickets are ridiculous, too. They're pretty much double what they're paying in Canada to see them in a more intimate setting.
What would it take for U2 to come here? I would pay 150,000 for that. |
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pdx
Joined: 19 Jan 2007
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| Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2007 7:07 am Post subject: |
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| Wouldn't a lot of it have to do with what it takes to come all the way to South Korea. I mean, it's not like touring around the states or Canada where you can drive, and nobody's needing huge plane ticket costs. For huge acts, you have to consider how many people are coming with them on the road, how much it costs to fly them all over here, house them, feed them, pay them, etc. |
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The Bobster
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2007 11:11 am Post subject: |
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| eamo wrote: |
| I quite like Clapton but I won't pay 180,000 for a floor seat. That's just a crazy price. |
It's crazy but so am I. No one else on the planet I'd pay 15% of my monthly to sit in a big room with the spouse next to me, but E.C. IS that guy ...
It was like he was standing there and looking us in the eyes with a smile on his near-geriatric face saying, "Do you mind if I rock?" The whole room blinked, and said yes, sir, er, I mean, no, and please, do so. And a little more. If you don't mind.
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| Did anybody go to the show this evening? How was he? And how was the sound at the venue? |
The sound was good, the tech exists for that in Korea.
He started out with five songs from his Derek and the Dominoes phase and I didn't expect that at all :
"Tell The Truth"
"Keys to the Highway"
"Got to Get Better In a Little While"
"Little Wing" and
"Why Does Love Have to Be So Sad?"
His band had two other lead guitarists, young guys, and they all traded places with solos and even gave the bass player a bit of time. One thing you notice about Eric right way is he doesn't mind sharing the stage, enjoys the synergy of competition. The drummer was funny, and I think they are required to be funny by union rules or something, right?
Thankfully, they went acoustic for just a few songs :
"Walkin' Blues" (I think)
"Driftin'"
"Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out" and
"Runnin' On Faith"
They plugged back in one at a time for each of these and then did some straight blues whose titles I did not identify because I confess I haven't bought anything in the last 7 years or so, but some of them were likely from "Reptile," which I've been meaning to get around to.
Someone must have whispered in his ear that "Wonderful Tonight" is on the playlist of nearly every Korean norae-bong, so he did that near the end ... but then he knocked my socks off (yes, I do wear them in winter) by ending with "Layla" - NOT that lameass MTV acoustic shuffle-version, but the fiery original hard-rock version that made me love him when I first heard the song on AM radio when I was 14 ... "LAYLA! You got me on my KNEES!"
So. Cool.
Thought for a moment he might dis us without an encore, but he surprised me again by coming back with "Cocaine," a song I recall reading he once vowed not to play again because back in the 80s it seems a lot of people didn't listen closely enough to it to understand it was an ANTI-drug song ... and then one more, the old Robert Johnson standard, "Crossroads."
The spouse was disappointed that he didn't do "Change the World" but that's a personal and sentimental thing, since we'd asked a guy to play it at our wedding a year or so ago, and it's far too laid-back to fit among the rest ... also noticeably absent was "Tears In Heaven," and I recall EC being visibly embarassed a few years ago at receiving so many Grammys for it at once because it was connected to the death of his son.
Walking out, my main regret was that, gee, I'd really like to hang out and party with him ... but this is not a perfect world. |
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Hyeon Een
Joined: 24 Jun 2005
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| Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 9:36 am Post subject: |
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| My buddy is down with dexter guitars who gave him a backstage pass. He had a nice time and got an autograph and stuff. Didn't speak to him much about it yet. Sounds like a nice night. |
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caniff
Joined: 03 Feb 2004
Location: All over the map
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| Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 10:20 am Post subject: |
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I was on brief rampage to address all the recent posts, but I have nothing snarky to say on this thread. I've seen Clapton a few times. Although not a moshing-get froogie-type concert, the guy's career and music is amazing.
Anyone know where I can buy a Clapton picture pillowcase? |
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charlieDD
Joined: 16 Jun 2006
Location: Seoul, Korea
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| Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 5:30 pm Post subject: |
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Went to his Bangkok concert on the 15th. Bought my tickets in early November. The most expensive ticket was 5,000 Baht, which at the time was about $132, which would be about KRW 125,000. That's what I bought as that what my foreign friends who live in BKK that I would be going with were buying.
If the floor tickets were the most expensive in Olympic Stadium at KRW 180,000, then it was KRW60,000 more expensive to see him in Seoul at that level.
I believe he's scheduled to be in Bangkok again in early April, like the 5th of April, I think. Not sure if he's swinging by Korea again. |
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The Bobster
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 6:24 am Post subject: |
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| charlieDD wrote: |
| Not sure if he's swinging by Korea again. |
I heard his recent wife is of Korean descent ... also noticed in the tour program no stops in Japan this swing.
Interesting. |
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charlieDD
Joined: 16 Jun 2006
Location: Seoul, Korea
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