Eagles, Dixie Chicks, Urban concert Saturday In Chicago
$895 for some of the best seats in the house left this Eagles freak off the list of attendees for this show. I was a gleeful attendee at the Eagles Mid Nineties “Hell Freezes over” tour which is mentioned in the piece below from the Sun Times and those tickets were the first ever over $100.
I wouldn’t pay $10 to see them teamed up with the Dixie ‘Clits’ I mean Chicks.
a shot of the stage from the Saturday Eagles Show at Chicago's Soldier Field courtesy Chicago Sun Times
Recession? What recession?
Depending on which side of the counter you stood, economic recovery fast forwarded or slid sharply in reverse at Soldier Field on Saturday when the Eagles headlined a triple bill that included the Dixie Chicks and Keith Urban.
The Eagles perform at Soldier Field on Saturday. They headlined a triple bill that included the Dixie Chicks and Keith Urban.
A pricey greatest-hits tour in an outdoor sports stadium isn’t news, but what makes this outing significant is that it is the first test of concert giant Live Nation’s “all-in” ticket pricing. The new model is structured to combat the secondary ticket market by multiplying the available price tiers, from three or four to about 10, which conceivably creates a price point for every pocketbook and eliminates service fees.
The problem was, at Soldier Field, affordability ($55) meant the furthest reaches of the stadium while the majority of seats were stretched closer to $225. Want to move even closer? Access to the first several rows cost up to $895, but that included a free dinner before the show.
continued via CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Music.
