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Well, let me add my 2 cents about the price of concert tickets for 2018 as compared with the 1970's. While some boomers may have more disposable income to spend on concert tickets now, back then concerts were a totally different animal. They were almost exclusively a kid's game. I was 16 when I first started going to concerts with my friends. My first concert was in 1975, the Eagles with Dan Fogelberg opening. The ticket price was $5.50 advance, $6.50 day of show. Cheap? Yes, but priced so teenagers could go to their local record store and pick them up. They were also festival seating, even though it was an indoor venue. Festival seating was the norm for certain venues at the time. There were no computers to keep track of seats back then and tickets were often sold at many different outlets, mostly record stores. And since there were no online purchases, no one could snatch up tickets within seconds. The extra dollar for day of show was sort of an incentive to try to sell the concert more quickly. As I said earlier, the concerts were truly a kid's game. Festival seating could be like a black Friday sale on steroids, not for adults. I'm sure there are exceptions to this of course, but the concerts I attended were filled with people my age, give or take a couple of years. That's why they were rowdy, fun filled, sometimes a little dangerous adventures. I would have looked at someone in their late 20s at the time as old, and not belonging there! Even though we talk about how young the Eagles were back then, most of us in the crowd were quite a bit younger than them. I just turned 59, a full 10 years younger than Glenn. And, to cap off this discussion of the high ticket prices, when I saw them in June of 1980 the ticket price was $12.50. Still cheap, but more than double of my first ticket!