Nuts For Music

According to Billboard.com, there won’t be a Led Zeppelinreunion tour until at least after September of this year. Apparently the effort put into their reunion show and lead singer Robert Plant’s side project will delay a tour I’m sure plenty of people are looking forward to. I’m sure nobody ever thought this would occur, and maybe it still won’t, but I’m sure lots of fans are excited. I’m just not one of them.

Now, don’t get me wrong, I love a lot of Led Zeppelin music, but I’m not all that crazy about a reunion tour. Maybe that’s because I wouldn’t pay $250 for a concert ticket, the one exception being to see Pink Floyd. I know artists like KISS,Paul McCartney,and the The Rolling Stonescan charge big bucks for their shows and I’m sure Zeppelin will be no different. If you want to get together and do a normal tour and charge $40 or $45 for a ticket, I’m there. Live music is the best music, but at what price? I mean, at $45 a ticket for a 60,000 seat arena (which a lot of football stadiums can hold I think), they’d gross $2.7 million. Take out whatever the costs are and whatnot and I’m still they’re making a pretty penny. Draw that over several shows and you can make some coin.

Granted, I’m jumping the gun here since the tour hasn’t officially been announced and there are no ticket prices or venues listed yet, but going by past history of some big bands and their “reunion” tours, I expect a heafty ticket price.