Which is solid small gig money back then Im sure

I have a book that depicts an old Doors poster, advertising a gig sponsored by a frat house.

They did stuff like this all the time. Sly Stone played for a high school dance in Westport Connecticut at the top of his career. I think the Doors played there too. It was a different time...

Not like the farkbag popstars of today.

Subby, I think you forgot to read the part where the contract was signed before they hit it really big, and they were going for $50k by the time they fullfilled their contract, and played the show, which was considered incredible money at the time.

Back then, arenas were pretty uncommon, most bands played at theaters and clubs that held less than 4000 people, and tickets weren't the price of a weeks pay.

tickets were closer to $10, not $200.

TommyymmoT: which was considered incredible money at the time

Course can you imagine a high school today signing up some out of state band for a school dance?

The Cramps played the Napa Mental State Institute in 1979, and that's way cooler (new window)

Cake would play your house party for 50k when Fashion Nugget came out.

I bet those hs kids that attended the concert have a REALLY cool story to tell their grandkids.


"The Doors? Hell yeah I felt up your grandmother when they played at my hs prom! "

HappyHarryHardOn: The Cramps played the Napa Mental State Institute in 1979, and that's way cooler (new window)

That....is quite awesome!

00ghost27: Which is solid small gig money back then Im sure

Small money gig? $3,000 in 1967 is the equivalent of $20,000 in 2009 dollars.

TommyymmoT: tickets were closer to $10

10 bucks in 1960's dollars is around 65 in 2009 dollars. Certainly not 200 but still not that cheap.

Fark that . . . The Who played the prom at Baton Rouge High School.

Not the pansy ass Doors, the muthafarkin', ass-kickin' Who!

(Or so the urban legend goes . . . supposedly happened in the 60s while The Who was touring in support of Herman's Hermits . . . I've never seen a credible, reliable confirmation of the story.)

The Dead played in a high school gym in Anchorage, and Kiss played at a Drive-inn theatre that is now a mobile home park. There just might be a joke about that.

college homecoming.

Marsha Brady got Davy Jones to play at her HS dance.

tzzhc4: TommyymmoT: tickets were closer to $10

10 bucks in 1960's dollars is around 65 in 2009 dollars. Certainly not 200 but still not that cheap.

Tickets for most major concerts in my fine city were $6 in advance, $7 day of the show in the mid 70s. For what it's worth.

00ghost27: Which is solid small gig money back then Im sure

According to the article, they got booked when no one had heard of them, but several months before the gig they started pulling down $50,000 a night and spent the last couple months before they hit Colorado trying desperately to back out of the contract.

vabeard: Marsha Brady got Davy Jones to play at her HS dance.

:)

vabeard: Marsha Brady got Davy Jones to play at her HS dance.

*sigh*

No matter what the topic of the thread, it's always about Marsha.

Marsha, Marsha, Marsha!

A buddy's dad saw them play his high school sockhop in El Monte, CA I think, for a mere 50-cents in 1965, right before they broke. It's not impossible...The Hooters were playing USC frats right when they were big, so my grandfather tells me :-)

tzzhc4: 00ghost27: Which is solid small gig money back then Im sure

Small money gig? $3,000 in 1967 is the equivalent of $20,000 in 2009 dollars.

Solid money for a small gig. not small money gig. I think you read that wrong

tzzhc4: TommyymmoT: tickets were closer to $10

10 bucks in 1960's dollars is around 65 in 2009 dollars. Certainly not 200 but still not that cheap.

my Kiss tix in 1979 were $10 a pop, so tix in 1967 had to be less than half that. In fact I have an old Blue Oyster Cult ticket from 1976 right here that is $6.00.

Is it me or did anyone else find that article insufferably long winded and disjointed.

maxx2112: Fark that . . . The Who played the prom at Baton Rouge High School.


The Who played my High School in Overland Park, Kansas in 1967 - way before my time but when I was a kid my barber had seen the show as a senior. When I attended there was a spot of damage on the gym stage where Townsend supposedly smashed his guitar.

Link (new window)

dillopher: Is it me or did anyone else find that article insufferably long winded and disjointed.

Not just you...

Had front row seats for Queen at the Santa Monica Civic (`3000 seats), cost me $7 or so in 1975. In LA in the late 60's early 70's most concerts cost $3-6 depending on where you were sitting.

My high school booked Jefferson Airplane to play in 1967, they hit it big and canceled the gig, we got Iron Butterfly instead.

Heart/Outlaws--1977. My ticket stub says 8 bucks. Good times.

I saw Cheap Trick and the Pretenders for only five bucks. Of course, this was weeks ago now...

My first concert - The Doors, September 1967. It was farking amazing. Changed my life for sure.

Dr.Zom: maxx2112: Fark that . . . The Who played the prom at Baton Rouge High School.


The Who played my High School in Overland Park, Kansas in 1967 - way before my time but when I was a kid my barber had seen the show as a senior. When I attended there was a spot of damage on the gym stage where Townsend supposedly smashed his guitar.

Link (new window)

Whoa!

00ghost27: Which is solid small gig money back then Im sure

In the liner notes of one of the early Allman Brothers albums is a copy of their concert contract. (It's probably either Fillmore East or Ludlow's Garage).

It's incredible how little they were paid - and of course ABB has never been a small band - split that amount between all the band members and you've got enough for a hotel room and a nice dinner (by today's standards anyway).

Oh - and FARK Oliver Stone.

BTW - check out Festival Express to see how fans rioted at the idea of paying $10 to see The Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, The Band and a dozen other bands on one bill.

$3,000 was a lot of money back then - apparently.

mud_shark: 00ghost27: Which is solid small gig money back then Im sure

In the liner notes of one of the early Allman Brothers albums is a copy of their concert contract. (It's probably either Fillmore East or Ludlow's Garage).

It's incredible how little they were paid - and of course ABB has never been a small band - split that amount between all the band members and you've got enough for a hotel room and a nice dinner (by today's standards anyway).

Oh - and FARK Oliver Stone.

BTW - check out Festival Express to see how fans rioted at the idea of paying $10 to see The Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, The Band and a dozen other bands on one bill.

$3,000 was a lot of money back then - apparently.

Okay, it was Stonybrook, NY 9/19/71 that I was thinking of and they actually got paid a whopping $6000. Liner notes say this was after Fillmore East sold 500,000 copies. But it also points out that they played 2 shows (7:30 and and an 11PM show). Duane Allman's signature is clearly visible on the copy of the 1-page contract. My eyes are suffering and can't read all the details as I could when I bought this CD a few years ago. I'm willing to bet they made at least 6 grand off of sales of this CD at the show where I bought it though.

Morrison got his kicks before the shait house went up in flames.

/all right, all right!!

Colorado College isn't a high school.

FlyingJ: The Hooters were playing USC frats right when they were big

The Hooters were never big. No one even remembers them outside of
Philly.

from around '65 to '67, a high school in the LA area could book an up-and-coming band for about $2000. The Doors played my high school. Tickets were $2.
I have had friends see the Buff. Springield, Poco, The Seeds, 3 Dog Night, the Byrds etc. at various high school auditoriums in West LA.

dereksmalls: I have had friends see the Buff. Springield, Poco, The Seeds, 3 Dog Night, the Byrds etc. at various high school auditoriums in West LA.


That sort of thing lasted right to the end of the seventies here in LA... It was the PMRC that put an end to it. The hearings got school administrators all worried about liability issues and so on.

/I will never forgive the Gores.

DrRatchet: dereksmalls: I have had friends see the Buff. Springield, Poco, The Seeds, 3 Dog Night, the Byrds etc. at various high school auditoriums in West LA.


That sort of thing lasted right to the end of the seventies here in LA... It was the PMRC that put an end to it. The hearings got school administrators all worried about liability issues and so on.

/I will never forgive the Gores.

???

The Replacements' first gig was a halfway house for men. They showed up to play drunk calling themselves The Impediments, were kicked out, and were told they'd never play the Minneapolis area again. The booking agent somehow did have a little bit of power and put out word about how bad The Impediments were so they changed their name to The Replacements to get gigs.
Also, just a note to say that I saw Foo Fighters play a little club in Kentucky right as they were getting big. Right after that date they started playing the big outdoor arenas that summer. Talk about a great show!

Morrisson. Morrison, subby.

And Stone left this out of the movie?


If it had really been a high school it would have been way more interesting. Or a high school kegger, that would have been rockin', dude.

Saw X at Disneyland on High School Senior night. Awesome.



/Doors, most overrated band ever.

maxx2112: Fark that . . . The Who played the prom at Baton Rouge High School.

(Or so the urban legend goes . . . supposedly happened in the 60s while The Who was touring in support of Herman's Hermits . . . I've never seen a credible, reliable confirmation of the story.)

The version of the story I heard is that they played at the Belmont Pavilion in North Baton Rouge as the warm-up band for Herman's Hermits, as my mother claims she ditched school to go to some meet-and-greet function there and met two members of The Who before they were famous. (She was a Herman's Hermits fan at the time.)

If they made extra scratch by playing a prom at BRHS as part of that, or if the event in question *was* the BRHS prom, it's the first I've heard of it.



As far as out-of-state "name" bands playing HS dances go, the last one of these I remember was Soul Asylum in the 90s, as they played a prom in Grand Forks, ND, as a benefit gig after a major flood in the area.

Bag of Hammers: Saw X at Disneyland on High School Senior night. Awesome.



/Doors, most overrated band ever.

Don't know if I'd go that far, but I'll definitely say that X's cover of "Crystal Ship" blows the Doors version away.

darkhorse23: My first concert - The Doors, September 1967. It was farking amazing. Changed my life for sure.

At Cobo Arena? I was there, 15th row center.

ahhhhh ... so THAT'S where the Bloom County/Rolling Stones storyline came from...

Pyynk
Don't know if I'd go that far, but I'll definitely say that X's cover of "Crystal Ship" blows the Doors version away.

If by "Crystal Ship" you mean "Soul Kitchen" then yes, you are correct.

DjangoStonereaver: FlyingJ: The Hooters were playing USC frats right when they were big

The Hooters were never big. No one even remembers them outside of
Philly.

I saw the Hooters in a Radisson Inn bar after they played at the Von Braun Civic Center in Huntsville. There was hardly anybody in the bar so they invited everyone up to their suites and gave us free booze and smoke.

/good times, good times

Dr.Zom: maxx2112: Fark that . . . The Who played the prom at Baton Rouge High School.


The Who played my High School in Overland Park, Kansas in 1967 - way before my time but when I was a kid my barber had seen the show as a senior. When I attended there was a spot of damage on the gym stage where Townsend supposedly smashed his guitar.

Link (new window)

I work with a lady who said that she saw The Who when they played her high school in Kansas. I had a hard time believing her, so she brought in her high school yearbook. Thanks for the link, that's great!

deathon2legs: Dr.Zom: maxx2112: Fark that . . . The Who played the prom at Baton Rouge High School.


The Who played my High School in Overland Park, Kansas in 1967 - way before my time but when I was a kid my barber had seen the show as a senior. When I attended there was a spot of damage on the gym stage where Townsend supposedly smashed his guitar.

Link (new window)

I work with a lady who said that she saw The Who when they played her high school in Kansas. I had a hard time believing her, so she brought in her high school yearbook. Thanks for the link, that's great!

We had Barry farking Manilow at our high school in the 70's
/no i didn't go
//My future wife was part of it and said he was a real prick
///God... my high school sucked