As rock fans, we’ve seen the price of concert tickets skyrocket in the last few years… and even as somebody that’s been a part of the rock industry for DECADES, he agrees.
Bruce Dickinson of Iron Maiden was asked in a recent interview with Mexico’s ATMósferas Magazine, and he didn’t hold back when it comes to changes in the music industry. Social media, albums, downloads, touring, streaming songs, concert tickets… It all boils down to money. Here are some takeaways from the interview from Loudwire:
“On the one hand, if you’re an artist, it’s contracted, as in it’s shrunk in terms of the amount of money you get paid for your art — or unless you’re a DJ who turns up with a memory stick and gets paid five times what a band gets paid. And they have to split it eight ways, and he just turns up with his memory stick and pretends he’s doing something, and goes away with a huge amount of money. So the world has gone on its ass from that perspective. And there’s not a lot that any one individual can do about that. You just have to work with the way the world is.”
“I have no desire whatsoever to be a DJ. I’m a singer, I’m a musician. I do the best I can to make sure that everybody’s happy, everybody’s making a living and we can go out and play great music.”
And as far as the rising cost of ticket prices?
“Well, two things. One, it depends what the show is and kind of who the audience are. I mean, I’m not gonna go around and say specific artists, because most of the artists that are charging, like, 1,200 dollars a ticket — like in Las Vegas, if you wanna go and see the U2 show, I think it was 1,200 dollars per seat in the sphere. I’ve got no interest in paying 1,200 dollars to go and see U2 in the sphere — none. A hundred bucks, maybe. But for me, what’s important is to try and keep, on the one hand, the right type of tickets at the right price.”
“In general, ticket prices have gone through the roof. And some of the ticket prices that people pay, well, some of the prices people pay, for me, it’s insane. I would never pay that price, but then again, I’m probably not a fan of that particular artist.
“Maybe [people] think it’s worth it. I mean, certainly with my shows, we’ve always tried to keep the ticket prices within the normal, normal boundaries. And the same with MAIDEN.”
He had a lot more to say during the interview. Read more from Loudwire HERE.
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