[Dr Winston O Boogie jr]

I don't recall ticket prices except the $5.50 that I paid to see The Beatles, from the fifth row in 1966.

Beside them, I saw Cream, Hendrix, The Doors, Joe Cocker, The Who (twice) The Jeff Beck Group. The Small Faces, Rod Stewart, The Rolling Stones, BB King (many times), Delaney and Bonnie and Friends with Eric Clapton, Linda Ronstadt and the Stone Ponies, Arlo Guthrie, Buddy Guy, The Spencer Davis Group, The J. Giles Band and many more that don't come to mind right now.

I was just thinking about ticket prices this morning. I really wish that Paul McCartney, Elton John and all of the other big names would get together and try to do something about the so called legal ticket scalping that goes on today.

I saw McCartney in 2002 for the 11th row. I paid $1600 for two tickets which had a face value of $250 each. Ticketmaster and all of these other ticket agencies are screwing us. I think that it's time that the performers stood up and said, "Enough. We're not going allow this any more". I think that they can do something about it.

For a group of people who generally portray themselves as being very socially conscious they seem to be very quiet on an issue that affects so many of their fans who they claim to love.