During a recent appearance on The SDR Show, Megadeth’s Dave Mustaine opened up about the costs of touring in the modern era. The frontman says the rising prices have resulted in more expensive concert tickets.
Mustaine said the following when asked about a previous comment in which he said it costs “about 45 thousand dollars a day for [the band] just to sit still”:
“Pretty close. Yeah, it’s pretty close. What happens is you have each individual, and whether they’re working or not working, they get paid on a per-day basis. And so you have whoever is out on the road, and for us, it’s a lot of people. We have a light man, a soundman, a monitor man, and then you go on to the back. We’ve got a bunch of people up there — we’ve got a drum tech, a guitar tech and a bass and guitar tech, another monitor guy. And then there’s people backstage. There’s the drivers, the bus drivers, the truck drivers, the caterers, all that stuff. And then there’s all the hotels, all the money to get the hotel rooms for all these people. And then you’ve gotta feed ’em. So the cost just keeps going up and up and up.”
He also added:
“A lot of people, they look at the ticket price and they think, ‘Man, I’m not paying 75 bucks to go see these guys.’ And I’m sad to say that even if you had a choice in the matter, it’s kind of what it is nowadays if you wanna go see a live band, because you just can’t get from point A to point B anymore without spending a lot of money.”
[via Blabbermouth]
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