We almost hired the Eagles to play a high school gig before they went mega. At the time, they wanted $10,000 a night. Back then, a big time concert cost at the most, $10 tops. $7 or $8 was more typical. We were afraid few would pay the $20 or $25 we would need for the size of the auditorium.
Oh well...
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Oddest concert bill I recall - John McLaughlin and The Mahavishnu Orchestra warming up for Frank Zappa on Halloween night. A number of Zappa fans apparently had reached their saturation point of hearing 17/64 time along with some highly obscure scale structures and didn't quite know what to make of Mahavishnu John, his other world-liness transcendental stage persona, not to mention the famous double bladed axe, and were a bit rude with their cat calls. At one point he took a mic and said "Ladies and Gentlemen, the audience"...
"Pick that git-tar Johnny Boy!
