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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mannahnin" data-source="post: 9806690" data-attributes="member: 7026594">[MEDIA=youtube]i2gVXd7FzhQ[/MEDIA]I remember Courtney Love making a speech in the early days of internet music sharing about how artists were going to have to functionally work for tips/live on ticket sales.  That record sales were not going to sustain them anymore.  And that seems to have turned out true.  Concur.  There are still some smaller and mid-sized venues out there.  I've seen a few big stadium shows in the last few years (NIN, Depeche Mode, The Cure, Smashing Pumpkins, Rammstein twice), but a lot of good shows at mid size (Roadrunner in Boston is 3,500 capacity- recently have seen Viagra Boys and Molchat Doma shows there) (Orpheum around 2,700, last saw Warduna there) (Worcester Palladium downstairs is ~2k, saw Heilung there in 2022),  House of Blues Boston (1800, Jerry Cantrell, Caravan Palace, Ministry touring with Melvins & Corrosion of Conformity), Royale Boston (1500, Viagra Boys, They Might Be Giants) or smaller more intimate venues like Paradise (933, Gary Numan, Cold Cave), The Sinclair (525, Twin Temple, Bridge City Sinners) or The Middle East (400, She Wants Revenge, Peter Murphy, My Life with the Thrill Kill Cult).That being said, certainly some of the small venues have been closing, and ticket prices and drinks at the newer ones (like Roadrunner) have been climbing, while stadium tickets and amenities have been going nuts.</blockquote>