Highest Grossing Concert Tours

Don't be such a snob ;)

Kids these days!

People in general take a particular liking to the music they grew up with.

The Eagles are terrible. They have great chops as session musicians, but their music is about as lame as rock music can get. Nobody cares whether Keith Richards is a "poor musician." He's a creative guitar player who has written licks that people will enjoy long after he's gone (if he is in fact mortal). You can find 1,000 guys in every city who can bust out a technically challenging guitar solo. It's a much more common skill than being able to *write* great music. Your approach to music seems very misguided.

I don't like any of them except for Pink Floyd. Not offended. For my money Paul McCartney is the worst.

U2 is just Enya for 'tough' guys.

Maybe you already typed it without realizing it?

That was true even in the early 2000s. I remember waiting in line for Green Day tickets overnight. Everyone was so excited, and then around midnight someone drove up with huge speakers mounted on the outside of his car, blasting their (then) new album. People went crazy. It was such a fun and uniting experience.

I go see live bands about ten times a month, and I have to agree with you. It's insane that people will pay $300 to sit a half-mile away from the ghost of Mick Jagger while he does a third-rate rendition of Brown Sugar. If you live in or near a city (which you probably do, if you're going to see one of these bands), you can find great live music for $10, no matter what you're looking for. Jazz, punk, originals, covers, whatever. You can drink cheaper beer and stand ten feet from the band, which will probably be working harder and taking the music more seriously than bands like the Stones do at this point. I've also grown very fond of tribute bands. They really go all-out. I saw a tribute of The Cure last week. They played all the big hits, nailed them, I stood three feet away, and it cost $10. To see the real thing would have cost $200 and I would have been up in the nosebleeds. You have to look at the jumbotron to see the band. It's just not worth the hassle.

Yeah. It's hilarious. I don't care about most of the musicians of any genre or era, but everyone in the list does have undeniable talent. I personally can't stand people like Ed Sheeran, Michael Jackson, Freddie Mercury and Elton John, but they are immensely gifted. Just because something about their final product annoys me doesn't mean I'm incapable of understanding that others do see their talent in a different light than I.

Billy Joel's tour is an interesting one. He isn't really on tour in the sense people think of it. He plays Madison Square Garden in New York, his home city, once a month (and, remarkably, continues to sell it out after five years), then he flies to one other city every two weeks or so. He'll fly to Tulsa, play a gig, then go home for two weeks. Then he'll fly to Chicago, play a gig, and then go back home for two weeks. This has been going on five years.

I was about to post a comment mentioning this tour specifically! The list is quite inaccurate.

absolutely, she's a cult more than an artist lol