rock stars are like escorts, you don't pay for the time you spend with them, you pay for all the time they spend alone.
The result is the prices are less out of whacked then they appear.For instance, if a band is making 20K a night and playing 100 gigs a year, that is 2M, divided by 4 and that is $500K a piece, minus manager's cut, booking agent's cut, say minus 25% -now you are looking at 375K, minus expensies, call it $300K, minus taxes and you are at 195K gross. Not bad, not great.. now look at some od the names on this list.Cold War Kids, Drive By truckers, Public Enemy. these are name recognition bands…
30 Seconds to Mars $30-30K+
Anrew WK – $25-30K
Asher Roth – $20-25K
Better Than Ezra – $20-25K
Blue October – $25-30K
Brandi Carlisle – $25-30K
colbie Caillet$25-30K+
Da Brat – $20-30K
Drive By Truckers -$25-30K
Everclear-$20K+
Fabolous -$20-30K
Flo rida – $25-30K
Flogging Molly – $25-30K
Fountains Of Wayne – $20-30K
Galactic – $20-30K
Gaslight Anthem – $30-30K+
Ghostface – $20-25K
Girl Talk – $25-30K
Gogol Bordello – $20-30K
Gomez – $20-30K
Guster-$25-30K
Hnason – $25-30K
Jadakiss -$20-30K
Jakob Dylan -$20-35K
K'Naan -$25-30K
Los Lobos -$20-30K
Los Lonely Boys – $25-30K
Macy Gray -$20-30K
Mobb Depp -$20-30K
Mumford and Sons -$25-30K (more now?)
Mute Math – $20-30K
Nicki Minaj -$20-30K (more now)
Pitbull -$25-30K (much more now!)
Plain White T's – $25-30K
Public Enemy – $25-30K
Q-Tip – $25-30K
Ra Ra Riot – $20K+
Santigold -$25-30K
Simple Plan -$25-30K
Soul Asylum – $20K+
Spoon – $30K+