Was that concert worth the price?

Deseret News (Salt Lake City), Mar 9, 2004 by Nick Parker, Kathryn Ricks

This week Pulse reporters asked their fellow students, "What was the most you ever paid for a concert ticket, and was it worth it?"

"The best concert was the Summer Sanitarium tour. It was Mudvayne, Deftones, Limp Bizkit, Linkin Park. Metallica. It was $90 and it was the funnest because I got to hang out with my friends and go on a road trip for the weekend." -- Kyle Whitley, junior, Murray High School

"Forty bucks, and no, because I was way up in the nosebleed section and it sucked." -- Brittany Glad, senior, West Jordan High School

"Fifty-one dollars for Dave Matthews. We were in the very last row of reserved seating, but it was still worth the 50 bucks for the concert and 30 bucks for the T-shirt, and we even got there late." -- Richard Marsh, sophomore, Murray

"I've paid $48 for a concert ticket before. It was for a Radiohead concert and it was well worth it, and I'd pay it again in a second." - - Chase Pendleton, junior, Copper Hills High School

"I think it was around $45 for Bela Fleck & the Flecktones and it was more than worth it because it was an outdoor concert, and not only are Red Butte Gardens beautiful, we had a storm at the foot of the mountain where the concert took place. So put some of the grooviest, craziest music you've ever heard and put a storm in the background along with gorgeous flowers and trees." -- Chaz Prymek, junior, Murray

"Well, I don't go to the concerts that cost a lot of money because they are all capitalists who are only in it for the money. I go to the smaller bands who play at the smaller venues that generally only cost about 10 bucks a ticket." -- Mike Reed, junior, West Jordan

"Forty dollars for two people, and yes it was worth it, because it was an Offspring concert." -- Kenny Vibert, senior, West Jordan

"About $300. It was the Rolling Stones concert the first time they came through. It was good." -- Keith Wood, teacher, Murray

Nick Parker is a junior at Murray High School, Kathryn Ricks is a senior at West Jordan High School and Cindy Washburn is a junior at Copper Hills HIgh School. If you are a high school student in Utah and you have a suggestion for a topic you would like to see addressed here, please e-mail pulse@desnews.com or write to the Deseret Morning News, attention Susan Whitney.