New York State pays Aerosmith $1M in state fair appearance

[Earth_First]

With classic rock band Aerosmith guaranteed a record $1 million for the Thursday night concert that opens the New York State Fair's Mohegan Sun Grandstand series, less than half of the available tickets have been sold.

http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2010/08/less_than_half_of_the_availabl.html

wow.just.wow.

[CurtEastPoint]

1. Gee..sounds like a real good use of limited resources: i.e., taxes n/t

:sarcasm:

[Earth_First]

2. I'd much rather that went to the parks system...

:sigh:

[Danger Mouse]

3. Not only did they waste money on a rock band, but a damn shitty one like Aerosuck??

Shame on you, State of New York! :(

[marmar]

4. self delete, I did a google search

nt

[walldude]

5. That was last week... This week they are on tour.. next week

Tyler is taking over for Simon on Idol. Sealing their fate as sellouts.

[frylock]

6. loverboy wasn't available?

[AsahinaKimi]

7. sounds like

New York State has money to burn.. ?

[Mnpaul]

8. Someone obviously hasn't seen Aerosmith

in concert. They are ok when you buy the CD but are terrible live. We used to skip them when they were an opening act.