Oliver Anthony SNAPS On Venue For Expensive Tickets, They RESPOND!

I'm not trying to attack Oliver Anthony. This is going to be a lesson in economics 101. How's everybody doing? My name is Anthony Brian Logan. And today we got to talk about Oliver Anthony of the Richmond north of Richmond fame, criticizing a Knoxville, Tennessee music venue called Cotton Eye Joe because of their high ticket prices for a show that he was booked to perform at now that show has been canceled. We'll get to why was canceled in a minute. But the tickets were between 90 and $200. Now Oliver Anthony is like, hey, I don't like charging my fans anything more than 40 bucks. And sometimes I'll do a free show. So you guys don't buy that ticket. Don't go to Cotton Eye Joe artist that in the third and Cotton Eye Joe responded saying hey, you wanted to get paid x for a 60 minute set. So we priced our tickets accordingly. Now before we get into it, let's go ahead and play the original. I guess you would say response from Oliver Anthony, they may going to get into all the details. And again, this is not going to be an attack on him. This is going to be a lesson in economics. If you want to get paid x, then the venue, the company or whatever who's paying you must charge why it's very simple. But without further ado, let's go ahead and roll it. I had to pull off on the side of the road and make this video. I'm my adrenaline's pumping, man. I'm pissed off right now. And don't buy Cotton Eye Joe tickets for $99 apiece insurers held on by VIP passes for whatever price they're on. I have a buddy of mine who's not a booking agent. He's a friend of mine. He's a full time plumber. And I'm trying to hire him full time as my booking agent. And he agreed to the show, I guess without asking for the what the ticket prices are. I'm don't pay $100 for a ticket. That's horse. If we've got to cancel the venue and play somewhere else, we will. I didn't agree to it. And I don't want you to pay it. So please don't just I'm just trying to get the word out now. It's I don't know when the event got posted, but just okay, so that's the video right there. He's saying hey, tickets are way too much. Don't buy that. I got a friend of mine is a full time plumber. I'm going to be my booking agent artist that and the third he agreed to the pricing or whatever. Now first of all, my man, you are riding the wave right now you need to have some staff around you to understand what they're doing. And you need to talk to your staff before you go make a video on the internet. Talk to your staff, talk to your team and figure out what's going on. Because now you're kind of throwing cotton that Joe the venue under the bus. And that's kind of like burning a bridge. You might want to cross that bridge again. But anyway, hire a road manager booking agent. And make sure to get your best interests at heart and again, communicate with them. Now cotton that Joe has responded. This is a Facebook post if I'm not mistaken. Let's go ahead and read this. And I think after we get through this, it'd be a little bit more clear what's going on here. Now. It's a damn shame what the world's gotten to for the customers of the world famous cotton. Cotton Joe. Most times we say a show is being canceled due to circumstances beyond our control. Well, we are canceling Oliver Anthony show under our full control. All refunds will be made in the next few business days to your original form of payment. The North Man of Richmond contracted to play the cotton that Joe for $120,000 for 60 minutes. Let's pause right there. See, that's the problem. You want this high amount of money? Well, how are you going to get paid that amount of money if the ticket prices don't reflect it, but we'll keep on reading. After doing the math and knowing we can only hold approximately 1500 people paying the ticket website their fee to sell the tickets, paying the tax man and opening the Joe on a closed night. We set the ticket price to break even so not even to make a profit just to break even just to put on the show and pay everybody and with no profit for the actual venue. We wanted to break even and bring our customers a show we thought will be fun to our talent agency and promoter friends that follow us be careful booking the North Man of Richmond so the show was supposed to be at the end of the month they went ahead and canceled it because Oliver Anthony went on the internet and kind of went on the rant against cotton I Joe because of the ticket prices now. Again, I'm not trying to attack Oliver Anthony, I'm gonna say it again. This is not even really about him. This is about just basic economics. People I think don't really understand the way things work. If you want to get paid that amount of money and he didn't. Oliver Anthony never denied wanting to get paid that amount of money. If you want to get paid that you got to understand you can't just charge $20 $30 $40 for a ticket. You got to charge a little bit more. And once you kind of zoom out and look at other music acts, it's really not that bad. Okay, it's not that bad for his popularity right now. That's a okay ticket price. Right? Especially if you want to get paid six figures for a 60 minute set. How are you going to get paid that much money and only charge 20 bucks 40 bucks for a ticket. Oliver said that he only got paid 35,000 for a show like his his max fee he's ever gotten for a show with 35,000. So if you were charging people in that show, 40 bucks for a ticket, how are you going to get paid quadruple the purse is still keeping prices the same. That's not how that works. This is like the McDonald's argument. Let me just show something right quick. Okay, do you see this right here? This is a McChicken. And it costs $4 and 29 cents. Now, if you live in the area where labor and tax and whatnot is not as expensive as this particular place may be, they just this sandwich may not cost that much. It may cost $3 $2 or whatever the case may be. But if you live in a California, and they're saying fight for 15, we want 20 bucks an hour to flip burgers, what you're going to have is prices like this, you're going to pay after taxes $5 for a McChicken sandwich. Back in the day, that might have been $1. But you want to get paid this amount of money to flip burgers. Okay, what was going to happen is we're going to raise the cost of our goods and services to pay you your money. And we're going to cut costs in other places. So it's going to be fewer cashiers, fewer cooks, more automation, and higher prices. And you're going to experience that same thing wherever you go. So you get paid more money. But in essence, you have the same amount of money or less. And if you have any savings, that's worth less as well. Again, this is not about him. This is about economics one on one. Now let's get to his response to what catnip Joe said he says catnip Joe claims we are charging people 120,000 per show. They didn't say that what they said was, that's what you charge them, not people just them. And then he says they have since turned off the comments. But I wanted to clarify the most I've ever made on the show is 35,000. We've done two shows in North Carolina that were completely free and have another free show scheduled in Kentucky for a cancer benefit. Well, the catnip Joe show was not free. And that's okay. If you know you want to get paid 120 then it is what it is. My booking guy handle all of this on the phone with them. And I realized there are two sides to every story. But I personally talked with catnip Joe on the phone about not charging extra for the meet and greet. That's why I was so upset seeing them charging 200 for it. I felt like this suckered us into playing there just so they can make extra money off of y'all. But they said they were just trying to break even. So I mean, what's what's what you want to make 120,000. So you see what I'm saying? It's like you're trying to tax the company the money but you don't understand the company gets the money from the people. They don't just have money magically come into their pocket from nowhere. They get a charge people ticket prices, and then they could pay you Oliver. So it's not about it's not about the company trying to make money off of the people. It's about them trying to pay you your fee from the people who you are going to be entertaining. Because where else does the money come from? That being said, I wish them the best all the fall ultimately is with me. I should have been more thoroughly involved in the booking. You're right. And I should probably consider using professional consultant in this area. There's no reason why tickets should have went up for sale before a contract was signed. The good news is we have already found multiple other options for $25 admission venues in Knoxville that can accommodate more people the same week this show was scheduled for we will still be having a good time in Knoxville soon. So maybe maybe the objective here is to get paid your 120,000 but in a bigger venue so you could charge less money for the tickets. Is that what it is? Because ultimately, are you going to just reduce your fee because that'll cut down on ticket prices right there. A solution to this would have been to call Cotton Eye Joe and say hey, you know what, I don't really I don't really want to charge that amount of money. Let's reduce my fee to 65,000 rather than 120. No, just just cut it in half. And then you could charge close to the $40 for your ticket prices rather than 200. It could be 100 max and medium by 50 bucks. That'd be that that would have been a proper solution rather than going on the internet and making the video. Anyway, so he says you're going to have a new venue and new details and artists day and the third. Now, remember this story right here about the day in Massachusetts, who spent $21,000 on Taylor Swift tickets now I understand that Oliver Anthony is not on a level of a Beyonce, a Taylor Swift, a Bad Bunny, Drake, all these people Morgan Wayland, all these people, you know, that's a whole different thing. I understand. But ticket prices 100 bucks for a ticket is not that much even for a guy in this particular range. Here's an ad right here. Let's look at this. Okay, we got Drake, how much is Drake gonna cost for tickets? All right. So Atlanta, Georgia State Forum, let's let's look at it right here. Alright, so the prices start at 329 and go all the way to $41,000 $41,000. And if you want nosebleed, you're paying 329 plus tax and everything. Now, of course, again, Drake is a whole different level. But I'm saying sometimes these things cost money. And I'm sure Drake is going to get a big bag of money for this show. A big bag of money, the bag of money you get is going to be reflected in the ticket prices Drake can charge 40 grand for a ticket 329 for the nosebleed. And if you are Oliver Anthony, you're riding the wave right now you play in a small venue, and you want $120,000 Yeah, you're gonna have high ticket prices. That's just economics one on one. But as I close, I want to say this. If you want to get paid more money from whatever you're doing, if you're flipping burgers, you're an engineer, you're digging ditches, whatever you're doing, you got to understand the market. Okay? How much are people paying for that particular good service, whatever you're doing? How much is that paying? You see what I do right here on the internet with the videos and everything. advertisers pay X amount of money. And I'm able to get paid from the advertisers. That's kind of how that works when talking about ad revenue. Or if you go to my store, okay, you could buy something and I might make X amount from whatever kind of product you purchase on my store. All right now, if I want to make more money, then I charge more money. But if the demand is not as high as what I want it to be, then I'm charging higher prices, I'm going to get a lower return. This is just all basic business. And I think Oliver Anthony, he's new to all this. He is a guy that is just probably out there in Farmville, which is pretty much BFE territory, middle of nowhere, Virginia. This is all kind of new. So he's just trying to figure it out. But my advice to you is this is free. This is free consultation, Oliver free consultation. Before you go make a video about anything. Ask questions behind the scenes, figure out what's going on, come to resolution because you put videos out there is permanent. And then not only can I Joe will have a bad taste in their mouth, but also other venues may go to in the future. Hey, I don't want to do with what they dealt with. I'm gonna just avoid it. So again, talk to people behind the scenes, figure out resolutions before you go make a video and make a mess. But I think I'll leave that right there for now. And what say you? What's your opinion about the whole ticket price kerfuffle? Is it as simple as if you want to get paid x, then the venue must charge y whatever your thoughts are. Let me know in the comments below. You guys know where I'm at. It's basic economics. You know, it can go to the same thing. 515 fight for 20. Oh, I need to get a living wage. I'll just that in a third. Okay. How do wages get paid? How are you able to actually procure that kind of money? That's my question. But whatever your thoughts are, please let me know in the comments below. And that's all I gotta say for this video. If you like what you heard, please comment, rate, share, and subscribe. Peace