Breakfast Bonus: Woodstock payments

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Famous bands and artists get paid astronomical amounts to perform these days... but how much did the people who played back at Woodstock Festival get paid? And how much would that translate to now?

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Coast Breakfast Bonus podcast with Tony Jason Sam.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
Thanks for listening to our Breakfast Bonus podcast that came
out over the weekend that Taylor Swift's London concerts have
added about a billion dollars to the UK economy.

Speaker 3 (00:13):
It probably added two billion dollars to her economy as well.

Speaker 4 (00:16):
Do you know you know how much she makes for
every show? No, they worked. I converted this to New
Zealand dollars, one million dollars, seventeen million dollars show.

Speaker 2 (00:24):
That's heirs show for Taylor Swift. That's what she puts
in her pocket. Crazy A.

Speaker 3 (00:29):
Now she's got two gits, we've gotten.

Speaker 4 (00:31):
What did it be worth her?

Speaker 5 (00:32):
Still touring? Doesn't it? With all the care she's got
rolling around?

Speaker 4 (00:35):
True, don't have to do it anymore? She doesn't.

Speaker 5 (00:36):
She wouldn't do it from poultry milk.

Speaker 6 (00:37):
Wouldn't you just go chuck it in Milford air set
and sit back and stop touring? They just love touring, nough.

Speaker 3 (00:42):
Don't.

Speaker 4 (00:43):
Passion?

Speaker 5 (00:44):
Not just worrying about the dollars.

Speaker 2 (00:46):
This is also the fifty fifth anniversary of Woodstock. We're
that crazy Woodstock festival back in the sixties.

Speaker 3 (00:51):
Because unlike you. We went a live.

Speaker 2 (00:52):
I wasn't alive in the sixties, but nineteen sixteen on
you know about it though, right, yeah, you read about
it Woodstock? Right, so visa drugs.

Speaker 6 (01:00):
What would you have had Woodstock days back in the
day when it was you know, you free love and
all the rest of us to you do? I reckon,
you'd have been smoking the wiki bag.

Speaker 5 (01:08):
Just the free love for me, sir, That's all I need,
all right.

Speaker 4 (01:12):
So let's go through how much tend to work well
to get her? Otherwise it's just weird, okay.

Speaker 2 (01:18):
So if we know that Taylor Swift has been paid
seventeen million dollars a show these days, right, let's give
it to nineteen sixty nine at Woodstock. How much do
you think that Santana got paid? So Santana one of
the most least guitarist.

Speaker 4 (01:29):
Gig per gig just for doing Woodstock.

Speaker 3 (01:32):
His performance fee for Woodstock hundred grand, one hundred grand.

Speaker 5 (01:35):
You reckon, I reckon, it's fifty thousand.

Speaker 4 (01:39):
Are you ready for this? Seven hundred and fifty dollars?

Speaker 5 (01:43):
No?

Speaker 4 (01:43):
Yes?

Speaker 5 (01:45):
Is it just the honor of being part of the crew.

Speaker 4 (01:47):
Must have been Joe Cocker legendary voice Joe Cocker.

Speaker 6 (01:50):
But hang on, we have just slaid down here because
this is this is kind of as they were all
building their career. So yes, they went famous at this point.
Woodstock made them famous.

Speaker 4 (01:58):
Maybe that said sixty I would have turned up seven.

Speaker 3 (02:01):
Under crash for two tennis.

Speaker 5 (02:06):
He's getting more. He's getting more than Santana. He's getting
fifteen hundred.

Speaker 2 (02:10):
Yeah, thirteen hundred bucks. Yeah yeah, Joe Cocker. Yeah, the
grateful did they think they being the grateful deed? They
got two and a half grain for doing it?

Speaker 3 (02:17):
Oh, got see they've they've faded into oblivion, the grateful dead.

Speaker 4 (02:20):
That's right. Gradual credence.

Speaker 6 (02:22):
Clear Water Revival always five K, No, No, they're fifteen.

Speaker 4 (02:27):
K team case. But the difference ten thousand A.

Speaker 3 (02:29):
Lot of band members. There's the problem.

Speaker 2 (02:31):
Okay, janis Joplin huge. That's fishing in the sixties. Thirty K,
thirty K, seven and a half thousand dollars less than
c cr I know, right, yeah, okay, the big one.

Speaker 4 (02:41):
This is what everyone was seeing.

Speaker 3 (02:43):
She's sing shopping, well, I had a red door.

Speaker 6 (02:47):
That's just I think I'm confusing my soundtracks because we're
talking about the Tour of duty soundtracks, and she was.

Speaker 2 (02:53):
She's saying was like, if I had a I'll find
out he would buy me things and flooringer he and
there would buy her things.

Speaker 4 (03:01):
Shot. Yeah, okay, so everyone wanted.

Speaker 2 (03:03):
To see Jimmy Hendrix, Jimmy Hendrix man. And we know
about all the foot as we see the guitar.

Speaker 5 (03:07):
On fire and take another little piece of mode.

Speaker 3 (03:11):
That's a good storng.

Speaker 1 (03:12):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (03:13):
So seven one thousand dollars for her, Jimmy Hendrix the
headline act Woodstock. Even when you think Woodstock, you think
Jimmy Hendrix nineteen sixteen.

Speaker 3 (03:22):
Years down, twenty.

Speaker 4 (03:26):
K, thirty k, No, not not that much. Eighteen thousand dollars.
He was the highest paid at Woodstock ingrand.

Speaker 5 (03:36):
It's a different time. You would buy our fifty mixtures
back then and you get like, probably what ten dollars
worth of lollies are now?

Speaker 2 (03:44):
Last year week eighteen three mass by a house. What
year was it, nineteen sixty nine? It's eighteen grand, eighteen thousand. Yeah,
in nineteen sixty nine, I was a shot.

Speaker 4 (03:56):
And how little they got paid.

Speaker 5 (03:57):
I know, the seven hundred and fifty dollars one that stunts.

Speaker 4 (03:59):
Me, Dan one of the greatest guitarists of all time.

Speaker 6 (04:02):
Allow me to break it down to you, ladies and gentlemen,
due to inflations.

Speaker 4 (04:05):
How much will it be today? Not seventeen thousand, I
mean not.

Speaker 6 (04:08):
Seven hundred and fifty four thousand dollars for one night's performance.

Speaker 4 (04:14):
For the Headlight t.

Speaker 5 (04:14):
Swizzles getting seventeen mil.

Speaker 1 (04:16):
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