One of the famous stories of rock and roll was when Zeppelin sold out the Pontiac Silverdome in 77' and Peter Grant walked away from the show with $800,000 in cash (dont have the exact $ but it was something like that)...now Peter Grant was an excellent manager, but keep in mind that this was in 1977 dollars and was for 1 show.
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At the end, I heard they walked away with about $1200 for each band member for the night after everyone else was paid.
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I dont mean to be disagreeable, but that number seems to be very low. I doubt whether the Stones would tour at this age for that amount.
Some of the tour grosses that were mentioned previously here... no doubt that the bands get a huge chunk of this, even after the expenses.
In that recent Who special which aired on VH1... Pete Townshend was talking about the downfall of bassist John Entwistle and he said something like "we would get done after a tour and he would be handed a check for a couple of $million and then it would just be gone...I dont know what he did with it but he would just spend it."
also, in this day and age, I have heard of people such as Celine Dionne etc. getting paid over $1million to do private shows.