The Beatles, who no longer tour, do not regard music sales as loss leaders for more profitable concerts, as many bands do.
The concert, profitable as it was for the composer, led to a bitter quarrel with Maelzel, from which Beethoven emerged with little credit.
That caliber of band is too expensive for the festival's budget, they said, and performance spaces in northern Brooklyn are too small to make such concerts profitable.
"Officials consider these movements as too westernised and not profitable, but in fact a metal concert brings in a lot of people," said 21-year-old member Zakaria Brahami.
Yankees executives look at their matches — for which the stadium will be rescaled to a capacity of up to 40,000 — and see a profitable formula, as they do for concerts and college football games like the Pinstripe Bowl.
It is not that bands have become greedier; it is that the technology changed to make it less profitable to charge below-market prices for concerts.
Although concerts are seen as the more profitable part of the business for performers, the margins are thin for the companies that produce and market the events.
This summer, Viagra, the enormously profitable blue pill, is the official sponsor of a concert tour by the funk band Earth, Wind & Fire.
In 1968, following a seven-year break from live performances, he returned to the stage in the acclaimed televised comeback special Elvis, which led to an extended Las Vegas concert residency and a string of highly profitable tours.
