So my thoughts on this are complex, and my body of knowledge is deep.

Start here. Or, if you prefer, start here to see that flagamuffin and I have discussed this before.

That's just bottle service. Bottle service and DJ culture go hand-in-hand, however, because most DJs aren't working nearly as hard as most musicians, so they're more a part of the party than a performer at the party. So it's not like Bourdain is trashing EDM - he's trashing EDM clubs in Vegas.

At the same time, compare and contrast: cover for Marquee, the club in question, is $30. Stupid high, but it's Vegas. Last time I saw a show in Vegas it was Celine Dion because friends had a spare ticket. Celine Dion at Caesar's? $450.

So your choices are simple: $30 plus lots of $15 drinks to interact and mingle and get some of that "what happens in Vegas" you've heard so much about, or $450 to sit in a chair and listen to "My Heart Will Go On" while Cirque du Soleil spins on their trapezes in front of what was the world's largest TV in 2004.

Musical acts have, in many ways, gone the same way as movies. People are going out to see fewer bands, so the bands charge more. The bands charge more, so the audience expects more. So the band throws more intellabeams on stage which costs more. I remember an industry mag, which is usually all about overproduction, lamented the fact that Britney Spears went on tour with 900 moving heads in 2005. They pointed out that had she left half of them at home, nobody would have noticed... but with 900 moving heads, you have... 900 moving heads. Which you need to charge for.

Vegas, meanwhile, is now and has always been a destination. For a while there it was cheap because nobody was coming but boy howdy. They fixed that problem. So if you want to do something other than sit in your hotel and watch pay-per-view you're going to pay through the nose for it. I mean, the damn tramway is now like $6, just to save you the walk from the Bellagio to the Venetian.

Wanna go see Penn & Teller? Right now? At the Rio, truly a casino on its last gasps? $115 before Ticketbastard throws on their fun charges. And yeah, that can be discounted but so can cover charges. And really - let's pretend you're under 40 and in Vegas. What is there to see? You gonna go watch Boys II Men? Fer real?

I used to stay at the Flamingo when I went to trade shows because it was about as cheap as you could get on the strip. I now stay in Buffalo Bill's in Primm for $30 a night and park at Caesar's 'cuz they don't check but I digress. Anyway, Danny Gans, as mentioned in the video, held court at the Flamingo. Used to see his signs all the time.

And I'm barely under 40, and I know a bit more entertainment history than most, and I was still looking at the sign, forehead scrunched, saying aloud,

"Who the fuck is Danny Gans?"

So Rolling Stone can opine that Anthony Bourdain is bagging on EDM fans. Really, though, he's bagging on the fact that Vegas priced itself out of the performance ecosystem.