The Associated Press reports that the Harley Owners Group will have rockers AEROSMITH and KID ROCK headline its 25th anniversary concert this summer.

The concert on August 28 at Miller Park in Milwaukee, Wisconsin will be open only to H.O.G. members. There will be 40,000 tickets available — all for $25 — starting March 12 through the H.O.G. Web site.

As previously reported by SanLuisObispo, Aerosmith grossed more than $750,000 as the highest paid entertainment act in California Mid-State Fair history, The Tribune has learned.

On top of its $750,000 flat fee, the band received 70 percent of the gross ticket sales over $830,000 from its sold-out show, according to the performer’s entertainment contract with the Mid-State Fair. Tickets for the show were $52 and $78. The fair’s Main Grandstand Arena seats more than 15,000.

Aerosmith’s fee represented a sizeable portion of the entire $2.8 million spent on entertainment for the 2007 fair. Expected total revenues from entertainment are about $3.1 million, according to fair Chief Executive Officer Vivian Robertson.

The overall income projection for the 2007 fair is about $1.4 million in profit, with total earnings of $8 million, Robertson said.

The Tribune learned of the payments to some acts after petitioning the state for contract documents.

It’s common for venues to offer artists a large percentage of the sales over a certain amount of proceeds. This allows a venue to meet the artists’ flat fee and other costs of putting on the show before profits are shared. If the venue loses money on the show, it’s usually because not many tickets were sold.

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