Re: zeppelin-digest V12 #4366

[Chris Leone <ceeleone2001@xxxxxxxxx>]

It wasnt quite that bad GA was great in some places, but even if they had seats 
set up in the garden, if you were in the last row on the floor you could move 
forward... and with bands like zep and the stones, Yes, floyd, there was no 
stopping the rush to the stage..
It is crazy with the tix these days though, Im seeing tix on sale all over the 
place for Percy on 4/15 at the hard rock down on miami, but ticket master 
doesnt 
have him listed as plaing there then, and his site says TBA??? The brokers are 
selling tix that arent anywhere near the pipeline yet!
 
Christopher Leone


 




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From: Kurt Finchum <finchumk@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: zeppelin mailinglist <zeppelin@xxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wed, January 26, 2011 12:28:09 PM
Subject: RE: zeppelin-digest V12 #4366



When Robert went onsale for Phoenix last year, as I said, the dates were listed 
on this list and 3rd row was available.  I posted to this effect on the 
official 
forum, mentioned that there was an empty seat next to us.  Someone else, a guy 
from Australia, bought it.  I remember he arrived about 30 seconds before 
showtime.    It's weird that the seats were being sold before there was any 
announcement, but obviously if this mailing list had them, there was an 
announcement *somewhere.*  


I do remember that when I saw Spinal Tap a couple years ago, we ended up with 
5th row in the same venue.  A security guard checked our tickets and scratched 
his head, saying "Hmmm, usually the promoter has this entire row reserved for 
him."  So that was nice to know.  


I've seen the lottery thing go both ways.  I actually won it one year for the 
Yes 'Union' tour, and ended up with 7th row seats even being the first in line. 
And I've had very little experience with general admission, but one that comes 
to mind is the SRV/Jeff Beck tour in '89.  We lined up a couple hours in 
advance 
outside Hara Arena in Dayton, and had a pretty good spot.  The line got so long 
that it doubled back on itself, like a U.    The asshole security guard walked 
out and thought there were two lines, and threw a shit fit about how we were 
all 
obviously too stupid to form one line, and squished the two sides of the U into 
one line, so the people on the end were suddenly near the front of the line.  
It 
was hideous.    So when we were finally inside, everyone was sitting on the 
floor (no seats) waiting, and suddenly most of the crowd stood up and rushed 
forward, with pushing and shoving and we got screwed some more during the five 
seconds it took to stand up.  That wa!
s over 20 years ago, and it still pisses me off.  So all in all, I'd just as 
soon do without general admission.  I remember there's a scene in The Wall in 
which they throw the doors open and everyone rushes in like a stampede.  Was 
that the way it used to be in the magical 70s?  I can't say I'm sorry I missed 
that.