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=> GENERAL DISCUSSION => Topic started by: myuman on June 21, 2003, 10:12:00 am
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How does the seating chart work? I got the seating chart in front of me, but what is the first row? Does A come before AA or what? At 10:10, all I could search for is lawn tickets... is that correct?
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I think that is correct...at 10:01 all I could get were lawn tickets.
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I got center section row HH right at 10, I still can't get into the radiohead site to try for Montreal tix.
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How in the ... are all the seats taken at 10:01... who is getting these up front tickets? Certainly not WASTE.... So apparently ticketmaster opens it up to all the brokers, big corp. etc, first.... that can only explain it.
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Originally posted by myuman:
How does the seating chart work? I got the seating chart in front of me, but what is the first row? Does A come before AA or what? At 10:10, all I could search for is lawn tickets... is that correct?
I am assuming that it goes A-Z and then AA-ZZ or whatever.
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That puts me somewhere about downtown Columbia... but at least I'm in the pavillion... Did anyone get a-z in the pavillion?
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:D :D :D . we'll be there with you. i'm just glad i have tickets. now, lets hope a tornado doesn't whip thru columbia that night.
Originally posted by myuman:
That puts me somewhere about downtown Columbia... but at least I'm in the pavillion... Did anyone get a-z in the pavillion?
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Originally posted by myuman:
How in the ... are all the seats taken at 10:01... who is getting these up front tickets? Certainly not WASTE.... So apparently ticketmaster opens it up to all the brokers, big corp. etc, first.... that can only explain it.
Maybe. Ticketpalace.com is currently selling Radiohead General Admission tickets for Merriweather at $260.00 apiece.
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Originally posted by Joy Monster:
Originally posted by myuman:
How in the ... are all the seats taken at 10:01... who is getting these up front tickets? Certainly not WASTE.... So apparently ticketmaster opens it up to all the brokers, big corp. etc, first.... that can only explain it.
Maybe. Ticketpalace.com is currently selling Radiohead General Admission tickets for Merriweather at $260.00 apiece. [/b]
Who knows, but at 8am there werent even Pit tickets left on WASTE. but if you ask dtqjr, he got Pit tickets from WASTE and he sells tickets to a bunch of shows on ebay. (cough cough, scalper, cough)
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Originally posted by myuman:
How in the ... are all the seats taken at 10:01... who is getting these up front tickets? Certainly not WASTE.... So apparently ticketmaster opens it up to all the brokers, big corp. etc, first.... that can only explain it.
All those scalpers have connections that work at TM. That is how they get the tickets.
Anyone can get a job at TM as a phone operator. You and I get together, I go in and get the shitty desk job for $8 an hour and have access to pull all the tickets I want prior to them going on sale. Then you work the street side of the scheme.
I used to date a girl who had a friend who worked at TM and he could get me the best tickets all the time because he had the access to the system.
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Originally posted by sonickteam2:
Originally posted by Joy Monster:
Originally posted by myuman:
How in the ... are all the seats taken at 10:01... who is getting these up front tickets? Certainly not WASTE.... So apparently ticketmaster opens it up to all the brokers, big corp. etc, first.... that can only explain it.
Maybe. Ticketpalace.com is currently selling Radiohead General Admission tickets for Merriweather at $260.00 apiece. [/b]
Who knows, but at 8am there werent even Pit tickets left on WASTE. but if you ask dtqjr, he got Pit tickets from WASTE and he sells tickets to a bunch of shows on ebay. (cough cough, scalper, cough) [/b]
Oh fuck off. You're going to bitch because I decided not to attend HFS and then you buy them on Ebay for about 1/2 of what I paid for them? It sure sounds as if I'm making a killing in my scalping side business.
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I can't believe a scam like that works. If so, it's Ticketmaster's fault for letting it happen. Scalpers/brokers can kiss my ass.
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Originally posted by eros:
I can't believe a scam like that works. If so, it's Ticketmaster's fault for letting it happen. Scalpers/brokers can kiss my ass.
I think Eddie Vedder should demand a congressional hearing as to why the scalpers always seem to get the tickets before they go on general sale through tickettwats....I'm serious, you know there's some palms getting crossed with silver somewhere.
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well, i overslept and had a major stress attack as i literally live across the street from merriweather -- but after 5 tries at 11 am i did score row pp center section -- so i will not complain :) - i am under the roof!!
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yeah...that was basically my attidute...under the roof,so I wont complain
especially since it will provide cover when the mother of all storms hits 5 minutes before they go on
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Originally posted by stu47:
yeah...that was basically my attidute...under the roof,so I wont complain
especially since it will provide cover when the mother of all storms hits 5 minutes before they go on
Assuming that Radiohead blows the roof off and not Mother Nature.
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I got LL in left center at 10:00 am. Putting me in about the 48th row of 56 or so, not bad...
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I totally forgot about WASTE until this bright Sunday morning, 24 hours too late. I had the same issue: 10:01 am on ticketbastard and I was going for 3 tickets, kept getting nada go scored lawn tickets, with an exhorbinant service charge. At least i can bust out my colorful mexican blanket, and not bring in beers, but take advantege of the Pavilion's diverse selection of refreshments = screwed at both ends.
It shouldn't rain, cause I'm going... 2 years ago summer roadtripping out from CA to DC for school, made the decision long before that not to buy Bull Run tickets and take our time across this great nation. It was the right decision. Congrats to you down in the protected seats, and someone please explain how that TM on the side shit can be ignored.
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Originally posted by dtqjr:
Oh fuck off. You're going to bitch because I decided not to attend HFS and then you buy them on Ebay for about 1/2 of what I paid for them? It sure sounds as if I'm making a killing in my scalping side business.
whoa there hot shot, i was just kidding with ya ;) see it was a joke, cause i remember gettin some tix off of ya. which i sold to someone else anyway. dont hurt me!
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Originally posted by dtqjr:
Originally posted by myuman:
How in the ... are all the seats taken at 10:01... who is getting these up front tickets? Certainly not WASTE.... So apparently ticketmaster opens it up to all the brokers, big corp. etc, first.... that can only explain it.
All those scalpers have connections that work at TM. That is how they get the tickets.
Anyone can get a job at TM as a phone operator. You and I get together, I go in and get the shitty desk job for $8 an hour and have access to pull all the tickets I want prior to them going on sale. Then you work the street side of the scheme.
I used to date a girl who had a friend who worked at TM and he could get me the best tickets all the time because he had the access to the system. [/b]
Hmm, why monopolies don't work: an introductory course:
If one company sells tickets to all the concerts, and scalpers have an in with said company, then they have the best tickets to all the concerts, and all music fans get fucked. Ah well, row S seems like a huge victory right now.
The only problem is, Tickets.com charges just as much in obscene service charges.
Deregulation is great, innit?
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Its a mystery to me , because i got tickets to Tori Amos/Ben Folds for row FF in left center on ticketmaster.com and those are damn freakin good seats.
I am waiting patiently to see where these WASTE tickets are going to be, perhaps they have a good bit of the good pavilion seats. hopefully.
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That sounds like a show that a guy would go to only if he really loved his girlfriend very much, and she promised him a months worth of blow jobs.
Originally posted by sonickteam2:
Its a mystery to me , because i got tickets to Tori Amos/Ben Folds for row FF in left center on ticketmaster.com and those are damn freakin good seats.
I am waiting patiently to see where these WASTE tickets are going to be, perhaps they have a good bit of the good pavilion seats. hopefully.
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Originally posted by Rhett Miller:
That sounds like a show that a guy would go to only if he really loved his girlfriend very much, and she promised him a months worth of blow jobs.
Originally posted by sonickteam2:
Its a mystery to me , because i got tickets to Tori Amos/Ben Folds for row FF in left center on ticketmaster.com and those are damn freakin good seats.
I am waiting patiently to see where these WASTE tickets are going to be, perhaps they have a good bit of the good pavilion seats. hopefully.
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are you the same guy that was excited about the drive-by truckers show? that would figure.
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Originally posted by sonickteam2:
are you the same guy that was excited about the drive-by truckers show? that would figure.
There were quite a few people excited about that show.
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Originally posted by jadetree:
Originally posted by sonickteam2:
are you the same guy that was excited about the drive-by truckers show? that would figure.
There were quite a few people excited about that show. [/b]
I am sure there were several dozen.
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Originally posted by Rhett Miller:
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That sounds like a show that a guy would go to only if he really loved his girlfriend very much, and she promised him a months worth of blow jobs.
"a months worth of blow jobs"
Suppose he only gets one blow job per month, that's not a good deal to me. If he gets a daily blow job, she's obviously into them so going to give them anyway....still not going to suffer through Tori and Ben. If she's not really into giving them but offer's one a day for a month then we could talk. On the other hand...who the hell sticks around with a lass who doesn't give head??
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Sorry, that joke was probably only one that I would find funny.
I was dragged by an ex-girlfriend to a Tori Amos show a number of years ago.
My wife likes Ben Folds. Actually, I liked his first album, and saw him in Chapel Hill about 7 years ago. Just haven't really liked anything he did since then. Though I'd rather see/listen to him over Tori Amos any day. She's the worst.
And yes, I did see the Truckers, but if you read the thread, I was not one of the people raving about their live show.
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Originally posted by Rhett Miller:
Sorry, that joke was probably only one that I would find funny.
I was dragged by an ex-girlfriend to a Tori Amos show a number of years ago.
My wife likes Ben Folds. Actually, I liked his first album, and saw him in Chapel Hill about 7 years ago. Just haven't really liked anything he did since then. Though I'd rather see/listen to him over Tori Amos any day. She's the worst.
And yes, I did see the Truckers, but if you read the thread, I was not one of the people raving about their live show.
I am not a fan of Tori either, but I catch Ben whenever he's in town. But now that I think of it, a blowjob AT the Tori Amos concert might make it worthwhile.
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Originally posted by sonickteam2:
I am sure there were several dozen.
well have fun with Ben at Merriweather, I am sure you will have fun with your couple thousand other people
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A BJ AT a tori concert? Impossible. All of the women there would be too hot for Tori to pay a man any mind. Probably have better luck at an Indigo Girls show.
Originally posted by sonickteam2:
Originally posted by Rhett Miller:
Sorry, that joke was probably only one that I would find funny.
I was dragged by an ex-girlfriend to a Tori Amos show a number of years ago.
My wife likes Ben Folds. Actually, I liked his first album, and saw him in Chapel Hill about 7 years ago. Just haven't really liked anything he did since then. Though I'd rather see/listen to him over Tori Amos any day. She's the worst.
And yes, I did see the Truckers, but if you read the thread, I was not one of the people raving about their live show.
I am not a fan of Tori either, but I catch Ben whenever he's in town. But now that I think of it, a blowjob AT the Tori Amos concert might make it worthwhile. [/b]
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Did anybody catch the Ben Folds/Robbie Fulks show at the 9:30 a few years ago? Just wondering how Robbie Fulks went over with the Ben Folds crowd? Perhaps he omittted his country stuff and only did his pop stuff?
I think both of them go back together to when they were both struggling songwriters in Nashville...
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I was at that show (never miss a Ben show - except this coming one, Tori Amos is too much to endure). Anyway, I enjoyed Robbie Fulks - his stuff was pretty "country", reminded me of Dwight Yoakam.
Not sure how much time Ben has spent in Nashville, though. He's from Chapel Hill.
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The group's story is, in many ways, the story of its de facto leader and namesake, Ben Folds. The son of a carpenter, Folds was born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Upon graduating high school in the mid-80s, the young songwriter drifted from place to place in hopes of discovering a good scene to sow his brainchild. Throughout the decade when hair bands ruled the airwaves Folds spent frustrating stints in Miami, Chapel Hill, New York and Europe before landing in Nashville in the early 90s. To spite the fact that Nashville was a songwriter's mecca, or because of it, Folds found the city's approach to songwriting frustrating and exclusive. While producers and managers wanted obvious hits, Folds wanted, instead, to follow his own muse, a notoriously eccentric one at that.
When Folds finally drifted back to Chapel Hill in 1994 he formed a piano-based trio with bassist Robert Sledge and drummer Darren Jessee and within weeks the band cut an indie single that attracted the attention of Caroline. Their 1995 self-titled debut sold strong enough to warrant the kind of major label bidding war that young bands fantasize about. Eventually signing with Sony, the group released Whatever and Ever Amen and continued the strenuous touring schedule that the band had become known for. Releasing the singles "Battle of Who Could Care Less" and "Brick" into a climate awash with sound-alike guitar bands, Ben Folds Five and their witty, off-beat piano-based music was a welcome difference and the group became critical and commercial darlings.
Originally posted by eros:
I was at that show (never miss a Ben show - except this coming one, Tori Amos is too much to endure). Anyway, I enjoyed Robbie Fulks - his stuff was pretty "country", reminded me of Dwight Yoakam.
Not sure how much time Ben has spent in Nashville, though. He's from Chapel Hill.
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Originally posted by Rhett Miller:
The group's story is, in many ways, the story of its de facto leader and namesake, Ben Folds. The son of a carpenter, Folds was born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Upon graduating high school in the mid-80s, the young songwriter drifted from place to place in hopes of discovering a good scene to sow his brainchild. Throughout the decade when hair bands ruled the airwaves Folds spent frustrating stints in Miami, Chapel Hill, New York and Europe before landing in Nashville in the early 90s. To spite the fact that Nashville was a songwriter's mecca, or because of it, Folds found the city's approach to songwriting frustrating and exclusive. While producers and managers wanted obvious hits, Folds wanted, instead, to follow his own muse, a notoriously eccentric one at that.
When Folds finally drifted back to Chapel Hill in 1994 he formed a piano-based trio with bassist Robert Sledge and drummer Darren Jessee and within weeks the band cut an indie single that attracted the attention of Caroline. Their 1995 self-titled debut sold strong enough to warrant the kind of major label bidding war that young bands fantasize about. Eventually signing with Sony, the group released Whatever and Ever Amen and continued the strenuous touring schedule that the band had become known for. Releasing the singles "Battle of Who Could Care Less" and "Brick" into a climate awash with sound-alike guitar bands, Ben Folds Five and their witty, off-beat piano-based music was a welcome difference and the group became critical and commercial darlings.
Originally posted by eros:
I was at that show (never miss a Ben show - except this coming one, Tori Amos is too much to endure). Anyway, I enjoyed Robbie Fulks - his stuff was pretty "country", reminded me of Dwight Yoakam.
Not sure how much time Ben has spent in Nashville, though. He's from Chapel Hill.
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Its safe to think that ANY songwriter in the Southeast US is going to chill in Nashville from time to time, isnt it? like west coasr actors going to LA.
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consider me corrected.
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so anyone have any idea where these seats located at Merriweather, section L LOGE, row AAA, seats 301-302, are?
just got them for neil young and are not on the seat chart as far as i can tell... unless they are in the orchestra pit and i'll be looking up neil's nose. or maybe it a special section behind the venue.
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Originally posted by kosmo:
so anyone have any idea where these seats located at Merriweather, section L LOGE, row AAA, seats 301-302, are?
Is this some kind of cruel joke... thinking we'd all be jealous. Yeah they are in the pit!
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Originally posted by myuman:
Originally posted by kosmo:
so anyone have any idea where these seats located at Merriweather, section L LOGE, row AAA, seats 301-302, are?
Is this some kind of cruel joke... thinking we'd all be jealous. Yeah they are in the pit! [/b]
thanks for info... i was a bit confused because the tickets were not the most expensive pavallion seats for neil. i didn't expect to land in the pit at that price range.
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I found this site while i was bored. It shows you your view or lack thereof from your seats at Merriweather.
arent i cool?
http://www.ascticket.com/merriweather.html (http://www.ascticket.com/merriweather.html)
the first pic doesnt come up on my monitor , but when you select a seat section it works.
check out that view from the lawn!!!!
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Originally posted by sonickteam2:
I found this site while i was bored. It shows you your view or lack thereof from your seats at Merriweather.
arent i cool?
http://www.ascticket.com/merriweather.html (http://www.ascticket.com/merriweather.html)
the first pic doesnt come up on my monitor , but when you select a seat section it works.
check out that view from the lawn!!!!
Wow, I see the top of the stage. Hopefully some cool lighting begins there as it shimmers down on the performers I won't be able to see.
Those pit seats seem pretty sweet, though. Anyone want to trade?
To someone who's been there, is the slope that bad (i.e. non-apparent) or is it the lawn chairs that are throwing me off?
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okay, so my seats are okay, not great, but okay. i can deal.
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Originally posted by bra:
To someone who's been there, is the slope that bad (i.e. non-apparent) or is it the lawn chairs that are throwing me off? [/b]
the slops is bad enough. you arent gonna see shit sitting down thats for sure. but that said, those pics were taken from a REALLY shitty lawn seat. if you get there early you can get a good spot and see clearly (ish).
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Are the only way to get tic's for Radiohead show via a scalper now? I mentioned the show to my wife and got the "look".
We both saw them at the 930 a while back and I thought she was of the same opinion as me...."yeah, that was pretty good, don't need to see it again though"...but I was wrong. (as usual)
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Originally posted by mankie:
Are the only way to get tic's for Radiohead show via a scalper now? I mentioned the show to my wife and got the "look".
We both saw them at the 930 a while back and I thought she was of the same opinion as me...."yeah, that was pretty good, don't need to see it again though"...but I was wrong. (as usual)
Uh, oh! Looks like Mankie won't be getting any for the next month.
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there still lawn seating available...
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Originally posted by Jaguär:
Uh, oh! Looks like Mankie won't be getting any for the next month.
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Oh God...not another month! ;)
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I sure am glad I braved the rain all day a few weeks ago at the Meadowlands... was about 20 feet from the center of the stage... I watched REM from the lawn about 4 years ago and remember a pretty bad view. If you are at the top of the lawn, the projection screens are all you got. I do remember being able to walk in between the pavillion sections (pedestrian aisle) and being really close.. if you're over 6 foot, that would be grand. I think Nissan is a better lawn... but is like asking what stinks the most.