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=> GENERAL DISCUSSION => Topic started by: eddie on April 01, 2010, 06:10:35 pm
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Attention Phish Fans: NEW links for Merriweather Post Pavilion shows, on sale 4/2 at noon EDT. Update your bookmarks! http://www.ticketfly.com/tickets/event-list/?q=Phish
Create an account before tix go on sale to save time! http://bit.ly/PhishAccount
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This means you walky ;D
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Obrigado! I hope I can get seats and not lawn... (or lawn if i have no other option)
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So.... is 930 handling any in-person sales for this?
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Ooooh good question.
Box does open at 12.
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i just love on sale days. me so horny.
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Obrigado! I hope I can get seats and not lawn... (or lawn if i have no other option)
I might buy my cousin tickets as a present. So I should try to get pavilion seats?
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Obrigado! I hope I can get seats and not lawn... (or lawn if i have no other option)
I might buy my cousin tickets as a present. So I should try to get pavilion seats?
somehow i don't think you will have a choice in the matter. feel lucky if you can even get lawn. not sure what ticketfly does against scalper bots . . . or if anything can be done about them, but prepare for 10 -30 seconds after 12, that they are all gone.
and i keep hearing stories about "stagered release" where they on purpose release lawn first so scalpers get those first, but who knows.
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Ok, thanks, Walkonby. Good thing I don't have school today so I can obsessively sit by the computer on try at 12 on the dot.
I'm only a casual Phish fan but I'm going to go with my cousin because seeing Phish live seems like something one should do in life.
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Ok, thanks, Walkonby. Good thing I don't have school today so I can obsessively sit by the computer on try at 12 on the dot.
I'm only a casual Phish fan but I'm going to go with my cousin because seeing Phish live seems like something one should do in life.
preach on brother . . . preach on!
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This should make for an entertaining shitshow on PT (if PT doesn't crash, too)
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Ok, thanks, Walkonby. Good thing I don't have school today so I can obsessively sit by the computer on try at 12 on the dot.
I'm only a casual Phish fan but I'm going to go with my cousin because seeing Phish live seems like something one should do in life.
preach on brother . . . preach on!
well those wouldn't have been the words i would have used :o
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This should make for an entertaining shitshow on PT (if PT doesn't crash, too)
it already has. the bitching about ticketfly has been going on there since yesterday. people who have never even used the service are saying "it sucks."
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Wow, never been on that board before, but the Merriweather thread is hilarious.
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11:56 . . . ticketfly site already crashing.
WOW . . . at 11:56 - 12:20, livenation, ticketmaster, ticketfly, pt, merriweather's site, 930 club site all crashed. pt is still crashed. pulled seats for both shows at about 12:12 somehow by slipping through the cracks by never giving up. back of the pavilion each night . . . but oh well, i'm in!
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Site is back up by I can't even find a buy ticket link.
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Check ticketflys Twitter feed for links
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me neither... i can occasionally get the event page to load (i.e. the saturday or the sunday page), but it still says "Tickets On Sale Fri 4/02 12:00 pm EDT" with no actual "click here to buy" link, or a pull down to request number of ticket, or anything.
i could not have imagined a bigger clusterfuck.
seth, you have a lemon on your hands and its souring customer relations. this is on par with parking/car access at jiffy lube/nissan.
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Check ticketflys Twitter feed for links
they don't work either - "session expired" message.
absolute, total, unequivocal CLUSTERFUCK.
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Merriweather is infinitely better than JiffyLL but I hope Jiffy gets every show from now on so as to never have to deal with this nonsense again
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SUNDAY
http://www18.ticketingcentral.com/V2/Quantity.aspx?8CCA06F5E8628A8
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I'm sitting on some left loge tickets row z. I think I might just take them.
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what is the real problems here? the site vs. the rabid demand for tickets by fans vs. scalpers who overload the sites.
already there are anywhere from 200+ tickets for sale by scalpers on stubhub (merriweather 1 day) less than 20 minutes after they went on sale. there are 1072 different auctions for phish tickets on ebay right now. these are just 2 spots. i don't blame the site, but it is new and smaller than livenation and ticketmaster . . . so i guess you do have to weigh that into the mix.
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SUNDAY
http://www18.ticketingcentral.com/V2/Quantity.aspx?8CCA06F5E8628A8
nope not working, "This web session has expired. Please close this browser window and start over."
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http://www17.ticketingcentral.com/V2/Quantity.aspx?8CCA06FF1113225
Try that.I just got my tickets for left loge, row z.
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so i finally got lawns by asking @ticketfly to post a link for me. links they post are only valid one time, for one purchase, so as soon as someone uses that link it's no longer valid.
the show has been on sale for 40 mins and there are still tickets left for sale??? great system they're running.
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Hah yeah, having your server crash seems to prevent the scalpers from getting tickets lol.
How is sitting in either left or right loge at Merriweather? I've only ever sat in the center section or on the lawn.
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http://twitter.com/Ticketfly
They keep posting new links. I just was able to pull up Saturday lawn seats.
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you just know . . . somewhere, somehow, someone on here is saying, "aww, i didn't get seats (or good seats) to a concert. wahhh! bunch of pussies."
my vote goes to that james ford fellow.
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Ok I was able to get my ticket at 1205 or some crap. I tried several times trying to get a seat but ended up with Left floor Row D. Now I thought the entire floor was general admission?? Is that not correct?? Chime in hippies ;D
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Ok I was able to get my ticket at 1205 or some crap. I tried several times trying to get a seat but ended up with Left floor Row D. Now I thought the entire floor was general admission?? Is that not correct?? Chime in hippies ;D
you did well! you got left center row d . . . basically 10 rows from stage. no ga floor. all reserved and lawn for merriweather.
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I just realized now looking at the seating chart my first pull was left center floor AAA. However, I thought these seats were after A thru whatever and I threw them back :o
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I just realized now looking at the seating chart my first pull was left center floor AAA. However, I thought these seats were after A thru whatever and I threw them back :o
amateur
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I just realized now looking at the seating chart my first pull was left center floor AAA. However, I thought these seats were after A thru whatever and I threw them back :o
amateur
haha, yeah ;D
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so during the ticket buying process, my main credit card was declined. i used my backup, then called the bank to find out what was up with my main card. turns out "PhishTickets" tried hitting my card several times earlier this week but had a detail wrong like the expiry date. after several attempts it locked my account.
so i got tix through the presale, but something (not sure if it was my mistake or theirs) c*ck-blocked me... and instead i got the privilege of being part of today's shit-show. great, just great.
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so during the ticket buying process, my main credit card was declined. i used my backup, then called the bank to find out what was up with my main card. turns out "PhishTickets" tried hitting my card several times earlier this week but had a detail wrong like the expiry date. after several attempts it locked my account.
so i got tix through the presale, but something (not sure if it was my mistake or theirs) c*ck-blocked me... and instead i got the privilege of being part of today's shit-show. great, just great.
Yeah, I guess I was lucky when I got onto ticketfly this afternoon. I didn't even pre register with all my info and just selected my ticket. Maybe it also has something to do depending on your internet speed? The faster of a connection you have the better you have of getting a ticket. Who knows. ;D
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so during the ticket buying process, my main credit card was declined. i used my backup, then called the bank to find out what was up with my main card. turns out "PhishTickets" tried hitting my card several times earlier this week but had a detail wrong like the expiry date. after several attempts it locked my account.
so i got tix through the presale, but something (not sure if it was my mistake or theirs) c*ck-blocked me... and instead i got the privilege of being part of today's shit-show. great, just great.
Its amateur hour!
Who is next? Somebody forgot to pay their internet bill? Lost the password?
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I didn't try for Phish tix (not a fan), but I followed threads on this here and on PT some just because I'm curious at how this was going to go with Ticketfly.
I can understand people's frustration with the crashing system, etc., but doesn't it seem like Ticketfly might be more fair to average fans than Ticketmaster?
If you look at the seats people are talking about pulling, people are getting some great seats once they actually get through. Wlm pulled front row apparently. I ended up with insane seats for My Morning Jacket through ticketfly (4th row center). I mean, think about your experiences with Ticketmaster. How often do you pull amazing seats through Ticketmaster?
Maybe Ticketfly does less of holding tix back and feeding them direclty to scaplers and thus average fans have a better chance of getting great tix with this system.
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I decided i didnt want to see it from the lawn for 118 bucks for two tickets.
Maybe closer to the show someone will want to sell some seats for not a huge mark up.
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PT still unresponsive.
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I didn't try for Phish tix (not a fan), but I followed threads on this here and on PT some just because I'm curious at how this was going to go with Ticketfly.
I can understand people's frustration with the crashing system, etc., but doesn't it seem like Ticketfly might be more fair to average fans than Ticketmaster?
If you look at the seats people are talking about pulling, people are getting some great seats once they actually get through. Wlm pulled front row apparently. I ended up with insane seats for My Morning Jacket through ticketfly (4th row center). I mean, think about your experiences with Ticketmaster. How often do you pull amazing seats through Ticketmaster?
Maybe Ticketfly does less of holding tix back and feeding them direclty to scaplers and thus average fans have a better chance of getting great tix with this system.
i've gotten plenty of great seats through TM. getting a good seat is on the user - have a fast connection, be fast with the captchka, refresh at the right moment, etc.
ticketfly, on the other hand, sh*ts the bed for you. i'm an experience ticket buyer and the best the system would let me buy is lawns, 40 minutes after the sale started, and even then only because a human posted a working link for me. a few people got good seats, a whole lot more were shut out b/c of the site crash while those good seats were being allocated. there was NOTHING i could do today to improve my chances.
if today's TF experience is going to be the norm, i'll take TM any day.
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I didn't try for Phish tix (not a fan), but I followed threads on this here and on PT some just because I'm curious at how this was going to go with Ticketfly.
I can understand people's frustration with the crashing system, etc., but doesn't it seem like Ticketfly might be more fair to average fans than Ticketmaster?
If you look at the seats people are talking about pulling, people are getting some great seats once they actually get through. Wlm pulled front row apparently. I ended up with insane seats for My Morning Jacket through ticketfly (4th row center). I mean, think about your experiences with Ticketmaster. How often do you pull amazing seats through Ticketmaster?
Maybe Ticketfly does less of holding tix back and feeding them direclty to scaplers and thus average fans have a better chance of getting great tix with this system.
i've gotten plenty of great seats through TM. getting a good seat is on the user - have a fast connection, be fast with the captchka, refresh at the right moment, etc.
ticketfly, on the other hand, sh*ts the bed for you. i'm an experience ticket buyer and the best the system would let me buy is lawns, 40 minutes after the sale started, and even then only because a human posted a working link for me. a few people got good seats, a whole lot more were shut out b/c of the site crash while those good seats were being allocated. there was NOTHING i could do today to improve my chances.
if today's TF experience is going to be the norm, i'll take TM any day.
Yes, you are probably right in the end that TM is a better system. I have gotten good seats through TM, but nothing like front row for an amphitheater show like someone reported today. With TM I am just very suspicious at weather average fans even have a shot at the really good seats or if they go right to brokers. I think the latter is often the case.
Also, scoring good tix with TM seems to be about random luck more than getting through the system quickly. For the recent Muse show, I finally pulled some really good seats after pulling about 8 sets of mediocre ones.
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so during the ticket buying process, my main credit card was declined. i used my backup, then called the bank to find out what was up with my main card. turns out "PhishTickets" tried hitting my card several times earlier this week but had a detail wrong like the expiry date. after several attempts it locked my account.
so i got tix through the presale, but something (not sure if it was my mistake or theirs) c*ck-blocked me... and instead i got the privilege of being part of today's shit-show. great, just great.
Its amateur hour!
Who is next? Somebody forgot to pay their internet bill? Lost the password?
would this have happened if the show was in Richmond? ;D
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Guys, it's Phish. If anything ticketweb is teaching you a lesson and doing you a favor. Jesus Christ.
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Guys, it's Phish. If anything ticketweb is teaching you a lesson and doing you a favor. Jesus Christ.
god . . . i waited all day for you to comment.
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Hey all, Dan Teree here. I am one of the founders of Ticketfly. While many of you were able to buy Phish tickets immediately today, we know that some fans had a difficult experience during the first 45 minutes until we had our systems humming again. I speak for the whole Ticketfly team when I say that our performance was not up to our standards. You deserve the best ticket buying and show-going experience on the planet and we have a great team in place that is committed to making sure you get it. We appreciate all of your feedback today on Twitter, Facebook and in the forums. Thanks for sticking with us as we build a powerful ticketing alternative for you.
PS - Tickets remain for both Phish shows at Merriweather: http://www.ticketfly.com/tickets/event-list/?q=Phish
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Hey all, Dan Teree here. I am one of the founders of Ticketfly. While many of you were able to buy Phish tickets immediately today, we know that some fans had a difficult experience during the first 45 minutes until we had our systems humming again. I speak for the whole Ticketfly team when I say that our performance was not up to our standards. You deserve the best ticket buying and show-going experience on the planet and we have a great team in place that is committed to making sure you get it. We appreciate all of your feedback today on Twitter, Facebook and in the forums. Thanks for sticking with us as we build a powerful ticketing alternative for you.
PS - Tickets remain for both Phish shows at Merriweather: http://www.ticketfly.com/tickets/event-list/?q=Phish
it takes some amount of courage to come in to a lion's den like this, so kudos to you.
your third sentence seems like an attempt at whitewashing - "many" were successful, while "some" had difficulty? makes it sound better than it was, i'd say that "a few" had success and "the majority" witnessed the site's meltdown.
you state that you have a team working on the problem - good to hear. i'd be interested in hearing what steps you will be taking. it's easy to say "we're working on it", but we've all heard that before. do share with us what you're doing... adding server capacity and/or bandwidth? renting on-demand computing? new selling process (ex, virtual waiting room)? new infrastructure with load balancers?
the fact that there was such a huge demand earlier today yet there are still unsold tickets now should tell you that you missed an opportunity.
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The level of hyperbole with regards to these tickets going on sale, suggest some of you are practicing for future iPad reviews. It's taken TM years to get where they are in the "ease" of getting tickets on big onsale days, I remember having hit reload over in order to place an order. Or having to wait for the system to let you place the order.
And Sweetcell how does this Ticketfly experience compare to the Livenation Phish ticket buying experience? I'm guessing for one there was customer service providing alternate ways of getting tickets.
http://www.930.com/forum/index.php?topic=18399.msg273301#msg273301
"so, last week a buddy of mine calls me up and asks "you're good at scoring tickets to concerts, can you help me get 2 tickets for the phish show in camden?" now i haven't seen this friend since he got married last summer, and i've never seen phish and the scene that comes along with the band, so i proposed that we make a group outing of it and that i and the missus join them to the show. on the friday that tickets went on sale, we loaded up livenation-dot-com, hit refresh at 10:00 AM and... complete and utter system meltdown. time-outs, database errors, lost orders, garbled pages, "processing your request" timers that didn't move for 5+ minutes, etc. way worse than anything i've ever experienced on tickets.com, this was an utter implosion. i eventually got 4 lawn tickets - at 11:44 AM. how's that for an indictment: thousands of people trying to get tickets, yet it took over 2 hours to sell out a show. TM would have this taken care of in less than 15 minutes. if anyone wants a laugh, i suspect that the phish message boards were on fire that day (jan 30)."
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And who could forget this Phish TM debacle...
http://www.930.com/forum/index.php?topic=18629.0
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I don't exactly see the courage in copying and pasting the same message that is posted on the ticketfly website on this thread (and others), and I'm sure countless other places.
What I find to be most frustrating is that those who were able to purchase tickets right away did not follow the instructions posted in this thread. There were many that I've spoken to that had success by going through the main page of ticketfly, not the links supplied here.
This was worse than livenation on the last tour. We know at this point that essentially all sites can not handle the traffic of shows of this size (although UVA's ticketing had no problem last fall.) Having a site crash is one thing, I understand that, but this was a new brand of failure.
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You guys do understand all of your complaints have to be taken with a grain of salt since you were all, no doubt, high while attempting to order? Hell, there might not even be a phish show you all could've been tweaking so bad...
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You guys do understand all of your complaints have to be taken with a grain of salt since you were all, no doubt, high while attempting to order? Hell, there might not even be a phish show you all could've been tweaking so bad...
i would give up my tickets just to hear you ramble on some more for two hours or so about the world of phish. ;)
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It's taken TM years to get where they are in the "ease" of getting tickets on big onsale days, I remember having hit reload over in order to place an order.
yes, and that was circa 2001.
And Sweetcell how does this Ticketfly experience compare to the Livenation Phish ticket buying experience? I'm guessing for one there was customer service providing alternate ways of getting tickets.
valid question - it was very similar (as in similarly bad). livenation was trying to take on TM so it looked worse for them, i don't think ticketfly has such lofty aspirations. that someone was tweeting back doors was indeed a nice personal touch but it was putting band-aids on a sinking ship.
I don't exactly see the courage in copying and pasting the same message that is posted on the ticketfly website on this thread (and others), and I'm sure countless other places.
what, do you expect them to craft an individual response to each forum? they have one message, if anything you'd want consistency across channels. i was impressed that they actively sought to post a response. we got diddley squat whenever tickets.com imploded, and livenation responded by eventually giving up (and merging) with no attempts at communicating with disgruntled consumers.
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I don't expect anything one way or the other. I was only commenting that I disagreed there was any amount of courage shown in the post.
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I wish there was no learning curve here, but that's how it's going to have to be
we think it will make for a better world eventually
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I was only commenting that I disagreed there was any amount of courage shown in the post.
Agreed. A canned, PR response on a forum where any serious counter-complaint would be met with the thread getting deleted and/or the member banned is not exactly a textbook example of courage.
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we'll have to agree to disagree. i'm not saying he should get the medal of valor but it would have been easier to say nothing, stay hidden, not acknowledge that there was a problem, etc. did we ever hear anything from tickets.com management when their site melted down?
if anything, we now have someone to PM ;D
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I am sure the CEO of ticketfly posted the message himself and will diligently monitor this thread as well any future posts or PMs on the subject.
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I wish there was no learning curve here, but that's how it's going to have to be
we think it will make for a better world eventually
look . . . he did it again. sethy likes to capitilize the first sentence, but not the second. interesting.
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some people seem to take issue with me being a capitalist
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This weekend, hippies. :P
Gonna pop my Phish concert cherry and be probably one of the <10% of people there not on drugs!
/Thank god for alcohol.
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Me too. I've never seen these guys play before and not a huge Phish fan unlike some hippies here, but I will go for the experience ;D I hopefully get a seat next to some hot hippy chick, but my luck I'll get some dude that is about to od great, just great
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be careful when it comes to drinking out of red cups. i got busted for this in richmond at widespread. was told by the undercover abc guy, that the abc board is starting to ramp up their undercover presense especially at concerts to get people drinking in public. don't ask me why they want to get all uppity about it now, but beware.
and wml7. you wanna impress the phish women? be all nice, smile, say how beautiful they look in whatever they are wearing and offer to buy them a beer. the beer part seals the deal.
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richmond = VA, MPP = MD. ABC'ers might not be on the warpath 'round these parts.
also, MPP isn't public land so "drinking in public" doesn't apply... i think. could be wrong.
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richmond = VA, MPP = MD. ABC'ers might not be on the warpath 'round these parts.
also, MPP isn't public land so "drinking in public" doesn't apply... i think. could be wrong.
always curious about the "public land" issue. did consider md vs va; va tends to be tough. you can still get technically busted on your own property for open container and drinking in public . . . i think.
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richmond = VA, MPP = MD. ABC'ers might not be on the warpath 'round these parts.
also, MPP isn't public land so "drinking in public" doesn't apply... i think. could be wrong.
always curious about the "public land" issue. did consider md vs va; va tends to be tough. you can still get technically busted on your own property for open container and drinking in public . . . i think.
so walky, on your property will the cops bust you or do they not come out to the boonies? ;D
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tickets that aren't lawn, are up again for the shows on ticketfly. go get em hippies ;D
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in md now at some bar across from mall some british bar, hippies and world cup people whoooooooooooo
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red cups galore walky in heaven
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So they covered Neutral Milk Hotel? How was that?
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I was looking on twitter, they've played Aeroplane over the sea, Rock and Roll, and Stash.
Why oh why did I get a Sunday ticket! I would have loved to see those 3 songs.
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just got back home. For a first Phish show I was quite impressed. They were awesome. I drank way too much before the show at this british pub. So basically, near the end of the show I was exhausted and my head was pounding. Thought I was going to yack when they played their last song. I got a lot of video and the crowd was really awesome. Of course didn't sit next to some hot hippy chick but a bunch of guys that was high on goo balls. They were cool though ;D Saw a lot of 9:30 staff. Josh was out and about.
SET ONE
1. Crowd Control
2. Kill Devil Falls
3. AC/DC Bag
4. Sugar Shack
5. Tube
6. In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
7. Stash
8. Backwards Down The Number Line
9. NICU
10. 46 Days
11. Suzy Greenberg
SET TWO
1. Rock & Roll
2. Free
3. Fast Enough For You
4. Sparkle
5. Tweezer
6. The Horse >
7. Silent In The Morning
8. Wolfman's Brother
9. Slave To The Traffic Light
10. Tweezer Reprise
ENCORE
1. Show Of Life
2. Good Times Bad Times
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Those low hanging tarps over the Loge sections cut off any air circulation in the pavilion. It had to be 100 degrees in there last night.
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It was indeed hot as hell in the pavilion.
My thoughts/review for Sunday (disclaimer: I'm only a casual Phish fan and this was my first show):
-I thought the sound seemed off the whole night. I was in left loge and the vocals seemed drowned out in the mix. This could have just been due to my seat position but it didn't sound much better when I was on the lawn for a bit.
-First set was decent after the first few songs and the second set got off to a really good start but the 2nd really really long jam meandered and seemed self-indulgent. After that point in the show the band lost me until the last couple songs. This wasn't helped by the fact the show was 3 hours. I would have much preferred closer to 2 hours by cutting out some of the longer jams that didn't work well.
-Phish is really good at covers. I really enjoyed all the covers and would pay to see Phish just cover songs the whole night.
-My frame of reference for the show was the bootleg from their reunion shows in VA in 2009. The band seemed much tighter and the playing never really seemed sloppy.
-I was expecting lots of weed smoke, but I didn't expect as much as there actually. The entire show featured a constant cloud of weed and cigarette smoke. Personally, I will never get people who get super drunk and/ or super high for a concert. If you have to smoke the entire show or get shitfaced the band just may not be that great. It was fun spotting the people who were really f*cked up and guessing what drug they were on.
-In my limited experience, a lot of the Phish fans were assholes. A lot of the people there seemed to lack basic manners such as: not invading people's personal space, saying sorry or excuse me when you get in someones way, and not blowing cigarette smoke directly into your face. Also the really, really high dude next to me kept staring at me which was kind of freaking me out.
Don't get me wrong, I don't regret and it was a new experience going but I wouldn't pay $50 to see Phish again.
Set I: Walfredo, Mellow Mood, Stealing Time from the Faulty Plan, The Divided Sky, Tela, My Soul, Ginseng Sullivan, Sample in a Jar, Bathtub Gin, Brian & Robert, Run Like An Antelope
Set II: Wilson > Meatstick > I Saw It Again > Piper > Ghost > Jumping Jack Flash > I Saw It Again > Contact, You Enjoy Myself
Encore: Fire
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I went Saturday, enjoyed myself. I was there last year in the right loge, in the center this time and thought the sound was much improved.
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It was indeed hot as hell in the pavilion.
My thoughts/review for Sunday (disclaimer: I'm only a casual Phish fan and this was my first show):
-I thought the sound seemed off the whole night. I was in left loge and the vocals seemed drowned out in the mix. This could have just been due to my seat position but it didn't sound much better when I was on the lawn for a bit.
-First set was decent after the first few songs and the second set got off to a really good start but the 2nd really really long jam meandered and seemed self-indulgent. After that point in the show the band lost me until the last couple songs. This wasn't helped by the fact the show was 3 hours. I would have much preferred closer to 2 hours by cutting out some of the longer jams that didn't work well.
-Phish is really good at covers. I really enjoyed all the covers and would pay to see Phish just cover songs the whole night.
-My frame of reference for the show was the bootleg from their reunion shows in VA in 2009. The band seemed much tighter and the playing never really seemed sloppy.
-I was expecting lots of weed smoke, but I didn't expect as much as there actually. The entire show featured a constant cloud of weed and cigarette smoke. Personally, I will never get people who get super drunk and/ or super high for a concert. If you have to smoke the entire show or get shitfaced the band just may not be that great. It was fun spotting the people who were really f*cked up and guessing what drug they were on.
-In my limited experience, a lot of the Phish fans were assholes. A lot of the people there seemed to lack basic manners such as: not invading people's personal space, saying sorry or excuse me when you get in someones way, and not blowing cigarette smoke directly into your face. Also the really, really high dude next to me kept staring at me which was kind of freaking me out.
Don't get me wrong, I don't regret and it was a new experience going but I wouldn't pay $50 to see Phish again.
Set I: Walfredo, Mellow Mood, Stealing Time from the Faulty Plan, The Divided Sky, Tela, My Soul, Ginseng Sullivan, Sample in a Jar, Bathtub Gin, Brian & Robert, Run Like An Antelope
Set II: Wilson > Meatstick > I Saw It Again > Piper > Ghost > Jumping Jack Flash > I Saw It Again > Contact, You Enjoy Myself
Encore: Fire
you learn quick. you just described, quite well, a fair share of the ones that attend. but then again, you just described the same types of groups of people that attend all genres of shows. i feel the older, more southern based rock bands can draw out the worst, such as lynard skynard or aerosmith or the allman brothers.
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I was there last year in the right loge, in the center this time and thought the sound was much improved.
i was 11th row center pavilion last night and the sound was really good, but a little too loud. luckily i had my etymotics, by the end of the show my buddy had wadded & stuffed tissue in his ears.
i don't listen to phish and i can't really say i'm a fan (phan?) but they're a damn fun band to see live. trey is arguably the finest source of guitargasm going. my friend, a long-time phish-head, noted that the freak factor was lower than he expected. i chalked it up to their fans getting old. plenty of weed being smoked around us... it was like we were at a rock concert! overall, a guilty pleasure and a perfectly fine way to spend a sunday night.
i wouldn't have thought so but compared to the club, beer is cheaper at MPP ($8 domestic/$9 premium for a 20 oz cup, vs. $7 for 12 oz). i'm sure they make up for it with their large pizza slices @ $10.
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you and i might be the only people around who go to a phish show and get all excited about the venue's pizza by the slice.
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I saw you could buy 24 oz. of Stella for only 9 bucks. That is a pretty good deal for a concert.
Looking around on various websites, it seems last night's show is regarded as by far the best show of the tour so far.
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24oz of Jomo from Starr Hill was the best beer of the night.
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24oz of Jomo from Starr Hill was the best beer of the night.
where were they selling starr hill?!? dammit.
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24oz of Jomo from Starr Hill was the best beer of the night.
where were they selling starr hill?!? dammit.
Stage right at the back, a tent in front of a beer truck at the edge of the lawn.
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These guys are pulling out all the stops. In MD they did a cover of Neutral Milk Hotel now in GA they just did Rage Against the Machines Killing In The Name Of, crazy hipppies ;D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4oUDK5ulyo
notice in this video people are actually shooting off fireworks in the stands what the hell, haha.
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that was probably fun as hell to be at. thanks for posting.