damn interpol

[LRHippo]

hehehehehehehe

[bearman🐻]

There are ALWAYS ways to get into concerts, sometimes it's as simple as just being nice to the roadies who are hanging out before a show and politely telling them that you can't get in and are willing to pay for a ticket, but as luck would have it you couldn't get one before the show sold out. A smile and good manners often go a LONG way.
 
 I remember when Smashing Pumpkins played with Swervedriver back when the 9:30 was WUST and I must have had 8 friends that wanted to get in but didn't have tickets. Somehow they managed to find extras on the street. Then there was the yuppie guy who thought he was cool that paid $120 to get in, who got his glasses smashed by over-enthusiastic moshers. That's entertainment!

[helicon1]

Originally posted by ahava17:
  So, you not only make fun of our taste in music, but then call it "entertainment" that we're disappointed that, you know, the link didn't even work this morning. Think that's funny? I think you're pretty rude.

It's not making fun of your taste in music. I like them; have I mentioned I saw them in 1999? I think it's the fact that new people come out of the wood work and sound all baffled. It is pretty funny.

[ggw]

Did I ever tell you about the girl with blue hair in London who gave me free Pixies tickets back in '87?

[kosmo vinyl]

well at least the vitual waiting room didn't show up this time... sorry to be callous but having witnessed the stream of complaints every time a presale or general goes quickly it become entertaining. yes there appears to be a technical error this morning.  presales are difficult to setup and it's possible something got overlooked.  
 
 personally this just proves that presales have outlived there usefulness, people expect they'll automatically get tickets and get all crotchity when they don't.  the fact there are two shows for interpol should give you a sense of their popularity. tickets were going to be gone quickly, there are at least 500 other rabid interpol fans wanting to get a pair of tickets to the show.

[kosmo vinyl]

Oh the irony of it all
 
 thread title - damn interpol
 
 9:30 email subject - Interpol Presale Antics

[SalParadise]

Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
 I'm losing my edge.
 The kids are coming up from behind.
 I'm losing my edge.
 I'm losing my edge to the kids from France and from London.
 But I was there.
 
 I was there in 1968.
 I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
 I'm losing my edge.
 I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
 I'm losing my edge to the Internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1962 to 1978.
 I'm losing my edge.
 
 To all the kids in Tokyo and Berlin.
 I'm losing my edge to the art-school Brooklynites in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia from the unremembered eighties.
 
 But I'm losing my edge.
 I'm losing my edge, but I was there.
 I was there.
 But I was there.
 
 I'm losing my edge.
 I'm losing my edge.
 I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
 But I was there.
 I was there in 1974 at the first Suicide practices in a loft in New York City.
 I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
 I was there when Captain Beefheart started up his first band.
 I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
 I was there.
 I was the first guy playing Daft Punk to the rock kids.
 I played it at CBGB's.
 Everybody thought I was crazy.
 We all know.
 I was there.
 I was there.
 I've never been wrong.
 
 I used to work in the record store.
 I had everything before anyone.
 I was there in the Paradise Garage DJ booth with Larry Levan.
 I was there in Jamaica during the great sound clashes.
 I woke up naked on the beach in Ibiza in 1988.
 
 But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
 And they're actually really, really nice.
 
 I'm losing my edge.
 
 I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody. Every great song by the Beach Boys. All the underground hits. All the Modern Lovers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Niagra record on German import. I heard that you have a white label of every seminal Detroit techno hit - 1985, '86, '87. I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
 
 I hear you're buying a synthesizer and an arpeggiator and are throwing your computer out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Yaz record.
 
 I hear that you and your band have sold your guitars and bought turntables.
 I hear that you and your band have sold your turntables and bought guitars.
 
 I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
 
 But have you seen my records? This Heat, Pere Ubu, Outsiders, Nation of Ulysses, Mars, The Trojans, The Black Dice, Todd Terry, the Germs, Section 25, Althea and Donna, Sexual Harrassment, a-ha, Pere Ubu, Dorothy Ashby, PIL, the Fania All-Stars, the Bar-Kays, the Human League, the Normal, Lou Reed, Scott Walker, Monks, Niagra,
 
 Joy Division, Lower 48, the Association, Sun Ra,
 Scientists, Royal Trux, 10cc,
 
 Eric B. and Rakim, Index, Basic Channel, Soulsonic Force ("just hit me"!), Juan Atkins, David Axelrod, Electric Prunes, Gil! Scott! Heron!, the Slits, Faust, Mantronix, Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines, the Swans, the Soft Cell, the Sonics, the Sonics, the Sonics, the Sonics.
 
 You don't know what you really want.

[jkeisenh]

my $.02?
 i didn't get any tickets, and that's ok.  i'll get some on general sale.
 
 BUT
 
 all you nasty little "junior members" with your two posts complaining about not getting tickets at PRESALE that you somehow feel entitled to?  Come on.  The presale is a favor that 930 does to reward regulars and serious fans.  Oh, you didn't get tickets??  Boo hoo, let's just throw the baby out with the bathwater.  Let's complain until the club says "you know what?  it's not worth it."  then nobody will have a chance.
 
 bottom line?
 shut up, whiners.

[LRHippo]

Originally posted by chimbly sweep:
  Let's complain until the club says "you know what?  it's not worth it."  then nobody will have a chance.

I actually think that's a good idea. Presales do nothing. I got tickets for Friday, but not Saturday, am I upset, no. Why? Because there is another one starting in 40mins, and the general on sale is tomorrow. I do think it is a legit gripe about the tech problems, more specifically about the link in the email. Or maybe presales should just be box office, in person only. Imagine what they did before the internet!??!?! I recall the days of arriving at the box office at 3 pm the day before tickets went on sale and sleeping in line. Ah, the good old days.

[Clash77]

I never said I was "entitled" to anything, Chimbley.  I think the frustration comes from technical glitches.  I know I'll get tickets in the general sale, so I'm not worried about it.  So, take your attitude and shove it up your arse.  AND, just because I'm a junior member doesn't mean anything.  I've been making the two hour trek up from Richmond for about 13 years now.

[anachronista]

When does the general sale happen?

[Venerable Bede]

Originally posted by LRHippo:
  I recall the days of arriving at the box office at 3 pm the day before tickets went on sale and sleeping in line. Ah, the good old days.

i always enjoyed those nights, hanging out with friends all night. . .

[kosmo vinyl]

did you noticed how quiet the board suddenly became again?  i swear one can hear markie practising crawling for tomorrows big event

[jkeisenh]

Originally posted by Clash77:
   I've been making the two hour trek up from Richmond for about 13 years now.

Richmond?  That's nobody's fault but your own.  Thanks, though, for living so far away that you have to  burn fossil fuels that pollute our air, take our DC parking spaces, and potentially drive drunk or sleepy after the shows.  That's lovely to know.

[kosmo vinyl]

Originally posted by Venerable Bede:
   

Originally posted by LRHippo:
  I recall the days of arriving at the box office at 3 pm the day before tickets went on sale and sleeping in line. Ah, the good old days.

i always enjoyed those nights, hanging out with friends all night. . . [/b]

yes but would your work schedule all for that sort of fun now? yeah and I remember those days too... sort glad the internet has done away with that.