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skeeter

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  1. Lots of great seats on TM. Sec 104, 1st 2 rows are almost entirely open. Looks like the 1st 5 rows of that section were blocked off, many now available.
  2. I had heard that carcillo brought several hawks players to the UC show in 2013...think it was toews, Seabrook and a few others. I believe only carcillo liked the show. You'd think those canadians would be into rush,eh?
  3. Ask Alex for directions to the dressing room for the post-concert buffet?
  4. Boy, wouldn't it be amazing if the Stanley Cup were to make an appearance at its second Rush show? The Blackhawks won the Cup in 2013, the big Grant Park celebration with 2 million Hawks fans was on a Friday, and Daniel Carcillo brings the Cup to the Rush show at Tinley Park that night. In order for the Cup to make the June 12 show, the Blackhawks would have to play some REALLY impressive hockey. A guy can dream. Go Hawks! Bring the Cup to the UC on June 12!!!
  5. What kind of seats popped up? I'm trying to upgrade my 100 section pair and will sell mine at face to a fan if I can do so
  6. Hello. I am looking to upgrade to good floor seats for the Chicago show. I have a pair of section 108 seats in the first row, as well as great 7th row field seats for AC/DC at Wrigley, that I can barter with. Cash can also enter the equation. Shoot me a PM to discuss. Thanks!! Bill
  7. R40 + 5 means they are coming back around to tour in a few more years.
  8. Nice floor seats for St Paul opening up. I test-pulled 6 in a row, 12th floor center.
  9. Request for someone to YELL if great seats open for Chicago....I'll be selling my good Tier2 seats for that show if I can upgrade.
  10. Dang, just pulled a pair in sec 102 row 1 (Geddys side).
  11. I vote for Lorraine....she's got almost 15K posts on a Rush board and has never seen Rush live??
  12. NS: How are you going to get tickets for someone if the show is already sold out?
  13. Finding my way BY TOR! Lakeside Park I hate Ticketmaster...I've been "spinning" for 2 hours hoping I might get Grateful Dead tickets
  14. I will second the Etymotic plugs. They get rid of the decibels but don't distort like foam ones do. Both my daughter and I are using them for the shows.
  15. Holy cow Snowdog, you worked with Usher? So, it wasn't THE Usher, but like one of his brothers? I wouldn't have been impressed if it was just an usher....but this was an Usher!
  16. I'm sorry...and I mean this in the nicest way I can, but this all sounds very delusional. If you truly believe that there is no shady stuff going on with TM, LN, etc...then I don't really know what to tell you. But in the end, it doesn't matter that they are more popular than ever (which I obviously agree they absolutely are). This whole thing goes well beyond Rush. Personally, I've been buying tickets for various concerts, sporting events, etc. through TM for years now...and I've seen the same thing for all of them. This is not only about Rush...they just happen to be the example we're all talking about here (of course). I've said this before...a person is on TM for 10am SHARP...Public on-sale time, and yet, cannot find ANY tickets. No Floor, No Lower Bowl, and not even any Upper Bowl. Does this make any sense whatsoever? As "popular" as they are, I highly doubt Rush sells out 15,000 tickets within seconds of release. Sorry...don't buy it. 'Platinum Seats'...is this not essentially legalized scalping? Pretty sure it is. They take all the top seats...then put them on this "Platinum" page and charge a premium price for them...BEFORE anyone ever gets the chance to purchase them at face value. Another common theme I've seen a lot...and I find it funny because it has happened to me multiple times in the past (again...not just for Rush, but other shows). I have tickets for some pretty good seats (at least the best at that time)...start going through the checkout process, where it proceeds to "crash", and those tickets are gone. (Sure...you could likely argue that "it's the Internet", and "tons of people purchasing at the same time", so "it crashes". But it's interesting that every single example I've heard of this happening is when the people had their best seats by far.) Again...I'm sure you think I sound like I'm complaining about conspiracy. But there are way too many factors that point to ridiculous and shady garbage happening with TM. Like I said...in the end, I'm just going with the flow. I opted to purchase two upper bowl tickets for a show, and intend to enjoy the show. Would I have preferred to sit down on the Floors? Absolutely. But money is a factor, sadly. Throwing down a mortgage payment on a concert...even for the greatest band of all-time, is too difficult for this fan. In no way am I saying the state of affairs in the ticket industry is acceptable as it's evolved. However, I have been one of those folks who's landed premium seats right at 10 am on the general sale, and I'm also one of the folks who didn't get offered jack diddly, even in the upper bowl nosebleeds. It's a total crapshoot. It depends on the scarcity of the artist at hand and demand, once again. High profile shows will overload TM's ridiculously slow and antiquated servers, for sure. Do I think TM is monopolizing the ticket industry by buying subsidiaries like TicketsNow and setting aside premium seating to mark up Platinum prices at 750 a pop? Of course I do. But I also think you'll have little difficulty getting seats on TM or LN for low profile artists and tours. Premium product - premium price. My point this whole time has been noting posters' apparent frustrations in what they seemingly believe to be a recently manifested difficulty. In my 30 plus years of ticket buying, I do not remember a time when it was easy to get good seats, and when good seats were offered, more often than not they cost more than not as good seats. A floor seat on the Coliseum floor in 1988 was more expensive than a third level terrace seat. One had to pick and choose according to budget and preference. So what seems to be the main sticking points for a lot of folks is that (1) they'd like equal opportunity access to ANY level of ticketing, and (2) they'd like the premium levels to be priced with fair business practices in mind. Does that sound like reality to anyone? Because it's just not, LOL. For any business. Not just Ticketmaster. Haha, I'm not defending the ticket agencies and their various outlets in how they distribute seats at a ridiculous markup. Don't get me wrong. But it isn't a new practice, I've been subject to it for 30 plus years, with varying rates of inflation. I think about the times I lucked out, though. Catching a pit seat on general sale face value. Scoring a couple VIP packages through the mess that is 10 am super fan presales. Landing a meet and greet where only 30 were offered and 20 thousand folks were trying to get all 30 at the same time. And so on and so forth. It just isn't that surprising to me, because I've been dealing with the pitfalls of ensuring concert attendance for a long time. Are prices higher? Yup. So is milk. Bread. (currently not gasoline for some odd and suspicious reason :) ) Organic foods. Produce. Sunglasses. Health care. Quality sound systems. Cars. In the end, what we're really lamenting is that our 'nerd' band is more popular than ever. And that results in two things when it comes to attendance. 1. More people are going to take those opportunities you may have had open to yourself when you were making sure you would get tickets to the TFE or VT tours. :) and 2. The ticket companies, upon realizing or estimating demand, are going to adjust prices accordingly. I'm not condoning the practice. But I'm not surprised. It's been this way for as long as I can remember. And those of you that protest and claim it used to be easier, TM didn't have such a lock, well, sure, of course internet subsidiaries like StubHub and TicketsNow didn't exist a while back, but then again, neither did your internet-wide access to all sources of tickets. And back then, rest assured, there were plenty of scalpers and runners who worked for a guy who scooped up a lot of premium seating and did it the old fashioned way. I know because I used to have to use those guys to get in the damn door. :) And again, if you're remembering a lot of times when you got premium seats with ease, or without much hassle or cost, you probably are a lucky person. Me, I'm about split down the middle in my ticketing history. Sometimes I got lucky. Sometimes I had to pass. Sometimes I found a way to pay. Perhaps I've been more unlucky in general sales than many of you. I'm thinking about Mike Damone, from Fast Times at Ridgmont High......for the Van Halen tickets.
  17. I think the most passionate fans may not necessarily have enough spare coin to justify paying what it costs for a Platinum ticket, let alone more than one. When Ticketmaster refers to the 'most passionate fans', I think their definition is something a bit different from mine. Passion does not necessarily equal thousands upon thousands of disposable dollars in the bank. I'll chime in here, after reading the entire thread. Definitely Rush has hit their supply demand curve with this tour....limited shows, fervent desire to see the band before they are done = high demand. Limited shows = lower supply. Result = higher prices. I'm a huge fan, have seen Rush at pretty much every tour since Signals at the Rosemont Horizon. Have taken my (almost) 17 yo daughter to 7 Rush show....6/12 will be here 8th. I pulled 9th row from the pre-sale, but couldn't justify the cost....so went to good Tier2 seats instead. It is what it is. TM definitely holds back tickets in order to sell crappier 300level seats. Gets the earlier buyers to think "nothing left, I better buy before it's totally sold out". I don't buy that there are NO seats left for Chicago. I know there will be tickets released as we get closer to the show. I've seen it with EVERY band, no matter the popularity (Stones, U2...etc). Laugh at me for this next one, but I was able to score 8th row 1 Direction tickets at face from TM during the week of the show....I know the TM game and played it, and my kids think I'm a hero. If TM really wanted to reward the "loyal" fans...they would do what the Pabst Theater (Milwaukee) did for me for Brit Floyd for their upcoming 3/26 show. They offered a "pre sale", even before their presale, for their previous buyers. Special password needed. AND they sold the tickets at 20% BELOW face value. I got 2nd row seats at 20% discount. That is how you reward a loyal customer...access to the best tickets. Ticketmaster will never do this. Play their game and wait it out if you can....those great seats at platinum prices will come down.
  18. I'm seeing them twice this tour, St Paul and Chicago. I won't look at the setlist before St Paul, but will do so before Chicago. Prior to CA, I'd always looked at the setlist....but decided not to look for CA. It was a blast not knowing the setlist. But knowing the setlist never ruined the experience for me.
  19. Hobo, glad you (and everyone else) had a great time. I had a most amazing time as well. It was fun hanging out with you, seeing how excited you were getting as the show approached. It made me wish that I could remember the details of my first Rush show...think it was GUP at the Rosemont Horizon a long time ago. Anyway, I don't think you could have picked a better venue/date to see them. The weather was PERFECT all day, maybe 70s with some breeze off the gorgeous Lake Michigan. Summerfest crowds weren't too bad and they were in great spirits (although admittedly I didn't hang around the Harley Davidson stage long, so maybe their were a few ruffians in the crowd ) :laughing guy: . Animation was pretty darn good, I'm not going to complain over a few technical glitches...I mean, sitting just off Lake Michigan and listening to a bunch of live Rush material was, for me, a great lead up to the big Rush show. Huge crowd at the Rush show, the sound was light-years better than the Tinley Park show 6 days earlier (I wish Rush would just quit playing that place, it is such a hassle to get to and the sound SUCKS). My 15 yr old Rush-freak of a daughter had POUNDED Clockwork Angels into our heads, playing it repeatedly between the Chicago and Milwaukee shows. We really appreciated this show so much more than Chicago...way better sound, the crowd was huge, and we so much more prepared with the new material for this show...acoustically the new material is amazing, and I think the lyrics are really some of their finest ever. Also, it didn't hurt that we were only 3 rows away from Alex for the show....such a different experience when you are up close with these incredible musicians who really pour their hearts out every night to put on an amazing show. I kept looking down at my daughter during the show, and I've never seen her "beam" so much, singing along to nearly every song with a huge smile plastered on her face. When she got to the show, she smiled and said "Dad, I feel so comfortable now that I'm around my own people". Any that the truth?? It doesn't get any better than that, for me. The crowd interaction was awesome. I had some superb seatmates around me, we talked before the show about setlists and the band. Really, Rush has some of the best fans period....the guy in front of us kept sitting down during the show and apologizing to us when he stood up. I couldn't believe how concerned he was that he might be blocking our view (though he wasn't). The guy even bought me a beer to boot. Lucky bastard caught a Geddy shirt too! Yep, Rush fans are the best. So an unbelievable show, I can't even try to top Hobo's description of it. I had to go to work the next day, and put on CA as I worked away on the PC....and boy did the post-concert depression set in...."oh man, I'm not going to see these guys live for another year....or two???" Yes, I too was also looking at that final Kansas City date and thinking "hey, we could do that". Looking forward to seeing several more shows before these guys decide to hang it up....I will never take a Rush show for granted. Cheers to the best band ever!
  20. Does the Summerfest grounds have a similar location? lol. Chicagoan myself, I've passed that sign countless times and wonder how many attempts have been made over the years to take that sign for personal use.
  21. I loved the face Alex made during the show....someone was smoking so Al pretended (?) to be annoyed with it, made funny face, waved his hand to get the "smoke" away....hilarious. Not sure if it was cigarettes or something else.
  22. Great review, thank you. Hearing them play live never gets old. I thought the acoustics were kind of lousy during the first set, but second half was much better. I really love HF but I almost think CARNIES was better....that is a monster of a song live . 2112 was a BLAST. The FMBA video screens suck on either side of the stage (by sections 101,105)....they are so dark, low definition....just terrible. Looking forward to Milwaukee next week!!
  23. ThinkingBig: Nice vid! Where were your seats? Looks like you were pretty close to where I was sitting....102 GG. Wondering if you have any other vids that I might be in.
  24. Lit up with anticipation, we arrive at the launching site. All systems check, T minus 5!
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