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SlicknessSlickness Carlsbad, California Posts: 39
edited November 2009 in The Porch
How the heck can I get front row seats?! I've been a TC member for 11 years and I always get row 20 or 30! I am always reading about others having the best show of their lives sitting in the front row!
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  • crazygeocrazygeo Posts: 2,380
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    by Slickness » 01 Nov 2009 12:34

    How the heck can I get front row seats?! I've been a TC member for 15 years and I always get row 20 or 30! I am always reading about others having the best show of their lives sitting in the front row!

    Let me know too......since mid ninties been looking, great seats always, but front row......now that would be cool...one of these days!!!
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  • youngsteryoungster Boston Posts: 6,576
    Front 2 rows are usually reserved for the lottery as well as 9 and 10. ultra senior members get 3rd row etc. Funny thing is I have heard of people going on Ticketmaster and choosing 1 ticket and getting 1st or 2nd row. So makes me wonder if the entire first row is for fan club or are some tix available to the general public?
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  • Get_RightGet_Right Posts: 13,630
    get out the checkbook

    and even then you might not be able to get them
  • normnorm Posts: 31,146
    cropduster82 wrote:
    Front 2 rows are usually reserved for the lottery as well as 9 and 10. ultra senior members get 3rd row etc. Funny thing is I have heard of people going on Ticketmaster and choosing 1 ticket and getting 1st or 2nd row. So makes me wonder if the entire first row is for fan club or are some tix available to the general public?

    since 10c sells tix in pairs, if a row has an uneven number of seats there will be singles available that ticketmaster will sell
  • PakaPaka Posts: 471
    the answer is very simple:

    forget the lottery and get yourself a ticket to Europe next time they're touring the old continent - with a little patience and speed you'll make it to the front row - guaranteed! ;)
  • Drop the LeashDrop the Leash Posts: 220
    What's worse not being able to or seeing people sitting down in the first row, last night in philly I saw a few people sit for a stretch of about 4 songs......
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  • Niko80Niko80 Posts: 1,610
    Problem with front row is that the sound is usually shit.. It is much better 20-30 rows back and that is where I prefer to be.. Sound over view is my preference.
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  • Get_RightGet_Right Posts: 13,630
    Niko80 wrote:
    Problem with front row is that the sound is usually shit.. It is much better 20-30 rows back and that is where I prefer to be.. Sound over view is my preference.
    that is not true, at least in my experience

    it is not as loud up front, but the stage sound is usually better than the venue PA
  • dimitrispearljamdimitrispearljam Posts: 139,721
    here we go again...
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  • Maayan.HMaayan.H Posts: 32
    Niko80 wrote:
    Problem with front row is that the sound is usually shit.. It is much better 20-30 rows back and that is where I prefer to be.. Sound over view is my preference.
    But how are you suppose to catch a pick if you're 20-30 rows back? This post makes no sense to me :?
    Seriously though, the whole assigned seats deal is a pain in the ass. Can't wait for the euro tour to come along.
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  • mookeywrenchmookeywrench Posts: 5,969
    I don't really care where I sit as long as I feel like I'm watching a band rather than the house PA speakers.
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  • Niko80Niko80 Posts: 1,610
    Maayan.H wrote:
    Niko80 wrote:
    Problem with front row is that the sound is usually shit.. It is much better 20-30 rows back and that is where I prefer to be.. Sound over view is my preference.
    But how are you suppose to catch a pick if you're 20-30 rows back? This post makes no sense to me :?
    Seriously though, the whole assigned seats deal is a pain in the ass. Can't wait for the euro tour to come along.

    Well, first of all I dont go to a pj show to catch a pick. But to answer your question, Mike managed to send one flying about 30 meters from his spot on the stage right into my mouth in Nijmegen two years ago. So it is possible ;)
    that is not true, at least in my experience
    it is not as loud up front, but the stage sound is usually better than the venue PA

    I have been front row 3 times and all though it has been different experiences I find the sound much clearer a bit further back. The rockers can become muffled front and it can be difficult to seperate the guitars, mainly because of eddies dominant guitar sound + you have most of the crowd behind you overdubbing the music by cheering and singing. The most enjoyable first row show for me was perth 03, mainly because the crowd was quite quiet. Here you could actuallt hear the stage sound. In Europe you would want to step back to get the sound right IMO.
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  • pjamaholicpjamaholic Posts: 1,225
    Maayan.H wrote:
    Niko80 wrote:
    Problem with front row is that the sound is usually shit.. It is much better 20-30 rows back and that is where I prefer to be.. Sound over view is my preference.
    But how are you suppose to catch a pick if you're 20-30 rows back? This post makes no sense to me :?
    Seriously though, the whole assigned seats deal is a pain in the ass. Can't wait for the euro tour to come along.

    Know what you mean about pick catching. I was 15 rows from the front last Ten Club show I went to. Spent much of the show trying to attract Mike's attention, only to see picks being thrown up willy nilly to those up closer to the front than I. Never had such a bruised hand from clapping so much before. I only want one measly pick and there's hundreds of people around with 15 or more, fuckin' sucks you know! :x
  • SlicknessSlickness Carlsbad, California Posts: 39
    And now as I look at all the people that have replied back to my post, some of you have only been a Tenclub member for a handfull amount of years and have been in the front!! And here I am, an 11 year old member, begging for front row!
  • PJFAN_seattlePJFAN_seattle Posts: 2,965
    I've been in the Ten Club for about a year been to 2 shows and I've never gotten front row! Even with a 424, xxx.
    Fuckin ridiculous! Thanks alot 10 club, you suck
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  • youngsteryoungster Boston Posts: 6,576
    PJ_kidd_9-21-22 wrote:
    I've been in the Ten Club for about a year been to 2 shows and I've never gotten front row! Even with a 424, xxx.
    Fuckin ridiculous! Thanks alot 10 club, you suck


    :lol::lol::lol:
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  • dimitrispearljamdimitrispearljam Posts: 139,721
    cropduster82 wrote:
    PJ_kidd_9-21-22 wrote:
    I've been in the Ten Club for about a year been to 2 shows and I've never gotten front row! Even with a 424, xxx.
    Fuckin ridiculous! Thanks alot 10 club, you suck


    :lol::lol::lol:
    OK,, :D
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  • Maayan.HMaayan.H Posts: 32
    Slickness wrote:
    And now as I look at all the people that have replied back to my post, some of you have only been a Tenclub member for a handfull amount of years and have been in the front!! And here I am, an 11 year old member, begging for front row!
    This is probably the worst place on the interweb to say this, but I've been to the front twice without being a 10c member... sometimes it's just about luck I guess.
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  • Get_RightGet_Right Posts: 13,630
    Maayan.H wrote:
    Slickness wrote:
    And now as I look at all the people that have replied back to my post, some of you have only been a Tenclub member for a handfull amount of years and have been in the front!! And here I am, an 11 year old member, begging for front row!
    This is probably the worst place on the interweb to say this, but I've been to the front twice without being a 10c member... sometimes it's just about luck I guess.
    same here actually
    my three front row experiences were not through the 10c
  • i_lov_iti_lov_it Perth, Western Australia Posts: 4,007
    Come to Perth I was lucky! enough to get front row in 03' and 06' but...on the downside not as many shows out this way compared to the US :)
  • JeanwahJeanwah Posts: 6,363
    Sometimes the band's friends are given front row; I congratulated the guys next to me for winning and they looked at me cross-eyed. After a setlist was handed to one of them at the end of the show, he then told me that he was friends with a couple of the band members and usually sits on stage or 3rd row, but prefers the 1st. Cry me a river. :roll: Can't these "friends" just sit on stage or in the 3rd row, and leave the lottery seats open for potential winners?
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