St Louis availability

CaptainB

sorry if this is posted elsewhere. but i'm surprised by the availability of tickets for the st louis show. for starters, based on the top-seller's list on the fanclub page, of the presale tickets, i believe st louis had the least amount sold. secondly, i checked ticketmaster randomly the past week just to see what tickets were popping up, they were all in the 100's sections until today, when i was able to grab 8 together in the third row of the 300's section. any guesses on the capacity of the scottrade center for a concert? i know there's close to 20,000 seats. not that this would happen, but theoretically, who would make the final call to say, either "yeah, tickets just aren't selling, we need to think about either canceling or changing venues", or "we need to reduce prices on the 300 level seats just to get people's asses in them" i remember buying tickets to soldier field for the pumpkins during the adore tour. i had pretty decent seats too, then it got moved to tinley park due to lack of sales and the seats were first come first serve if i remember correctly.

PJ 4 Ever

I was at the show in 2003 at the same venue (it was called the Savvis Center back then), and the upper levels of the venue were empty. I imagine that since that show was not moved to a smaller venue or cancelled, this show will not be impacted either.

I also had tickets to soldier field for the pumpkins during the adore tour. i had pretty decent seats too, 10th row in fact. You are correct, when they moved the show to Tinley Park, they made it a GA show, which really sucked.

CServant

The show must, and will go on! I'm sure they've sold the equivalent of SLC '09 which was a much smaller venue. There's too many costs associated with moving it at this point...

As the Earth to the Sun

The Salt Lake venue last fall was pretty empty, but that didn't keep the fellas from rocking the fuck out.

baldoallornone

I've been to every show in St. Louis since 1998 and St. Louis is a funny city. It takes people awhile to hop on the band wagon. I will say though there are more people than I've ever talked to that aren't fan club members going to this show. There are like 6 people in my department that got tickets who could give a shit in the past when I've bosted about going to see The Jam.

What I'm guessing will happen is that the radio will start promoting this closer to the date of the show and there will be a mad rush, many people wait until the day of the show around here to get tickets unless it's something stupid and completely commercial...I'm not a big fan of my home town for that.

I also very rarely see the venue every close to sold out for concerts but I'm kind of hoping it ends up doing so, I'd like to see the guys make a trip here that's worth it from a buisness stand point.

CServant

As the Earth to the Sun wrote:

The Salt Lake venue last fall was pretty empty, but that didn't keep the fellas from rocking the fuck out.

AMEN!!!

RiotZact

CServant wrote:

As the Earth to the Sun wrote:

The Salt Lake venue last fall was pretty empty, but that didn't keep the fellas from rocking the fuck out.

AMEN!!!

Yeah you guys got a SICK setlist, where the show is or how well it sells has nothing to do with how good the show is.... At least with PJ it dosn't

baldoallornone

RiotZact wrote:

CServant wrote:

As the Earth to the Sun wrote:

The Salt Lake venue last fall was pretty empty, but that didn't keep the fellas from rocking the fuck out.

AMEN!!!

Yeah you guys got a SICK setlist, where the show is or how well it sells has nothing to do with how good the show is.... At least with PJ it dosn't

That is true and looking back on STL '98,'00,'03, and '04 we got thrown some pretty good sets.

SkeeterB

JM9427 wrote:

sorry if this is posted elsewhere. but i'm surprised by the availability of tickets for the st louis show. for starters, based on the top-seller's list on the fanclub page, of the presale tickets, i believe st louis had the least amount sold. secondly, i checked ticketmaster randomly the past week just to see what tickets were popping up, they were all in the 100's sections until today, when i was able to grab 8 together in the third row of the 300's section. any guesses on the capacity of the scottrade center for a concert? i know there's close to 20,000 seats. not that this would happen, but theoretically, who would make the final call to say, either "yeah, tickets just aren't selling, we need to think about either canceling or changing venues", or "we need to reduce prices on the 300 level seats just to get people's asses in them" i remember buying tickets to soldier field for the pumpkins during the adore tour. i had pretty decent seats too, then it got moved to tinley park due to lack of sales and the seats were first come first serve if i remember correctly.

If this was a weekend show, many from Chicago would have taken the drive down so I think the day of the week really hurt travelers like me. A Tuesday night is just too difficult, especially when more "travel friendly" dates are available for the Thursday/Friday combo or Friday/Sunday combo. I'm doing the Columbus/Indy because it makes more sense logistically.