1996 - the anti-ticketmaster tour. I had to drive to Massachussets to get tickets to the Augusta show. There was an 800 # to call and apparently you had to be within a certain distance (or state) to get tickets. Sat in a gas station parking lot dialing manually on a payphone. Got my tickets in 3 minutes. Show sold out in 4.
I paid 800.00 on ebay for tickets for my friends to go with me cause I couldnt go alone and my friends werent into them enough to spend the money to see them...Best 800 dollars i ever spent.
"Well I guess there's nothing wrong with what you say, but dont sell me there can't be better ways"
~Pearl Jam
waited and slept on the streets in NY for 40 hours for irving plaza tickets. when i finally got them at midnight on monday night i took a cab to port authority. waited until 3 am for a bus to philly. got me there around 5. had to wait around the filthy, creepy philly bus station until 8 for a bus back to wilmington, delaware. then had to take an hour long delaware transit bus back to campus. for some reason i went to my 12:30 class when i got back. i then proceeded to sleep for about 18 hours. no joke.
for me it was around 30 hours... but well worth it...
there were some shady people in that line for sure.
I waited in line for nearly 48 hours outside of Tower Records to get the free tickets to Irving Plaza! I'd do it again for 48 days if I had to! It was SOOOOOOOOOOO worth it!
50+ hours for me. I was number 7 on line. We were surrounded by toothless scalpers... named one "dr. teeth"... i woke up one morning and there was this female scalper sleeping in a box right next to me...we referred to her as r2d2 the rest of the time on line
Did anyone else on this line cough up black shit for the week after? it seems like whenever I blew my nose my mucous and snot were all black...
funny story... first night out there... i thought it was gonna be warmer... only wearing jeans, tshirt and a hoodie... we froze our asses off...luckily my friend had a blanket... we shivered the whole night like a bunch of idiots... some kid walks up to me and offers me a dollar... i had to remove my ipod headphones out of my head to tell him i wasn't homeless...
it's largely due to eddie that i liked to jump off of things as a child...
another story... going to hell for this one (amonst many other reasons)...
This really doesnt have to do w getting tickets, but more like saying fuck it to your job when some things in life are more important, like skipping out on work to attend a pearl jam show(s)...
I live in jersey, working this bullshit dead end job in some godawful cubicle...
i beleive the date was 07/20/2006, i think that was a thursday... i pretended that I got an urgent cell phone message... and jumped up all nervous as shit (cause i didnt think it would work), stumbled over to my supervisor in disbeleif and told that my aunt had suddenly died...all the color was gone from my face...
...three hours later I was on a flight to portland, en route to the gorge shows
the hardest part was explaining to people how i got incredibley sunburnt at a funeral...
i am going to hell for this band...
it's largely due to eddie that i liked to jump off of things as a child...
Not too crazy, but at my first show, I wasn't even going to go because I had tickets for another show 6 days later. it was sold out but my friends who were going and called me to say they just put some more tickets on sale, so I rushed down to the arena and bought a ticket for $18. My friends all paid $60 or more from scalpers and got general admission tickets, I had a shitty seat. In order to get on the floor, you needed a stub and a wristband, so I took my friend's ticket and got the wristband, then once inside my friend took his brothers' stub and brought it up to me, so I got onto the floor. Afterwards, I was waiting for a ride (I just turned 16 and didn't have my license yet) and met Eddie, Dave, and Mudhoney. None of my friends who paid $60 were there for it.
4.6.94 Springfield 4.12.94 Boston III (Orpheum) 10.2.96 Hartford 9.16.98 Mansfield II 8.29.00 Mansfield I 7.11.03 Mansfield III 9.29.04 Boston II 5.24.06 Boston I 6.30.08 Mansfield II
I partied on the sidewalk all night waiting for Page and Plant tickets in 94' That was the last time they allowed people to stay out and wait at the store all night. It was a humongous party
I waited at Tower Records for an Irving Plaza ticket too, but not as long as some others - I took the train from CT and got in line at 6:30 am on May 1. So I waited almost 18 hours in line before I bought Avocado & got my ticket. I got to meet cool jammers like decides2dream, Rich, Wanda, Walter, and stickboy. I also got served a donut by Clive Davis. That last part was odd.
You see me empty, Sir, do not pause and inquire, simply assume and refill.
- Al Swearengen
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~Pearl Jam
for me it was around 30 hours... but well worth it...
there were some shady people in that line for sure.
50+ hours for me. I was number 7 on line. We were surrounded by toothless scalpers... named one "dr. teeth"... i woke up one morning and there was this female scalper sleeping in a box right next to me...we referred to her as r2d2 the rest of the time on line
Did anyone else on this line cough up black shit for the week after? it seems like whenever I blew my nose my mucous and snot were all black...
funny story... first night out there... i thought it was gonna be warmer... only wearing jeans, tshirt and a hoodie... we froze our asses off...luckily my friend had a blanket... we shivered the whole night like a bunch of idiots... some kid walks up to me and offers me a dollar... i had to remove my ipod headphones out of my head to tell him i wasn't homeless...
This really doesnt have to do w getting tickets, but more like saying fuck it to your job when some things in life are more important, like skipping out on work to attend a pearl jam show(s)...
I live in jersey, working this bullshit dead end job in some godawful cubicle...
i beleive the date was 07/20/2006, i think that was a thursday... i pretended that I got an urgent cell phone message... and jumped up all nervous as shit (cause i didnt think it would work), stumbled over to my supervisor in disbeleif and told that my aunt had suddenly died...all the color was gone from my face...
...three hours later I was on a flight to portland, en route to the gorge shows
the hardest part was explaining to people how i got incredibley sunburnt at a funeral...
i am going to hell for this band...
only if you killed your aunt, then maybe
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