Drive-By Truckers Fall 2008 Tour Dates!

LukinFan

spnoone wrote:

FIFTY minutes after ticketmaster tix went on sale for pittsburgh, i remembered, signed in and could've had row B center seats 1&2, which according to the seating chart is front row. i hesitated and got row C instead and i'm not complaining, but wtf? if these 2 bands together can't sell 10 tickets in the first hour, i've gone from worried it would be sold out to worried it'll be cancelled. does no one anywhere have taste?

I'm not sure about The Hold Steady- to be honest with you, I've never heard of them- should I have??? Anyway, DBT is the type of band that will eventually sell out, or at least come close to. I've only seen them live at Roo, but I'm not gonna wait too long to get tickets to their show- it will sell out- but not in minutes

spnoone

LukinFan wrote:

I'm not sure about The Hold Steady- to be honest with you, I've never heard of them- should I have???

I would think, yeah. i felt like i caught on late when i first heard em last year. they don't sound anything like dbt but you'll have no problem hearing how they could share a fanbase. a drunken replacements cover as a nightly finale wouldn't surprise me a bit.

AvocadoLady

spnoone wrote:

I would think, yeah. i felt like i caught on late when i first heard em last year. they don't sound anything like dbt but you'll have no problem hearing how they could share a fanbase. a drunken replacements cover as a nightly finale wouldn't surprise me a bit.

Oooh, good call. I could see it!

I'll be at the Halloween show at the Ryman (10th row center, and my first show ever at the Ryman!) and strongly considering Atlanta, if I can rope my friends into going.

I'll also likely hit the Chicago show.

SO excited. According to Patterson's latest MySpace blog, the band headlining each night is the bigger draw in that market. Interesting...

LukinFan

AvocadoLady wrote:

Oooh, good call. I could see it!

I'll be at the Halloween show at the Ryman (10th row center, and my first show ever at the Ryman!) and strongly considering Atlanta, if I can rope my friends into going.

I'll also likely hit the Chicago show.

SO excited. According to Patterson's latest MySpace blog, the band headlining each night is the bigger draw in that market. Interesting...

that is interesting because the hold steady are HL at the show that I'm going to

PissBottleMan

AvocadoLady wrote:

I'll be at the Halloween show at the Ryman (10th row center, and my first show ever at the Ryman!)

My favorite venue...I can't express how much it stings that I can't attend. The Ryman is such a great place to see a show.

In the balcony, the seats are like old church pews.

Have a great time and enjoy the show!

PBM

AvocadoLady

Yeah, here's the quote from Patterson's blog:

Then the biggest news of the fall, possibly the whole year for us as we go out for nearly a month co-headlining a national tour with our new friends THE HOLD STEADY.

This tour came about after I met lead guitarist Tad Kubler last summer and we began emailing each other. I had just been turned on to their music by their producer and our good friend John Agnello (he mixed TDS and Blessing / Curse for us). If by chance you haven't listened to them, they are absolutely fantastic. A great band with great songs and an excellent stage show. To say we're psyched would be an understatement.

Just so everyone knows the whole thing has been put together without any business bullshit or ego crap. Both bands are co-headlining every night. Who plays last depends on who is the bigger band in each market, and as both bands are at almost same level all over it was really smooth. Both bands will play long sets and hopefully there will be a grand finale to cap off the evening with something extra truly special.

I think the Hold Steady is headlining the Chicago date (dunno how they figured that one, they each played the Metro the last time they through town) and DBT are headlining the Nashville date.

Thanks PBM, I'm really looking forward to it! The Ryman is one of those legendary venues that I've been wanting to check off the list for a long time.

dont_go_on_me

In Minneapolis the Truckers are closing night 1 and THS are closing night 2. THS are by far the more popular band in the area, so I'm wondering if they might just be rotating every-other night regardless of the market.

These shows are going to be tremendous!

Red Lukin

AvocadoLady wrote:

Both bands will play long sets and hopefully there will be a grand finale to cap off the evening with something extra truly special. [/I]

Sweeeeet!

AvocadoLady

don't_go_on_me wrote:

In Minneapolis the Truckers are closing night 1 and THS are closing night 2. THS are by far the more popular band in the area, so I'm wondering if they might just be rotating every-other night regardless of the market.

These shows are going to be tremendous!

I think Minneapolis might be an exception since THS are from there...are they playing two dates in any other city?

spnoone

AvocadoLady wrote:

I think Minneapolis might be an exception since THS are from there...are they playing two dates in any other city?

a few. i read that any city with 2 shows will have both bands headline 1 night. with 2 exceptions, it does alternate every night. i'm gonna do philly and pitt so i can catch one of each.

http://www.drivebytruckers.com/tourdates.html

western pearl

What the hell happened w/ the NYC tickets?! I thought that they were originally supposed to go on sale at noon today. I go on there last night to find that they had gone on sale the 20th at some weird time like 8:43pm. They weren't sold out yet(luckily) but it kinda scared me for a few minutes.

Red Lukin

western pearl wrote:

What the hell happened w/ the NYC tickets?! I thought that they were originally supposed to go on sale at noon today. I go on there last night to find that they had gone on sale the 20th at some weird time like 8:43pm. They weren't sold out yet(luckily) but it kinda scared me for a few minutes.

Same with the Toronto show. I thought tix went onsale yesterday at 10am, but when I checked before that time they were already onsale, and it then said the onsale time was Thursday at 1:14.

Strange...

catch22

LukinFan wrote:

I'm not sure about The Hold Steady- to be honest with you, I've never heard of them- should I have??? Anyway, DBT is the type of band that will eventually sell out, or at least come close to. I've only seen them live at Roo, but I'm not gonna wait too long to get tickets to their show- it will sell out- but not in minutes

the hold steady are amazing and will destroy the drive-by truckers. it's appropriate that the latter is opening.

NakedClown

catch22 wrote:

the hold steady are amazing and will destroy the drive-by truckers. it's appropriate that the latter is opening.

You've clearly never seen them live.

... and it will be rotating headliners...

smallestoceans7982

I love me some Truckers!!! ZOLOFT!!!!!!!!!

catch22

NakedClown wrote:

You've clearly never seen them live.

... and it will be rotating headliners...

i've seen them both live.

though i was exaggerating. i dig the DBT but i LOVE the hold steady and they got a HUGE reception last time they were in chicago, so it makes sense they'd headline here.

merkinball

This will be a great tour, I love the fact that the DBT are playing the Wiltern. One of my favorite venues in LA. I'm going to be hard pressed to make it up there though... THS and the DBT are both big in San Diego, hopefully they'll add a few more dates.

LukinFan

Sunday night- can't wait!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Bump for the start of the tour!!!!!!

tybird

LukinFan wrote:

Sunday night- can't wait!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Bump for the start of the tour!!!!!!

Saturday night-can't wait!!!!!!!!!!!!!

soclose

Anyone know what time the Truckers will take the stage on the nights they play first?

Super excited to see them for the first time!!

Red Lukin

soclose wrote:

Anyone know what time the Truckers will take the stage on the nights they play first?

Super excited to see them for the first time!!

I heard last night they took the stage at 8:15...HS closed and went on at 10

PissBottleMan

One of my favorite AC/DC songs covered by HS and Patterson last night.

PBM

LukinFan

Red Lukin wrote:

I heard last night they took the stage at 8:15...HS closed and went on at 10

wow that's early- nice!!!!!

soclose

Red Lukin wrote:

I heard last night they took the stage at 8:15...HS closed and went on at 10

I hope I can make it on time. I was hoping for at least 8:30.

I really wish they were closing my show.:(

AlBorland

I'll be there tomorrow night, after UGA takes care of Florida! How can you tell who is closing?

LukinFan

AlBorland wrote:

I'll be there tomorrow night, after UGA takes care of Florida! How can you tell who is closing?

http://www.myspace.com/drivebytruckers

tomorrow night DBT closes

AlBorland

LukinFan wrote:

http://www.myspace.com/drivebytruckers

tomorrow night DBT closes

sweeeeeeeeet!! whiskey's haaaard to beat!

AlBorland

you guys are in for a treat, what a rock show!

tybird

What else can I say about this amazing band....they get better every time that I see them play live....Hotlanta was a blistering, white-noise riot of sound and light last night...wow...words sometimes aren't enough....."Keep on Rockin' in the Free World" with members of THS.....:eek:..yes, whiskey is hard to beat...and Rock n' Roll means well....simply amazing. The set list, lifted from Nine Bullets:
Three Dimes Down
Lookout Mountain
Self Destructive Zones
That Man I Shot
Ghost to Most
Living Bubba
Love Like This
Righteous Path
Sink Hole
I'm Sorry Huston
Women Without Whiskey
Steve McQueen
Shut up & Get on the Plane
Hell No I Ain't Happy
Gravity's Gone
The Company I Keep
Puttin' People on the Moon

Encore:
World of Hurt
Marry Me
Let there be Rock
Rockin' in the Free World (with THS)
People Who Died

PissBottleMan

New Pre-Election song up at their Myspace and Facebook pages.

Also available as a free download here.

PBM