My Ten Club tickets for MTL: NOT THAT GREAT!!!

sadprofessor · September 2005

bobonic wrote:

wouldn't you like to sit with your friends

A lot of people end up buying 2 seats and just selling the other off for face value to someone, i have done it, and it looks like i may have to do it again in the future... Allowing single ticket purchases would definitely help matters.

NortheasternPJ · September 2005

Easiest solution to this problem is do what TM does.

If they're doing it online or by postcard or however they do it, have a "Best Available" option and a "Side stage/Non-floor" option if its in an arena. I usually have pretty good seats (Rows 14-20 or so) but given the choice, id rather have 8th row in a section on the side of the stage than the 15th row seats on the floor. Makes it a lot easier to see for myself and my girlfriend (who's 5'6"). Plus there's usually more room up there since the seats on the floor are jammed together.

NY PJ1 · September 2005

8th row in front of mikey awesome seats although my# is 13****

pearlfoojamfighter · September 2005

5th row, in front of Stoney, and my Ten Club # is 108xxx. I had NO COMPLAINTS whatsoever with the tix, or in general. I'm just lucky to be in the building to hear and see PJ live.

campem · September 2005

Sorry about it Hakhead... I had wing seats, my number is 238xxx which ain't great but I still had amazing seats. The way I see it there is no way that you can get decent seats for P.J. without the club, a plug or scalpers. I used to buy them on my own and even being first in line for 30 or so hours I was way back... That being said, I will always prefer wing seats if the floor is a seated one. Also, the Montreal show had alot of members attending.
As for the 10Club tickets policy I think this tour shows that it needs yet another adjustment. I think they should add a policy, maybe there is and I'm not aware of it, for regionality. Meaning that members, in a certain region near a venue (could be by province/district/state/radius of X miles), would be on the regional members list and the reminder would be in the regular list. The 10C could do something like 1 out of 2 pairs (this could be 1/3 or 1/4 even) of tickets gets alloted to a regional member. In my mind this wouldn't affect out of region members soo much but would give the locals an advantage. After all, it's their show.

smittyballz · September 2005

I had side seats 100 level for both shows and was about 15-20 rows back. I stuck with the seats for the montreal show but upgraded to the 9th row for ottawa.. and man was it worth it... for all those pj fans that got shitty tickets put your money where your mouth is and if u like pj so much pay to get better seats...and if u dont have any money then dont go.. get a job...LOSERS

civ_eng_girl · September 2005

MissYouAllDay wrote:

In kitchener I had wicked 10th row wing seats, like they were spectacular. Mikes side, the first wing section infront of the stage.In London, kinda average seats, but better than I would have got at ticket master. Half way back wing seats. Still great view. Hamilton, 24th row floor, which I honestly thought was spectacular. Had never been on the floor before. It was a ton of fun. Not to mention my favorite concert of all time.

Well, in case anyone was concerned about consistancy... I'm also a 306XXX and had the EXACT same seats as you, for all three shows (except i was on Stone's side in Kitchener)....

i loved the fact that i got to try out both the wings and the floor. i'm 6'0", so i didn't mind 24th row floor... i was also lucky to be on the aisle.

edwho · September 2005

There was a girl third row center for the London concert that was maybe 5’ tall.

She had the misfortune of being directly behind the Super Fan – Male Cheerleader (front center).

How much of the show do you think she saw?

I find rows 10 thru 15 (floor center) to be best for sound quality. Does that matter to anyone?

Once upon a time I had a front row seat to a BSB concert.

Guess what? I had a camera man in my way the whole concert!

Make the best of your seat or just move to a better one!

Singing to an ocean, I can hear the ocean's roar
The Ocean
Bonham/Jones/Page/Plant

Veddernarian · September 2005

Your orig post made me think of my San Diego experience. I was on the floor adjacent the lighting/mixing board about 40-45 rows back. When the opening act played and nobody stood, I thought, "well this will be nice". When PJ came, everybody stood, and the angle of my position, height of myself and others around me, and height of stage made it possible for me to see the tops of their heads. My son, who was 12, couldn't see. So I picked him up for at least 1 minute per each song. That's all I could take physically. At the end, I questioned the best seats claim. I met many people who had Ticketmaster seats who were at close corner to the stage and I thought it would be better if PJ took those, if they could, rather than where I sat. There were many heated threads around that time. A lot of name calling, and sh!t flinging. I tried to maintain a clean argument for up the sides. Others argued for hometown 1 show. I'm glad they considered and implemented up the sides. Honestly, at 40 or so rows back, 2 rows up the side would have been the can't-see made into can-see difference. I'd really be bummed if they way it plays out is my # is not early enough to get good floor, but not recent enough to go up the side, and I end up in what's described here. At least in Irvine, with a sloped ampitheatre, even though I was 1/2 way between 1st row and last row, I saw and therefore the experience was like night & day. My 2 requirements at a concert (call me a selfish pig if you want to):
1. Must be able to hear the performance.
2. Must be able to see the performance.
That's all.

Vedderman23 · September 2005

People seem to be forgetting the demand for these tickets when they originally went on sale. All the Canadian fans, plus the US fans that were close enough to the cities were scrambling to get these seats. That's a lot of requests for a small number of shows. A regular US tour shouldn't be that bad because there will be more chances to see them, but if you have a higher number, you will still be back a little...it's a fact.

I guess 10C could go back to one set of tix per 10C member again, to cut down on the number of requests, but ohhhhh, the fucking whining you'd here then.

kiwisegg · September 2005

Mine werent so hot either (295XXX), but no wories..great shows in MTL and Ottawa.

I personally think that the 10C should give priority to the people in the city or province (state) first. In other words If I live in Montreal, or lets say the province of quebec, than I would get the 10C ticket priority before the rest of the world. It would still be based on seniority, but at least the people living in the area have the better seats for their show. In the end we would all get great seats at some point. And there arent 500 10C members /city, I mean it wouldnt send the usual first rowers into the 25th row...and those people would still get the best seats for shows in their city/state..

Just a thought.

JenInTheBx · September 2005

I see what you're saying. There was a definite misconception as far as the tickets go. I have no complaints, but a lot of people on the floor near the back had better numbers than people on the wings in the front- which most would consider a better seat. I really don't know how 10club can solve this issue- it would be VERY time consuming on their part, but judging by what they had said about changes to the ticketing policy, I thought they were going to give the wings priority over the back of the floor.

mk333 · September 2005

Should be happy you got to see them. Lots of people are blind and def you know.

PissBottleMan · September 2005

As long as I'm on Mike's side, I could be in the last row of the floor.

"Damn, that boy good."

PBM

pipedreams · September 2005

In Kitchener, my wife and I had 22nd row floor on Mike's side. I am 5'11 and could see fairly well. My wife is 5'6 and she could only see the top of Matt's head. In London, they lost my original tickets and gave me 4th row floor tickets in the second section back on Stone's side. Since my wife wouldn't be able to see, I traded tickets with John - the guy who met Ed before the show and asked Ed to sing a few songs because it was his birthday. In Hamilton, we had front row of 2nd wing section on Stone's side - sweet tickets!! Montreal and Ottawa we had decent wing seats on Stone's side. My number is 336XXX. I definitely like the wing seats over floor seats unless in the first ten rows on the floor. In the future, I will trade my floor seats again for good wing seats.

idratherbe · September 2005

PissBottleMan wrote:

As long as I'm on Mike's side, I could be in the last row of the floor.

"Damn, that boy good."

PBM

Is that from Coming to America?

Myself, I prefer wings to way back on the floor. Make those wings 9-1-1, please, and a cold beer to go with.

~peace~

MANTIS · September 2005

hakhead wrote:

Yep, I see you coming with your comments: "if you're not happy, get out of Ten Club", "You should feel lucky that you don't have to fight for your tickets", "every seats is good...".
Well, you know what, for me, row Z (or if you prefered, 26) is not good!!!! Not good at all!!!! I thought this year that after a certain amount of rows, they were going to put us on the sides of the stage in the crowd???? I guess it didn't happen or those seats were not available for MTL but I know one thing: I could barely see anything (I'm not 6,3 and go to hell to anyone saying it's my problem. Some ladies could barely see anything!) and I also had the impression that I couldn't get into the show as much as the other years... Also, I talked to some Ten Club members around me and they actually thought the same thing (I hope some of you that were in MTL around that row will back me up on my comment).
What I find sad in all that is that the next day, in Ottawa, I had Row 17 and it changed the dynamic totally!!! I know that a lot of people will say that the Ottawa show was even better than the MTL show but.... whatever. But I could see the stage better and I didn't feel like.... I don't know... Shit! I honnestly think that the people at Ten Club are doing a great job, don't get me wrong. I also know that I only been in the Fan Club since 99 (It's my fault if I didn't join before, I know; it's my mistake if I didn't make the move in 94 after Vitalogy and got PJ in my head for the rest of my life...) and there's a lot of hardcore fans that were there since the beggining and they deserve the best seats.
My point is that I think after row 20, the seats are not as great anymore and maybe Plan B should be taken; moving the rest of the people on the sides. And I also know that there was some rows behind me with more people from the Ten Club much further from the stage so that's why I'm not complaining too much but just trying to bring up this issue. Hope I'm not going to end up in row 60 tomorrow in TO!!!! At least I still have my ears to hear I guess but I thought that's why the Bootlegs were there for...?
Anyway, I see you coming.... "LET'S GET READY TO RUUUUUUUMMBLLLLE!!!!

dude...ever think that there were people before you that took those seats on the side stage???...i mean, the 10c kicks ass and isnt trying to fuck anyone over...deal with it...26 row on the floor is better than most seats in the house...dang

gOdwEpt · September 2005

kiwisegg wrote:

Mine werent so hot either (295XXX), but no wories..great shows in MTL and Ottawa.

I personally think that the 10C should give priority to the people in the city or province (state) first. In other words If I live in Montreal, or lets say the province of quebec, than I would get the 10C ticket priority before the rest of the world. It would still be based on seniority, but at least the people living in the area have the better seats for their show. In the end we would all get great seats at some point. And there arent 500 10C members /city, I mean it wouldnt send the usual first rowers into the 25th row...and those people would still get the best seats for shows in their city/state..

Just a thought.

That's actually a really sweet idea. I'm not sure how some people would take it, but in the case of the Canadian tour, this would have been a great idea even though they missed my province

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DriftingByTheStorm · May 2006

Look, ma! More threads to bitch about the ticketing system in!

My Ten Club tickets for MTL: NOT THAT GREAT!!!

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