How come there are tickets still for sale??

Ms. Haiku · March 2008

rhinomagic wrote:

Yeah, I know.

I'm supposed to be bouncing around from thread to thread, proclaiming that I bought tickets or asking them to play ABBA songs at the shows I'm attending. What was I thinking?

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Imagine if the did play ABBA! Better for an Australian show.

What's an oldie-but-goodie DC band?

LeilaMoonTurtle · March 2008

hmmm

so what you are saying is that you are not from the south?

emperor penguin wrote:

this might have been mentioned already, but i'm too lazy to read all the posts. In 2006 people got shut out of Grand Rapids. My buddy had to get them from his sister's boss. The company she worked for had season tickets to the arena. So people were getting shut out. As for all the south bashing, people need to realize that not everyone is a shoeless banjo player down here. I grew up in the North East and moved to Atlanta for work, and that is extremely common in our neck of the woods. Alot of you guys sound like my moron former best friend who refuses to speak to me because I took a job down here when there were no teaching jobs in my hometown. That guy is an asshole. Don't be like him.

jimed14 · March 2008

Ms. Haiku wrote:

Imagine if the did play ABBA! Better for an Australian show.

What's an oldie-but-goodie DC band?

Bad Brains.

DaytimeDilemma · March 2008

Fugazi.

HollisBrown · March 2008

Maybe 10C sale has a larger-than-usual allotment of tickets.

Vedd Hedd · March 2008

slightofjeff wrote:

Did the past tours really sell out within an hour?

Because, seriously, I haven't had trouble getting tix since 1995. This isn't the VIC. This isn't the Ed solo tour.

These are huge venues with plenty of tickets available.

I have tried, and tried, and tried, and tried to tell people this....

People just refuse to listen. Or read.

Im beginning to think its a conspiracy to make me lose my mind.

emperor penguin · March 2008

LeilaMoonTurtle wrote:

hmmm

so what you are saying is that you are not from the south?

i moved to atlanta two years ago, that last post was pretty convoluted because i'm sick as a dog.

over bends · March 2008

We need to realize that this isn't the casual fan sale. This is the fan club ticket sale. FAN CLUB. You need to be a die hard fan of a band to join a paid membership of a fan club. And why do you buy? 1st reason people will say as great as Deep Magazine is, is to get tickets. This isn't a lack of a buzz within the music community about Pearl Jam, this is a lack of a buzz within the Pearl Jam community about Pearl Jam.

But I myself am a relatively newcomer to the band and don't know how shows sold in previous tours. Perhaps we are the only ones who overhyped ability to get tickets?

blueeyedevil · March 2008

olderman wrote:

Ditto. I was only shut out of one show (for which I attempted to get tickets) on the 2006 tour. That was Santa Barbara. And that's a small venue. I still got to go (with another 10c), but it was the only show for which I was unable to buy 10c online.

And I waited until I had time to make the purchases. The shows I attended were all eventually sold out, thanks to the public.

Except for Gorge II. They had some lawn seats available day of the show and it was a Sunday night.

See you all in Florida!!

Wachovia in '05 sold out REALLY quick. I ended up buying a single ticket in the parking lot before the show. Worked out for the best though.

OceansJenny · March 2008

over_bends wrote:

This isn't a lack of a buzz within the music community about Pearl Jam, this is a lack of a buzz within the Pearl Jam community about Pearl Jam.

I agree with this one. The decision to purchase tickets was more routine than me being excited about the show. Yeah, I'm not that excited. I will be when I get to the show though, I know that. I wasn't that excited in '06 either until I watched them on Letterman. Then I wanted to go to more shows.

LikeAnOpeningBandForTheSun · March 2008

my reasons:

1: moved west
2: i'm broke
3: already goin to Bonnaroo
4: my car is dying. I dont think it can handle a road trip.

but if they play Austin i'm there.

ECM · March 2008

BustedDownThePretext wrote:

maybe they were able to broker a deal to get more than the 10% that's allowed to be allocated to fan clubs.

that's what I'm thinking..... especially with philly tix still being available....

Vedd Hedd · March 2008

over_bends wrote:

We need to realize that this isn't the casual fan sale. This is the fan club ticket sale. FAN CLUB. You need to be a die hard fan of a band to join a paid membership of a fan club. And why do you buy? 1st reason people will say as great as Deep Magazine is, is to get tickets. This isn't a lack of a buzz within the music community about Pearl Jam, this is a lack of a buzz within the Pearl Jam community about Pearl Jam.

But I myself am a relatively newcomer to the band and don't know how shows sold in previous tours. Perhaps we are the only ones who overhyped ability to get tickets?

Its not a lack of buzz within the pearl jam comminuty either.

its a lack of knowledge about how this whole system works.

BustedDownThePretext · March 2008

Evil Closet Monkey wrote:

that's what I'm thinking..... especially with philly tix still being available....

it's what i'm praying for actually because if that's the case, then msg will be a whole helluva lot easier!

elevation622 · March 2008

I'm excited and I haven't even got tickets yet (fingers crossed)

and since I wasn't expecting this tour, REALLY EXCITED!

Vedd Hedd · March 2008

emperor penguin wrote:

this might have been mentioned already, but i'm too lazy to read all the posts. In 2006 people got shut out of Grand Rapids. My buddy had to get them from his sister's boss. The company she worked for had season tickets to the arena. So people were getting shut out. As for all the south bashing, people need to realize that not everyone is a shoeless banjo player down here. I grew up in the North East and moved to Atlanta for work, and that is extremely common in our neck of the woods. Alot of you guys sound like my moron former best friend who refuses to speak to me because I took a job down here when there were no teaching jobs in my hometown. That guy is an asshole. Don't be like him.

I hope the south comment ist direct at me, because I have been defending the south and the "lackluster sales"...

But your other comment.....apprently there were some probs with Grand Rapids.....perhaps becasue it is a WAY smaller venue than the rest of them?

And yeah, MSG had some issues too.....perhaps becasue there are 14 million people trying to cram into two shows????

Isolated incidents aside.....there were not widespread problems for the 2006 North America tour and the 05 Canadian tour.

voodoopug · March 2008

lowbudgetlush wrote:

I agree with what you said concerning the recession but not the ticket prices. I think that extra $48 makes a difference. I posted earlier how in college for the 2000 tour i went to three shows for about $100. Now eight years later that would be $210. I would say it was easier for me to come up with $100 eight years ago v. coming up with $210 today (if i were a college student now).

I believe minimum wage has increase significantly since then too, no?

ScottZeagle · March 2008

I consider myself a pretty die hard PJ fan, but I don't visit these forums often...

If I didn't have the band as a MySpace friend, I would not have known about the tour or the presale, because I didn't get the email.

There are a lot of valid points as to why the tickets aren't moving faster, but I think the biggest reason is still because people just aren't aware.

dharma69 · March 2008

voodoopug wrote:

The recession argument holds no water with me (and yes I believe there is a recession right now). If the recession is to blame, than ticket prices would be of no concern. Those who are in dire straits would not be able to afford tickets if they were $80 per pair. I stand by my statement that if you can't afford $148 to spend on tickets, you can't afford $100 either. Anyone who maxes out a credit card or takes food off of their table to travel and follow a band deserves to be part of the recession.

Many are looking to blame everyone else for this recession when it indeed has two portions of blame in the largest sector of the recession (The home/mortgage market). Half of the blame falls on the institutions offering loans to those unqualified and half of the blame goes to the individuals who spent beyond their means.

It is really a necessity to be much more long sighted when blaming a recession on people not being able to afford an extra $40 for concert tickets.

There's a fair amount of ambiguity to your post but you are more than entitled to you opinion no matter how convoluted another might find it. Money is usually the issue, more so than not having a new album out or a hit song, for not just snapping up tickets to a show and having it sell out in 5 minutes. Especially if there’s travel that might be involved. No additional sight, long or short, is required to figure that out.

Foxy Mop · March 2008

I'm going with the simplest answer... they arranged it so that there are enough tickets available for 10C members who want them in a certain time period.

Everyone has complained that there's never enough volume of posters/tickets/whatever to go around. Now there is. That says a lot in and of itself. I really think it's that simple.

This whole topic is quite amusing

How come there are tickets still for sale??

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