Secret Shows You Have Gotten Into

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  • F Me In The Brain
    F Me In The Brain this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 31,840
    It is not a (tumor) secret
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  • Zod
    Zod Posts: 10,909
    It wasn't a secret, but it was invite only by a radio station.

    Pearl Jam - Vancouver 2000 - Commodore Ballroom - 1100 capacity bar... pretty fucking amazing :)

    I saw Foo Fighters play the UBC Student Rec Centre which I think held about 1000 people.   It wasn't a secret.  They just weren't that popular yet.  I think it was the beginning of the color and the shape tour.

    Also saw some shows I'm embarassed about.  One of my best friends, was friends with a guy that was a drummer for nickelback.  When they were touring for their first indie album.  Before they went commercial.  I actually like that album (and have an autographed copy of Curb).   Saw them at super tiny place like opening up for the barstool prophets at the university of Victoria bar (vertigo)....

    Pearl Jam is easily the most exclusive and best I ever got into.  That was complete tenacity.   I was studying for finals and kept the radio on the whole time.   I couldn't even legit win tickets because I'd won a $1000 on this contest where if you heard a song in the morning, when they played it again later in the day you had to be caller 9.   I was so broker back then I was on that one.   Song of the day was Betterman... of course I was going to win.  Got caller 7 with my parents phone line and #9 with my own.  Anyways a few months later the PJ thing gets announced I can't win because I'd won something in the last 90 days (or whatever it was).   After weeks of trying I get through and put on hold.   I can hear they already have caller 9.  The question was.  What is Mike McCready's current side project.  Person got it completely wrong.  All of a suddent I hear my line go live.  It's the Rockfords!! It's the rockfords!!... then there like who is?  Start to say my name, then subbed it to my friends name.  Of which I still had a fake photo id from when I was a minor.   Then used the fake to enter the show, even though I was of legal drinking age... lol!!
  • rw160510
    rw160510 Posts: 1,075
    No secret shows but I have been lucky enough to get to see pearl jam at both the London Astoria (06) and Shepherd's Bush Empire (09), Nine inch nails at the Scala (13) and Deftones at the Electric Ballroom (06). They were all super small shows with ridiculously difficult tickets. I still don't know how I managed to get into them and am so glad that I did :rock_on:
  • HesCalledDyer
    HesCalledDyer Maryland Posts: 16,492
    How does one find out about a "secret" show, much less be allowed admission?
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  • dankind
    dankind Posts: 20,841
    HesCalledDyer said:
    How does one find out about a "secret" show, much less be allowed admission?

    I SAW PEARL JAM
  • brucejam28
    brucejam28 Posts: 55
    i was 15 minutes away from seeing paul mccartney at irving plaza in 2015. truly gutted
  • JOEJOEJOE
    JOEJOEJOE Posts: 10,827
    HesCalledDyer said:
    How does one find out about a "secret" show, much less be allowed admission?
    In some cases, they are announced at the last minute....in other cases, a band plays under an assumed name.  Some are open to the public, others are less accessible.
  • Loujoe
    Loujoe Posts: 11,806
    Black crowes at cbgb. They announced them as another name. Word got out. Drove in,lined up, one of the last people to get in. It was sooo loud if youwere stuck outside you prob could hear it better. The opening act blew out my eardrums, but felt honored to see them there. 

    Mike watt and foo fighters at tramps nyc...bought a ticket and went. Word wasn't out yet that ed was playing with them, and noone really heard of foos. Killer show. Was a two night run. I was lucky to go to first night because I heard rumors ticketed people got shut out night 2.

    Faith no more, soundgarden opened up for voi vod at city gardens in trenton nj. Easy to get tickets. A tiny dump club. CC climbed the beams on the cieling and kicked it in over my head. Rip. 

    Many great shows on a small scale. Those few stand out for now. 


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  • eeriepadave
    eeriepadave West Chester, PA Posts: 43,307
    None.

    Not too many in the philly area. Tried for Foo Fighters MTV $2 Dollar Bill concert at the Electric Factory back in '02? Only way you could get tix was at the box office and me and my friend drove down in the morning and stood in line for hours. Line never moved and we didn't get tix.  I also remember a few years ago War on Drugs played a secret show in philly at Johnny Brenda's (very small venue). I didn't find out about it until it was too late and missed out on that one as well.
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  • erocshifty
    erocshifty Posts: 1,170
    HesCalledDyer said:
    How does one find out about a "secret" show, much less be allowed admission?
    Some cool stories in this thread - really fun read! There was a flyer for Foo Fighters show on the door of the record store I frequented. I was also able to get my ticket there.  
    "It's best to live in grace before you're forced to." EV- 10/09/2014 
  • LukinFan
    LukinFan Florida Posts: 29,119
    dankind said:
    Off the top of my head:

    • Pearl Jam at HOB Lake Buena Vista in 2003

    I remember finding out about this show the next day (I had gone to the Tampa show - which I think was a day or two before the HOB show). I think you had to win tickets through a radio station to get?
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  • Guy Dudebro
    Guy Dudebro Posts: 1,481
    Metallica at The Troubadour in W.Hollywood May 23,1988. Billed as Frayed Ends.
  • Chris1401
    Chris1401 Posts: 354
    Camp Freddy with guests Ozzy Osbourne, Slash, Macy Gray, Steve Jones, Cypress Hill, Mark McGrath and Steve Stevens, at a party in Hollywood. Maybe 500 people there.

    Neil Young and Crazy Horse in a 1500 seat theater. 

    Flickerstick in front of about 10 people at a sports bar in college. 

    Not a surprise show, but I recently saw the Melvins in a small bar. What a show! 
  • Zod
    Zod Posts: 10,909
    It wasn't secret, but Pearl Jam at the commodore fit's the bill.  1100 seat bar in Vancouver.  It was an event for 99.3 the fox in Vancouver.   You could only win tix off the radio.   I tried extremely hard to get tix, so I was pretty stoked once I won a pair.
  • dankind
    dankind Posts: 20,841
    LukinFan said:
    dankind said:
    Off the top of my head:

    • Pearl Jam at HOB Lake Buena Vista in 2003

    I remember finding out about this show the next day (I had gone to the Tampa show - which I think was a day or two before the HOB show). I think you had to win tickets through a radio station to get?
    Yes. It was a contest. Record stores (Tower or Virgin or HMV) also had a contest for this one through the label.
    I SAW PEARL JAM
  • lolobugg
    lolobugg BLUE RDGE MTNS Posts: 8,195

    Dave Grohl and Warren Haynes-  Snow Jam 2018 at the Peel in Asheville NC

    $10 tickets and was announced about 4 hours before the show took place.

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  • CantKeepmedown
    CantKeepmedown Portland, Maine Posts: 3,120
    I don't think it was a secret, but PJ at the HOB in Florida in 2003.  My buddy, who lived in Orlando at the time, won tickets over the radio.  He called me on Thursday night and said he had a ticket and a place to stay, I just had to get down there.  Booked a flight and took off the next morning.  Fun time seeing them in such a small setting.  

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