Next "Seattle" Show: New Arena in Everett, WA?

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  • fragileblake
    fragileblake Posts: 716
    aNiMaL wrote:
    On The Gorge - I am not sure why you think they will never play there again. They and the crowds over the 2005 and 2006 shows seemed to have a real good time. I bet we see them at the Gorge again if they are touring or playing in the summer time. I would put money on it. Summer time Washington state show would go to the Gorge again.

    On White River - that place fucking blows!! I hope they never ever play that shitty venue. First off, it is on the rainy side of the mountains and the parking situation is ATROCIOUS!! Nope, I would rather them play The Gorge if in the summer, or inside of an arena in the off weather season.

    On Memorial Stadium - Pearl Jam played there for the YIELD tour in 1998 and it was great! I remember it well. I could see them playing there again if in the summer...but again, summertime reverts back to the Gorge in my opinion.

    A. I never said they'd "never play there again". I just think that after two tours in a row they'll probably select a different venue (again, if you had read my comments, very uncommon for them to play the same venue more than two tours in a row). Plus we have no idea if the west coast dates will be in the summer on the next tour (although its likely that they would).

    B. The parking situation isn't horrible at all if you park at the super mall in auburn and take the free shuttle. Few people are smart enough to look at the website and read that though. And its no shittier than many of the corporate amps they play on the east coast.

    C. I didn't say Memorial Stadium, I said Memorial Coliseum. Either would be fine with me by the way.
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  • fragileblake
    fragileblake Posts: 716
    BeerBaron wrote:
    9k is too small. That's equivalent to some of the smaller arenas on the Canadian tour in 05.

    Well I guess I must have imagined the three shows at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium (capacity of 7k for concerts) in 2006.
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  • fragileblake
    fragileblake Posts: 716
    I got the same e-mail! Crazy. I can't remember the last time I heard of a sell out at the rose garden, besides the blazers obviously.
    South of Seattle wrote:
    That would never happen. But I wish it would :) That MMJ show was epic.

    I think the Rose Garden doesn't sell out, because Portland show goer's are a little picky. If it's in arena, no one goes, Don't care who it is. I got an email from the promoter doing the NIN show this weekend and they're having a special ticket offer of $20 tickets. :eek: Since there are quite a few left over.
    Overall the sound quality there sucks unless you're close, which is weird since that arena was supposedly designed with Acoustics in mind.
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  • fragileblake
    fragileblake Posts: 716
    Random thought of the evening: what about bumbershoot?
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  • Arborview
    Arborview Posts: 5
    sorry fragileblake, but the White River more than blows. Granted the parking situation is 85% of that and I am sure that the shuttle is much better, but when most of the folks making the trip do not live in the Auburn/Kent valley there, driving that far and going to the Supermall to take a shuttle (especially when all roads leading to the place are very high on the shitty traffic scale) make it blow even that much more. It frankly is not very accessible, and even once it is, it is very sub-par
  • fragileblake
    fragileblake Posts: 716
    Man, I've made the drive up from Portland several times without incident. Evidently I'm just not as inclined to bitch about things as most. I agree, its a shitty corporate amphitheater thats not as good as the gorge.......Just like nearly every other amphitheater they play.
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  • aNiMaL
    aNiMaL Posts: 7,117
    fragileblake wrote:
    A. I never said they'd "never play there again". I just think that after two tours in a row they'll probably select a different venue (again, if you had read my comments, very uncommon for them to play the same venue more than two tours in a row). Plus we have no idea if the west coast dates will be in the summer on the next tour (although its likely that they would).

    B. The parking situation isn't horrible at all if you park at the super mall in auburn and take the free shuttle. Few people are smart enough to look at the website and read that though. And its no shittier than many of the corporate amps they play on the east coast.

    C. I didn't say Memorial Stadium, I said Memorial Coliseum. Either would be fine with me by the way.
    You're right, you never said "never" about the Gorge. Sorry about misreading that. I still think they would play there on their next local go-round if in the summer.

    I hate White River - for more reasons than their atrocious parking situation.

    Sorry about the Memorial confusion; I had never heard of Memorial Coliseum in Portland and thought you meant Memorial Stadium in Seattle.
  • aNiMaL
    aNiMaL Posts: 7,117
    fragileblake wrote:
    Man, I've made the drive up from Portland several times without incident. Evidently I'm just not as inclined to bitch about things as most. I agree, its a shitty corporate amphitheater thats not as good as the gorge.......Just like nearly every other amphitheater they play.
    But when you live here, not other places, and we have been spoiled with the Gorge for so many years, White River just will never meet our expectations of an amphitheatre.
  • fragileblake
    fragileblake Posts: 716
    No problem dawg. The Memorial Coliseum is the arena we had before the Rose Garden. The sound system kinda sucks now, but a few bands have played there recently presumably because of the smaller capacity (I think thats where the foo fighters/weezer show was but I could be wrong).
    aNiMaL wrote:
    You're right, you never said "never" about the Gorge. Sorry about misreading that. I still think they would play there on their next local go-round if in the summer.

    I hate White River - for more reasons than their atrocious parking situation.

    Sorry about the Memorial confusion; I had never heard of Memorial Coliseum in Portland and thought you meant Memorial Stadium in Seattle.
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  • EquallyWorthless
    EquallyWorthless Posts: 3,993
    Hawkshore wrote:
    Nah .........GM place in Vancouver holds over 18,600 for sports probably around 15,000 to 16,000 for concerts and PJ sale well here .......so why not just have a run of shows for those in the NW in Vancouver! :)

    The way the stage setup is for PJ GM Place holds 21,000. an extra 1 in the back and 2 on the floor. Think about it, its about 18,165 for canucks, that is all sold plus the floor and standing room only. Last night Metallica in the round was an estimated 24.
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  • fragileblake
    fragileblake Posts: 716
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_Place

    This says 14k. I know, wikipedia - but thats a big disparity in numbers. The end stage plus the rail takes up more rows than you think. Plus lots of seats can't be sold because of sightlines including some behind the stage.
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  • South of Seattle
    South of Seattle West Seattle Posts: 10,724
    fragileblake wrote:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_Place

    This says 14k. I know, wikipedia - but thats a big disparity in numbers. The end stage plus the rail takes up more rows than you think. Plus lots of seats can't be sold because of sightlines including some behind the stage.

    I think they could play the Coliseum. It's similar to the Forum in LA, and that sounded OK. All the Old Coliseum shows sounded good to me. Seen Page & Plant, Petty,& RATM there and the sound was just fine.
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  • fragileblake
    fragileblake Posts: 716
    Yeah, the only show I saw at memorial I was in the 2nd row, not the best way to judge acoustics. I'm just basing the low sound quality on hearsay (friends who saw death cab, could have definitely been their sound techs). I'm not sure what I'd do with myself if they played a full show here.......well I actually do know: go broke buying tickets to drag my friends there!
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  • South of Seattle
    South of Seattle West Seattle Posts: 10,724
    fragileblake wrote:
    Yeah, the only show I saw at memorial I was in the 2nd row, not the best way to judge acoustics. I'm just basing the low sound quality on hearsay (friends who saw death cab, could have definitely been their sound techs). I'm not sure what I'd do with myself if they played a full show here.......well I actually do know: go broke buying tickets to drag my friends there!

    The only thing I remembered about the last Rose Garden show was that they premiered the DTE video and everyone on the MAX train was piss drunk.

    It's been awhile for sure.
    NERDS!
  • fragileblake
    fragileblake Posts: 716
    2000-11-02 Portland, Oregon: Rose Garden Arena
    Set 1 Sometimes, Grievance, Corduroy, Go, Hail Hail, Dissident, Evacuation, Wishlist, Better Man, Given To Fly, State Of Love And Trust, Untitled, MFC, Habit, Thin Air, Even Flow, Black, Insignificance, Porch
    Encore 1 Soon Forget, Do The Evolution, Leatherman, Nothingman, Elderly Woman Behind The Counter In A Small Town, Rearviewmirror
    Encore 2 Fuckin' Up

    8 FUCKING YEARS MAN. Clinton administration old.........
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  • South of Seattle
    South of Seattle West Seattle Posts: 10,724
    Or even the Clark County Amphitheatre? In Washington and close to Portland ;)
    NERDS!
  • fragileblake
    fragileblake Posts: 716
    I'm down. They should do it fast though, I hear that place has become quite a money pit.
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