Ticketmaster "holds" good seats and releases them litle by little

I never go to any concerts any more

ZombieKitten said:

I'm almost there!

Ace said:

I was gonna go to a show next month, but I am not gonna pay $100 for a ticket at the back so, there you go, concert going days over for me.

ZombieKitten said:

It's not a money thing for me; I just find almost nothing worth doing the cattle-dance for anymore.

But I totally hear where you're coming from.

Ace said:

It IS about money for me when the seat is so bad you might as well watch it on youtube

ZombieKitten said:

Again, I totally understand what you're saying.

I hate to give away my ticket secrets but two things:

If you don't get great seats, check for tickets on the day of. I went to Stevie wonder last week with a great seat at the last minute.

Check with ticket brokers around the day of, too. Some of them are dying to get their money back.

Lothan said:

My cousin went to that show...I got a text message at 1:30am (EST) that said, "I just saw Stevie Wonder in concert!! Now I am complete." I can just imagine how excited he was---he is a huge Stevie fan. I bet it was a fantastic show...where was it?

Tickets just went on sale here for Springsteen and it's too funny how all the good seats are gone before the public on-sale even begins. I'm lucky, in that I have connections, but - for John Q. Public - it's gotta suck hard; I'm seeing reports like this for all of the shows (and this kinda thing is certainly not specific to The Boss).

On the plus side, I remember when we were kids, you'd line up all night in the freezing freakin' cold if you wanted to get a decent seat (if you didn't have an in). Nowadays, you can do the on-sale in your underwear, in bed. At least some things have improved.

Do you buy tickets through Ticketmaster or an equivalent? If so, have you ever pulled up anything great during the initial on-sale (via Internet or box office)? Of course, this question is not limited to music events.

Tickets just went on sale here for Springsteen and it's too funny how all the good seats are gone before the public on-sale even begins. I'm lucky, in that I have connections, but - for John Q. Public - it's gotta suck hard; I'm seeing reports like this for all of the shows (and this kinda thing is certainly not specific to The Boss).

On the plus side, I remember when we were kids, you'd line up all night in the freezing freakin' cold if you wanted to get a decent seat (if you didn't have an in). Nowadays, you can do the on-sale in your underwear, in bed. At least some things have improved.

Do you buy tickets through Ticketmaster or an equivalent? If so, have you ever pulled up anything great during the initial on-sale (via Internet or box office)? Of course, this question is not limited to music events.

Ace said:

Dude, you have GOT to hook me up if the Boss comes to Houston.

Sweeny79 said:

It's not Ticketmaster who holds them. They just put them into their system when they're released by the promoter/venue/artist.

I go to over 40 concerts a year. Fortunately, 90% of them are general admission small venue events that don't cost that much. For the few shows with assigned seating, I'm content to just sit in the back now. Sometimes that's even better like for the Nine Inch Nails show last year where you had to be further back to get the full impact of the Trent's lightshow.

The only time I've been up close for big shows was when NPGMC gave me front row tickets to the Musicology concerts here in New York back in 2004.

I go to over 40 concerts a year. Fortunately, 90% of them are general admission small venue events that don't cost that much. For the few shows with assigned seating, I'm content to just sit in the back now. Sometimes that's even better like for the Nine Inch Nails show last year where you had to be further back to get the full impact of the Trent's lightshow.

The only time I've been up close for big shows was when NPGMC gave me front row tickets to the Musicology concerts here in New York back in 2004.

sextonseven said:

really? i'd always assumed for NIN i'd have to be as close as humanly possible.

evenstar3 said:

For NIN, the light show was incredible--and impossible to see from the front row. I was midway back in the center and I saw the full effect. I was having eye-orgasms.

Maybe if you don't care about that stuff, then being up front is better, but for me the best seats in the venue were the ones I had.

sextonseven said:

I cannot imagine that it is better to be further back. I have been to very few concerts where I haven't been very close to the stage and I don't think I enjoyed any of those .

sextonseven said:

i think for me being closer to trent would be better.