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ThatsMyBoye posted:Snagged two tickets to see my avatar boys at Irving Plaza next week. A 1,000-person GA-only venue is what I need to wipe out the taste of the seated Kimmel Center show in Philly What was bad about that show? Curious... I am not a huge fan but like them ok but feel slightly bad about standing someone up the night of their show when they kept pressing me to go days before.
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ThatsMyBoye posted:Snagged two tickets to see my avatar boys at Irving Plaza next week. A 1,000-person GA-only venue is what I need to wipe out the taste of the seated Kimmel Center show in Philly Oh man Irving Plaza. U2's Irving Plaza show from 2000 is goddamned legendary. Well I mean amongst us terrible U2 fans. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrrLPGExxpA
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I cant remember the last time I payed over $40 for any ticket, you guys in big coast cities? I am thinking of seeing Bad Bad Hats tomorrow. It will cost 10 dollars and probably have 20 people max at it. Mmmmmm. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOUC6m82xEc
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I'm thinking of paying $40 to see tune-yards. I feel like that show would be awesome
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Jan 20, 2018 01:44
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see tune-yards. support queer artists.
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thehoodie posted:I'm thinking of paying $40 to see tune-yards. I feel like that show would be awesome I saw her a few years ago. It is quite a unique show (Dine on Tots), but good nonetheless. I meet Merrill at a restaurant down the street just before that show, and just made me remember this new VIP trend. I have noticed in the past year or so a lot of artists offering VIP where you pay like $100 or so on top of the ticket price and get to meet them before doors and get some other merchandise poo poo. This has been really bugging me a lot. I get people want to meet artists and are willing to pay for it if they want, but it feels so weird to me to pay that much to walk up to them to get a picture and say something for ten seconds? Yes anything over a small indie venue is impossible to meet with fans, but I have meet artists over the years by just bumping into them on the streets or around town before the show and that experience is far more gratifying than paying out some fee to have the same lame experience as a few dozen others. Ranty I know, but it's been bugging me every time the VIP option pops up on ticket checkout.
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Slandible posted:I cant remember the last time I payed over $40 for any ticket, you guys in big coast cities? DC here. I'm surprised how far back I had to go. Without fees, the last expensive shows I saw were Adam Ant ($35), Chvrches ($35), and Morrissey ($55). I would have paid a lot of money to see Depeche Mode and Warpaint last year (dream bill), but I had a conflict.  I feel like $10–25 shows are the best value. I just bought tickets to see Japanese Breakfast at the 9:30 Club for $18 ($29 with fees  ). Excited to see her headline.
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I'm really liking the new Porches albumDasNeonLicht posted:I just bought tickets to see Japanese Breakfast at the 9:30 Club for $18 ($29 with fees Mine was $13 ($17.25 total) for Ottobar in Baltimore Big City Drinkin fucked around with this message at 03:09 on Jan 20, 2018 |
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I live in Baltimore and work in DC and laughed at these posts. Let's hang guys...
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T Bowl posted:What was bad about that show? Curious... I am not a huge fan but like them ok but feel slightly bad about standing someone up the night of their show when they kept pressing me to go days before. The National have a completely different vibe when you're in GA. Of the handful of times I've seen them, 4 or 5 have been in standing GA, and those were both A) more energetic on the band's part and B) more engaged on the audience's part than that Philly show. There was no movement at Kimmel, even when Matt perused the crowd like he usually does. It was just a different vibe that ran afoul of what I knew to be National shows before that. If you're at one of those shows and in the pack of a GA crowd, there's just more life to the show.
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Jan 20, 2018 06:03
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All shows should be GA
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Earlier I paid $33 to see Sleigh Bells in a couple weeks. I've seen them before at a festival and that absolutely seems like a fair price. Their live shows are intense as gently caress.
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Jan 20, 2018 07:10
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AverySpecialfriend posted:All shows should be GA Agreed. I won't go to assigned seating shows anymore.
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CLAM DOWN posted:Agreed. I won't go to assigned seating shows anymore.
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I saw Ben Folds at an assigned seating show last year and while he a fantastic musician, I just didn't enjoy the concert experience because of the seats. GA or I'm staying home now, basically.
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CLAM DOWN posted:I saw Ben Folds at an assigned seating show last year and while he a fantastic musician, I just didn't enjoy the concert experience because of the seats. GA or I'm staying home now, basically.
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Jan 20, 2018 07:54
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The only exception I'd make is for M83, because I love M83 more than anything in the universe.
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CLAM DOWN posted:The only exception I'd make is for M83, because I love M83 more than anything in the universe.
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:I saw M83 in 2016 and I was in the front row of GA, literally a few feet away from Anthony. It was at a theater that has a balcony with seats too, but I had been waiting over a decade to see them live at that point. No loving way I was gonna be that far away. When they played in Vancouver in 2016 it was GA and I was dead centre of the floor like 10m back from the stage. It was a dream.
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CLAM DOWN posted:I saw Ben Folds at an assigned seating show last year and while he a fantastic musician, I just didn't enjoy the concert experience because of the seats. GA or I'm staying home now, basically. Did he rock this bitch? I've seen him three times. First was with an orchestra, though I had lovely seating there. Second was solo and third with his band at the time, around 2011? He's a great entertainer. Good stories and always keen to improv.
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SwissCM posted:Did he rock this bitch? It was his solo piano show, the paper airplanes tour, he is so goddamn talented. At intermission we all wrote requests on paper airplanes then threw them, then he'd pick up random ones to play that song. I made a gif of the moment:  Very fun show.
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thehoodie posted:I'm thinking of paying $40 to see tune-yards. I feel like that show would be awesome She puts on an amazing show. Not a fan of the new album though. e: What I've heard from it, I mean.
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I've only seen Ben Folds once, like 6 years ago, with Minus The Bear at a local university. It was all seating since it was in a college auditorium. There was like barely anyone there for Minus The Bear, who I mainly went to see. That was weird, because I've seen them several other times and they've had a much bigger crowd every other time. But people showed up in droves for Ben Folds and went loving crazy for him.
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I've seen the Avett Brothers about 6 times. 2 have been seated and the rest GA. They do a good job of having two separate styles of shows for different venues. Mainly GA venues are a fuckin' rock show and for seated theaters they play more slow stuff. However for the last show, it was a theater show and I was on the front row. The *entire* theater stood the whole time and it was a fun raucous time EXCEPT for the first two rows. Almost everyone in the first two rows sat down. It was weird. My wife and I stood the whole time though and Scott came and high fived us because we were standing. As I'm about to turn 40 I keep swearing I'm going to switch to seating at shows instead of GA, but every time it comes to buying tickets I can't do it. I always get GA. It's just the best.
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Seeing The National tonight for my first time and am very excited.
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All shows should be assigned seats, no standing allowed, no opener, no encore, and over by 10pm. gently caress I’m old now....
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ogopogo posted:Seeing The National tonight for my first time and am very excited. No matter where you are, you have at least a 5% chance of Matt being out in the crowd next to you during Terrible Love
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resident posted:All shows should be assigned seats, no standing allowed, no opener, no encore, and over by 10pm. gently caress I’m old now.... 
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Jan 20, 2018 23:34
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Why are encores even a thing anymore. Just play your setlist all the way through instead of pretending to end the concert for 5 minutes, jerks
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HorseRenoir posted:Why are encores even a thing anymore. Just play your setlist all the way through instead of pretending to end the concert for 5 minutes, jerks
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Jan 20, 2018 23:53
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I worker security in high school in 2004 and the eagles did i think five as well.
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resident posted:All shows should be assigned seats, no standing allowed, no opener, no encore, and over by 10pm. gently caress I’m old now.... Either old or German.
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HorseRenoir posted:Why are encores even a thing anymore. Just play your setlist all the way through instead of pretending to end the concert for 5 minutes, jerks Sometimes you really need to piss
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Trig Discipline posted:Either old or German. German heritage on both sides. I’m having a moment of transcendental clarity. *puts on Tago Mago vinyl*
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:I saw The Cure in 2016 and they played, no exaggeration, 5 encores lmao Same here. Their encores were longer than their main set.
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resident posted:All shows should be assigned seats, no standing allowed, no opener, no encore, and over by 10pm. gently caress I’m old now.... I agree with times, especially on weekdays. All the small indie venues around here think doors at 10 and main acts going on after midnight on a weekday is alright. What person working can go to these!?
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I got a promotion a few years ago and my hours changed from 10am-6pm to 6am-2pm and my entire life changed. I went from seeing like 40 shows a year and all my best friends were bartenders to being lame and sleepy all the time. Electronic stuff is brutal because acts don't even want to start until 1am and poo poo.
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glynnenstein posted:I got a promotion a few years ago and my hours changed from 10am-6pm to 6am-2pm and my entire life changed. I went from seeing like 40 shows a year and all my best friends were bartenders to being lame and sleepy all the time. Electronic stuff is brutal because acts don't even want to start until 1am and poo poo. I would so not take that promotion haha, live music is my life.
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AverySpecialfriend posted:All shows should be GA and all ages gently caress that, GA and 19+ (drinking age here is 19)
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