BigRedLedbetter wrote:Also, fuuuuuuuuuuuck outdoor concerts in the summer most of the time. Too hot.
This has been every Australian show since the 2006 tour, it's a bummer.
My buddy lived in Sydney for a year but help me with your weather there. Like was it hot as fuck these shows or nice out?
40 degrees in the baking sun at Adelaide earlier this year, that's 104 for you guys (I think).
Damn. I endured 95+ twice. I can't imagine 104.
For someone who hates the heat, it wasn't a fun time.
Here's hoping they finally play indoors again next time around (and that it's sooner than 4 or 5 years away).
It was 44C/111F at the Sydney 2009 show with Liam Finn and Ben Harper - absolutely brutal day. I sweat so much I didn't need a piss-break for the whole 5 hours (despite drinking heaps of water).
Us Aussies really deserve a proper arena tour after only BDO and stadium shows since 2006.
BigRedLedbetter wrote:Also, fuuuuuuuuuuuck outdoor concerts in the summer most of the time. Too hot.
This has been every Australian show since the 2006 tour, it's a bummer.
My buddy lived in Sydney for a year but help me with your weather there. Like was it hot as fuck these shows or nice out?
40 degrees in the baking sun at Adelaide earlier this year, that's 104 for you guys (I think).
Damn. I endured 95+ twice. I can't imagine 104.
For someone who hates the heat, it wasn't a fun time.
Here's hoping they finally play indoors again next time around (and that it's sooner than 4 or 5 years away).
It was 44C/111F at the Sydney 2009 show with Liam Finn and Ben Harper - absolutely brutal day. I sweat so much I didn't need a piss-break for the whole 5 hours (despite drinking heaps of water).
Us Aussies really deserve a proper arena tour after only BDO and stadium shows since 2006.
About as much as us Kiwi's deserve a dedicated tour over here for being forgotten about between 98-2011
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barefeet222 wrote:They were on fire that night. As I recall that was the return of Baba O'Riley too.
My point wasn't that length makes a show epic, but '98 Chicago was one of their longer shows to that point and now it would be considered short. It might help that this is a 3 week tour whereas '98 they had to "pace themselves". That was a long tour.
You're very right though. If the setlist for Chicago 98 was a 2014 setlist, a lot of people would instantly write it off as being a lesser show than these three-plus hour affairs.
BigRedLedbetter wrote:Also, fuuuuuuuuuuuck outdoor concerts in the summer most of the time. Too hot.
This has been every Australian show since the 2006 tour, it's a bummer.
My buddy lived in Sydney for a year but help me with your weather there. Like was it hot as fuck these shows or nice out?
40 degrees in the baking sun at Adelaide earlier this year, that's 104 for you guys (I think).
Damn. I endured 95+ twice. I can't imagine 104.
For someone who hates the heat, it wasn't a fun time.
Here's hoping they finally play indoors again next time around (and that it's sooner than 4 or 5 years away).
It was 44C/111F at the Sydney 2009 show with Liam Finn and Ben Harper - absolutely brutal day. I sweat so much I didn't need a piss-break for the whole 5 hours (despite drinking heaps of water).
Us Aussies really deserve a proper arena tour after only BDO and stadium shows since 2006.
About as much as us Kiwi's deserve a dedicated tour over here for being forgotten about between 98-2011
If the band can play South America in 2011 and 2013 and Europe basically annually, it is kind of disappointing that we only saw a (relatively minimal) stadium tour in 2009 followed by a run of festival dates in 2014.
Rangi Guy wrote:
About as much as us Kiwi's deserve a dedicated tour over here for being forgotten about between 98-2011
Touché! Three shows in 16 years is pretty disappointing when you consider Berlin is almost as far from Seattle and has gotten 5 in 5 years.
Birds in Hell wrote:If the band can play South America in 2011 and 2013 and Europe basically annually, it is kind of disappointing that we only saw a (relatively minimal) stadium tour in 2009 followed by a run of festival dates in 2014.
You'd think the surf and (until recently) strong Aussie dollar would be more enticing
Lament wrote:Fun fact: Wrigley Field was the first time someone singled me out for being "From RM" and treated me with disdain on account of it. I was still relatively unknown on here at the time. I guess that's where the line in the sand was drawn.
Lament wrote:Fun fact: Wrigley Field was the first time someone singled me out for being "From RM" and treated me with disdain on account of it. I was still relatively unknown on here at the time. I guess that's where the line in the sand was drawn.
Ha. Almost the same thing happened to me with the couple I got my ticket from. They were all cool-nice-to-meet-you until they asked about my username on the pit and I said "oh, I usually don't post there. I'm more on RM..." and that was the end of that budding friendship. Still got that ticket though.
Is there some rivalry with the 10c board and RM that I'm not aware of?
Lament wrote:Fun fact: Wrigley Field was the first time someone singled me out for being "From RM" and treated me with disdain on account of it. I was still relatively unknown on here at the time. I guess that's where the line in the sand was drawn.
BigRedLedbetter wrote:
"How am I supposed to enjoy this knowing how much I could have scalped my tickets for?"
An interesting thought which has crossed my mind once or twice.
Justification = Whatever else I could have spent that money on would be boring in comparison.
Plus I'm not a dick when it comes to PJ tix and have never sold extras above face.
There have been a handful of times I have had extra tickets to concerts or sporting events and I have sold them for face value. Anything above just feels sleazy to me.
"My balls feels like they're in a French press." ~ bodysnatcher
Lament wrote:Fun fact: Wrigley Field was the first time someone singled me out for being "From RM" and treated me with disdain on account of it. I was still relatively unknown on here at the time. I guess that's where the line in the sand was drawn.
Ha. Almost the same thing happened to me with the couple I got my ticket from. They were all cool-nice-to-meet-you until they asked about my username on the pit and I said "oh, I usually don't post there. I'm more on RM..." and that was the end of that budding friendship. Still got that ticket though.
Is there some rivalry with the 10c board and RM that I'm not aware of?
FUCK the pit
So there's that.
broken iris wrote:
Bammer wrote:
Justification = Whatever else I could have spent that money on would be boring in comparison.
You could have gotten a pretty sweet ZJ for that money.
Haha that too.
"My balls feels like they're in a French press." ~ bodysnatcher
