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I'm doing reserved seating. I'm too old for GA floor anymore. Even at small venues, I just get pissed off. It would be nice to be super close (that's been one of my Pearl Jam goals/dreams), but at this point, I'll take comfort over closeness. Just get me in the space and let me rock out with some good tunes and maybe a beer or two.

Plus, it's at the Barclay's center. I can walk there and walk home after. Awesome.

There's definitely a value to knowing that you don't have to show up 2 hours early to get a decent spot, don't have to worry about losing your spot whenever you leave to take a piss or get a beer, and not having to worry about late-arriving, 7-foot-tall people crowding right in front of you right before the band takes the stage. I'll take reserved seating over GA any day.

And I love how people presume that just because it's GA that the same 40-year olds who would otherwise be in front of the stage with reserved seating all of a sudden transform into the model, totally into it fans simply by taking the seats away.

Lisa Bolton SO sick of the bitching, never happy.....most of the people who are members of this fan club are the whiniest, most ungrateful, self-entitled group of people I've ever come across. Flame away, I don't give a shit....sometimes I dread these announcements because then for weeks all we hear about it how it's not good enough. For all this band has given us over the years....these 'fans' should be ashamed.
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durdencommatyler wrote:I'm doing reserved seating. I'm too old for GA floor anymore. Even at small venues, I just get pissed off. It would be nice to be super close (that's been one of my Pearl Jam goals/dreams), but at this point, I'll take comfort over closeness. Just get me in the space and let me rock out with some good tunes and maybe a beer or two.

Plus, it's at the Barclay's center. I can walk there and walk home after. Awesome.

I look forward to seeing you at this show, Joey

stip wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:I'm doing reserved seating. I'm too old for GA floor anymore. Even at small venues, I just get pissed off. It would be nice to be super close (that's been one of my Pearl Jam goals/dreams), but at this point, I'll take comfort over closeness. Just get me in the space and let me rock out with some good tunes and maybe a beer or two.

Plus, it's at the Barclay's center. I can walk there and walk home after. Awesome.

I look forward to seeing you at this show, Joey

Are you doing the 18th or 19th or both?

Hopefully more people see the folly of the lotto now. The GA option just makes it worse, as it becomes a defacto one show only policy as you now pick the GA/Res for 1/2 for whatever show you really want to go to. AND since the first half of the floor is GA, the people who did sit in the first 15 rows based on seniority now sit in row 40-55.

durdencommatyler wrote:

stip wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:I'm doing reserved seating. I'm too old for GA floor anymore. Even at small venues, I just get pissed off. It would be nice to be super close (that's been one of my Pearl Jam goals/dreams), but at this point, I'll take comfort over closeness. Just get me in the space and let me rock out with some good tunes and maybe a beer or two.

Plus, it's at the Barclay's center. I can walk there and walk home after. Awesome.

I look forward to seeing you at this show, Joey

Are you doing the 18th or 19th or both?

i put in for both. I will probably try to get tickets for both one way or the other.

broken iris wrote:Hopefully more people see the folly of the lotto now. The GA option just makes it worse, as it becomes a defacto one show only policy as you now pick the GA/Res for 1/2 for whatever show you really want to go to. AND since the first half of the floor is GA, the people who did sit in the first 15 rows based on seniority now sit in row 40-55.

i have a good number and think this is fairer on balance. You used to only get one show. Now you can still get multiple shows, but the likelihood of getting shut out of your top priority is less. And while I could do without the GA, that's simply because I don't want to see a show that way.

the fan club number still greatly increases the likelihood I'll get seats, that they will be good, that they will be better than someone who joined later, and i don't need to spend 4 hours refreshing f5

stip wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:

stip wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:I'm doing reserved seating. I'm too old for GA floor anymore. Even at small venues, I just get pissed off. It would be nice to be super close (that's been one of my Pearl Jam goals/dreams), but at this point, I'll take comfort over closeness. Just get me in the space and let me rock out with some good tunes and maybe a beer or two.

Plus, it's at the Barclay's center. I can walk there and walk home after. Awesome.

I look forward to seeing you at this show, Joey

Are you doing the 18th or 19th or both?

i put in for both. I will probably try to get tickets for both one way or the other.

I absolutely want to do the 19th (the 18th is my wife's birthday). And I only put in for that one.

I'm 26 and I would do GA in a heartbeat. Unfortunately, they're not coming to Miami... Ever.

sounds like it better happen quick

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lvc wrote:Moving this from the countdown forum.

I'm from Louisville (like some other person who just posted a great lament in the countdown thread). It seems to me like an ideal place to drop a tour date. Louisville could draw fans from Nashville, Indianapolis, Cincinnati, and possibly even St. Louis and Columbus OH. Heck, even Birmingham, AL is only 5.5 hours away. AND it's within an hour's drive of the best bourbon to be found anywhere ever in history. Louisville's the prime city to reach a big chunk of the country that usually gets overlooked. I'm beginning to think that when, in Lexington in 2003, Eddie Vedder said it was a night to remember, he may have just been pandering.

Can someone PM me Kelly Curtis' phone number?

Guess i didn't realize I posted a "lament,", but you are correct, that's exactly what it was.

Springsteen, the Who, Dave Matthews, Roger Waters, the Eagles (twice), the Chili Peppers, Jimmy Buffett, Elton John, etc... can all play Louisville in this brand new venue, all since 2010 (the time of the last PJ tour). Meanwhile, the only band I care about, who hasn't played here in 19 years can skip it, and in fact, get only as close as a 7 hour drive on their counted-down, big, North American Tour (which really wasn't that big).

I had low expectations for the countdown. Thought we might get a sneak at the single, maybe an album title and release date (and maybe that will come Thursday). I knew the tour would be the big reveal, but the only thing I cared about was which shows I could get to. Turns out, the answer is zero.

First show was Toledo '96- that was a huge deal for me. Caught them in Indianapolis, Nashville, St. Louis, Lexington, Cincinnati, and/or Columbus in 98, 00, 03 and 06. I would be satisfied if I could do that again this time around, but, no dice. Pittsburgh, Charlottesville, Charlotte are all just a little bit much for road trip and back.

I planned long trips & vacations around the Gorge in 06, Alpine Valley in 98, drove up for the United Center in Chicago in 09.... Just can't swing these type of trips any more.



I am thankful for the Wrigley show. I have planned an entire weekend around it, and it will be a blast. But.... probably the last time I see them for many, many years.

I really like the video. And the music. Sounds like Jeff.

that instrumental piece is pretty haunting. music for the end of the world

stip wrote:that instrumental piece is pretty haunting. music for the end of the world

so, Miami?

stip wrote:Now you can still get multiple shows, but the likelihood of getting shut out of your top priority is less.

So that is probably true, but if you are shut out you have no other chance at 10c tickets, which is the real kicker. Look at what is likely for Philly:

You can't do:

1.) night 1 ga
2.) night 1 res
3.) night 2 ga
4.) night 2 res

because you can only get selected for one night, thus throwing away your third and forth picks if you are not selected for your one or two, so the likely choice is:

1.) night 1 ga
2.) night 1 res
3.) balt ga
4.) balt res

with someone who prefers philly night 2 choosing:

1.) night 2 ga
2.) night 2 res
3.) balt ga
4.) balt res

making baltimore into 1 or 2 only option.


There are going to be a lot of people who loose out completely, and with my 1-9 track record in the lotto, I gotta assume I will be one of them.

are there a finite amount of shows you can request tickets for?

I haven't been following this new 10C style for tickets too closely...

So if I do not get selected (put in both GA and Reserved for Baltimore), then I'm gonna be SOL on 10c tickets?

stip wrote:sounds like it better happen quick

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Wouldn't New Orleans be doomed first? Perhaps that's why Voodoo is on the list this year....

Fine I'll try for the 19th!
I have no idea how I feel about this band anymore...