I just started browsing this neighborhood and this subject caught my eye. A very bad memory flooded into my mind . . . :( I was very fortunate to obtain coveted tickets to a local Elton John concert in 2005; people kept saying "how did you get those so easily" because it sold out right away - I just hit ticketmaster at the right moment when they went on sale. Anyway, I was SO looking forward to it. It was getting great reviews in other cities. I thought it was the upcoming Saturday. On Friday night around 11 PM my hubby woke me up and said, "is he doing TWO concerts here?" OMG! Of course not; the concert was Friday night, not Saturday! I slept right through it !! I kept thinking how people must have looked at those two empty seats in the front rows and thinking, "what kind of idiot???"
I missed The Cure. It was an open air venue and there was a severe thunderstorm that night. Heard it was one of the most beautiful shows they've ever done. :( Prayers For Rain -BloodFlowers Tour
The Pink Floyd 1987 tour in Philadelphia. Tickets sold out fast so my 4 buddies suggested we do what we always did go to the show and look for scalpers. The trick is to wait until the show starts the the prices drop. We did this dozens of times but this time I bailed. I figured no way in hell could we get in.
Now here is the part that haunts me to this day. My buddies go they can't score tickets so they decide to go to the stage side of JFK just to hang out and hear the show.
Here is the part that kills me. Some dude walks up to them carrying duffel bag with shirts a and asks if they want to make a couple of bucks working the show. So my buddy John says they don't fell like hustling t-shirts in the parking lot. The guy says no man the shirts are for you to wear the roadies need some extra hands. So I sat at home while my buds made $20 bucks, watched Floyd form back stage, got road crew shirts and became local heroes.
They still love busting my balls about that show and I can't blame them.
My ex brother-in-law had tickets for Elvis Presley but the King passed on. Poor John, I think that is going to bother him the rest of his life. John and his family grew up dirt-poor in Europe during hard times. USA and Elvis was/is everything to John. And the poor sob married my witch of a sister who later divorced him and took the McMansion. Like Rod sang: "...some guys have all the luck...some guys have all the pain..."!
My school chum Dean, years out of college, married with children - and the poor guy had a heart attack at a Jimmy Buffett Concert. He lived. Good thing he didn't go to see the Insane Clown Posse, his head would have exploded.
Yes, YES. Was on the way to see YES on the DRAMA tour in '80 Was driving nortbound on rte. 95 headed to Providence RI with a freind when a airline on my airshocks broke in my '73 Plymouth 'CUDA. Had leave my 'CUDA on the side of the highway and walk through a rough section in the city the find a phonebooth (remember them ?) by the time I located a HOOKER( the type with wheels) the concert was over. Damn we had some good seats too. That was also the only time YES toured with that lineup also.
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