yay! concert tickets!
Jun. 21st, 2007 11:36 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rusty_haloI got Velvet Revolver/Alice in Chains tickets!! :)
I'm going to three shows: Jones Beach in NY, PNC Bank Arts Center in NJ, and "Tweeter Center at the Waterfront" in Camden, across the water from Philadelphia.
(WTF is up with these corporate venue names? You know even Jones Beach is actually "Nikon at Jones Beach Theater" now? Disgusting. But, whatever, it's not time to rant.)
They're playing these big outdoor arenas, which kind of sucks because 1) I hate the outdoors and 2) most of them have assigned seating without a GA area. I know I at least got good seats for the PNC Bank Arts Center (that name!! it hurts to type!!) show, because I got them through the Velvet Revolver presale and they're in the 5th row (there's no pit). Jones Beach also lacks a pit, and I don't know how my seats are--I know they're in the front sections, but I got them through the Alice in Chains presale which doesn't assign seats until later (grrr).
But, best of all, I got PIT TICKETS for the Camden show! Yay! That's actually the arena where I attended my first (or second, I forget, maybe the first was Foo Fighters...) show ever, which was Lollapalooza '97.
The main thing I remember about that show was that it was incredibly hot outside and everything was really expensive. The band I liked best (Korn) only played a brief mid-day set, most of the bands sucked, and the only other one I knew well was James (remember they had that hit called "Laid" in the early '90s?). Tool was the headliner but I didn't like them, so we left right after they began and I didn't even see them play. The boy I had a crush on was there--seated waaaay in front of us--but I didn't talk to him, although I did talk to my friend Chris who was with him (and who I didn't know well yet, silly me, I thought he was a scary boy). And my friend Danielle, who was the only person there with me, went in with me to buy 100 sticks of incense and split them. I had those 50 sticks of incense in my bedroom all through high school, although they were pretty crappy and it wasn't a good idea to actually burn one.
I think I saw Marilyn Manson the first--maybe second?--time there, too. That was the arena where they wouldn't let us bring our backpacks in, even though mine was really more like a purse. And we'd taken the ferry across the river to get there, so it wasn't like we could just "put them in the car." So we ended up burying them in the back behind some landscaping, and thankfully were able to retrieve them once the show was over!
I also saw Pearl Jam there, with my Mom and Danielle, but it was kind of after my Pearl Jam phase, so while it was cool I wasn't *that* excited. Still, it was neat, and the seats (which I got through their fan club) were awesome.
So, yeah, the POINT of that ramble is that it's kind of cool to be going back there, and to actually be in the pit for once.
Although I do have to figure out how to *get* there... that's the annoying part. There are buses to Jones Beach and PNC Bank Arts Center, but Camden? I know there's public transportation to Philly but getting home *after* the show will be a problem. Maybe I can get my mom to drive and hang out in Philly while I go to the show... I really don't want to sleep in a train station in Philadelphia.... *crosses fingers*
I'm going to three shows: Jones Beach in NY, PNC Bank Arts Center in NJ, and "Tweeter Center at the Waterfront" in Camden, across the water from Philadelphia.
(WTF is up with these corporate venue names? You know even Jones Beach is actually "Nikon at Jones Beach Theater" now? Disgusting. But, whatever, it's not time to rant.)
They're playing these big outdoor arenas, which kind of sucks because 1) I hate the outdoors and 2) most of them have assigned seating without a GA area. I know I at least got good seats for the PNC Bank Arts Center (that name!! it hurts to type!!) show, because I got them through the Velvet Revolver presale and they're in the 5th row (there's no pit). Jones Beach also lacks a pit, and I don't know how my seats are--I know they're in the front sections, but I got them through the Alice in Chains presale which doesn't assign seats until later (grrr).
But, best of all, I got PIT TICKETS for the Camden show! Yay! That's actually the arena where I attended my first (or second, I forget, maybe the first was Foo Fighters...) show ever, which was Lollapalooza '97.
The main thing I remember about that show was that it was incredibly hot outside and everything was really expensive. The band I liked best (Korn) only played a brief mid-day set, most of the bands sucked, and the only other one I knew well was James (remember they had that hit called "Laid" in the early '90s?). Tool was the headliner but I didn't like them, so we left right after they began and I didn't even see them play. The boy I had a crush on was there--seated waaaay in front of us--but I didn't talk to him, although I did talk to my friend Chris who was with him (and who I didn't know well yet, silly me, I thought he was a scary boy). And my friend Danielle, who was the only person there with me, went in with me to buy 100 sticks of incense and split them. I had those 50 sticks of incense in my bedroom all through high school, although they were pretty crappy and it wasn't a good idea to actually burn one.
I think I saw Marilyn Manson the first--maybe second?--time there, too. That was the arena where they wouldn't let us bring our backpacks in, even though mine was really more like a purse. And we'd taken the ferry across the river to get there, so it wasn't like we could just "put them in the car." So we ended up burying them in the back behind some landscaping, and thankfully were able to retrieve them once the show was over!
I also saw Pearl Jam there, with my Mom and Danielle, but it was kind of after my Pearl Jam phase, so while it was cool I wasn't *that* excited. Still, it was neat, and the seats (which I got through their fan club) were awesome.
So, yeah, the POINT of that ramble is that it's kind of cool to be going back there, and to actually be in the pit for once.
Although I do have to figure out how to *get* there... that's the annoying part. There are buses to Jones Beach and PNC Bank Arts Center, but Camden? I know there's public transportation to Philly but getting home *after* the show will be a problem. Maybe I can get my mom to drive and hang out in Philly while I go to the show... I really don't want to sleep in a train station in Philadelphia.... *crosses fingers*
