All in All I got Tix to go see the Wall

trev · Post by **trev** » Sat Aug 21, 2010 5:32 pm

I would love to see that show. I just looked up their 2 nights in LA and the tix are around $300 average. I noticed you could purchase a parking ticket for $50. (Staples Center must really be proud of themselves.) WOW. My son already has tickets for that first night.

OCmike · Post by **OCmike** » Sat Aug 21, 2010 6:30 pm

Don't forget Ticketbastard's piece of the pie. Paying $20 to see a seating chart on the internet and run a credit card payment is an unsavory business transaction for the consumer.

Go Coogs' · Post by **Go Coogs'** » Sat Aug 21, 2010 7:37 pm

Doyle Bramhall Jr, I believe, was his last lead guitarist on his last US tour. His DVD concert in Portland, OR was one of the best I've seen as far as recorded concerts go, so IMO its worth it.

Maybe you're right, Buttsy, but Waters doesn't do half ass on his shows. He'll probably fix this in some form or way that is less revealing.

Does anyone know who is playing the part of Gilmour on this tour?

Moving Sale · Post by **Moving Sale** » Sat Aug 21, 2010 8:11 pm

Saw Billy Idol on Thurs at the local Indian Casino. Great show. Small venue. Steve Stevens rocked the house. Paid $75 a piece for the tickets which was totally worth it even before I walked from the place with $250 more than I walked in with.

Good times.

Screw_Michigan · Post by **Screw_Michigan** » Sat Aug 21, 2010 11:12 pm

Papa Willie wrote:His voice has been shot for years. It's an absolute ripoff that he's up there trying to sing with tracks provided with other singers, and also (more than likely) playing with his bass turned off.

Sounds like fraud.

War Wagon · Post by **War Wagon** » Sun Aug 22, 2010 5:49 am

If you're a PF junkie like myself, you'll not have a problem sitting thru ten minutes of this:

Dr_Phibes · Post by **Dr_Phibes** » Sun Aug 22, 2010 6:23 am

Looks like Cirque du Soleil. I bet a mini 'Wall' car drives up and fifty midgets pour out.

smackaholic · Post by **smackaholic** » Sun Aug 22, 2010 4:43 pm

Papa Willie wrote:So you paid $75 to see Billy Idol????

God damn, man. You seem to one-up yourself in the anus of stupidity each time you post. Mother of cow-fucking shit, you're a dumb fucker. :D

kind of what i was thinkin'.

chuck norris couldn't kick your ass any harder than you did there.

the most i've ever coughed up for a ticket is 50 bucks to see the eagles for their hell freezes over tour in....'95?

accounting for inflation, i'd say we paid similar prices. the thing is....i saw the fukking eagles, you saw.....pfffttt......billy idol.

me

MgoBlue-LightSpecial · Sun Aug 22, 2010 4:59 pm

So you paid $75 to see Billy Idol????

At the local casino, no less, where dinosaur acts go after they've died.

Jesus. Have a little dignity.

DiT · Post by **DiT** » Sun Aug 22, 2010 5:19 pm

MgoBlue-LightSpecial wrote:
So you paid $75 to see Billy Idol????
At the local casino, no less, where dinosaur acts go after they've died.

Jesus. Have a little dignity.

kinda what I was thinking.

Shlomart Ben Yisrael · Sun Aug 22, 2010 5:20 pm

Do you guys like any music that doesn't smell like moth balls and what's in Grandma's medicine cabinet?

Jeeeezus...

Mix in a decade or two, dust-farters.

Dinsdale · Post by **Dinsdale** » Sun Aug 22, 2010 5:25 pm

MgoBlue-LightSpecial wrote:
So you paid $75 to see Billy Idol????
At the local casino, no less, where dinosaur acts go after they've died.

Jesus. Have a little dignity.

The upside of this post -- many of my reservations I have while contemplating going to see Queensryche at the state fair have been alleviated.

War Wagon · Post by **War Wagon** » Sun Aug 22, 2010 5:30 pm

While I most likely wouldn't pay $75 to see Billy Idol, I sure can't hate on the guy. He made some damn good music, imo. Shame he's been reduced to playing the casino circuit, but a lot of kick ass artists have had to do the same thing to pay the bills.

Probably my favorite Billy Idol tune, though it's a close call between White Wedding and Rebel Yell.

Dr_Phibes · Post by **Dr_Phibes** » Mon Aug 23, 2010 1:13 am

Papa Willie wrote: It's obvious music isn't your game.

He's got a point. If you like them or they were innovative, great. Onstage, rock and roll versions of 'Cats' is dated and shit, just go to Broadway instead.

Shlomart Ben Yisrael · Mon Aug 23, 2010 1:38 am

Dr_Phibes wrote:Onstage, rock and roll versions of 'Cats' is dated and shit, just go to Broadway instead.

Pretty much.

It's like "Phantom Of The Opera" for aging hipsters with ponytails and faded Molly Hatchet tour shirts.
The ones who think owning an iPhone means "sticking it to the man".

Shlomart Ben Yisrael · Mon Aug 23, 2010 1:41 am

P.S. The Molly Hatchet reference was pure Wags bait. I felt I had to disclose that one.

Shlomart Ben Yisrael · Mon Aug 23, 2010 1:53 am

KC Scott wrote:
Dr_Phibes wrote: He's got a point. If you like them or they were innovative, great.
Check and Check

And one of the 3 greatest bands of all time

Let me guess...AC/DC and Zeppelin crack your top 5, right?

War Wagon · Post by **War Wagon** » Mon Aug 23, 2010 2:50 am

Martyred wrote:P.S. The Molly Hatchet reference was pure Wags bait.

Hook, line, and sinker.

I think that guy on the left may be 'spray.

Dr_Phibes · Post by **Dr_Phibes** » Mon Aug 23, 2010 2:53 am

Have you ever seen the Floyd?

No, I think they suck. The first album was OK.

I prefer the 'Duane Eddy' school of performance, where you get onstage and play your song and let it speak for itself. If the band whacks a fan in the head with a guitar, all the better. Subjecting people to seizure inducing slideshows and accompanying dancing fags is crap.

Next thing you know, they'll be installing plywood clipper ships in football stadiums and firing off faux cannons to create a complete 'matchday experience'.

Dr_Phibes · Post by **Dr_Phibes** » Mon Aug 23, 2010 3:12 am

^^^^ big in the US and rural parts of the dominion.

All those cunts make it big elsewhere, they leave Canada because no-one buys their records except for Paul Anka. Do you walk around inside your own house with muddy boots on? Of course not.

BSmack · Post by **BSmack** » Mon Aug 23, 2010 11:56 am

Moving Sale wrote:Small venue.

Could it be any other way?

Carson · Post by **Carson** » Mon Aug 23, 2010 1:27 pm

Moving Sale wrote:Saw Billy Idol on Thurs at the local Indian Casino. Great show. Small venue.

Good times.

Did your mommy let you ride on her shoulders so you could see him and wave?

Truman · Post by **Truman** » Mon Aug 23, 2010 8:48 pm

KC Scott wrote:...Rush...

Don’t hate.

Last Friday night; Wichitard; Intrust Arena; Front Row; 10 feet from this guy:

Cell cameras blow.

Cornerstone of a Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure-style weekend, and the fastest three hours of my life. Those old beats still bring it. And it didn’t cost me $112.50… Or $2.50, for that matter.

Got a couple of killer pics posing with Geddy and Alex at the Meet-n-Greet… Think they’re safe to post here?

Screw_Michigan · Post by **Screw_Michigan** » Mon Aug 23, 2010 9:01 pm

You bought one of the $500 tickets?

Truman · Post by **Truman** » Mon Aug 23, 2010 9:22 pm

$500? Meh. I haven't exactly been an enthusiastic Rush fan for some 20 years now. The Foo Fighters are more my speed these days. An old pal of mine is the program director for a couple of Wichitard rock stations. Sent me and my cuz a text a couple of weeks back asking us to come down for the show. What the hell. Free tickets. It wasn't until we hit the will-call window that we found out all the other neat shit that we were going to get do that night.

Screw_Michigan · Post by **Screw_Michigan** » Mon Aug 23, 2010 9:30 pm

I thought you got the VIP tix because you mentioned the Meet and Greet. You got major BODE anyway. Free tickets and you got to meet the band.

Moving Pictures is a poor choice for an album for them to play live. Should have went with Grace Under Pressure.

Shlomart Ben Yisrael · Mon Aug 23, 2010 9:42 pm

KC Scott wrote:...the worst that will happen is you'll end up on a dartboard or 6 or Bri will link it to a "men seeking men" craigs list ad

Again? I thought he put that in the past...

Shlomart Ben Yisrael · Mon Aug 23, 2010 11:17 pm

This is my favourite version of "Dark Side Of The Moon"...

seriously, what's the difference?

missjo · Post by **missjo** » Tue Aug 24, 2010 12:59 am

I got to see Pink Floyd with David Gilmour during the Dogs of War tour back in 1988 at the Sydney entertainment centre
complete with anatomically correct giant male blow up pig flying overhead & the burning bead that wizzed past the sides of our heads.
Still ranks as one of the top 5 concerts I've been to

Dr_Phibes · Post by **Dr_Phibes** » Tue Aug 24, 2010 1:17 am

The Blue Man Group for me, back at the Zanzibar in 2003. When the second blue guy started hitting the PVC pipe with drumsticks - I freaked.

Then it hit me like a ton of bricks - it was almost as if he was trying to tell me a story... with his songs.

Shlomart Ben Yisrael · Tue Aug 24, 2010 2:23 am

Dr_Phibes wrote:When the second blue guy started hitting the PVC pipe with drumsticks - I freaked.

Man...I only heard about that show from friends that were there...For a while, I thought they exaggerated a bit, but from what I have compiled, it was as close to Woodstock as a bunch of guys in grease paint could get.

I bet those first audiences that Elvis drew had similar reactions...it was all so...mind expanding...so...cosmic.

Phibes, set the record straight...urban legend has it that someone scrawled BLUE MAN GROUP IS GOD on the shitter door of the venue, the night of that gig. Is that true, or am I being Snoped?

Dr_Phibes · Post by **Dr_Phibes** » Tue Aug 24, 2010 3:06 am

I hate to break it to you Fonz.. but Steve McQueen died a long time ago.
American jazz musicians don't OD on smack in their prime anymore.
You elected a black president and it's not Curtis Mayfield, it's some arsehole, wannabe honky.
All the gangstas are making Disney flics.
Family Ties got cancelled.

Bands don't make rock operas anymore - because they suck.

Dinsdale · Post by **Dinsdale** » Tue Aug 24, 2010 4:02 am

I saw the Momentary Lapse tour in Seattle, December 1987.

Goober McTuber · Post by **Goober McTuber** » Tue Aug 24, 2010 4:25 am

Saw them in 1973 on the Dark Side of the Moon tour. On psilocybin.

BSmack · Post by **BSmack** » Tue Aug 24, 2010 1:19 pm

KC Scott wrote:Fire away - the worst that will happen is you'll end up on a dartboard or 6 or Bri will link it to a "men seeking men" craigs list ad

Why? Is Tru going to post his pics on my server space? :P

Moving Sale · Post by **Moving Sale** » Thu Aug 26, 2010 5:04 pm

Here is a shitty sample of the concert.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKOsegP_gZU

If you all think 75 is too much to pay to see BI then I guess I shouldn't tell you what I spent to see Weird Al last Sun. :doh:

Smackie Chan · Post by **Smackie Chan** » Thu Aug 26, 2010 11:10 pm

Saw PF perform The Wall in '80 at the LA Sports Arena while trippin'. Drove from Phoenix with a couple friends while in the AF. Pretty fuckin' cool, even though I was never a huge Floyd fan. Also saw 'em on The Division Bell tour, I think.

Smackie Chan · Post by **Smackie Chan** » Thu Aug 26, 2010 11:14 pm

Moving Sale wrote:I guess I shouldn't tell you what I spent to see Weird Al last Sun. :doh:

Weird Al is fuckin' nails in concert. Saw him at the Ventura Fairgrounds probably sometime during the 90s, and he put on a killer show. Plus, like him, I'm straight outta Lynwood.

trev · Post by **trev** » Sun Oct 10, 2010 5:31 am

I'm going December 5th! Just bought my tix. EXCITED.

BSmack · Post by **BSmack** » Sun Oct 10, 2010 10:07 pm

As epic as that show will be, I ain't spending 200+ to see a concert.