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Ringo is playing a small ampitheatre here (4200 seats I think, plus lawn behind).  I waited for 2 hours in  line at the ticket office, because they weren’t sold through ticketmaster, I thought the box office would be good.  As it turned out, I was like 12th in line, but it took so long to get to the counter that I should have (and I did think about it) used my phone to get tickets on their site.  I got the 4 absolute worst seats in the house – last row, far left corner.  But they’re seats! 

As far as price, I think they were about 65 for lawn, all the seats were 90 (usd).  An incredible bargain!  Like someone else here, I too will be seeing Ringo within a year of seeing Paul.  And to think early last spring I had no idea of the wonders that were to come

To go off topic again, I was able to go to 9 concerts  last year:  Paul, Jimmy Buffet (a disappointment coming 2 days after Paul, and it was a strict album promotion tour – he played 4 songs I was familiar with, and 2 were covers), Heart (they rocked hard), Steely Dan (I’d been wanting to see them for 30 years!), Brian Wilson, Buddy Guy, B.B. King – a serious disappointment, the one near me was called “Frampton’s guitar Circus” – there were 3 mediocre guitar players, then B.B. came out, invited one of the other guitarists to sit by him, and proceeded to flirt with the women in the front couple of rows for half an hour – I should have driven the extra hour and seen him in Toledo, where I saw Buddy Guy – it was a zoo pool ampitheatre!  500 seats at most, and some bleachers.  Even worse, his mouth was so close to the mike that (in the 4th row) I could understand none of it.  He played 2 notes of Lucille , and I think that was it.  Then, Peter Frampton finished the show, and he was great.  His voice is just so pleasing, and he always wears a big smile (if you noticed him on the Ed Sullivan Anniversary Show, he was the one with the red guitar and the big smile, off to the left).  Anyway, the other two were Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers (2nd time for them, the 2006 show is in my top 5 concerts), and um, damn, I don’t have the ticket stub…Hopefully I’ll think of it as soon as I submit this

parlance said 

Venues used to reserve great seats if you bought directly from them, but I discovered the hard way about a decade ago that most venues stopped that practice, and they’re pulling from the same batch of seats at the same time as everyone else. So you might as well stay at home and wait in the virtual queue. At least you can do that in your pjs.

parlance

tg the tickets were not available through eventbrite, not ticketbastard, or it would have sold out in 2 minutes.  And, who am I to complain, the last row is like the 40th row.  Not all that far away from the stage.  And it was the first time in my life (sheesh, at 51!) that I’ve stood in line at a ticketoffice.

@meanmistermustard – I’ll be there with my mother and uncle, so while they would certainly understand, I doubt I’ll leave them for an empty seat closer.  Unfortunately, my son’s passion has moved to folk and especially banjo, which he’s learning, so we won’t have 3 generations there.  He will live to regret not seeing a former Beatle someday, methinks!