Long Awaited Hometown Show

[rmpotsy]

Sorry I couldn't be of more assistance to you, Penny and MJK.  It looks like I won't have an extra ticket and usually I say mi casa su casa but the house will be on the market by then and with any luck, under contract.  I hope you both can make it!

thanks for trying, Dylan..and good luck with the house!
MLK--in no way is this letting you off the hook for coming...Teo will never forgive you.

to you folks worried about floor seats, it does not appear that it will be difficult to make your way down there.

so just buy tix and then find your way.

I really hope that everyone doesn't crowd into the floor.  If they do I may just sit in the seats.  Maybe I'm getting old but I've seen my share of Jacket shows on the rail, time to give someone else a turn.  

At my first Jacket show at Headliners I was the only person on the rail.  I felt a little weird being the only one up there but I knew I wasn't going to have that opportunity forever.

im sure i will be in and out of the ga all night, is that all right with you amd?

[e_wind]

Sorry I couldn't be of more assistance to you, Penny and MJK.  It looks like I won't have an extra ticket and usually I say mi casa su casa but the house will be on the market by then and with any luck, under contract.  I hope you both can make it!

thanks for trying, Dylan..and good luck with the house!
MLK--in no way is this letting you off the hook for coming...Teo will never forgive you.

to you folks worried about floor seats, it does not appear that it will be difficult to make your way down there.

so just buy tix and then find your way.

I really hope that everyone doesn't crowd into the floor.  If they do I may just sit in the seats.  Maybe I'm getting old but I've seen my share of Jacket shows on the rail, time to give someone else a turn.  

At my first Jacket show at Headliners I was the only person on the rail.  I felt a little weird being the only one up there but I knew I wasn't going to have that opportunity forever.

second this. at first, my plan was to sneak down if i didnt get GA. i'm still cool with sneaking  people sneaking down, but what did I go through the trouble of getting a GA ticket for if they're gonna let everyone down. I don't want to have to fight for the rail with people who didn't go to ear-x-tacy at 630 in the morning and wait.

[Penny Lane]

Sorry I couldn't be of more assistance to you, Penny and MJK.  It looks like I won't have an extra ticket and usually I say mi casa su casa but the house will be on the market by then and with any luck, under contract.  I hope you both can make it!

thanks for trying, Dylan..and good luck with the house!
MLK--in no way is this letting you off the hook for coming...Teo will never forgive you.

to you folks worried about floor seats, it does not appear that it will be difficult to make your way down there.

so just buy tix and then find your way.

rmpotsy--are you sure all 85 of your friends are going to make it?!! i mean i have trouble getting 1 person to go to a show with me. how did you manage that! i'm kind of in awe of you...

as for THAT, things like that never work for me. i'd most likely get stopped by security and i don't want the added anxiety of that. i don't even know what it would be like to see MMJ and not be in the first 3 rows. that hasn't happened since 2005. lol.

well its only 56, and as far as i know they will all be there.  if one comes up thats not being used, i will let you know.  you hafta realize that we are ville folk and we love our hometown heroes.  all my friends are into music and we love the jacket.  there was probably an additional 10-15 people who were too stupid or too slow to get their money in on time and didnt get tix with us.

as far as getting caught going down, if at first you dont succeed, try try again.    ;)

and if you do go and you are solo, i know 56 people that would love to party with you in sec 116, the first 4 rows.

So your tix are in 116, so they are not GA?
Does anyone have straight GA tix or do all the GAs have section nos.
Sorry if this has been asked before because some of the postings on craigslist have been confusing to me.

[rmpotsy]

Sorry I couldn't be of more assistance to you, Penny and MJK.  It looks like I won't have an extra ticket and usually I say mi casa su casa but the house will be on the market by then and with any luck, under contract.  I hope you both can make it!

thanks for trying, Dylan..and good luck with the house!
MLK--in no way is this letting you off the hook for coming...Teo will never forgive you.

to you folks worried about floor seats, it does not appear that it will be difficult to make your way down there.

so just buy tix and then find your way.

rmpotsy--are you sure all 85 of your friends are going to make it?!! i mean i have trouble getting 1 person to go to a show with me. how did you manage that! i'm kind of in awe of you...

as for THAT, things like that never work for me. i'd most likely get stopped by security and i don't want the added anxiety of that. i don't even know what it would be like to see MMJ and not be in the first 3 rows. that hasn't happened since 2005. lol.

well its only 56, and as far as i know they will all be there.  if one comes up thats not being used, i will let you know.  you hafta realize that we are ville folk and we love our hometown heroes.  all my friends are into music and we love the jacket.  there was probably an additional 10-15 people who were too stupid or too slow to get their money in on time and didnt get tix with us.

as far as getting caught going down, if at first you dont succeed, try try again.    ;)

and if you do go and you are solo, i know 56 people that would love to party with you in sec 116, the first 4 rows.

So your tix are in 116, so they are not GA?
Does anyone have straight GA tix or do all the GAs have section nos.
Sorry if this has been asked before because some of the postings on craigslist have been confusing to me.

no my hook up preferred that we didnt get GA.  plus with that many people, we figured some would want seats, some would want GA, some would want both.  so we just went with the seats.  we also wanted a good rally point, so seats seemed like the best way to go.

i think GA says GA (no sec. #), but i am not sure.

[jones]

Sorry I couldn't be of more assistance to you, Penny and MJK.  It looks like I won't have an extra ticket and usually I say mi casa su casa but the house will be on the market by then and with any luck, under contract.  I hope you both can make it!

thanks for trying, Dylan..and good luck with the house!
MLK--in no way is this letting you off the hook for coming...Teo will never forgive you.

to you folks worried about floor seats, it does not appear that it will be difficult to make your way down there.

so just buy tix and then find your way.

I really hope that everyone doesn't crowd into the floor.  If they do I may just sit in the seats.  Maybe I'm getting old but I've seen my share of Jacket shows on the rail, time to give someone else a turn.  

At my first Jacket show at Headliners I was the only person on the rail.  I felt a little weird being the only one up there but I knew I wasn't going to have that opportunity forever.

second this. at first, my plan was to sneak down if i didnt get GA. i'm still cool with sneaking  people sneaking down, but what did I go through the trouble of getting a GA ticket for if they're gonna let everyone down. I don't want to have to fight for the rail with people who didn't go to ear-x-tacy at 630 in the morning and wait.

A change of heart, I see, whtgb.  That's good.  

I'm with you, D.  If my group of four with GA tickets gets crowded, we will bow out to those who are, in my opinion, selfishly sneaking onto the floor.  

GA ticket sales are limited for a reason.

[ericm]

So your tix are in 116, so they are not GA?
Does anyone have straight GA tix or do all the GAs have section nos.
Sorry if this has been asked before because some of the postings on craigslist have been confusing to me.

It could mean a couple of things.

Almost all arena shows I've been to with a floor ga have a section or seat number on the tix. It's really just a way for TM or whoever to keep track of the amount of ga tix sold.

At some other ga shows there was a "ga pit" which would actually be the front ga section, then the rest of the floor was just ga. I don't believe the KFC show has a "pit", and haven't heard anyone say they have pit tix.

I would tend to lean towards the tix you've seen as just having section/rows as tracking numbers... but if they actually said "pit" on them, that's the one I would grab! ;)

[e_wind]

So your tix are in 116, so they are not GA?
Does anyone have straight GA tix or do all the GAs have section nos.
Sorry if this has been asked before because some of the postings on craigslist have been confusing to me.

It could mean a couple of things.

Almost all arena shows I've been to with a floor ga have a section or seat number on the tix. It's really just a way for TM or whoever to keep track of the amount of ga tix sold.

At some other ga shows there was a "ga pit" which would actually be the front ga section, then the rest of the floor was just ga. I don't believe the KFC show has a "pit", and haven't heard anyone say they have pit tix.

I would tend to lean towards the tix you've seen as just having section/rows as tracking numbers... but if they actually said "pit" on them, that's the one I would grab! ;)

i haven't followed this whole conversation, so this might be totally off what you all are trying to say, but I've never noticed my tickets saying any section/row/seat number. I'm pretty sure it says GA in the section spot. I got mine from ear-x-tacy though, so it could be different.

[ericm]

So your tix are in 116, so they are not GA?
Does anyone have straight GA tix or do all the GAs have section nos.
Sorry if this has been asked before because some of the postings on craigslist have been confusing to me.

It could mean a couple of things.

Almost all arena shows I've been to with a floor ga have a section or seat number on the tix. It's really just a way for TM or whoever to keep track of the amount of ga tix sold.

At some other ga shows there was a "ga pit" which would actually be the front ga section, then the rest of the floor was just ga. I don't believe the KFC show has a "pit", and haven't heard anyone say they have pit tix.

I would tend to lean towards the tix you've seen as just having section/rows as tracking numbers... but if they actually said "pit" on them, that's the one I would grab! ;)

i haven't followed this whole conversation, so this might be totally off what you all are trying to say, but I've never noticed my tickets saying any section/row/seat number. I'm pretty sure it says GA in the section spot. I got mine from ear-x-tacy though, so it could be different.

Are they a typical looking Ticketmaster ticket? If they're more of a "special" type ticket sold only at ear-x-tacy, then it's possible they knew exactly how many they had and no need to track the number sold.

I'm just going off past experiences with TM ga tix. Almost always have some type of seat/sect # on their ga's. It's definitely possible they've changed they're "tracking" system, but it sounds like at least some ga's have #'s on them.

On a side note - Has anyone here taken a tour of KFC-YUM?

I was wondering how they plan on seperating the floor from the reserved seats. I haven't seen any barrier type things on the arenaauthority webcam. Since it's mostly for bball, there isn't any hockey boards like in an arena that hosts both.

I'm sure they'll have something setup, just curious if anyone's seen anything.

[rmpotsy]

So your tix are in 116, so they are not GA?
Does anyone have straight GA tix or do all the GAs have section nos.
Sorry if this has been asked before because some of the postings on craigslist have been confusing to me.

It could mean a couple of things.

Almost all arena shows I've been to with a floor ga have a section or seat number on the tix. It's really just a way for TM or whoever to keep track of the amount of ga tix sold.

At some other ga shows there was a "ga pit" which would actually be the front ga section, then the rest of the floor was just ga. I don't believe the KFC show has a "pit", and haven't heard anyone say they have pit tix.

I would tend to lean towards the tix you've seen as just having section/rows as tracking numbers... but if they actually said "pit" on them, that's the one I would grab! ;)

i haven't followed this whole conversation, so this might be totally off what you all are trying to say, but I've never noticed my tickets saying any section/row/seat number. I'm pretty sure it says GA in the section spot. I got mine from ear-x-tacy though, so it could be different.

Are they a typical looking Ticketmaster ticket? If they're more of a "special" type ticket sold only at ear-x-tacy, then it's possible they knew exactly how many they had and no need to track the number sold.

I'm just going off past experiences with TM ga tix. Almost always have some type of seat/sect # on their ga's. It's definitely possible they've changed they're "tracking" system, but it sounds like at least some ga's have #'s on them.

On a side note - Has anyone here taken a tour of KFC-YUM?

I was wondering how they plan on seperating the floor from the reserved seats. I haven't seen any barrier type things on the arenaauthority webcam. Since it's mostly for bball, there isn't any hockey boards like in an arena that hosts both.

I'm sure they'll have something setup, just curious if anyone's seen anything.

im sure there will be something, but i was told that there is nothing in between the floor and the front seated sections as of right now.

[slappymoe]

So your tix are in 116, so they are not GA?
Does anyone have straight GA tix or do all the GAs have section nos.
Sorry if this has been asked before because some of the postings on craigslist have been confusing to me.

It could mean a couple of things.

Almost all arena shows I've been to with a floor ga have a section or seat number on the tix. It's really just a way for TM or whoever to keep track of the amount of ga tix sold.

At some other ga shows there was a "ga pit" which would actually be the front ga section, then the rest of the floor was just ga. I don't believe the KFC show has a "pit", and haven't heard anyone say they have pit tix.

I would tend to lean towards the tix you've seen as just having section/rows as tracking numbers... but if they actually said "pit" on them, that's the one I would grab! ;)

i haven't followed this whole conversation, so this might be totally off what you all are trying to say, but I've never noticed my tickets saying any section/row/seat number. I'm pretty sure it says GA in the section spot. I got mine from ear-x-tacy though, so it could be different.

Are they a typical looking Ticketmaster ticket? If they're more of a "special" type ticket sold only at ear-x-tacy, then it's possible they knew exactly how many they had and no need to track the number sold.

I'm just going off past experiences with TM ga tix. Almost always have some type of seat/sect # on their ga's. It's definitely possible they've changed they're "tracking" system, but it sounds like at least some ga's have #'s on them.

On a side note - Has anyone here taken a tour of KFC-YUM?

I was wondering how they plan on seperating the floor from the reserved seats. I haven't seen any barrier type things on the arenaauthority webcam. Since it's mostly for bball, there isn't any hockey boards like in an arena that hosts both.

I'm sure they'll have something setup, just curious if anyone's seen anything.

im sure there will be something, but i was told that there is nothing in between the floor and the front seated sections as of right now.

ok, here's my theory:

click this link, it's a virtual seating thingy for louisville basketball.

http://www.seats3d.com/ncaa/university_louisville/mens_basketball/

type in section 117, row E.

notice the "wall" there at your feet.   is it possible that the first 6 rows  are removable/retractable for concerts and other events?  if so, that would leave that alleged wall as the dividing line between GA floor and reserved seats.

i mean, there HAS to be something to separate the seats from the floor....it would be anarchy otherwise.  i'm in row A of setion 117, i was hoping for a nice, raised, unobstructed view of the proceedings.

thanks to a free ticket from my big sis, i'm going to see the eagles at the YUM! this saturday.  i'll look around and report any findings sunday.

[Penny Lane]

i've seen that phenomenon but only at smaller venues (like the Variety in Atl)...for a bigger size venue, there would have to be enforcement of the GA/seats. ...just my .02

[ericm]

You might be right about that wall.

I'll look forward to your updated info after the Eagles show.

[AlwxanderD10]

I was looking at my tickets for the show and just noticed it says no cameras or recorders. :(. So does this mean I'll never get to hear the show again after I leave it?? Ooor the more positive outlook, the band doesn't want any bootlegs out because they are going to release it officially?!?!

[rusty95]

I have a feeling that since this is a new venue, security will probably be overkill.  Hope not though, as I like recordings and some ganja smoke.

So hyped about this show,  looked at LYO schedule last night.  They have been rehearsing mmj songs.   And have a 3 hour rehearsal with the band on the 27th according to they're schedule.  

[slappymoe]

I have a feeling that since this is a new venue, security will probably be overkill.  Hope not though, as I like recordings and some ganja smoke.

So hyped about this show,  looked at LYO schedule last night.  They have been rehearsing mmj songs.   And have a 3 hour rehearsal with the band on the 27th according to they're schedule.  

i'll be bringing some in, but i'll wait for someone else to light up before i do.

and they MUST play "i will sing you songs" with the LYO.  i'll be most disappointed if they don't.

[slappymoe]

You might be right about that wall.

I'll look forward to your updated info after the Eagles show.

well, the eagles had reserved seats on the floor, so the seats on the side went right down to the floor, no barrier could be seen from where i was.

however it works out, i'm thrilled with the seats i have.  best spot in the house that's not on the floor.

btw, the eagles didn't suck.  joe walsh is a madman.  

and the arena is sooooo freakin' sweet.  downtown bars and restaurants were rocking long before and long after the show.  can't wait for the 29th.

[kymomandstuff]

I'm bringing my 12 yr old son,any good kid friendly bar/restaurants nearby? We'd like to get there early and have some dinner with the kids and possibly a beer or two.We have a DD so not endangering the little guy or anything.Also,I'm sure this has been asked already but what can we expect as far as parking for the show?Any help will be much appreciated!

[rmpotsy]

I'm bringing my 12 yr old son,any good kid friendly bar/restaurants nearby? We'd like to get there early and have some dinner with the kids and possibly a beer or two.We have a DD so not endangering the little guy or anything.Also,I'm sure this has been asked already but what can we expect as far as parking for the show?Any help will be much appreciated!

the new bbc (right across from the arena) is a restaurant/brewpub.  im sure they wouldnt have a problem with a 12 yr old and his mom.  that also happens to be where the forum meet up is.

there is a lot at the arena.  i think under it maybe, not sure havnt been there.  there is also a lot of surface parking in the immediate vicinity.  the galt house hotel is a block or so away and they have a big lot underneath both sides as well.  if you get there at the right time, im sure it wont be a problem.

[e_wind]

For those of us missing t5, 11 days!

[slappymoe]

I'm bringing my 12 yr old son,any good kid friendly bar/restaurants nearby? We'd like to get there early and have some dinner with the kids and possibly a beer or two.We have a DD so not endangering the little guy or anything.Also,I'm sure this has been asked already but what can we expect as far as parking for the show?Any help will be much appreciated!

the new bbc (right across from the arena) is a restaurant/brewpub.  im sure they wouldnt have a problem with a 12 yr old and his mom.  that also happens to be where the forum meet up is.

there is a lot at the arena.  i think under it maybe, not sure havnt been there.  there is also a lot of surface parking in the immediate vicinity.  the galt house hotel is a block or so away and they have a big lot underneath both sides as well.  if you get there at the right time, im sure it wont be a problem.

we went to the BBC before the eagles.  nice place, nice people, good food, great beer, great location.

http://www.kfcyumcenter.com/parkingandtrafficinfo.aspx

this should tell you all you need to know about parking.  we got there pretty early, parked on market street a block south of the arena. short walk, no traffic problems at all.