Okay, so I've been frickin stoked about the Nashville show. I get the preorder email, go to the thing, and its 18 and up!!! I understand about legality and curfew and drinking and all, and I'd be a little bit less tweaked if my birthday wasn't just 18 days later. Frickin figures. I hate being seventeen with a passion. Anybody wanna drive up and be my stepdad for a night?
I'll be there, but I'm only 28 and I look like I'm 12.... so I don't think I'll pass as your stepdad. It'd be awesome if you and Specialist can figure out a way to get in because Sweatboard and I will be there.
Do you think there's a way we could get the band to help us out? Does a band have control of that kind of stuff if they want? Should I get a fake ID? How do they check these things? Do they check everyones as they come in?
I'm sure there are ways around it, but it probably involves trickery. I don't think the band would really have any pull in the situation. :(
And they won't have any sympathy on for having a birthday two weeks too late?
Any idea if I could offer to join the road crew for a day and get in cuz of that?
Or help with sound or set-up or anything?
Get a fake ID. ;)
I'd really rather not, but I'm considering it. Damndamndamn. I've sooo been looking forward to this show, but I won't be able to go. Argh. I guess I'll just have to see em back home.
Anybody over 35 goin to this show?
I would just try to go there is a chance they don't check id's.
That's a good point.
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Anybody over 35 goin to this show?
There must be somebody. I can't believe there's an age limit at a music event. Is it because of the booze thing? I thought you couldn't drink till you were 21 in the States. I really hope you get someone to 'take you in' Tom.
Yeah, and because i starts at 8, probably. Sometimes there's a curfew deal, because a lot of states have legal curfews for 16 year olds because they are new drivers, or whatever, which is reeeeal applicable to us 17 year olders. I'm glad 18 days makes that big a difference in my maturity. I'll be in college, darnit. 17's just a number.
QuoteThat's a good point.
Wait, do they normally check on 18 and over shows as you go in? I'm plannin on having a beard by that time, do you think they'd check? I've already got a months growth happening, and it looks pretty sturdy.
is their always an age limit for the shows??
i´ve never seen such a thing in germany...and it´s good!
No, a lot of shows don't have age limits unless they are in bars. But I guess that wouldnt make a difference in Germany, since you guys have a really low drinking age, right?
I've been to 18 and up shows before that didn't check for ID.
Do you think my beard will help?
Probably.
QuoteNo, a lot of shows don't have age limits unless they are in bars. But I guess that wouldnt make a difference in Germany, since you guys have a really low drinking age, right?
Yes you´re right, in germany it doesn´t make any diefference if they play in a bar or somewhere else. Good for ME!! ;)
in germany you can drink beer with 16 y, other stuff like wodka, tequila... with 18 y!
I'd just go. If they ask for your ID, show it to them. There's a chance they might think you're 18 since it'll be so close to your birthday or they might not care but just have to go through the motions of looking at your ID. If that doesn't work, linger around back stage and look for a friendly character who's willing to hear your story and let you in. That's what I would do. Or if you have a friend that is 18 and looks anything like you, bring their ID as a backup because a lot of times they only look at your birthday and forget to look at your picture. (I spent a lot of time in bars before I was 21 and never had a fake).
Thankyouthankyouthankyou all so much.
I think I will just buy the ticket, and if all else fails, let her go for a $20 out front.
I guess I'll be seeing you in Nashville then, good buddy. :)
Let's hope so!
yeh, i feel for you man, i'm 17 and it sucks worse than anything, i don't think i could pass for 18, but i am going to try my hardest to get in. Probably going to wear sunglasses and a hat.
i am buying my ticket this weekend and no matter what i will be down in that area before and after the show. and let's hope Grimey's can score an instore acoustic set. I'm calling them tommorow to ask them about it since i couldn't go last week.
p.s.
Sorry for my constant bitching about the whole 18+ thing guys and gals, it's just that MMJ means so much to me and my life and it's an awful feeling knowing that 6 months keep me from seeing them.
Specialist, my guess would be that you were trying to hide something if you wear sunglasses and a hat... especially if the doors don't open until 8. I'd say that you could do the hat, but lose the sunglasses.
I e-mailed Grimey's last week and the owner wrote back to me and said that he is good pals with the band and their manager, so he will work on getting a solo JJ set at the store if at all possible.
kickin,
Hey Specialist, if you can grow anything resembling halfway decent facial hair, I'd say go for it. Just grow as much as you can before October 8. That'll be your best bet. And remember, the more you look like your tryin to hide something, the quicker you'll get caught. My dad once gave me similar advice on stuff like this, with a steaing shoes analogy, although I'm sure he'd never done it.
"If you're gonna steal a pair of shoes, just grab the box and walk out of there like you know what you're doing. No one'll ask questions, you just gotta make sure they don't have reason to think they need to."
It was somehting like that.
yeh the sunglasses are a bit much, thanks for the advice guys and thanks for emailing Grimey's Olwiggum.
do you think i should call the place and ask if it is possible that we could get in? someone i know said that they made a deal with some venue, something like "if you let me into the show, i will clean up afterwards."
hell, i would do that to see MMJ
It's worth a shot. It couldn't hurt to ask.
Specialist, I just friended you on AudioScrobbler.
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Sorry for my constant bitching about the whole 18+ thing guys and gals, it's just that MMJ means so much to me and my life and it's an awful feeling knowing that 6 months keep me from seeing them.
Not at all. You've got a right to be pissed off. It's so daft. I really hope you and Eisey get in.
Just walk in there with a cigar stub hanging in your mouth, and let them make the assumptions from there. As long as you've got a ticket, and you don't look like a 12 year old, they likely won't bother you.
Plus, if smoking isn't allowed, they'll be more concerned with telling you to put out the cigar than they will to check for ID.
Me and my buddy will probably be at the Atlanta and 2 Tennessee shows, if worse comes to worse, we can muscle you in...
Actually, I'm only 5'5, I'm not much muscle... just a good talker.
:P
Seriously, don't worry about it, man... they'll let you in.
sweet we all have to meet up then
i figure if we're in a big group, they'll prolly just glance and shuffle us along
True. So that makes:
Me, Sweatboard, Specialist, Eisey, and Angry Ewok for Nashville.
Rock!
Who else?
We should make Meg come down. I've also got a friend whos probably comin too.
I already tried to convince Meg to come down for that. She said that it probably won't happen. :(
Maybe she will if she sees the list. :)
QuoteSpecialist, I just friended you on AudioScrobbler.
sweet, but i can't find you on there, this new site is confusing.
just click on your friends on the left hand side, my name on there is tomEisenbraun
oh you know i'll be there.. nashville is only an hour from here. i say we all eat at the spaghetti factory downtown beforehand.. i hit that place up all the time before the tennessee titans games. anyone else ever been there?
i'll most certainly have to check it out!
The guys talk about hangin out before the show, you think they'd be up for spaghetti too?
eisey dont tell me you've never eaten at the spaghetti factory in nashvegas????!
Quoteoh you know i'll be there.. nashville is only an hour from here. i say we all eat at the spaghetti factory downtown beforehand.. i hit that place up all the time before the tennessee titans games. anyone else ever been there?
i've been there a few times, there is an ausome blues guitarist that plays in front of SF everynight.
i live about a little less than an hour away from Nashville, i drive down a couple times a month. I was going to go tonight and stand outside the Ryman, hoping i could sneak my way in to see Neil Young.
i just got off the phone with someone from Grimey's, and he told me that it was a 50/50 chance that they could get Jim in there for the acoustic performance. He said something close to this.
"Yeh man, I know Jim personally, he's come in here and hung out before but i don't know if he'll play, MMJ is already a pretty big name and don't really need to play. Most of the bands that come in here are smaller bands still trying to make new fans."
Good point, but you never know...
Quoteeisey dont tell me you've never eaten at the spaghetti factory in nashvegas????!
I indeed have not. Remember, I don't live there YET. That comes Saturday. Sweet mercy, I am on the road tomorrow. Good Lord, I'm not even close to packed.
This is where I curl up in the fetal position and wisdh life didn't have to change. But oh well, I've got some Beck on ("Where It's At!") and life moves and changes because change handled right is growth and without growth we'd all be a bunch of immature idiots. So I'm happy, for the most part, and I guess it's just a new step in the course of my next seventy or so years. Who knows, God could yoink me outta here a lot earlier, I'm just grateful for the time He's given me so far.
I just wish change and moving didn't mean the possibility that my relationship with my lovely Katie may have to see an end. But, the way I see it, the distance from Nashville to Chicago presents a very excellent opportunity to grow with eachother in a way we haven't had the chance to grow before, so it's a good thing through and through.
So there ya go, I don't know how we got from spaghetti to existential mysteries, but it has been done. Anyways, that's the beginning of college for me right there, so you're inside my head. Anybody has anything nice to add or comment on, please let 'er rip.
oh and specialist, just go to my audioscrobbler page
http://www.last.fm/user/tomEisenbraun/
and you'll see a plus sign right under the red banner on the top right side. Just click that and you get to make me your friend.
im a maybe for nashville, id like to make up for the bullshit circumstances that had me in nashville the sunday of the exit/in show last year but still missed it! im definitely in for cleveland, indy, and cincy since i already have tickets for those! ;D ;D
Quoteoh and specialist, just go to my audioscrobbler page
http://www.last.fm/user/tomEisenbraun/
and you'll see a plus sign right under the red banner on the top right side. Just click that and you get to make me your friend.
thanks Eisey, i finally got it
that's some mighty fine music you be listening to. oh and good luck with all the stuff going on in your life right now, i will be in that very situation in about a year from now.
Thank you.
Oh man, you didn't put in a relationsip.
See how I had mine as "tomEisenbraun has a hairier left buttock than SpecialistTS"? You should be able to do that.
ha, i think i figured this out.
by the way, i had no idea you were such a great guitarist, i listened to the Moby Dick jam and it blew me away.
haha, thanks man. Haha, maybe I'll have a gig in the next year you could come to ; )
Or better yet, do you play anything?
yep, i've been playing guitar seriously since i was 13, and i can play drums and bass,
yeh, if you ever have a gig definetly hit me up, i can go to Nashville as i please.
do you live in nashville? I'll be going to Belmont, pretty much next to Brentwood.
and would you like to play bass for a band?
i live in Bowling Green, Kentucky. About 45 minutes north of Nashville. But the drive is no big deal, i drive to Nashville often. BG is a fairly large town, every Corvette in the world is made here.
yeh i would dig playing bass in a band.
I am in!!!!
Thank you Tommy.
Yesssss......i'll be seein ya there Corey and everybody else.
Spaghetti Factory time!
QuoteI am in!!!!
Thank you Tommy.
Yesssss......i'll be seein ya there Corey and everybody else.
Spaghetti Factory time!
Oh that is awe.some. I'm so glad.
God damn it y'all are going to have fun in Nashville.
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Great news, Eisey!
I'm looking forward to it. Hope you can hang up front with me and Sweatboard. :)
i keep looking at the ticket wondering if i can get in
my parents told me i could either go to the Black Crowes show on Thursday, or the MMJ show Saturday, of course i picked MMJ even though i have a slim chance of admission.
i might stumble upon a fake id by October.
bouncers at these shows shall give you a break if you don't look like an idiot. slip the dude a twenty and walk right in. ;)
yo specialist. just email Tommy up about it. He'll probably give you some info. The promotion company dude is pretty cool, and he'd prolly get you in too.
alright, i'll email Two Tone later tonight, hopefully he will remember me.
Sounds like Tommy has been a star.
Don't abuse his special gifts, though, hey? :)
err.. i'm having trouble finding the courage to email Tommy... i don't want to trouble him too much.
i think i'll email Patrick or Bo, for some reason i would feel more comfortable that way, not that i like them better. But i talked to Bo and Pat for a decent amount of time after the Palace show.
Then go for good ol Patrick then. He would probably have a little bit more of thenn "ins" than Carl. I'm sure they can help. They're good dudes.
email sent to Patrick
woooot
:)
Quoteno word from Patrick yet
Maybe he's ill. This is the time they would have been in London.
oh yeh, i forgot about one of the members being ill, whichever one it is, i hope they make a speedy recovery.
i am in no hurry to get an email, it is still a month before the show.
QuoteOkay, so I've been frickin stoked about the Nashville show. I get the preorder email, go to the thing, and its 18 and up!!! I understand about legality and curfew and drinking and all, and I'd be a little bit less tweaked if my birthday wasn't just 18 days later. Frickin figures. I hate being seventeen with a passion. Anybody wanna drive up and be my stepdad for a night?
I'd pick ya up but I can't drive yet :(
;D
How much do these fucking boys rock? I ask you?
It's retarded.
That's so awesome.
damn straight these boys rock
and they are the most caring, down to earth band out there.
i was listening to Heartbreakin Man when i read it, and the excact second i finished reading, i jumped out of my seat, started doing the whole air guitar bit, luckily everyone else is on break.
I think the band is very cool about how they treat their fan base but may I suggest we not post stuff about e-mails being sent to the band on the forum. I would hate for them to get bombarded with e-mails. I know that they have been really cool so far but let's try and keep it "off the record". Word? ;)
QuoteI think the band is very cool about how they treat their fan base but may I suggest we not post stuff about e-mails being sent to the band on the forum. I would hate for them to get bombarded with e-mails. I know that they have been really cool so far but let's try and keep it "off the record". Word? ;)
I hear what you say sweatboard. Sometimes when we sit about chatting like this it's easy to think we're just a bunch of mates and forget we're on the good old www. I like it that it feels like that but you've made a good point.
Quotelet's try and keep it "off the record". Word? ;)
will do from here on out
Right on.
Also, please don't think I'm pointing my finger at you specialist. I think the good doctor was right when she said we all forget that it's not just a few friends chatting. Regarless, I'm really happy to hear the good news.
oh man, then I'm really guilty.
I'm sorry dudes.
No problem, it's just something to think about. I'm certainly not telling anyone what to do it's just a suggestion. If you wan't to tell me to go fuck myself that's fine, just don't tell Fanatic to.
QuoteNo problem, it's just something to think about. I'm certainly not telling anyone what to do it's just a suggestion. If you wan't to tell me to go fuck myself that's fine, just don't tell Fanatic to.
HAHAHAHAHA!!! Hilarious. :)
QuoteAlso, please don't think I'm pointing my finger at you specialist. I think the good doctor was right when she said we all forget that it's not just a few friends chatting. Regarless, I'm really happy to hear the good news.
no, i understand, you raised a really good point. it was immature of me to be boasting about it.