Bruce Springsteen - Classic or Dud ?

holy crap $9??? where, stubhub?

yep... still plenty available behind the stage for $5-7 (plus fees, which makes it more like $8-10 per ticket)

Hell, getting a Pepsi at MSG will cost more than that.

same seats behind the stage at the Austin show are going for $200+, this town is so fucked up

Well, at least Wrigley doesn't use Ticketmaster, iirc.

Tix for Milwaukee still hovering (lol) around $300 for the nosebleeds. I'll probably make a call that morning if they drop down to something reasonable. I do get to see him in Brooklyn this April, thanks to a buddy.

Curious what the Houston prices were two weeks ago. Or rather, how long have they been single digit?

Is anyone going to the Carrier Dome, sorry I mean JMA Dome?

I bought the cheap Houston tickets last Friday, so they've been available for at least 5 days (there are plenty of front-of-stage view seats available between $25-40 as well)

sounds like Nils Lofgren has COVID now and might be out... fingers crossed for a Nebraska-heavy set!

Ha. Well, keep in mind, up until 1975/Born to Run tour, it was only Bruce on guitar up there!

Or everyone but Jake gets COVID and we're treated to two and a half hours of free form jazz!

"Well, sir, we hope you enjoy our new direction."

Don't forget, two members of the E Street Band left after recording "Born to Run" to form their own fusion band. Give us a glimpse of what might have been!

Ugh, just realized this means Tom Morello is probably getting the call-up ...

Gary Clark Jr. was practicing with them in Dallas, apparently, so

ooooh

Oh, he's good, I'm ok with that. Just none of Morello's tomfoolery.

As I posted upthread, the Houston behind the stage tix were starting @ $12 at the start of the month. I think the drop is down to few factors: the show is Valentine's night, so it's competing with a lot of other stuff; as of last week, the weather today was supposed to be shitty (it ended up not bad); and Toyota Center (the venue) is a pretty big place--capacity 18,000+--and aftermarket prices on good nosebleeds there aren't too bad, so loads of behind the stage tix are getting dumped.

Gary Clark Jr. is a very fine player, whom I admire, but I am not sure how he fits into the E Street Band zeitgeist

I mean, Nils didn't fit the E Street Band, either! But he worked out ok. Even Morello, who sucks and doesn't fit at all, wasn't a disaster.

Now if it, was, Eric Johnson? Yeah, bad fit.

Maybe Tad Kubler would be a good sub?

Eh, I think Lofgren and Stevie fit fine - both can roll with the acoustic setting, playing mandolin or whatever. Morello Absolutely not. No. Clark? Remains to be seen.

This is the E Street Band, when one person leaves they need to replace them with two or three people.

And up the scarf rider, too.

Lol

not trying to throw shade, and i've never sat behind a stage before, but what is the appeal? i guess you get to watch via jumbotron, it's loud and hopefully fun, and maybe catch some fun/interesting backstage stuff?

well signed up for notification on SF tickets (show isn't until the end of the year). I've never seen Springsteen; I foolishly left before he played the Amnesty International show I went to in the 80's because I was stupid. I realize this seeing him now isn't going to even remotely measure up and will cost me 100x more than that show did.

xpost There is no backdrop to the stage, and he and the band often hop up there and play to the people behind them. Here's one I found from someone:

https://preview.redd.it/kv37vzvx05e91.jpg?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&v=enabled&s=6b5f98d3fda217862b8c6fdd918c18141b857ca9

Some fans *prefer* that view.

See a little of that human butt

Can probably sing along with the prompters.

https://i.makeagif.com/media/5-03-2016/sPZ9Lq.gif

xp nice! that's an awesome view imo!

I mean, this was his breakthrough:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/31/BruceBorn1984.JPG

i was once burned by some relatively expensive tickets to a radiohead show sometime in the mid 2000s where me and 20 other people were placed directly behind a gigantic cylinder of speakers and other equipment, and the band was 100% blocked. we all had to go to the lawn instead

xp

Nebrasska

Greetings from Assbury Park

(Note that I will not stoop to the depths of posting something juvenile like Ghost of Tom Choad or Butt in the U. Ass A. I am classy like that)

Buttpipe of Love

Oh, oh oh oh, thunder road
It's lying out there like a killer in the sun
I know it's late but we can make it to your buns

or maybe

Got a wife and kids in Baltimore, Jack
I went out for a ride, and baby got back

What is "Darkness on the Edge of Town" if not a euphemism for a butthole?

Oh, oh, oh, my butt's on fire

‘Cause tramps like us, baby we’ve got more of the ruuuuuuuuuuns…

xpost the appeal of behind the stage seats for me was that they cost $9 while seats in front of the stage cost $100

that said the view tonight was awesome... no curtain so we had a full unobstructed view of the entire stage, and if you are into drumming it was the best seat you could wish for. also nobody in the seats around or in front of us!

Trying to get tix for the Wrigley Field show was a tech shit storm. Did everything right but the site kept spitting out errors left and right. I'm for sure not the only one that got hosed. On the other hand, hundreds of tickets on the secondary market already, lol.

Could you tell how much the original price was for tickets?

Yeah, they were relatively reasonable. Basically the very lowest was $47, the very highest was $300, plus fees. There was a separate sale for premium seats, I think, which I suspect might have separately gone through Ticketmaster? Anyway, this was through the MLB site, and it was completely fucked up. I was scouring the internet and found lots of people who had the exact same problems I was finding. Wonder what happened?

Second Wrigley show just added.

"Let's play two!"

Does Guaranteed Rate Field (ugh...what a horrible name for a ballpark) ever host any concerts? Back when it was Comiskey, they even hosted the Beatles. I haven't been to Wrigley since the '00s but I thought a newer, more modern venue like U.S. Cellular/Guaranteed Rate would be better suited for a concert.

Is that Comiskey? I've actually seen Springsteen there (in 2003) and the Stones there, but I can't think of anything they've had in a long while.

Yeah, same building as the one that opened in 2003, adjacent to the original Comiskey that got demolished.