Alpine Reopening

[boatdrinks84]

Best thing you ever saw at a Jimmy show at Alpine Valley and hope to see this year?
The ambulance giving margaritas via a drip bag while you laid on a gurney.
Cheers
Wiscoleeds

A full steel drum band playing in the lot.

[Hendo23]

Just got an email from Live Nation confirming that there will be one more show announced at Alpine this summer.

Would not confirm who, but think we all know who it is. I'm gonna go out and say August 25th instead of Labor Day

Please, please, PLEASE!!!

[AlwaysRight00]

Who is it Phish? they always close out Alpine Valley

[tropicalmindset]

Who is it Phish? they always close out Alpine Valley

Wrong again. Phish plays two shows at Alpine when they play there. Jimmy is also always the last show of the season, not Phish. Please go troll some where else.

[AlwaysRight00]

Did you learn a new saying by referring to Troll all the time? Do you even know what that means? Where are you getting information that it is going to be one show, it could be one Band playing several shows.

[tropicalmindset]

Did you learn a new saying by referring to Troll all the time? Do you even know what that means? Where are you getting information that it is going to be one show, it could be one Band playing several shows.

If you read my earlier post you would have seen that it was a Live Nation Rep who confirmed to me that there would be ONE additional show added.

Also, yes I do know what a troll is. It's a person who hangs around a forum trying to get a rise out of people. Which is exactly what you are doing.

[BottleofRum]

Just got an email from Live Nation confirming that there will be one more show announced at Alpine this summer.

Would not confirm who, but think we all know who it is. I'm gonna go out and say August 25th instead of Labor Day

With a tour leg already in the first two weeks of August a show that late into August would be out of the ordinary unless more shows are added at the end of August. This would mean he'd be touring pretty much the entire month which would be atypical. But nothing about his year's tour is typical.

[tropicalmindset]

Just got an email from Live Nation confirming that there will be one more show announced at Alpine this summer.

Would not confirm who, but think we all know who it is. I'm gonna go out and say August 25th instead of Labor Day

With a tour leg already in the first two weeks of August a show that late into August would be out of the ordinary unless more shows are added at the end of August. This would mean he'd be touring pretty much the entire month which would be atypical. But nothing about his year's tour is typical.

I'm just going off of when Jimmy usually plays Alpine. Of course the week before that is open as well, but August 10th and 11th is filled at Alpine with ZBB

[BottleofRum]

I'm not saying it won't happen but if he plays Alpine it will prob be earlier in August. Unless he has a tour leg planed for the end of August.

[tropicalmindset]

I'm not saying it won't happen but if he plays Alpine it will prob be earlier in August. Unless he has a tour leg planed for the end of August.

At this point I'm not too concerned with the date, just glad that the chance of us getting a concert has increased.

[Hendo23]

Looking at Phish's summer tour schedule, it is very full, but scarily there is a empty spot the weekend of August 24-25.

The weekend of the 17-19 they are in Watkins Glen, NY. Labor Day Weekend, they're near Denver. If you connect the dots, an Alpine show(s) the weekend of the 24-25 might be a reasonable middle ground, especially considering that they have ZERO shows scheduled anywhere in the Midwest this summer.

For the sake of all the Alpine Parrotheads, I desperately hope that Phish books that August 24-25 weekend somewhere other than Alpine SOON!

[tropicalmindset]

Looking at Phish's summer tour schedule, it is very full, but scarily there is a empty spot the weekend of August 24-25.

The weekend of the 17-19 they are in Watkins Glen, NY. Labor Day Weekend, they're near Denver. If you connect the dots, an Alpine show(s) the weekend of the 24-25 might be a reasonable middle ground, especially considering that they have ZERO shows scheduled anywhere in the Midwest this summer.

For the sake of all the Alpine Parrotheads, I desperately hope that Phish books that August 24-25 weekend somewhere other than Alpine SOON!

Phish hasn't played Alpine since 2015, I'm not too concerned with them. Plus Live Nation emphasized one more show, for a total of 5 at Alpine. Phish USUALLY plays 2-3 shows per tour stop. Doing some research it appears that they have announced all summer tour dates, and are rumored to be in Chicago in Oct.

[wildcat]

Alpine posted the following picture on their FB on 3/12.

It shows The Dead, ZBB and Dave Matthews.

Now Dave Matthews is playing two shows at Northerly Island in Chicago and one at Summerfest in Milwaukee. However, I do remember one year in the late 90s or early 2000s where DMB played Alpine and Summerfest back to back. It seems unlikely that DMB would be the last Alpine show, but it is not unprecedented and this photo is a weird screw up.


https://m.facebook.com/alpinevalleymusi ... &source=48

[tropicalmindset]

Alpine posted the following picture on their FB on 3/12.

It shows The Dead, ZBB and Dave Matthews.

Now Dave Matthews is playing two shows at Northerly Island in Chicago and one at Summerfest in Milwaukee. However, I do remember one year in the late 90s or early 2000s where DMB played Alpine and Summerfest back to back. It seems unlikely that DMB would be the last Alpine show, but it is not unprecedented and this photo is a weird screw up.


https://m.facebook.com/alpinevalleymusi ... &source=48

I agree that is quite odd.
However, since there is still one show left to be announced, it almost has to be in August. Due to DMB's schedule, I just can't see them coming back to this area to play a show in Mid-August. They would be forced to play August 17th or 18th due to ZBB the week before, and they have a gig out in CO I believe on the 24th of August

[Hendo23]

Alpine posted the following picture on their FB on 3/12.

It shows The Dead, ZBB and Dave Matthews.

Now Dave Matthews is playing two shows at Northerly Island in Chicago and one at Summerfest in Milwaukee. However, I do remember one year in the late 90s or early 2000s where DMB played Alpine and Summerfest back to back. It seems unlikely that DMB would be the last Alpine show, but it is not unprecedented and this photo is a weird screw up.


https://m.facebook.com/alpinevalleymusi ... &source=48

I agree that is quite odd.
However, since there is still one show left to be announced, it almost has to be in August. Due to DMB's schedule, I just can't see them coming back to this area to play a show in Mid-August. They would be forced to play August 17th or 18th due to ZBB the week before, and they have a gig out in CO I believe on the 24th of August

They do appear to have the Midwest pretty well covered with the two Chicago shows and the one in Milwaukee, only 40 miles from Alpine. Those three shows could draw up to 85,000 people, according to listed capacity, so it is indeed hard to imagine that there'd be much of a market for another show so close. The only caveat is that perhaps DMB is mindful of the tailgate experience that Illinoisans and Wisconsinites cherish, which could be an impetus to add an Alpine show. Again, highly unlikely. They are booked in Colorado 8/24 AND 25, so that would leave only the Aug. 18 weekend as a possibility. Common sense (and hope) would suggest that to be a longshot.

That said, ticket sales do appear to be quite strong for the three currently scheduled shows.

[wildcat]

It is just really wired that Alpine hasn't removed the post. Some of the commenters are really giving them crap.

[Bicycle Bill]

Best thing you ever saw at a Jimmy show at Alpine Valley and hope to see this year?
The ambulance giving margaritas via a drip bag while you laid on a gurney.
Cheers
Wiscoleeds

WORST thing I ever saw at Alpine Valley was at the Summerzcool Tour stop in August 2009 — which was the concert where I broke my Buffett cherry — when the weather was so shitty (wet and cold) that when Jimmy came back on-stage after intermission (which I still think, considering the tour name that year, should have been called 'recess') he was wearing a hoodie.

-"BB"-

[boatdrinks84]

Best thing you ever saw at a Jimmy show at Alpine Valley and hope to see this year?
The ambulance giving margaritas via a drip bag while you laid on a gurney.
Cheers
Wiscoleeds

WORST thing I ever saw at Alpine Valley was at the Summerzcool Tour stop in August 2009 — which was the concert where I broke my Buffett cherry — when the weather was so shitty (wet and cold) that when Jimmy came back on-stage after intermission (which I still think, considering the tour name that year, should have been called 'recess') he was wearing a hoodie.

-"BB"-

The fun of the Midwest, where it can be cold as hell any day of year.

[crzyitlian]

Best thing you ever saw at a Jimmy show at Alpine Valley and hope to see this year?
The ambulance giving margaritas via a drip bag while you laid on a gurney.
Cheers
Wiscoleeds

WORST thing I ever saw at Alpine Valley was at the Summerzcool Tour stop in August 2009 — which was the concert where I broke my Buffett cherry — when the weather was so shitty (wet and cold) that when Jimmy came back on-stage after intermission (which I still think, considering the tour name that year, should have been called 'recess') he was wearing a hoodie.

-"BB"-

My first concert was 2001 on the Beach Odyssey stop in Tinley Park(it was the one that was pushed back after 9/11) on September 29. I was a Buffett newbie and my 2nd generation parrothead friend exclaimed “I can’t believe he’s wearing jeans” when Jimmy came out on stage. At the time I thought nothing of it. He even came out after the intermission with a windbreaker on.

[tropicalmindset]

Just saw this on FB.

Think it's safe to say that worrying about DMB taking the last show at Alpine is not going to happen since neither Zac Brown or DMB is playing in Tinley Park this year