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diverg · Post by **diverg** » January 4, 2008 10:20 pm

LIPH wrote:I agree, I want to go to Alpine this year.

So is Alpine the best show to go to in your opinion. Excluding exotic destinations.

Post by **SMLCHNG** » January 4, 2008 10:25 pm

Soldier Field (formerly Municipal Grant Park Stadium) is located on Lake Shore Drive in Chicago, Illinois, and is currently home to the NFL's Chicago Bears. It reopened on September 29, 2003 after a complete rebuild (the second in the stadium's history).

The old stadium capacity was 61,500, it's now 74,000

gingerbreadman · Post by **gingerbreadman** » January 4, 2008 10:36 pm

SMLCHNG wrote:Soldier Field (formerly Municipal Grant Park Stadium) is located on Lake Shore Drive in Chicago, Illinois, and is currently home to the NFL's Chicago Bears. It reopened on September 29, 2003 after a complete rebuild (the second in the stadium's history).

The old stadium capacity was 61,500, it's now 74,000

Never hear of Municipal Grant Park Stadium before, having lived in Chicagoland for over 10 years...

When I found the Wikipedia entry, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soldier_Field

I see Municipal Grant Park Stadium became known as Soldier Field in 1925... Ahhh! Now it makes sense to me!

And I think that link says the OLD capacity was 74,000, and new capacity is only 61,500.

Post by **SMLCHNG** » January 4, 2008 10:44 pm

gingerbreadman wrote: And I think that link says the OLD capacity was 74,000, and new capacity is only 61,500.

Sorry. Tired. Looked the other way to me.

LIPH · Post by **LIPH** » January 4, 2008 11:43 pm

diverg wrote:
LIPH wrote:I agree, I want to go to Alpine this year.
So is Alpine the best show to go to in your opinion. Excluding exotic destinations.

I don't know, I've never been to Alpine.

gingerbreadman · Post by **gingerbreadman** » January 4, 2008 11:55 pm

LIPH wrote:
diverg wrote:
LIPH wrote:I agree, I want to go to Alpine this year.
So is Alpine the best show to go to in your opinion. Excluding exotic destinations.
I don't know, I've never been to Alpine.

Y'all should try it just once...

It's in the middle of nowhere (it's in Wisconsin), It's a huge venue (~35,000+), and there's nowhere to stay nearby... Closest places are Milwaukee, and the outer north-western burbs of Chicago... Those are at least an hour away... That is after ya get out of the parking lot! Last year it took us 2 hours to get out! They have a specific bottle neck for Highway F! That's what they call their highways in Wisconsin... by lettters!

Not sure if it was Highway F, but that's for sure what I was thinking!

diverg · Post by **diverg** » January 5, 2008 12:02 am

gingerbreadman wrote:
LIPH wrote:
diverg wrote:
LIPH wrote:I agree, I want to go to Alpine this year.
So is Alpine the best show to go to in your opinion. Excluding exotic destinations.
I don't know, I've never been to Alpine.
Y'all should try it just once...

It's in the middle of nowhere (it's in Wisconsin), It's a huge venue (~35,000+), and there's nowhere to stay nearby... Closest places are Milwaukee, and the outer north-western burbs of Chicago... Those are at least an hour away... That is after ya get out of the parking lot! Last year it took us 2 hours to get out! They have a specific bottle neck for Highway F! That's what they call their highways in Wisconsin... by lettters! Not sure if it was Highway F, but that's for sure what I was thinking!

Alpine is that great to put up with all the hassle? Must be one heck of a tailgate. Is Alpine usually held at the same time each year?

gingerbreadman · Post by **gingerbreadman** » January 5, 2008 12:21 am

diverg wrote:Alpine is that great to put up with all the hassle? Must be one heck of a tailgate. Is Alpine usually held at the same time each year?

Not sure t's the same time every year. That prolly why we're here checkin' it out at BN!

Good tailgate but outtta control when we left... lotsa people burning their beer can boxes so they could roast some weenies!

Wino you know · Post by **Wino you know** » January 5, 2008 12:26 am

Wino you know wrote:Every year I've been going there (since 1999), he's played anywere from June 2 (which was in 2001, when it was a balmy 44 degrees), to the end of August.

STL PARROTHEAD · Post by **STL PARROTHEAD** » January 5, 2008 12:41 am

I hope there's an Alpine!!

never been,
Tom and I want to add this to our list this year!!!

diverg · Post by **diverg** » January 5, 2008 12:48 am

gingerbreadman wrote:
diverg wrote:Alpine is that great to put up with all the hassle? Must be one heck of a tailgate. Is Alpine usually held at the same time each year?
Not sure t's the same time every year. That prolly why we're here checkin' it out at BN!

Good tailgate but outtta control when we left... lotsa people burning their beer can boxes so they could roast some weenies!

popcornjack · Post by **popcornjack** » January 5, 2008 1:13 am

There better be an Alpine. I've already made my "boy band" mix cd for the drive with DP66.

Big Jimmy · Post by **Big Jimmy** » January 5, 2008 1:37 am

Alpine can be fun, but watch out for ignorant workers there who like to hassle sober designated drivers.

Personally I think they should have bulldozed the place after August 27, 1990. Why the heads of there let a helicopter take off is beyond my knowings.

ConchRepublican · Post by **ConchRepublican** » January 5, 2008 5:19 pm

drunkpirate66 wrote:
ConchRepublican wrote:C'mon Jimmy, send Shea out in style and help the Mets out!

(although there is a rumour about a Billy Joel show(s) to close Shea)
Billy rules live! Only person I ever saw get people to sing like Jimmy . . . well, close to Jimmy.

Yes he does. A great show.

One tour, about 10 years ago, he gave the crowd two choices for which song he'd do a few times during the set. Usually a "Song in the Attic" type gem against another more popular song. Guess which usually won. Picture if Jimmy did that and the crowd had to choose between Cowboy in the Jungle and WDWGDAS . . . and Cowboy lost? The tease is worse that nothing at all!

drunkpirate66 · Post by **drunkpirate66** » January 5, 2008 5:48 pm

popcornjack wrote:There better be an Alpine. I've already made my "boy band" mix cd for the drive with DP66.

ragtopW · Post by **ragtopW** » January 5, 2008 10:48 pm

LIPH wrote:If he does Fenway and/or Wrigley again, I think I'd probably pass on both of them. I'd rather go see him someplace I haven't seen him before, or someplace I've been to that has better acoustics than a baseball stadium.

isn't Yankee Stadium due to close this year??
Wouldn't that make .. some sense?

diverg · Post by **diverg** » January 5, 2008 10:53 pm

Has Jimmy ever played Yankee Stadium?

gingerbreadman · Post by **gingerbreadman** » January 5, 2008 10:57 pm

Big Jimmy wrote:Personally I think they should have bulldozed the place after August 27, 1990. Why the heads of there let a helicopter take off is beyond my knowings.

Not sure about bulldozing the place...

But I remember well, that was the place and day where Stevie Ray Vaughan died...

LIPH · Post by **LIPH** » January 6, 2008 1:44 am

ragtopW wrote:
LIPH wrote:If he does Fenway and/or Wrigley again, I think I'd probably pass on both of them. I'd rather go see him someplace I haven't seen him before, or someplace I've been to that has better acoustics than a baseball stadium.
isn't Yankee Stadium due to close this year??
Wouldn't that make .. some sense?

This is the last year for Yankee Stadium but there's no place to tailgate near the stadium and it's not exactly the best part of NYC.

diverg wrote:Has Jimmy ever played Yankee Stadium?

Not that I know of.

mjeischen · Post by **mjeischen** » January 6, 2008 1:58 am

Big Jimmy wrote:
Catch&Release wrote:If Jimmy plays a Chicago stadium, I'd guess Soldier Field.

Absolutely no neighborhood issues and way more seats than Wrigley. He can stay right on Michigan Avenue (Maybe the Four Seasons?) and be 5 minutes from the venue/rehearsals while having a ton of stuff to do.

It seats 80,000 plus, doesn't it? Seeing as how he did 2 Gillette shows to end the NE part of the summer tour, I am guessing football stadiums and small faraway shows will be more and more common.
maybe 70 with people on the field.

Buffett at SOLIDER would be a disaster.

LSD would be so screwed up from drunks not knowing how to drive on it, and the CPD and the Staties would have a field day with all the DUI's they can get.

Then none of us will count on you being there . . . bring on the party!