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Mottola-Buffett wrote:

ParrotHeadInThe Making wrote:[
I haven't ben to my first JB show yet. This year I will change that.

Be sure to give us all the exciting details of your first concert afterward!

Oh I definitely will write a review on any show or shows I go to. I'm hoping that I can go to shows were a bunch of BNERS will be.

LIPH wrote:

UpstateNYPH wrote:I just dont understand how every year people say that they never went to a show because they could never get tickets from Ticketmaster. I not only have gotten tickets for every show I have wanted from ticketmaster ON THE ON SALE DATE, but I check back often enough to get better seats and almost always end up within ten rows of Jimmy.

I know what you mean Mike. Maybe I'm just unusually lucky, but I've been to 10 or more Buffett shows in each of the last 4 years (I have no life) and I've had tickets for 4 or 5 other shows that I couldn't go to because I couldn't get the time off work. I always get my tickets from TM and always on the on sale date. Never had a problem getting tickets, for any concert I wanted to go to, not just Buffett.

OK since I'm one of those people, (and I have the time and ability to check MULTIPLE times during the day) I'm going to ask you guys to buy my tickets for this concert season. Two years ago we had 5 people working phones and computers and just barely got enough tickets for our group, some of which weren't very good seats so I ended up going to Razorgator even after checking obsessively on the TM site. And not once have any of us been able to sit together. The only way we got anything was to order "onesies"

Thanks ScarletB, I know I'm not the only one. I know quite a few mostly disappointed Buffett fans. There are several big Buffett parties I go to each summer and we have the tailgate without the show after just 30 to 50 Buffett fans whom most have never been able to get tickets. Until this last year when Jimmy played Foxboro, tickets were available for the masses.

Mottola-Buffett wrote:As I said, I'm on a roll this evening (waiting on hubby to bring dinner home) and am a curious bird.
I've been a JB fan since 1985, but have only been to two concerts (Poplar Creek and Irvine). Have any of you out there NEVER been to a concert?

My 90 year old grandmother has not! and the two little keets! But the rest of the family has!

Alas, I've never been to a JB show.

I've not done many concerts, and usually like to leave the ticket ordering to someone else!

I guess my main reasons (excuses!) are schedule and money. Perhaps the stars will align this year........though $$$ won't be any more plentiful, for sure.

To console myself, I buy a JB CD that I don't have yet and have my own personal concert that lasts several days.

horseyparrot wrote:Alas, I've never been to a JB show.
I've not done many concerts, and usually like to leave the ticket ordering to someone else!
I guess my main reasons (excuses!) are schedule and money. Perhaps the stars will align this year........though $$$ won't be any more plentiful, for sure.
To console myself, I buy a JB CD that I don't have yet and have my own personal concert that lasts several days.

If it makes you feel any better, IMHO, going or not going to a JB concert does not make you any less of a phan. I've never been a big concert person myself, but would rank myself right up there with the most devout.

Ticketmaster is just a game that you have 2 figure out.

I can always get a pair. Usually NOT in the 1st 5 minutes but, as they say, persistence pays.

I think the more frustrating thing is when you live within driving distance of a venue and amazing tickets pop up the day of the show. The question becomes "Can we drive 200 miles and still have time to tailgate and who can watch the animals?"

Last year I was thinking about going 2 Indy on the day of the show - a 4 hour drive. At 9 am there were a couple of OK tickets in the 2nd section. Not worth the $300, I thought.

Sure enough, I click on at 3 pm and there are a pair of seats in the middle of the 3rd row that popped up. MOTHER F***ER, I thought. Had those pulled up at 9 am I would've been out the door so fast. Getting on the road at 3:30 would have meant barely making it to the show with no tailgating.

The night before Pittsburgh last year I pulled up a 2nd row seat and bought it. I woke up the next day not wanting to make the 6 hour drive cuz I really needed to get stuff done at home. Wow was I mad when I saw that it was one of the best set lists of the tour.

Where there is a will, there's a way. A dozen shows later and I still haven't had to pay a ba$tard ticket scalper.

Even if you dont get lucky enough to get tickets on the sale date, check the web site for the venue that he is going to like a week or 2 before the concert. There are ALWAYS tickets, and good seats too. 2 years ago at alpine I was able to get forth row center 3 days before the concert. And for some reason that doesnt work just goto the tailgate there are tons of PHans that are selling tickets at face value or even below. Thats my 2 cents.

DON'T LET A STUPID WEBSITE (TM) RUIN THE BEST TIME OF THE YEAR!!!