Indy Show Confirmed!!

gaberaham99 · Post by **gaberaham99** » February 26, 2008 12:19 pm

The official announcement will be released later today, but Jimmy is coming to VWMC on Tuesday, July 29. On sale date will be this coming Monday at 10 AM.

UpstateNYPH · Post by **UpstateNYPH** » February 26, 2008 12:38 pm

cool, thanks!

DerekH · Post by **DerekH** » February 26, 2008 1:10 pm

Thanks, I was hoping that would be the date. Saturday in Chicago and Tuesday in Indy!

msu#1 · Post by **msu#1** » February 26, 2008 1:30 pm

You mean its not the 9th and 10th like in the complete tour dates thread.

Oh and

DerekH · Post by **DerekH** » February 26, 2008 1:59 pm

looking at ticket bastard and they have a listing for a parking pass at VWMC but nothing is listed when you click the link. interesting.

RinglingRingling · Post by **RinglingRingling** » February 26, 2008 2:01 pm

ummm..

technically, until it goes on the m'ville site, it isn't confirmed.

UpstateNYPH · Post by **UpstateNYPH** » February 26, 2008 2:49 pm

DerekH wrote:looking at ticket bastard and they have a listing for a parking pass at VWMC but nothing is listed when you click the link. interesting.

http://www.ticketmaster.com/artist/1200444

looking good...

gaberaham99 · Post by **gaberaham99** » February 26, 2008 3:19 pm

I understand that there may be a bit of lag between the time of the announcement and when it shows up on Mville.com, but I assure you my source is very much an inside one and in all the years I've known him has never ever been wrong when he tells me Jimmy is coming to town on a certain date. After 5 PM today, the Indy show should go into the 'official' confirmed section!

SchoolGirlHeart · Post by **SchoolGirlHeart** » February 26, 2008 4:00 pm

Um, I'm gonna guess gaberaham99's source is the same as last year, and since last year he/she was right on the money......

Used to be people greeted tour info with glee..... this year seems like a lot of scepticism and sarcasm..... pretty soon people who are in the know won't bother to let US know any more (as has happened in at least one case already this year.....)

Thanks for the info, gaberaham99!

RinglingRingling · Post by **RinglingRingling** » February 26, 2008 4:06 pm

SchoolGirlHeart wrote:Um, I'm gonna guess gaberaham99's is the same as last year, and since last year he/she was right on the money......

Used to be people greeted tour info with glee..... this year seems like a lot of scepticism and sarcasm..... pretty soon people who are in the know won't bother to let US know any more (as has happened in at least one case already this year.....)

Thanks for the info, gaberaham99!

pardon me, but yeah, I realize people might be in the know. I just tend to believe that when it has been posted on his official website, then it is set in stone. Unconfirmed rumours, no matter how good the source, are still rumours.

and yeah, part of it is annoyance this year (that has been building for the last several years) that concert tour information dribbles out of Jimmy like ... well, fill in your analogy. In a world where it is possible to schedule 30 teams for 162 baseball games over 6 months, it can't be that hard to put together a complete schedule and just drop it in one fell swoop.

SchoolGirlHeart · Post by **SchoolGirlHeart** » February 26, 2008 4:08 pm

RinglingRingling wrote:
SchoolGirlHeart wrote:Um, I'm gonna guess gaberaham99's source is the same as last year, and since last year he/she was right on the money......

Used to be people greeted tour info with glee..... this year seems like a lot of scepticism and sarcasm..... pretty soon people who are in the know won't bother to let US know any more (as has happened in at least one case already this year.....)

Thanks for the info, gaberaham99!
pardon me, but yeah, I realize people might be in the know. I just tend to believe that when it has been posted on his official website, then it is set in stone. Unconfirmed rumours, no matter how good the source, are still rumours.

and yeah, part of it is annoyance this year (that has been building for the last several years) that concert tour information dribbles out of Jimmy like ... well, fill in your analogy. In a world where it is possible to schedule 30 teams for 162 baseball games over 6 months, it can't be that hard to put together a complete schedule and just drop it in one fell swoop.

so why take that out on the people who are trying to pass on information?

Tropic_Al · Post by **Tropic_Al** » February 26, 2008 4:13 pm

RinglingRingling wrote:
SchoolGirlHeart wrote:Um, I'm gonna guess gaberaham99's is the same as last year, and since last year he/she was right on the money......

Used to be people greeted tour info with glee..... this year seems like a lot of scepticism and sarcasm..... pretty soon people who are in the know won't bother to let US know any more (as has happened in at least one case already this year.....)

Thanks for the info, gaberaham99!
pardon me, but yeah, I realize people might be in the know. I just tend to believe that when it has been posted on his official website, then it is set in stone. Unconfirmed rumours, no matter how good the source, are still rumours.

and yeah, part of it is annoyance this year (that has been building for the last several years) that concert tour information dribbles out of Jimmy like ... well, fill in your analogy. In a world where it is possible to schedule 30 teams for 162 baseball games over 6 months, it can't be that hard to put together a complete schedule and just drop it in one fell swoop.

The way the dates come out, it really is annoying.

But I think it's part of someone's marketing strategy. Drop a few dates, sell 'em out, release a few more and so on. It is about time they figured out that they'd all sell. Some fanatics do plan their vacations around some of the tour dates.

And unfortunately some bosses require advance notice of our time off.

RinglingRingling · Post by **RinglingRingling** » February 26, 2008 4:21 pm

SchoolGirlHeart wrote:
RinglingRingling wrote:
SchoolGirlHeart wrote:Um, I'm gonna guess gaberaham99's source is the same as last year, and since last year he/she was right on the money......

Used to be people greeted tour info with glee..... this year seems like a lot of scepticism and sarcasm..... pretty soon people who are in the know won't bother to let US know any more (as has happened in at least one case already this year.....)

Thanks for the info, gaberaham99!
pardon me, but yeah, I realize people might be in the know. I just tend to believe that when it has been posted on his official website, then it is set in stone. Unconfirmed rumours, no matter how good the source, are still rumours.

and yeah, part of it is annoyance this year (that has been building for the last several years) that concert tour information dribbles out of Jimmy like ... well, fill in your analogy. In a world where it is possible to schedule 30 teams for 162 baseball games over 6 months, it can't be that hard to put together a complete schedule and just drop it in one fell swoop.
so why take that out on the people who are trying to pass on information?

I don't think saying, "actually, it isn't confirmed until.." counts as "taking it out on people". It is a simple statement of fact.

RinglingRingling · Post by **RinglingRingling** » February 26, 2008 4:23 pm

Tropic_Al wrote:
RinglingRingling wrote:
SchoolGirlHeart wrote:Um, I'm gonna guess gaberaham99's is the same as last year, and since last year he/she was right on the money......

Used to be people greeted tour info with glee..... this year seems like a lot of scepticism and sarcasm..... pretty soon people who are in the know won't bother to let US know any more (as has happened in at least one case already this year.....)

Thanks for the info, gaberaham99!
pardon me, but yeah, I realize people might be in the know. I just tend to believe that when it has been posted on his official website, then it is set in stone. Unconfirmed rumours, no matter how good the source, are still rumours.

and yeah, part of it is annoyance this year (that has been building for the last several years) that concert tour information dribbles out of Jimmy like ... well, fill in your analogy. In a world where it is possible to schedule 30 teams for 162 baseball games over 6 months, it can't be that hard to put together a complete schedule and just drop it in one fell swoop.
The way the dates come out, it really is annoying. But I think it's part of someone's marketing strategy. Drop a few dates, sell 'em out, release a few more and so on. It is about time they figured out that they'd all sell. Some fanatics do plan their vacations around some of the tour dates. And unfortunately some bosses require advance notice of our time off.

this the part of the "announce in dribs and drops" that annoys me. I generally don't have a problem with time off, but if you do travel (more and more a necessity because the constant cutting back of the schedule), 2 weeks notice tends put airfare from the "ok.. this could work" to the "hmm... looks like I have to find someone to 'donate' a kidney to fund this.." range.

gaberaham99 · Post by **gaberaham99** » February 26, 2008 4:51 pm

Ringling,

My source has given me a great education on how shows are booked. In the case of Jimmy, it goes something like this--

1. around late Jan/Feb, his tour manager contacts all of the reps for the various 'sheds' and other parks and tells them to place a series of 'holds' on their summer calendars.

2. Said tour manager then askes Jimmy personally if he wants to play the same places as the year before and the same number of shows. This year, he wanted to go elsewhere in Chicago, for example.

3. Once the tour order is established after consultation with the band, each venue is again contacted and told which hold date to lock in.

Therefore, it really isn't Jimmy's fault that info 'dribbles'; out for his tour; its just that each venue has to work out its own schedule after consulting with Jimmy's tour manager. Dates are announced as each venue gets its date confirmed.

UpstateNYPH · Post by **UpstateNYPH** » February 26, 2008 4:58 pm

gaberaham99 wrote:Ringling,

My source has given me a great education on how shows are booked. In the case of Jimmy, it goes something like this--

1. around late Jan/Feb, his tour manager contacts all of the reps for the various 'sheds' and other parks and tells them to place a series of 'holds' on their summer calendars.

2. Said tour manager then askes Jimmy personally if he wants to play the same places as the year before and the same number of shows. This year, he wanted to go elsewhere in Chicago, for example.

3. Once the tour order is established after consultation with the band, each venue is again contacted and told which hold date to lock in.

Therefore, it really isn't Jimmy's fault that info 'dribbles'; out for his tour; its just that each venue has to work out its own schedule after consulting with Jimmy's tour manager. Dates are announced as each venue gets its date confirmed.

Interesting information, thanks for that

RinglingRingling · Post by **RinglingRingling** » February 26, 2008 4:59 pm

gaberaham99 wrote:Ringling,

My source has given me a great education on how shows are booked. In the case of Jimmy, it goes something like this--

1. around late Jan/Feb, his tour manager contacts all of the reps for the various 'sheds' and other parks and tells them to place a series of 'holds' on their summer calendars.

2. Said tour manager then askes Jimmy personally if he wants to play the same places as the year before and the same number of shows. This year, he wanted to go elsewhere in Chicago, for example.

3. Once the tour order is established after consultation with the band, each venue is again contacted and told which hold date to lock in.

Therefore, it really isn't Jimmy's fault that info 'dribbles'; out for his tour; its just that each venue has to work out its own schedule after consulting with Jimmy's tour manager. Dates are announced as each venue gets its date confirmed.

I guess I would just hold them all for one large burst.

gaberaham99 · Post by **gaberaham99** » February 26, 2008 5:13 pm

I would like that as well, but as we all know, the ticketmaster site gets overwhelmed pretty easily when multiple shows go on sale at once. Therefore, I think selling 1-2 shows at a time is Jimmy's answer to the hordes of fans that get frozen out of buying tix, since each show sells out 5-10 mins after it goes on sale. I've gotten in to buy pav seats when i'm only up against 1 or no other shows, while in the years that 5-6 shows were on sale at once, I couldn't get anything.

RinglingRingling · Post by **RinglingRingling** » February 26, 2008 5:22 pm

gaberaham99 wrote:I would like that as well, but as we all know, the ticketmaster site gets overwhelmed pretty easily when multiple shows go on sale at once. Therefore, I think selling 1-2 shows at a time is Jimmy's answer to the hordes of fans that get frozen out of buying tix, since each show sells out 5-10 mins after it goes on sale. I've gotten in to buy pav seats when i'm only up against 1 or no other shows, while in the years that 5-6 shows were on sale at once, I couldn't get anything.

I hear you. I am not saying put all the venues up for sale at once, just that the dates could get announced in one fell swoop so the planning of the concert life could start. then put the tickets onsale in one-three concert blips, with a venue in each timezone, so you don't have Chicago, Indy, and Alpine all on sale the same day

indymiller24 · Post by **indymiller24** » February 26, 2008 9:23 pm

regardless... Indy is CONFIRMED!

http://www.margaritaville.com/index.php?page=tour

cha-ching! i can't wait! imagine this weekend:

Saturday July 26th JB in Chicago.
Sunday July 27th - Brickyard 400 in Indy
Monday July 28th - getting recharged.
Tuesday July 29th - Jimmy in Indy!

now THAT's my kind of weekend!