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Originally Posted by TheLastPig
I hate continually chasing tickets, I make plans before or right when tours are announced, almost never have last minute adds.
The only comparable to this would be ascend a couple years back which is still 1k more people than the Greek holds and those tix were almost non existent on the secondary market.
idk, I would just have severe anxiety trying to chase these down knowing you have to get flights and hotels squared away much earlier if you didnt hit during the onsale.
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The argument for not wanting to continually chase tickets is a valid one. It’s admittedly probably not worth my time these days, I have the means to pay secondary market. But there’s also a sense of excitement in the chase and great satisfaction when you land that tough ticket without having to feed the scalper trash.
Yeah Ascend was two of the shows I was thinking when I made my comment above, but I was at those shows there were tickets available on lot. Some other ones that stand out that I attend and were being billed as “on a different level/you’ll never be able to get in without scalpers”: various NYE shows, the first hampton shows following the hiatus, last weekend of BD (although that hype didn’t catch until about 1/2 way through the BD run), Santa Barbara Bowl in 2021, Ark 2021 (the return show), hell even Halloween 2021 people were pitching as “the most difficult ticket in years”. But all of them had tickets pop for face right before the show on CoT and all but except SB I saw tickets on lot.
I don’t fault people who get nervous and just want to lock in tickets, but I certainly wouldn’t poo poo the people who have faith that they can hold out and find tickets for face. History says that essentially always happens (unless they’ve been on hiatus for 5 years
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Also, google says the Greek Theater in Berkeley has a 8,500 person capacity. Google says Bill Graham also only holds 8,500 and that’s in SF proper and they’ve played that on weekends before. Long story short is the venue is not THAT small, and they historically don’t draw particularly well in SF (somewhat paradoxically). So yes i do believe the Greek will be a tough ticket but it’s not like they’re playing the Warfield on NYE or something.