Mr. Heartbreak

Ian Astbury. I was going to say Ian Astbury is the poor man's Eddie Vedder, but I didn't want to take it too far. I remember the very first time I saw Pearl Jam on TV. I looked and listened, and promptly said, "Poor man's Jim Morrison." Never did change my opinion on that, either.

Okay, geniuses, help me out here: Blur is the poor man's _________. Oh, and Eddie Vedder is the poor man's Jim Morrison. Forgot that one.

That is a bummer. I was just getting psyched to see him open for Wilco/MMJ/Dylan. Wondering if that will happen now....

If LiveNation is lying to you, and refuses to cancel your order - which is illegal - then of course you should do what it takes to make sure that you, the consumer, get refunded your money. We don't really need to go down that road in this thread, do we? Regarding my other post about prices being a scam: yeah, it's crazy that I got a $100 ticket in the pit and people who will be seated behind me will pay $215 for their seat. Oh well, sucks to be them, but jeez. That ain't right.

I would advise anyone on the board to watch out for this kind of B.S. from customer service reps. That is NOT the way credit cards work. If you decide you want to cancel a credit card order, the company has to give you a refund and make the seats available for another buyer. If they refuse, you can call your credit card company, tell them you do not authorize the purchase, and they will do it for you. Lots of helpful people on this thread, but not at LameNation (great nickname, by the way, thanks!).

They better. Florida on June 27th? Yikes. I have mixed emotions about this already. Nice to see Dylan and the boys on the same bill, and I'm curious about seeing MMJ, but it could be a looooooooooong night.

Yeah, I went back in as if I were going to buy more tickets, and the better seats behind the pit (central) were $215 each. What a scam. LiveNation sucks balls. I guess I will stick with the GA pit. If I have to take a break, I'll squirm out and go sit down somewhere. Any Tampa Bay area folks here know that Live Nation Ampitheatre (formerly the Ford Ampitheatre)? I am curious as to how many of us they will cram into that GA pit area. Time to buy a cushion I can stuff down the back of my pants in case they won't let us bring such things in.

I scored 2 tickets to the Live Nation Ampitheatre show in Tampa, but I am less than thrilled with the way this presale was done. I signed right in at 10:00 a.m. and went for the higher price range ($106), but it only directed me to "general admission pit" as the area. Of course, that is the area in front of the stage, which sounds good, but it did not have seat assignments listed, so I have no way of knowing whether or not we are way the heck off to the side. Now I log in again and look at my receipt and it says "Section: Pit; Row: 1001; Seats: 1039-1040." So it sounds like we will at least

This is exactly where I am. I called up a concertgoing buddy of mine (took him to his first Wilco show, and now he's a fan), and he sounded like he was more excited than me about this lineup! So I guess I will be going, and hoping I can score decent seats for us. Might be tough with all the MMJ, Wilco and Dylan fans trying to score tickets at the same time.

Kind of a bummer. He was a part of that history, for sure. A buddy of mine told me a lot of that Woodstock performance was improvised!

Here are the prices for Tampa: US $25.00 - US $89.00 US $25.00 Ticket + US $7.00 Fees = US $32.00US $89.00 Ticket + US $16.70 Fees = US $105.70 Big discrepancy in pricing. I'm thinking that means lawn seats are $32, all the real seats are $105. If I can score good seats in the presale, I may go, if not, no thanks. I'm not used to seeing Wilco from the 58th row.

No, St. Pete..and, unfortunately, have to drive straight from work. Will be lucky to make it through rush hour before the show.

The word "epic" is so overused, but I'll tell you what: those setlists look pretty epic. Looking forward to seeing these guys next week, special guests or not!

An audience recording of the 4/12 show is now available for download from t.u.b.e. blogspot, for those who are interested in that sort of thing.

Exactly. Sure, a car can be a deadly weapon, but its primary purpose is as a mode of transportation. Yet if I want to sell mine, I have to go through that whole registration paper trail, as does the buyer. Whereas the primary purpose of a gun is...oh yeah, protection, that's right. Like, say, a knife, or mace. Right?

Except for the Grateful Dead thread, that rules.

Oh yeah, that one is very cool. I was thinking more of the off-key/out-of-tune vocals on some of the other tracks. Reminded me, unfortunately, of some of the tracks on many of the Dick's Picks and Dave's Picks releases.

Wow. One man's afterthought is another man's gold. Glad they found those. On the other hand, the bonus tracks on American Beauty and Workingman's were surprisingly so-so. I guess there was nothing anywhere near as stellar to draw from, compared to the original releases. I sort of wish there were some cool bonus tracks on the Beatles mono box set, but I guess that is a topic for a different thread....

That has become some of my favorite Dead music. I was so surprised when I first heard it...like, Where has this stuff been? But I realized it was strictly in-studio stuff without vocals, so of course it hadn't been put on an official release...Best bonus tracks ever!

This is awful. At least two dead, 23 injured.

A beautiful place, though, no? As I said above, most Americans cannot afford to even move to a place like the O.C.

Well, I didn't actually say it was inferior. I just think Stella Blue is a better, and more universal song. As for it hitting too close to home, you may be right...although, if that were the case, you would think Fire on the Mountain would have had much the same effect! I guess we're lucky Jer liked to play that one as much as he did, because I love that song...

Beautifully said. We had a conversation about this a while back, possibly in this very thread. Orange County, California is an example of an area where median household income is between 80-160K in many areas. The OC is notoriously exclusive in parts, as anyone who has ever seen the show about it can attest. New York City is another example. While Manhattan is economically diverse, the Upper East Side has a per capita income of 90K. Of course, it's Manhattan. You're going to pay to live there and you better have a high income. You can get more bang for your buck in other areas, where pe

I suspect it's because Stella Blue is just a better song and/or more meaningful for the band. Check out the annotated Stella Blue: http://artsites.ucsc.edu/GDead/agdl/stella.html "...written at the Chelsea Hotel in 1970. This places "Stella Blue" in distinguished company. It's where Arthur C. Clarke wrote 2001: a Space Odyssey; Bob Dylan wrote Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands; and Arthur Miller wrote After the Fall." "...first performance at the Hollywood Bowl on June 17, 1972. This was Pigpen's last show with the band." Of course, they couldn't know it would be that way, but maybe they looked

I have to ask: can you elaborate? Does this mean he said, "Hey" to the crowd? Not trying to be a smartass. I have seen him before, and he was, uh, reserved.