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Hard ticket. Can meet up on North Side or before tomorrow or Saturday show.

A friend just texted that Tweedy came out on electric for the start of the YLT set and they are now playing Jesus Etc!

This is multiple levels of awesomeness

Tortoise opening for the Chicago shows only.

AWESOME!

Big city blinking? been there.

As a neighbor, I usually get emails form the Cubs if they are planning additional concerts. Not artist announcements before the public. Just mentioning that dates are being considered.

They could play the minor league park in Schaumburg that Dylan played several years ago, or the soccer stadium in Bridgeview.

Kalamazoo, huh?

sec 5 row E

or something like that.

saw him on my birthday in Jacksonville, got some decent pics:

 

http://www.muzzleofbees.com/2008/07/02/rev...r-jacksonville/

I also was at the Jacksonville Waits show, and July 1 is my birthday as well.

Great birthday gift!

This could be a serious problem for the local music scene if passed.

EVERYONE SHOULD SIGN THE PETITION.

ALL CHICAGO RESIDENTS NEED TO CALL THEIR ALDERMAN TOMORROW

Find your alderman here: http://www.chicityclerk.com/citycouncil/alderman/find.html

People are overthinking the "building fee." It's just an arbitrary charge added by the venue to make some extra money. Simple as that. It's sometimes called a "restoration fee" or "maintenance fee" to make it seem like there's some special reason for it. But it's just a cash grab. It has nothing to do with the band paying to book the venue.

Exactly. If it was part of the ticket price, a percentage would go to the band or promoter.

Sat. St. Louis presale was a breeze. Confirmation email arrived at 10:01am.

howlin' rain - magnificent fiend

Incredible CD

So fired up for their Chicago show next week!

me too b/c the pageant says the Will call tickets are availible only 1 hour before the show and not before. I don't want to be fighting all you chumps in line for my tickets

http://www.thepageant.com/pageant.html

Pageants website says Will Call is available 1 hour before doors open. That is good!

13 years ago today - The Spectrum, Philly PA. The debut of one of the most-requested GD songs of all time - Unbroken Chain. We only had to wait 20 years!

 

Anyone from the board at that show? I wasn't.

Funny story....Once the Dead got the ear piece monitors, the soundcheck and show was sent on some radio frequency. There was a guy that could pick up the soundcheck with this giant radio and headphones. We often saw him on the way in and he would tell us what they soundchecked or make up something crazy.

On March 19, we walked by the guy on our way to the seats and said:

"What did they do?"

"Unbroken Chain"

"Yeah, right!"

We kept walking. We had great seats about 15th row on the floor. The first 5 songs of the first set were nothing special, and the 5th song was Don't Ease Me In which usually meant the end of the set. However, they didn't leave and started the Chain. At the first note, they guy in front of me freaked out, and then I picked it up. I was in shock....almost like this can't really be happening. The Spectrum just felt electric with people screaming, hugging, high-fiveing.

Obviously, they didn't get to play it many times, and the Spectrum version, while not the best, is sure solid.

In terms of busting out never played or rare material, there will never be anything so impactful like the Dead again.

here's a little discussion about the show he did @ the hideout, back in November 2005.

 

http://archive.viachicago.org/index.php?sh...c=18196&hl=

 

it's not much, but since we're talking about him, I figured I'd dig this up.

I don't think I knew about that show.

I do wish the Wilco site would promote solo projects, and yeah, there is *nothing* stupid about the Hideout.

sure Ticketmaster still sells tickets for about 80% of bigger shows in town, but they don't have an exclusivity deal, you can buy tickets from the box offices sans any TM fees for every single venue in town that sells through TM.

I wish Jam would do that in Chicago. They only sell advance tickets without fees at their venues with a box office. The Riv and the Aragon only have a box office open an hour before showtime. If you want tickets in advance, you need to go thru TM.

Being that Live Nation is the demon spawn of Clear Channel, I expect their ticketing service to be at least as evil as TicketBastard.

You can expect that! From what I read, I don't see the fees being less. Also, Live Nation will now have full control of the tickets. They plan to run their pricing like an airline. Prices can change at anytime based on ticket sales.

Loyalties. Promoters. Back-scratchers.

Maybe.

I don't see it. They mostly book their own shows, or work with some of the independent promoters in Chicago. The room is so well established and has a fantastic location. Tickets will still be available at the box office which is open more than not, and through a website. The only loss is outlets and large fees.

Also, Live Nation is dropping Ticketmaster when their contract expires at the end of 2008. This represents 15% of TM's total revenue. Live Nation will be launching their own service in 2009.

I hope you're right, and that Metro can still bring in the same caliber of artists as before ... but I'll believe it when I see it.

Why would their choice of ticketing system have an affect on their bookings?

There was a late night sushi bar too. It was one of the only places serving food 'til 2am downtown. It was pretty good.