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Radiohead is in town and tonight is their second and last show at the Hollywood Bowl. If you're scrambling around to get tickets, you're probably seeing Craigslist posts like this asking for $700 a ticket in the Garden boxes.
Most tickets seem to be going above face value in the $150-200 range and there are a good number of people begging for tickets and putting "$1" in their headlines. And there are people asking face value or best offer because a friend bailed (what? going to Radiohead alone is some kind of terrible experience?) or they are poor and need money.
Then, naturally, there are postings like this:
Any adventurous girl want to go to Radiohead tonight? - $35 (West Hollywood)So by adventurous I mean I know a way to sneak into the show tonight. It's possible, but takes a certain type of person to do this. One with guts, nerves of steel and some adventure in your soul. I was up there last night and figured out how to do it. It's not like if we get caught anything really is going to happen as it can be covered up as being "stupid" and "confused" as to where we should be. It might not work, but I think it will. You got what it takes? Oh, send a pic as will I.
If you went last night, how did it go?
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When Jimi Hendrix opened at the Hollywood Bowl for the Mamas and the Papas, we snuck down the hill from Griffith Park and sat near the last row. Where there's a will...
LA is the crappiest place to see big head liners like Radiohead since the industry is here and the leaches that suck up all the tickets to turn a profit.
the show was great -
i definitely overpaid for my ticket, but i expected to.
Highlight of the evening: during “Lucky,” which was probably my favorite song of the night, a narc officer reached over my shoulder to confiscate this guy’s pot, the guy dropped it, the officer spent a good minute shining a flashlight on him, asking him why he was lying to him…
way to ruin the song dude.
A fantastic set as always, but I spent the whole show sitting next to three groups of people who refused to shut the hell up. Talk about ruining a song, those jack asses ruined the whole show. At one point, about five songs into the set, everyone around them chimed in after I did to tell the people in front of me to quiet down. The girl's response was, "What the fuck is your problem? This is a concert, people come here to meet and talk." Tell that to the people who paid rent money for scalped tickets only to hear you talk over every song.
Ooohh, don't even get me going on the people who are in the "industry" or on the Band Wagon just because they think the band is cool but can't even name a song from the album. There is a love hate relationship for me when it comes to attending concerts in LA.
Rumor has it that Radiohead will be headlining Sunset Junction 2009. Come next august, admission will be $100 per person.
I'm going tonight and throwing alcohol on anyone who tries to talk over Radiohead.
The show was absolutely amazing.
did you know that if you don't immediately and loudly announce the title of the song that the band is playing within the first miliseconds, you're not a real fan? it's true. ("Exit Music!" "Gloaming!" "Lucky!" "Douchebag!")
I would LOVE to see/hear Radiohead at the Bowl and am going to show up looking to pay face value for a single ticket.
FWIW, I don't blame the industry, I blame Ticketmaster, StubHub and scalpers -- Radiohead tix were $39-$75 face value, but TM undoubtedly held back thousands of tickets so they could scalp them via TicketsNow (where 125 tickets are for sale between $204-$814 a piece).
I was soooo disappointed that I could not get tickets this year (I had slept overnight in line for the last show at the Bowl a few years ago and got front row center..it was amazing). I can honestly say that this band more than any other means the world to me (and I know many others) and literally cried when I could not see them this year. I am all for capitalism but the fact that people can hoard tickets and try to stick people for a $700 ticket is disgusting. Music is the point. Music fans should be the point. And if you think that you are going to talk over "lucky" or "no surprises," you will lose a limb! Peace to everyone living on planet telex!
i paid zero dollars to sit on a blanket in the hills and kind of see the whole show, but moreso listened while staring at the sky.
i think that definitely beat being inside the bowl with a bunch of assholes.
i was there. i had two extra tickets that i put on craigslist for $60 each. but a bidding war happened between some guy in thousand oaks and a dumb broad from the westside who only liked radiohead because her boyfriend did.
for once, thousand oaks came out on top.
as for me, i didn't even sit in my purchased seats. i sat at the very top of the stairs next to the bushes. there were no assholes talking over thom yorke, no dumb chatter from 17 year olds, just a clearn unobstructed view of the stage.
surprisingly, telling security that, "someone is in our seats! but we just want to watch the show" then offering them sandwiches will get security on your side. the whole team of security that was assigned to patrol the back walkway behind the top benches systematically kicked out the loiterers but left my sister and me to watch radiohead in peace. amazing.
The show was incredible and turned me into a bona fide fan (I'm a latecomer).
On the downside as others have said were the idiots in the audience, such as the little bitch right in front of me who wanted to stand and dance and sing loudly and smoke cigarettes for the whole entire show even when no one else was standing and slow, quite songs were playing. Sorry sister, this isn't Woodstock, and I didn't pay all this money to have the whole show obstructed by your ass and smoke in my face. If you knew that you wanted to come here and dance, you should have purchased tickets for the standing area, not the seats where there are going to be people behind you.
Or the two dumb and drunk Australian jock assholes who were directly behind me, standing and constantly bumping my head, and yelling at all of us in the near vicinity to "stand up ya fuckin' fuck wits", at the top of their lungs. There was not much I could do about it, considering that if I turned around and challenged them, I would have ended up with a beer poured on my head, or worse.
I don't understand the mentality of these people who will pay tons of money to go see a band they like (and I know those dudes were fans because they were singing along to all the songs... loudly) and then spend the whole time at the concert heckling the band and berating the audience around them, so that neither they or anyone else can enjoy the performance.
That said, the show was so good that it was still worth to suffer through being surrounded by morons.
LOL at people who sit at concerts.
Also, the LA hipster audience is the worst ever.
i sat in box seats, sang along to all the songs, and paid face value... suck on that
LOL at people who sit at concerts.
Whatever. For the $80+ tickets I purchased for a seated event, I'm damn well entitled to sit down in the seat I paid for and expect to not have my view blocked by the one dancing girl in the entire row (who could have easily moved over about ten feet to the open aisle where security was allowing people to stand and dance).
Not everyone has legs that were made for dancing and standing in place for two hours. Hence, I buy myself a seat ticket, not a standing room only ticket.
we snuck into outside lands to see radiohead. it was boring.
quit complaining how people were talking, standing, doing things you dont like. it is a concert, if you want to control your atmosphere stay at home.
"we snuck into outside lands to see radiohead. it was boring.
quit complaining how people were talking, standing, doing things you dont like. it is a concert, if you want to control your atmosphere stay at home."
Great advice coming from someone who's still sneaking into concerts and complaining about how one of the most innovative bands on earth were boring.
OK - no one is "entitled" to anything else but their seat. If someone else wants to stand up in front of you, it's pretty much tough shit. They also paid for their seat and can do whatever they want.
You have to be proactive getting tickets, it's Radiohead, they sell out everywhere. I got 6th row center on the fan club. TicketMater sucks balls.
OK - no one is "entitled" to anything else but their seat. If someone else wants to stand up in front of you, it's pretty much tough shit. They also paid for their seat and can do whatever they want.
Actually, it's not tough shit and no they can't do whatever they want. She was bothering everyone else around her, not just me, and someone evetually went and complained to security. Security came up a few minutes later, told her to sit down and stop blocking everyone behind her, or to go move into the aisle where everyone else was being allowed to dance.
It was my first time seeing them and it was glorious. I paid face value for my tickets and sold an extra on craigs list too. I was happy to sell it to an eager fan that was even more excited than I was. There were a lot of people talking but I didnt care... nothing could distract me from the stage. Even the weird guy that kept bumping into me throughout the whole show couldn't faze me. I was also one of those people standing and dancing through most of the show. I loved it. Especially when Thom shushed the audience when he couldn't remember how the song went... classic!