Re: Floor seats at through the roof prices.

["L. Bird" <pkeets@hotmail.com>]

> > I don't know about that Bird-at the Quad shows at MSG in '96 good floor 
>seats were available every night for less than face value.

But Jimmy and the Crowes had cancelled and the Zep fans turned in their tix. 
  I scored a fairly decent seat as a result.


> > And in 2000,
> > $250 seats were available at the box office right up to show time.
>
>I think that depends on which specific concert you're talking about.
>For the concerts I attended, everyone I talked to around my section
>had gotten their tickets through brokers and noone had gotten them at
>the door or through the box office.  There were -no- empty seats at
>any of the shows I attended (Denver, Gorge, Shoreline).

I didn't see that many empty seats, either, even in Tampa, which many folks 
said sold the worst.  There was something that went on about the front seats 
in 2000--maybe to keep them away from brokers.  They held them for the VIP 
tickets, and the unused ones then became available the last week.


keets

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