I am just so upset about this. There are so many things that management could have planned for this farewell tour! It should be a celebration of the band and a thank you to the fans that have supported them. They could have done fanclub raffles like Queensryche does and you win either sound check passes or after show party passes. And when I say aftershow party, I mean the entire band is there milling around for 30-60 minutes talking to everyone (Mark did it) taking pictures and signing autographs and they are actually HAPPY to meet you. THAT is how you show your hardcore fans that you appreciate them!! Queensryche also just posted an auction to be Ryche Royalty and go on tour with them. Can you imagine? Priest could do all sorts of things, but this is just business as usual for them, which I find VERY SAD! I envisioned them blocking off the front row for hardcore fans, that during the pre-show party would get to go to sound check. We would get to go up on stage and sing the chorus of something like United or Take on the World during the show. Talk about AWESOME!! So many things that could be done to set JP apart from every other band and for the band to show their appreciation to the fans that have been with them all the way.
Jayne: Call Sharon Osbourne and ask her how to set up a great fan experience!! SHE knows how to make both the fans and the band happy!!
[Show/Hide Quoted Message] (Quoting Message by spapad from Sunday, June 05, 2011 2:58:03 PM)| |  | spapad wrote: | | Who knows, maybe JP and management get a cut of the $$$ from the ticket brokers. Jayne and Bill need to pad their retirement after all since NO OTHER BAND IN THEIR RIGHT FUCKING MINDS would ever hire them!!
HRMG, you hit the nail dead on the head in reguards to management.
The whole ticket buying schemes is just messed up. I liked when they used Live Nation. Seemed a lot fairer.
(Quoting Message by HOT ROCKIN' METAL GODDESS from Sunday, June 05, 2011 2:45:35 PM)
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Yes, I AM saying that other bands managements are involved in the reservation of blocks of seats!! Ozzy blocks off the ENTIRE FIRST 10 ROWS for the package deals. You have to go to Will Call and show ID to get your ticket the day of the show. Therefore completely eliminating scalpers from buying those tickets. Journey and Def Leppard are doing the same thing. Iron Maiden has always done it. The Scorpions just did it last year. Let me make this clear to you - THE TICKETS ARE NOT EVEN ON SALE TO THE PUBLIC YET AND THE TICKET RESALE SITES ALREADY HAVE THE FRONT ROW TICKETS ON SALE FOR UP TO 5X THE ACTUAL TICKET PRICE. Do you get it yet?????? Ticketbastard has contracts with the ticket brokers and unless MANAGEMENT of the band blocks off seats - which as I just explained to you has been done by MANY BANDS so IT CAN AND IS DONE, Ticketbastard will do this to increase their profits.
Who knows, maybe JP and management get a cut of the $$$ from the ticket brokers. Jayne and Bill need to pad their retirement after all since NO OTHER BAND IN THEIR RIGHT FUCKING MINDS would ever hire them!!
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Hmm....so you're saying that other bands managements are involved in the reservation of blocks of seats?
That you have to consider the other two bands who also have contracts with each venue?
Judas Priest are gods but have limitations. Venus, Mars and even Zeus had to obey certain rules.
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Those are resale prices. Chicago doesn't even go on sale through Ticketbastard until June 10th!!! And yet there are suites and seats for sale? Which begs the question, how can you REsell tickets that haven't even been sold yet??? So obviously, Ticketbastard has a contract with these "resellers" and they get certain blocks of seats (the good seats that we all want) before they ever go on sale. That is why bands like Def Leppard, Scorpions, Journey, Iron Maiden, Ozzy, Queensryche just to name a few, have in their contracts with these very same venues that JP is going to, that the first 10 rows or so are blocked off for packages. THAT is how a band keeps those seats for its fans!!! It just looks to me like JP and their management just don't care, as long as the seats get sold. Well, they are going to have the same situation that I saw in Cincinnati: people in the front row standing 5 feet back from the barrier looking bored. We won auction seats for the front row and were in the middle. Glenn finally was so frustrated that he noticed us and started playing in the middle!! So, the band WILL care come show time, but they don't seem to see why this is happening in the first place and that THEY CAN PREVENT IT!!
(Quoting Message by Budred from Sunday, June 05, 2011 6:56:24 AM)
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I hope those prices are resale prices and not Ticketmaster prices.
I got "Pit Passes" for Mayhem and they were only $75.00 and that's an all day event.
Tickets for Rock on the Range for field passes were $125.00 and that was for an all day event two days in a row.
I don't think I'll be going to multiple shows if the good seats are $150.00. WTF? I love Priest more than any other
band but not enough to pay that much. And if what I'm reading here about the first 12 to 14 rows being gone already
you may as well go with the cheap seats. This whole fucking tour is turning into a debacle. If there is any good to any
of this it's that it's happening at the end of their career and not in their prime. I would have bailed on them long ago.
Oh' well, I have my memories I guess.
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Sorry. Maybe this will work: www.horseshoehammond.com/EventsDetail.do
Well, hell ... went to TicketMaster. The show scheduled for "The Venue" is not there? Hmmm?
(Quoting Message by guidogodoy from Thursday, June 02, 2011 1:02:22 PM)
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Same goes for Detroit and Chicago. Been calling in all the chips for the precode for either!
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Hey, if anyone knows the pre-sales code for Vegas please send me a PM. Thank you!
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