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Skippy, they had to get behind all the premium people - the ones who buy the package. They get in first, then the people who've been standing all day get in. It's all about the benjamins. Personally, I hate it. Can't even buy good tickets at a seated venue if yer on the ticket site the second they go on sale. They offer you way back...to save room for the premium, gold silver and whatever packages. People say "So save yer money and you can be upfront too". Fuck that (yes, I said fuck that!) My life is in no way, shape, or form lavish enough for me to spend hundreds of dollars for 2 tickets to one show. Anyways, that's what happened, and they got third row. Bottom line is really just being AT a show. I'm very fortunate that bands come within an hour or two from my house, so I'm grateful for that, and every show I get to see, I just don't dig the "$$dealio$$" as Luini puts it.
Tracie just dropped Chris off. She still has 2 hours to drive home ahead of her. She says she feels like "an old dishrag that was used to clean the bag of moldy ass". LMAO!!! Let's send good vibes to get her and the rest of the T2Jers home!
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cheese; awesome review! glad to hear you got up front, too bad about the tall peeps in front of you. i feel bad sometimes cause i'm one of those sequoias your talking about lol. the pushing and shoving are a regular occurance in Tahoe. the mrs doesn't ever want to see a show there again becuase of the crowd. some of the idiots you mentioned are probably peeps we know of but don't want to know!
safe trips home to all who traveled to the show.
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Sun Sep 6 '09 4:38:23 pm
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Andrew Longhorn
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Tahoe sounds awesome! Cannot wait till Berkeley and universal. This is one band I HAVE to see live, so glad were making the 15 hour flight over there.
Kids are soo excited to be going to Disney, universal and legoland. Wish I could have done that as a kid. They are sooo spoilt. :)
Soo you ChickenCA people in just over 2 weeks!! Woohoo!
Roo
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Sun Sep 6 '09 5:53:11 pm
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Debora Aylett
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Good to know that Tahoe went great and people are making it home safely. Sounds the guys put on another energy packed show ....
My hubby and I went to the local watering hole and had a few drinks and dance. They had a one man band who played the oldies.
I kept thinking damn... I wish I was watching ChickenFoot instead.
But then I shook it off and had a good time. The gentleman that was singing actually had an incredible voice but the music was mostly from the fifties, and early sixties.
ELPP- glad you enjoyed that clip. I had never seen anything quite like that . I found it very moving.
Cappy Steve- I wish I could find some encouragement to send your way..Hope the load lifts from your shoulders. My hubby always tells me things are going to be okay too (even though I know he does not know how things are going to turn out) Its hard sometimes, I am sure.
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Sun Sep 6 '09 7:54:33 pm
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M - aha now I see...Premium tickets would be nice but yes hard to sustain for lots of shows. Lord, what I'd give just have ONE freakin' show!!
So 3rd row sounds pretty good if there were peeps already there ahead of them.
T - hope you got home safely, Tsafely.
Al - how's the head?
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Joe Axeshredder
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Don- thanks for the excellent words of advice.
I went to Citifield, the new NY Mets Stadium yesterday and though not a big fan had a great time....especially when they played the whole song Crowd Chant....they must play it every game because ive been hearing it at Televised sporting events for years...whats great is any country can play it because of its musical language...it was a real treat to hear it such an amazing place, being the fan i am.
CC@Citifield
Its pretty cool how technology is so fast now...when chickenfoot is playing..theres an echo of information and video that flows out of each show for a couple of days...thats f'n cool
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Sun Sep 6 '09 8:22:15 pm
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Tracie: Great review, but this time Michelle has won review of the year..better luck next time!!! jejeje just kidding. I'll admit I do a lot of crowd bouncing, but I do it at metal shows only, a CF show would be out of the question. It's a great way to make it to front row, that and taking advantage of mosh pits, if u place yourself properly you can move up 6-7 rows while the pit is on, then it's a matter of finding the people that look most tired and just wait for them to leave. Use that tip next time you see a mosh pit :)
Michelle: I agree 1000% with you on the premium seats crap. It's a shameless money grab, and the artists should put a stop to it, they should realize that 50% of the time the people that pay 300 bucks for a ticket are there to be seen and they don't really care much about who's playing. I've seen premium seaters leave in the middle of shows, last year when Satch came here was no exception.
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Sun Sep 6 '09 8:26:55 pm
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Jose Martinez
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Roo: I would assume that they have a Lego store at Legoland (so obvious, yet I don't recall seeing one in their list of USA stores), but if they don't I highly recommend u stop at the store outside of Disneyland. Lego stores are the coolest! Also, in Universal City there's an Italian restaurant called Bucca, very very tasty food if u're into Italian.
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Austin Lewis, III
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Hey, everyone...just thought I'd post a quick note to say I made it back to Long Beach safely. I took a ton of pictures that I'll have online shortly, and I'll post some show thoughts soon too (although it looks like Tracie and michelle covered most of it...haha).
And I owe emails to roo and Al Surfer...I'll get to that after I get some sleep.
...Austin...
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Elpp : It's great to watch the sea from a plane..... Try it ...
They are recording their own songs, about 8 or 9. they have more but they won't record them all in this cd. I wrote the lyrics in five of them
and some others are instumental. I believe it is a great job. You will see. As soon as they finish it, i will send you their "my space"
and i hope you will agree.
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Mon Sep 7 '09 5:09:39 am
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Cheers Dazzler.
Ya just gotta laugh at life sometimes. The upstairs toilet has now leaked, flooded the shower/bathroom which in turn flooded down into the kitchen. Oh yeah, and electrics don't work too well under water. So now i've got a crucial decision, do I drink all the beer or let it go warm and thus become undrinkable.
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craig
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CappySteve :- Mate,don't worry about the beer.Have this full case of Jack Daniels.*fatape hands hefty carton of Gentleman Jack to Cappy* Seriously,though,keep your chin up Cappy.Life seems to hand out a lot of crap hands in this day and age,but you just have to look at the people who love you and support you.They are your diamonds.Cheers Cappy, I salute you.
C'MON AUSSIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Mon Sep 7 '09 5:49:18 am
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First off, Cappy...sorry to hear of yer troubles, sometimes it feels like that's all a person has when it comes at you like that....but chin up....things do get better I guess with time. I'll keep my fingers and toes crossed for you...
Darl...yes, yer right, that picture HAD to be seen, lol!!! It's even saved on my phone now, LOL!!!! Yes, I might be sick, but it was an even sicker friend that sent it to me on mah phone, lol!! (You know who u are :)
elpp.....I'm totally crushed that chelle beat me out as yer favorite....LOL!! I've been telling her fer years she needs to WRITE A DAMN BOOK!!! She's the modern Erma :D
Don, the two people in line ahead of us, husband and wife, they were totally cool and helped hold the line with us....wifey was sooooooo rockin out through the whole show, she totally loooooves Sammy, lol!! But all the other drunken fools put a damper on the night. I'm really sorry for u if u do know any of them! I don't blame Darl for not wanting to go back there for a show. I think the only way I'd do Tahoe again is if I bought premium tix so I could be at the front...those peeps dint get bothered by the eegits cuz the rest of us behind em held em off all damn night!! Great venue, and beautiful place for a show...it's just a damn shame people gotta go to a show and get wasted and ruin it fer peeps around them! But still....GAD DAMN GREAT SHOW!!! And sorry for yer hard times too....I have hopes that things are gonna turn around for the good ole US, but it's gonna take time. We all get to tie a knot and hang on meanwhile.
As to waiting in line all day and still only getting 3rd or 4th row...I'm with chelle on the premium ticket deal. We aren't alone in that we're very devoted fans who are willing and happy to stand in line all day....that's HARD on the body, lemme tell ya!! But we do it cuz we love Joe and wanna be as close as possible to the action on stage...and those peeps who can afford the $350 per ticket get to just walk up at 4 or 5:00, walk in and grab all the best spots. I guess if I had that kinda monies, I'd always do premiums fer Joe-shows, but I can't so I don't. It takes a lotta $$$ just to do what we do when u figger in travel, hotels, meals, etc.
What's irkin me at the moment is that I'm checking out tickets for the Berkeley show...still some available...in the nose-bleed section...and my fault for not buying tix the second they went on sale, but I did try and even THEN the seats were pretty far back, so I went with Tahoe instead. BUT....there ARE tickets available closer up, like in the Orchestra section or just behind...if you wanna pay the GAD DAMN SCALPER prices of $250 or more EACH...some are going for $500 EACH!! How the HELL do they get ahold of these tickets when the rest of us can't????? That totally pisses me off!! They are even selling "lawn" tickets fer well over $100 each, when I could still buy them fer $40ish if I dint care about the distance. That's effin WRONG. I thought Tickemaster did the code thingie on their site to prevent mass buying of tickets by scalpers, but obviously somethin ain't right! When you go online and hit "find tickets the SECOND they go on sale and yer still 25 rows back....shit man!!
K, nuff bout that, cuz I still have my Joe-and-Chickenfoot-glow on, LOL...
Roo, glad yer gonna make it to see these guys, you so will NOT be sorry...incredible show!! Travel safe and enjoy yer entire holiday with the family...are they all going with you to the shows too?
I NEED MORE CHICKENFOOT!!! I betcha Joe is gonna be sad to see it come to an end....but hopefully only for now, this is too damn good to not get back to it!!
Meanwhile, what's next Joe? Holiday? Down time? or......?
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michelle
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The addiction is fierce!!!
As for sending you that pic on the phone, I get an extra point for doing it while you were driving :-) Maybe next time you go for a long ride, I'll have the pic cropped and zooooomed and send it to you again! lmao!!!
I wish I still had the pic of Kirk Hammett in a shower cap. That was hilarious!! I taped that on the rear side window of my now ex bro-in-laws Bronco as we drove to NJ to see the Load or Re-Load tour. Of course you always get in major traffic jams going to/thru/from Philly, and the reactions from the peeps in the other cars were hilarious! Good times man, good times!
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Brian Currier
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CHICKENHOE
Enjoy the pictures! Can you tell who my favorite band member is?
It was great meeting up with everyone from T2J again.
JOE you were awesome as always and the rest of the guys too!! I love the picture I took of you walking to work like nobody knows who you are....LOL
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Diamonds? Well my wife is a diamond and she is this boy's best friend.
Actually there are a few diamonds on here. I hadn't intended to grumble about my lot, I try not to as there are lots of folk with far more difficulties than me.
But now I come to think of it, MY SHOES ARE TOO FECKING TIGHT!!! LOL
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Brian Currier
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Link Fixed arf!
One cool moment in the show was when they jumped into Led Zepplin's Immigrant song Joe played the Lead then Michael sang it. Way Cool !!
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Mon Sep 7 '09 11:34:01 am
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Debora Aylett
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Mahavishnu- Thanx for sharing your pics. Lots of great ones. Love the ones of Joe before the show. Just walking to work. LOL.
Hey,can anyone tell me how many years has Mike Manning been Joe's Tech? Just curious.
Cappy Steve - sounds like yer wife is a real gem.....
CHEESE- YAY VIDS!!!!!!!t Thanky you, OFF I GO , TO WATCH MORE JOE and the other guys tooo.
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Freddy Garza
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Hi everyone, sorry we lost everyone and couldn't say goodbye, probably means we will see each other again!!! We left Tahoe around 11am and got in our door at 1am. Still in a bit of a whirlwind so the Mrs and I will post reviews and pictures later. Glad everyone made it home safely.
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