Describe your worst concert tickets.

Dudeman1967

Dudeman1967

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I had two tickets to see Rush on their last tour at the hockey arena. They were at the back of a section off the floor in the back of the inner bowl, dead center.

I was taking my son who was about 10 years old. We get to the seats and see a HUGE guy next to our seats. After my son squeezes in next to sumo wrestler and we sit down I notice the seats were backed up against a concrete wall. Soon after we sit down I notice huge guy smells like he is sweating straight beer.

The concert starts and it sounds like crap because of the wall behind my head. My son is clinging to me because huge guy was taking up half of is seat. Did I mention he stunk like BO and stale beer? Two songs into the show I realized that Rush plays for three hours and we weren't going to make it that long.

I found an usher who sent us to some ticket/security office. I explained my problem to the boss and she was very sympathetic. She looked down at my son with a smile. She took my tickets and gave me two new ones. She had an usher take us to our new seats about 15 rows from the stage in front of Geddy. Jackpot!
 
I don't know that I've had too many memorably bad seats, but I've definitely been next to THAT GUY® (Drunk That Guy®, Talkative That Guy®, Emotional Breakdown That Guy®, etc.) at plenty of shows.

I did have one really disappointing screwup as a result of forgetting about crossing into a different time zone. I missed almost a full hour of a BOC show because I didn't realize I'd crossed over into Eastern time.
 
Got tickets last minute to a free show at the Kentucky state fair: Bony James, Patty Labelle, and the Blues Brothers Band with Eddie Floyd. Got there and the tickets were nosebleed section off the side of the stage. Well into James' set we noticed almost all of the chairs on the floor are empty, so we moved down there about 5 rows back from the stage.

James finished up and Labelle started. Halfway through Labelle's set we look back and all of the floor seats (as well as the rest of the stadium) are full. I don't know if we just got lucky and whoever owned our seats didn't show up, or if they saw us in their seats when they got there and just decided to sit somewhere else.

After Labelle's set, almost everyone left. Floyd and the Blues Brothers band played an absolutely smoking show for about 100 people in a 20K seat arena. Must have been crushing for them, but like I said, they put on a fantastic show.

Saw the first version of the reformed Lynyrd Skynyrd (with Ed King!). Seats weren't bad but happened to look down about halfway through and saw a river of puke flowing at our feet. The two guys behind us were barfing non-stop. Hazards of a Skynyrd show, I suppose.
 
The first time I saw Prince the sound sucked but it was still a great show. I guess one year at Ozzfest Limp Bizkit played, but they were the only shitty band that year. So I guess I’ve never actually been to a bad show.
 
My older brother scored some tickets to see the Who at the old hockey barn. One of the two seats was behind a upper deck support post. Lucky for him his girlfriend wasn't a big Who fan and didn't care.
 
My brother invited me to a Motorhead, Metallica, and Guns n' Roses concert at the Rose Bowl. We had high lodge seats. While we could hear Motorhead and Metallica well enough, come G n' R, we could hardly hear a thing. Unless you count everyone around us singing in unison to each and every song.
Damn stadium sing alongs!

*Slash jumping on stage in cut-off Levi shorts to play a song with Motorhead was cool. In the words of Lemme Kilmeister, "we aren't playing with Guns n' Roses and Metallica, they're fucking playing with us!"

Lemme: "Cute shorts Slash".
 
Jethro Tull in 1977. My buddy and I were stoked to have floor seats, but when we got to our "seats", the mixing console was there instead. Being a dumb teenager we didn't get any sympathy from the stoner "Security" guy, who just shrugged when we asked what to do. We ended up just drifting around the floor and squeezed into a row where everyone was standing anyway...especially they guy in front of us who was tripping pretty hard.
 
TBF I'm probably the guy you don't want to be next t

I almost started a riot at a Rod Stewart concert and pissed in a glass at an Oasis gig which some random nutter ended up drinking.
 
My worst seats were at the Police reunion tour in Denver. But, the seats were really not all that bad. They were on the side and the sound was decent. Unfortunately, the band was a bit off that night. They had to stop and restart a few times which made it more memorable. They fell from the skies to become mere mortals. I still enjoyed the performance overall, even though it was not their best night.

My worst concert experience was Mannheim Steamroller. I have absolutely no interest in that band, nor their music. But, I was dating a young redhead, Angela, at the time and she was really into them. And, no, I'm not Charlie Brown. I got tickets for the show at Red Rocks Amphitheater. IIRC it was an October night. A big rain storm blew in about half way through the show. Many people left. Angela, refused to leave. So, we sat there cold, soaking wet and stayed until the bitter end.
 
We went to see Dark Star Orchestra at UMass Amherst. They were balcony seats in a two row balcony that triggered my fear of heights big time. Luckily I was able to trade them in and upgrade for good floor seats. It's a good thing because people were dancing in the balcony and you could see it shaking. :eek:
 
The first one that comes to mind was a corporate event. So, the ticket was free.

The Tragically Hip at Maple Leaf Gardens sometime in the 90s, I think.

We were in the broadcast gondola at the top of the arena.
This is an older photo, but it’s the same structure in the same place. It may have had a few upgrades but that’s where it was.
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At the time that I was there, the gondola had plexiglass windows with an opening at the top.
So, you either listened to the reflected sound coming in that opening, or you got up on the counter and stuck your head out in the open.

Also, one could still smoke in the arena back then.
The crowd smoked. A lot. And different stuff. And it all wafted up to the top of the arena.
 
Andrew Sak said:
Is that a Champagne Supernova?
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There were a bunch of people doused in it when having taken a huge gulp, he realised that, despite my loud embarrassed protests to the contrary, I had indeed pissed into the tumbler when someone spotted it.

Said tumbler was duly launched into the crowd in shock / horror by the lad.

I fully intend to use the gents if needed on the reunion tour.
 
jbj said:
There were a bunch of people doused in it when having taken a huge gulp, he realised that, despite my loud embarrassed protests to the contrary, I had indeed pissed into the tumbler when someone spotted it.

Said tumbler was duly launched into the crowd in shock / horror by the lad.

I fully intend to use the gents if needed on the reunion tour.
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We need a new reaction emoji for this.

So you skip the loo, wiz into a tumbler at the show, set it down, random nutter picks it up, takes a few swigs, realizes things, hurls glass into soon to be horrified Oasis fans trying to enjoy Wonderwall.
This sounds about right.

I'm afraid to ask how you almost started a riot at a Rod Stewart concert.
 
Andrew Sak said:
We need a new reaction emoji for this.

So you skip the loo, wiz into a tumbler at the show, set it down, random nutter picks it up, takes a few swigs, realizes things, hurls glass into soon to be horrified Oasis fans trying to enjoy Wonderwall.
This sounds about right.

I'm afraid to ask how you almost started a riot at a Rod Stewart concert.
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Close-ish.

The gig was in Edinburgh mid-week so I was relying on a lift home from my mates brother. It was absolutely rammed and we were in the middle of the crowd in the stadium so I got to thinking - if I leave these guys, I'm not going to find my way back and I'm going to be stuck trying to get home with 60,000 other people.

I was bursting to pee so the guys kind of hunkered around in front of me, subtle like, while I tried to piss into the tumbler without anyone noticing.

It was all going well until I heard a cry: "fucking hell, that guys pissing over there." just as I was finishing up. I managed to get my cock away by the time an accusatory crowd had gathered.

I put up a valiant argument that it wasn't piss, it was cider hence why it looked a bit weird.

Someone challenged me to drink it to prove it was indeed booze and not piss.

I replied that I was quite drunk already and didn't want to drink it.

Someone grabbed it from my hand and pointed out that it was warm.

I said I'd bought it ages ago, I was taking my time with it and it had gone warm in the sun.

Some mad dude decides to take the initiative and shouts "I believe the dude, give me that." Grabs it from the person who was holding it, takes a huge gulp, swallows, looks at me with a horrified expression then throws the tumbler as far and as fast as he could.

We had to move to another part of the crowd but I didn't miss my ride home. :embarrassed:
 
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