Official September 13 Tampa, FL, MIDFLORIDA Credit Amphitheatre Meetup/Review Thread

[Va Beach VH Fan]

Welcome to the Official September 13 Tampa, FL, MIDFLORIDA Credit Union Amphitheatre Meetup/Review Thread. This thread is to discuss anything leading up to the show, as well as all reviews.

Let's hear it !!

[VAiN]

I'm there! Room is booked...

[scott b]

Yo vain have you heard anything about whats included in the vip packages and prices ?

[ELVIS]

Nose bandages and towels...

[scott b]

nose bandages and towels...

well that will be at least 500 bucks

[ELVIS]

[VAiN]

Yo vain have you heard anything about whats included in the vip packages and prices ?

The usual.. Seats in the first 20 rows, soundcheck and some bullshit swag. Front row is $1000. Bring your wallet.

[DONNIEP]

A thousand bucks to stand in the front row. What, they gonna get a time machine and go back and get 1981 Dave and have him singing? Cause that's the only way it would be worth a grand.

[PETE'S BROTHER]

and bassplayer back

and my hair back

and a free guitar

[lesfunk]

I saw Van Halen from the seventh row on the fair warning tour for 13 dollars and fifty cents. fuck this

[Romeo Delight]

I saw Van Halen from the seventh row on the fair warning tour for 13 dollars and fifty cents. fuck this

Well, adjusting for inflation, 13 bucks then is about $35 now.

What has really changed is promoters have created a monopoly on the big shows...so being able to sit on the lawn for $50 or $60 really isn't too bad considering.

It is outrageous though, but people will pay that amount so really just meeting the market demand.

Before the promoters caught up to the scalpers it was pretty hard to get decent tickets anymore anyway buying the day they went on sale...its always been crooked, at least starting in the mid-1980's

[lesfunk]

I disagree slightly. Paying 50 dollars and not even getting a chair to sit in is ridiculous

[Nitro Express]

I saw them in their prime and I don't even think the tickets cost $15. I think I saw VH general admission for $8.50 in 1980 if I remember right. No frisking. No cameras. You smuggled in your half pint, joints passed around, some dude was lighting off fire crackers, the girls flashed their titties at Dave. The good old days.

[Romeo Delight]

I have my 1984 stub somewhere...I think it was 18.75...including Ticketmaster fees.

[Nitro Express]

Well, adjusting for inflation, 13 bucks then is about $35 now.

What has really changed is promoters have created a monopoly on the big shows...so being able to sit on the lawn for $50 or $60 really isn't too bad considering.

It is outrageous though, but people will pay that amount so really just meeting the market demand.

Before the promoters caught up to the scalpers it was pretty hard to get decent tickets anymore anyway buying the day they went on sale...its always been crooked, at least starting in the mid-1980's

Yeah but I was making $8.50 an hour in high school. What kids make now isn't much more than that but what they have to pay has risen. A VH show was an hour and a half of work. Today a kid has to work longer to get that $35. Ha! ha! glad I was a teenager in the 80's. These kids now are being screwed raw. I could leave campus for lunch and do a burnout past the school in a real muscle car. As long as I made it back for the bell all was well. Kids now can't leave campus and a burnout might get you arrested. Oh and now they have to take all this Common Core shit. Ha! ha! how's the government cock taste kiddies?