U2: The Joshua Tree Tour 2017

Other Teams Pursuing That wrote:Chicago?

gHost Spartan wrote:Achtung Baby is a much better album IMO

gHost Spartan wrote:Achtung Baby is a much better album IMO

Robert J Sakimano wrote:is Bad Beats the supporting act?

If so, I'm there.

Herbie Green wrote:

Robert J Sakimano wrote:is Bad Beats the supporting act?

If so, I'm there.

Mumford & Sons, OneRepublic and The Lumineers.

I like U2 but this concert sounds like hell. I heard that album so many times I have a panic attack any time one of the songs come on the radio.

Herbie Green wrote:

Robert J Sakimano wrote:is Bad Beats the supporting act?

If so, I'm there.

Mumford & Sons, OneRepublic and The Lumineers.

I like U2 but this concert sounds like hell. I heard that album so many times I have a panic attack any time one of the songs come on the radio.

the music Mumford & Sons makes is very bad. It's overtly sincere folk rock. It's more earnest than a sophomore in college who discovered Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass for the first time and quotes it regularly. It's more pretentious than tattooing "live, laugh, love" on your leg. It's more precious than a youth pastor wearing a corduroy jacket with patches on the elbow and a fedora. It's so calculated that there's absolutely nothing unexpected, organic, or progressive that comes from the music. The sound is so bland and average that it's offensive

Herbie Green wrote:Are they the ones that sing "I belong to you you belong to me your my sweethea-art"?

Da Mayor wrote:Fuck banjo bands.

Robert J Sakimano wrote:

Da Mayor wrote:Fuck banjo bands.

string bands are one thing..

string bands that are formulaic and deliberately constructed to sound like a folky string band in an attempt to make LL Bean wearing suburban families feel connected to "roots" music are another.

I was at a Bar Mitzvah party a few years ago..  was talking music with this woman that lives in a McNeighborhood..  then she started raving about The Lumineers..

MiamiSpartan wrote:Got tickets this morning.  I'm not a fan, but my wife loves them.

So much bullshit around this concert, though.  So last week, they had a pre-sale, and you needed to be a member of U2's website to get the exclusive pre-sale code.  My wife bought the $50 membership just to get access to the code, went online right when the pre-sale tickets went on sale, and they were only selling $280 tickets (even for the 3rd level of Hard Rock Stadium).  That, or you could buy one of the VIP packages for $400+ per person.

So we said, Fuck that, waited for the public sale today, and got 3rd level tickets for $100.  Equivalent section to the ones that were $280 for the pre-sale.  What a scam that pre-sale is.  Everything in the first and second level were sold out.  There was just 3rd level, or general admission on the field for $70.  We're taking my 10-year old daughter (no pics, For bin), and figured that GA would suck for her.

Still, $100 for 3rd level in a football stadium?  This isn't a case of the poors (I'd have been fine with the $280 pre-sale tickets if my wife wanted), it's the principle.  I'm just glad that the bands I like are not very popular these days.  An intimate setting with a few hundred, even a couple thousand, people is 100x the concert going-experience of some big sterile stadium tour.

MiamiSpartan wrote:Got tickets this morning.  I'm not a fan, but my wife loves them.

So much bullshit around this concert, though.  So last week, they had a pre-sale, and you needed to be a member of U2's website to get the exclusive pre-sale code.  My wife bought the $50 membership just to get access to the code, went online right when the pre-sale tickets went on sale, and they were only selling $280 tickets (even for the 3rd level of Hard Rock Stadium).  That, or you could buy one of the VIP packages for $400+ per person.

So we said, Fuck that, waited for the public sale today, and got 3rd level tickets for $100.  Equivalent section to the ones that were $280 for the pre-sale.  What a scam that pre-sale is.  Everything in the first and second level were sold out.  There was just 3rd level, or general admission on the field for $70.  We're taking my 10-year old daughter (no pics), and figured that GA would suck for her.

Still, $100 for 3rd level in a football stadium?  This isn't a case of the poors (I'd have been fine with the $280 pre-sale tickets if my wife wanted), it's the principle.  I'm just glad that the bands I like are not very popular these days.  An intimate setting with a few hundred, even a couple thousand, people is 100x the concert going-experience of some big sterile stadium tour.

Herbie Green wrote:U2 at Spartan Stadium was actually a great value for $30

Robert J Sakimano wrote:

MiamiSpartan wrote:Got tickets this morning.  I'm not a fan, but my wife loves them.

So much bullshit around this concert, though.  So last week, they had a pre-sale, and you needed to be a member of U2's website to get the exclusive pre-sale code.  My wife bought the $50 membership just to get access to the code, went online right when the pre-sale tickets went on sale, and they were only selling $280 tickets (even for the 3rd level of Hard Rock Stadium).  That, or you could buy one of the VIP packages for $400+ per person.

So we said, Fuck that, waited for the public sale today, and got 3rd level tickets for $100.  Equivalent section to the ones that were $280 for the pre-sale.  What a scam that pre-sale is.  Everything in the first and second level were sold out.  There was just 3rd level, or general admission on the field for $70.  We're taking my 10-year old daughter (no pics), and figured that GA would suck for her.

Still, $100 for 3rd level in a football stadium?  This isn't a case of the poors (I'd have been fine with the $280 pre-sale tickets if my wife wanted), it's the principle.  I'm just glad that the bands I like are not very popular these days.  An intimate setting with a few hundred, even a couple thousand, people is 100x the concert going-experience of some big sterile stadium tour.

100% truth.

I went to the Stevie Nicks show in Van Andel back in November (wife wanted to go.. it was a decent time) - but that was the first arena show I had been to in nearly 20 years. Instead, I'll spend 15-25 bucks on great shows at intimate venues where the artist actually knows your there.. and, hell, will drink beer after the show with you.

That's the way to go.

MiamiSpartan wrote:Got tickets this morning.  I'm not a fan, but my wife loves them.

So much bullshit around this concert, though.  So last week, they had a pre-sale, and you needed to be a member of U2's website to get the exclusive pre-sale code.  My wife bought the $50 membership just to get access to the code, went online right when the pre-sale tickets went on sale, and they were only selling $280 tickets (even for the 3rd level of Hard Rock Stadium).  That, or you could buy one of the VIP packages for $400+ per person.

So we said, Fuck that, waited for the public sale today, and got 3rd level tickets for $100.  Equivalent section to the ones that were $280 for the pre-sale.  What a scam that pre-sale is.  Everything in the first and second level were sold out.  There was just 3rd level, or general admission on the field for $70.  We're taking my 10-year old daughter (no pics), and figured that GA would suck for her.

Still, $100 for 3rd level in a football stadium?  This isn't a case of the poors (I'd have been fine with the $280 pre-sale tickets if my wife wanted), it's the principle.  I'm just glad that the bands I like are not very popular these days.  An intimate setting with a few hundred, even a couple thousand, people is 100x the concert going-experience of some big sterile stadium tour.

Other Teams Pursuing That wrote:U2 at Spartan Stadium was a hell of a show