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Ah, the floors i saw come up in A/B/C were 150+ fees. Mustve changed to 100 after row 10 or 12, because D/E/F were all 100+fees too... Still too much for me, though.
Still confuses me why he is at Agganis but Bon Iver is at the Garden. Show booking is weird. There are still a bunch of Floor A and C tickets for Bon Iver just sitting on Ticketmaster waiting for someone to buy them. I never should've bought at face value. It's going to basically be half price on Stubhub the week of that show.
i am more than happy to give a little bonus to the members of bon iver, and would be equally happy to do the same with Tyler, but I was shocked by the ticket prices for the agganis show at the on sale vs knowing ahead of time for bon iver, so made it a lot harder to drop almost $100 for a show at agganis (which frankly, is a shitty venue unless you're on the floor)
Ticketmaster pulled trickery and didn’t release the floor seats right away for Bon Iver. But I waited and scored!
Years ago, Ticketmaster was configured to deliver what were genuinely the best available seats at any given moment. Now, especially for presales, everything seems exceedingly random. What happened with the Bon Iver onsale isn't unusual. For whatever reason, the promoter/venue decides that they'd rather sell tickets in one part of the venue before another, and it's the diehard fans who are ready to buy their tickets the moment they go onsale who lose out.
Similar thing happened to me with the Jeff Tweedy show at Berklee earlier this year. I generally prefer balcony seats for theater shows, because being under the overhang in the back of the orchestra muffles the sound from the PA. At the moment tickets went onsale, you absolutely could not buy any balcony seats, only orchestra tickets. An hour or two later, balcony seats were available.
Adding to the problem is the whole "choose your specific seats" set up Ticketmaster now offers, rather than best available or best available within a particular category of seat, like floor, loge, whatever. This is a great way to offer tickets after the demand has slowed a bit, but it creates a complete clustermess at the moment that a presale or onsale goes live. You pick seats shown as available on the seating chart, but a dozen other people are clicking on the same blue dots and those seats are gone, so you have to re-enter the presale password and start over again. Same for regular onsales, but without the password.
Specific seat selection should be unavailable until 12 or 24 hours after the regular onsale date/time.
i am more than happy to give a little bonus to the members of bon iver, and would be equally happy to do the same with Tyler, but I was shocked by the ticket prices for the agganis show at the on sale vs knowing ahead of time for bon iver, so made it a lot harder to drop almost $100 for a show at agganis (which frankly, is a shitty venue unless you're on the floor)
The feng shui of Agganis is all wrong. I chalk a lot of it up to the bright stair lights in the arena bowl and the fact that there's no short hallway between the concourse and entrances to the arena bowl, so that bright hallway light is always visible throughout the show.
For both Vampire Weekend and The National, I went for seats up in the stands, but very close to the stage, to minimize the Agganis vibe interfering with my enjoyment of the shows. (I've seen Wilco/My Morning Jacket, My Morning Jacket, and Pavement at Agganis and I didn't enjoy any of those shows as much as I thought would, considering that they're all favorites of mine, due to the Agganis vibe. I was at least halfway back in the arena for all of those shows.)
Hot Chip last night was criminally under attended but absolutely fantastic
Agreed 100%. That was my third time seeing them and I think easily the best. It's just really tough to do a show on a Monday night, especially when they didn't go on until 10:15. Had that been a weekend, way more people would've gone and it would've been a huge dance party. I had a great time regardless, but i'm definitely paying for it today.
Theres some end of summer sale going on rn and Gesaffelstein was one of them. floor was $27.95 including fees but since i had a $20 voucher it was only $7.95 lmao what a steal.
Theres some end of summer sale going on rn and Gesaffelstein was one of them. floor was $27.95 including fees but since i had a $20 voucher it was only $7.95 lmao what a steal.
That Gesa show looks intriguing, but I hate doing mid-week shows in Boston
Theres some end of summer sale going on rn and Gesaffelstein was one of them. floor was $27.95 including fees but since i had a $20 voucher it was only $7.95 lmao what a steal.
That Gesa show looks intriguing, but I hate doing mid-week shows in Boston
Yeah i dont have class til 10:50am the day after though so i may as well take the opportunity. it's really just the traffic driving in that i hate about weekday Boston shows
That Gesa show looks intriguing, but I hate doing mid-week shows in Boston
Yeah i dont have class til 10:50am the day after though so i may as well take the opportunity. it's really just the traffic driving in that i hate about weekday Boston shows
If you don't have to be up early enough, go for it.
I go to work for 730, and live near Providence. There's been a lot of half awake drives home from Boston (including tonight from The Who show at Fenway). Then that quick turnaround in the morning, not fun.
Mansfield and Providence, I'm with whatever. Further north, not so much.
Yeah i dont have class til 10:50am the day after though so i may as well take the opportunity. it's really just the traffic driving in that i hate about weekday Boston shows
If you don't have to be up early enough, go for it.
I go to work for 730, and live near Providence. There's been a lot of half awake drives home from Boston (including tonight from The Who show at Fenway). Then that quick turnaround in the morning, not fun.
Mansfield and Providence, I'm with whatever. Further north, not so much.
Yeah thats understandable. I live in suburbs like 25mins north of boston so its pretty easy for me.
Bon Iver was absolute magic tonight. packed the garden too after such slow sales at first. One of the best light shows ive seen along with an incredible setlist.
Bon Iver was absolute magic tonight. packed the garden too after such slow sales at first. One of the best light shows ive seen along with an incredible setlist.
How was the new seating at the Garden? I keep hearing horror stories about reduced leg space.
Bon Iver was absolute magic tonight. packed the garden too after such slow sales at first. One of the best light shows ive seen along with an incredible setlist.
How was the new seating at the Garden? I keep hearing horror stories about reduced leg space.
I was lucky enough to get an aisle floor seat towards the center so I didnt have to deal with that. looked super tight when i was walking down the stairs though
I was second row loge around center ice, perfect for seeing right over everyone's heads. Damn it was so good. I knew the lights would be impressive but was blown away with how clear the sound was for an arena show, plus the surround-soundy aspects that were playing with the space. Really really cool.
The controversy over the new Garden seats is overblown, imo. I was in the balcony for Black Keys on Friday and had no real issues. Yes, the legroom is smaller and not ideal, but i didn't notice any width change at all, and the seat quality is actually better with all this nice cushioning they have now. They should've cushioned the bottoms and not the backs, so that they wouldnt have to shrink legroom. But whatever, it's really not as big a deal as angry people complaining on twitter would have you believe. (shocking, i know...)
I was second row loge around center ice, perfect for seeing right over everyone's heads. Damn it was so good. I knew the lights would be impressive but was blown away with how clear the sound was for an arena show, plus the surround-soundy aspects that were playing with the space. Really really cool.
The controversy over the new Garden seats is overblown, imo. I was in the balcony for Black Keys on Friday and had no real issues. Yes, the legroom is smaller and not ideal, but i didn't notice any width change at all, and the seat quality is actually better with all this nice cushioning they have now. They should've cushioned the bottoms and not the backs, so that they wouldnt have to shrink legroom. But whatever, it's really not as big a deal as angry people complaining on twitter would have you believe. (shocking, i know...)
Isn't there a big difference though with the new loge seating versus the balcony seating?
Got a sweet Loge 14 seat for Tool next month, so if all the controversy is overblown then that would be great.
Post by Jeremy Fragrance on Oct 16, 2019 15:20:00 GMT -5
I'm just amazed that he was able to create the sound that he did. The sound system he had set up was miles better than anything I've ever seen at the Garden before, and the light show was just nuts.
I was second row loge around center ice, perfect for seeing right over everyone's heads. Damn it was so good. I knew the lights would be impressive but was blown away with how clear the sound was for an arena show, plus the surround-soundy aspects that were playing with the space. Really really cool.
The controversy over the new Garden seats is overblown, imo. I was in the balcony for Black Keys on Friday and had no real issues. Yes, the legroom is smaller and not ideal, but i didn't notice any width change at all, and the seat quality is actually better with all this nice cushioning they have now. They should've cushioned the bottoms and not the backs, so that they wouldnt have to shrink legroom. But whatever, it's really not as big a deal as angry people complaining on twitter would have you believe. (shocking, i know...)
Isn't there a big difference though with the new loge seating versus the balcony seating?
Got a sweet Loge 14 seat for Tool next month, so if all the controversy is overblown then that would be great.
I was balcony for Black Keys on Friday and then Loge for Bon Iver last night. Didn't notice a huge difference. I thought I had heard the balcony is where they added a seat to each row, which made every seat width thinner, but there wasn't a noticeable difference in width between the two. I'd say the loge probably had a little more legroom, since it wasn't nearly as noticeable of a decrease as it was in the balcony. The seats themselves, material/cushion-wise, seemed exactly the same to me.
