I got there right before 5pm. It is a Pen. Just barcodes before main entrance and no signs. You just have to know and then everyone else asks you what the line is for non-stop. I met lots of lovely people. From London. Austin. Ireland. Delaware. Denver. WE bonded.
I estimate 20 people or so were in front of me, but they kept moving non stop it was hard to keep track of and one girl said she already had 2 GAs, but she was still in line.
Turned out at least 2 scalpers got GAs ahead of the group and then we saw them run out to sell them. They looked like Joey Ramone had sex with Tommy Wiseau From The Room fame. And another guy that was nice to me said he went to show with wife last night, but also jumped out of line at the end to go talk to his scalper buddies after waiting 3 hours, so that Id didn't get.
Basically, they kept offering us 280 seats from 6 on every time they came by and eventually at 7:30 isn I say the fight group (with scalpers) got taken out of the pen and taken up. So say 10 people. Then 20 minutes later 5-7 more. Then at 8pm, they took me and I think 15 others up.
I was giving a number to hold and the guy took us in our own VIP way to the Ticket Window. It was kind of fun.
So the moral of the story is I don't get where these tickets come from, do they hold them back, find out people aren't showing up, yada yada... they seem to appear late and right before the show. I didn't care.
I won. I got a GA for less money than I would have paid otherwise.
Fucking exhausted as I stood more than most fat guys should and went night before. For some reason I took my ear plugs off and my left ear was totally plugged... Maybe I put one side into too deep. I don't know, more deaf than I felt other 2 shows. Maybe back to backs.
Anyway, I've never done that before for any other concert. Never even thought of it. I hear people do it but I like to plan months ahead of time. I'm not spontaneous. Today I was. I feel young. Like 33.
