Conference mr1pst::music

    
    Funny you just started this note... I was about to post a long note to
    the U2 topic.
    
    Well... I'll put it in the next reply...
    
    Later...
    Steve
    

This is a message I sent to the U2 mailing list on the internet explaining 
somewhat how I went about getting tickets.  If you'd like to be on the list, 
send mail to: nm%decwrl::"u2-request@last.cac.washington.edu", with the 
subject: SUBSCRIBE.  Be warned... it has quite a high volume... maybe 20 
messages a day.

Later...
Steve


This weekend I've met with amazing success in getting tickets.  I don't know 
why, but I think someone was looking out for me.... I tried for 5 shows, and 
got tickets to all 5 shows... multiple orders in some cases.

Anyway, I wanted to take a few minutes to go over what I did so that the folks 
all across the rest of the country will have decent success getting tickets for 
the rest of the tour.... I also want to get down in writing what I did so that 
I will have it for later use....

First off, I know alot of people will complain, but I really think this phone 
order only thing is the best way to keep it fair... I can't imagine that 
scalping agencies will be able to get too many tickets.  They usually get 
hundreds... if not thousands.  I think that number will be severely lowered!
I'll bet that scalping agencies will have so few that prices will be sky high.

I've already posted my Friday success, so I won't bore you with the details 
again.  Suffice to say that I managed to get 12 tickets to Providence, and 4 to 
Hartford.  

HUGE suggestion #1:  You MUST have a redial-capable phone (touch tone)... or 
I'd say that you have almost no prayer in getting tickets by phone.  You may be 
trying to spend hundreds of dollars on tickets... invest twenty bucks in a 
redial phone.  AT&T usually have pretty fast redial features.... but I make no 
claims that other companies don't.

Big suggestion #1:  Start calling at least 10 minutes before tickets go one 
sale... If you're lucky (like I was for Hartford), you'll get put on hold for a 
LONG time and ticket sales will start while you're on hold.  Then you get to be 
one of the first ones to order tickets.  If they answer and say that they 
aren't on sale... ask them to check.  Sometimes they check and say, "Oh yes, 
they just went on sale now".  Then you are psyched!

Saturday at 10am, Knickerbocker Arena in Albany went on sale.  I started 
calling at 9:50am... I called the special 800 number that was set up.  I've 
found that these numbers are the best bet.  Other people have told me 
differently.  I got though at 10:17, and was promptly told that Albany isn't on 
sale.  The woman wanted to hang up with me, but I fought with her to check the 
computer.... she then says "Oh yes, they are on sale.  The computer has been 
down until now".  So I got 4 tickets.  The show was sold out about 10 minutes 
later.  What's the moral of the story?  Don't trust the agents.  Don't let them 
hangup... ask questions to make sure tickets ARE ore AREN'T on sale.

Big suggestion #2:  Be aware that if tickets are phone order only, they will 
take longer to sell out.  Hartford and Albany tickets were available at outlets 
(in the area of the show only), so both shows sold out in about a half hour.
Worcester and Providence were phone order only (and box office, but that's 
minimal)... Both took about an hour to sell out.  You'll have to make a 
decision as to whether it's in your best interests to call or go wait in line.  
I chose calling.... and it worked.  I've read too many accounts of hundreds of 
people in line and only the first few getting tickets.

Sunday morning... Boston and Worcester both go on sale @ 10.  Boston through 
TicketPro, Worcester through TicketMaster.  There has been alot of confusion on 
this list about this... and I don't know what other venues on the tour are 
TicketPro (or some other ticket company).  They are separate companies and have 
nothing to do with eachother.  Ticketmaster is huge, Ticketpro is small.  I 
think that Ticketpro has less than 10 computers... as I got the same person to 
take my order more than once. (see below on the Boston show)

I have two lines in my house... one I dialed using my computer... the other 
with a regular redial phone.  If you have a computer, a modem, and a terminal 
program you can probably do the same.  If you have an Amiga, I'll try to help.  
If you want to use something else, you're on your own as far as computer 
dialing goes.

Anyway... I was calling for Worcester with the computer, and Boston with the 
regular phone.  I'd called TM the previous night to find some extra numbers to 
call... (this is _usually_ a good idea)  When I called the NY/NJ number 
(212-307-7171), I was told that they WOULD be selling tickets.  No other number 
(other than Boston) had told me this.  So I started dialing at 9:50 alternating 
between the Boston, NY, and special 800 number. (the computer can do this 
alternating between numbers, I can't).  By listening to busy signals, it 
quickly became evident that the Boston number would be next to impossible to 
get through.  Here are what I believe to be levels of busy signals: (I could be 
wrong on this)

If you get a very fast busy signal almost instantly... you aren't even getting 
into the system.  The phone system computer is too busy to even give you an 
"All circuits busy" message.

If you get a spoken message (sometimes preceded with a ringing signal... a 
signal that makes your pulse go way up because you think you've gotten 
through), you are barely getting into the system.

If you get a slow, regular busy signal... you're almost there.

If it rings and a ticket agent answers... then be very happy!  8^)

If you are calling different numbers, pay attention to the busy signals.  They 
give a good clue as to what numbers you have a good chance on.

Now... back to getting Worcester tickets.  I got through to the New York number 
at around 10:20... they told me that I was calling the wrong number and they 
couldn't sell me tickets.  I protested saying that they told me the previous 
night that they could sell me tickets.  I was told "I'm sorry, there's nothing 
I can do".  So I took NY and Boston (worst kind of busy) out of the dialing 
loop.  Now I was just calling the special Worcester 800 number 
(1-800-745-1414).  I got through at 10:39 and ordered 4 tickets.  I kept 
calling for a while, until at 11:00 I heard on the radio that the show was sold 
out.  Oh... there's some more helpful info... listen to a radio station that 
you trust to give you up the minute info.  When I heard that Worcester had sold 
out, I concentrated both lines on Boston.  One line I had been calling Boston 
all along.

At 11:05am, I got though to TicketPro and ordered 2 tickets. (the max limit)
I got through again at 11:38 and 11:42... by this time I thought most people 
were giving up. (thus two orders so quickly)  To avoid the 'one order per 
customer' rule, I ordered COD tickets using some friends addresses, with their 
permission, of course.  The way Ticketpro is handling it is that they will send 
a ticket voucher... then when you get that, you have a week to go pay and pick 
up your tickets at some Ticketpro outlet.

So I stopped at 3 orders of 2 tickets each.  I then got a call from another 
friend saying he was having trouble getting tickets... he gave me his credit 
card info hoping that somehow my fingers with the midas touch could get 
through.... at 12:12 I got through again.  So again I quit.  And again I got a 
call from ANOTHER friend who was having trouble... he gave me HIS credit card 
info and I started calling... got through at 1:02 and ordered another 2 
tickets.  By this time I started thinking that maybe these tickets were going 
to be ALOT harder to come by... so I thought I'd call again for myself.  I gave 
them another credit card and a slightly abbreviated version of my street 
address so that if they do a cross reference to find multiple orderers, I won't 
show up.  I did that one at 1:44pm.  Then I got a call from the first friend 
and he gave me another persons credit card info so I could try for them. (I 
mean, by this time, people were thinking that I had some sort of direct link to 
Ticketpro.)  I called until 2:20, when I heard on the radio that the show was 
sold out. (their info was from the ticket company, so I trusted it and stopped 
calling.  Had they said "a listener just told us that it's sold out", I 
wouldn't have trusted it.)  I later heard on the radio that the telephone 
circuits out of the South Shore of Massachusetts were actually damaged by the 
volume of calls to the number... this could be why some of you got the nasty 
busy messages for so long.

So that's my story.... as it stands now I don't have any extra tickets to offer 
to this list... they're all spoken for.  I hope this information is of help to 
those getting tickets for the rest of the tour.  We're very lucky to have this 
list.  It gives us an advantage that others don't have.  Remember, a smart 
person learns from their own mistakes, a WISE person learns from others 
mistakes.  Here we can find out how to get tickets by knowing 'others' 
mistakes.

If you have any more questions or issues that I haven't addressed, please feel 
free to mail me and I'll try to get back to you.  I'm going to have a busy 
week at work, so please don't get P.O'd if I don't reply right away.

A disclaimer:
I have no connection to U2 (I wish I did) other than being a fan.  I also have 
no connection to any of the mentioned ticket companies.  Digital Equipment 
Corp. is not responsible for any thing that I've said here... I am.

Good luck!

Later...
Steve

    re .0:
    
    When Ticketmaster sells reserved seats for a particular venue, it
    divides the venue up into 'n' sections, named this way:
    
    	1X, 2X, 3X, etc.
    
    The lower the number before the X, the more desirable the section is
    considered to be.  For example, at the Centrum, up-front and center is
    Section 1X; off to one side is 2X; off to the other side is 3X; etc.
    
    In the Centrum, some seats in the 100 sections (the "loge", I guess) are
    considered low-number sections as well.  This "alternating" between the
    floor and the 100 sections continues as you get further back on the
    floor.  I believe that once all the floor and 100 section seats are
    sold, then the 200 seats begin (they have higher numbers before the X).
    I'm not sure if any of the 300 seats are considered better seats than
    the 200s.
    
    Once all these are filled, then rear-stage seating begins.
    
    If you're really interested in the order in which seats are sold, ask to 
    see a map of the Centrum at a Ticketmaster outlet.  You'll see the "1X", 
    "2X", etc. dividing up the entire arena (I think it gets up to 70X or so).
    
    The same setup is used by Ticketmaster for Great Woods as well (I
    certainly question the way Great Woods is split up -- there are some
    low-numbered sections that I think are worse seats than some
    higher-numbered sections).
    
    			- Paul  

    re:    <<< Note 149.2 by EMDS::OWEN "The reality of my surroundings" >>>
       
>First off, I know alot of people will complain, but I really think this phone 
>order only thing is the best way to keep it fair...
    
    But doesn't your story prove otherwise?  I realize that your tickets
    are going to friends and fans, but a scalper could have used the same
    "techniques" to get through.  One person ending up with twelve tickets
    to one show is exactly what they were trying to prevent.  No flame
    intended, I once managed to come up with 12 8th row tix to a Who
    concert (had to take a day off work and stand in line, though).
    
    The Grateful Dead sells half of their tickets through mail order, a
    system which has worked well.  The mail order tickets rarely end up in
    scalpers' hands, and they're very hard to fake (the use IR ink and
    colored inner layers to thwart counterfeits).
    
>Big suggestion #1:  Start calling at least 10 minutes before tickets go one 
>sale... If you're lucky (like I was for Hartford), you'll get put on hold for a 
>LONG time and ticket sales will start while you're on hold.  Then you get to be 
>one of the first ones to order tickets.  If they answer and say that they 
>aren't on sale... ask them to check.  Sometimes they check and say, "Oh yes, 
>they just went on sale now".  Then you are psyched!
    
    If you get through early, another idea is to ask what events are coming
    up -- this keeps you on the line 'til 10 comes around.
    
    Jamie

    I have a slightly different question, but maybe someone knows the
    answer: I went to see a Laurie Anderson performance at the Opera House
    in Boston. A friend of mine stood in line at the Opera House Box Office
    at 9:30 the morning the tickets were to go on sale at 10:00. he was
    maybe the 20th person in line.
    
    We paid top dollar, and even so we got seats in the front of the
    balcony, miles from the stage. (I realize, given the dimensions of the
    Opera House, that we couldn't complain, really.) But I would have loved
    to get front-and-center orchestra seats. Why couldn't we get them, when
    we bought the tickets at the Opera House itself? Are those very best
    seats reserved for holders of certain credit cards, or members of
    certain ticket clubs? How do you get the very best seats?

There has always seemed to be some sort of "back-room-deals" aura surrounding
ticket sales of *any* kind. I recall going to a Celtics game at Boston Garden
about thirty years ago, and seeing the prices for hockey tickets. Don't recall
what they were, but the person in front of me in line asked what a ticket at
a certain (good) location would cost, and was quoted something markedly higher
than the prices shown. And this was at the "official" ticket stand...

Go figure.

Bob

    
    	I'll come back to this but one difference between Steve and most
    	people who scalp is that he is clearly a fan.  I'm not going to
    	get into the ethics of scalping but it does really erk me when I
    	see these blokes who are hustling prior to shows.  In many cases
    	they're not only selling tickets that they came with but a part
    	of it is trying to buy tickets from people who are trying to sell
    	that lone ticket or whatever because I friend didn't make it, etc.
    	While waiting for a friend at the recent Pixies show at the Orpheum
    	in Boston I saw no less than about 10 sales for below face value 
    	that got sold nearly instantly for some ridiculous price.  I say 
    	ridiculous because the seats were not in locations that I would ever 
    	consider paying the price they were asking.
    
    	- Jim

        There was a note in the Boston Globe yesterday about the
        Box Office Manager at the Providence Civic Center getting
        suspended for one month for selling about 100 more tickets
        than the 300 he was "allowed" to sell to the people with
        wristbands.

        It would be interesting to hear what some Telecomm Industry
        experts have to say about this.  For instances I know when
        you dial an 800 number there is a translation process done
        in a computer that pipes the call into a regular number.  I
        assume that in this case they didn't pipe the number into the
        same 931-2000 number since you got thru better thru the 800
        number.  I also suspect that location has something to do
        with it.  Being in a location that has a better connection to
        the Boston Switch would probably help.

    re: .5
    
    The idea of holding the best tickets for the box office only varies
    from venue to venue.  In the 70s, the New Haven Colliseum did this
    regularly.  Imagine my surprise (uh, disgust, maybe?) after standing in
    line at the Centrum once in the freezing cold to find out I could have
    got the exact same ticket over the phone from Ticketron.
    
    What it boils down to is that lots of acts routinely sell out the halls
    they play in, and what is really needed is either bigger halls or more
    nights in one location.
    
    Not holding my breath waiting for either one.
    
    
    							Brian
    
    P.S. I have never been to the Centrum (or any other civic center show)
    after that.

    I have to agree with .8 that your success in getting through probably
    depends a lot on where you're calling from.  My friend and I were
    calling in on 6 different phone lines from his place of work in
    Bedford, New Hampshire and we never got through.  Steve O - what city
    were you calling in from?
    
    This has been a really frustrating experience.  I've never, ever had a
    problem getting tickets for any show I've wanted to see.  I'm going to
    the Centrum show but it's costing me a heck of a lot more than $25. 
    And please don't rag on me - I'm not complaining.  It's my decision to
    spend the money.
    
    T
    

    
    	I'd be interested in knowing where Steve was calling from, also.  I
    	tried all day on Sunday to get tickets for my niece, WITH the modem
    	dialing fast and furiosly, hanging up imediately upon detecting a
    	busy signal and redialing.  The modem definitely placed more calls 
    	than I could have, even with auto redial.  Didn't get through at
    	all!  (Was trying to reach the Boston Garden number.)
    
    	So maybe, Steve, you did have the magic touch like your friends 
    	thought!
    
    	Justine  

    I always wondered WHO got the tickets for shows when I was waiting 
    in line.  I was FIRST in line once (what a concept), when not that
    many people knew about the Hollman Stadium tickets going on sale,
    and I got 2nd row seats.  For another concert, I was near the front
    of the line and I ended up in 15th row.  Who got the tickets???
    
    When I was at the show, I saw all these people with Miller High Life
    shirts.  I asked somebody and they said they won their tickets thru
    a radio station and Miller sponsered the tickets for the show.
    
    It's sad but true, you can't bribe a radio station to play your song,
    but you can offer them free tickets for their giveaways in exchange
    for airplay.  I think, until this is stopped, we will never get good
    seats.
    
    --CJ-
    

    
    I was calling from Westboro... I don't know why I had such great
    success... my fiancee was calling from Northboro and was having trouble
    getting a dial tone like everyone else.
    
    I'm waiting anxiously to find out where I got tickets... my first order
    was placed at 11:05... which I thought was AWFUL at the time, but since
    it took 4.5 hours to sell out... those might be quite good.
    
    Later...
    Steve
    

    
    re .4 (Keeping ticket sales fair by using phones only)
    
    Well... scalpers can usually get thousands of tickets.... I should know
    because when I was in high school, a friend of mine worked directly for
    a scalping agency, and I helped him (to get free tickets for me).  
    I now know the error of my ways, so please don't be upset at me... 
    Anyway, this is how it worked...
    
    My friend would have a bank account that the scalping agency would
    deposit money directly.  When U2 was at the Centrum the last time
    (early '87) he got $3000 dollars put in his account.  (Yes... this is
    a BIG BUCK business)  My friend would take the money, and divide it
    between those of us who were helping him.  We were given advance
    warning of ticket sales, so we were right up in the front of the line.
    To make a long story short... we got over 150 tickets that day... at
    ONE TICKET OUTLET!   We were told we could buy any tickets for under
    $35.  So what we did was to give people who weren't using up the entire
    6 ticket limit an extra $20 to buy more tickets for us.  And then we
    stood at the exit telling people they could sell us their extra tickets
    for $30. (Face value was $16 I think)
    
    My 'payment' was I got a bunch of tickets free... 10 or so.
    
    So knowing that scalping agencies have this sort of power behind them,
    it's easy to see how phone sales could easily cut down on the number of
    tickets scalpers had.  They could only have just so many people using
    the phone... and they have the same advance warning we had... so if 10%
    of the people who were calling were working for scalpers, they would
    get 10% of the tickets... but given how many people who were trying,
    I'd say that the number is more like 0.1% for scalpers.  So yes...
    scalpers are going to have hundreds of tickets... but not thousands
    like they would for a normal sale.
    
    That's why tickets are going for so much. ($1000 in Providence) 
    Because scalpers don't have so many to sell this time.
    
    Later...
    Steve
    

    Man, what a racket this business has turned into. I really feel
    bad for anyone wanting to see a popular act such as this these
    days. I'm kinda glad that I've been out of concert going for some
    time now. I remember the days where if I wasn't lucky enough to
    get a ticket to a show I could show up the day of the concert and
    pay face value at times or a couple of bucks more than face value.
    When I saw the Stones in the early 70's I showed up at the Garden an
    hour before the doors opened. Got a ticket for face value. There was
    just one small stipulation, I had to get the guy st**ned. Small price
    to pay for a great show.
    
    Then again, maybe I was lucky back then. Personally I have no interest
    in seeing U2 but my sister does. She was lucky enough to get through
    and get a couple of tickets for the St. Pats day show. She lives in
    Boston. 
    
    Jim C.
    

I've been doing some quick calculations to see just how lucky I was to get so 
many Boston tickets...  suprisingly, not as lucky as I thought!

There were 500,000 calls placed in the first hour... so I'll figure on 
2,000,000 calls total.  I also figure 6000 orders of 2 tickets each were 
placed.  That means one out of every 333 calls got though and got tickets.

I also figured that I called 14 times a minute for 3 hours.  (2 lines @ appx 7 
calls a minute)  That's about 2500 calls.

Divide the number of calls I made by the number of calls I 'needed' to make to 
get tickets (2500/333) and you get 7.56.  That's the number of times I should 
have gotten through.  I got through a total of 6 times.  This, in fact, says 
that I was somewhat UN-lucky getting tickets.  Of course, if you subtract out 
the half hour or so of calls I made to the Worcester number (210 calls), I 
calculate that I should have gotten through a total of 6.87 times.... closer 
yet to how I actually did.

Later...
Steve (the math-magician)

    Steve - A question about your previous enterprise.  You said you were
    given advance warning of when tickets went on sale.  Who gave you the
    advance warning?  The ticket agency?  If so, how did they know in
    advance?
    
    If tickets at Providence are going for $1,000, I got away cheap.  The
    agency I went to had tickets ranging from $125 to $350.  The $350
    tickets were for Section 2 on the floor.  The other agency I called
    said "$150 to $250".  I thought it was interesting that none of the
    agencies I called had tickets for the Garden show, just the Centrum. 
    And they had them there which means they got them from people who got
    wristbands and waited in line.  Most of the seats are blocks of 2 which
    sounds like people bought 4 but are only using 2 - they sold the other
    2 to agencies.  
    
    It's bad enough you have to resort to whipping out your gold card if
    you really want to go but the guy didn't want to sell me just one
    ticket.  He said he's be stuck with the other one.  Of course I did
    what any red-blooded American woman would do and began to pout and
    whine, explaining how I tried calling in for 4 hours and I took the
    afternoon off work to drive up and he never said anything on the phone
    about only selling tickets in blocks of 2, etc.  Well my performance
    worked because he finally backed down and sold me the ticket.  The guy
    in line behind me said "Gee that was really good - he wouldn't have
    done that for me".  Meanwhile the agent is telling me he's really taking
    a chance and if U2 hadn't "played games" then we fans wouldn't be
    spending so much money to get available tickets.  What a slimeball.
    He's making thousands of dollars and he's trying to tell me the band is
    at fault.
    
    One more thing - what's the scoop on the Providence Civic Center employee
    who's been either fired or suspended for selling more than his allotted
    tickets?  I only heard part of the story on the news this morning.
    
    T
    

Article: 1499
From: clarinews@clarinet.com
Subject: Arena aide suspended for overselling U2 tickets
Date: 26 Feb 92 13:31:59 GMT
 
 
	PROVIDENCE, R.I. (UPI) -- The Providence Civic Center's box office
manager has been suspended without pay for a month for overselling
tickets to a March 15 concert by the rock band U2, amid concern the
tickets might be scalped.
	Joseph Joel was suspended last Friday for selling more tickets at the
box office than allowed by promoters for the popular Irish rock group.
	``I feel it is the right thing to do,'' Civic Center executive
director Stephen Lombardi said of his decision to suspend Joel. ``This
violates the trust that U2 has put in us and I won't stand for that.''
	Representatives of the band and the concert promoter, the Don Law Co.
, were monitoring ticket sales on computers last Friday. Although Joel
was told repeatedly to sell no more than 1,200 at the box office, he
sold 113 extra, officials said.
	Ticket agencies throughout New England are now selling U2 tickets,
which cost $25, for as much as $250 each. It is not clear where the
agency got those tickets.

    RE .17	

    Like I said, I had no connection to the scalping agency... my friend
    did.  I don't know how they knew, but they had an inside source
    somewhere.
    
    Look in the Boston Phoenix sometime... and look at the "ticket agency"
    ads... many of them claim they have tickets to shows that haven't even
    been anounced yet.  I'll bet when Prince comes around, ticket agencys
    will be offering tickets to a specific date about 2 weeks before the
    show is announced.
    
    Oh... and before any of you go buying from ticket agents, I might (read
    MIGHT) have a couple of extras for sale for U2. 2 for Hartford, 2 for
    Providence, and maybe 2 for Boston... I'll want $30 for them... $30 is
    what I paid. If I do decide to sell them here, I'll fill in the details 
    on how I'd like to handle it a bit later.
    
    Later...
    Steve (The ticketmeister)
    

    
     U-2 released another 500 tix for 3/17 @ the Boston Garden
    
    phone at 9:00am 3/17.....call 1-800-828-7080
    
    Sean

	Time Warner and Ticketmaster have made an agreement that allows you
	to place a CD order along with your tickets if you so desire.

	- Jim

    I'm looking for a ticket for Metallica on 7/31 @Foxboro.  If anyone
    have an extra or know someone....Please let me know
    
    Thanks
    
    -Dle

    A friend of mine heard Elton was coming to the Garden on April 16 & 17. 
    Tickets go on sale this Friday, March 5 at 10:00 through the Garden and
    TicketPro.  Does anyone have a number for TicketPro?  
    
    Thanks!
    Nance
    

    (617)931-3100
    (800)828-7080

    Does anyone know where the TICKETMASTER in Park Snows, Fitchburg
    went to. Or is there another one in north central Mass. 
    
    Gotta get some Great Woods tickets and don't want to charge them over
    the phone.
    
    Thanks for any help.
    
    Curt
    

    
    The Music Forum in ParkHill Plaza now sells TicketMaster.
    
    Bazza

    Thanks Much.........
    
    

    
    Does anyone out there know where section 4 row Z is in the Great Woods
    pavillion? They don't sound like the greatest seats. Is row Z the row
    that is the last one before the lawn starts? I've got these seats for
    Aerosmith in August and I was just wondering how lousy/O.K. these seats
    are.............

    according to my handy great wood chart:
    
    Section 4 is the farthest on the left (looking out from
    the stage).  Sections 1-3 being the three in the immediate front.
    Row Z is fourth to last, followed by AA, BB, CC. 
    I sat in that section for Tom Petty last year (tho'
    a little closer).  Dependig on how much equipment there is
    you may miss whoever is on that side of the stage.
    
    'dream on'
    
    

    Does anyone know what location the Pink Floyd tickets will be on sale
    at tomorrow, and what 800 number they can be ordered through?
    
    Also, how do they do the seating at Foxboro...is it reserved, general 
    admission, or a combination of both?
    
    Thanks,
    Ross

    I can't give you ticket info on Pink Floyd but I have been to Foxboro
    for a few concerts (U2, Paul McCartney, David Bowie) and it has always
    been reserved seating - they have pretty much stopped open seating.
    
    Mo
    

>    Does anyone know what location the Pink Floyd tickets will be on sale
>    at tomorrow, and what 800 number they can be ordered through?

	Ticketmaster outlets 
		They are already giving out wristbands for a random draw.

	Ticketmaster phone charge
		Massachusetts 617-931-2000
		New Hampshire 603-626-5000

	Orpheum Theatre box office, Boston

	Sorry, no 800 numbers. Good luck,

	Barry

    Is there a TicketMaster outlet in the Marlboro MA area?
    
    Thanks.

    There is one in Acton on Rt 2A - The Minor Chord

    There is also one in Northboro, on Rt. 20 in a video store

    >     There is also one in Northboro, on Rt. 20 in a video store
    
    It's called Video Dimensions.
    
    			- Paul

    Bring cash!
    
    Jt

    Monique Chenard @AKO
    DTN:  244-6478
    PCBUOA::CHENARD
    
    Contact:
    
    Mary Courville @AKO
    DTN:  244-6482
    PCBUOA::COURVILLE
    
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    For Sale:
    
    2 Joe Cocker tickets for tonite's performance at the Orpheum
    Theater - $23.50 per ticket.