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  • thesteam
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    "Well it sounded so sweet. I had to take me a chance,I rose out of me seat, Lord I had to dance, Started moving my feet, and clapping my hands." Going 'round and 'round... The Grateful Dead were a dance band. The Music man! Well said.
  • JohnnyRock41
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    I CAN'T WAIT TILL...
    Everyone stops the bullshit about this that the other ones and remember what's it about. The Music! Does anyone remember the music? The way it made you feel the first time you heard it? Maybe it was China Cat or Estimated Prophet? All of a sudden, out of nowhere, you need to get up and dance. And then, everybody's dancing. The music is what draws us in together. The music is what brings the band together. Not everyone gets the Dead. We get it. The music will never stop. I'm sure everyone has a song that they have enjoyed over the years with someone dear to them that is no longer with us. Be thankful that you get the chance to be here at this time to enjoy life with new people, new dreams and new hope. Hey that's just my opinion. I could be wrong. The stars were spinning dizzy, But the band kept us so busy We forgot about the time. "Oh if a man tried To take his time on earth And prove before he died What one man's life could be worth I wonder what would happen To this world."
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    Whooo Hoooo, I'm in!!!! See yall there!!!
  • metsofny
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    I was on the ticketmaster sight at 10:00 when tickets went on sale. Tickets were sold out immediately for the MSG show. Ticketmaster then directed me to their sister site tickets now. The $100 tickets were now being sold for up to $3500. Ticket master sold all the tickets to themselves and now started charging obscene amounts. The cheapest available were 400 level tickets behind the stage and these were $180. This is BS. THE DEAD NEEDS TO STOP USING TICKET MASTER NOW.....there are other ways to sell tickets.
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    I just checked and was able to get tickets for Hartford -- nosebleeds, but in the door at least. BUT I don't understand what is going on with Albany, you get directed to a ticket reseller. This whole thing is pretty strange. I'd like to see the number of tickets ACTUALLY sold and/or COMPd for each venue after every available method (including going to the venue) has been available for 24 hours. I think that would be very revealing. For one thing, it would say how popular a draw The Dead still are and it would reveal how fans are being manipulated. I'm not faulting the band at all, I think they are as much victims as we seem to be. So c'mon, put the numbers out there so we can see! The pay was pathetic. It's a shame those boys couldn't be more copascetic.
  • hot2na
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    I was so looking forward to this tour. Then the sticker shock. I got over it. I'm going to charlottesville. I'll be the one in the tie dye see ya there.
  • pockeyway
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    I hear your pain. Not sure what went down but I am confident it has nothing to do with the band. Perhaps another scam in Corporate America? I bought tickets to a few shows and thought I'd check out another venue sold through Ticketmaster. Tickets had gone on sale 20 minutes earlier. When I tried to purchase I was told the floor was sold out, then tried for anything, and again sold out, but their "partner" Ticket something (probably the Ticket Now you mentioned, but I do not recall) did have tickets priced from $150-$717. They were directly on the Ticketmaster site. I was disenchanted, so I figured 2 shows will be enough. I don't mind paying face value, and their little surcharges, but this was such a turn off that I stopped looking for any other shows. I'm going back to the good old fashioned mail order next time. Glad you got tic's. Have a great show.
  • JackstrawfromC…
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    Ticketmaster is selling tickets to Chicago online and yes you want to steer clear of Tickets Now. "Everybody's braggin' and drinking that wine, I can tell the queen of diamonds by the way she shines. Come to daddy on an inside straight, well I've got no chance of losing this time"
  • chicagobob
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    Ticket Rant: What is the Deal & Why did it go Down?
    You may refer to this as the TICKET RANT!! Part I First off, I am not ever going to criticize the BAND. I've been Deadicated since 1966 and my first show was seen in 1972 (Fab Fox in STL). The Dead gets better, and better, and better every tour, because of where they came from and who they have associated themselves with. And, I mean no disrespect to JERRY because he is my idol and a true hero. A tour would be BETTER with him, and we do not forget. I will not bitch about paying $50.00 or $100.00 or a little more for a great ticket to see the Dead. Why, because they are worth it and it is tremendously expensive to do a tour. We don't mind paying sports heroes and movie stars outrageous money for far inferior talents, to do things that do not compare to the rigors of a tour like the one we are all looking forward to. Music is hard work dedication and love and the trip that these artists, and they truly are artists, will take us on is truly a surreal experience. ( by the way professional athletes are super humans but they are not generaly artist or musicians ) Part II - The Rant I am going from near STL to the Chicago show because it is the only one close enough to be affordable. Posted ticket prices for this show were $95 - $50. Tickets were to be on sale at noon Friday, January 23. I set aside time from work to be available because, my probably and now a learned mistaken understanding was that on line, was the only way to purchase tickets, after the pre-sale and mail- in options went by the by. I preregistered this week with Ticketmaster, I thought, so that I would hopefully get a ticket to see my favorite BAND. My best friend and I hoping to relive the last Chicago show I can remember with the BAND, at the same venue under "The Other Ones" moniker. Well, I go to the website only to find that the ticket sale is 10:00 a.m. on Saturday. REGROUP. So I get up early on a Saturday to prepare for what I am sure is going to be a long day. I want to get tickets like everyone else in a bad way. I have an email that commemorates my prereg with what I thought was Ticketmaster. So I begin the journey get logged in with deadnet find out that I am not preregistered with ticketmaster. I reregister and find that ther are no tickets for sale on Ticketmaster site. What's going on? Did they cancel something, move back the sale stagger the sale, was it sold out in two seconds WTF????????? I go to my email, click this and that, I was preregistered not with Ticketmaster, but with Tickets Now ( a Ticketmaster Co. ) They have tickets but not for $50.00 or $95.00, they are scalping, I assume, the tickets that were confirmed by mail order, presale or who the F...knows. I won't pay much more than face for any event because you can get into Wrigley Field, Busch, Fox, Pageant, anywhere if you know what you are doing. I do NOT need a miracle, I want to pay value for value, NO PROBLEM. But this was sick and I do not blame it on the BAND. It is unmitigated greed from the people who purchased tickets early so they can go for free, Ticketmaster, or the venues themselves. (they are real dead heads) Capitalism is the WHEEL and we are the hamsters, So God Bless the Conspiracy!!!!!!!! I wasted numerous hours of time and even requested an alert from Ticket master as to when the tickets would go on sale still waiting, eight hours later. Well I did try to call Ticketmaster BUSY. Then I called a local (Belleville Il) Ticketmaster to find that they had tickets. They had tickets, but by this time only those going for $50.00. Ones you could buy from Tickets Now for at least twice face ++++++++ 100.00 tickets now going for $300, $400, $900. Why wasn't Ticketmaster selling tickets on line????? Why didn't Ticketmaster let people know that they could just go to a vendor and get tickets rather than putting a message on line that they had no tickets on-sale for the show. I'm knowing and believing the the BAND did not have anything to do with this ripoff> And, I was able to get a good ticket but not without having to go to Consider it Dan to get presale tickets that were not sold out. Doing this did force us to spend xtra money but value considered it was a good deal. Done ranting Feedback and hope someone in authority with the BAND gets with it!!!
  • lunaticonthegrass
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    As a a life long Pennsylvania resident, it's bitter sweet seeing The Dead play the Spectrum. Not sure how many people know this, but the Spectrum is being demolished before the year is out. And The Dead hold the record for number of shows at the Spectrum. So this run will be really special for me. That old Spectrum has so many memories and it'll be sad to see it go, but no better way to say goodbye than at a Dead show. http://www.rememberthespectrum.com/ Call it local knowledge, gained a long time ago.
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The band says Happy New Year with an announcement of almost twenty shows in April and May.  More details to come!

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At 1:37AM EST I just received another email from upgrade@gdtstoo.com. The subject reads "Roseland Confirmation Correction". Instead of it being a sparsely worded email, this one has 4 highlighted and bold instructions. Number 2 caught my eye for anyone traveling from afar without their confirmed guest: 2) Each ORIGINAL winner AND the person accompanying them to the show must be present in order to gain entrance. No Exceptions.
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Exactly what I have from Ratdog.org , NO EXCEPTIONS ! guess I loose on this deal !
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If your guest can't make it and you need them there give me a call. I can have a passable ID made up by 5pm! 718.974.7947. Again, lots to offer...
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6:47am est, still no email. What is going on over at GDTS?? I understand they may be busy but an update would be nice.
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HONESTLY IMHO If you show up without your guest you will get in. They just don't want you to bring someone other than the person you told them you were bringing.
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~Boys of Summer~ I'm in for set 3 @ Roseland as of 4am Yea Baby!
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If you are the winner and your guest doesn't make it, I dont think they will bar you. They want to make clear that the ONLY way your guest gets in is if they are with you and they can check your IDs together. See you at the Blender!! "One watch by night, one watch by day If you get confused, listen to the music play"
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GDTS website says all confirmations have been sent out, still havent gotten mine. Ive now sent numerous emails to them about this and none have been responded to. It's sad that this is what it's come to. Shut out from presale, then mail order, and now this debacle. Unless I get this confirmation today Im done with these guys. At this point I'd rather pay 30 bucks with no hassle and see Dark Star Orchestra.
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awww, you didnt win, so you're gonna blame the members of the band, and not see shows anymore?? what r u 13?? lol
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I did win, that's the problem. They've given me no response since they sent the email that said Ive been selected. I think I at least deserve to know whats going on. And judging by your response, I'd say your late for school buddy.
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all is right in the universe! thanks GDTS!!
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whats your question?? if you won, whats the problem.... just show up!
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The email I received states that a confirmation email will follow with my name & my guests name, and I wont get in without this. It seems everyone here has gotten this except me. I have sent numerous emails to GDTS last night and this morning without the courtesy of a response. At this point I dont even care if I make it in, I just want to know what is going on. It's not a lot to ask.
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oh, well all I got WAS the email with my name and a guests name at the top. I got mine through Ratdog.org, there was ONE communication thats IT. By any chance did you check your SPAM folder?? Hope you get it figured out...
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I am hoping to know I can get in with out her before the 4 hour drive.I am feeling SO LUCKY to have won this and SO LUCKY that my wife will let me go solo. If anyone can say for sure that I can go alone please let me, and others, know. I can tell the queen of diamonds by the way she shines!
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Yes, there was only one email if you won thru ratdog, this was discussed last night. The emails thru GDTS required a follow up email. I checked the spam folder, nothing. Enjoy the show tonight.
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"The View" was interesting this morning. Didnt totally get that!
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Anyone just see Bobby, Phil, and Warren on the View? --------------------- Shed light.
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Ha, yeah that interview was a little awkward. FOTD was great though!--------------------- Shed light.
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Phil did the "You cab borrow from the devil" verse
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Yeah, what's that verse from? Sounded familiar, but I don't remember from when.--------------------- Shed light.
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Can someone give me the words to that last verse Phil sang?
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....those were Hunter's original lyrics....Jerry didn't do that verse
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I'm supposed to be going to the 11PM show tonight with a friend but GDTS has not responded with the "confirmation" email. We've tried to resend the acceptance email but to no avail. I'm extremely surprised at the way that GDTS is acting. Very unprofessional. I would never have thought that this website would treat it's community this way. Oh well, live and learn.
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Their heart was in the right place - trying to give a free concert to the fans without letting scalpers getting their hands on tickets but in the end getting into these shows seems like more trouble than they are worth.. It's not simple like the old days when the Grateful Dead would show up in Golden Gate park and put on a free show. Much more complicated now.I'll just patiently wait for my west coast run at the end of the spring tour. :-) "When the smoke has cleared she said, that's what she said to me. You're gonna want a bed to lay your head and a little sympathy"
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Just called the main box office that deals with Roseland and they said that if you were a winner your name should be on the guest list. Bringing the email is a back up. They said if you are a winner that means it is you plus one so bring whoever your guest is and they will get in with you. This is exactly like how it worked when BGP managed Phish playing at the Fillmore. In order to eliminate scalping for this small venue with high demand, they did this exact thing where if you were lucky enough to make it to the location where they were selling these vouchers, you were able to buy 2 tickets - you and a guest. You had to provide your photo ID and on the night of the show if that info did not match you did not get in. So, the good news was that you were able to bring in a guest. I am happy that my friend who's Birthday it is today will be able to come with me to the show! The kids they dance and shake their bones! See you later! Brother "A" ps Oh yeah, no info on taping yet - the box office thought it was not likely but that is always their policy and not that of The Dead - at least not what it used to be. I am curious what will happen tonight if I show up with my recording gear??? If anyone has info on this please pass it on!
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I hear ya but put yourself in the position of someone who received an email stating that YOU WERE CHOSEN TO ATTEND THE SHOW and you never received the "confirmation email that will gain you access to that show. It seems most everyone else got theirs. Talk about pulling the carpet out from underneath you.
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Loved the old Hunter lyrics by Phil, but wish they could have came out a little earlier and had a proper interview or at least got to give O'Rielly some grief!!! "been here so long, i'm callin it home!"
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Got the first of my online pre-sale tix today!!!
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My friend can't go. I had his name as the "guest". would i be able to bring another friend as a "guest" instead?? thanks if anyone knows.
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i just got my tickets today...WOOOOOOHOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!! we are leaving on the 10th. This will be our first family road trip. its as if all my prayers have been answered.Hugs to all
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Danita - I didn't see the show but as I recall the verse it went -"You can borrow from the Devil - You can borrow from a friend. The Devil will lend you twenty when a friend will lend you ten." Always liked that one... how true it is. Peace.
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I was wondering if I can even go without a guest? You now have me wondering if I can change my appointed guest despite the RULES on the Ratdog email I got. What number did you call?
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Which show was that for? Just trying to gauge when my pre-sales will start arriving. "When the smoke has cleared she said, that's what she said to me. You're gonna want a bed to lay your head and a little sympathy"
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Has anyone tryed to get their guests name changed for the 3-30 NYC shows?
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It was for the D.C. Show, still waiting on charlottesvile tix.
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The Dead 3/30/09 Angel Oranz Foundation Acoustic Show - Phil/Weir/Warren Dire wolf Birdsong Cumberland Blues Pride of Cucamonga Lazy River Road Casey Jones E: Ripple
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has it listed on their website that they played "till the morning comes" hahaha. So wonder how the idea came up to play on the view? guess i'll hold my thoughts on that!!
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How many times are they gonna get me today? Happy April fools day everyone! First shows almost hear! Peace- Moye
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Hey Y'all! It's 5:15am and I just made it home to Western Mass from NYC! Wow! What a long strange (and beautiful) trip! Everything ran pretty smooth as far as I could tell at the venue tonight! All of the pre-show jitters that seemed to be going around about getting in and getting your guest in all seemed to melt away once you arrived there. The whole process at Roseland ran pretty smooth. A bunch of tapers were set up at Roseland (including myself) so there will be some nice recordings of the show coming around! (and well worth making the effort to get! - I will be posting a Vine on here in the next couple of days) Roseland reminded me of the Fillmore in SF and was nice big open space with lots of room to dance. They let the first of us in right at 8pm and the band did not hit the stage until 11:15. So, plenty of time for everyone to sip some liquids and chat about old times and good times to come! Once Gramercy let out, about 9:15, there was quickly and influx of more people that had come from that show as well as instant energy boost and activity on the stage. The vibe had arrived! When the boys hit the stage they were ready to play! Unlike at Gramercy where I heard they started the show with a 30 minute warm up jam, at Roseland they went right into a nice Althea followed by a sweet Cassidy! Here is the full set list with some more comments to follow. Althea Cassidy Uncle John's Eyes St. Stephen > Dark Star! Sugar Magnolia - - - - - - - - Not Fade Away (after their bow, Phil and Bobby said something like, "We didn't fade away, WE'RE BACK!") Some of us folks in the audience at first thought they said, "We'll be right back" and us tapers were already looking at pulling another tape out of our bags. Then the comment was clarified and supported by the sight of the crew swiftly starting to break down the staging. By that point it was after 1am! so I think everyone was well cooked! Overall the show was really sweet and very well played on all levels! I was really appreciating that for most of the songs of the evening - especially the Jerry songs - the lyrics were shared being sung by Phil, Bobby, and Warren. So it was a really nice touch and I thought a very respectful way to balance out the energy and singing (and honoring Jerry!) The Uncle John's, St. Stephen, and Sugar Mag were the highlight of the evening for me. St Stephen was particularly potent and rockin' and VERY TIGHT! with some amazing adventurous and well played jams. And ending the set with Sugar Mag's was like being back in the old school club again. Hearing that just feels like they are at home and Bobby was having a blast with it for sure! As a final side note, rumor has it from some NYC folk that The Boys were actually slated to play at Battery Park on on 3/30 for one big Fan Appreciation Show but at the last minute their permit was pulled by the bureaucracy of NYC. So the shows today were the Plan B which makes sense why there was some organizational challenges with the last minute change of plans. See you on Tour! (^_^)
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The performance was great. The energy level was sky high. Looking forward to the shows in NY on the 24th and 25th, they will not disappoint. “Lord you can see that it’s true”
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Sounds pretty damn good to me! "When the smoke has cleared she said, that's what she said to me. You're gonna want a bed to lay your head and a little sympathy"
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3-30-09 Setlist Bob, Phil & Warren Acoustic Angel Orensanz Theatre Dire Wolf, Bird Song, Cumberland Blues, Pride of Cucamonga, Lazy River Rd, KC Jones E: Ripple Full Electric Band Roseland Theatre Althea, Cassady, UJB>Eyes>St Stephen>Dark Srar>Sugar Mag>NFA! Full Electric Band Gramercy Theatre Jam>Playin'>Good Lovin'>The Wheel>Franklin's E: Touch of Grey
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Went to all three shows. Overall, it was an amazing evening. The Roseland set definitely had the most energy, and I didn't think Warren hit his stride all night until Eyes of the World, which was my highlight of the whole day. Phil and the drummers were terrific. My only criticism, besides Bobby constantly messing up the words, was that they need to free Warren up much more. I saw him a couple of times with the ABB, and he is a monster. He was too constrained yesterday. Maybe he will feel more comfortable as the Tour goes on. The acoustic set was in the most beautiful, intimate setting. I guess there were maybe 200 or so people. Phil, Bobby and Warren were kind of feeling their way, but I loved the set which included a 20 minute Birdsong, Cumberland, Casey Jones, and a Ripple encore. Next up was Blender at gramercy. Another small venue, and the set was solid. Opened with a Jam into Playin' into Good Lovin. The Wheel. Franklin's, and Touch of Gray. Finally, Roseland. Bigger venue, but not too big. I felt the band really hit its stride with Eyes, then closed out with St. Stephen, Dark Star and Sugar Mag. Not Fade Away encore. All in all a most amazing day. Three sets, three small venues and my favorite band. One touching moment. At the acoustic set, someone yelled out "We miss Jerry." Phil replied: "You think we don't miss him also!" Then a bunch of people yelled out: "We love you Phil!" The site was so intimate, it was like having them play in your living room. I think given the logistics and the fairly short time in which to get everything ready, the whole thing came off rather smoothly and we should appreciate the effort. "One watch by night, one watch by day If you get confused, listen to the music play"
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sounds like an amazing day, dream come true! thanks for sharing your experience!
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It was amazing. I am glad to share the joy with the community. Do you know something that I don't know or did your fingers subconsciously type Porno instead of Pomo!!!! LOL. "One watch by night, one watch by day If you get confused, listen to the music play"
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I won two tickets to Roseland, but my guest couldn't go. I carefully read the rules, and it said that you had to show up with your named guest to get the tickets, no exceptions. I debated about whether to go solo, and decided not to, that if they denied me entry I'd be more upset than if I just stayed home. So I stayed home. But I just read a post on philzone.com (reviews for Roseland) that seemed to say that they ended up letting everyone in who was hanging around front! Guess I'm a little bummed for not trying, for following the rules to the letter, but those are the breaks! See you at the Garden!