I have so many mixed feelings about this practice... I'm 24 and slim and decent looking at the very least, there's a good chance I could be one of the lucky ones picked. However, and this isn't totally the bands fault at all and is more a venue issue and just the screwy reality of the world but thought I would bring this up just for an added perspective- I'm disabled. Been a fan most of my life, can't put into words how much this band means to me or describe the medical horrors the band/their music has helped me through. I think I may have posted almost a year ago early early in this thread hoping even I would have a chance but my health only gets worse, I was very sick at the show I went to and things aren't shaping up so hot for the Feb 14th show Im hoping to attend (I'm close to paying a friend to come with me in case, g-d forbid something happens to me) Im diehard enough that if I was picked, well I would freaking go. But I couldn't last. Not to mention I have a backpack of medical equipment so not sure I want some drunk casual fan snagging my IV tubing and if anyone were to slam into me, yikes...
I use a wheelchair though I can stand short periods and walk if I have to and I'm prone to pushing too hard because the world as a whole is just not particularly (often not at all really) accessible. G-d I would kill to be near the stage, just an honest to G-d life dream. If I even manage to get an accessible seat well there's neve ver wheelchair seating on the floor, in 2013 people who paid more than me for their accessible seats were way further away than I was in the cheaper accessible seats. Venues are required to have at least a few accessible seats in all price ranges but that never includes the floor and I went in 2014 without my chair because there was no accessible seats left and oh boy I had to be physically lifted up the steps... And was on time but ended up late because they ensue does wheelchair transport to seats but the idiot who wheeled me took some crazy long roundabout way and it's a shame there were so many people crowded up by Lindsey because it took even longer to get to our seats because I had be wheeled all the way around the whole floor section and argh, it was a mess.
Again, I realize that's venue issues not the band. But hey if people want to be upset virtually every single one of you has access to better seats and more of a chance of getting up front than me. Wish I could surround myself with true fans and we could all go to the front and when I got tired I'd go sit and I assume if everyone around me was there for the music and not just the booze or whatever, maybe it would work out.
If I ever win the lottery I'm hiring my own Ledgie posse to make this happen. We'll pay off security so we all get up front too, deal?
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