nothing but a rip off
I think to charge 500.00 for a ticket , an autographed tourbook, a t shirt, and tour of backstage without a meet and greet is nothing but a rip off. You can get a 5th row ticket or better from Ticket master for face value, you can get an autograph for free, if you are in the right place at the right time (Im sorry, I'm just not one to buy an autograph, I like to see my autograph be signed right infront of me. however, I am not questioning the authenticity of the autographs, Im sure in these cases the band is at least doing the signing) a tour of backstage with out the band, is to me worthless and lame. So you can see lindseys guitars and stevies Tambourine on a bare stage, hell if you wait for the concert to start and skip the back stage tour, you can see those same instruments actually being play by stevie and lindsey and if you get to to the venue early, you can see the bare stage before they come out for free. The fan club moaned about ppl scalping tickets, but they are guilty of scalping themselves. I think the ppl who were lucky to see the band sign the tourbooks backstage were simply lucky, and im happy for them, but that was probably just because they were not signed ahead of time, again luck and right place at the right time. the plat. pkg. is nothing different than paying a scalper a high price for a great seat. And with a scalper you expect that. As members of the club you should of been promised these benefits as part of your membership. Im at least glad that most of the ppl this time got better tickets, in general.
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