Friday, December 12, 2008
Cream Calendar Ooh That Smell: New Year's Eve Lynyrd Skynyrd Show Canceled
Posted by Tracy Moore on Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 12:10 PM
Legendary roughneck-rockers Lynyrd Skynyrd were supposed to play a New Year's Eve show here at the Sommet with Trace Adkins. It's been canceled due to poor ticket sales, attributed to "the downturn in the nation's economy." But I'm guessing really it's just that country fans and Southern rock fans don't actually want to hang out with each other, despite what Kid Rock wants us to believe. I saw Skynyrd in the early '90s at Starwood, and it was full of gently cascading mullets, the beefiest beards you've ever seen, and the sweet sweet smell of weed--not exactly the badonkadonks of the world.
Interestingly, the show was going to start with Trace Adkins opening at Sommet in Nashville, then flying to Pikeville, Ky., to headline a NYE event there. Meanwhile, Skynyrd would open in Pikeville, then fly to Nashville to headline the Sommet. But now that the Nashville show has been canceled, Skynyrd's still playing the Kentucky show with .38 Special. I suspect that if it had been the lineup here all along, that shit coulda sold out. I'm so caught up in you, little girl!
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What a drag this got cancelled. But FYI, though the show was barely promoted and I never saw an ad for it anywhere (no wonder no tickets sold), .38 SPECIAL was on the Nashville bill too... it was supposed to be them, then Trace (who I could have done without) and Skynyrd. The best part about it was that the tickets I bought from Ticketmaster didn't even say Lynyrd Skynyrd, they just said "SKYNYRD" on them.
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I am flying into Nashville on 12/31 specifically for that concert. Where ticketmaster is going to give a full refund due to the cancellation, that is all well and good. The fact that I have an Orbitz pkg to fly and stay for 3 ngts from Florida to see a concert that they (Sommet Center) decide to cancel is most certainly more than a drag. Now find something to do for New Years Eve in the middle of December!! My flight insurance won't even help!! I had 7th row floor seats to this show. What's even more unbelievable about all of this is no one has contacted me yet so if I had not seen it for myself I would not have known until I got there....thanks for nothing ticketmaster!!!
My wife and I had seats on the floar with 3 dayr worth of hotel paid for, coming up fron Ga. Never seen Skynard befor live. After this bullshit I don't guess we ever will. Not even a "screw you".We found out on the radio and had to run down our refund ourselves. Real class guys!
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