Thursday, October 1, 2009
Cream Calendar / Creamtastic Fire Sale: Tickets to See Creed at Sommet Center Dropped to $7.79
Posted by Adam Gold on Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 2:00 PM
Recently, on this post I did announcing the upcoming R.E.O. Speedwagon/Styx/Night Ranger show at the Sommet Center, an anonymous Cream commenter claimed, "...nothing goes onsale at the Sommet for cheaper than $37." Well Anon, get ready to eat some words--I just noticed on Ticketmaster's site that tickets for the Oct. 14 Creed show at our downtown enormodome have been reduced to the low, low price of $7.79.
A beer at the Sommet Center is $9, so you do the math.
Considering it's Creed, that's still a hefty price to pay for what's sure to be a traumatic experience, but I was still rather shocked to see that such is the case. I was even more surprised to see that this was the asking price for tickets in section 105 which--going by this seating chart--is pretty fucking close to the stage.
So, either this is the worst-selling concert of all time or Creed just simply wants to give something back to whoever is still willing to endure them in 2009. Check out this video of the band's stage production. There's all kinds of fire and shit. That's GOT to be expensive, so either the show's promoters are about to take a huge bath on this one and decided to fire sale the shit out of whatever tickets they could, or they're donating the proceeds from these bargain tix to charity and writing it off against their loses. That would be smart, right?
Interestingly, no press announcement has been released to people like me, so I guess the band wanted to save face. Hell, I'm thinking of snatching up a pair and going down there just to test my resolve. Staind are opening, but I guess that isn't much of a selling point either. Get your $7.79 Creed tickets here. Keep in mind that with "facility" and "convience" charges the tickets actually come out to $14.66. So the service charges are running neck and neck with the actual ticket price. When are Pearl Jam gonna weigh in?
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So would this be Stapp's "sacrifice" in this economy? Maybe we can sacrifice a few of our enemies by buying them tickets and sending to the show.
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the funniest part about this post is that gold actually was looking on ticketmaster to buy tickets and accidentally stumbled upon this. don't worry, it's still good reporting. just pathetic that you even looked in the first place.
I stand by my comment of nothing (and that's a general statement, geez, I'm sure you can find 2 shows a year that do) goes onsale for cheaper than $37, and nothing still has. And its not semantics, Creed and the promoter certainly never intended to sell tickets for less than $37. If they had planned to sell tickets for $7.79 to begin with, the show would never have been booked. Not at the Sommet anyway.
Was it Scott Stapp that made that video with Kid Rock where they were totally brostoked about chicks blowing them backstage?
WE THARM SWHYDE HO PAN
/spurgeon has been waiting weeks to use the word brostoked in a post.
It's only now that I realize I should have used "brostroked." Because of the penises, you see.
Ashley, are you one of these women who think it's edge-y or punk rock or whatever to spew locker room talk as if you were some dumb jock dude. That may have been what you gleaned from your feminism classes in college, but really, it just makes you sound stupid. You and Tracy Moore are the only people who take it "there" in this way, and it just sounds so redneck and contrived. Definitely undermines anything you have to say about, well...ANYTHING!
But you're not a girl. Me and Tracy are girls and should know better. We are stupid and have bad taste and our personalites are totally contrived. We should never have gone to college. Our opinions count for nothing, coming from our enfeebled female brains as they do. We should just spend our days thinking about what other people find acceptable humor for women (jokes about shoes?) rather than what we find funny ourselves.
I like to think they spoke in that manner before the "feminism classes" took hold. Like they had to fight their way up the profanity ladder.
Tracy's speech as I've heard it is appropriately peppered with genuine and somewhat rhythmic expletives.
As someone who has taken people to task on the subject of language, I believe the efforts are sincere if not always successful.
But no one wins all the time. Not me, and not Creed.
Happy October,
MR
Whoa, I was too busy doling out hand jobs yesterday to all the brohammers at the Scene so they would like me to notice I got called out on the blog yet again in some way for my femaleness being handled incorrectly or somehow proving I don't know shit about shit!
Thanks, bad taste, seems like old times.
Dude, what the fuck Tracy? What are you doing leaving comments? You don't know how to be a female right at all.
Though I am impressed that you said "shit" in your comment twice. That makes you more like a male and, therefore, I'm more likely to take you seriously.
Hey Tracy,
Q: How many feminists does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
A: That's not funny!
Love,
Ashley
Wait, wait, I got a better one...
Q: How many feminists does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
A: Two, one to screw in the lightbulb and the other to write a folk song about it!
or,
A: None, everyone knows feminists don't screw!
Either way, we all win!
Ashley, that's why I said what I said... to elicit that oh, so sexy response from you.
Besides, my larger point was i think that kind of "banter" sounds redneck coming from either male or female...but you guys are young and when you've lived a little, you'll see what i mean...whatever, i'm bored, this blog is boring, and it's fun to
rile you folks up every once in a while...
Sexist, perhaps, (if by sexist you mean to become extremely bored and a little put off by unfunny pseudo edge-y sexually graphic speak)and classist...never.
John Rich and Trace Adkins are huge rednecks, but they are certainly in a higher socio-economic class than I am.
$7.79? that's still $20 too much.
Q: How many feminists does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
A: Two, one to screw in the lightbulb and the other to give my dick a blowjob with her mouth.
Creed did that "all for the Nookie Song" right? I really like that Red Baseball cap.
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