Open Thread: Did You Get Phish Tickets?
Written by
Scott Bernstein on
01.24.2009 |
Phish
Music Today has started sending out notices of regret and confirmation to those who entered the lottery for tickets to Phish’s upcoming Summer Tour. How did you fare? Let us know by leaving a comment below.
Tuesday, January 27, 2009 at 10:47 am
Am I the only one alive that still has yet to hear?!?!?!?!?! I’m going to tear my teeth out with rusty pliers soon…. Come on, tell me already!!!
Tuesday, January 27, 2009 at 1:16 pm
Jay,
I haven’t gotten any notification either.
Tuesday, January 27, 2009 at 1:41 pm
awesome, thanks Alex…
Tuesday, January 27, 2009 at 2:52 pm
I asked for 2 each for three different shows and got only Alpine Sunday night. My husband asked for 4 Fox’s and got denied.
Tuesday, January 27, 2009 at 5:16 pm
I got no love from the mail order (again), but my boy got tix to the first 4 shows (2 each) so the trip is back on!
Why are all the tickets going on sale at the same time on Friday!?!?!?!
Tuesday, January 27, 2009 at 6:29 pm
Scott – let me apoligize for my earlier post. I’m sorry. Its been extremely frustrating. For phish to be coming back, and there being no way in hell to score tickets for face value is very disappointing. All this internet only crap has to go. I got denied for hampton then shut out from ticketbastard only to see them selling “my” ticket for $400. I say “my” ticket because in all honesty that ticket should have gone to me or some other fan instead of being alloted to a greedy scalping company to sell back to us for 9x the face value. Since i was so devastated about not being able to go to hampton, I was trying to put all hope into the summer tour. But it looks like thats gonna be denials and shut outs across the board.
The system they have in place is flawed. How is it that some guy on phantasy tour could get like 30 tickets to himself, while most people were just asking for one ticket to one show and got jack shit.
I’m sorry to have flown off the handle, but it seemed to me like you were bragging about getting tickets, then you seemed quick to dismiss the ideas of everyone who DID NOT get tickets. I’m sorry i percieved it that way, but many of us are pissed off and rightly so.
I never expected a reunion to be this much hassel. I’m like everyone else who has been jonesing to see my favorite band again. Its been 5 years. I do not know what to make of this situation any more. By doing nothing about ticketsnow/stubhub/ebay it just shows that the band cares less that their tickets are being scalped at insane prices and thus is keeping long time fans shut out.
Wednesday, January 28, 2009 at 4:18 am
Got 2 for Knoxville!
That makes 1 for 7. Hopefully this gets a little easier when they announce more dates later in the year.
Thursday, January 29, 2009 at 3:09 pm
I got denied for St. Louis but gone two lawn for sunday at Alpine. While reading these posts I found it kind of funny that the “old heads” who been with the band at every show since the 80′s feel like they have seniority over people. So because someone was born in the 80′s and they werent there in the 90′s makes them less of a fan than you? Who are you to say anything? I havent had a chance to see them until now….im not trying to be cocky but karma happens for a reason. Its my time to go see Phish..It very well might be your time again as well, I dont know. Either way at least you have all the old memories. Whats wrong with making room for new people to share in the groove and experience what its all about. Sorry to rant and rave…I wish everyone else luck in scoring tickets!!
Friday, January 30, 2009 at 7:16 pm
I have not heard at all about whether or not I got tickets. What’s up with that.
Saturday, January 31, 2009 at 11:32 am
Livenation = total tease and a waste of time. Spent two hours Fri and Sat and got nothing.
Saturday, January 31, 2009 at 2:09 pm
Please sign our petition to phish against brokers.
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/phish-support-your-fans
Tuesday, March 3, 2009 at 10:34 pm
I understand, however Phish does owe me something! I took me 50 yr old mother to Coventry and after 28 hours in traffic we were turned away due to muddy conditions. My mother is in no physical shape for us to park 10 miles away and haul a weekends worth of supplies so we began to return home in southern PA.
We did get an Awesome Autographed photo book, which was cool, but doesnt compare to a show!
So I think that everyone who mailed in there Coventry tickets for a second let down should have had priority in ALL Lotteries . And yes, Phish does have record of this and DENIED us yet another weekend of soulful bliss.
No Im am forced to spent all my tour time looking for overpriced tickets.
Speaking of which does anyone have any Extra Tickets for any of the shows, will trade anything, but my 401K lol
Wednesday, March 25, 2009 at 8:33 am
is anyone else getting burned on pre-sale for tix? I out in for a total of 7 shows between the 2 presales and all I got were 1 pr of lawn (not even seats) for Mansfield. It is really discouraging, I feel like the scalpers are eating up all of the tix in these online purchases. I really wish they would go back to mail order so the real Phans can get tix fairly
Wednesday, March 25, 2009 at 1:32 pm
I have read that the odds for the Hampton shows were 1 in 15,000 . . . so think about it. The demand now is higher than ever before, so I would be thankful for those lawn tickets if I were you, cause many people are getting completely shut out.
Wednesday, March 25, 2009 at 1:40 pm
For trades, I’m using this site, which seems excellent for those who aren’t looking to make money:
http://phriendlytrades.blogspot.com/
Sunday, March 29, 2009 at 4:59 pm
Hello i would like to let the public know how we are all getting ripped off by (drum roll) our old friend Ticketmaster. I along with many other fevered Phish Phans have been awaiting this summer since ’04′ in Coventry to come our way, well it did and the tickets sold out in a matter of seconds, i went online yesterday to get my tickets for the Gorge shows and guess what, as soon as the time came for them to go on sale, oooops they were sold out, hmmmmm well then i started searching around i came across several so called ticket agencies selling the 49.95 ticket price for 125. on up to 1,200 dollars (no joke) well one of these companies who have bought all the tickets from Ticket master is Ticketsnow.com owned by (drum roll) Ticketmaster, thats right they buy all the tickets up and tell the fans they are sold out then turn around and post them for sale at much,much,much higher prices at another company???? Am i just dumb or our we getting takin for ride on the magical mystery ticket ride? Lets put this to rest and not feed the beast, does the boys of Phish know about this? Is this not a form of ticket scalping? What is next????? Please lets get the word out…. Like me i am sure alot of fans of Phish and other bands are being robbed and let down for not being able to see their favorite bands.
Thank you
Teresa Neathery
Pacific University