Open Thread: Phish Summer Tour Onsale
Tickets for most of Phish’s summer tour go onsale this morning and hopefully you’ve taken a few moments to familarize yourself with Live Nation’s ticketing system. Head to livenation.com at 10AM EST for Jones Beach, Camden, Burgettstown and Deer Creek ducats. Asheville goes onsale at 10AM through ticketmaster.com and the remaining tickets for the Fabulous Fox Theatre in St. Louis at 11AM EST through metrotix.com.
Best of luck to everyone trying for tickets. At least you’re not in the cold. When you’re finished let us know how you did by leaving a comment below…
February 2nd, 2009 at 7:37 pm
It happens to the best of them. There is just simply nothing any server can do when several millions of people hit the same website within 10 seconds. Ticketmaster’s site blew up this morning and posted a “routine maintenance” message for 3 Bruce Springsteen shows that went up for sale today.
Consumers need to be more educated and realize that popular ticket onsales are messy and not everyone gets tickets. If you really want tickets to the show that has 100 times the demand of available seats, then you should have someone at home trying on the computer and someone at a Blockbuster location… and you should both be calling Live Nation on the phone at the same time. Good luck, no need to whine if you’re prepared to fight for tickets to these popular shows.
February 1st, 2009 at 11:55 am
i had 3 pavs for great woods, timer went from 9:50 to 0:01 in the span of 1 minute.
got a lawn in the end
then tried alpine – 3 times had pavs or lawn, 3 times i had my CCminfo in, 3 times i lost the tickets for no discernable reason other than live nation SUCKING
February 1st, 2009 at 5:48 am
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February 1st, 2009 at 3:47 am
plus, pavilions kept popping up long after many quit….In the end, LN = TM, but LN has higher chages….somehow a 42 dollar ticker winds up being 62! That’s a 50% service fee/tax…somewhat crazy
February 1st, 2009 at 3:44 am
the site certainly crashed hard for 2 hours friday, but then the tix were flowing. I had no problem second day scoring 100s for everything within 20 mins…i give the award to nashville’s ticket system- somehow, that worked great…fox’s metrotix was more comedic than anything.
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2 star lake lawn for your 100 level Camden
January 31st, 2009 at 11:44 pm
Hey, I managed to score 4 tickets to the Fabulous Fox theater in StL. through metrotix. I was denied at first then all of a sudden the screen popped up with 4 tix 15 rows from the stage. This venue only holds between 4000-5000 people so it was a pleasent suprise!
January 31st, 2009 at 6:29 pm
Live Nation sucks. End of story. Tried all day yesterday for ANY 2 tickets to ANY venue, LN site was totally siezed up … or would time out.
Went to great woods this morning and was the victum of a hilarious lottery debacle. I was 4th in line this morning but they announced lottery. I ended up 50 pep before the end of the line of around 300 people. 2 windows were opened to handle 300+ pep. Half hour goes by, barely anyone got tickets… (a handful in 1 hour!!) Im standing in line on my PPC trying livenation website and have the wifey at home on the website. I check on the status of front of the line… 1 WINDOW HAS BEEN CLosed. Everyone slowly realizes there is no “block allotment” for the venue. They are simply ordering them online thru the system like everyone at home….
PHONE RINGS!! 4 tickets under the shed baby!! whooooooooooooooooooooo hoooooooooooooooooo
When i walked to the front of the line, they said they had been giving out lawn seats for 10 mins, this was as my credit card was being confirmed for actual SEATS.
Anyway im happy at the end of a long day of bullshit. Only greatwoods show i ever missed was the 94 gamehenge, and just as the last time they played in mansfield…
….Its been such a long time……
January 31st, 2009 at 3:02 pm
Pre-Order tries:
Hampton 3 nights, 2 tickets per night – Denied
Jones Beach 2 nights, 2 tix per night – Denied
Greatwoods 1 night, 2 tickets – Denied
Camden – 1 night, 2 tickets – Denied
Public On-Sale
Hampton – 1 ticket for ANY night – Denied
Jones Beach – 1 ticket for ANY night – Denied
Greatwoods – 1 ticket for ANY night – Denied
Camden – 1 ticket for ANY night – Denied
Ticketmaster simply sent me to their scalping site for Hampton. Not even a shot for regular tickets. Live nation, phone system crashed on Friday and after 8 and half HOURS of trying, I finally got a human being. Yes, 8 and half HOURS of constant dialing. Had to replace my battery twice. Website completely crashed and I couldn’t even load the page until after 11am. Saturday, “waiting room” online for 35 minutes then, “Sorry we’ve encountered and error”. Phones, got a human 4 hours into the day.
Not happy. Very sad fan. I must say farwell. Will NEVER get the chance to see them again… Compeltely sucks.
January 30th, 2009 at 4:50 pm
Hey everyone,
So I did a little research and found the Live Nation Ticketing CEO’s name and contact info. Please send emails to nathanhubbard@livenation.com to share your story about your frustrating Phish ticket buying experience this morning. Please include any constructive criticism for improving the experience for everyone!
Thanks y’all!
January 30th, 2009 at 4:18 pm
Oh and I just called my local Blockbuster to see if they were selling Live Nation tickets.. they don’t start selling them until February 5th.
January 30th, 2009 at 4:16 pm
took 2 hours but got a pair of reserved for Post-Gazette. I was on the phone with a Live Nation agent and his system even crashed. Came out on top though, pretty pleased. Tomorrow should be interesting.
January 30th, 2009 at 3:57 pm
it seemed like the only way to get tickets was if you had the URL to get direct to the page with the select ticket quantity form.
January 30th, 2009 at 3:42 pm
Got through the words on TicketMaster in about 6 or 7 seconds for Asheville, the tickets were already gone.
January 30th, 2009 at 3:35 pm
Figure this out… at 11:45am EST, I somehow managed to snag 4 seats to JB 2nd night 6th row center, through Live Nation…. I’m FREAKING OUT RIGHT NOW!!!!!