TND West

I remember I would spend my time in lines for Concert Tickets back in the day, the early 80′s. I would choose a Ticket location which I thought would be the least busiest. Now, when the concert was for a rock show, I would have to drive into the inner city, the more scarier part of town, because it was mostly deserted in the early morning hours. It beats camping out the night before.

Tickets for a Rap concert, I would head to the suburbs, the malls and find a Ticket place there. Of course this strategy won’t work today, but back in the 80′s Rap was almost only listened to by black people. Whites generally stayed away from Rap music, so the suburbs was perfect for getting concert tickets. I also remember many of times police had to be stationed at many Ticket place locations and make sure that the wristbands which were distributed a half-an-hour before the box-office opened, to prevent anyone trying to cut in line, or push and shove their way to the front of the line. The wrist band was our insurance that we had a legitimate place in line. That was good strategy too, because I didn’t have to camp out when I knew wristbands would be passed out in a lottery kind of method.

But, what I found the most frustrating was almost being the first in line, but the person in front of me took a long time in purchasing their tickets, they were buying up as many tickets as possible, so by the time I got to the window, seating choices were limited and the concert was almost sold out! I was third in line one time and when I got to the ticket window, the concert was already sold out! That’s when I had to find scalpers to get my tickets. Now a days, the Internet as virtually removed any necessity to stand in line, but hasn’t stopped the tickets from being sold out as soon as they go on sale.

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