r/Concerts

I bought tickets to Motley Crue next week at Blossom Music Center. Never been there, driving from a couple of hours away and not planning to spend the night. I've heard it's a cool venue, but I heard parking is horrible unless you buy premier or VIP parking. I was thinking about buying premier to get out a little quicker since I'm planning to work the next day, but apparently it's too late. According to the website they only sell physical hangtags and you have to buy them more than 14 days in advance. Anyone know if there's a digital option (if availability allows) that I'm just not seeing? I see a couple of people have listed parking passes on Seatgeek and StubHub with a mobile transfer option, but they're pricey (would be cheaper just to get a hotel nearby), and also...can that be trusted? I mean, how can someone sell a digital pass if the venue only uses physical passes. Hard to believe a venue wouldn't have a digital option.

Not VIP bars, better toilets or a nicer viewing platform.

I’m curious about access that would genuinely make you feel **closer to the music, artist or process behind the show**.

If a brand could unlock one experience that regular ticket holders normally don’t get, what would you choose?

For example: watching soundcheck, seeing how a stage/show is built, hearing an artist talk through how a track was made, spending time with the tour crew, getting into a rehearsal, discovering an artist before they blow up, accessing a tiny secret performance, etc.

Basically: **what would make you leave thinking “I actually got to experience something I normally only get to watch”?**

FYI this isn’t some corporate shill thing - I’m genuinely wanting to create experiences through exposure at no monetary gain!

I’ll be in Colorado Labor Day weekend to visit family . I’ll have time to fit in a concert and I can do phish or kingfish Ingram . I’ve seen phish 7 times or so and kingfish zero. Phish cost $125 vs $56 for kingfish. Dicks is a bucket list venue plus I love collecting posters so that’s why I’m considering phish but sometimes when you see a band so many times you get jaded and want new experiences that’s why im considering king fish . Another thing to keep in mind is kingfish is young and is in his prime , phish is in there latter years still great but idk if they’re in their peak anymore . Anyways what would yall do? I could see kingfish Saturday and phish Sunday but that would be a lot of money plus less time with family.

I’ve never been to a concert and am taking my daughter to Ed Sheeran in the next couple of weeks. What time do you suggest getting to a concert if the first opening act comes on at 530? We want to see the last of the 3 openers.

My partner likes to do this a lot. I am someone who really just doesn't comprehend this because I'd rather watch the concert myself in front of me than watching it in my phone months or years later. But I care about her a lot and want to help her out. She's also from a country that doesn't get a lot of concerts in general.

Her issue is she thinks it's always her phone that decides if her videos to record are shitty or not. Then she ends up getting a new phone every 2 years because of this. I just think it's her settings but correct me if I'm wrong.

She uses an Samsung S24 Ultra which is already a powerhouse of a phone which again makes me think you just have to adjust the settings correctly to accomodate for concert conditions and the zoom is already pretty good. She doesn't sit on the best seats but she got the S24 Ultra to watch concerts by zooming in and recording them.

What would be your advice on how to maximize settings or other advice that would bring out the best of her phone? She read somewhere to not record videos using the video option but instead to hold the middle button while taking a photo so that it "records" which is all just absurd to me having to do that.

Edit: She's from Ukraine and they don't get a lot of concerts there for a lot of reasons. She just wants to get memories of the concerts she attended just in case she has to go back.

Genuinely curious how stressful setup and teardown must have been for local hands for these shows, especially to have less than 24 hours to change over from FF to MCR sets. Does anyone know if the two acts happenned to use any of the same staging/seating/line arrays/delay towers/lighting? I just can’t imagine it being logistically possible to tear all that down and set a whole other set up in that little time.

I’m going to Rodger’s stadium but I’m planning on getting an album in Toronto before the concert. I’m not sure if security will allow me to bring an album into the venue. Has anyone taken an album to a concert before?

For those who keep concertgoing stats, how do you handle acts who change their names? Do you list them as they're billed for each show or do you stick with one name for consistency?

For me, I write in whatever they were called when I first saw them. For instance, it doesn't matter how many times I see Osees, they'll always be Thee Oh Sees in my spreadsheet.

If my favs still toured here I would be going to like 5 concerts in the next year, but I’m only going to one in Nashville and I can’t travel that often 😭 I’ve heard some people say Texas’ politics is a big turn off for a lot of artists but idk if that’s the reason…

Edit: I’m into alternative/indie pop rock, occasional pop, and electro-pop music, I’ve realized most of this sub isn’t in my territory of music taste lol

I’ve recently started attending some punk/rock concerts with a friend and really enjoyed the energy there as well as the mosh pit but the music isn’t really for me. I’m wondering if anyone knows of any groups or venues that host concerts with a similar-ish vibe but the music is more akin to something you’d find at a renfaire(I don’t actually know what this genre of music is called I just enjoy the vibe). I’m not entirely sure those exist and thus don’t even know where to begin looking. I’m in Ohio but anything in the midwest area would be greatly appreciated!!

Hey all — I'm a Seattle journalist and longtime fan who managed to get backstage before a U2 show at the Forum in 2018. I wrote an account of the day. (Photos included.) Hope this gets filed under "Get a load of this..." instead of "shameless self-promotion." I wrote the piece just for fun and thought you might find it amusing.

Edit: Comma.

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buddy was just diagnosed with an eventual debilitating disease and we were just chatting about making a road trip somewhere perhaps for a concert. we travelled to seattle for pearl jam a few years back. venue wasn't great but experience was awesome.

not sure who's left from that era that still puts on a good show. musical taste is pretty diverse but lets stick with bands like gnr, cure, and stp. would have loved to see Seger but guess he's not touring anymore..

bonus points if they're playing at a cool venue like red rocks (international may work too, we live in the states)