The only objectively scummy thing Dave Grohl has done (ticket rant)

[ijwthstd]

This is a rant I typed out after the night 1 of Foo Fighters in LA after looking at not too full pit but only tidying up and posting now. Even since I had an email for assistance in selling an extra tickets locked in at above the current market value.

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How about instead of playing games with the pit tickets and pricing, just sell the tickets at the same price, get a full pit and happy fans?

There were major ticket scams and games at play with the Foo Fighters shows. To "fight scalping" they made the tickets non-transferable, if you can't go, the only way to get rid of the ticket is to put it back on the face value fan exchange via Ticketmaster. At first for this "sold out" show resale tickets would slowly trickle back out, with the tickets often being platinum priced in the $400 range for anything even slightly decent. It seemed the cheapest tickets were $125 with a smattering in the furthest reaches priced at $102 and those would also trickle out, usually in the rear or upper deck.

The day of the show rolls around and now there are loads of resale tickets, now competing with newly released $56.25 side view seats, plenty of prime seating selections at "normal" prices (around $219) with pit tickets released first at "face value" of 219.75 before dropping to $125.75. Ticketmaster always enforces price floors on resale tickets so you can't sell below face value. Since the fans who have either upgraded or now can't go are listing their tickets back up in massive numbers, most of those tickets are just sitting there capped at inflated face value but why would anyone click on the red dot when the late deciders can either get in for $56.25 or get in the pit for the very reasonable $125.95? Right now there are resale tickets priced at $219.75 right next to a $56.25 ticket.

In my days of ticket flipping Foo Fighters were usually money losers. Maybe in this case "fighting scalping" is more about the band not wanting to devalue their product when all the amateurs drawn in by the Taylor Swift hype are dumping tickets for $30, conditioning their fans to wait to buy when the next tour rolls around.

As of now brokers have workarounds. It was "non transferable" Pearl Jam ticket I scored for $26 in 2022, $22 for 2 Neil Young Greek Theatre tickets and biting the bullet with a bit more than I wanted to pay $32 Queen and Adam Lambert ticket. Maybe non-transfer fan exchange is also a scam to get the amateurs to think they are on to something hot without past data or a bit of natural caution to rely on.

Anyway if anyone needs tickets for the Sunday show with the always incredible Pretenders opening, you can now get them as low as $56.25 and while pit is currently priced at $219, they just might further reduce the price.

Unless it's Taylor Swift or anyone in the top few percentile, it pays to wait.

(BTW last night in town tend to a bit more demand so pit never went below $219.75 for Sunday).

[Bono Nettencourt]

So he gets a pass for popping the nanny?

[LAglamrocker]

If Nirvana would have survived ..what would price be in 2025?

1900$ pit VIP
1200$ Smells Like Teen Spirit package.
Early entry(rows 1-10)
Exclusive no wait for merch table
Photo opportunity
VIP pass
Come As You Are lounge
Bathroom tour with the drummer

[ijwthstd]

So he gets a pass for popping the nanny?

Not sure what kind of arrangement he has with his wife, but the fans definitely feel betrayed. I am not one of them.

Wonder if Violet has visited her little baby sister yet?

[LAglamrocker]

Dave seems to be living Bulletboys 1989 lifestyle
Maybe now Dave will take Marq on tour

I’m a new fan..I would show up
It’s great thing finally Freakshow will be Gold

[SterileEyes1]

This is an interesting read and admittedly was a little cross-eyed by the time I got to the end.

I actually did have 4 pit tickets to the Friday show and sold them for the $219 face value and ended up going Sunday instead. Apparently I’m glad I didn’t wait until the last minute to get rid of them. And I was definitely wondering about being locked into the face value price while seeing the $400-$500 platinum priced tickets floating around that you mentioned.

[Psychobolia.com]

Foo Fighters are terrible... I'd rather go see Jack Russell's Great White with anyone fronting the band.

[HueyRamone]

If Nirvana would have survived ..what would price be in 2025?

1900$ pit VIP
1200$ Smells Like Teen Spirit package.
Early entry(rows 1-10)
Exclusive no wait for merch table
Photo opportunity
VIP pass
Come As You Are lounge
Bathroom tour with the drummer

Dont forget you get to smell a stick of 1990s Teen Spirit deodorant that Kurdt reportedly used.

[TravisBicklesMohawk]

So he gets a pass for popping the nanny?

Or spreading dangerous misinformation about AIDS??

[ijwthstd]

So he gets a pass for popping the nanny?

Or spreading dangerous misinformation about AIDS??

Da fuck?

[pieceofme]

Foo Fighters are terrible... I'd rather go see Jack Russell's Great White with anyone fronting the band.

Even Grohl. At least he would sing some good songs.

[TravisBicklesMohawk]

So he gets a pass for popping the nanny?

Or spreading dangerous misinformation about AIDS??

Da fuck?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OcP0Op ... YXRpb24%3D

[grishnak boss]

So he gets a pass for popping the nanny?

Or spreading dangerous misinformation about AIDS??

Yes I remember him and the stupid band backing up some weirdos, all of them fuckin AIDS deniers (kinda like the imbeciles today sayin' Covid was just a hoax).

Fuck them.