The "floor" at Nashville: Sit/Stand??

My understanding is that the floor is totally seated and, yes the GA standing becomes GA seated.

Leaving Palin aside for the moment, I can add to the confusion on the sit/stand issue (though I believe “Inside Job” is completely accurate in his brief comment). After seeing Ticketmaster listing the category of “general admission seated” today, I called the TPAC venue (nearest thing to a War Mem. Aud. box office). I was told I could still stand up front with the GA ticket I bought weeks ago, though seats would remain there on the center floor right up to the stage. The person said a “domino” effect might ensue if people chose to stand up, and she implied no security would stop it. Then I asked what was to keep a person who bought a reserve seat weeks ago to forsake that and head down front, thus competing with GA ticket-holders. I got no assurance any usher would prevent that. She volunteered that about 700 spaces are listed as “GA,” roughly 400 of those sold at this point. She also said that the only reserved seats all along were in balcony, which contradicts Ticketmaster. Theoretically I could have bought a ticket today for any of three tiers: GA seated, reserved 1st floor seated, second floor reserved seated. The chart looks as if anybody with a main floor reserved, number seat would be off to the side, but again, since all three price ranges are the same, a person with a reserved seat could make a legitimate claim to just getting there early and filling up a center front row seat. Best case scenario is good ushers who prevent this + mellow security who allow eventual standing when show starts, but that’s not an easy combo to find. I’m not predicting chaos, but I am a bit wary. This happened in Lincoln, Nebraska a few years back, and the backpack I had put on my seat at intermission was gone gone gone when I returned five minutes later. This led to some frantic shouting between me and Roccoco staff, near expulsion from the theatre for me. So I guess, Paul and others, get there early. Will-call personnel will be there at 6:30 apparently, doors at 7:30. That’s a pretty tight zone until the first Buick 6 instrumental. But let’s put a good face on it. No Boston brawls are likely. We’ll see.

As in “You’re in the wrong place my friend, you better leave”?

Stoger, I was in the 2nd row at that Lincoln show, right behind the standing crowd in the pit. (I think maybe they had folding seats but it was a dance party.) Domino effect indeed. I would have been happy to stand all night if it weren’t for the damn seats forcing you into a semi-crouch, and of course most everyone behind you wishing you would sit down. I hate to say it, but if you’re going to play a theater with fixed seating then it should stay that way – a sit down event unless the spirit moves everybody to stand. Otherwise it’s just inviting trouble. T

The first show of last year’s tour was at an old theater in Tucson (Rialto?) where the floor was open and folding chairs set up on the slight rake about halfway back, creating a very impersonal gulf between the two audiences, and the band for that matter. Not an ideal arrangement either. I think there should be one admission price, with seating in the balcony and an open main floor, and if there are elevated areas anywhere, let them be seated.

BTW the Tucson show was a bit of a dud I thought, though no fault of the band’s, first night notwithstanding. I wonder if the seating arrangement contributed to that. A rather tepid crowd for the most part – and no encore! What’s up with that? After the last song people clap, the band exits, the applause dies down and the lights come up as everybody makes for the doors. I couldn’t believe it.