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Just listed on Ticketmaster –

Lucinda Williams Humphreys Concerts By the Bay
San Diego, CA Fri, 08/27/10
07:00 PM More Info
on sale:Sat, 07/10/10
10:00 AM

Ditto! 😀

at least in my case, you aren’t reducing ticket sales! I’ll still go, because I love seeing Lu perform that much and, in order to justify the trip across the country, I want to see more than 1 or 2 shows. Thank you for your honesty…

Tom

Hey Tom,

I am not certain about this, but I think I remember hearing that Humphrey’s San Diego uses some strong-arm tactics on fans. I believe that in order to get the best seats in the first two sections, you have to buy a minimum of 2 tickets plus get a hotel room, so that the total cost for 2 tickets ends up being $500-$600… I think that the closest seats regular schmucks like most of us can get are in the third section of seats, probably around $70 a pop with fees. Paul, is this what you were referring to in your post about Humphrey’s, and/or can you add any insights?

Sincerely not trying to be a Negative Nellie, just relaying info I’ve heard.

Thanks all,
Sandy

What’s a sticky thread? ❓ 😯 😳

Remembering a couple other Chuck Prophet and the Mission Express shows I saw –

One in Greenville, SC, in a location that was set up and had chairs that made you feel like you were at a PTA meeting. It was weird, but apparently I still managed to have fun. At the end of their set, Chuck and Stephanie came out with a Rubbermaid tub full of CDs to sell at the merchandise table. Usually bashful me said, “Give those to me, I’ll sell them. You sign autographs and take pictures with the fans.” I really just soooo wanted these incredibly talented and genuinely nice artists to achieve some degree of commercial success. They must have thought who the bleep does this chick think she is? But anyway, they complied and I sold a bunch of CDs, and I made one of my friends from work help me. She said that I was getting a bit carried away, with sales pitches like “your life isn’t complete with this CD”. I meant it when I said it though, and none of the customers said no…they were probably afraid to… His “No Other Love” is a masterpiece like “Car Wheels”.

Then another time, somehow I found out about an acoustic living room concert where a New Jersey lawyer booked Chuck to play at his home, and then sold tickets at $50 a pop to pay for it. That was kind of weird because most of the guests were his friends, but it was cool, and he was a good guy even if he was a lawyer.

Wonder if a certain someone might consider a living room concert for her hardcore followers? 😀

Thanks for the pic and link, lwj. Now I’m thinking about not only going to the Decatur show, but Raleigh as well. He is that good! Great musician, great energy, great entertainer. It always befuddles me that such incredible artists can remain so obscure. And then a guilty part of me is glad because it means I can get tickets to the shows… Whenever I have those thoughts, I get hit by lightning for being selfish… but y’all know what I mean…

Awesome job, Lafayette! Thank you so much for sharing. I’ll probably have about 3 hours next Saturday for a whirlwind tour before the trade show drudgery begins. 😀

My trip to NYC this week consisted of my work computer dying and me coming down with the flu – ah the glamour of life on the road. My appointment this morning ran way late, so in order to ensure that I made my flight, the very kind Haitian guy at Avis drove me in his personal car directly to the Delta terminal. God bless him, and all of his countrymen.