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Concerts Returning to Folsom! (Dead and Company First)
- Thread starter Darth Snow
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Its about damn time. The university is going to make a killing off of these things.
scoob
Well-Known Member
So, it will pretty much be just another day in downtown Boulder?
Deleted member 807
Guest
"Hey Purchasing, go ahead and double that 4/20 order for fishy smelling fertilizer. We gotta spread an other layer before the Dead show."
- CU Office of the Chancellor
- CU Office of the Chancellor
Nothing a little patchouli oil won't cover up
bigskybuff
Well-Known Member
As opposed to drunken idiots? You've never been to a show it seems.
Bufffan68
Club Member
Lots of rich 'sell outs' reliving their glory years...sounds perfect!
SuperiorBuff
Well-Known Member
Your social judgement gets really old.
Bufffan68
Club Member
It's a joke...take a Xanax or something.
SuperiorBuff
Well-Known Member
Bull****, nice try.
sucks I can't make these, and again, I'm totally bummed.
was talking to the wife about this. she reminded me that our last "football stadium concert" featuring one-headlining band was in 2009 (U2) and that leaving the concert i remarked to our daughter that "this might be the only concert you'll see in a football stadium", noting that booking venues of that size for a single headliner doesn't seem to happen nearly as often as it did in the 1980's and 90's.
we should start a "guess the attendance" thread on this, maybe.
Dead & Company sold out two nights at 1st Bank Center last fall. but that place only holds 7500 people. The biggest venue on the fall tour held <12k. Other than the GD shows in Santa Clara and Chicago, I don't believe any of the post-Jerry Dead lineups have packed more than 25k (except for multi-band festivals), so I'm a little surprised they're going for this. The Broomfield shows were a pair of weeknights, so the weekend shows at Folsom could sell more.
Tickets start at $79 + fees, so we're looking at Red Rocks level prices (no surprise).
Add crowd for the novelty of concerts returning to Folsom.
Add crowd for the awesomeness of an outdoor summer concert in Colorado (vs indoor at 1st Bank).
Subtract from that decreased student attendance due to summertime.
Subtract that local heads likely just saw the band play last fall, so we're not starving for the sound.
Looks like they're closing the North endzone, and selling GA tickets on the field.
I'll go with attendance between 25k - 30k for each night.
was talking to the wife about this. she reminded me that our last "football stadium concert" featuring one-headlining band was in 2009 (U2) and that leaving the concert i remarked to our daughter that "this might be the only concert you'll see in a football stadium", noting that booking venues of that size for a single headliner doesn't seem to happen nearly as often as it did in the 1980's and 90's.
we should start a "guess the attendance" thread on this, maybe.
Dead & Company sold out two nights at 1st Bank Center last fall. but that place only holds 7500 people. The biggest venue on the fall tour held <12k. Other than the GD shows in Santa Clara and Chicago, I don't believe any of the post-Jerry Dead lineups have packed more than 25k (except for multi-band festivals), so I'm a little surprised they're going for this. The Broomfield shows were a pair of weeknights, so the weekend shows at Folsom could sell more.
Tickets start at $79 + fees, so we're looking at Red Rocks level prices (no surprise).
Add crowd for the novelty of concerts returning to Folsom.
Add crowd for the awesomeness of an outdoor summer concert in Colorado (vs indoor at 1st Bank).
Subtract from that decreased student attendance due to summertime.
Subtract that local heads likely just saw the band play last fall, so we're not starving for the sound.
Looks like they're closing the North endzone, and selling GA tickets on the field.
I'll go with attendance between 25k - 30k for each night.
I bet they sell out both nights. I'm guessing the possible attendance is between 35 and 40 K based on that seating chart.
EDIT: I need to up that capacity guess, as I didn't account for the GA on the field. Still am going to guess that they sell it out.
EDIT: I need to up that capacity guess, as I didn't account for the GA on the field. Still am going to guess that they sell it out.
In the CU email for season ticket holders, tickets are said to range from $40 to $120. But when I go to one of the ticket sites there is nothing under $100. One site has a few in the Club Level, some in the lower "100's" level around midfield on both sides and then the GA on the field. But the GA on the field are, like, $175 to $260. That's nuts! Does anyone have any idea what the pricing and seating is? Is there a site map, other then the one posted above, showing seating with ticket prices?
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In today's edition of "Rick George is a Badass"
http://www.westword.com/music/how-music-came-back-to-boulders-folsom-field-7828944
http://www.westword.com/music/how-music-came-back-to-boulders-folsom-field-7828944
Yep. Set a Soldier Field attendance record.
Yep. Tickets on the secondary market were selling for thousands. I admit to being shocked when they only took a few weeks off before meandering back down the road. I'm glad I didn't invest big bucks in the 'last dead shows'.
technically, they promised it would be the final "Grateful Dead" concert, and I believe they'll hold to that promise. However, for me, the last GD concert was 7/9/95.
That being said, I'll enter into spousal negotiations to go see any surviving member of the Grateful Dead's spin-off band if they play within a 3 hour radius of me.
"but honey, this could be the last chance we ever get to see {Phil, Bobby, Micky, Billy, Bruce}. Ever!"
"hokiehead, you've been saying that for over twenty years. The rest of those guys are never going die."
