Anyone in Vegas try to get Beastie Boys tix?

For those that don't know, they were selling tickets for the Beastie Boys here in Vegas for $2 for the MTV2 $2Bill show. Let me tell you...it was fucking chaos. No one was supposed to line up until 7 am this morning. There was already a good-sized line when I got there at 6:45. And tickets were going to go on sale at 9 am. The damn show was sold out by 7:30 am. Seems that they sold some at like 1 am and then sold the rest this morning. Good thing there was cops all over the place, because it could've gotten real ugly. I'm pissed since they sold all the damn tickets way before the time they were even supposed to go on sale. Whoever was trying to organize all of this needs to be shot in the face. The only highlight of the morning was a guy driving by and giving a group of cops a box of Krispy Kreme donuts. Did anyone else that lives in Vegas go down to the Huntridge (where the show is being held) and stand in line, only to have wasted their time?

Yeah, I did. Remember? At least you didn't get arrested by the fruity cop with the volley ball sunglasses on.

OrochiSaffron said:

Yeah, I did. Remember? At least you didn't get arrested by the fruity cop with the volley ball sunglasses on.

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That guy couldn't have taken down a 5 year old at the Special Olympics.

I was sorely tempted to go down to the Huntridge to do that, but then AnechoicJinx said there had to have been a line forming already well into the morning hours.

That sucks they sold out so damn quick and before they were supposed to.

Man, that sucks!

oh well. I was reading a whole NY Times series on the differet sides of living in Vegas and it didn't seem all that fun (at least if you were poor or had kids). I admit I just go to Vegas to exploit and leave (which is the basis of th economy).

Fuck it. I stoped bothering to try to see anything at the Huntrudge a while back. It's weird, I've tried to go there to get advance tickets before. I go up to the box office and they were all like "huh?" I had to go inside and ask around, eventually I found someone, a sound crew guy, he told me to go to Big B's or Balcony Lights across town and get the tix there. I was like "what the fuck, a sign or somethin would be nice" and he was "yeah, I just work here".

Pisses me off. I missed GWAR a couple of weeks back plus I missed the The Aquabats the last three times they were here.

Bobak said:

Man, that sucks!

oh well. I was reading a whole NY Times series on the differet sides of living in Vegas and it didn't seem all that fun (at least if you were poor or had kids). I admit I just go to Vegas to exploit and leave (which is the basis of th economy).

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Yeh, I know about the article you're talking about.
Here's a rebutal that sums up what a lot of Las Vegas feel about that kind of reporting. A big story in that vein shows up, on avarage, once every three years or so. We're pretty well used to it by now.

(kinda like the video game + epilepsy*"scare" that shows up every five years or so)

I loved that Las Vegas Weekly article. Bokmeow sent me the 6-part NYtimes story about Vegas. They really shoulda done more research.

Hell I think they should've interviewed me for that article. I pulled myself outta the UNLV area to be where I am today...

...in Spring Valley.

I hope they go on tour sometime. I would love to go see them. But until then, I'll have to listen to their new album.

I read 5/6 parts of that series (Judge Hardcastle's tale was very sad), but I admit my own visits to Vegas have never made me think the stories somehow got the story wrong. It seems like the Inland Empire in the LA area which I also equivocate to hell -the only difference between the two is that one has to deal with the pros/cons of the gambling (oops, I mean "gaming" industry).

That response's position that the NY Times stories weren't Las Vegas stories does nothing to refute the facts that (1) they were real people and they did happen and (2) at least two of them were positive: the stripper and the Latina immigrint. You probably also didn't read the supplimental articles that were on the same page (about the benefits of the hospitality union, etc). I thought the articles weren't too harsh -but they certainly didn't try and paint the picture you'd get in the Travel section either.

With that said, I love the Strip and to a lesser extent glitter gulch/fremont st. and the outlying casinos.