Thanks, Anu...some of us are STILL "poor" in our 30's for this kind of thing, due to circumstances beyond our control. I had a nice little tour fund carefully built up over the past yr but due to a family illness of my own over the summer (how I feel for Edge!) I had to give most of it away to my mother to help pay expenses for my sick grandma. Bye bye tour fund. I had to bust my butt working overtime in Oct and Nov to even afford 1 show (luckily during holiday season I could do this, and I anticipated prices even more expensive then they are). I live in Albany, NY and we were one of the "postponed" dates, I'm sure of it. I was trying for MSG and Boston. I knew nobody in those places who was a fan, nobody to try for tix for me, and I had gotten all my tickets over the yrs either by standing in line or Propaganda. I was at the DVD show too..not in GA (the GA show I picked for Elevation thru Prop was the right one: the first post 9/11 MSG show in the fall...2 feet from Edge, they let me go up front as I am so short...after that, nothing else compares.
Thank God for Wire and this site...back in October I sent a couple of frantic "help!" posts out explaining my dilemma...they paid off, or one of them did: I "met" someone on here who I got to know very well over the holidays, and he came through for me and got us nosebleeds for MSG, which I can't say I'm overjoyed at since thru the old Prop I could have done better, but I knew the presale was going to be a disaster and yay! I now have an unused code I can use in the fall. Considering there was 1 MSG show and it sold out in 6 min, and most of the GA in both NY and NJ went to brokers, I consider myself very lucky. I'm happy. I know what nosebleed is like since I saw Celine Dion that way, I was surprised at how well I could hear, and since U2 are much louder, I can hear them fine. AllI'll need are the binocs. And it's right next to/above the stage nosebleeds too. I was desperate to get to the show that was going to be in the place where "City of Blinding Lights" was written, I had been at that show and in the GA too, I was probably one of the "crying"people he cited...and I didn't care were.....(see Bono's interviews for this subject.) And now I have "met" someone on here who I know isn't a broker, who is going to sell me section 100's for first night Jersey. Hopefully. And someone else who has promised to give me any extra tix she has for Boston if her HER friend comes through (as expected.)
All for face value, and these people are so nice they're letting me pay by "insallment plan."
So there are way to get tix, without a broker, if you are desperate. Of course if you MUST have GA's, than there may be no other option. I hope Larry really busts his balls over this, b/c it's Larry I hope he knows we're holding him to a high account, the man has guts to put himself up on the guillotine..but after all, in case we forget, it's HIS band....that's our Lardence
I know what GA is like, I can understand why people are desperate. But for me, after the 9/11 show, it's all downhill. NOTHING compares with that. And I have seen the band 7 times and had a great time at all the other non-GA's, I'm happy.