So, I’m a 50 something girl, born and raised in GA. I love all kinds of music, but blues and soul mixed with rock & roll otherwise known as Southern Rock....has my heart. I live about an hour north of Macon, GA which is the home of the Allman Brothers. They definitely are a favorite of mine. Dickey Betts was their lead guitar for most of the time the band was together, save for a couple of weird years. He passed away in April of last year at 80 years old. His son has put together a tribute concert with Warren Haynes, Derek Trucks, Jaimoe, Chuck Leavell, and Oteil Burbridge, Susan Tedeschi, Duane Betts, Devon Allman, Charlie Starr, Jimmy Hall, and Lamar Williams Jr.
I literally got chills when J, my boss, was telling me the lineup of artists. J is one of those that always goes to concerts like this. When he first mentioned it, I told him I’d love to go. He thought I meant with him and kind of him hawed around about it. I could hear him talking to the other partner, M, down the hall…I could literally hear J’s eye roll when he told M that I had wanted to go too. Once J found the presale code, I told him that I could just get my own tickets. He seemed overjoyed about that idea. The problem was though, this concert is at the Macon City Auditorium. It only holds 2688 people.
We both were ready as the presale started. I only needed two, he wanted five though for all of his buddies. After finally getting two tickets in my cart that I could afford ($125 each/$321 for a pair with fees) I hit pay and waited what seemed like an eternity and I finally got the next screen that said, “YOU GOT THEM”. This all literally happened in about 30 seconds to a minute. No lie, it was that fast. I sat there for a second just making sure that everything had gone through. I got up and walked down the hall to find both partners in absolute shock because everytime J went to put the 5 tickets he’d picked in his cart they were gone already. Within 3 minutes the presale was over and sold out. J tried his best not to be mad that I’d gotten tickets and not him, I tried my best not to be too excited in front of him.
The tickets for the general sale went on sale today. J & M had to go to a funeral and I told J I would try to get tickets for him. After sitting there for half hour waiting on the tickets to go on sale, the screen changed and asked for code that was just texted to J. I’m sure the 30 seconds that took (J kept giving me the wrong code) is what kicked me so far back in the cue. When my place in line finally showed up I was 1934th place in line. Needless to say, I could not get tickets for him.
The secondary market prices started around $1000 a ticket after the general ticket sale ended.
Part of me feels really bad, because I would have never been able to even get the chance to go with out buying them at the presale. Another part of me feels a little vindicated after how he acted when he thought he was going to have to have me around for the night.
J’s brother in law ended up buying 2 tickets from Stubhub for $2500 after fees.
The kicker of it all though is that I have no one to go with. I wanted to ask Keith, but I think not. I’ll probably end up going alone & selling my extra ticket on Stubhub for enough to cover both tickets, a new outfit for the concert and all my goodies I’ll want to get at the show. I mean why not…
It’s going to be absolutely EPIC and a once in a life time show!!!
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