Did anyone try getting Roger Waters tickets?

Against my better judgment, I tried to get seats at the $53 or $78 level, but they all seem sold out.

Yes, got the $78 seats in the upper level. I do not this there we many $53 seats. Should be a good show, since he always puts on a good. Granted, I know that it will not be as good as the Wall show that I went to in 1990 in Berlin that he did.

i was able to pull up seats in all price ranges during the amex presale but decided not to buy any.  i've given myself a challenge instead: i'm going to this show only if i can score tickets on the cheap, the week before the show.

i tried this morning but had no luck, I'll apply sweetcell's strategy though, we'll see…

I know someone that might be able to get me tickets, so I'm going to try through him.


A month later, Waters is playing in Philly for two nights with a 5 day gap in between his NJ and Philly show. So I'm guessing a 2nd night could be added in DC for that timeframe.

runwhiteyrun06 wrote:
I know someone that might be able to get me tickets, so I'm going to try through him.


A month later, Waters is playing in Philly for two nights with a 5 day gap in between his NJ and Philly show. So I'm guessing a 2nd night could be added in DC for that timeframe.

I wouldn't count on it.. DC has historically been a one night town.

Not a fan. But I was looking on craigslist for ticket to something else, and found this:

http://washingtondc.craigslist.org/doc/tix/1733533768.html

Does that help?

the wall was a hugely influencial album for me in my teens and i'd really like to go to this show… but for once i don't think it's worth as much as the artist/promoters/etc think it's worth.  getting a last-minute ticket will add to the excitement, and will be a way to challenge my streak of not being denied a show. 

runwhiteyrun06 wrote:
A month later, Waters is playing in Philly for two nights with a 5 day gap in between his NJ and Philly show. So I'm guessing a 2nd night could be added in DC for that timeframe.

i'd love for this to happen (would make getting a ticket on the cheap easier) but unlikely.  if they're going to do a second date, they'd most likely do it immediately before or immediately after the current date.  but who knows, stranger things have happened.

I went to see him at Montage Mountain years ago and it was one of the best shows I've ever seen, despite, or because of, a huge storm throughout most of the show.  I would highly recommend going to see him.

I could pull only the $253 "Limited View" seats and a couple on the floor at the back. He's just added dates in Boston, East Rutherford, Ft. Lauderdale, Long Island, New York, Montreal, San Jose and Toronto, so DC may get another.

wow . . . i guess my thoery in the hey seth thread was way wrong.  glad i got presale tickets!!

Pink Floyd was a top-3 band for me in high school and I had the opportunity to see Waters in my hometown in 99. Back in the day when you could wait outside arenas to get the best seats, I camped out the night before and got a pair of third-row (still the best "seats" I've ever had at an arena show) for $25 each (amazing). I was much bigger into WYWH and Animals than the Wall, but it would be cool to see the whole album played. He also played some of his solo stuff at the show, which is really good. As far as I can remember, he also had a nice light show. Pigs was by far the highlight of the night for me.

I know album sales aren't the driver of finances anymore, but it is still mindblowing to see how ticket costs have increased astronomically in a decade. Like many people much older than me, I feel fortunate to have been able to see Waters before tickets became unaffordable for your normal part-time working high school kid.

i went insane and battled years of deep, delicious depression in my youth . . . all while listening to the wall over and over and over.  then some dark side, but always back to the wall.  i remember the first time i saw the movie.  geldolf became my inner deamon to stroke and keep as a pet.  i just had to see this concert, and i know roger counted on people like me to pay those prices.  i think i'll go shave off my eyebrows now.

The Wall was on tv last night.  I saw it for the first since early high school. It's really not a good movie: it lacks any subtlety and every image is just a vagina.

runwhiteyrun06 wrote:
The Wall was on tv last night.

i watched a bit of it as i was flipping through the channels… it was on fuse, i think.

It's really not a good movie: it lacks any subtlety and every image is just a vagina.

maybe that's why i had chills….

They had the strangest pre-sale on rogerwaters.com..  If they picked your name for the presale, you had the option to buy a ticket that is located in 10-15 different sections.  You buy the ticket now, they tell you your actual seat location in a few weeks.  All the sections were decent so I guess any will be ok, just weird how they did it.

i'm not finding the answer to this question anywhere . . . is this going to just be roger (and whoever else) singing the songs of the wall back to back with a screen behind them showing images, or is this going to be a full on production like they did in berlin (building the wall, planes, huge puppets)?  it would seem with so many dates, something like the latter would be hard to pull off so many times.  but if u2 can cart around their sets, i guess it can be done.  perhaps this is why the tickets were so high.

I'm under the impression this is going to be the full-on Wall show, with the puppets, collapsing wall stage, the whole bit.  If you look at the VCtr seating chart you can see the size of the stage, it chops off a good third of the arena.  I expect Roger will give us the whole mega-show, at these prices, and also as one last hurrah.

Thousand wrote:
I was much bigger into WYWH and Animals than the Wall.

Exactly.  Resurrect the band and basically perform the '77 tour all over again and I'll pay $500 to see it. It'll never happen, of course.

Roger Waters & a back-up band playing the Wall just doesn't cut it.

StoneTheCrow wrote:

Thousand wrote:
I was much bigger into WYWH and Animals than the Wall.

Exactly.  Resurrect the band and basically perform the '77 tour all over again and I'll pay $500 to see it. It'll never happen, of course.

Roger Waters & a back-up band playing the Wall just doesn't cut it.

Certainly not with Richard up in the Great Gig in the Sky