October 25 - Tampa, FL @ St. Pete Times Forum

[jarmo]

Tickets. $39.75, $49.75 and $76.75 (On sale: Saturday, September 16, 2006 at Noon)

Board members attending: BigChrisSpirito, Charity Case, damienthetaz, darketernal, Guns N Fabers, IloveGnR, jtopicz1, Khalista, kujo, SLCPUNK, stinkfist


Setlist: Welcome To The Jungle, It's So Easy, Mr. Brownstone, Live And Let Die, Robin Guitar Solo, Sweet Child O' Mine, Knockin' On Heaven's Door, You Could Be Mine, Piano Jam, Dizzy Piano Solo, The Blues, Better, Band Introductions, Richard & Robin Guitar Duet (Beautiful), Out Ta Get Me, Piano Moving Jam, November Rain, Ron Guitar Solo (Don't Cry), My Michelle (with Sebastian Bach), Used To Love Her, I.R.S., Patience, Nightrain

Encores: Chinese Democracy, Paradise City

[damienthetaz]

Count me in!

[BigChrisSpirito]

I'll be there

[darketernal]

I?m definitely going. I can?t wait to finally see them live.?

[Kujo]

This one too.

[Missbrownstone]

This is my first post on here so please be gentle with me.?

I am from the UK....? and am considering flying out for the Tampa Gig? ? We have looked into flights (kinda expensive but hey) ... We were just wondering how far The St Pete Forum Times is from Tampa Airport?

Will it mean an expensive Taxi Ride?? If so any ideas how much?? Can we get a bus? And anybody know of any cheap accomodation that's nearby?

We have seen GnR 3 times already this year whilst in the UK... it's my Sisters 30th at the end of September and I thought this would be a great gift (something to remember)

Any tips and comments would be appreciated XxX

[stinkfist]

I'll be there!


St. Pete Times Forum is very close to the Tampa Airport.  Maybe a 15 min drive.  I would say about $25 cab ride or so.  Channelside is walking distance from the Forum as well.  So plenty of bars / clubs to party at after the concert.  There is a hotel "Marriott Waterside" next to the Forum ($260 USD a night).   I hope that helps.

[Missbrownstone]

I'll be there!


St. Pete Times Forum is very close to the Tampa Airport.? Maybe a 15 min drive.? I would say about $25 cab ride or so.? Channelside is walking distance from the Forum as well.? So plenty of bars / clubs to party at after the concert.? There is a hotel "Marriott Waterside" next to the Forum ($260 USD a night).? ?I hope that helps.

Thanks for that?

$260 a night?? hmmm? thats kinda more than I wanted to pay, plus we will be there for 4 nights... Flights are coming out at approx ?550.00 GBP per person? Plus the price of the tickets... Maybe we could sleep on the street like a couple of urchins!!!!

Anybody else want to make a sugestion?

[Kujo]

Look around the surrounding areas like Brandon. Might be a bit further to the venue but the hotels will be cheaper.

[SLCPUNK]

Look around the surrounding areas like Brandon. Might be a bit further to the venue but the hotels will be cheaper.

I know of a nice empty house that is just sitting there................

[SLCPUNK]

Count me in.

[Missbrownstone]

Look around the surrounding areas like Brandon. Might be a bit further to the venue but the hotels will be cheaper.

I know of a nice empty house that is just sitting there................

Gimme the address!!! 

[MisterSaintLaurent]

I'm definitely going to the South Florida show and plan on going to this one as well, but may go to the Jacksonville show instead of this one if I can get in on the pre-sale.

[SLCPUNK]

Ticketmaster seems to be down.........I can't get it on IE or Firefox. Anybody else?

[jtopicz1]

I'll be making the short drive from Tarpon Springs to this one!! Should be a great show, let's hope they fill it up!! Lots of HEAVY radio promotion here. 102.5 is giving away tickets, playing ads, and playing Gn'R just about every hour!!

I've been a fan for 15 years and have never seen them live until this year! Now I'll have May 14th in new York, and Tampa and Estero all in one year. It's a good year to be a Gn'R fan right??

Have Fun!!

 Jim

[BigChrisSpirito]

We'll be staying over night at the downtown Hyatt... anybody looking to party after the show with me and lorrie is welcome to join us as we'll be for sure hitting 2001 that night for some after hours fun.  My bro from high school Damien the Taz should be with us too... all in all it should be an awesome night

Chris

[damienthetaz]

DId anyone else get screwed by ticketmaster on this? I used the presale got tenth row on the floor. Now they're saying the floor is general admission???

[damienthetaz]

What a crock!!!!!!
 Did anyone else get floor tickets the morning of the presale?
 Because they have changed the floor seating... it's all gen admin now. I feel bad if anyone had kick ass seats . I was stoked I had tenth row. Now I got tot fight and push my way to the front.

What's crazy is A_holes are selling their tickets they obviously got through the pre-sale on ebay for like $800. The dumb people that buy them will have no idea they have changed it to gen admin

[SLCPUNK]

You have to be fucking kidding me!

[SLCPUNK]

DId anyone else get screwed by ticketmaster on this? I used the presale got tenth row on the floor. Now they're saying the floor is general admission???

When I first put in "best available" I got GA tickets. Which I found very confusing. Then I put in for seats and got 7 tickets with assigned seating. I don't believe they would change it after selling seats like this. Maybe there is some sort of glich with TM?

edit: I checked and it looks like they changed it. Those stupid mother fuckers. I bought 7 tickets for friends and told them 11th row center. Now I'm going to look like a dumbass. None of them are going to want to pay that for GA. TM sucks my ass!

Next day Edit:

Venue and TM now confirm this. A big FUCK YOU out to TM on this one. What a bunch of losers. So far all my party is cool with GA, but I feel like an idiot for bragging to them about the "seats" I got. Scalpers are shit outa luck too, hahaha