Hero? Nahh…
Published July 24th, 2003 in UncategorizedI just got this message from John. It went out to a list of, ohh 70 people or so. Too funny!
Radiohead - My hero Chad WestSpecial People,
This past Sunday morning at 10:00am I was on my computer along with my roommates and other friends pressing refresh every 2 seconds on ticketmaster’s website, trying to get reserved seats for the radiohead concert in Sept.(at Shoreline, 1 mile from my house) that were just going on sale. I also was on the phone to Ticketmaster at the same time, even calling the VA number to ensure I could get through. Well….I got through and at 10:00am and 5 seconds all of the reserved seats were sold out. Needless to say I was pretty upset. I then went to try to get tickets at waste.uk.com, radiohead’s fan club website which always gets a premium allotment of reserved seats for Radiohead’s fans which went on sale the next day. Pressing refresh every 5 seconds as soon as they went on sale and yes,…once again…sold out before I could get through.
Then, this morning at 6:30 am I get a call on my cell phone. At first I thought it was a telemarketer or someone on the east coast telling me either really bad or really good news. There on the other end was my good friend, Chad West, telling me that Waste.uk.com had just released another, non-announced allotment of radiohead reserved seats on their website (face value of course)! As it was so early, none of the west coast fans had heard the news so I woke up my roommates and by 6:45 we had snatched up 20 reserved seats for the show! (as you can only order 4 per person/per address, we had them sent to our work adressess and Joe Hilger bought some for me back east! (Thanks Joe!)
So in summary, the old saying “early to bed, early to rise” really paid off for my new hero, Chad West, and for that I owe him forever. For the rest of you non-motivated radiohead fans, we’ll have some extra tickets. BUT, you’ll have to convince me of your love for the band cause here is what the going rates are on the free market!
CHANCO
What are your tickets like? I am going to the SLC show next month. Not much problem getting them. I guess the Mos are down with Radiohead.
I’m not sure yet, they are just “reserved”. I don’t find out where the seat placement is until they send the tickets.
I bought them from the Radiohead site, which means they are the ones which ClearChannel gave to York and the gang to sell on their site w/o all the lame fees.
Right now all I know is that I won’t be fighting for a “good” spot in the lawn…