Hi, everybody --
Patty from Maryland here, mostly lurking on this list nowadays, but I was
so active back in the 1990s....
I really, really wish I could be at tonight's gig at Silver Spring,
Maryland (the "DC" show), but I badly overestimated the availability of
tickets. When the Oils played DC's 9:30 Club in November 2001, I just walked
up to the box office and paid my $25 or whatever and got right in. Same with
the 2002 show in the same place.
And a friend of mine has had awesome luck getting tickets to Springsteen
and U2 concerts over the last 10 years or so. I used to think those tickets
were ungettable.
So I was just blindsided by how fast this U.S. tour sold out, especially
since the friend who is good at obtaining concert tickets had said, "Uh, who's
Midnight Oil?" And I don't have money for jacked-up prices on the secondary
market or travel to distant cities. Sadly, the economy has not been kind to
me. I haven't had a permanent job in six years.
As a fan since 1988, I really, really wish I was rocking out at the
Fillmore tonight. Maybe in some alternative universe of reality.
Back to lurking,
Patty the Powderworker
