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Gold tickets will be lower tier elevated seating I'd imagine.

DITD will be a heap of fun. If he plays I'm Goin' Down I am gonna go fvckin' berserk.

DOes that site have audio downloads available? Just downloaded one of the best sounding shows I have heard (The Goteborg one where ha played Jungleland for the first time since Clarence's death).
 
From the same article ^^

Puts some perspective on $212.


The run of tragedy, debility, and erosion has seemed relentless in recent years. Nils Lofgren has had both hips replaced, and both his shoulders are a wreck. Max Weinberg has endured open-heart surgery, prostate-cancer treatment, two failed back operations, and seven hand operations. The morning after a concert, he told me, he feels like the Nick Nolte character in the football movie “North Dallas Forty”: bruised and barely able to move. Lofgren has compared the backstage area to “a MASH unit,” with ice packs, heating pads, Bengay tubes, and masseuses on call. More alarmingly, Jon Landau, Springsteen’s manager and closest friend, was recovering from brain surgery.
There have been deeper, permanent losses. In 2008, Danny Federici, who played organ and accordion with Springsteen for forty years, died of melanoma. Springsteen’s body man on tour, a Special Forces veteran named Terry Magovern, died the year before. Springsteen’s trainer died at the age of forty.
The most shocking loss came last year, when Clarence Clemons, Springsteen’s saxophone player and onstage foil and protector, died of a stroke. Clemons was a colossus—six-four, a former football player. As a musician, he possessed a raspy tone reminiscent of King Curtis. He was not a great improviser, but his solos, painstakingly scripted over long hours in the studio with Springsteen, were set pieces in every show. Then, there was his sheer stage presence. Clemons gave Springsteen a mythic companion who embodied the fraternal spirit of the band. “Standing next to Clarence was like standing next to the baddest ass on the planet,” Springsteen said of him in tribute. “You felt like no matter what the day or the night brought, nothing was going to touch you.”
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Read more: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/07/30/120730fa_fact_remnick#ixzz2EdxDdm4k
 
and this...

My mom, she was a secretary, and she worked downtown. . . . And my father, he worked a lot of different places. He worked in a rug mill for a while, he drove a cab for a while, and he was a guard down at the jail for a while. I can remember when he worked down there, he used to always come home real pissed off, drunk, sit in the kitchen. At night, nine o’clock, he used to shut off all the lights, every light in the house, and he used to get real pissed off if me or my sister turned any of them on. And he’d sit in the kitchen with a six-pack, a cigarette. . . .He’d make me sit down at that table in the dark. In the wintertime, he used to turn on the gas stove and close all the doors, so it got real hot in there. And I remember just sitting in the dark. . . . No matter how long I sat there, I could never ever see his face. We’d start talking about nothing much, how I was doing. Pretty soon, he asked me what I thought I was doing with myself. And we’d always end up screaming at each other. My mother, she’d always end up running in from the front room crying, and trying to pull him off me, try to keep us from fighting with each other. . . . I’d always end up running out the back door and pulling away from him. Pulling away from him, running down the driveway screaming at him, telling him, telling him, telling him, how it was my life and I was going to do what I wanted to do.
At the end of the story, an entirely accurate one, Springsteen would segue into “It’s My Life,” by the Animals, a spine-jangling declaration of independence. In Springsteen’s voice, it was a declaration of independence from a household in which threats were shouted, telephones were ripped off the wall, and the police were summoned.
Doug Springsteen was an Army driver in Europe during the Second World War who came home and seethed at his crabbed circumstances. Van Zandt told me that Springsteen’s father was “scary” and best avoided. In those days, “all fathers were scary,” Van Zandt said. “The torture we put these poor guys through, when you think of it now. My father, Bruce’s father—these poor guys, they never had a chance. There was no precedent for us, none, in history, for their sons to become these long-haired freaks who didn’t want to participate in the world they built for them. Can you imagine? It was the World War Two generation. They built the suburbs. What gratitude did we have? We’re, like, ‘F you! We’re gonna look like girls, and we’re gonna do drugs, and we’re gonna play crazy rock and roll!’ And they’re, like, ‘What the f did we do wrong?’ They were scared of what we were becoming, so they felt they had to be more authoritarian. They hated us, you know?”


Read more: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/07/30/120730fa_fact_remnick#ixzz2Edy3Hybe
 
So for Hanging Rock... You can get a train from Melbourne city to Woodend no problems, and then there's a free shuttle bus service from Woodend to Hanging Rock throughout the day.

The question is - will they run extra trains back to Melbourne city from Woodend afterwards? Because from what I can see the last one runs at 9.30pm. And I don't particularly want to leave half way through E Street Shuffle..!
 

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Sweet! Im a Barnes fan. Saw him live at the Australian open a few years back and he was fantastic!

The DVD talk is interesting too!

Starting to get nervous about tix now. I've gotta by them from work and I can just se someone coming up to me with some annoying bs right on midday!
 
DrVanNostrand said:
Cold Chisel would have been a dream, Barnes solo not so. If this artificially populates the crowd with a ton of drunk bogans, I'm not going to be happy. Elvis Costello is here during February doing similar venues, would have been a great fit.

Everyone got their Ticketek and Ticketmaster accounts sorted out... :thumbsu:
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They're sorted yes, but I am still a bit panicky. I am logged in, but where do we go?
 

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RLA seating plan

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RLA seating plan

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Well done @Cruffy14

A,B,C look shit for what you are paying...D E F look okay cos they are tiered at least but you will be a long way back from the stage.

8,9 and 17-18 would be ideal bays for seats IMO.

Still think standing is best bet for up front.
 

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