Police & John Mayer Concerts
by
Lars Hindsley
on Sat 21 Jul 2007 06:51 PM EDT
Thursday and Friday evening I was invited to two concerts. My date/friend and I had a great time where we met up with other friends, met strange characters and witnessed some silly behavior to put it mildly. I won’t go on about us, I’d rather tell you about the concerts.
Thursday night’s concert was the Police at Citizens Bank Park where the Philadelphia Phillies baseball team calls home. I was wondering right off where the group would play and how people would be allowed on the field, as we walked up to the stadium I saw hundreds of plastic narrow pallets stacked, I thought to myself those must be extra from placing over the ball field. Sure enough when we got in the entire ball field was covered by these pallets. I commented that the seats at floor level must be expensive and my date told me there were in the neighborhood of $200.00. Whatever the price they were the best seats as all the stadium seats where just plain far from a good view of the musicians. It was a good thing they had closed circuit video cameras and huge projections screens.
The concert stage was in center field facing home plate. Our tickets were off to the side of home plate. Good seats but as we approached them I saw that there we had an obstructed view of the concert stage. I mentioned this to our seating attendant and she said check our seats out before we took it further. We sat down and I was very sure we had a blocked view. I sought out a representative of the concert and he agreed we needed something better. We ended up with new tickets ... more »
