MR

For those of us too young to remember I was just wondering how tour info for styx and other bands were gathered.

Radio announced when tickets were going on sale. You waited overnight in line to get tickets - even in the cold. Fun times, actually.

Besides radio, newspapers were another great source of touring news. Before the Internet days I would watch all the local newspapers and periodicals(Rolling Stone. Billboard, etc.) like a hawk waiting for news of one of my favorites touring.

I was never a member of a fan-club.But my guess would be that information could go through that source.Could be handy if you were following from city to city.Depending of band,maybe you would get mail 2,3 or 4 times a year.
My local papers would only list for Copenhagen a nothing else.

Alan,

Remember "The Phoenix" was pretty much dedicated to music and concert information/ticket releases?

After that it was an overnight at then Ticketron waiting for tickets. Those were the days. Met some great peeps waiting in line, cranking the tunes of whatever band was being released, sharing eclectic stories. Those were the days. Waiting in line was the best. Sometimes better than the concerts.

Ah, the days of 976-Styx....

StyxCollector wrote:Radio announced when tickets were going on sale. You waited overnight in line to get tickets - even in the cold. Fun times, actually.

YEP

Radio, fan clubs, magazines.

Radio, period.
Now, radio doesn't tell you crap unless you want to know about Paris Hilton.

brywool wrote:Radio, period.
Now, radio doesn't tell you crap unless you want to know about Paris Hilton.

And who cares about her

Abitaman wrote:

brywool wrote:Radio, period.
Now, radio doesn't tell you crap unless you want to know about Paris Hilton.

And who cares about her

Spoken like a true fag.

Back then, the only way you could find out who was coming to town was on the ham radio. You had to know the right frequencies, or you'd just get marooned Norwegian tuna fishermen and Neal Sedaka. For twenty cents, you could ride the trolley into town, get a steak dinner and a bottle of cognac, and catch the Styx show, if you didn't mind sitting with the Poles and the Irish in the nosebleed sections. Or you could stand in line for three days in the snow, waiting for some zit-faced punk kid to open the ticket office on Saturday morning. I remember the time we went to Cleveland during the war; the big one...Korea. I wore an onion on my belt....which was the style at the time...you couldn't get those white ones; you could only get those big yellow ones....now where was I....oh yeah, the important thing was I was wearing an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time, you couldn't get those other ones....

The_Noble_Cause wrote:

Abitaman wrote:

brywool wrote:Radio, period.
Now, radio doesn't tell you crap unless you want to know about Paris Hilton.

And who cares about her

Spoken like a true fag.

And yours is wrote a true fag . Good thing I didn't say mine uh, and just wrote it-ERIC

Circus Magazine

when i was 14, i had a little notebook that i wrote
"how to get info for a concert"

1. call record stores/ticket outlets (back then it was ticketron, not ticketbastard)
2. call WBAB rock-line (radio station listing of local shows)
3. newspaper ads
4. local entertainment papers (here, they are Goodtimes & The Island Ear)

that was basically it. i used to call some of the djs and chat with them. they would also tell us what shows were coming and when tix went on sale. in a way, it was easier to get tickets for shows. they were cheaper, and shows didn't seem to sell out immediately like they do now. i remember getting last minute tickets a day or two before the show without any problems. Tix used to be about $15 to sit up in the nosebleeds, which was ok for us younsters who couldn't afford the more expensive ones at that time. and we always bought a t-shirt and wore it to school the next day. I remember the day after the styx PT show, there must have been 20 or 30 kids wearing their PT shirts. unfortunately, THAT show sold out before i got tix. :::pout:::

In addition to regular bland FM radio the old program "Metal Shop" was good for info as well. But most of the time it was various Rock mags as well as radio, I was never a member of a fan club either so I never had that angle. Thankfully I managed to score tickets to all the concerts I wanted to attend. Living close to The Palace of Auburn Hills and Pink Knob I always saw their billboard announcing concerts.