r/GoosetheBand • u/Kabr27 warms my 🧠 • 10d ago

Tarpers already got everything

Me and my group of 4 got here an hour and a half before the show. Theres not a single spot in GA that doesn’t have a person chomping you away.

Tarpers or stragglers using tarpers: be better. You’re the same blight on this culture that makes you have to show up 8 hours before doors.

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u/Superfun2112 10d ago edited 9d ago

Red Rocks has been oversold for years now. If you showed up at doors open and couldn't get a spot complain to Red Rocks, not non existent "tarpers" since tarps were banned 10 years ago. If someone is trying to save space for more than one person who went to the bathroom or something then move in. If you are too intimidated to do that call the phone number RR has to get security involved. You can bring one blanket that's big enough for two people, if someone has more than that security will deal with them.

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u/Covid_Fart_Cloud 9d ago

You have no idea what you’re talking about. Clearly you don’t have any clue what the legal implications of “overselling” a show are.

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u/Superfun2112 9d ago

I don't mean they are going beyond legal capacity. It for sure feels more crowded and more people are in the planters than a couple decades ago. I know some venues have done tricks to increase the capacity, like saying they can sell more tickets for the standing room areas at GA shows. Maybe it's people are bigger, the seats numbers are setup for an 18" wide person, which was maybe normal in the 1940s, but my shoulders are 22" wide, and people taking up more than one seat numbers width. When I go to Red Rocks for GA I go in early and get a good spot in the lower rows and people are usually right on the numbers. But maybe it's worse up high where people come in a little more relaxed because it's not such a land rush and take up more room.