Crazy concert rules

Was thinking of going to a big blues festival in a few weeks. An all day long outdoor event.

$50 a head, ouch. But ok, I can almost rationalize that.

Then I hit the rules. Among other things, there were these gems: No food or drinks allowed on the grounds, including water. And no reentry under any conditions should you leave the grounds.

Perhaps that's why I'd never heard of it before, and don't know of anyone actually going. I'm almost tempted to contact them and ask if this is for real, or just a very late April fools joke.

Yep, they want you buying $6 bottles of water and $9 beers from their vendors.

It's why the wife and I rarely go to concerts anymore. Only for bands we are BIG fans of.

There is a giant 4 day music festival going on right now, and there are a bunch of the local rock stations there. They keep reporting that you can now bring in one sealed bottle of water and there will be water bottle fillers available for free inside because there are high heat warnings (heat index over 100).

So maybe you'll have really high temps and get to bring in water for free!

I always smuggle the water in anyways. Sometimes beer too.

mtn wrote: I always smuggle the water in anyways. Sometimes beer too.

How? Around here even indoor concerts mean my wife's purse get's searched.

A flask in a sock/boot is about the only way to sneak booze in.

z31maniac wrote:

mtn wrote: I always smuggle the water in anyways. Sometimes beer too.

How? Around here even indoor concerts mean my wife's purse get's searched. A flask in a sock/boot is about the only way to sneak booze in.

Stick the beers in my waistband. I have really fat thighs and often end up getting pants that are too big in the waist just because a lot of pants won't fit over my thighs. So I'll suck in my gut, stick two tall boys in my pants, and make sure my shirt covers it up. Alternatively, my girlfriend has a purse with a secret compartment that will fit about 2-3 cans.

I haven't done that since I was in college though, now I just buy the beer at the venue. I still do it with water bottles though, just because I really do have an issue (aside from me being cheap) with paying $2.00 for a bottle of water.

You use a plastic flask in your sock for booze

Back in the 70's my B-I-law would sneak funny cigarettes in with his normal cigs. Now weed is legal and you can't smoke cigs anywhere.

Datsun310Guy wrote: Back in the 70's my B-I-law would sneak funny cigarettes in with his normal cigs. Now weed is legal and you can't smoke cigs anywhere.

Funny cigarettes have to be the easiest thing to smuggle anywhere as long as there are no funny cigarette smelling dogs around.

I passed on going to a Paul McCartney concert in Atlanta several years ago even though he is on my bucket list because of the concert rules. Essentially you could take in only a blanket since it was in some unique park in Buckhead and there was no local parking. No outside food or beverage and no folding chairs.

Giant Purple Snorklewacker wrote: You use a plastic flask in your sock for booze

http://www.thebeerbelly.com/The_Beerbelly_Product_Line_Up_s/1.htm

Yeah, I have seen it all different ways: can't leave once you're in, free to come and go, can't bring in anything, bring whatever you want. I just roll with it--figure I want to see the show.

whenry wrote: I passed on going to a Paul McCartney concert in Atlanta several years ago even though he is on my bucket list because of the concert rules. Essentially you could take in only a blanket since it was in some unique park in Buckhead and there was no local parking. No outside food or beverage and no folding chairs.

Went to lollapaloozer in 90-something @ Lakewood. They wouldn't even let you bring a berkeleying blanket in. Most people (like myself) were too stoned and/or lazy to walk back to the berkeleying car. There was a stack of blankets probably 20' X 20' X 10' at 10:00AM.

Not a concert, but I went to see a Bears game in the early 2000s(before they ruined Soldier Field). The rule was that you couldn't have a backpack beyond a certain size. Mine was packed full of clothes, cause, you know, Chicago is berkeleying cold in November.

So I took out all the crap, put it on, walked 5 feet passed the rent-a-cop...and put it all back in the bag. Oi!

Just go to the venue beforehand and dig a hole. Insert into that hole, a keg of beer and a tap. Cover with enough soil to conceal it fully but not so much that you need a shovel to uncover it.

The day of the event. Uncover it, but leave it in the hole. Cover it with a blanket and have the hose from the tap potruding thru the blanket and drink directly from the tap.

drsmooth wrote: Just go to the venue beforehand and dig a hole. Insert into that hole, a keg of beer and a tap. Cover with enough soil to conceal it fully but not so much that you need a shovel to uncover it. The day of the event. Uncover it, but leave it in the hole. Cover it with a blanket have the hose from the tap potruding thru the blanket and drink directly from the tap.

Brilliant.

I once got searched before an Offspring show at First Ave back in...200x? Guy wanted me to empty my pockets, wanted to check my smokes, and wanted to see my right shoe. The shoe thing threw me off. Granted I had absolutely nothing smuggled in..... but it was still odd.

I saw a guy with an oxygen tank on a little wheeled cart, complete with hose going up to his nose. He was 45-55, so a bit young, but how you gonna give grief to a guy with emphysema? Walked right past all of the security and ended up sitting close by. Turns out that he was fine, the bottle was full of hootch, and his friends all had mixers for the evening.

If it was a two hour concert, I wouldn't really care, but this is a long all day thing. Their vendor list is short, and all ultra-vegan weirdness. So your supposed to spend a fortune on bad food you don't like.

Forgot too, the tickets. Through one of the somehow legal scalper, where there is a service fee, a convenience fee, a processing fee, a self-printing fee, etc. last time, the "free" tickets I got through them cost me over $20 a head.

drsmooth wrote: Just go to the venue beforehand and dig a hole. Insert into that hole, a keg of beer and a tap. Cover with enough soil to conceal it fully but not so much that you need a shovel to uncover it. The day of the event. Uncover it, but leave it in the hole. Cover it with a blanket and have the hose from the tap potruding thru the blanket and drink directly from the tap.

The marching band at my university used to stash refreshments in some of the covered drains in the football field to avoid detection. I also once pulled a stubby beer bottle out of a sousaphone that wasn't working properly for some reason. This was in the mid-90's. When did they stop selling stubbies?

In reply to Keith Tanner:

They still sell them. Not only that but stubbies lessen the chance that someone who talks with their hands will spill a beer! Around here, only Red Cap and Red Stripe use stubbies.

Also, Legend has it that some attendees of Edenfest Yes the edenfest Website is still Live!!! went to the Mosport 24hour race the week before and buried a keg in the woods. Then under the cover of night very carefully smuggled it back to their tent.

Keith Tanner wrote: When did they stop selling stubbies?

1984 was the last year that they were widely used.

foxtrapper wrote: If it was a two hour concert, I wouldn't really care, but this is a long all day thing. Their vendor list is short, and all ultra-vegan weirdness. So your supposed to spend a fortune on bad food you don't like.

Mere greed is one thing - that makes me want to go wearing a Ted Nugent shirt and Lady Gaga style meat pants just to fight crazy with lunacy.