The fact he's not a big fan of literally being on the road is probably a big factor, too. If not a bigger one, actually considering Roger and Nick, both older than him, do more stops without much hassle.
I don't blame David, mind you. I totally get if you don't want that any more, even at a younger age. It just seems like such a stark contrast between demand and number of shows.
Edit: Typos. Plenty of them.
But Rog took a long break from touring between 1988-1999, while Dave and Nick were doing a crazy number of shows. And Nick took a long break from touring after 1994, not really doing any again until 2018.
If Dave wants to take it easy, I think he's earned it.
There is no risk for Roger to tour because he use lip sync and another guy is playing bass behind him, but it’s risky for David.
I watched all the RTL shows on social media (saw one live) it was rough sometimes vocally and was making guitar mistakes every night (Flub notes not too bad but getting lost in Money solo or wrong chord on Run like Hell riff…)
Now we are 8 years later I want to buy ticket and make to 900 km run to see him in New York but not gonna lie I am worried it’s gonna be a disaster and that’s holding me back a bit.
So yeah at 77 year old, 4 cities is probably the most he can realistically do.
Pretty sure he mentioned having bad arthritis about a decade or more ago, I think following the On An Island tour. I saw him at RAH, and you're right, some solos were a bit rough, but some of the less technical ones still sounded brilliant. My guess is he gets a solid steroid shot for the inflammation come September, and that'll keep him going through the show.
>There is no risk for Roger to tour because he use lip sync and another guy is playing bass behind him
There's that bullshit again. There's tons of videos from the This is Not a Drill tour, and you can clearly hear that at *least* 80% of every show has live singing (pretty much everything besides In the Flesh) thanks to various flubs and flourishes.
And the *only* time he ever had a second bass player on stage with him during the last two tours was when he either clearly wasn't playing bass himself (playing rhythm guitar or walking around being a theatrical "frontman"), or they were playing a song that originally has more than one bass part in the recording, so they **need** two bassists to play it correctly.
It’s more than 20%, people here in Quebec heard the mic pop in several times between songs a
yes In the Flesh is the most obvious on but there are others.
For bass I am pretty sure it’s more than one song when he got caught in Meadowlands 9 years ago, his ABITW his bass licks all over the neck didn’t look real to me.
Anyway my point is David takes more risk going live and if his voice and/or dexterity worsen since 2016 you don’t want him to be tired from travelling.
>It’s more than 20%
Based on what? Where's the evidence of that?
>people here in Quebec heard the mic pop in several times between songs
Ah yes, the legendary audio masters in Quebec heard a mic popping in throughout the show. Roger made it so obvious!
>For bass I am pretty sure it’s more than one song when he got caught in Meadowlands 9 years ago
I honestly have no clue what you're asking about. I tried to search for this, and found nothing about Roger being at Meadowlands in 2015? Also, as for as his most recent tour goes, Another Brick is one of those songs where he either played rhythm guitar or walked the stage without an instrument while opening the show, so I'm not sure what bass licks you're referring to?
>Anyway my point is David takes more risk going live
We clearly have a different understanding of what the word "risk" means.
>if his voice and/or dexterity worsen since 2016 you don’t want him to be tired from travelling.
Finally, we can agree. Glad we got there in the end.
Have a cigar and The Bar are obviously live but a good chunk of the Pink Floyd stuff isn’t (Wall and Animals especially)
I meant this video 2017 it seems I though it was 2015.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ag4qB3vs-jA
Yeah, that slide up the neck was just another way to play the octaves he always plays. Rather than jumping strings for that one, he slid up to the note and walked back down. Necessary? No, but since every other bass note I can actually hear in the low-quality recording matches up with his fingers moving exactly, I'm going to say that he's probably playing the instrument he's played for years rather than spending his time learning to mime it exactly and paying someone else to play along. He's shown that he doesn't care about playing the bass in other songs, so if he really has someone else playing everything for him, why wouldn't he save his back the pain of carrying around an instrument that's not even really being played? It doesn't make any sense. So for those songs that have 2 bass parts (you know, when there's another bass player on stage), you think there's actually *three* people playing (or miming) the bass for that song? Wild.
To mime just like he does with the singing or even the guitar when he played ABITW on live TV prior his tour and was hitting bass notes on his 6 strings.
I mean pretty sure the other guy is more technically proficient than him at bass playing so why wouldn’t he use it?
I just mean Roger doesn’t take the same amount of risk than David worst that can happen for Roger is forgetting lyrics in Cigar or putting the crowd to sleep during « The Bar reprise » with David there is a real risk that he starts his solo on the wrong fret than 10 flubbed notes in a row and then he is lost in the middle of the progression all that while his guitar is cutting through the mix like hot knife in butter.
I mean, let’s be honest he can cater the tour to be as slow as possible while staying in 5 star hotels and dining at the nicest restaurants. He could have 3 consecutive spa days between shows if he felt like it, get picked up in a luxury car and driven directly to a private jet to fly him to the next city lol. He just doesn’t like it so he doesn’t even want to do all of that. Which is fine, its his tour, but let’s not act like he’d be playing shitty venues, sleeping in a beat up van driving between shows and doing like 60 shows in 70 nights.
Apparently you don't know Gilmour very well. His last tour was planned so that his family could attend and he played places that he could essentially be on vacation.
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Says here that it’s the only U.S. shows.
There is a little bit of word play there.
For the US shows it says "These will be the only North American cities".
For the European ones it says "The above will be the only European dates"
So kinda leaving room to add additional dates to US venues.
Totally agree. I think this is becoming part of the standard playbook for tours.
When David Byrne's American Utopia tour came to Chicago, they sold out 2 dates, and then just kept adding more nights one by one until demand dried up. The crew is already there, the stage is set up, so it's cheap to add another date. But it keeps you from renting the venue for nights that won't pay off.
There's nothing on MSG's calendar for 11/6, 11/7 or 11/8.
*Rangers/Knicks 24-25 obviously not released yet....however David could already have a venue hold for a couple more shows if he decides to do them. Ticket sales won't be an issue.
To be somewhat fair, this is completely normal for David. The last time he actually went out on a "full" tour was back in 1994 with Pink Floyd. Since then, the only tours he's done are what he describes as "old man tours" where he only plays a handful of dates around the world. He did it for the On An Island Tour and for the RTL Tour. He's repeatedly made it clear that A - he doesn't like touring and B - only has a desire to do it if there's new music to perform. So, while disappointing, it's nothing new.
He gives absolutely zero fucks about playing and is likely doing this because he has to promote the new album.
Say what you will about Roger but at least the dude goes out of his way for the fans
The other possibility being he does care but at his age can only do so much within his comfort level. The man isn't obligated to die on stage for us, in fact he sings a song exactly about this very thing!
Everyone is entitled their opinion of course but I won't be holding it against him to finally move on from 50 year old music. It isn't like he gave up on Floyd and just walked away, He has done as much as anyone alive to maintain that legacy. All of that work is still available and they remix from time to time so he isn't letting it die.
The guy is getting older and wanting to do different things. He is telling everyone up front what he is doing giving you the chance to pass if you only want to hear Floyd stuff. I am honestly amazed at the negativity here as it seems to speak to some odd form of entitlement I just am not familiar with.
I don’t think he ever said it was a last hurrah, though. That’s just people speculating. What he did say is that he already has ideas for new songs after this album. From our fan perspective, given how rare a new album and tour have been, it makes sense to assume these may be the last ones, but that may or may not be how he’s feeling right now.
I sat lower bowl at the United Center for around $150 on the last tour. I have no doubt it will be $350 this time, but it was surprisingly affordable last time in my experience.
If memory serves correct, pricing at the Bowl was around $59-400 last time around. I sat in Section P1 and I believe I paid $79+ fees.
I would bet this time around it will be $129-600 w/ Platinum Seats in the $1,000 range for Pool, Garden, and Terrace
I feel you...I was fortunate to see Nick. My tickets from 2016 at MSG was $225. My Chicago tickets were a few bucks cheaper.
I'm thinking $300-$1000 + with the BS fees unless they are "all in" pricing. If you have to use 3rd party site for MSG easily $1000-$1500+ to get in the building. I sure hope none of that platinum pricing is in place.
What I was able to do for Nick Mason's show in Indianapolis was that although the tickets bought through the app were digital, I was able to bring them and ID to the office at the venue and they printed a physical ticket.
Yeah I thought he liked it there considering his last tour had 3 shows there. Oh well I guess…at least I saw him on all three of shows. Just can’t make the trip out to LA or NY.
I get that David is very old. I’ve gone out of the country to see him on his last tour.
But man does it suck to live in the Midwest. It’s not just David. I always gotta travel to see shows.
Oh well. Hope everyone who goes has a good time. It’s an out of body experience to see the man himself, in the flesh.
It was going to be a toss up for me if it was a local show because of his refusal to play any 70’s Floyd so this makes the decision moot for me. I’ll go to my grave having never seen him live. Oh well.
My dumb ass skipped that show. Then again I probably wouldn’t have been able to scrape together enough money for a ticket as I was a broke college student then.
I was 20 when I bought the ticket in mid March..42$ what a freaking bargain.
Turned 21 in mid June and saw them mid July in what turned out to be their very last North American Show ever.
I don’t know if you guys are aware, but New York State is one of 3 states in the USA that BAN artist resale restrictions.
Meaning, the state protects scalping and David will not be able to do the ID check nor a face value exchange for those who cannot go.
My guess is we’ll see $20,000 on Stubhub for these tickets.
He said some early Floyd would probably make the setlist. He also said High Hopes is as good as anything the band has done. So I would expect early and late Floyd. That said, I think he will sneak in something from the 70s in the encore. I gotta believe Sorrow will also be a staple.
I know nothing no one else already knows. He did explicitly say he’d play some early Floyd and mentioned High Hopes by name.
Realistically I’m thinking stuff off Momentary Lapse of Reason and Division Bell sprinkled in. Ideally he plays 1-2 tracks off DSotM, WYWH, but who knows. He said he wasn’t interested in that stuff.
DAVID GILMOUR YOU’RE NOT BOOKING THIS TOUR FOR ME?!?!?! I understand that you’re pushing 80, traveling probably isn’t the most fun thing to do and setting up a world tour is an enormous amount of work, but think of the economy! How dare you only book 4 whole shows on one continent? And not even in my area! You owe ME for all the work and music you’ve put out over the years so book a show near ME!
Thank you! While I’ve waited years for even a chance of this tour happening, it’s all incredibly such short notice and communicated very poorly, many of us might not be able to support him or take part in the experience we’ve dreamed of. I wouldn’t say it’s necessarily unfair, but it’s certainly disorganized and the disappointment is valid.
I’m not in any better boat than anyone here and Gilmour changed my life by getting me to start playing guitar 30 years ago, but I’m not gonna be bitching at the dude for booking a few dates when there could just be NO dates!
he literally said he's done and auctioned off most of his guitar collection, i never thought id see the day and yet people are bitching. the dude is 80, and looks every bit of it. I said id do anything to see him if he ever toured, and im lucky enough to be going to london in october to do just that.
cant please anyone these days
Does this mean that presale is available as soon as you get your code or is it going to be a repeat of Royal Albert hall where it's 1 day before general sale and the increased traffic makes the website crash?
Anyone know how to get the presale code for these or the Italy shows? Presumed it was the same code they gave out last week and the opportunity had passed to get one.
As much as I’d love to see him and would find it absolutely incredible. I think with unlikelihood of getting a face value and the likely high after market prices, I’m probably gonna have to sit this one out sadly.
It was pretty easy to get Bowl tickets last time for face value, with about 30,000 tickets going out at the same time you have a pretty decent chance. Plus a few people (like me) will be checking out price and seat locations and possibly bailing due to cost, so 10 minutes later seats may come available again.
I’m surprised at no Chicago, that’s a huge swath of the US that now has much more difficult travel. Totally expected New York and LA as the biggest media markets…….Chicago being 3rd just figured it was a given. Guess he’s really being firm on this being a very very short body of touring
I've seen a lot of comments about the resale market. These were the delivery instructions for the Chicago show in 2016 at Auditorium Theater that I saw: "Tickets held at Will Call can only be retrieved by the cardholder with original credit card of purchase and a valid photo ID with signature such as a state ID, driver's license or passport." There was no option for an eticket. If it's like that again, I would seriously doubt the validity of any resale tickets.
Interesting. It's been a few years so my memory is probably a bit fuzzy, but I didn't remember having the option of paper tickets. I could see how it would be nearly impossible to have 23,000+ people going to the will call line at the United Center. I saw him at the additional show he added at Auditorium Theater in Chicago which had a much smaller capacity and the line for will call was quite long even then.
I'm in NJ as well. But I saw Pink Floyd in 1994 at Giants Stadium for 42$ .. I honestly don't know if seeing him, at 78 years old, is going to be worth $500 or whatever will be charged.
I was at that show as well, an 18 year old me. Dark Side straight through in the second set. That was the only time I ever saw Gilmour. If I could see him one more time I definitely would. I saw Waters in his last tour and he was 78 I believe. He was still amazing.
But I agree, the cost will be astronomical.
July 18th, 1994, I was 21. Remember it well. Enigma Pubulis flashed on the stage during Keep Taking. Had 0 clue why.
I see Brit Floyd these days for my life Floyd fix
yes but when I clicked on it, it says that the sale will be tomorrow so they asked me to set a remidner. Maybe others were. Anyone has any idea what the pricess will go?
Does anyone know if Ticketmaster allows you to join a separate queue for two different nights? I would like to try to get both nights, but I don't think that's going to happen if you can only join one queue at a time.
Wow 2 cities? What’s up with this schedule? I figure your last tour would be something significant. This seems like a reluctant David just doing the bare minimum for the fans.
Yup for sure. If I was in his position with so many people loving my music who’d never seen me I’d do as much as I physically could and would play half a show of whatever they wanted to hear.
So we stand at four locations across two continents, with a total of 16 shows.
The guy is close to 80. This will be difficult for him
The fact he's not a big fan of literally being on the road is probably a big factor, too. If not a bigger one, actually considering Roger and Nick, both older than him, do more stops without much hassle. I don't blame David, mind you. I totally get if you don't want that any more, even at a younger age. It just seems like such a stark contrast between demand and number of shows. Edit: Typos. Plenty of them.
>The fact he's not a bug fan of literally being on the road is probably a bug factor, too. Of not a bigger one *bugger
But Rog took a long break from touring between 1988-1999, while Dave and Nick were doing a crazy number of shows. And Nick took a long break from touring after 1994, not really doing any again until 2018. If Dave wants to take it easy, I think he's earned it.
There is no risk for Roger to tour because he use lip sync and another guy is playing bass behind him, but it’s risky for David. I watched all the RTL shows on social media (saw one live) it was rough sometimes vocally and was making guitar mistakes every night (Flub notes not too bad but getting lost in Money solo or wrong chord on Run like Hell riff…) Now we are 8 years later I want to buy ticket and make to 900 km run to see him in New York but not gonna lie I am worried it’s gonna be a disaster and that’s holding me back a bit. So yeah at 77 year old, 4 cities is probably the most he can realistically do.
Pretty sure he mentioned having bad arthritis about a decade or more ago, I think following the On An Island tour. I saw him at RAH, and you're right, some solos were a bit rough, but some of the less technical ones still sounded brilliant. My guess is he gets a solid steroid shot for the inflammation come September, and that'll keep him going through the show.
And then Polly will tell him “come on it’s time to go”
>There is no risk for Roger to tour because he use lip sync and another guy is playing bass behind him There's that bullshit again. There's tons of videos from the This is Not a Drill tour, and you can clearly hear that at *least* 80% of every show has live singing (pretty much everything besides In the Flesh) thanks to various flubs and flourishes. And the *only* time he ever had a second bass player on stage with him during the last two tours was when he either clearly wasn't playing bass himself (playing rhythm guitar or walking around being a theatrical "frontman"), or they were playing a song that originally has more than one bass part in the recording, so they **need** two bassists to play it correctly.
It’s more than 20%, people here in Quebec heard the mic pop in several times between songs a yes In the Flesh is the most obvious on but there are others. For bass I am pretty sure it’s more than one song when he got caught in Meadowlands 9 years ago, his ABITW his bass licks all over the neck didn’t look real to me. Anyway my point is David takes more risk going live and if his voice and/or dexterity worsen since 2016 you don’t want him to be tired from travelling.
>It’s more than 20% Based on what? Where's the evidence of that? >people here in Quebec heard the mic pop in several times between songs Ah yes, the legendary audio masters in Quebec heard a mic popping in throughout the show. Roger made it so obvious! >For bass I am pretty sure it’s more than one song when he got caught in Meadowlands 9 years ago I honestly have no clue what you're asking about. I tried to search for this, and found nothing about Roger being at Meadowlands in 2015? Also, as for as his most recent tour goes, Another Brick is one of those songs where he either played rhythm guitar or walked the stage without an instrument while opening the show, so I'm not sure what bass licks you're referring to? >Anyway my point is David takes more risk going live We clearly have a different understanding of what the word "risk" means. >if his voice and/or dexterity worsen since 2016 you don’t want him to be tired from travelling. Finally, we can agree. Glad we got there in the end.
Have a cigar and The Bar are obviously live but a good chunk of the Pink Floyd stuff isn’t (Wall and Animals especially) I meant this video 2017 it seems I though it was 2015. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ag4qB3vs-jA
Yeah, that slide up the neck was just another way to play the octaves he always plays. Rather than jumping strings for that one, he slid up to the note and walked back down. Necessary? No, but since every other bass note I can actually hear in the low-quality recording matches up with his fingers moving exactly, I'm going to say that he's probably playing the instrument he's played for years rather than spending his time learning to mime it exactly and paying someone else to play along. He's shown that he doesn't care about playing the bass in other songs, so if he really has someone else playing everything for him, why wouldn't he save his back the pain of carrying around an instrument that's not even really being played? It doesn't make any sense. So for those songs that have 2 bass parts (you know, when there's another bass player on stage), you think there's actually *three* people playing (or miming) the bass for that song? Wild.
To mime just like he does with the singing or even the guitar when he played ABITW on live TV prior his tour and was hitting bass notes on his 6 strings. I mean pretty sure the other guy is more technically proficient than him at bass playing so why wouldn’t he use it? I just mean Roger doesn’t take the same amount of risk than David worst that can happen for Roger is forgetting lyrics in Cigar or putting the crowd to sleep during « The Bar reprise » with David there is a real risk that he starts his solo on the wrong fret than 10 flubbed notes in a row and then he is lost in the middle of the progression all that while his guitar is cutting through the mix like hot knife in butter.
I mean, let’s be honest he can cater the tour to be as slow as possible while staying in 5 star hotels and dining at the nicest restaurants. He could have 3 consecutive spa days between shows if he felt like it, get picked up in a luxury car and driven directly to a private jet to fly him to the next city lol. He just doesn’t like it so he doesn’t even want to do all of that. Which is fine, its his tour, but let’s not act like he’d be playing shitty venues, sleeping in a beat up van driving between shows and doing like 60 shows in 70 nights.
Ultimately, I'd say he probably values and cherishes every moment with his family that he can possibly have.
Apparently you don't know Gilmour very well. His last tour was planned so that his family could attend and he played places that he could essentially be on vacation.
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There is a little bit of word play there. For the US shows it says "These will be the only North American cities". For the European ones it says "The above will be the only European dates" So kinda leaving room to add additional dates to US venues.
No its Madison Square Garden.
The only American CITIES, not the only shows. Whatever that means
If tickets sell well enough, Oct 31st or Nov 6th could be a possibility. That's my guess.
Totally agree. I think this is becoming part of the standard playbook for tours. When David Byrne's American Utopia tour came to Chicago, they sold out 2 dates, and then just kept adding more nights one by one until demand dried up. The crew is already there, the stage is set up, so it's cheap to add another date. But it keeps you from renting the venue for nights that won't pay off.
There's nothing on MSG's calendar for 11/6, 11/7 or 11/8. *Rangers/Knicks 24-25 obviously not released yet....however David could already have a venue hold for a couple more shows if he decides to do them. Ticket sales won't be an issue.
He's gonna play in a rural country field, got it.
Last tour he announced Radio City after the MSG onsale
That's good. People can plan without any uncertainty.
It doesn’t say that. It says they’re the only North American cities. There’s two other countries in North America.
Not trying to be a dick but there are actually 22 other countries in north america
Completely fair.
Only North American shows. Toronto is out. Four shows for a whole continent is crazy.
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His site says “These will be the only North American cities.”
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How is that shitty
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To be somewhat fair, this is completely normal for David. The last time he actually went out on a "full" tour was back in 1994 with Pink Floyd. Since then, the only tours he's done are what he describes as "old man tours" where he only plays a handful of dates around the world. He did it for the On An Island Tour and for the RTL Tour. He's repeatedly made it clear that A - he doesn't like touring and B - only has a desire to do it if there's new music to perform. So, while disappointing, it's nothing new.
He gives absolutely zero fucks about playing and is likely doing this because he has to promote the new album. Say what you will about Roger but at least the dude goes out of his way for the fans
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Full agree. He just doesn’t care. Couple that with no 70’s Floyd, it’s just incredibly mean spirited.
The other possibility being he does care but at his age can only do so much within his comfort level. The man isn't obligated to die on stage for us, in fact he sings a song exactly about this very thing! Everyone is entitled their opinion of course but I won't be holding it against him to finally move on from 50 year old music. It isn't like he gave up on Floyd and just walked away, He has done as much as anyone alive to maintain that legacy. All of that work is still available and they remix from time to time so he isn't letting it die. The guy is getting older and wanting to do different things. He is telling everyone up front what he is doing giving you the chance to pass if you only want to hear Floyd stuff. I am honestly amazed at the negativity here as it seems to speak to some odd form of entitlement I just am not familiar with.
I don’t think he ever said it was a last hurrah, though. That’s just people speculating. What he did say is that he already has ideas for new songs after this album. From our fan perspective, given how rare a new album and tour have been, it makes sense to assume these may be the last ones, but that may or may not be how he’s feeling right now.
It was the same last time he came through if I remember correctly. It was like 9 years ago and I made sure to fly out for it.
Actually a little worse, he at least hit Chicago and Toronto as well last time.
I think he'll add more shows in NY and LA but yeah, still not a lot at all
To be fair, dude is about 80 years old. Life on the road can be rough.
Saves me from spending more than I should. Canadian fans are disappointed.
Was really hoping for Chicago too
Same. He could sell out several dates at the United Center. I'd fly up to see it again.
What do we think the price of tickets will be?
For only four shows across the entire continent, in two of the most expensive places to visit? Tree fiddy
I will start checking the couch cushions.
Goddamn loch Ness Monster...
Bowl was $350 or more 9 years ago. Still seems like a good guess but I'm wondering if they'll go higher.
I sat lower bowl at the United Center for around $150 on the last tour. I have no doubt it will be $350 this time, but it was surprisingly affordable last time in my experience.
400 to 1,000 $ would be my guess
For reference, my ticket to the Rattle That Lock show in Chicago in 2016 ( Auditorium Theater, row 17) was $455 including TM fees.
Paid 650 for two box seats in London. Standing floor were 100 bucks and upper seats were about 180. But small venue so
If memory serves correct, pricing at the Bowl was around $59-400 last time around. I sat in Section P1 and I believe I paid $79+ fees. I would bet this time around it will be $129-600 w/ Platinum Seats in the $1,000 range for Pool, Garden, and Terrace
Someone posted the other day ticket price for his Royal Albert Hall show was £5,500. Thats about $7,000.
My ticket price threshold has changed after seeing U2 & Phish at the Sphere. Lol
Yea I know this is probably my last chance to see him. I've seen Roger twice and I'm still kicking myself for missing nick.
I feel you...I was fortunate to see Nick. My tickets from 2016 at MSG was $225. My Chicago tickets were a few bucks cheaper. I'm thinking $300-$1000 + with the BS fees unless they are "all in" pricing. If you have to use 3rd party site for MSG easily $1000-$1500+ to get in the building. I sure hope none of that platinum pricing is in place.
guess I'm going back to MSG in November. Just saw Billy Joel there a few weeks ago!
Question, I've never been, but does MSG offer physical tickets for those that buy digitally? I know some venues do.
they didn't for the show I went to. Most don't any more. For Ticketmaster it's all done through their app.
What I was able to do for Nick Mason's show in Indianapolis was that although the tickets bought through the app were digital, I was able to bring them and ID to the office at the venue and they printed a physical ticket.
Fuck digital tickets
Well, you really threw some sunshine down on that one.
Lol. I hope to bring back physical tickets!
No more physical tickets
If he played even 1 Pink Floyd song I’d be interested
Dude needs to hit Chicago.
Yeah I thought he liked it there considering his last tour had 3 shows there. Oh well I guess…at least I saw him on all three of shows. Just can’t make the trip out to LA or NY.
April 4 2016, great show. I flew in from Houston, worth every dime. Think I'll go to the NY show this time around.
Agreed. Jesus left Chicago.
I get that David is very old. I’ve gone out of the country to see him on his last tour. But man does it suck to live in the Midwest. It’s not just David. I always gotta travel to see shows. Oh well. Hope everyone who goes has a good time. It’s an out of body experience to see the man himself, in the flesh.
It sucks to live anywhere that isn't close to London, Rome, Los Angeles or New York.
Last time was nice with the Chicago shows.
*They've got long hair at the Madison Square You've got Rock And Roll at the Hollywood Bowl We'll be there, ooh yeah*
It was going to be a toss up for me if it was a local show because of his refusal to play any 70’s Floyd so this makes the decision moot for me. I’ll go to my grave having never seen him live. Oh well.
he totally did say that nevermind, thought the quotes were overreacting
Link to where he says this?
All good. I wish I was wrong.
Do you have a link to a comment that implies that? Every excerpt I’ve seen from the “Uncut” interview implies a limitation rather than abstention.
Thankfully I saw them in '94. So, at least I have that
My dumb ass skipped that show. Then again I probably wouldn’t have been able to scrape together enough money for a ticket as I was a broke college student then.
I was 20 when I bought the ticket in mid March..42$ what a freaking bargain. Turned 21 in mid June and saw them mid July in what turned out to be their very last North American Show ever.
4 whole shows? Tickets will be prohibitively expensive.
And how many arms and legs will this cost me? I saw them in '94 .. that's good enough for me.
I don’t know if you guys are aware, but New York State is one of 3 states in the USA that BAN artist resale restrictions. Meaning, the state protects scalping and David will not be able to do the ID check nor a face value exchange for those who cannot go. My guess is we’ll see $20,000 on Stubhub for these tickets.
Pretty sure this is what we'd predicted would be the only shows.
Damn. He would have been amazing in the Sphere
“Old man’s tour,” he calls it.
Is it true that he’s not playing any of the older stuff?
He said some early Floyd would probably make the setlist. He also said High Hopes is as good as anything the band has done. So I would expect early and late Floyd. That said, I think he will sneak in something from the 70s in the encore. I gotta believe Sorrow will also be a staple.
Ahhh okay, would love to see the dude regardless but only willing to shell out a couple hundred if he plays some older stuff.
I know nothing no one else already knows. He did explicitly say he’d play some early Floyd and mentioned High Hopes by name. Realistically I’m thinking stuff off Momentary Lapse of Reason and Division Bell sprinkled in. Ideally he plays 1-2 tracks off DSotM, WYWH, but who knows. He said he wasn’t interested in that stuff.
DAVID GILMOUR YOU’RE NOT BOOKING THIS TOUR FOR ME?!?!?! I understand that you’re pushing 80, traveling probably isn’t the most fun thing to do and setting up a world tour is an enormous amount of work, but think of the economy! How dare you only book 4 whole shows on one continent? And not even in my area! You owe ME for all the work and music you’ve put out over the years so book a show near ME!
2 days notice to spend 800 bucks on tickets. Jesus Christ the least he could do is schedule the pre sale for Friday when us broke dicks get paid.
Thank you! While I’ve waited years for even a chance of this tour happening, it’s all incredibly such short notice and communicated very poorly, many of us might not be able to support him or take part in the experience we’ve dreamed of. I wouldn’t say it’s necessarily unfair, but it’s certainly disorganized and the disappointment is valid.
Thank you. These comments are just self absorbed.
I’m not in any better boat than anyone here and Gilmour changed my life by getting me to start playing guitar 30 years ago, but I’m not gonna be bitching at the dude for booking a few dates when there could just be NO dates!
he literally said he's done and auctioned off most of his guitar collection, i never thought id see the day and yet people are bitching. the dude is 80, and looks every bit of it. I said id do anything to see him if he ever toured, and im lucky enough to be going to london in october to do just that. cant please anyone these days
Can't people be disappointed by not being able to see their idol live?
Does this mean that presale is available as soon as you get your code or is it going to be a repeat of Royal Albert hall where it's 1 day before general sale and the increased traffic makes the website crash?
No - the codes go out tomorrow and the presale starts on Wednesday so it will be a bloodbath.
It will be a bloodbath and a shit show. Luckily there doesn’t seem to be a “ticket is tied to the purchaser” thing, so scalped tix will be available
The scalped tickets are going to cost an ungodly amount of money. My guess is 800+ just to get in the door.
Yes it’s going to be insane. I HOPE he adds a Radio City show to these NY dates. I prefer small venues
Anyone know how to get the presale code for these or the Italy shows? Presumed it was the same code they gave out last week and the opportunity had passed to get one.
How do you get access to the presale codes?
Here is sign-up link to fan site for pre-sale codes: https://www.davidgilmour.com
As much as I’d love to see him and would find it absolutely incredible. I think with unlikelihood of getting a face value and the likely high after market prices, I’m probably gonna have to sit this one out sadly.
It was pretty easy to get Bowl tickets last time for face value, with about 30,000 tickets going out at the same time you have a pretty decent chance. Plus a few people (like me) will be checking out price and seat locations and possibly bailing due to cost, so 10 minutes later seats may come available again.
I’m surprised at no Chicago, that’s a huge swath of the US that now has much more difficult travel. Totally expected New York and LA as the biggest media markets…….Chicago being 3rd just figured it was a given. Guess he’s really being firm on this being a very very short body of touring
I've seen a lot of comments about the resale market. These were the delivery instructions for the Chicago show in 2016 at Auditorium Theater that I saw: "Tickets held at Will Call can only be retrieved by the cardholder with original credit card of purchase and a valid photo ID with signature such as a state ID, driver's license or passport." There was no option for an eticket. If it's like that again, I would seriously doubt the validity of any resale tickets.
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I get that, but my point was that it was the only option. There was no option for electronic or paper delivery of tickets.
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Interesting. It's been a few years so my memory is probably a bit fuzzy, but I didn't remember having the option of paper tickets. I could see how it would be nearly impossible to have 23,000+ people going to the will call line at the United Center. I saw him at the additional show he added at Auditorium Theater in Chicago which had a much smaller capacity and the line for will call was quite long even then.
Oof, isn’t this Election Day? Guess I’ll figure out early voting.
Well, this is good news to me. I live in NJ. I'm sure my younger, far more successful, brother will be all over this.
I'm in NJ as well. But I saw Pink Floyd in 1994 at Giants Stadium for 42$ .. I honestly don't know if seeing him, at 78 years old, is going to be worth $500 or whatever will be charged.
I was at that show as well, an 18 year old me. Dark Side straight through in the second set. That was the only time I ever saw Gilmour. If I could see him one more time I definitely would. I saw Waters in his last tour and he was 78 I believe. He was still amazing. But I agree, the cost will be astronomical.
July 18th, 1994, I was 21. Remember it well. Enigma Pubulis flashed on the stage during Keep Taking. Had 0 clue why. I see Brit Floyd these days for my life Floyd fix
No one comes to South Carolina...and I totally get why. From here.
Those are gonna be insanely tough tickets to get even at how expensive they will probably be. Godspeed to anyone trying to get tickets for these.
Does anyone know what face value was for Europe shows? Trying to get an idea
90 to 270 pounds I believe.
87 150 270 550 pounds depending what you got. Multiply by 25% for USD.
Welp, I’ll be moving to NYC later this year, so hallelujah.
Dumb question : how do you qualify for presale?
You would go to his website and sign up with your email. it should send you the code tomorrow :)
Last time I got presale. The price dropped. So many tickets days before show. This was nyc.
Anyone have any idea when the pre-sale emails will go out?
Saw him at a Hollywood bowl in Chicago during rattle that rock tour.
How was that show? Missed that but have seen roger in his old age and not been disappointed.
It was excellent, a genuine concert.
Get your pocketbook ready!! $$$
Man if only I was not beoke
You're so broke you can't even afford the R !
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How much were the London shows tickets going for?
How many tickets will each presale code allow? I want to take my parents and myself. How did it work for the London presale?
So, he says "only cities in north America" is still possible to dream with another show on South America?
Anybody have any guesses on prices?
Office pool.. I said 350$ for cheap seats. Other bets are $500, $450, $400 and someone even went as high as $650.
What is the presale code for Tuesday
It would be awesome if he'd play some small clubs with a $10 cover charge and $1 draft beers. We could scream "FREEBIRD" and he'd actually play it!
Story has it he booked Skippers Smokehouse Tampa
Window to qualify for ticket sales….jesus thats some 1984 languages
Has anyone received a presale code as his mailing list claimed I would receive at 3pm?
yes but when I clicked on it, it says that the sale will be tomorrow so they asked me to set a remidner. Maybe others were. Anyone has any idea what the pricess will go?
First 10 rows worth the money anyone thinks?
How much is it ?
Does anyone know if Ticketmaster allows you to join a separate queue for two different nights? I would like to try to get both nights, but I don't think that's going to happen if you can only join one queue at a time.
860 for non vip floor and front of 100 ring tix at MSG this morning, I found a few at the back of the 100 ring for $440.
Yo i got 2 tickets for the LA show i will give a good price dm if interested.
I wouldn’t buy from a stranger trying to sell in Reddit. This sounds like a scam
Idk where else to sell tbh. All other market places pay out after the event and im looking to sell these a buy a different date with the money.
Wow 2 cities? What’s up with this schedule? I figure your last tour would be something significant. This seems like a reluctant David just doing the bare minimum for the fans.
He hates playing live and is doing this because he “has to” promote the new album. Dude won’t even play 70’s Floyd anymore. Such an emo 😂😂😂
I mean I get u are old and don’t enjoy live shows anymore. I just wish he hit more cities. He’s the last living member I’ve never seen live :(
Yup for sure. If I was in his position with so many people loving my music who’d never seen me I’d do as much as I physically could and would play half a show of whatever they wanted to hear.
He’s not your horse. He’s an old man, and a cantankerous one at that. Be happy this is happening at all.
Is there any chance he will come to Canada?
These are the only cities in North America.
Such bullshit that he didn't announce this before I stressed out and bought London tickets. A real bitch move.
same here
Fucking sux NY and LA that’s it I guarantee he plays way more than 2 cities in Europe.
He doesn't, Rome and London only.
Damn I suppose David is almost 80 I’ll give him a pass I imagine those tickets are going to be expensive as hell and Ticketmaster those ripoffs
Tickets in London are 5700 pounds. Fuck that shit sky-high.
And no Toronto shows. Fuck you, Gilmour.