no NYC fest?

[teamhands]

just read this over at another site

http://nypost.com/seven/04182004/business/22815.htm

Concert canned


On Thursday, James F. Lima, president of the Governor's Island Preservation and Education Corporation, and Deputy Mayor Dan Doctoroff, decided to call off a secret plan for a massive Fourth of July weekend concert camp-in with the Dave Matthews Band.

While the proposal was canned because of the logistics of getting thousands of people to and from the island's ferry on a major holiday weekend, other smaller events are not being ruled out for later in the summer.

"This is not like Times Square where a million people can disappear in minutes," Lima said.

[ziggyosk]

thats crazy
maybe i'll get SPAC finally!

[PhildoMurph #41]

Doesn't mean there won't be a festival. It just means that it won't be on Governor's Island. People jump to conclusions too quickly.

[dmbpromoguy]

Unless they had a backup plan in the works (spac is not a back up plan to a festival, I mean another festival location as a backup) than I dont see plans for a festival hapenning this year. Ya think how long its taken them from when they first hinted at the fact they were putting something together to yesterday when we hear it fell through, they need to go back and make up that lost time and start all over again.... unless they had something else as a backup.

Phil, correct me if I'm wrong, but wasnt there some yapping in the WH some guy posting inside festival info and the WH admins removing his posts, it was a while back before I got the boot. Anyway this guy was posting about a Michigan speedway location that he said was booked for 3 or 4 days by DMB, everytime he posted it on the WH boards they would remove his posts. And the WH RARELY removes posts, trust me I know!

[Holemandaddy]

Originally Posted by dmbpromoguy

Unless they had a backup plan in the works (spac is not a back up plan to a festival, I mean another festival location as a backup) than I dont see plans for a festival hapenning this year. Ya think how long its taken them from when they first hinted at the fact they were putting something together to yesterday when we hear it fell through, they need to go back and make up that lost time and start all over again.... unless they had something else as a backup.

Phil, correct me if I'm wrong, but wasnt there some yapping in the WH some guy posting inside festival info and the WH admins removing his posts, it was a while back before I got the boot. Anyway this guy was posting about a Michigan speedway location that he said was booked for 3 or 4 days by DMB, everytime he posted it on the WH boards they would remove his posts. And the WH RARELY removes posts, trust me I know!

spac is the backup to the festival. if the NY thing didnt work out, which it looks like it is not, then they have dates reserved at spac for those 2 days. this according to admin Matt and/or Jake in another thread on this topic

[barefoot]

I would prefer to have a little advance warning on when it is going to be. It would have been easier to decide what shows to goto and make work arangements. Now the rumor is 4th of July weekend but I mean concrete, date and location.

[dmbpromoguy]

Originally Posted by Holemandaddy

spac is the backup to the festival. if the NY thing didnt work out, which it looks like it is not, then they have dates reserved at spac for those 2 days. this according to admin Matt and/or Jake in another thread on this topic

SPAC is simply backup concert dates, not a backup to the festival. Thats what I meant. I know all the rumors about SPAC dates for the two nights, but I mean an actual festival backup. SPAC is more like a NY backup plan, not a festival backup.

[PhildoMurph #41]

Originally Posted by dmbpromoguy

Unless they had a backup plan in the works (spac is not a back up plan to a festival, I mean another festival location as a backup) than I dont see plans for a festival hapenning this year. Ya think how long its taken them from when they first hinted at the fact they were putting something together to yesterday when we hear it fell through, they need to go back and make up that lost time and start all over again.... unless they had something else as a backup.

Phil, correct me if I'm wrong, but wasnt there some yapping in the WH some guy posting inside festival info and the WH admins removing his posts, it was a while back before I got the boot. Anyway this guy was posting about a Michigan speedway location that he said was booked for 3 or 4 days by DMB, everytime he posted it on the WH boards they would remove his posts. And the WH RARELY removes posts, trust me I know!

Yes Ian, I do remember that. Not sure how legit it was, but I take everything with a grain of salt.

EDIT: It does seem odd for the WH to remove the posts though.

[dmbpromoguy]

Originally Posted by PhildoMurph #41

Yes Ian, I do remember that. Not sure how legit it was, but I take everything with a grain of salt.

Yeah I dont know how legit it was either except for the fact that it was the only post ever removed from the WH boards in recent memory besides my reverse seniority stunt. They didnt ever remove any of the other festival theories except for that one. It raised a flag, but thats about it!

While I'm here.... have you got any idea how many seats are in some of the side sections at the Gorge? Neither Ticketmaster or the House of blues customer service have a detailed map, so they couldnt tell me. I've got C row 11 seat 29 for opening night, and the higer the number the farhter to the outsdie edge you are. For some reason I am thinking you've been before and might have some sort of idea.

[Rippy]

Originally Posted by PhildoMurph #41

Yes Ian, I do remember that. Not sure how legit it was, but I take everything with a grain of salt.

EDIT: It does seem odd for the WH to remove the posts though.

how do u know the warehouse took it down?

[Holla9]

I'll take SPAC instead

[PhildoMurph #41]

Originally Posted by dmbpromoguy

Yeah I dont know how legit it was either except for the fact that it was the only post ever removed from the WH boards in recent memory besides my reverse seniority stunt. They didnt ever remove any of the other festival theories except for that one. It raised a flag, but thats about it!

While I'm here.... have you got any idea how many seats are in some of the side sections at the Gorge? Neither Ticketmaster or the House of blues customer service have a detailed map, so they couldnt tell me. I've got C row 11 seat 29 for opening night, and the higer the number the farhter to the outsdie edge you are. For some reason I am thinking you've been before and might have some sort of idea.

Not sure exactly how many seats there would be in row 29, but seat 29 should be in the middle part of the section.

[PhildoMurph #41]

Originally Posted by Rippy

how do u know the warehouse took it down?

Only the WH can remove posts and many people (me included) saw this post and responded to it, then it suddenly disappeared.

[dmbpromoguy]

the author can remove posts too, but he can onlyremove them BEFORE someonse posts a reply in it. And in this case I'm pretty sure people had replied, and as soon as someone replies to a post the only way to remove it is for the prick workin the phones at the WH to remove it.

[ethaxton]

Bring the festival to Charlottesville!

[DMBMike36]

large festivals in close promixity are just too hard to do (just like the ones got cancelled last year due to permit issues). Thats why festivals should take place in the middle of nowhere with everyone camping and plenty of space

[PhildoMurph #41]

Originally Posted by dmbpromoguy

the author can remove posts too, but he can onlyremove them BEFORE someonse posts a reply in it. And in this case I'm pretty sure people had replied, and as soon as someone replies to a post the only way to remove it is for the prick workin the phones at the WH to remove it.

Yeah, it got quite a few replies before it was gone.

[twostepr41]

Governor's Island was a ridiculous idea. How can 100,000 or however many people, get in and out of there if something were to happen that required an evacuation?

[Rippy]

so the warehouse ( as in the fanclub) reads these boards and can take shit down if they want??

[greppson]

no, the warehouse message board on the warehouse site.

[Rippy]

Originally Posted by greppson

no, the warehouse message board on the warehouse site.

ooo ok. so someone supposedly posted about a possible michigan fest?

[Joe M.]

I don't post on the warehouse but don't they remove fake posts that cause bad rumors from the boards. Such as the reverse senority.

[greppson]

score one for joe. i also think they cancel membership.

[PhildoMurph #41]

Originally Posted by PhildoMurph #41

Not sure exactly how many seats there would be in row 29, but seat 29 should be in the middle part of the section.

Sorry Ian, I meant to say row 11, but I didn't see that until I couldn't edit it anymore. I have no clue how many seats there are up that close. Never been up there that close

[dmbpromoguy]

yes they do take off posts and cancel memberships, you are correct yay yay, like I said this michigan post and the reverse seniority post are the only two that I can think of that they have removed in recent memory.

There are posts made every day with bad rumors, and back when this post was made there were daily festival rumor posts, but they singled this one out and left all the rest.

[timmyt23]

Originally Posted by ethaxton

Bring the festival to Charlottesville!

[Fooltothink55]

This is depressing.

[divi0013]

that would have been a cool idea

[texasdmblvr]

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[dmbpromoguy]

Originally Posted by texasdmblvr

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Dont look so sad, its not like you already bought your plane ticket or something