At a music festival last year, I eased my way up to the front row to stand right at the rail to watch Robert Earl Keen (who I had not heard of until then, but enjoyed watching nonetheless) just so I could be right on the rail to watch Jerry Lee Lewis, who performed nearly two hours later, greatly delayed by the weather, which was unmerciful that evening - cold, rain, the crowd huddling under plastic tarps that were thrown out from the stage, hypothermia, purple skin - but I much enjoyed the performance!
(Later that night I saw Collective Soul while eating a $4 box of noodles
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So, basically, if that's what I have to do to have a decent seat, then that's jut what I have to do!
By the way, I got my tickets yesterday afternoon: