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Posted by phreek on Oct-15-2005 20:06:

I've read enough bullshit about ticket prices. Honestly I think it's Pure thats screwing people over on ticket prices on this one. To see Armin at Bleu in detroit (MUCH smaller than Vision) you'll only pay like $25. I think the last time I saw him there my ticket was a little under $30 with the groovetickets fees. So enough about "Tiesto Jr" or how much it costs to bring Armin in, because in the end you're takin it up ass from Pure...


Posted by glass on Oct-15-2005 20:40:

as usual I'll see you all up by the booth


Posted by Omicron2005 on Oct-15-2005 23:06:

Ticket Prices

Here's what I don't understand: I bought my ticket for tonight's AvB concert on wanttickets.com. The prices, at the time that I bought them were $36 for standard, and $72 for VIP. Today, I've checked it again, and the prices are now $41 and $81. Now here's the interesting thing: On Relode.com, they're advertising VIP tickets for $70. What's the deal with that?

Links? I got 'em:
[[ LINK REMOVED ]]


relode.com


Posted by RJT on Oct-16-2005 01:35:

You kids have fun tonight...


Posted by Spliph on Oct-16-2005 01:44:

quote:
Originally posted by glass
Got my ticket , I'm in


+1

and.. i have 1 extra, if anyone needs one, i have one left over for $30..... i won't be on, but sms me on: 708-296-9176


Posted by UWM on Oct-16-2005 08:24:

Hope y'all are having fun.


As shocking as it might be to some of you, my best clubnight ever was Armin 8.30.2003

He can bring it when he wants to


Posted by ctprincess on Oct-16-2005 15:08:

quote:
Originally posted by UWM
Hope y'all are having fun.


As shocking as it might be to some of you, my best clubnight ever was Armin 8.30.2003

He can bring it when he wants to


same here - 8.30.03 is still one of the most memorable gigs for me, but armin didn't bring it last night (at least not for me). but then again, i don't think he can bring it for me anymore cuz i find most of his tracks to be boring.

if i wasn't working last night there was no way i was making it out - i felt like a trainwreck from leeeeeeeeeee. but worked from 10 - midnight (or so) - the presale line was already around the block when i showed up at 10 - craziness - and i don't think anyone that i helped with tickets spoke english. armin sure does have a following with a lot of eastern european peeps - my russian friend was translating for me the entire night - lol.

funny story - this one guy asks my friend if he can help to get him in for $100, my friend responds "why don't you just go in the cash line up against the building - it's only $45." IDIOT!

anyways - after working some of us workers got some food and drink (excalibur has some excellent chicken fingers!) and i headed up to the club, which was as packed as i've seen it. they tried to make the side room/lounge dark so that you felt that you were in a club more than a lounge - which was nice. the club still looks absolutely fabulous with the halloween decorations and there were even slut cages on the stage with clubbers inside - i'm sure armin loved that touch to the club - women in cages dancing - what more could a dj want?

there was no way i was getting on the dancefloor, so headed up to the dj booth and (shocker!) found glass and d&g girl. i think armin came on about 1:15 or so...the only tracks that i can ID is some remix of Who is Watching (which was really good!). decided to leave around 3 am - the horrible remix of message in a bottle came on and i knew it was time to leave - it was way too crowded and hot - no real room to dance and have a good time. and considering that only about 1 of every 3 or 4 tracks peaked my interest it wasn't worth staying. so i was all nice and comfy in my princess bed by 3:30.

hope the rest of you who went had a good time - i wish i could go to a trance event that wasn't fuckin' packed - i think i may still have a good time, but when you're being pushed and shoved and have no room to dance i just can't handle that anymore. at least at leeeeee there as no problem with finding room to dance.

BRING ON SANDER K!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Posted by glass on Oct-16-2005 16:08:

Review to come soon

But first were was James last night ?


Posted by phreek on Oct-16-2005 16:43:

I was kind of disappointed in Armin's performance. I KNOW he trainwrecked at least once and his mixing just seemed downright sloppy. Other than that I had a great time and I got to meet some new TAs.


Posted by _Nut_ on Oct-16-2005 17:17:

quote:
Originally posted by UWM
Hope y'all are having fun.


As shocking as it might be to some of you, my best clubnight ever was Armin 8.30.2003

He can bring it when he wants to


Word. Its even better when we can relive it at any notice.


Smiles for bootlegs!


Posted by UWM on Oct-16-2005 17:45:

quote:
Originally posted by ctprincess
so headed up to the dj booth and (shocker!) found d&g girl.


Surprise of the night!


Posted by ctprincess on Oct-16-2005 18:18:

quote:
Originally posted by phreek
I was kind of disappointed in Armin's performance. I KNOW he trainwrecked at least once and his mixing just seemed downright sloppy. Other than that I had a great time and I got to meet some new TAs.


yeah - for the short time that i was there, his mixing was kind of off - which is unusual for armin. i think there were problems with the mixer, decks etc. - something was definitely wrong in the booth. but, even after those problems were fixed, there were a couple of times that i felt that i was on the titanic.


Posted by tubularbills on Oct-16-2005 18:26:

quote:
Originally posted by ctprincess
yeah - for the short time that i was there, his mixing was kind of off - which is unusual for armin. i think there were problems with the mixer, decks etc. - something was definitely wrong in the booth. but, even after those problems were fixed, there were a couple of times that i felt that i was on the titanic.


that's kind of a shame. i remember when armin was @ vision back in may [http://www.tranceaddict.com/forums/...threadid=266839], the response on here afterwards was freakin' outstanding [that night did kick a lot of ass].

kind of disappointing not to see that same level of excitement. i always liked hearing how great of a time people had.


Posted by RJT on Oct-16-2005 18:47:

Looks like we picked the right Armin show to miss...

Also glad to see that the first review was from Kristen...

Only seems appropriate....


Posted by ctprincess on Oct-16-2005 18:52:

quote:
Originally posted by DJ RJT
Looks like we picked the right Armin show to miss...

Also glad to see that the first review was from Kristen...

Only seems appropriate....

cuz i was the first to leave the club - got a good 8 hours of sleep - i feel absolutely terrific today!


Posted by lucas ss on Oct-16-2005 19:25:

i got there around 10:45 and had to wait in the presale line

i actually had a great time last night. i spent a good amount of time on the dancefloor, and they really had the dBs cranked, cuz now at 2:00 the following day, my left ear is still ringing i was a little disappointed in the track selection....i kept waiting for some tracks that had an edge to them, but it was still "good trance" throughout the night. i thought the mixing was okay. yep, there was the one obvious trainwreck. i think a little more blending would have been appropriate for the tracks being played. the place was packed....the "2nd dancefloor" was in full use (although the xecutinoers ball video loop got old very fast)...yet it was still easy to get around and people were polite. there was a lot of energy from the crowd...a lot of "armin! armin!" as 5 am drew near. he was soaking it up...had a smile on his face for most of the night. there were 2 encore tracks played.....

personally, it was the best time i've had @ vision...

kew to run into phreek and jeniferene


Posted by Spliph on Oct-16-2005 20:35:

WEll... since you all area already posting up I feel i should say a few things... tired as hell... just woke up

I'm happy to see that others felt the same way about the night....I think some of the things that got fucked up were:
-RJ and Erik K playing some of Armin's fav's tracks...
-they pumpin up the crowd TOO much so there was not much energy in the crowd after 3 (you can see this by looking on the sides of the 2nd floor....) and that is why Armin played some tracks to make the crowd breath a bit
-there were how many polacks there? they all seemed to push and shove, which i dont mind TOO much since it was a placked place but when some random drunken mafioso's keep on bumpin in to you, even after you politely ask them not to keep bumpin into you..then that gets annoying..
-the sound levels!?!? grrrrr, there was something wrong...seriously... I heard it clip a few times and the rumble of the bass was just soo not clear.... plus if you were on the stage (by the cages) you could hear the reverb of the speakers....
-as armin was about playmo in the encore, the f00kin cdj wasn't workin... :-\ He was getting tired himself at the encore and he was like, okayy..time to go home now.... but I guess pure wanted him to play "another" track...
-looked like there were so many ppl on drugs...and even armin was making fun of it by giving funny faces to his friend...ha, i totally felt him...

It seemed that Armin has gotten new status on the block by the WIDELY distribution of his ASOTs online.... hence there were a lot new kids @ his show... and like, omg! omg.... :-|

But.... It was a memorable night nevertheless.... I couldn't remember all the tracks but I wrote the ones I could on a few napkins..hehe...

not in any particular order:

Deepsky ft. Jes vs Yilman Altahan - Ghost (AvB bootleg)
Armin van Buuren ft. G & D - Zocalo
Mr. Sam - Lyteo
Way out West - Killa (Orkidea remix)
Marco V - False Light
Markus Schulz ft. Departure - Without you Near (G & D remix)
The Police - S.O.S. (Svd remix)
Mark Norman - Touchdown
PG2 vs. Randy Katana.... sommmething...
Marc Marberg - Guarana
Armin van Buuren - Shivers

Encore: Marcel Woods - Advanced and that sweet vocal track...anyone know this?

Some highlights:
-Armin putting on Lyteo and singing along with it, then turned to in front of the booth and looked directly at me and we had a moment of singing right when the bass kicked in..that was definitely dope...
-ARmin gesturing to the girls in front of me, come on now, dance, let loose! and the girls just STOOD there all night, ohhh, so frustrating...
-Armin and his funny faces cuz he saw these ppl grinding their teeth away...hehe
-some ppl I saw last time..I was totally caught by surprise...good times

Overall, it was an interesting night.... I was a bit dissapointed with the sound quality, but ARmin was having a good time of his own and when he was putting on that techy tribally stuff around 330...that's when he was getting creative...that was good shit... But the friends I took with me decided to leave @330 cuz they couldn't take it (they also were dancing too much for the warm up) so I decided to stay and then some ppl I knew from last time came up to me and we stuck together..which was good times...

I have a bunch of video's and pics that I will post soon.... so stay tuned

Cheers


Posted by KID-M on Oct-16-2005 20:44:

quote:
Originally posted by phreek
I've read enough bullshit about ticket prices. Honestly I think it's Pure thats screwing people over on ticket prices on this one. To see Armin at Bleu in detroit (MUCH smaller than Vision) you'll only pay like $25. I think the last time I saw him there my ticket was a little under $30 with the groovetickets fees. So enough about "Tiesto Jr" or how much it costs to bring Armin in, because in the end you're takin it up ass from Pure...



Keep in mind seeing Armin in Detroit is probably a Thursday night where he charges half of what he does on a Saturday. The Pure guys are definitely not rolling in the cash...think about how many shows they lose their asses on. The big shows pay for the (money losing) small shows.


Posted by KID-M on Oct-16-2005 20:49:

quote:
Originally posted by ctprincess


decided to leave around 3 am - the horrible remix of message in a bottle came on and i knew it was time to leave -


that sounds absolutely afwul

didnt make it out to Lee (Damnit!) or Vision this weekend. I did get slipped a $20 bill to play Jay Z at Zentra last night though. When I said I didnt have it, he said "well how about some Biggie?"

Lawler! Lawler! Lawler!


Posted by trilasonet on Oct-16-2005 20:54:

I had a wonderful time. This was my 4th armin party, and no matter how he does, he is always smiling and having a good time. I never noticed him making funny faces to people rolling, but that just shows you how great of a guy Armin is.

Got to meet some new people through trance addict there, and didn't even know they lived in indianapolis. Everything was awsome, people were kind... I just wish it could go back to underground so we dont have to worry about 40year old drunks smashing into us and not even enjoying the music.

Drinks $8.25, beers $5.50, I was broke after an hour. Just cant believe how anyone can charge that much. Of course its that way all over chicago. Next time ill just bring my own 5th inside.

The drive home sucked, not enough energy (monster drinks wouldn't even help)

-trila

ps. theres alot of stairs at vision, so working out before hand is a good idea to get in shape just for the party.


Posted by trilasonet on Oct-16-2005 20:57:

quote:
Originally posted by neile
I think thats a really ignorant thing to say, have you ever considerded how much Armin cost to bring in? We are lucky to have Pure promoting Ive been to so many events for free, look at Soundbar last week it was free all night and they gave you a drink ticket, what more can you ask for? God only knows how much they are paying Tiesto Jr...er I mean Armin




Tiesto Jr. Thats disrespectful to Armin. I'm sure everyone on this forum would rather go see Armin than Tiesto.


Posted by ctprincess on Oct-16-2005 22:52:

quote:
Originally posted by KID-M
Keep in mind seeing Armin in Detroit is probably a Thursday night where he charges half of what he does on a Saturday. The Pure guys are definitely not rolling in the cash...think about how many shows they lose their asses on. The big shows pay for the (money losing) small shows.


and for about 80% of the shows you can get in for FREE if you RSVP.

and majority of the shows lose money.


Posted by ctprincess on Oct-16-2005 22:54:

quote:
Originally posted by KID-M
didnt make it out to Lee (Damnit!) or Vision this weekend.


i was wondering where you were for leeeeeeeee!!!!!

and most of the ppl in the ticket line were chewing their faces off - so i knew it was going to be a night NOT to remember. lots of shiny shirts and boobies hanging out.


Posted by KID-M on Oct-17-2005 00:09:

Got waaaay too drunk at dinner on friday to be seen in public so I decided to head home and not to Lee. I was hungover until about 11 on Saturday night (it only went away when I started boozing at Zentra again)

Jeez, cant they at least wait til they are in the club like normal people?


Posted by drEamer on Oct-17-2005 03:22:

quote:
Originally posted by Spliph
WEll... since you all area already posting up I feel i should say a few things... tired as hell... just woke up

I'm happy to see that others felt the same way about the night....I think some of the things that got fucked up were:
-RJ and Erik K playing some of Armin's fav's tracks...
-they pumpin up the crowd TOO much so there was not much energy in the crowd after 3 (you can see this by looking on the sides of the 2nd floor....) and that is why Armin played some tracks to make the crowd breath a bit
-there were how many polacks there? they all seemed to push and shove, which i dont mind TOO much since it was a placked place but when some random drunken mafioso's keep on bumpin in to you, even after you politely ask them not to keep bumpin into you..then that gets annoying..
-the sound levels!?!? grrrrr, there was something wrong...seriously... I heard it clip a few times and the rumble of the bass was just soo not clear.... plus if you were on the stage (by the cages) you could hear the reverb of the speakers....
-as armin was about playmo in the encore, the f00kin cdj wasn't workin... :-\ He was getting tired himself at the encore and he was like, okayy..time to go home now.... but I guess pure wanted him to play "another" track...
-looked like there were so many ppl on drugs...and even armin was making fun of it by giving funny faces to his friend...ha, i totally felt him...

It seemed that Armin has gotten new status on the block by the WIDELY distribution of his ASOTs online.... hence there were a lot new kids @ his show... and like, omg! omg.... :-|

But.... It was a memorable night nevertheless.... I couldn't remember all the tracks but I wrote the ones I could on a few napkins..hehe...

not in any particular order:

Deepsky ft. Jes vs Yilman Altahan - Ghost (AvB bootleg)
Armin van Buuren ft. G & D - Zocalo
Mr. Sam - Lyteo
Way out West - Killa (Orkidea remix)
Marco V - False Light
Markus Schulz ft. Departure - Without you Near (G & D remix)
The Police - S.O.S. (Svd remix)
Mark Norman - Touchdown
PG2 vs. Randy Katana.... sommmething...
Marc Marberg - Guarana
Armin van Buuren - Shivers

Encore: Marcel Woods - Advanced and that sweet vocal track...anyone know this?

thats Gabriel and Dresden Featuring Mollie- Tracking Treasure Down.....sweet tune....


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