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Photos: Tiesto In Concert - 8/11/07

http://photo.rukes.com/tiesto/tiesto.html

Second gallery with my new 5D and lenses Hope to have the Tommy Lee pics up soon!

Wow, wayyy more people than TiC 05.

Rukes.. you son of a....

good job.

Wow! Great pics Drew! Agreed, way more people than TIC 2005.

Giant and Insomniac promoted the hell out of this show. Daft Punk obviously out-drew Tiesto... wonder if that says anything about the current state of trance/progressive dance music...

Yes this event was sold out.

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Originally posted by aztrancer Giant and Insomniac promoted the hell out of this show. Daft Punk obviously out-drew Tiesto...

Did they? Both shows were sold out.

Lots of empty seats in the stands. If they wanted, I am sure they could had let many more people in. Hell, Monster Massive was way more packed than that in the main area.

Stands were full at Daft Punk (but imagine crowd control was on point that night and you couldn't just get on the floor if you didn't have the right ticket).

Anyhow, looks like a great-sized crowd. Just next time anything is done like this down in LA, need a different venue than the LA Sports Arena. It feels as ghetto in those pics as it does when I'm there.

Dave

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Originally posted by Yookeroo Did they? Both shows were sold out.

Well, they were still trying to sell tickets as late as Thursday and I could still buy tickets at TicketMaster as late as Friday and by the looks of all of the open seats in the 3rd level (DP was filled to the top) and wouldn't quite say it was 'sold-out'... They may have said it was sold out to keep promotional momentum going for the current tour, but the open seats don't lie.

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Originally posted by aztrancer Wow! Great pics Drew! Agreed, way more people than TIC 2005. Giant and Insomniac promoted the hell out of this show. Daft Punk obviously out-drew Tiesto... wonder if that says anything about the current state of trance/progressive dance music...

Daft Punk has way more commercial recognition then a single dj. Daft Punk is not though of as Trance and its the awesomeness of that show that sells Daft Punk. This was a single dj and it was the biggest gathering by ONE dj so far here in the west coast. The capacity allowence was 15k and it was sold out before hand, there was no seat assignment on the top levels.

Im sure the event was sold out. They stopped selling at the door at 7:30 and announce that there would be no more tickets on sell.

I've seen events at the LA Sports Arena stated as 20,000 capacity between the seats/floor (all gen admission) in the past to be sold out, so I think 15,000 is undercutting the actual overall capacity to call it sold out (sold out usually = 1,000 within promoted capacity) to make it seem more impressive.

Wasn't Moster Massive 2006 (plus the house area and outside area) nearly 35,000 people? And don't try to tell me those extra two rooms added 20,000 people.

In the end, no need to hate on any side. If 15,000 was the cutoff point, it's better for everyone because it just means more room to dance. But despite that, I would NOT promote it as being have sold out in the future or make a big deal of it. It's Tiesto, tons and tons of people are going to see the pics and going to say "That's sold out?" This world is full of anal individuals who like to hate, myself included lol, and want to trust how things are promoted vs what they see in evidence.

Anyhow, if you had a great time, awesome. I know tons of people who went. Lots of them to both the SF show and the LA show. The most shocking thing is that I don't know of one person who person who had a better time in LA than in SF. ALl agree the set here was more solid overall, the venue was better, the sound was better, and the production between the two places made no difference (I dunno the overall production down there, just goin by peeps who went to both). Seems like the 2nd hour of Tiesto here was like the most amazing thing ever to so many people since like..>Tiesto or 2000, lol.

In the end, as long as everone had funa dn went to slepe happy who cares overall.

Event was sold out by Sat. there were tons of people willing to pay 2 to 3 times...face value at the entrance.

Wow, great pics Drew!

Ha! I'm on that crowd picture... Bottom left!

Re: Photos: Tiesto In Concert - 8/11/07

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Originally posted by Rukes http://photo.rukes.com/tiesto/tiesto.html Second gallery with my new 5D and lenses Hope to have the Tommy Lee pics up soon!

it was nice meeting u drew I hope u like
Chicago did u check out down town

cool pics

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Originally posted by DaveT Lots of empty seats in the stands. If they wanted, I am sure they could had let many more people in. Hell, Monster Massive was way more packed than that in the main area. Stands were full at Daft Punk (but imagine crowd control was on point that night and you couldn't just get on the floor if you didn't have the right ticket).

The stands weren't full for Daft Punk. I was up there myself and was kind of surprised that they were as empty as they were for a sold out show. They did stop selling tickets at the box office before the show started.

Maybe it was the overcrowding at Monster Massive that caused them to lower the limit.

Daft punk was way more packed.

Look starting at 1 min when I pan the camera around. All 3 tiers were full. The 2nd and 3rd tier were nothing near like Daft Punk.

http://djwoody.com/videos/daft_punk..._the_world2.avi

wow that's packed! amazing pics!

my girl wanted to go but i told her it was sold out.

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Originally posted by Yookeroo The stands weren't full for Daft Punk. I was up there myself and was kind of surprised that they were as empty as they were for a sold out show. They did stop selling tickets at the box office before the show started. Maybe it was the overcrowding at Monster Massive that caused them to lower the limit.

The stands were full for Daft Punk.

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Originally posted by bas The stands were full for Daft Punk.

Thank you, bas.

Hey, I'm not Tiesto hating... just stating the facts as I saw them. I was at DP. Daft Punk sold out a month (or more) before the gig (a hard sell-out). Tiesto's people (or the LA Sports Arena) 'called it' the night of, as it sounds better if he played a 'sold-out' show (a soft sell-out). There are lots of open seats. Case closed.

Daft Punk actually sold out several times if you want to be accurate

Multiple 'pre-sales' sold out, then the actual tickets sold out...even when they kept re-releasing them. I didn't go to Tiesto, but I'm pretty sure there weren't people willing to pay $300+ for floor tickets.

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Originally posted by bas Daft Punk actually sold out several times if you want to be accurate Multiple 'pre-sales' sold out, then the actual tickets sold out...even when they kept re-releasing them. I didn't go to Tiesto, but I'm pretty sure there weren't people willing to pay $300+ for floor tickets.

Ya, People where selling they're extra tickets for a fair price. My friend bought his for face value from this random person, which was 70 and another person was selling and extra vip for 100.

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Originally posted by bas Daft Punk actually sold out several times if you want to be accurate Multiple 'pre-sales' sold out, then the actual tickets sold out...even when they kept re-releasing them. I didn't go to Tiesto, but I'm pretty sure there weren't people willing to pay $300+ for floor tickets.

Yeah Tiesto fans are not that stupid to pay $300+ for floor tickets perhaps Daft Punk fans are. You must be speaking from experience.

Seriously all you Tiesto haters have serious denial issues and should consider professional help!

Btw, great job Drew!!!!

what other lens did you get?

Hmmm I saw some guy walking around with I think a Canon Camera and an L-Series Lens from Canon. I knew it from the red stripe near the front of it. I myself used to be very much into that sort of thing but Drew's pictures are always amazing! I remember some guy at Tiesto in 2006 at the Avalon on day 2 was taking pictures and the photographer noticed I had an old record of his that got signed and he took several pictures of me and the record but I have never seen them surface since then...

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