Hey, its obvious now they will tour but as a new 10c member (sept 04), how do the preferred 10c seating things work. All I know is 10c reserves X amount and distributes them.....are they better seats, are most 10c members given tickets. An explanation please?

For 2003 you could write in on a 3x5 index card to say which shows you wanted tickets to. They sent out a list of shows and how much the tickets would cost after adding in all the extra b.s. stuff the venues want to charge. I believe you could get 2 tickets to each show. I didn't end up doing it since there were 6 of us going to one show and the other was one where we didn't care where we sat.

Yeah, the seats are better than the general ticketbastard seats. It goes by your member #. Generally the first x number of rows are 10c (just depends on how many 10c sales there were). and as far as I know, nobody who got thier orders in by the deadline were turned down last tour.

They have used several methods in the past. Sometimes the tickets were pre-determined and you got them at will call, once they did ticket "blocks" where you waited in line before the show and got better tickets (within your block based again on member #) on a first come first serve basis. It kind of sucked but was at least cool to hang out with other 10c members before the show. At Alpine last year it was a blast tailgating with a few hundred 10c folks.

An interesting read on Ten Club ticket history...
http://www.twofeetthick.com/articleread.do?id=12

MD

If i had the money, are any first three rows or so available? Or does 10c get all those?

The seats sort of depend on which venue you go to. In Detroit 03, the ampitheater sells "season tickets" so that those in the very front middle section are not Ten Club fans. 10C started in the side sections and went way up the back. I could have bought bettter seats through Ticket Master. Then they announced a 2nd show the next day without 10C seats. No season ticket seats either so I was a bit miffed. Typically though, the seats have been AWESOME.

My only new complaint is that now everyone is able to go to all the shows. Why would you complain about that you ask? Well, you're really pushed back by the more senior people. There is no priority to location any more. I can be in my home city of Detroit and more senior people from Seattle, Miami, and NYC can fly here and kick me backwards. I've always hoped that the 10C would prioritize by locals+seniority and then go to everyone else's seniority. Somone will assuredly post about how they've been in the 10C since the start, it's their right to sit up front, and I should stop whining.

No I think you're right about being able to have priority seating for "local" shows. I think it would be very difficult for Ten Club to sort that all out though. I guess the easiest way would be for everyone to specify one show as their "local" show when ordering tickets.