When Garth Brooks played a show near here when he was huge the line to get tickets was nuts. It was 1992
and people were camped out and the line was around the block at our ticket outlet.
I wasn't interested in that show but a few weeks later Dire Straits tickets went on sale, and it was my mission to score for four of us. I knew it wouldn't be the madhouse it was for Garth tickets but expected to need to at least show up at zero dark 30.
I pulled in with my lawn chair and coffee at 3:30 and there was one guy there. I went back home and went back to bed. I sowed back up a little before they opened and walked right in with about five people.
It still amazes me there was that big of a difference. Dire Straits was huge too and it was a big deal that show coming to Washington State University at Pullman, WA. On previous tours those guys had never played a venue even close to that small.
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