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Posted: 7/10/2025 11:35 AM
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BTO is still taking care of business? I would have guessed that their hearts had exploded by now. The miracle of modern medicine.
Most of these old timer bands have one member from back in the day and not always a true "original" member making them basically a glorified cover band.

Example: Foghat is out touring with one longtime non-original member and a bunch of replacement guys. Starship and Jefferson Starship are two versions of a one former member band both out touring separately.

I saw the singer from Queensryche fronting a glorified cover band version of the group like 15 years ago and drew like 200 people in a 1500 seat venue...but the show was outstanding. He had Rudy Sarzo (Quiet Riot, Ozzy, etc) in the "band."

We're getting way off topic here, but yeah, a lot of these bands are a joke now. Foreigner has ZERO original members on stage. Skynyrd, same. But with bands like Foreigner and Foghat, they were pretty faceless anyway. No one in that audience knows any different. The two versions thing really started about 25-30 years ago when Styx fired Dennis DeYoung and DeYoung said "you can't fire me, I founded the band." They went up through the court system and it was ruled that they were both right, so we have "Styx" and "Dennis DeYoung and the Music of Styx." That paved the way for two LA Guns, two GFRs, two Ratts, two Judas Priests, two Queensryche, etc.
I think the world is back down to just one Grand Funk Railroad right now. My old acquaintance Mark Chatfield (The Godz, Rosie, Bob Seger) from Columbus is the non-original guitarist out on the road with them.

I'm basically counting Farner's "American Band" or whatever he is calling it as the other version and he still tours. You're friends with Chatfield? Small world, a good buddy of mine was pals with Eric Moore. The Godz are rock and roll machines!
I haven't run into Mark in a long time. Since Eric passed, Mark is the only living remaining member of The Godz from back in the day. There should be a monument to them in the lobby of Newport Music Hall from back when it was The Agora. Wild times, indeed.
Othan 21 Pilots, I can't think of any Columbus band that got signed to a major and toured the continent with the likes of KISS, Angel and Cheap Trick.
I saw them open for Blue Oyster Cult when Godzilla was a radio airplay song.

Then again Papadosio (formerly from Athens) has played festivals like Bonaroo (2016) which means they shared the bill that time alone with Pearl Jam, Jason Isbell, Dead & Company, Tame Impala, Chris Stapleton, Les Claypool, Nathaniel Ratlieff, Lizzo, etc (not to mention the bills they shared with groups like Widespread Panic)
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Posted: 8/18/2025 12:55 PM
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The entitlment people have about a few hundred dollars in season ticket spending a year is wild. If you can afford to let half of your season tickets go to waste because you can't be bothered to drive an hour for a game I think you can live with less than your very specific seat the handful of times you actually attend a game.
You're making some grand assumptions about a lot of people you know nothing about.

My bitch has nothing to do with dollars at all. Same applies to several other posters within here, and others I've spoken with that are not in this forum as regular users.

The complaint is that I have had the same seats for a DECADE or more. My group moved to where I sit 3-4 years ago. We all sit together by design as friends and share seats together.

Instead of asking those fans what their thoughts are, or simply charging more for the seats and creating the option to seek out GA seats, they just basically took those seats. They could have charged more AND asked for a per seat donation, and I'd have done it. Instead, I'm buying the cheapest ticket I can because I can't get a comparable reserved seat anywhere in the arena.

So what's going to happen for all of my group? The University is going to make less money on our seats as a group. Probably 30-40% less this year. Why? Because they handled it like crap, and didn't remotely act like anyone cared about our concerns.
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Posted: 1/15/2026 1:19 PM
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After a call to the ticket office, I was able to move my seats to the front row of Section 115. As anticipated, finding six seats together in the very front row, or even the first row directly above the tunnel cut-outs, was a challenge; only a single seat was open there. The search for six front-row seats in other lower sections also came up empty, outside of 115.

When I asked about the decision to make most of the upper level General Admission, I was told it was a response to higher demand for GA seating in recent years and a shortage of ushers to manage reserved sections – a recurring problem they'd noted.

It appears their plan was effective, given that I'm now paying almost five times more for these new seats.
How or those seats working out? Back in the 80s, we sat in section 116. Great angle. The reason I ask, is the band in your eyeliner in section 115?
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Posted: 1/15/2026 3:15 PM
I actually moved over to the top row of 109 on the opposite end. I did so after having serious doubts of being able to see anything at the far end of the court with the band standing there. I've only been able to get down to Athens for 1 game so far, but enjoyed the view from 109.
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Posted: 1/27/2026 1:09 PM
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90% of that arena should be GA. If you want to pay for front rows and special side sections, great. But for most games it's just a smattering of people spread out - allow everyone to move down as close as they can get to fill the cavernous convo. I know everyone is protective of their friends and family seats, but the truth of the matter is most of that section behind the benches is left empty throughout much of the season. It's a bad look on TV. (Flip the sides, folks)

I remember the first time I took my wife to a game and she goes "Is Buffalo good? It never looks like this on TV." We have double the attendance than most teams on any given night and the atmosphere is non-existent. It's because we have 6K people spread out everywhere. 3K at Akron looks like Duke is in town.

There must be some system capability out there that can announce your seats the day of a game so every row fills out the lower bowl. If there isn't - I'm gonna go develop it right now.
If it was GA it would still be scattered. People love to spread out if given the opportunity.
That's more of where my coming-soon, yet-to-be-named, seating remaster system will come in handy. Purchase GA, but you will have an assigned seat by game day.

Or they could rope off the uppers and just force everyone into the lower bowl.
You know, that place is waaaaayyyy larger than any MAC team needs with the exception of the urban MAC teams that may have an arena that also draws touring entertainment (Toledo, I'm looking at you). When the Convo was built, it was thought to be part of a burdgeoning concert industry. Afterall, there is nothing else between Columbus and Huntington/Charleston. To their credit, they booked Zeppelin, The Who, CSNY, Springsteen, Billy Joel, Boston, The Eagles, The Beach Boys, etc but it hasn't been a regular touring stop for over 40 years. Other than commencement is that place ever full? My point? They could get creative and knockout a bunch of seats. I'm thinking like Loudville in Cleveland or maybe some luxury suites.
Tymaster nailed it. The Convo is waaaaayyyy larger than any league team needs. With the top home crowd attendance not approaching 6,000, the upper sections should be roped or closed off most games.
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Posted: 1/27/2026 1:24 PM
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90% of that arena should be GA. If you want to pay for front rows and special side sections, great. But for most games it's just a smattering of people spread out - allow everyone to move down as close as they can get to fill the cavernous convo. I know everyone is protective of their friends and family seats, but the truth of the matter is most of that section behind the benches is left empty throughout much of the season. It's a bad look on TV. (Flip the sides, folks)

I remember the first time I took my wife to a game and she goes "Is Buffalo good? It never looks like this on TV." We have double the attendance than most teams on any given night and the atmosphere is non-existent. It's because we have 6K people spread out everywhere. 3K at Akron looks like Duke is in town.

There must be some system capability out there that can announce your seats the day of a game so every row fills out the lower bowl. If there isn't - I'm gonna go develop it right now.
If it was GA it would still be scattered. People love to spread out if given the opportunity.
That's more of where my coming-soon, yet-to-be-named, seating remaster system will come in handy. Purchase GA, but you will have an assigned seat by game day.

Or they could rope off the uppers and just force everyone into the lower bowl.
You know, that place is waaaaayyyy larger than any MAC team needs with the exception of the urban MAC teams that may have an arena that also draws touring entertainment (Toledo, I'm looking at you). When the Convo was built, it was thought to be part of a burdgeoning concert industry. Afterall, there is nothing else between Columbus and Huntington/Charleston. To their credit, they booked Zeppelin, The Who, CSNY, Springsteen, Billy Joel, Boston, The Eagles, The Beach Boys, etc but it hasn't been a regular touring stop for over 40 years. Other than commencement is that place ever full? My point? They could get creative and knockout a bunch of seats. I'm thinking like Loudville in Cleveland or maybe some luxury suites.
Tymaster nailed it. The Convo is waaaaayyyy larger than any league team needs. With the top home crowd attendance not approaching 6,000, the upper sections should be roped or closed off most games.
I graduated in 2015 and I still remember multiple games that were almost sold out. Not every seat in the upper level was sold but it was damn near close. One was the Miami game that Gary Trent got his number retired and then I believe the other one I'm thinking of was an Akron game.
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Posted: 1/27/2026 3:05 PM
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90% of that arena should be GA. If you want to pay for front rows and special side sections, great. But for most games it's just a smattering of people spread out - allow everyone to move down as close as they can get to fill the cavernous convo. I know everyone is protective of their friends and family seats, but the truth of the matter is most of that section behind the benches is left empty throughout much of the season. It's a bad look on TV. (Flip the sides, folks)

I remember the first time I took my wife to a game and she goes "Is Buffalo good? It never looks like this on TV." We have double the attendance than most teams on any given night and the atmosphere is non-existent. It's because we have 6K people spread out everywhere. 3K at Akron looks like Duke is in town.

There must be some system capability out there that can announce your seats the day of a game so every row fills out the lower bowl. If there isn't - I'm gonna go develop it right now.
If it was GA it would still be scattered. People love to spread out if given the opportunity.
That's more of where my coming-soon, yet-to-be-named, seating remaster system will come in handy. Purchase GA, but you will have an assigned seat by game day.

Or they could rope off the uppers and just force everyone into the lower bowl.
You know, that place is waaaaayyyy larger than any MAC team needs with the exception of the urban MAC teams that may have an arena that also draws touring entertainment (Toledo, I'm looking at you). When the Convo was built, it was thought to be part of a burdgeoning concert industry. Afterall, there is nothing else between Columbus and Huntington/Charleston. To their credit, they booked Zeppelin, The Who, CSNY, Springsteen, Billy Joel, Boston, The Eagles, The Beach Boys, etc but it hasn't been a regular touring stop for over 40 years. Other than commencement is that place ever full? My point? They could get creative and knockout a bunch of seats. I'm thinking like Loudville in Cleveland or maybe some luxury suites.
Tymaster nailed it. The Convo is waaaaayyyy larger than any league team needs. With the top home crowd attendance not approaching 6,000, the upper sections should be roped or closed off most games.
The Convo is often filled to the rafters for graduations, I've been told. And, I think some high school tournament games there draw really well. It's not just a basketball arena. Also, in the past we have had some really large college basketball crowds there, but not recently. Let's not conclude that that can never happen again.
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Posted: 1/27/2026 9:19 PM
OCF- my comments were that the upper levels should be roped or closed off most games. I have been in attendance when the crowds were 10k or above, but those days are few and far between. I’m guessing that the first game will be the top or second most attended game this season. Just saying that all those seats are not needed for the majority of Bobcat games. There are times at many sporting events around the country where certain sections are closed or roped off. This should be done in the Convo more times than not.
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