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Does anyone know, has the available seating been expanded for this show? I could have sworn the original configuration was smaller, with the stage closer to the seating end of the floor. It looks like my seat is much farther away from the stage than I remember it. Is this a fact? Or am I losing it? (Quite possible-as it has happened in several other areas. lol.) Thanks for any information.
Gary
Just an educated guess. They may not have a seating chart specifically for the Bonamassa show and are using a generic half house. I would say there are probably just 3 floor sections. Left right and center. They may have opened the side stage seating for this show but I would think the stage wouldn't have been moved that far back and that many floor sections added. I searched for tickets and row LL showed up on the floor that would be about row 35 of the first section.
Just an educated guess. They may not have a seating chart specifically for the Bonamassa show and are using a generic half house. I would say there are probably just 3 floor sections. Left right and center. They may have opened the side stage seating for this show but I would think the stage wouldn't have been moved that far back and that many floor sections added. I searched for tickets and row LL showed up on the floor that would be about row 35 of the first section.
Hopefully, you're correct. Thank you!
jim m wrote:Just an educated guess. They may not have a seating chart specifically for the Bonamassa show and are using a generic half house. I would say there are probably just 3 floor sections. Left right and center. They may have opened the side stage seating for this show but I would think the stage wouldn't have been moved that far back and that many floor sections added. I searched for tickets and row LL showed up on the floor that would be about row 35 of the first section.
Hopefully, you're correct. Thank you!
If the half house layout is strictly set up per their site's seat mapping, there are technically 9 floor sections. If you know a hockey rink, the house is shrunk to where most everything is at one goal end from the blue line, maybe with the stage at the red line? Man, it has been a longtime since I attended a concert there........but, iffen I recall, no floor seat was ever beneath an overhang??????? Loge seats were always good seats, even in full house rockers back in the day, although a side view similar to fancy theatre side "boxes" was what I believe the perspective approximated. All in all there really isn't a lot to worry about. Sound issues? Echo issues? Funny thing "San Diego Sports Arena" and it's supposed (much verbal mileage in the city) terrible acoustics doesn't accurately describe, nor is it totally false, concerning the listening experience there. It is kind of like the old San Francisco Opera where the cheap seats can often be the best, and the more expensive ones, well there's where it starts the labeling as disappointing. There is good sound to be had, it is working to achieve it. You may want ear plugs for this one because you certainly CAN get some nasty, painful spikes, or a TTS ("noise hangover") but my concert attendances there led me to believe most were the result of excessive loudness period, and after that...and don't know if incompetent is a fair word to describe the sound crew, but inexperience might be what was going on. 
You can always remove them if comfortable doing so.
Good LUCK and (hopefully) enjoy!
Rock ON & Keep the Faith,
Rocket
"garp wrote:jim m wrote:Just an educated guess. They may not have a seating chart specifically for the Bonamassa show and are using a generic half house. I would say there are probably just 3 floor sections. Left right and center. They may have opened the side stage seating for this show but I would think the stage wouldn't have been moved that far back and that many floor sections added. I searched for tickets and row LL showed up on the floor that would be about row 35 of the first section.
Hopefully, you're correct. Thank you!
If the half house layout is strictly set up per their site's seat mapping, there are technically 9 floor sections. If you know a hockey rink, the house is shrunk to where most everything is at one goal end from the blue line, maybe with the stage at the red line? Man, it has been a longtime since I attended a concert there........but, iffen I recall, no floor seat was ever beneath an overhang??????? Loge seats were always good seats, even in full house rockers back in the day, although a side view similar to fancy theatre side "boxes" was what I believe the perspective approximated. All in all there really isn't a lot to worry about. Sound issues? Echo issues? Funny thing "San Diego Sports Arena" and it's supposed (much verbal mileage in the city) terrible acoustics doesn't accurately describe, nor is it totally false, concerning the listening experience there. It is kind of like the old San Francisco Opera where the cheap seats can often be the best, and the more expensive ones, well there's where it starts the labeling as disappointing. There is good sound to be had, it is working to achieve it. You may want ear plugs for this one because you certainly CAN get some nasty, painful spikes, or a TTS ("noise hangover") but my concert attendances there led me to believe most were the result of excessive loudness period, and after that...and don't know if incompetent is a fair word to describe the sound crew, but inexperience might be what was going on.
Good LUCK and (hopefully) enjoy!
Rock ON & Keep the Faith,
Rocket
Thanks for the info. I actually saw Eric Clapton there a few years ago, and I don't really recall any terrible sound problems, so I guess it was alright in that regard. I was really more concerned about the layout. We're in loge, fairly straight on. But I could have sworn the first chart I saw looked like about a third of the building. Now, everything I see is half, which appears to push the stage back away from us. Of course, it is what it is, and there's obviously nothing we can do about it. I was just more curious than anything else.
Thanks everyone, for your replies.
Gary
Well Garp, I don't know...if they are set up actual halfway, I suppose you could be further back...Joe looking the size of a G.I. Joe, as opposed to a vertically challenged human...
I would be curiously concerned about what material is used as a dividing line. Hopefully not a paper thin nearly translucent curtain.
Rock ON & Keep the Faith,
Rocket
"Well Garp, I don't know...if they are set up actual halfway, I suppose you could be further back...Joe looking the size of a G.I. Joe, as opposed to a vertically challenged human...
I would be curiously concerned about what material is used as a dividing line. Hopefully not a paper thin nearly translucent curtain.
Rock ON & Keep the Faith,
Rocket
That "curtain", is exactly what I was picturing too. Let's hope not.
Gary
Rocket wrote:Well Garp, I don't know...if they are set up actual halfway, I suppose you could be further back...Joe looking the size of a G.I. Joe, as opposed to a vertically challenged human...
I would be curiously concerned about what material is used as a dividing line. Hopefully not a paper thin nearly translucent curtain.
Rock ON & Keep the Faith,
RocketThat "curtain", is exactly what I was picturing too. Let's hope not.
Gary
Well, fact still remains, even a very large mosquitoe net is better than nothing to divide the arena. I'm thinking we aren't going to be getting into ear splitting dB's. But I still recommend ear plugs of some sort until comfort is confirmed.
Rock ON & Keep the Faith,
Rocket
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