Coming up Short on Clapton Tickets

NEW YORK – So last night I had hoped to see my third Allman Brothers Band show in this run.

Why last night?

Because Eric Clapton played with the band at the Beacon Theater on Thursday and Friday.

So I go up to the Beacon around 3 p.m. to see if the box office has released any extra tickets and a guy on the street offers me two tickets in the third row from an envelope he’s holding in his hand.

“Are these real tickets?” I asked him several times.

“Oh, yeah,” he reassured me.

So I go into the bank machine to get cash, I come out  and hand the guy the money in exchange for the tickets. He walks away.

I look at the tickets again and I notice they say “The Allman BROTERS’ on the face. First off, “brothers” is spelled wrong. Second, they’re called “The Allman Brothers Band.”

So I  run back out on the street where the guy is negotiating with another woman.

“These are friggin fake tickets,” I say to him.

Then I hand him the tickets back and basically grab the money out of his hand.

I’m fortunate that he wasn’t that big of a guy, that he didn’t actively resist and that he hadn’t taken off.

Otherwise I’d be out a couple hundred bucks!

Anyway, the wife and I went to dinner and a movie instead of seeing Clapton and the Brothers…Too bad.

Here’s last night’s setlist:

Set 1

Little Martha (Just Oteil)
Mountain Jam
Trouble No More
Midnight Rider
44 Blues w/Danny Louis
Wasted Words
Gambler’s Roll
Ain’t Wasting Time No More
>Mountain Jam

Set 2

Melissa
Leave My Bues At Home
No One Left To Run With
Key To The Highway w/Eric Clapton
Stormy Monday w/Eric
Dreams w/Eric
Why Does Love Got To Be So Sad w/Eric
Little Wing w/Eric
In Memory Of Elizabeth Reed w/Eric

Encore

Layla w/Eric and Danny

Thursday’s setlist included these gems with EC.

Key to the Highway

Dreams

Little Wing

Anyday

Leyla