sure hope so, we will be there.

 

Thanks for the info. My wife is a die hard George Strait fan. She will be excited.



Russ

 

Awesome! I'll be there. He's what country music is all about.

 

George is the man. Hope I get tickets.

 

With Randy Rogers opening.

I know its early, and Im sure I will find out. But anyone know if you can still get into this show with a comittee badge?


http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=news%2Fentertainment&id=8656783

no reason you shouldn't be able to - probably won't be able to find a seat though

 

I know I'll be taking my wife to see this. She has a sign at our front door that says "Unless you're God or George Strait, take off your boots"

 

Like all sold out shows, the badge WILL get you in the door, getting a seat is whole nother story.

 

I heard about this on the radio this morning. I immediately called Rex and told him that he has to get me tickets for this show!!! Unless an emergency comes up we will be at this show on March 17th.

 

I just called.. it will be an option to buy with your already reserved seats if you had season tickets last year... they will be sending last years season ticket holders a letter this May to renew their seats from last year and option to buy this additional concert... so I'll be having two club level tickets for sale to George.. $1,000 each. LMAO

 

Your committee badge will get you and a guest into all shows and most events at rodeo. Now finding a seat is a whole other deal. Just go to the south end of Reliant on the 1st floor to the Cantina Club and have a seat and enjoy your favorite beverage while watching the show.

 

As part of the recycling committee I have to go into the stadium and check all of the recycling boxes before the show. After 12 years of doing this, I knew having keys to the stadium and an all access badge would someday pay off!

I think that day before the gates open, I'm going to go in and claim a spot on the couches on the club level and just wait it out!

 

I think that day before the gates open, I'm going to go in and claim a spot on the couches on the club level and just wait it out!

Pretty much everyone taking up the tables and couches and clogging up the bar areas during the concerts have badges on... they should limit badges to the top floor unless they have an actual ticket :slimer: :slimer:

 

After working as hard as we do for the show... I don't feel bad taking up one of those seats.

This past rodeo we got 212,480 pounds of recycled cardboard and 73,680 pounds of recycled plastic and aluminum.

And that gets sold and the money goes directly to one of the kids. Recycling alone paid for several scholarships last year.

So everyone needs to drink more beer and support our youth!

 

After working as hard as we do for the show... I don't feel bad taking up one of those seats.

So are you a volunteer?


vol·un·teer/ˌvälənˈti(ə)r/

Noun:A person who freely offers to take part in an enterprise or undertake a task.
Verb:Freely offer to do something

 

don't just drink any beer or beverage at the rodeo, buy the tickets and drink the beers and beverages from the rodeo run bars to add to the youth kitty

Edit: beers are actually cheaper by ounce at the rodeo run bars than the main concessions bigger beers. 12 ounces for $5 (.41 oz) -vs-16 ounces for $7.50 (.46 oz)

 

I will be getting tickets... the boss man can't deny my leave for this. He is a George Straight fan himself.

George was the first rodeo concert I went to back in the Astrodome... I can't even remember what year it was. I was young though... like 8 or 9.

 

Given the way things have been going at the rodeo over the last few years, I would not be the least bit surprised if they pull the plug on the badge privileges for this show: it's anything but a "normal" show, announced almost a year in advance, no rodeo, etc. etc. etc.... It really almost seems like they've been searching for places to chip away at committee "perks" ever since I've had the badge: I've got friends that quit last year with the parking trainwreck being the last straw...


I wouldn't have a problem with pulling the badge privileges in that show, of course I'd like to have the priority ticketing for committeemen.. I haven't set foot in the stadium for two years with that badge anyway..

 

Same here, haven't been to a show on the badge in a year or 2.

What was wrong with parking this year? What kind of problems were there?
Only reason I ask is because neither my wife or myself had any problems, she works the early morning to mid afternoon or mid afternoon to night shift and she never mentioned anything.

I usually got there at 4 for my shift and there was plenty of parking, when I left about 9 there was still plenty, it was in the back by the police shed but there was space.

 

They went to the "working volunteer" tags, then spread the word that those would be required to park in that lot: then, apparently when they saw how much all those extra hang-tags cost, they didn't hand them out if your shift wasn't starting after three or so in the afternoon (since there would be plenty of room at other times, of course) . As a result, some idiot VP apparently didn't get the memo, and started storming around telling all the cops they hired to babysit the gates that no, you've got to have that extra hang-tag no matter what. As a result, no parkee in the wide-open, empty lot at six in the morning, and no shuttles, etc. to go to the BFE lot they stuck us in as the alternate. If your shifts started at four in the afternoon, you probably had the tag and never saw the problem: if you had any of MY shifts, you were screwed. My wife got all of her "hang-tags" for all her shifts, nobody in our committee did. I'm not sure how many others got stuck in the same debacle.. In other words, the reason you saw "plenty of parking" was that they weren't letting a lot of people in there that were supposed to be there, and basically got left to their own resources...

That as a result of, and touted as the "fix for", last year's "reserved committee parking" that magically turned into "cash parking" after day 1 of the rodeo: cash talks, volunteers walk. and walk.. and walk.....

 

man, yall are volunteering... if they aren't treating you right, no doubt walk.. they should really appreciate and respect the volunteers as much or better than their paid executives. You volunteers make that event happen. I choose not to volunteer but just enjoy the product produced and spend money in/on it.

 

I'm not there for the perks: I know a lot of people really are, I have no idea how many people I've heard looking for a committee that is just "easy" so they can get that badge as painlessly as possible... What I'm there for is bigger than that, and bigger than those execs: That being said, I'll reserve the right to ***** and complain when they basically make it quite difficult for us to actually discharge our duties we've volunteered for.. I'm a long way from "walking", but I know quite a few people who have bailed out in the last year or two who specify this as the reason: that's their call.

Actually, the walking I was referring to earlier was literal walking: abandoning the plan on the parking lot and forcing volunteers to spend thirty minutes afoot before and after they start their shift.

 

Awww, gotcha, I had date specific tags since I worked evenings. My wife did not get date specific tags for her 9a-3p shifts and just parked in the general volunteer lot. So you are right, we did not get to experience the mess.

 

Guess I'm feeling a bit frisky this morning but hey, I can take the heat...... George oughta show up for Rodeo every year and quit playing so hard to get.

Texas in general and Houston HLSR in large part made him what he is today. Which is a multi gozillionaire. He owes it to the city to come. Straight up.....

If he dont play but one show a year anymore it oughta be HLSR.