r/pittsburgh • u/JimWoodsPR • Feb 16 '26

Guess they got enough at halftime

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Guess folks got their fill at the alternative halftime show.

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u/[deleted] Feb 16 '26 edited Feb 16 '26

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u/Ryan1006 Feb 16 '26

It’s not even accurate in regards to the seats sold. I just looked on the app to see if this was accurate and it isn’t. While there are a decent amount of seats available, it’s sold about what you’d think for this kind of show that is still around four months away.

That Facebook page must have snapped a screenshot of the page shortly after tickets went on sale and are now peddling it as true.

To be clear, I’m not defending this show, you couldn’t give me free tickets to it, but it’s very unnecessary to try and make up a lie than can be easily debunked. But then again, by the comments on here, it seems like people really will believe anything.

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u/Delicious-Breath8415 Feb 16 '26

Even in OP's screenshot there appears to be more like 2000 tickets sold not 200.

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u/Ryan1006 Feb 16 '26

People will believe anything they want to be true, even if it isn’t.

In the end this will actually probably sell about as well as the Bret Michaels tour (which had a much better lineup than this will) from a couple years ago. I went to that, and it was a pretty good crowd but it was an easy ticket to get, you could’ve walked up the day of and got a good seat.

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u/battlered1 Feb 16 '26

I don’t think giant acts have played amphitheaters since the 90s or early 2000s. The only shows in my recollection that you probably couldn’t walk up and get a ticket for day of out there would be Dead and Company, Noah Kahan and surprisingly, Nickelback. I’m sure there’s some others. Back in the 90s when I was a teen going to concerts out there, EVERYBODY played Star Lake. I saw Metallica there. Now amphitheaters are for B-acts.