Now let’s get to the sucky part. I got my tickets through Ticketmaster. Not through the House of Blues. Mistake number one. We showed up early to have dinner, and witnessed the servers giving out FREE tickets to diners nearby. Okay, suck. Then when we were told we could finish our drinks in the music hall, we walked over, as doors opened at 7. We were turned away because we had to finish our drinks first. Um, crappy! So then we finally get inside the standing room only venue only to find that there WERE in fact seats. Seats that we could not sit in. They are only part of the dinner package. The one not offered on Ticketmaster. We *could* upgrade for an additional 20 bucks though. So we paid 100.00 for dinner (the drinks were pricey… well, mine were). Saw free tickets given out. And now were faced with looking at empty seats as we stood for 3 hours. Unless we wanted to fork out 20 more dollars each. What the hell? Then only to witness the security guards randomly let people have seats. People who CLEARLY had no ticket. Buy the time Butch was on there was a seating free for all. People were knocking down the stanchions! Security was not even looking. After we had been turned away. The show wasn’t even sold out!

Anywho… the show rocked. Butch was, as promised, even better as the main attraction. It was fun… As we were leaving (early because I am old) Richard sought out the manager to express the frustration of the show process. Yeah, we got the ticket thing wrong, but the blatant disregard for their own rules for certain folk was annoying as hell. She agreed, and we get free entrees in the restaurant if we go back. The food and service was really good in there. We did get up-sold a bit (remember the 100 dollar meal? Yeah. It’ll suck paying that off...) that’s a good server, and besides, it was gooood food and drink. We’ll go back. But I’ll take The Casbah for a show over the House of Blues any day.