This Zach Bryan show could be one for the record books. . .
Super crazy instructions on how to get pre-registered for the show. Register via Fair AXS at www.axs.com/zachbryan. After the Fair AXS registration period ends on Sunday night, the AXS team will weed out any snakes, bots, and frauds. You get registered, you’ll be randomly selected for the chance to purchase tickets in batches. That fun will start Feb 13th subject to availability by market. Don’t get your heart broke before Valentine’s Day! If you have been selected to purchase tickets, you will be notified via email with all the details!
His latest live album is ALL MY HOMIES HATE TICKETMASTER. First off, a live album is brave. Some people don’t dig live albums. However, the release showcases his strengths as a live performer. Plus, the title is a statement too! But his stage presence is more of a statement. Every concert I have attended in the last few months. . . from Five Finger Death Punch to a low-key show at Zoo Bar . . . if I talk to someone who is a hardcore concert goer and they went to the Zach Bryan Red Rocks show – the same show that was recorded for ALL MY HOMIES… – they bring that show up. If somebody was at that show, they wear it like a badge of honor. And they should.
Another factor about this tour is how tickets are distributed. There’s a huge issue with concert tickets. You can read my previous posts about Taylor Swift and talking with the author of Ticket Masters: The Rise of the Concert Industry and How the Public Got Scalped. (https://froggy981.com/2022/12/07/32276/)
I got introduced to this Zach Bryan fella in my Texas days. Ironically, he’s playing a music festival in the town I lived in which is a few miles north of Austin. Some crazy chick sent me the video for “From Austin.” It was fitting because I was leaving Austin for the Pacific Northwest. I think the video only had a few thousand views – this was in March of 2022. Now that video is in the millions. Another music nerd buddy of mine was complaining about how we don’t collect or show off our old concert ticket stubs anymore. All of the tickets are digital. I have used AXS before – the outlet Zach Bryan is using – and it is easy to navigate, you don’t feel like you are getting ripped off but I can’t remember if I was able to have the tickets in paper form. The same buddy went on a spending spree and bought used concert stubs where the used ticket stub is more valuable than the concert’s admission. He texted me and asked if I could get ticket stubs Bryan’s Pinnacle Bank Arena show. Not tickets. The used tickets. He said he is going to attempt getting ticket stubs of the entire tour. Hey, whatever keeps you off the streets I guess. . .
This show and tour could be changing the way we buy tickets. I don’t think the show is going to hold as much weight as the Red Rocks show. He is playing Red Rocks again but don’t expect a monumental show like his last appearance. But what do I know. Lightning could strike twice. His American Heartbreak album is out of control. It’s a 3 LP set. Don’t try and listen to it all at one time. Not because of timing but because there is so much weight with the tunes.
I’d say this is the show to go to for the year. You could get crazy and go to this show and drop down to Kansas City for the tour closer there. Maybe add in Red Rocks but I don’t know if I’d get that crazy. I know some folks who are doing a multi-city hit with Taylor Swift and that makes sense. I don’t know of anybody who is doing that for Morgan Wallen. If you do hit multiple cities for Zach Bryan, I know somebody who would be interested in your ticket stubs! But something tells me you’d wanna hold on to them for sentimental reasons.
Just go to the show.
CE