caddyshank | blog » Uncategorized http://blog.caddyshank.com it's a beautiful day to golf Sat, 27 Mar 2010 11:12:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.3 en hourly 1 Caddyshank Employee Appreciation Day http://blog.caddyshank.com/uncategorized/caddyshank-employee-appreciation-day http://blog.caddyshank.com/uncategorized/caddyshank-employee-appreciation-day#comments Fri, 18 Sep 2009 20:45:12 +0000 Ryan http://blog.caddyshank.com/?p=92 Last night was great. We took some time off from Caddyshank to go see U2 last night at the Rogers Centre. It was a last minute decision to go and almost looked like we wouldn’t make it. I secured tickets the night before through craigslist. When we checked the day of the concert the prices had gone up. There were more people looking for tickets than selling tickets. Talk about the opportunity for revenue management. Word must have spread that U2 put on an amazing performance the night before so obviously demand goes up, plus all the people that attended and wanted to go again. So the perfect opportunity for scalpers to charge prices based on demand. We ran into quite a large problem as we when we went to the agreed meeting spot at no one showed up to exchange our tickets for money. We waited for 30 mins but were stood up. So we were all a bit disappointed and it was looking like we would just go have a nice dinner as we didn’t want to pay the high scalper prices. In a last ditch effort we searched craigslist and made a call to a guy who had 4 general admission tickets. Amazing, luck was on our side. We met him at 5pm, got our tickets and made our way to Rogers Centre. We got in relatively early and found a good spot facing the middle of the stage.
Caddyshank at u2

Caddyshank at u2

Warming the crowd was the band Snowpatrol. They put on a good show and the lead singer even joked around that he was hungover from experiencing our wonderful Toronto nightlife the previous night.
Then there was about a 45min wait where the stage was being setup for U2. The crowd started to get bigger and bigger, eventually filing the entire Rogers Centre. I estimate that almost 99% of the seats were filled, so probably 50,000 people in the stands and another 8,000 in general admission standing room only. When U2 came out, everyone cheered. They started with songs from their most recent album and then moved on to the classics. The atmosphere was electrifying. Bono even brought a kid on stage for a song. The played a 23 song set. Wow, can’t believe the band does so many songs. Great value and awesome experience. No one wanted to leave. But finally the performance had to end. We were all impressed with how great Bono sounded in the Rogers Centre. The music sounded amazing even better than the prerecorded songs that are done in the studio. The whole time we were there, the crowd was cheering, dancing and singing along. The 360 stage was fantastic, as we could see many camera views of the band on the moving screen above the band. It almost felt like we were part of a U2 music video or more recently the U2 BlackBerry commercials. If you have a chance to see U2, you should do it. Highly recommended. One of the best live bands today and an awesome experience.

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