Meet and greet is a big fucking scam!!!
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Buddy_Love_Bomb
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Hawng
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Did you meet but didnt get the greet?Bleearg said:Don't get your hopes up!!!!! We were screwed at Jaxx too.
No one at Jaxx knew when or where the meet and greet was. I thought it was supposed to be before the show but the sticker they gave me said "after show". We asked several times during the night about the when and the where and finally got an answer after the show. The owner of the club said that it took place at 9:15 (during the second band's set) and it was upstairs. I've been to Jaxx several times and I didn't even know there was an upstairs.
It was very unorganized. A lot of time wasted. I went to a meet and greet and all I got was a lousy sticker.
It was very unorganized. A lot of time wasted. I went to a meet and greet and all I got was a lousy sticker.
I dont understand why they have you wait until after anthrax plays and couse you to miss half of Priest's set. It would be better if it was before the show or after the whole concert is over.
guitarguts
Be All End All
Here's the long, tall and short end of professionalism.
1. Your fans help you by: buying your tix, merch, recordings and everything else out there they can get their grumbie hands on. YEAH!
2. You launch a separate site for fans in appreciation and charge a fee to those faithful followers that are devoted to you. To have a one on one ability with the band. There's a fee, $25.00 (OF COURSE) But I'm in! Here's my money!
3. Thank your fans by offering a meet and greet to 20 or so knuckleheads who are actually paying attention. Meet and Greet, YEAH!
"finale a band that cares to meet their fans!"
4. Point, click, join, get a shirt and some swag (someday when they ship) and you're in. Right?
5. Meet and Greet day of show, (no details on CDC site, as told in confirming email, to go to Tours and check for the event where and when times.) That didn't happen... So off to the venue at 2pm VA. time, where finale someone tells you, you're on THE LIST and they will make an annocement at 8:30pm for you to meet the band outside of the venue. YEAH! Getting the itch! Can't Wait!
6. 8:30pm, comes, no annocement.... 8:45pm still nothing. Go to Club Owner and ask. Tells you it's been bumped up to 9:15pm. Okay, fine, just don't fuck us! 9:15pm comes, second band still playing, no annocement in between songs. Band plays until 9:30pm. Still no annoucement. WTF???
Then another mgr dude says, there's no time, they'll do it after the show.
THRAX plays, walks off and out the muddafuckin' door. We the IDIOTS with passes, Line up stage right where we were told to be. Bouncer dude says, I don't think they are doing the meet and greet. All of you have to leave here and go up front and wait. So 25 of us, schlep up to the front doors. People at the door are like, We haven't been told what's goin' on with that. So the fans that we are (Don't TAKE "NO" FOR AN ANSWER!) Go back to the inside of the club and they tell us to go out back. We're off and running. Only to see, Joey, Scott and Frank. Leaving in a mutha fucking SUV! WTF????
The bus is there, and Charlie and Danny are on it still. Roadie tells us everyone is gone, (what a dick, that he thinks we can't see them through the curtain). Then Charlie comes out 20mins later to get in an SUV. At least he stopped for some signing but wouldn't do pics. CHARLIE, THANK YOU MAN!!! He mentioned he was getting a shower and coming back. Okay, bro.... Never saw Danny leave. Then a roadie came and told us all to split. That the band was sick and was not coming back. Danny still in bus...
7. NOW... The professional thing to do here is to make it up to all us faithful fockers who stood in the rain, joined a club that nothing has shipped from and paid attention to be one of the 25 peeps for this meet and greet.
IS regardless of WHO fucked this up (Since the club told you all did and your people told us the club did) Who cares wins! RIGHT? It doesn't matter how it got fucked up. You should have said something to us fans during or at the end of the show to let us know something. You owed us that much. And if you couldn't do it for whatever reason, then offer something in return for us being there for you!
Some of us were there 3 hours before the doors opened so we wouldn't miss the chance to meet you since, their was no posted info on what time this would take place. Paybacks are a bitch, But the band certainly owes us something. We gave you our time and money. You promised something that you didn't deliver.
Now I ask you, is that fair?
No it isn't....
And I'm shocked by your lack of respect for us.
Especially, old focking moshers like me who've been there since the 1st album.
uke: 
1. Your fans help you by: buying your tix, merch, recordings and everything else out there they can get their grumbie hands on. YEAH!
2. You launch a separate site for fans in appreciation and charge a fee to those faithful followers that are devoted to you. To have a one on one ability with the band. There's a fee, $25.00 (OF COURSE) But I'm in! Here's my money!
3. Thank your fans by offering a meet and greet to 20 or so knuckleheads who are actually paying attention. Meet and Greet, YEAH!
"finale a band that cares to meet their fans!"
4. Point, click, join, get a shirt and some swag (someday when they ship) and you're in. Right?
5. Meet and Greet day of show, (no details on CDC site, as told in confirming email, to go to Tours and check for the event where and when times.) That didn't happen... So off to the venue at 2pm VA. time, where finale someone tells you, you're on THE LIST and they will make an annocement at 8:30pm for you to meet the band outside of the venue. YEAH! Getting the itch! Can't Wait!
6. 8:30pm, comes, no annocement.... 8:45pm still nothing. Go to Club Owner and ask. Tells you it's been bumped up to 9:15pm. Okay, fine, just don't fuck us! 9:15pm comes, second band still playing, no annocement in between songs. Band plays until 9:30pm. Still no annoucement. WTF???
Then another mgr dude says, there's no time, they'll do it after the show.
THRAX plays, walks off and out the muddafuckin' door. We the IDIOTS with passes, Line up stage right where we were told to be. Bouncer dude says, I don't think they are doing the meet and greet. All of you have to leave here and go up front and wait. So 25 of us, schlep up to the front doors. People at the door are like, We haven't been told what's goin' on with that. So the fans that we are (Don't TAKE "NO" FOR AN ANSWER!) Go back to the inside of the club and they tell us to go out back. We're off and running. Only to see, Joey, Scott and Frank. Leaving in a mutha fucking SUV! WTF????
The bus is there, and Charlie and Danny are on it still. Roadie tells us everyone is gone, (what a dick, that he thinks we can't see them through the curtain). Then Charlie comes out 20mins later to get in an SUV. At least he stopped for some signing but wouldn't do pics. CHARLIE, THANK YOU MAN!!! He mentioned he was getting a shower and coming back. Okay, bro.... Never saw Danny leave. Then a roadie came and told us all to split. That the band was sick and was not coming back. Danny still in bus...
7. NOW... The professional thing to do here is to make it up to all us faithful fockers who stood in the rain, joined a club that nothing has shipped from and paid attention to be one of the 25 peeps for this meet and greet.
IS regardless of WHO fucked this up (Since the club told you all did and your people told us the club did) Who cares wins! RIGHT? It doesn't matter how it got fucked up. You should have said something to us fans during or at the end of the show to let us know something. You owed us that much. And if you couldn't do it for whatever reason, then offer something in return for us being there for you!
Some of us were there 3 hours before the doors opened so we wouldn't miss the chance to meet you since, their was no posted info on what time this would take place. Paybacks are a bitch, But the band certainly owes us something. We gave you our time and money. You promised something that you didn't deliver.
Now I ask you, is that fair?
No it isn't....
And I'm shocked by your lack of respect for us.
Especially, old focking moshers like me who've been there since the 1st album.
uke: 
thraxx
You'll Be in Hell With ME
Most of the time it has to due with traveling..... How far is the next City.......state, country....When i saw Anthrax and Priest in 2002 Charlie hooked me up...i had a Priest After show pass.... Well the Bastards at the Warfield...(killer place) said no.... you can go back after Priest.... well guess what Anthrax was GONE ..They HAD LEFT THE BUILDING!!!!!!!! I was pissed 1st the Raiders get burned(the tuck rule game was that night) and my favorite band with BUSH... was gone..... F-ME!!!!!!! So next time miss a song of Priest!!!!!!!!
guitarguts
Be All End All
Here here to all us who got FUCKED at JAXX last night. Let's hear your voices. Don't be a pussy! Speak English or Die!
Although I got screwed out of the meet and greet, the band more than made it up by putting on a great show. All is forgiven.
MyHatred
Chief Ten Beers
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For the dude who is genuinely pissed. This whole meet and greet thing sounds like a disaster and they should take it off the CDC fanclub because these types of stories keep popping up over and over. It's one thing to wait after the show by the tour buses to meet the band but to be told there is a meet and greet for the people who pay to be in the fanclub and then just jet out of the venue after the show is just wrong.
For the dude who is genuinely pissed. This whole meet and greet thing sounds like a disaster and they should take it off the CDC fanclub because these types of stories keep popping up over and over. It's one thing to wait after the show by the tour buses to meet the band but to be told there is a meet and greet for the people who pay to be in the fanclub and then just jet out of the venue after the show is just wrong.
MyHatred
Chief Ten Beers
AlexStomp said:
Yeah, I know what you mean but they list it as perk of being in the fanclub. Most of the people going to these shows are Belladonna fans anyway and they just want to meet the band. Sure they may get some uncomfortable questions every now and then but what do they expect? So my way of thinking is don't promise something that you aren't going to deliver.
MyHatred said:
Yeah, I've had the privelege of meeting this band many times. I understand a busy tour schedule and all of that. But some of these kids were really heartbroken and I felt bad for them. I told a couple of them " don't worry, they'll be back".
monstro
Brazilian Anthrax Website
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MyHatred
Chief Ten Beers
monstro said:
Yeah, what asshole fans they are
...Paying money to be in a fan club and being told there will be meet and greets. Then traveling a great distance to see the show. Then getting to the venue early enough to attend a scheduled meet and greet just to get a few pics and some stuff signed. Only to be left outside like a douche and completely wasting their time and when they do eventually get in the venue they have to run around the building like idiots being told "it's over there" and then "wait it's up there" missing most of the concert only to be told eventually that no one has a fucking clue as to what is going on. It would be one thing if it was an isolated incident, but it isn't. So Anthrax should just take that off the site as a perk.
LuvataciousSkull
Member
monstro said:
Back to the topic, though, that sucks! I wonder if this was the same show JohnThrax was at? I'm sorry to hear that happened, man! It's always sad to hear stories like this.
I just want to know who's running the fan club? Because if it's FanFire, take it from Metallica and Megadeth, they suck ass!
