On Overselling

D and I had tickets to last night's Def Leppard / Bryan Adams show. Their co-headlining tour this summer, the "Rock and Roll Doubleheader Tour," was only playing in Minor League ballparks. The local date was being held in Dutchess Stadium.

Having ascertained in advance that Def Leppard was the "closing" act last night, and not having any interest in Bryan Adams at all, we decided to head over a bit after the start of the show, and try to avoid as much of Adams' set as possible.

We get there to find that:

• Dutchess Stadium has 1 parking lot.
• It is full to capacity.
• There are no neighboring lots with overflow functionality of any sort.
• You cannot park on any of the roads on the vicinity of the stadium.
• The nearest "apparently safe" place to park was about a mile or so away.

Now, seriously, who the heck designs a stadium but doesn't give its parking lot enough capacity to handle the max capacity of the stadium? This wasn't like the lot was "barely full" and there were a couple cars parked outside, there were, on the side-street we found, which was the first place to park, about a mile of cars parked on the side of the road. This is way more than "slightly over-capacity".

In the end, we decided that Def Leppard was not worth walking a mile (just to the stadium entrance, let alone how far we might have to walk into the grounds itself to get to the show), and bailed on it completely. Instead we went to see War of the Worlds, which pretty much sucked.

So needless to say, not a great evening.