Klipsch Music Center

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Adam M

Great venue, good acoustics, good view from just about anywhere, and completely inept management. Let me say, Ive been going to concerts here for a long time. Absolutely Love the venue itself, but over the years the inability of the management to address the basic capacity requirements, and the continuing decline in the IQ/quality of the associates working there have begun to really drag the experience down. The capacity of the venue has not materially changed for a decade, and you know how many people are coming before the show? PLAN ACCORDINGLY, this is not rocket science! Constant supply shortages on everything from Beer, to toilet paper, paired with long lines for EVERYTHING. Actually, many of the problems have come since Live Nation has taken it over, its gotten significantly worse. All of the "rules" are guidelines that have subjective interpretation as in; if you subject the 18 year old threatening to ban you for whatever his co-workers have dared him to ban you for, to a $20 "Tip" they will generally let it slide this time. But they will be back in an hour to harass you more. An example is carrying multiple beverages back to your friends, so the whole group does not have to miss half the concert waiting in a 30 minute line to pay $9 for a can of Coors Light that, may or may not be out of stock by the time the opening act is complete. I have seen the behavior the "beads" poster mentioned on numerous occasions. These employees are the only thing slimier than the bathroom. The bathrooms themselves, are an experiment in biological warfare by the time the concerts start, leading me to believe they are not cleaned daily. And ladies forget toilet paper, under any circumstances. For full disclosure, you are allowed to bring that in (but its likely to be banned once they figure out how to sell it to you by the square). This will likely require hiring a staffer with basic arithmetic skills, potentially a degree to calculate how much they can make per roll, so its probably safe for a couple of years. If you are crazy enough to actually park there, you must get there late as those are the first cars to get out. If you go early and catch the opener, you WILL not get out of there for 2-3 hours. Again, this can be greatly "influenced" by a tip. If you are smart, just camp nearby; although Verizons ridiculously overpriced camp site now sells beer, and have since banned you bringing your own. The fun in staying at the “official campsite,” would be walking distance, and you WILL see the same slimebags that were kicking people out of the concert for smoking tobacco AT the campsite after the show buying, selling, consuming illegal substances, and begging or intimidating campers into giving them beer under-age. Live Nation: prices on everything from tickets to nachos are up since youve taken over. At the very least, hire a competent GM and an HR Manager to manage the venue. Or, outsource the management to a competent group. Even paying under-market, and with low margin; Wal-mart is able to provide clean bathrooms and stock on the shelves. I’ve recently spent some time with the fine folks at your Noblesville Wal-Mart, and you could learn a lot from them.

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T Jones

ABSOLUTELY HORRIBLE, first of all the VIP parking is a joke. We had to wait while they directed the free parking cars into their lots in front of us. Even when those cars stopped due to bottleneck, the attendant wouldnt let us continue to the VIP lot. When we tried to go around him, he jumped on the front of my car screaming. YOU WILL WAIT! At the end of the show they had closed all exits except for one, so they made us merge 4 lanes of traffic into 1 lane that directed us away from the highway. The route they gave us had us travel 1 mile down the road and make a UTurn to go right back passed the exit that we just came out of. Ridiculous. Our friends took the free parking and were out and on the highway in less than 20 minutes. We sat in traffic for over an hour due to the merging, the Uturn and all the closed exits. A total waste of $25. During the show, the singer came into the crowd and headed toward the back of the pavilion. Of course lots of people in the front sections tried to head to the back to see him, once he was done, security blocked the front sections and you could not get back into your seats even with your ticket stub. Check out UTube you can see for yourself, after Shinedown does Simple Man, the pavilion is about empty, thats because security wouldnt let you back into your seats. They had a guard in the ladies bathroom blocking half of the stalls so it was impossible to get in and out of the bathroom between shows. You had to go in the exit and sneak into the back part of the bathroom if you had any hope of getting in and out in under 30 minutes. I understand the attendants checking tickets at the pavilion to make sure you actually have seats but how about having more then two people who also have to watch the beer cans. They sell beer in cans but you cant take it in the pavilion so there was a huge bottleneck to enter the pavilion when each band started while they made you pour your beer into cups. We missed half of the first song of the first two bands due to this delay until we realized it was easier to go in through the back of the pavilion and then come down through the seats to the front sections. I paid good money for my tickets and was not impressed with the sneaking in the bathroom and touring the pavilion. It was not what I paid for. I feel sorry for the Indy fans that have to put up with such behavior from the venue. The sound was terrible, if you didnt know the songs, you wouldnt have been able to recognize them at all. The bands kept apologizing but it was really bad sound. This was the third and last chance for this venue, we wont be back.

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Michael Senczyszyn

First time here and will return. Black Sabbath Aug 18, 2013 Had a 3.5 hr ride from Lansing, Michigan. Brought the cooler and propane grill for pre game activity, which proved to be handy for the post show festivities. Free lot is gravel drive with grass parking. Inside, security was friendly and yes, drinks were pricey, but good variety and size options. Mid show potty break was a 5 minute wait at the mens room. WTF, thats a whole song. Was in the back rows of the pavilion and sound was exceptional. Post show exit strategy is to be desired. At least an hour wait, def longer, so I cranked the music, cooked more brats and drank a few more while the cars slowly trickled out. Show end at 10:15, i was the last car out at midnight. No biggie, as I didnt have to work the next day, which was Monday. My local venue DTE Energy music theater in Clarkston, Michigan is very similar. Differences are 1) once at your car DTE post show, youre out of the lot and headed home in 5-10 minutes. 2) Klipsch lot is a free for all tailgate. Security in the free lot is non existent until after the show. DTE security is abundant and you must drink out of plastic cups in the lot. That is understandable though. The amphitheaters location helped bring a diverse group of enthusiasts together from different states to tail gate next to each other, which include Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky and of course Indiana. We had a blast. Notable mention. The group parked next to us, lost a member for over an hour and security drove around and found him. Hilarious. He was sitting at the amphitheater exit crying thinking they abandoned him. Good times.

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