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Last nights NO APOLOGIES tour was out of control.  Chris Rock, in my opinion, puts on the best stand up show I have ever seen.  He went on for nearly 2 hours in front of a packed house of over 6,000 at the Gibson Amphitheater.

As I mentioned in yesterday’s post, the squirrel and I got two single tickets, both front row orchestra but in different sections for the show.  Instead of paying $179 per ticket as was the going rate on the Ticket Brokers, we paid $40 and $65 respectively, so it was a killer deal.

The challenge was if we were actually going to be able to sit together.  We arrived as the opening act (Mario Joyner) went on.  There were still a bunch of empty seats.  People in Los Angeles are famous for showing up late and leaving early.  Par for the course with any event. 

I was all ready to use one of my techniques to get her down into my section, but was surprised to see the security was VERY relaxed.  Nobody checked our tickets at all.  I had a feeling that there would be two seats in my row opened seeing as I checked the internet and saw that there were two still for sale earlier in the day.

Sure enough, we were able to sit together front row orchestra for the opening act.  Even though the show was “sold out”, there were several seats in the PIT area (directly in front of us) still open during the first act.  We stayed put in our seats, though, because there is NOTHING wrong with front row orchestra.  We had a railing to put our feet up, no one in front of us.  It was AWESOME!!!

Mario’s riff on Home Depot employees and cell phones was brilliant.

Just as Chris went on, the two seats that were empty in my row were taken by a VERY young couple.  It must have been the younger brother of the Scalpers who were trying to get $179 per ticket, because these kids looked really out of place.  But nonetheless, it was their seats, so I was going to have to separate us……If I didn’t already have my next option scouted out!

I saw that  there were four seats together in the 2^nd row of the PIT in the dead center.  So close that Chris Rock was looking at us when he was talking to this crowd of 6,000 plus.  It was as if he was in our living room.  I snapped a few pics for you at the beginning of his set, but then put the phone away and enjoyed the show. 

I apologize in advance for the truly ghetto pics my phone takes.  My brother says there is probably a setting on my phone that allows the pictures to be bigger, so when I see him today I will let him fix that for me.  I suck at handling technology.