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Date Posted: 17:16:27 04/02/00 Sun
Author: Moonbeam Maker
Author Host/IP: cflow1.mts.net / 205.200.28.44
Subject: Winnipeg Sun

Here's today's Wpg. Sun article. Wonder if there'll be a second show??

'Peg rocks box office
Guess Who seats sell out in a day

THE WINNIPEG SUN
By GREG Di CRESCE -- Staff Reporter

Mike Lebel was looking at the seats left yesterday in CanWest Global Park for a June 30 concert by The Guess Who -- and the 36-year-old Winnipegger wasn't thrilled.
Lebel was at the park's ticket booth just after noon, when tickets had been on sale for just over two hours.
"I guess the wives aren't coming," he laughed, ordering six tickets instead of eight in a more expensive section of the park.
About two hours later, at 2 p.m., The Guess Who's Winnipeg gig -- "for all intents and purposes" -- slugged a box office grand slam and sold out.

'PRODIGAL SONS'

"We had high expectations for this market and it went just as we hoped. Winnipeg embraced its prodigal sons," said the tour's national promoter Kevin Donnelly, Western vice-president of House of Blues Concerts Canada.
"It's been absolutely fantastic," band manager Lorne Saifer said from Los Angeles, where he was monitoring sales by cell phone. Saifer, a former Winnipegger, figured the show would do well in the band's home town.
Donnelly said the 1,000 gold circle tickets priced at $79.50 a seat were among the first to sell.
With the remaining 9,000 tickets also gobbled up by early afternoon, Donnelly decided at 5 p.m. yesterday to add 200 more seats to the show.
Ticket sales in Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary and Edmonton, which started Friday, have gotten out of the blocks well, Donnelly said.
"In Toronto, we sold 4,000 tickets in the first hour the box office was open, and the response has been similar in the other cities," he said.
"All of Canada has a special spot in its heart for this group," Donnelly said.
Mitch Brennan, a ticket seller at the CanWest TicketMaster booth, said he can't speak for the rest of the country but Winnipeg is "wild about the Guess Who."
Brennan said a lineup for tickets began Friday at 5:30 a.m. and by the time he showed up for work at 10 a.m. yesterday it was at least 200 people strong.
"For our first major event other than baseball this was amazing. I even had a guy ask me if he should camp overnight to ensure he'd be at the front of the line to see his heroes rock," Brennan said.
Most of those in line were between 35 to 55, Brennan added.

The tour will rock 22 other cities across Canada.

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