Waiting more than 25 hours outside in the chilly Colorado autumn to pay $350 for tickets to an Aspen concert that’s more than three months away didn’t bother Ben Gregory and Marisa Pasquini in the slightest (at least not at 1:30 p.m., with the sun still warming the air — the hard part was still to come).
“We’ll stand the cold if the boys bring the heat,” Gregory said. “To deal with this — of course it’s worth it.”
The “boys” are the six members who make up the Southern rock band Widespread Panic, and Gregory and Pasquini were the first ones to line up Thursday morning outside Belly Up to buy tickets to the group’s upcoming Aspen shows. Last week, it was announced that Panic would end its Wood Tour with three shows at Belly Up, Feb. 17-19.
Gregory, from Basalt, and Pasquini, from Aspen, had arrived at 8:30 a.m., and by early afternoon, the line for tickets — which went on sale at 10 a.m. Friday.
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