Great place but avoid concerts or any other live p...

Great place but avoid concerts or any other live performance at this place. Here's why: "Members" basically get free tickets to concerts and asking them to follow the basic etiquette most people know off the top of their heads during a performance isn't going to happen. It had nothing to do with alcohol (people can bring this in) or even the one person smoking pot by us (it's a live outdoor concert). This place is full of people who go to free shows and act like this is catch-up social time with their friends at the expense of other people who just want to watch the show.

When I went to see Dead Can Dance at the Garden I had to deal with dozens of people around me who would stand in front of others watching the performance, socialize at the tops of their voices with the performance going on, act like others have problems if asked to try and be quiet and ushers who act like snobs if they are asked to something. We arrived in moderate time to stake out a place to see the performance only to have hordes of "members" show minutes (even during) the performance get the users to clear spots in the crowd for them to park their lawn chairs and chat the night away with people behind them saying "wtf". They would pull out smartphones and do whatever people with smartphones do creating a sea of light and distraction; we even had kids next to us playing with literal flashlights. They may get tickets with donations to the garden but we paid over 80 bucks for two tickets to see this band perform. This is an educated crowd, why they refused to show some courtesy during the show is beyond me but I will avoid shows there in the future. Others were so annoyed by people who couldn't be quiet that literal fistfights could have easily started.

Now, is this just a few bad apples here and there? No, it was certain percentage of people at the show who didn't know or could care less that I had waited about 20 years to see this band perform live. It only takes a few people to screw up a live performance and there were more than a few people here doing this just like this was another day. Yes this is a rant but this was a festival of snobs who really didn't need to be there ruining a great performance. When guys (huge guys with long hair, dressed in black with combat boots) who look like they listen to Death Metal are asking normal everyday people to act civilized at a live performance happens, something is very wrong.