Santa Barbara Bowl

User Rating: 2 out of 5 stars

This was our experience at the KJEE Summer Round-Up concert May 18, 2008. Note - everyone was over 40.

- bag searched 3 times on way in

- our sunblock confiscated [from a grandmother in our group] - in a heatwave - "because we might throw it at the band"

- can't stand still anywhere in the shade ... moved 8 times times before going to seats

- and the most insane rule: YOU CAN ONLY BUY 2 WATERS AT A TIME! We were told it's because we might spill them. I am NOT kidding! Its 88 degrees, they've confiscated our sunblock and won't sell me enough water for our group during a 7 hour daytime show !!!

- and there was no crowd control where it actually is important - in the bathroom tunnel entrance area

I'm wondering if the County Bowl's rules are getting too heavy handed and the focus is too much on fundraising and fancy new buildings for the donors and not the experience anymore - the lawn's now a concrete pad, the seats are more uncomfortable than a High School stadium, and the rules are so absurd you'd think Homeland Security was running the place.

On the positive side once you've pushed your way through the tunnel entrance the bathrooms are a huge improvement.

This is one disappointed & sunburned Santa Barbara resident!

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