I received an interesting note from a reader yesterday about the Tuesday night Metallica concert at the BOK Center:<br /><br /><blockquote>We arrived at 7 walking from McNellies ([we wanted to take <a href="http://www.bokcenter.com/general.asp?id=127&amp;siteuse=">the shuttle</a> over to the BOK Center from there, but] we never saw a clear shuttle stop in front of the restaurant.) The show started at 7 with the opening act and we figured we’d miss a bit of them.<br /><br />We get there and there is a line a mile long. TO GET IN. People with tickets got extra screwed because the line was even longer to get in. They were metal detecting everyone and you had to empty your pockets and get wanded. That’s fine but it was so slow and inefficient. They had teenagers running it. It wasn’t professional. They banned several items ( cameras, spiked jewelry) but they don’t tell you until you get to the front. They could have saved a  bunch of time if they had people going through the line telling people the rulz. Fortunately, we didn’t have anything.<br /><br />Anyway, it was FREEZING outside and we were in line to get in the door with tickets for over an hour with frequent harassment from drunk guys ( to be expected) but the police were just standing there doing hardly nothing ( well, they did arrest a drunk kid.)<br /><br />Okay, so we are almost to the doors and the SPRINKLERS come on on us! We had to move fast!<br /><br />Then, we get in and needed to pee. The men’s bathroom line was forever long…took my husband about 30 more minutes. Took me about 10 minutes to get through but they only had the front bathrooms open, ½ the stalls wouldn’t flush, no toilet paper or towels, no attendants or workers to be found. The bathrooms have two openings to it was all confusing as to who was next in line which really didn’t speed up the process, either.<br /><br />Also mad that we were one of the first ones to order our tickets and got the furthest back seats. We were told they were best available but people were buying groups of tickets and getting better seats than us. In fact, where we sat, it was all sparse. I don’t understand how that happened. The seats weren’t bad though…I don’t think there is a bad seat but still the worst of the good seats.<br /><br />Fortunately, Metallica didn’t come out until 9 so we didn’t miss a minute of them. Got there just in time. The no smoking rule really cut back on the smoke…. I could actually breathe! Last Metallica concert I went to, I got second hand high and coughed up some nasty crap for a week.<br /><br />McNellies was great. They gave us a reservation and were very quick with everything. We could stay parked there all night, too.</blockquote><br />Sounds to me like McNellies was the best part of this evening. Anyone else have these types of experiences with shows at the BOK?