Foo Fighters fans at the front of the line outside Fingerprints Record Store patiently wait Monday to secure free tickets in the form of wristbands to an in-store performance by the band on April 16.
1:45pm | When local record shop Fingerprints announced that it would be hosting a free in-store show featuring the Foo Fighters in honor of Record Store Day on April 16, owner Rand Forster knew the implications in terms of the massive crowd the show would likely draw.
So on Monday at 7 p.m. the store began distributing 200 wristbands that will be required to gain entry to the intimate April 16 Foo Fighters show. As the bands were passed out to those at the head of the line, which wrapped around the block where the store recently relocated — the 400 block of east Fourth Street — limited to two per person, it was mere minutes before the bands were gone and the show was officially “sold out.”
Foo Fighters fans had come from far and wide for a chance to see their favorite band for free. As they waited patiently in line, Janean Curautt, Jessica Rodriguez and Bryan Sandoval told the Long Beach Post that they had traveled all the way from the San Fernando Valley.
While 100 people went home happy Monday night, many more went away disappointed.
All photos by Long Beach Post photographer Daniel DeBoom.
Fingerprints Record Store owner Rand Foster, right, distributes white wristbands to the first 100 people who lined up outside his store Monday. The wristbands will gain the bearer entrance to a free in-store concert on April 16 featuring the Foo Fighters.
Fingerprints Record Store owner Rand Forster mingles with Foo Fighters fans waiting in a line outside his store that wrapped around the block Monday in hopes of securing one of 200 wristbands available to gain access to a free, in-store Foo Fighters show April 16.
Fans waiting in a line that stretched around the block from Fingerprints Record Store Monday hoping to score wristbands to the free in-store Foo Fighters show slated for April 16 pass the time by doing homework and playing with their phones.
Fingerprints Record Store Owner Rand Forster, second from right, delivers the bad news to fans who had lined up outside his store Monday that there are no more wristbands for the free in-store show featuring the Foo Fighters on April 16.