lulz, for the stuff that *I* did we never had the artificial line. A couple of times we sold out venues and legitimately had people outside that couldn't get in, or for various reasons we'd be late opening the doors and would have a nice line going. Of course, back then (98-01) for the shows we were doing (drum and bass) we would usually have to have off duty cops frisk people at the doors for drugs. Sigh. Of course we'd just let the dope dealers in the back door...