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Old 01-14-2019, 04:04 AM   #16
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Tickets went on sale a few weeks ago ultra. You should check it out; it is a grand event when the Stones play. I agree that the tickets are way overpriced on this tour. They are playing fewer dates and spreading them out more as a necessary concession to age. They are making up for less dates by charging more. When I watched the Scorcese directed performance at the Beacon Theater (2006), I thought they were done. I recently watched Havana Moon (2016)and was pretty impressed. The biggest drawback for me is that they are just a greatest hits band at this point. Most bands that do this play casinos in places like Tulalip or Lincoln City.
I've seen them 3 times, and I wasn't all that happy in 2006. Dave Matthews opened and most of the crowd was just shuffling in while he was doing his set. I thought the Stones were way over-rehearsed. It didn't feel like there was any spontaneity to the show at all. It just felt queued up. Paid $165 to sit about 40 rows back and just to the left of center stage. If you were there, you would remember when Jagger ran down the center isle from the stage all the way to the other end of the football field, probably about a 70 yard dash and then danced his way back. He was about 15 feet from me as he ran past. He was 62 years old at the time and I thought how does he do that after playing for over an hour already. The guy truly is a healthy man for his age and experiences he has put himself through.

I saw the Scorcese movie also. Greatest hits band, exactly. The "freshest" song they played in 2006 was Start Me Up, released in 1981. Even Keith's two numbers were off Tattoo You and Let It Bleed. Up to that time he'd sing The Worst from Voodoo Lounge, but I think he gave that up and is doing stuff from the heyday now. And yea, the fact they can fill football stadiums at the prices they charge is a testament to the power of nostalgia.
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In 2016 I was gifted two VIP tickets to Desert Trip in Coachella... Stones, Dylan, McCartney, Neil Young, The Who and more. Sold them for 5k each plus my my home for 5 days for 5k more. Could have gotten more.
My wife went with 3 of her girlfriends. $1500 got you in to all 3 nights.
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In 2016 I was gifted two VIP tickets to Desert Trip in Coachella... Stones, Dylan, McCartney, Neil Young, The Who and more. Sold them for 5k each plus my my home for 5 days for 5k more. Could have gotten more.
Roger Waters of Pink Floyd rounded out the line-up.
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Is this concert part of their Depends Tour?
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Is this concert part of their Depends Tour?
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In 1964, those are the Bad Boys of pop music. The anti-Beatles.

Keith looks like he's about 14.
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Do you remember when your kids came home from school--you would ask them what they learned in school that day?

One day my 9 or 10 yr old daughter (at the time) --told me she learned Duncan Heinz was a real person, and that Mick Jagger was older than cake mix
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All the money must make up for the embarrassment they must, you would think at least sometimes, feel when watching the shows afterward. What 75 year old man romps around like that in public? I understand these guys, to put it mildly, have a "we don't give a f@#$ what you or anybody else thinks" attitude. But there have to be those moments when one is alone with one's self and he would think "Do I look ridiculous? Am I becoming a joke?".

These guys may have the arrogance and ego to deny that to themselves. They may have that feeling of self importance which makes them immune to that thinking. But there are people out there, millions of them, with adult children, who themselves weren't out of diapers when the Rolling Stones were last relevant, and not even born before they were international superstars. They haven't meant a thing to the rock and roll scene for at least 30 years now. By the time Jagger was done with his 2 album solo career, had read the writing on the wall that even as well as those records sold, he wasn't going to be able to carry it off, it was apparent that the whole pop/rock scene had moved on and would get by quite easily without hearing anything more from the Rolling Stones.

The mid 80s to the present is just Stone fans wanting to pad their "this is how many times I've seen the Stones" count, or those catching up, music fans that had grown up with them but never seen them, and now able to pay high ticket prices for reserved seats in, for Rock n Roll, a basically controlled environment.

Ladies and Gentlemen, the band that gave you Gimme Shelter and Street Fighting Man..............not to mention Star Star and The Cocksucker Blues
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You arent kidding!
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Picture says 1000 words. They still play their parts, yet much, much more subdued.

They are going to make, literally, hundreds of millions of dollars over the next 6 to 8 months.
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Picture says 1000 words. They still play their parts, yet much, much more subdued.

They are going to make, literally, hundreds of millions of dollars over the next 6 to 8 months.


And all off of a 15 year period that ended about 40 years ago.

Damn, I can't quit thinking about this. It's really quite incredible what these guys have pulled off. Back in the 60s, the life expectancy of the best pop bands was about 18 months. They'd flood the market with as much material as possible while they were the hot item, just waiting for the moment when they'd be eclipsed by the next hot act. That was before the "light bulb" moment came to these performers that if they wrote their own material, they could keep it going as long as they found there was still an interest in what they had to say. A Hard Day's Night, a movie soundtrack made up exclusively of original, self-penned material, changed the Rock n Roll industry forever.

In about a year, the 50th anniversary of the breakup of The Beatles will occur. Who knows what "new" repackaged stuff will be available to add to Paul McCartney's $1 Billion net worth.

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