1970-1 Amsterdam
1973-1 Rotterdam
1976-1 The Hague
1990-1 Paris
2003-3 Rotterdam (1), Amsterdam (2)
2007-1 Nijmegen

+ Charley Watts/Jack Bruce - 1, North Sea Jazz Festival
+ Mick taylor/Carla Bley - 1, Pink Pop

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Kleer,
I've been to 73 and 76 shows and I've been to the Hague gigs as well. Wasn't it 2? Have you been to the gig with the Hells Angels incident?

Anyhow, while I'm more of a Stones/Taylor fan I still didn't find the 76 and even the The Hague shows so bad. Have you been on the "floor" or at the side of that small stadium? I stood directly before the stage (for some time) and the sound and atmosphere were very good!

Cousin, I saw guys with long sticks running after each other before the beginning of the Rotterdam 1973 concert. Not sure if they were Hells Angels. But when I had to pee, there were many Hells Angels all over the place of the toilets, staring threatening at me, being a small 18 years old boy with long hair and a pink t-shirt. So it was extemely hard to get something out there. But when the Stones began to play that was all forgotten and it was simply stunning.

I was at the first The Hague show in 76 (May 29). I was on the floor/field, at a stone's throw distance from the stage, right in the middle of the sound system, so I could hear it extremely well. I exaggerated a bit, but I was indeed disappointed because I still had the memory and experience of 73 in mind. The atmosphere on the contrary was very good there, very relaxed. At the end I had big problems because of the dangerous scramble of the crowd that went in opposite directions at the same time. So because of the disappointment and because of that scary experience I decided never to go to a Stones concert anymore, especially not in a stadium. But in 1982 I had many friends who never had seen the Stones before and who wanted me to go with them, so I went to that concert. It was pure entertainment and show, and if there's something that I dislike it's entertainment, so I didn't enjoy that 'concert' at all. My friends found it exciting having seen them, but when I asked them about the music they couldn't say something special. So I believe the 'big crowd' goes to a Stones concert for in particular the kick of seeing living rock legends from the far past.

PS: The second The Hague gig (the next evening) I could hear very well with my friends in my own appartment, because at that time I lived very near to that little stadium (Zuiderpark) and the wind was favourable. That was nice.

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Kleer,
How could you not see them since 1982?
I was going to mention how lucky Hansie is to be
based in the Nederlands, but it sounded not as intended...
You guys have close access to soooooo many shows, multi night in town
and juts down the raod ..and jump easy over to Germany...or tube to London?
why not more shows???
I have only seen them 3 times in my city.... all of the rest I had to
travel between 300 to 3000 to 8000 miles .... but it was worth it.

Max, the reason is actually very obvious. I was there in 1973 October in Rotterdam and it was stunning. [[b]Then in 1976 in a little stadium in The Hague, but I was, just like Amsterdamned, quite disappointed about the music.[/b] In 1982 in a big stadium in Rotterdam. It was hot, the crowd was way too big, the music way too small. I've seen the DVD Atlantic City, the SAL DVD. I saw and heard no band but something shapeless. Totally boring. Entertainment. I hate entertainment.

PS: I attended the four great Mozart operas and his Requiem during the last years. That was thrilling I can guarantee you. I had the same experience as I had when I attended the Stones concert in Rotterdam 1973: absolutely thrilling and musically simply fantastic.

Kleer,
I've been to 73 and 76 shows and I've been to the Hague gigs as well. Wasn't it 2? Have you been to the gig with the Hells Angels incident?

Anyhow, while I'm more of a Stones/Taylor fan I still didn't find the 76 and even the The Hague shows so bad. Have you been on the "floor" or at the side of that small stadium? I stood directly before the stage (for some time) and the sound and atmosphere were very good!

I was at The Hague concert in 1976, front of stage with the Hells Angels incident. Didnt like the concert at all, too much Black and Blue. My then GF walked out on me before the music and when the hassle started, I didnt care too much, had had a little too much red wine, it was very hot and crowded, but the Angels didnt hassle me. Weirdly enough I ended up sittng next to a dude from The Hague, with a neat jacket and hairdo, telling me not to worry, and showing me his gun in his jacket. Well, I didnt :p



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Weirdly I ended up sittng next to a dude from The Hague, with a neat jacket, telling me not to worry, and showing me his gun in the jacket. Well, I didnt :p

Jos, this sentence of you brings back many memories from my period in The Hague. I was a student at Leiden University but I lived in The Hague (in the Schilderswijk) and I worked also in The Hague in a community centre for youth. Man, what I've seen and experienced there! Pistols, knives, fights etc. etc. But I had much luck: I was good at sports and had the 'gift of the gab'. I also could speak with their typical Hague accent and could use their typical Hague humour which is very witty indeed. So they respected me and I had never problems. I lived in two totally different worlds back then: that Hague community centre and the Hague district I lived in on one hand and the Leyden university world on the other.

Stones: 16 (starting in 90) + tickets to 3 cancelled shows.
Taylor solo: 3
Wyman solo: 1

C

110 shows, starting on June 24th 1965 in Oslo. Final so far: August 26th 2007, the O2, London.
Wyman twice
Taylor once
Charlie three times (with different people!)

Does Tim Ries - The Rolling Stones Project count? Seen them 6 or 7 times.



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only 7 first Turin 1982 last Slane Castle 2007

5 shows

5 concerts

I get the feeling Gazza is showing off his resume. This thread should ask more so "how many tours?" 18 is my number, first in Lexington, KY 1981. Sure wish I could've made the 70's!

I would say 14 or 15 not quite sure have to check it out one day.

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I get the feeling Gazza is showing off his resume. This thread should ask more so "how many tours?" 18 is my number, first in Lexington, KY 1981. Sure wish I could've made the 70's!

In that case, I've covered 4 tours......

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I get the feeling Gazza is showing off his resume. This thread should ask more so "how many tours?" 18 is my number, first in Lexington, KY 1981. Sure wish I could've made the 70's!

Yeah, acknowledging that people who have seen a tenth as many shows as I have are very often bigger fans and that the statistic is basically meaningless is 'showing off', right enough.

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Quite a few shows so far. I gave up counting when I was sitting in East Village NYC some years ago, making a list of shows I had attended, and then realized I had forgot about an entire tour leg. The number is not important. What is important is that you get Satisfaction, through the number of shows you need in order to get Satisfaction.

People do ask me why I go to all these shows. Why? Because it is just like following your team, football or ice hockey. They have good days and they have bad days. But the Stones are exceptional. Their performance depend on many things. Their general "mood". Ups and downs. Weather. Crowd. Set list. Venue. It is coming to a point on a tour when you sense they are booming. For some reason that does often happen in the NYC area during September, 1-2 months into the tour. Then the shows simply get better and better. And if you are "on" the tour you will be lucky to hit the "jackput" i.e. that single show where everybody, including the band and the crowd, simply boost into the best show of the entire tour.

If you go to one or a few shows you may get a lot of satisfaction, but for me, I am crazy about being there when they hit the jackpot. It might happen in Wichita, Hartford, MSG NYC, River Plate Stadium BA, or other places. Nothing compares to that moment during the show when you realize you are there and that is the moment you have been looking for. Like climbing a mountain. There are many peaks but when you are on the top everything is below you...

Impressive. All I can say that there are many, many worse addictions than catching the key moment of the Stones tour...

Just thinking; were there people - expect STP - like BV soing the same thing in, say, 1969, 1970, 1972, 1973 tours - quite many of us here do that through the bootlegs nowadays but as we all know there is a difference in watching second-generation porno than taking part to the real thing... But most likely the audiences were quite young then and not afford to travel the world with the band. Luckily there were "jackpots" offered almost every night...

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..251 starting at MSG in 1969

mickscarey.. ya been to 251 Rolling Stones concerts gee thats alot so what sort of money would that of all cost it would have to be right up there in the 10s of thousands of dollars surely

$TONE$ TICKETS X 251 = $..?

WAY more than that. Could have ought a nice big house.

mickscarey..Mick probably bought one of his houses with it instead..><

3.

One Steel Wheels, two Voodoo.

Saw Keith on the Offender tour - excellent.

In fact, I dare say that show was the best of all of them. I enjoyed the Steel Wheels show because of what had happened and they were very tight. Voodoo was a bit of a snooze to some extent - I liked the new stuff for the most part, didn't really care to hear the usual (JJF, Brown Sugar, Satisfaction was the piss breaker). Loved Not Fade Away, Tumbling Dice, Shattered, Out Of Tears, I Go Wild, The Worst, It's All Over Now and Monkey Man.

Keith's show was just incredible.

Rolling Stones - 5
New Barbarians - 1
Mick Taylor - 3
Bob Dylan/Tom Petty with "surprise" guest appearance by Ronnie - 2

Not many, I know, but there's not too many bands I've seen more than that. The summer I graduated from high school I spent most weekends hanging out at one particular bar, and I think I saw the same local covers band play there 8 times. That's probably still the record for the most times I've ever seen one band, though if you add up all the times I've seen various members of CSNY, it totals 17 shows.

CSNY - 2
CSN - 5
Crosby solo - 2
Stills solo - 2
Nash solo - 1
Young solo -3
Nash at "No Nukes" - 1
Crosby at Jimmy Webb tribute - 1



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fifty if you count everything that includes Keith

45 (+ Keith & Winos, Ronnie with Tottas Blues Band and with Slash, Mick Taylor for some shows and Bill Wyman with Rythm Kings for some shows)

......and still counting.

Always more shows on the new tour than it was from the last one. Started with 2 shows in 1982 and ended up so far with 16 shows on ABB.

Per-Arne

24 - Knebworth '76 first and the O2 in 2007 the last.

Not seen Mick or Keith solo but have seen the Rhythm Kings twice, Ronnie with B B King and the Charlie Watts Big Band.

I want to get to 30 shows please guys!

Oslo 1990, first show
Oslo 1995
Oslo 1998
Stockholm Stadium 2003
Bergen 2006
Oslo 2007

8 times.

2 during Voodoo, 2 during BTB, 1 during Licks, 3 during ABB.

Hopefully at least 1 more

Well, Gazza, you've managed to cheer me up quite a bit! I have always regretted NOT seeing more shows during that '72 Tour and it wasn't because I didn't sense the magnitude of these shows. It was that I was still living at home with my parents and had no real income of my own so I felt guilty asking for MORE tickets. It was a very big deal for my parents to arrange to take me to one of these shows, involving them taking days out of work, etc. That one show in 1972 is the one I go back to in my mind over and over. It's a safe, happy place. I don't know if others would actually trade ten shows for that one but I'll tell you this...I'd not trade it for anything!

Thirty something. First- Cleveland, "75. Last- The final O2 show.

"Take all the pain...It's yours anyway"

Six times;
1: 1981, Pontiac Silverdome
2: 1989, Alpine Valley
2: 2002, Singapore
1: 2006, Shanghai

10 times - which actually raises the eyebrows of usual folk. But it pales in comparison to some fans of course.

I figure 10 is not bad considering my age and the fact that I live on an island off the west coast of Canada, far from the population centres of the east coast and Europe.

Sadly..only two:

Licks Tour 09/18/2002 Veterans Stadium - Philadelphia, PA

A Bigger Bang Tour 10/10/2005 Wachovia Center- Philadelphia, PA

6 stadium shows and one time in a smaller place...One of these shows were really a great concert, guess which..