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Gazza
..and all so they could play a stadium show...to just 30,000 fans in the same stadium where 60,000 had saw them play 13 months earlier..
Proof of what a shambles much of the latter end of the ABB tour was. Cohl booking them into freezing stadiums in awful weather conditions (couldnt they have played one night at the United Centre instead?) - no wonder Jagger's voice ended up going. Large sections of stadia tarped off due to poor sales, last minute 2 tickets for the price of 1 'firesales' in order to shift thousands of unsold tickets. A low point in their career without question.
Only 30,000 showed up in a "rock n roll city" like Chicago???
People there have no problem freezing their asses off for a football game in December or January.
Yeah, a huge blunder by Cohl, however, where were all of the fans of Chicago? There are nearly 10M people in the metro area (as anyone who lives within a couple of hours of there claims that they are from Chicago.)
No wonder Cleveland has the Rock N Roll Hall and not Chicago - Cleveland would have filled the place.
Surprised me too! But it probably has to do with the frequent stops in Chicago...the high ticket prices (i didn't know about the "buy one get one" deal) and the fact the weather was so miserable that there were no show-day ticket purchases for fear of cancellation. ?? I'm sure Gazza knows more stats & details. I won tickets from a Milw radio station THAT morning and raced down to Soldier Field after work....missed opener Elvis Costello.
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Gazza
..and all so they could play a stadium show...to just 30,000 fans in the same stadium where 60,000 had saw them play 13 months earlier..
Proof of what a shambles much of the latter end of the ABB tour was. Cohl booking them into freezing stadiums in awful weather conditions (couldnt they have played one night at the United Centre instead?) - no wonder Jagger's voice ended up going. Large sections of stadia tarped off due to poor sales, last minute 2 tickets for the price of 1 'firesales' in order to shift thousands of unsold tickets. A low point in their career without question.
Only 30,000 showed up in a "rock n roll city" like Chicago???
People there have no problem freezing their asses off for a football game in December or January.
Yeah, a huge blunder by Cohl, however, where were all of the fans of Chicago? There are nearly 10M people in the metro area (as anyone who lives within a couple of hours of there claims that they are from Chicago.)
No wonder Cleveland has the Rock N Roll Hall and not Chicago - Cleveland would have filled the place.
Surprised me too! But it probably has to do with the frequent stops in Chicago...the high ticket prices (i didn't know about the "buy one get one" deal) and the fact the weather was so miserable that there were no show-day ticket purchases for fear of cancellation. ?? I'm sure Gazza knows more stats & details. I won tickets from a Milw radio station THAT morning and raced down to Soldier Field after work....missed opener Elvis Costello.
Precisely. They had visited Chicago in September '05 playing to 60,000 at Soldier Field, and then returned to play the UC for two nights in January '06 (two sell outs at I guess about 22-23,000 each night). They just milked the market dry.
The 'firesale' ticket deals took place for several shows.11th hour offers of 4 x $99 tickets for the price of 2, or 2 for the price of 1 etc.
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Gazza
...maybe they were afraid Mick Taylor was going to show up again like in '81, only this time looking for money.....
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sweet neo con
Chicago (Oct 2006) - Surreal experience. Reported as coldest Stones show ever. Played She Was Hot live for the first time. The band was dressed in long Winter coats, gloves and hats. Keith often motioned to the crowd that he could not play guitar due to the cold. The band (other than Mick) spent most of the time huddled around Charlie and the heaters.
The wind swirled the music. As I said..it was very surreal.
Was there also and surreal is a great word to describe it. That was no way to experience a rock and roll show for both the band and the fans yet us weird Midwestern folks braved through it. It was tough to completely enjoy the show when we were all literally trying to just SURVIVE the show. It was pretty sad to look up and around see those huge tarps (with huge tongues printed on them) covering the entire upper section of empty seats.
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Max'sKansasCity
btw- I dont (want or) need to ever read a Blondie "tell all" book.
We know the score, there is no need to write it all down.....
let the legend be the fact... even feigned ignorance can be bliss.
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treaclefingers
COOL! What flavour Kool-Aid can we put you down for? Cherry Red?!
Right on! That is all that matters! As for me, the last Stones show I saw in November 2005 in San Francisco was for want of a better phrase a train wreck. Neother Keith or Ronnie were playing well and it was mostly Charlie and Mick that held it together. StonesTod, you were there. What did you think?Quote
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NedKelly
I had a great time on each and every one of them.
Good for you. That is all that matters. Who cares what other people think ?
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DandelionPowderman
I attended 2 shows:
Bergen 2006
Oslo 2007
Bergen was good, Oslo was excellent.
Just a reminder for the one who started this thread. The BB-tour was voted the best tour ever by the posters here at IORR
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KeithNacho
The show were Mick, Charlie and the other musicians
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KeithNacho
The show were Mick, Charlie and the other musicians
Indeed, that was my impression as well