I'll take 4 seats= $3,328.00 US The wife wanted to go Maui. Not this year honey. We are going to a concert instead. Is airfare from Seattle included?

We all know that Keith is dead and we're paying for his robotics.

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I am reminded of the glorious song c o c k s u c k e r Blues..." where can I get my ass....?" Buy one of those tickets and you have found where you can get your ass rooted.

that certainly sums it up

Think about it, you can get a eight ball, a hotel room, a decent escort, and a nice steak dinner with change left over

or...

12 warhorses with a seat next to some middle aged yahoo drunk singing their lungs out to every song.

I thought London was bad, but it turned out to be a bargain compared with the US. Would love to see a show in the US; but unless I can find an A-block ticket for face or less, I'll pass.

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Think about it, you can get a eight ball, a hotel room, a decent escort, and a nice steak dinner with change left over

or...

12 warhorses with a seat next to some middle aged yahoo drunk singing their lungs out to every song.

an eight ball.

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Could that be the most expensive face value seat in history for anyone? On ticketmaster right now - BACK OF THE FLOOR - with the option to buy an $863.00 brussles package that is not even signed.

I heard that Barbra Streisand tickets for the front section of box seats at the Bowl (maybe the pit area) were $1200.

Boo you whiners!!! On Monday morning when the 1st audience tapes from London will pop up on the Net you'll ALL grab your credit cards and a ticket for the NYC shows...












... or the 1st London gig will be so pitiful you'll all thank Mick for being so greedy! ><

You're not seeing a band, you're seeing an institute, a museum. It will probably be the only time in history since '73 that you can see the Stones with Taylor and Wyman again on stage. That's what you're paying for. And if you combine all money you've spend on official and bootleg recordings, cinema tickets, DVD's and what ever more, you've probably spend more than this amount.

Many historic bands like The Beatles and ABBA have been offered huge, huge sums of money to perform once again. If they would have said yes and grabbed the money tickets would have been far, far more expensive. In the case of ABBA: they said no, and instead they offered a lame musical in London with adapted songs of ABBA. Tciket price? Up to 350 pounds a seat.

Mathijs

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No way to justify these prices. Seriously, $ 831.90 to sit in the back of the arena? More power to the people who are buying these.

More power to those who AREN'T buying these tickets. It is empowering to say no and do some soemthing different.

Re: $831.90

So somebody asked Mick Jagger what he thought about you buying two tix for you and
your squeeze at these prices to see this particular version of the Rolling Stones,
and Mick just referred them to minute 1:19 of the Doom and Gloom vid...

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Think about it, you can get a eight ball, a hotel room, a decent escort, and a nice steak dinner with change left over

or...

12 warhorses with a seat next to some middle aged yahoo drunk singing their lungs out to every song.

I will take #1.Fock those Stones...




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No way to justify these prices. Seriously, $ 831.90 to sit in the back of the arena? More power to the people who are buying these.

More power to those who AREN'T buying these tickets. It is empowering to say no and do some soemthing different.

Go and do something different, me? I'm going to see The Stones....

Remember Sinatra did a special, intimate concert for invited guests in Stockholm a few years before he passed. 10 000 SEK a ticket (about 1100 Euro or 800 £).
Never heard of higher ticket prices than that though (at that point...).

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Kurt
No way to justify these prices. Seriously, $ 831.90 to sit in the back of the arena? More power to the people who are buying these.

More power to those who AREN'T buying these tickets. It is empowering to say no and do some soemthing different.

Go and do something different, me? I'm going to see The Stones....

you should break out of your rut

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Kurt
No way to justify these prices. Seriously, $ 831.90 to sit in the back of the arena? More power to the people who are buying these.

More power to those who AREN'T buying these tickets. It is empowering to say no and do some soemthing different.

Go and do something different, me? I'm going to see The Stones....

you should break out of your rut

You're right, Seeing the Stones plenty on the last five years should push me to at least try and do something exciting and different, but I'm a boring man living in a boring town.

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No way to justify these prices. Seriously, $ 831.90 to sit in the back of the arena? More power to the people who are buying these.

More power to those who AREN'T buying these tickets. It is empowering to say no and do some soemthing different.

Go and do something different, me? I'm going to see The Stones....

you should break out of your rut

You're right, Seeing the Stones plenty on the last five years should push me to at least try and do something exciting and different, but I'm a boring man living in a boring town.

well, there's always the next tour...better luck next time

At one point or another in my life, I believe I spent that much on a car.

True, I had to pay for insurance as well.

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Think about it, you can get a eight ball, a hotel room, a decent escort, and a nice steak dinner with change left over

or...

12 warhorses with a seat next to some middle aged yahoo drunk singing their lungs out to every song.

an eight ball.

and be sure to order the steak first

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Beyond ridiculous. They're in another world.

I agree -it should be 832.00 -The 90 cents is an insult!

all at the same time

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You're not seeing a band, you're seeing an institute, a museum. It will probably be the only time in history since '73 that you can see the Stones with Taylor and Wyman again on stage. That's what you're paying for. And if you combine all money you've spend on official and bootleg recordings, cinema tickets, DVD's and what ever more, you've probably spend more than this amount.

Many historic bands like The Beatles and ABBA have been offered huge, huge sums of money to perform once again. If they would have said yes and grabbed the money tickets would have been far, far more expensive. In the case of ABBA: they said no, and instead they offered a lame musical in London with adapted songs of ABBA. Tciket price? Up to 350 pounds a seat.

Mathijs

Actually payment is for admittance to see 4 old men with a combined age over 250, (add MT and BW and make that 370 years), play for 2 hours,( yet to be determined the quality of the sound/musicianship, etc., ), songs that we have seen them play over and over and over and over again..

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Mathijs
You're not seeing a band, you're seeing an institute, a museum. It will probably be the only time in history since '73 that you can see the Stones with Taylor and Wyman again on stage. That's what you're paying for. And if you combine all money you've spend on official and bootleg recordings, cinema tickets, DVD's and what ever more, you've probably spend more than this amount.

Many historic bands like The Beatles and ABBA have been offered huge, huge sums of money to perform once again. If they would have said yes and grabbed the money tickets would have been far, far more expensive. In the case of ABBA: they said no, and instead they offered a lame musical in London with adapted songs of ABBA. Tciket price? Up to 350 pounds a seat.

Mathijs

831.90 face value for a crappy seat? man, you're more patient and understanding than me- there are tons of tickets left as a result - not a good last chapter - the prices should not be the news - unless they are ultra low

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- not a good last chapter

I'm sure Mick's testing the waters with these 2012 shows. If ppl do show up these gigs model (= indoor "small" venues & super high prices) will be the blue print for the 2013 tour.

If they play to half-empty places 2013 will be a "regular" tour : stadiums with "normal" (whatever that means nowadays) prices....

My 2 cents...
(btw I wonder how many seconds of 2012 live Stones performance I could buy with this sum)

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Mathijs
You're not seeing a band, you're seeing an institute, a museum. It will probably be the only time in history since '73 that you can see the Stones with Taylor and Wyman again on stage. That's what you're paying for. And if you combine all money you've spend on official and bootleg recordings, cinema tickets, DVD's and what ever more, you've probably spend more than this amount.

Many historic bands like The Beatles and ABBA have been offered huge, huge sums of money to perform once again. If they would have said yes and grabbed the money tickets would have been far, far more expensive. In the case of ABBA: they said no, and instead they offered a lame musical in London with adapted songs of ABBA. Tciket price? Up to 350 pounds a seat.

Mathijs

Actually payment is for admittance to see 4 old men with a combined age over 250, (add MT and BW and make that 370 years), play for 2 hours,( yet to be determined the quality of the sound/musicianship, etc., ), songs that we have seen them play over and over and over and over again..

I last paid 40 euro's to the Van Gogh museum to see an exhibition of over 130 year old paper which had paint quite randomly applied to it by mentally ill people. Worse, it turned out I had seen those paintings already a hundred times before for free on the internet.

Bummer.

Mathijs

"40 euros to the Van Gogh museum"

If I pay more than 15 Euros for an exhibition in a big museum I cringe.

Just sayin'

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- not a good last chapter

I'm sure Mick's testing the waters with these 2012 shows. If ppl do show up these gigs model (= indoor "small" venues & super high prices) will be the blue print for the 2013 tour.

If they play to half-empty places 2013 will be a "regular" tour : stadiums with "normal" (whatever that means nowadays) prices....

My 2 cents...
(btw I wonder how many seconds of 2012 live Stones performance I could buy with this sum)

There isn't going to be any real "tour." In fact, if you read these threads carefully, you can see bv's already given us the itinerary.

Re: Countdown
Posted by: bv ()
Date: November 22, 2012 02:24

They do these few arena shows because it is easier and cheaper than bringing on a crew of 300+ people to support a stadium tour. They just want to touch base and see how their old bodies will take a set of shows. Remember age counts when you are mid to late 60's. I am slightly younger, but I can not bend my body like my grandchildren. Next year is a whole new year, anything might happen. I hope for LA, Tokyo Budokan and India. But that is just dreams no reality.

Bjornulf

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Mathijs
You're not seeing a band, you're seeing an institute, a museum. It will probably be the only time in history since '73 that you can see the Stones with Taylor and Wyman again on stage. That's what you're paying for. And if you combine all money you've spend on official and bootleg recordings, cinema tickets, DVD's and what ever more, you've probably spend more than this amount.

Many historic bands like The Beatles and ABBA have been offered huge, huge sums of money to perform once again. If they would have said yes and grabbed the money tickets would have been far, far more expensive. In the case of ABBA: they said no, and instead they offered a lame musical in London with adapted songs of ABBA. Tciket price? Up to 350 pounds a seat.

Mathijs

Actually payment is for admittance to see 4 old men with a combined age over 250, (add MT and BW and make that 370 years), play for 2 hours,( yet to be determined the quality of the sound/musicianship, etc., ), songs that we have seen them play over and over and over and over again..

I last paid 40 euro's to the Van Gogh museum to see an exhibition of over 130 year old paper which had paint quite randomly applied to it by mentally ill people. Worse, it turned out I had seen those paintings already a hundred times before for free on the internet.

Bummer.

Mathijs

nice try but your comparing apples and oranges... I flew to amsterdam went to the Kroller Museum, a smaller lesser known art museum about a hour out of the city, saw many more Van Goghs in person ( which as you know show the paintings true colors as opposed to a photo of the painting on posted on the internet), went to a few coffee shops, saw the tulips (don't remember the name of the park), saw the windmills, went to Edam for an afternoon, stayed in Amsterdam 5 nights at the Amstel Hotel, flew back to NY, all for about the same price as 4 tix to see 4 old men with a combined age over 250, (add MT and BW and make that 370 years), play for 2 hours,( yet to be determined the quality of the sound/musicianship, etc., ), songs that we have seen them play over and over and over and over again..,I think my round trip to Amsterdam from NYC was a much better value and provided me with DAYS not minutes, of entertainment, culture, and a good legal smoke.... but that's just me. I know that after the stones play, i'll still have the $1,700 it would cost for 2 tix, be able (if i wish), to see them on ppv) and not feel like my wallet was split in half by 4 old men with a combined age over 250, (add MT and BW and make that 370 years), play for 2 hours,( yet to be determined the quality of the sound/musicianship, etc., ), songs that we have seen them play over and over and over and over again..
Cheers!
oh btw the VG museum was good too ad is included in the aformentioned cost.. enjoy the show,,, i'll watch the youtube vids ad MAYBE buy the ppv if not priced outrageously...

I am laughing too myself, the last time they were in the boston area in Sept 2006 they played at gillette stadium. I almost skipped this show which was my 42nd since 1975 because I was swearing off the Stadium shows. A few days before the show Ticketnasty released some tickets for $22.50 well I bought two section 141 lower level oppisitte end of stage, we moved over to 112 ronnies side of stage about 8 rows up. It ended up being the best 22 bucks I ever spent.

since I am paying 10 times that for an incredibly shitty seat this time I am going too relish in the fact that last time I won the price battle for only 22 bucks.

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You're not seeing a band, you're seeing an institute, a museum. It will probably be the only time in history since '73 that you can see the Stones with Taylor and Wyman again on stage. That's what you're paying for. And if you combine all money you've spend on official and bootleg recordings, cinema tickets, DVD's and what ever more, you've probably spend more than this amount.

Many historic bands like The Beatles and ABBA have been offered huge, huge sums of money to perform once again. If they would have said yes and grabbed the money tickets would have been far, far more expensive. In the case of ABBA: they said no, and instead they offered a lame musical in London with adapted songs of ABBA. Tciket price? Up to 350 pounds a seat.

Mathijs

Actually payment is for admittance to see 4 old men with a combined age over 250, (add MT and BW and make that 370 years), play for 2 hours,( yet to be determined the quality of the sound/musicianship, etc., ), songs that we have seen them play over and over and over and over again..

you get bobby too. also you get to see chuck and bernard and lisa and blondie and darryl and kent and tim and michael d and maybe even matt clifford!!!