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gotdablouse
You think they're being sheltered of the news of the financial fiasco at play? Not Mick surely? BTW did he make any indirect comments last night about ticket prices like he did again in LA the other day? That could be a sign...
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i'm sure chuck leavell is gonna be blamed for this...so sad.
Why sad? Don't be sad.
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i'm sure chuck leavell is gonna be blamed for this...so sad.
Why sad? Don't be sad.
Andrew, that response absolutely has to be acknowledged. I think even StonesTod, wherever he may be, would have enjoyed that.
It requires an absolutely sharp 'eye on the ball' following the thread VERY closely.
Brilliant Andrew...thank you for your contribution!
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andrewt
Lefsetz at it some more:
Clueless Stones
The Rolling Stones – 50 & Counting Opening Night – Los Angeles Staples…
Utterly LAUGHABLE!
And this is the OFFICIAL CHANNEL!
Is someone brain dead there? It’s almost impossible to watch this video and have a desire to go, talk about revealing the clueless men behind the curtain.
This is the Stones. A band that can’t even play “The Last Time” as well as you did in middle school.
In case you’ve been buried in a hole, the Stones got rid of all those high-priced seats by blowing them out for $85. Four digits worth.
Doubt me?
Just read these tweets from Wes Brodsky (@WesBrodsky):
[twitter.com]
That pic is stunning.
Then again, that’s how it used to be, back when concert tickets cost 3, 4 and 5 dollars. Before greed turned everybody into a bottom-fisher.
In other words, these people would have gone for a reasonable price, they wanted to attend, but not for $600.
Meanwhile, they couldn’t even bake in the fees?
I mean even the Eagles, who broke the triple digit ducat figure, don’t have the chutzpah to charge extra, they include the fees in the ticket price.
But the dirty little secret is the twenty seven to forty bucks in fees are promoter profit.
In other words, the Stones are not part of the solution, but part of the PROBLEM!
And is anybody really gonna pay $600 for a ticket after this? Or are they just gonna wait for the bargain? This is how Ron Johnson lost his job running J.C. Penney, by trying to turn a second-rate brand based on discounts into his previous employer, Apple.
But even Apple doesn’t insult you with prices this high.
Yup, you can see the Stones or buy an iPad, which will give you years of functionality, well, at least until the Cupertino company supersedes the model you’ve got, unlike the Stones, who’ve been playing the same old songs for decades.
And I got this interesting e-mail from a scalper:
From: Brad Coombs
Re: Stones Tickets
Bob:
A few observations from my brother-in-law at Circle City Tickets, in Indianapolis.
Brad,
He’s right on everything about how the markets work and that eventually people just say screw it I’m not going.
With social media if people are thinking that way it only takes a short time to get a “tipping point” where virtually no one new is going and the sales just stop. You’ll always have the die-hards that will find a way to go no matter what but after that a lot of people only go so as not to be out of the loop socially.
Thanks for forwarding.
Mike
Mike Peduto
Circle City Tickets
Yup, resellers know the game better than the Stones!
But come on, if the above video isn’t taken down by time you read this, I’d be stunned.
There’s no energy. The crowd looks like a parody of the seventies. The band is so thin they make Gwen Stefani look fat, and she looks like she stepped onto the set of “Cocoon,” and she sucks besides…well, she adds nothing. Why didn’t the band get someone their own age? It’s not like the audience cares about Stefani, maybe only the press. Where was Bonnie Raitt, Buddy Guy? Fergie worked on the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame special because that was made for everybody, for HBO, not fans.
So if anybody who was at this show says it was great, they’re lying. Because we have evidence. This horrible video.
The Stones shouldn’t have gone out at all.
They’re a laughingstock.
Video may have killed the radio star, but social media and the Internet put a stake in the heart of the Rolling Stones, who should have quit while they were ahead, kept their money and stayed home.
They’re an insult to history.
They rehearsed?
Paul McCartney is better in his SLEEP!
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i'm sure chuck leavell is gonna be blamed for this...so sad.
Why sad? Don't be sad.
Andrew, that response absolutely has to be acknowledged. I think even StonesTod, wherever he may be, would have enjoyed that.
It requires an absolutely sharp 'eye on the ball' following the thread VERY closely.
Brilliant Andrew...thank you for your contribution!
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GRNRBITW
i'm sure chuck leavell is gonna be blamed for this...so sad.
Why sad? Don't be sad.
Andrew, that response absolutely has to be acknowledged. I think even StonesTod, wherever he may be, would have enjoyed that.
It requires an absolutely sharp 'eye on the ball' following the thread VERY closely.
Brilliant Andrew...thank you for your contribution!
They look like Molson's...or Sleeman's Honey Brown...emoticons too small to tell!
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GRNRBITW
i'm sure chuck leavell is gonna be blamed for this...so sad.
Why sad? Don't be sad.
Andrew, that response absolutely has to be acknowledged. I think even StonesTod, wherever he may be, would have enjoyed that.
It requires an absolutely sharp 'eye on the ball' following the thread VERY closely.
Brilliant Andrew...thank you for your contribution!
They look like Molson's...or Sleeman's Honey Brown...emoticons too small to tell!
Those are the 12 dollar beer specials at the Stones show.
Mmmm Sleemans.
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GRNRBITW
i'm sure chuck leavell is gonna be blamed for this...so sad.
Why sad? Don't be sad.
Andrew, that response absolutely has to be acknowledged. I think even StonesTod, wherever he may be, would have enjoyed that.
It requires an absolutely sharp 'eye on the ball' following the thread VERY closely.
Brilliant Andrew...thank you for your contribution!
They look like Molson's...or Sleeman's Honey Brown...emoticons too small to tell!
Those are the 12 dollar beer specials at the Stones show.
Mmmm Sleemans.
I think I payed $10 or $12 for a beer at Skydome, err Rogers Centre, on the last tour. $20 for this tour, or is ACC cheaper? Can't get Sleeman's here, but drinking a Molson Golden right now.
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GRNRBITW
i'm sure chuck leavell is gonna be blamed for this...so sad.
Why sad? Don't be sad.
Andrew, that response absolutely has to be acknowledged. I think even StonesTod, wherever he may be, would have enjoyed that.
It requires an absolutely sharp 'eye on the ball' following the thread VERY closely.
Brilliant Andrew...thank you for your contribution!
They look like Molson's...or Sleeman's Honey Brown...emoticons too small to tell!
Those are the 12 dollar beer specials at the Stones show.
Mmmm Sleemans.
I think I payed $10 or $12 for a beer at Skydome, err Rogers Centre, on the last tour. $20 for this tour, or is ACC cheaper? Can't get Sleeman's here, but drinking a Molson Golden right now.
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slew
I've seen the Stones 15 times but only once prior to 1989. I saw the show in Brooklyn in December and the band played great I do not understand the critisism about the bands playing. Ticket prices yes but the band is playing well. The show I saw in Brooklyn may have been the best that I've seen the band. jagger is in top form Keith and Ronnie better than they have been for a while and they have been playing well so far on this tour.
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flacnvinyl
I want to defend the band as they are playing very well for their age.
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flacnvinyl
Exactly. I will always be a fan but I try to temper my feelings with wisdom. We have all seen better Stones shows for 1/4 the current price. This time around they are not really thanking their fans. Not even with the setlist.
Insane pricing + stale setlist = screw the fans
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flacnvinyl
Exactly. I will always be a fan but I try to temper my feelings with wisdom. We have all seen better Stones shows for 1/4 the current price. This time around they are not really thanking their fans. Not even with the setlist.
Insane pricing + stale setlist = screw the fans
i hate to present math problems on a tuesday, but i've seen the stones play 18x better at 1/15th the price of the top tier tix. that means that this tour is 270 times worse. the math doesn't lie.
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shattered
Just what I thought, maybe by the time they get to Europe the prices will be lower.
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Just what I thought, maybe by the time they get to Europe the prices will be lower.
So far, all we're getting in Europe is an appearance at Glastonbury (which doesn't really count because they're one of a zillion bands performing at a huge festival), and the two Hyde Park shows. The two Hyde Park shows were priced much more reasonably in my opinion, if you discount all the nonsensical VIP package stuff, fine wining and dining with a crap (i.e. distant) view of the stage and so on. It appears as if the majority of tickets by far (total capacity of the Hyde Park site is quoted as 65,000) cost £95 ($150), and then a relatively small number (probably not much more than a few hundred of each) of tier 2 and tier 1 tickets cost £199 ($310) and £299 ($470) respectively ... there was also an opportunity to pay an extra £100 ($150) for tiers 1 & 2 for a backstage bar facility.
Difficult to speculate what prices would've been like if they'd elected to do arenas, but do we have any reason to think that they'd have been any less than in the States ? I certainly don't think so. I hate to say it, but I think that the Brits (and other Europeans) in general were somewhat less offended by the ticket prices back in November/December 2012 than were most Americans. My own observations of reading innumerable posts on IORR was that on the European side of the Atlantic, there was the usual outcry at first, but then the customary complacency set in and people simply coughed up the money. In the States, I think the outcry was every bit as loud, but MORE people actually voted with their feet - so to say. But that was THEN, and what is happening NOW is that the trickle of Americans that were prepared to vote with their feet back in late 2012 has now turned into something more akin to a flood in the spring of 2013, and THAT is why we're seeing what we're seeing.
Wonder what the RS think about all this (if anything), and for that matter ........ what the future holds in the way of live performances after 13th July 2013 ?
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Just what I thought, maybe by the time they get to Europe the prices will be lower.
So far, all we're getting in Europe is an appearance at Glastonbury (which doesn't really count because they're one of a zillion bands performing at a huge festival), and the two Hyde Park shows. The two Hyde Park shows were priced much more reasonably in my opinion, if you discount all the nonsensical VIP package stuff, fine wining and dining with a crap (i.e. distant) view of the stage and so on. It appears as if the majority of tickets by far (total capacity of the Hyde Park site is quoted as 65,000) cost £95 ($150), and then a relatively small number (probably not much more than a few hundred of each) of tier 2 and tier 1 tickets cost £199 ($310) and £299 ($470) respectively ... there was also an opportunity to pay an extra £100 ($150) for tiers 1 & 2 for a backstage bar facility.
Difficult to speculate what prices would've been like if they'd elected to do arenas, but do we have any reason to think that they'd have been any less than in the States ? I certainly don't think so. I hate to say it, but I think that the Brits (and other Europeans) in general were somewhat less offended by the ticket prices back in November/December 2012 than were most Americans. My own observations of reading innumerable posts on IORR was that on the European side of the Atlantic, there was the usual outcry at first, but then the customary complacency set in and people simply coughed up the money. In the States, I think the outcry was every bit as loud, but MORE people actually voted with their feet - so to say. But that was THEN, and what is happening NOW is that the trickle of Americans that were prepared to vote with their feet back in late 2012 has now turned into something more akin to a flood in the spring of 2013, and THAT is why we're seeing what we're seeing.
Wonder what the RS think about all this (if anything), and for that matter ........ what the future holds in the way of live performances after 13th July 2013 ?
I think that Hyde Park July 13th will be their last performance.