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Has anyone else received a response and/or interview invite?
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I thought you've said a couple of times you aren't or were never much of a Stones' fan
Yeah he indeed did. I imagine after tonight that will change though.
He deserves to get in since he was the one who tipped us to the location first. Hopefully he will be one of the ones giving us a good report afterward.
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Actually, I changed into a much bigger fan after the 2013 tour. I do have "contacts" like a lot of people here in L.A. do. So here's my long-winded story of the interview, but I'll answer the quote above that I was not much of a fan. I'd seen the Stones in 89 and they were OK, and I saw them at the Rose Bowl in the 90's and they sucked. Out loud. Then I saw them again at Staples in the early 2000's and they did the B stage. I've always loved the early stuff. When I became a musician, the first song I learned was Spider and the Fly. So when they did the B stage, I thought they were pretty good. So my view of them is starting to improve, right?
So now it's 2013, and my contact is one of my closest friends is close with Dave Stewart. I've seen Dave and him tons of times. My friend offers to get us tickets to the 1st date at Staples, right from Mick Jagger, but we have to pay. For $650, I tell him I want to know exactly where the seats are. He tells me he is not going to go back to MJ and demand to know which seats. So I tell him no thanks, I'll take my chances on-line. I go on-line and end up in the 3rd row by the tongue. I later find out that the tickets that MJ was offering were in row 10. And I'm on the KR side of the stage (sorry, KR trumps MJ). So at this point, I'm immersed. I love the stones. Now after attending the club gig, I want to get the tongue tattooed on me. So yes, after the Fonda, I'm a huge fan. I was also at the rehearsals in 2013 and shot pictures and video (I've posted them here).
So anyway, I saw BV's post here about them wanting a story, so I emailed them mine. Then I went to bed. I got up in the morning and saw that I had a text from an unrecognized number from the night before. It was Sarah, she wanted me to come down to the Fonda to be interviewed. I could not believe it. I phoned her and woke her up, apologized, then made the arrangements. After I did my bit, I had my pair.
If it were not for my wife, none of this would have happened. She reads all the posts here, she has been for some time. She has been an uber-fan of the Stones since she was a kid. It has been her life-long fantasy to see one of the legendary club gigs. She just missed out on the El Macombo gig in 77 (we were both born in Toronto). We were supposed to get a +1 for the Fonda from AEG, but it didn't happen. If that did happen, I would have stepped aside and let her take the ticket. Not only because she is a huge fan, but because she is the most wonderful woman who ever lived.
So now we both got to see a legendary club gig, and we were in the front row. Does it get better than that? I doubt it. This even makes up for the fact that she went to Live Aid in 85 and I bailed because I didn't think she would get in (Grrrr).