Re: Anyone enter the late-night RS.com contest for Toronto club tickets?
Posted by:
monkeyman36
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Date: August 12, 2005 03:24
I got the call...when I found out at about 9:30pm Tuesday that Q107 made it official that it was at the Phoenix, my buddy and I decided not to go (we live 2 hrs from TO) since we figured most of the almost 1000 in line at that time would not get tix, we figured no point...so I went out with sister and brother-in-law and friends to casino in Niagara Falls...came home at about 3:30am and decided to wait up for my buddy to call at that time from work (this call was pre-planned in case there was no official word that it was the Phoenix, and we would drive to TO at about 5am to catch maybe a surprise change-of-venue announcement by the Q)...as mentioned above, the official announcement came, so in our discussion at 3:30am we confirmed, "Maybe next time!" and so back to work he went and a simple swivel of my deskchair to my computer to open up my email, I read an email about a contest from RS.com (the same one you got)...I thought, "What the hell?!" so I replied, and then went to bed at about 4:45am (after obviously checking out what was being said on iorr.org :-)...next thing i know, my cell is going off at 9am, and it wakes me up...I see it's a 212 area code (NEW YORK CITY), some woman named Maria from RS.com...she says Hello, Mark?...Yes...Do you want to go see the Rolling Stones tonight in Toronto?...and the rest is OBVIOUS! What a day! A day and night I will never forget!
How many people can say they saw the Stones for free, in an intimate setting, 15 feet away, without standing in any type of long lineup?! Not many I bet.
My heart does go out to those who did wait in line, especially to those who didn't get a wristband...i don;t tell you this story to rub it in...I tell you because I never thought I would be this lucky...It CAN happen to you...I did think about those unfortunate fans outside AND those in Europe and around the world...honest, I did...I even wished those who really aren't fans could see what I was seeing - they would then understand the magic that is The Rolling Stones...they were incredible! Mick was simply amazing! (even though I would consider myself a bigger Keith fan...but what counts most is that I am an even bigger ROLLING STONES fan!).
Thank you rollingstones.com and thanks to those who continue to update each other on iorr.org...my passion for this band would not be as great as it is today if I had not discovered you in the past!
Mark