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The Worst.
I feel sorry for those who had tickets for the first Las Vegas show. It seems like this private gig is the reason why it didn't get rescheduled. It's a shame how easily they cancel a highly advertised show for 19,000 hard working people who invested time and money, just in order to play a tiny cooperate gig for a few hundred people who probably don't give a damn. Why didn't they just postpone the Foxboro thing instead? Why can't they be a bit more utilitarian?
I understand why they had to warm up before the Desert shows with a private event in Vegas, but this one is harder to explain. Why play to an empty stadium when they can play to a full? None of this makes sense to me, not even the money.
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The Worst.
I feel sorry for those who had tickets for the first Las Vegas show. It seems like this private gig is the reason why it didn't get rescheduled. It's a shame how easily they cancel a highly advertised show for 19,000 hard working people who invested time and money, just in order to play a tiny cooperate gig for a few hundred people who probably don't give a damn. Why didn't they just postpone the Foxboro thing instead? Why can't they be a bit more utilitarian?
I understand why they had to warm up before the Desert shows with a private event in Vegas, but this one is harder to explain. Why play to an empty stadium when they can play to a full? None of this makes sense to me, not even the money.
Private and corporate gigs are used to generate income to cover for cost of a tour, like rehearsals. They are contracted and legally binding like any other agreements. The Stones have done it for ages, Paul McCartney does it, Elton John, and I am sure anyone on this planet including you and me, who was offered four million US dollars for two hours work of the kind of work they usually do, would say yes. If the Patriots owner told me to write a report and make pictures and he paid me four million USD then fine I would do it.
Anyone who went to the Las Vegas show last week may confirm that Mick was recovering from a major laryngitis. Sure it feels unfair, but life is unfair.
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The Worst.
I feel sorry for those who had tickets for the first Las Vegas show. It seems like this private gig is the reason why it didn't get rescheduled. It's a shame how easily they cancel a highly advertised show for 19,000 hard working people who invested time and money, just in order to play a tiny cooperate gig for a few hundred people who probably don't give a damn. Why didn't they just postpone the Foxboro thing instead? Why can't they be a bit more utilitarian?
I understand why they had to warm up before the Desert shows with a private event in Vegas, but this one is harder to explain. Why play to an empty stadium when they can play to a full? None of this makes sense to me, not even the money.
Private and corporate gigs are used to generate income to cover for cost of a tour, like rehearsals. They are contracted and legally binding like any other agreements. The Stones have done it for ages, Paul McCartney does it, Elton John, and I am sure anyone on this planet including you and me, who was offered four million US dollars for two hours work of the kind of work they usually do, would say yes. If the Patriots owner told me to write a report and make pictures and he paid me four million USD then fine I would do it.
Anyone who went to the Las Vegas show last week may confirm that Mick was recovering from a major laryngitis. Sure it feels unfair, but life is unfair.
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CaptainCorella
According to the poster above my desk, the cancelled Hanging Rock show was November 8th 2014.
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Monsoon Ragoon
Totally absurd. Why don't they book a club or theater? Is the stadium cheaper?
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TheGreek
who is the lucky group that gets the secret corporate gig in Foxboro?
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laughinearlydied
I dont agree with that. let the stones do whatever they want. i dont want them to do small free gigs if they dont want to. but they clearly want to play small gig in a stupid tent in the middle of a stadium for people who dont care (mostly), instead playing promised gig for 20k people. If they want to do that, let them do that. but i am not going to invent some apology why its the best thing ever. And i find the "they play to pay for the tour" argument to be .. lets say not true.
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bam
Sounds like the Soldier Field ABB show. An outdoor show to an empty stadium in a northern city in October,
with the performers suffering from the cold.
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Monsoon Ragoon
Totally absurd. Why don't they book a club or theater? Is the stadium cheaper?
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Monsoon Ragoon
Totally absurd. Why don't they book a club or theater? Is the stadium cheaper?
This just kills me. Who the hell are you or anyone else for that matter to judge the Stones on this. THEY DON'T OWE YOU A THING. READ IT AGAIN. THEY DON'T OWE YOU A THING.
This sense of entitlement is one of the HUGE drawbacks of career longevity. People like Rangoon and others here selfishly think the Rolling Stones exist merely to cater to their whims, when in fact reality is they are a group of musicians averaging over 72 years of age who belong to an enterprise that became a business decades ago and whose every action is either covered by contracts or the whims of the group leaders.
Do any of you even stop to realize what it would take to re-schedule the one Vegas show? Even if they did, there's no way to make it up to the people who were disappointed in the first place. Some would get to go, but most who attend who have had nothing invested in the first show. It's absurd to think otherwise.
Some of you, please don't ever wonder why you hear rumors that the drummer is tired of all this crap, or the singer and guitar player can't get along. Better yet, why the now 80 year old bass player (let that age in in for a moment) was sick of it all way back in 1992 and QUIT. Some of you will NEVER BE HAPPY. You'll call them elitists, cash whores and more. Thing is, deep down, they know they gave you everything for so long and yet you still want more. After nearly 55 years doing this, they'll do it their way or not at all. Live with it.
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Monsoon Ragoon
Totally absurd. Why don't they book a club or theater? Is the stadium cheaper?
This just killsh me. Who the hell are you or anyone else for that matter to judge the Stones on tis. THEY DON'T OWE YOU A THING. READ IT AGAIN. THEY DON'T OWE YOU A THING.
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Monsoon Ragoon
Totally absurd. Why don't they book a club or theater? Is the stadium cheaper?
This just killsh me. Who the hell are you or anyone else for that matter to judge the Stones on tis. THEY DON'T OWE YOU A THING. READ IT AGAIN. THEY DON'T OWE YOU A THING.
oh.. we are sorry that we have our opinons and didnt realize that we have to adore endlessly whatever the band does, like, for example, playing in a tent with jaggers sore throat right after cancelling scheduled vegas. i suppose that if they played there just covers of justin bieber you would say we should not judge.
i am a fan of the band, not a fanboy of the band. of course i judge them.