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stone66
For those not in the know, the Boston Herald, like the New York Post and London's Daily Mail, is a lowbrow tabloid that was once owned by Rupert Murdoch.
You're all familiar with Rupert Murdoch, the man who once met with the owners and managers of New York's top department stores to appeal for advertising support for his New York Post only to be told, "Mr. Murdoch, your readers are our shoplifters."
The Stones retiring from touring one of their biggest markets when there are two more albums on the way? Why would they confide such information in a sports executive with whom they have no actual personal relationship? Just because you're a grand one-time patron, it doesn't mean you're also an insider as well as a confidant.
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mattleeuk
Smallest I've been too... (other than an impromptu rehearsal) only a handful deep across the front and lots of space for people to dance behind. I had heard 500 but I think it was nearer 300-400. Certainly it was intimate and the band really attacked the shortish set giving it everything they had. An absolutely honor to be there. Leaving for London in a three hours but I'm back to NYC for the exhibition opening (make sure all my stuff made it across the pond).
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Green Lady
Special peformance my arse.....they got warhorses just like everyone else and they didn't even get a blues number............
No blues, no ballad, no Rambler, no choir - What was left looks like it was well performed, but I think what Robert Kraft got for his money was mostly bragging rights.
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Green Lady
Special peformance my arse.....they got warhorses just like everyone else and they didn't even get a blues number............
No blues, no ballad, no Rambler, no choir - What was left looks like it was well performed, but I think what Robert Kraft got for his money was mostly bragging rights.
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TheGreek
Lem Motlow, just out of curiosity are you a New England Patriots fan ? I am a New York Football Giants fan .
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Green Lady
Special peformance my arse.....they got warhorses just like everyone else and they didn't even get a blues number............
No blues, no ballad, no Rambler, no choir - What was left looks like it was well performed, but I think what Robert Kraft got for his money was mostly bragging rights.
I agree but they did get Street Fighting Man and When the Whip Comes Down. 2 songs they should have played in Vegas in place of a couple of warhorses. I am sure I am not alone feeling this
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Green Lady
Special peformance my arse.....they got warhorses just like everyone else and they didn't even get a blues number............
No blues, no ballad, no Rambler, no choir - What was left looks like it was well performed, but I think what Robert Kraft got for his money was mostly bragging rights.
I agree but they did get Street Fighting Man and When the Whip Comes Down. 2 songs they should have played in Vegas in place of a couple of warhorses. I am sure I am not alone feeling this
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lem motlow
that visual of the fans standing out in the cold listening to the stones do a private gig says it all.i'm not mad at them for making money and not mad at the krafts for hiring them.the stones are a good band and the krafts are good people,no problem. but they don't cater to their fans and i see no reason to cater to them.
the days of jumping every time they play are over,i've seen them enough times.the "could be the last time " thing just gets a shrug from me at this point,when someone says "but it's the stones" i'm more likely to say "so what" .never felt like that before but i couldn't care less now.even if they made a great record,which is doubtful,we'd only get a song or two and then the usual set for a ridiculous price.no thanks-you get what you give.
Sorry you feel that way, and hope I never do.
The visual of the fans standing out in the cold listening to the band says it all to me as well, but in a completely different language.
I see fans that love their band enough to try to get in or even get close enough to hear them. Still. Just as I have stood outside the Fonda or rehearsals, and as many, many fans have stood outside club gigs or corporate gigs or rehearsals and since... Forever.
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bye bye johnny
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MKjan
Quite a tangent here, about the private show being the last US show ever., I really really doubt that.
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Rokyfan
Hank M you have it right:
>It is all about elitism. It is about 1%ers vulgarly showing off their wealth to the exclusion of most everyone else. It is like the wealthy privately buying a beautiful work art to prevent it from being displayed in a museum or art gallery. They get off it being theirs, and theirs only. > and the rest of your post.
Who is not there (us, the common people, whatever) is more important than who is (the Stones). They go places we don't and can't, that's why they are the one percent. That's why they pay millions for a private show. The Private part is what counts, not the Show. This is the world of the Rolling Stones. They do not need us anymore for tour revenue, they found a better idea.
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lem motlow
they could do one last stadium tour and have the up front seats high priced for the big money and the rest cheap seats to pack the place,all of that would require they stopped squeezing out every last dollar-something which i'm afraid they're incapable of doing.
for the life of me i'll never understand why they would have empty chairs where fans could be.they've tarped off the upper deck in a stadium,common sense would tell you to sell the damn things for $25 bucks,it's mind boggling.
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MisterDDDD
Because that's not how any of this works..
They just did a stadium tour here (Zip Code) where prices were fairly reasonable (I went to five- paid no more than $225 and saw zero tarps))
If everyone knew they could just get in for $25 .. how fast do you think the others would sell? Not very. This is a business.The promoters pay the fee and then set the prices. As for fan friendly prices I have been to four shows where I paid Lucky Dip prices (including $39 for lower bowl this last Vegas show) set aside for fans
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bam
We don't own them. There is irony, though, in playing SFM to this audience at this event. The irony would be increased if this were their last US show.
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lem motlow
they'll be back-it's the last american show on this go round.there are alot of ways they could go,do 12 shows with four of them being private gigs for big money and eight small shows with lucky dip style tickets and play what they want.there's no way they could be completely happy playing those same songs over and over,maybe they are.i don't know.
they could do one last stadium tour and have the up front seats high priced for the big money and the rest cheap seats to pack the place,all of that would require they stopped squeezing out every last dollar-something which i'm afraid they're incapable of doing.
for the life of me i'll never understand why they would have empty chairs where fans could be.they've tarped off the upper deck in a stadium,common sense would tell you to sell the damn things for $25 bucks,it's mind boggling.