20 years, 11 shows, a lot of merchandise and enough records...have no price!

Priceless

Bjornulf

A cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

£2600 on 37 tickets since 1990. £1800 of that on my 22 shows since 2012 (half were Lucky Dips). Add in Exhibitionism, LPs, DVDs, CDs etc and probably about £3,500 tops. I think it’s unfair to add in Travel & Accomodation because the band don’t benefit from that. I always make a holiday of my Stones trips abroad (half of them).

I haven’t bought any at-gig merchandise for 15 years, other than an item for a fellow IORRian who assisted me into the Pit at Twickenham this year. Even when I did buy Merch on tours prior to that, I doubt I even spent about £150 in total. I’m happy Just to go to shows and take some photos as my souvenir. Most Merch is ludicrously overpriced.

If I was to add in travel and Accomodation for shows and associated holiday then no idea - about £15,000 perhaps?

If they continue, I’ll continue .



Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 2018-09-15 20:16 by grzegorz67.

I spent thousands travelling around to see them. I always buy a couple shirts or more. They are worth it.

By '72 I had everything commercially available in the United States at least once; several more than that. LP's to Cassettes to 8 Tracks bac to cassettes.
i'm not sure what the list price was for a retail pop album in the 60's but 6.98 would have been waaay up there....more like five or six bucks.

i don't recall what D.C. 7/4/72 cost but it was my first Stones show,
followed up shortly after at the last MSG show on Mick's birthday
and that cost $15.00, but you had to win the opportunity to buy thru a post-card lottery that I took VERY SERIOUSLY., I turned 21 years of age between
the D.C. July 4th stadium concert, and the furious last show.
You could not pick a day or night (they did one matinee as well as, 3, or 4?
evening shows.
I had to buy four though; which was no problem; everybody, i mean everybody
I knew wanted one.

i was comped for showws in 75 and 89 so four times total is all I've been with them in person.
i think i got a lifetime of inspiration from those 70 or so minutes.
i'm a soul music fan too, so Stevie and his crew, along with stu, nicky, jim...
the guys that made those records....
...i haven't one complaint, (haha) about ANY thing else, considering those four, and all that came before and a WHOLE LOTTA what came after...
i guess cumulatively only a very few hundred bucks.
Therer were books too; but they don't get a cut of that; except for free promo...

...i am LOW income senior, and can not at all for a second relate to the outgo fans today have to put out....i think they kinda left guys like me, even
original fans very, very early to the party, and Loud about it, in the dust as far as accessilbity but I do understand it's big business and used to be
something that was more sort of 'ours."

Sure there was Promo, Andrew came straight from Massive success
with The Beatboys, and had creative intelligence and a flair for drama.
But still; everyone was doing that and the music AND tv presence, shows
they EARNED that sucess.

Long before contemporary friends, or them even
really making that huge impact with those first steady hits one after another,
I was there. 12 when they broke. By 16 I had much older friends, college
and college drop-outs, that were expert in blues and blues rock, and
helped cement me to it, cause in '66 High School kids were not that
majorly knowing more than a few radio hits.

So after having best close friends older than me, and also turning 18,
with the experience of dating for a couple of years, and a really heavy love affair that painfully ended when my girl's Dad got transferred
to another State hundreds of miles away.
We tried hard, I started travelling hard real young, but it was too much for kids to keep together.
A whole lot of our friends were married with kids in their early 20's and we wanted to go that route, and all that dramarama....

...so these friends were 'worldly' and were already college age friends when I was in High School; so I pulled away from a lot of that,
and felt The Stones were the most solid cultural barometer a powerless kid could have.

I had a used Ford Falcon, three on the tree, at 16, and an AM radio,
tuned to NY stations.
I was who I still am. 'free to do what i want any ol' time,' ha which of course I am not,
but when I need to 'man-up' i put on All Down The Line and know for sure who I am and what I want.
"a sancrtified girl with a sanctfied mind to help me out right now"
and alla that.
May God Bless The Rolling Stones.

For me, "I've Got The Blues" was a lifesaver for sure in very rough seas.
When you listen to that early stuff at 18,
and are starting to approach
the age your heros were when they first started to jell,
well, it means more to you.

At 18, went back to ALL the Decca/London stuff with entirely new ears
and earned perspective,
and felt I they were steady company as i went
deeper and deeper into their influences,
my very own in usa, but as a
little kid when they were teens, getting 'it' in their own manner.

They were foundationally responsible for exposing me to real Jump music
by white guys; kids at that. it was mind-blowing and still is.

I'm only four or five years younger than Ron, how in the world
was he Jeff Beck's bass player just barely out of his teens?
And would get hotter than that when switching back to git with Faces.

And people, how could 18 year old Mick Taylor been THE MAN in Mayall's
(of all heros) Bluesbreakers?
and then....
.......
that boy is a genuis I swear. the rest have incredible talent, feel, charisma
(even if Chollie hates his, and Bill's too bush sketching out which bevy
he's about to levy)...
and a zillion compliments for K. Richards left school for guitar as a teenager also....
whoa.
but Taylor, not more important than the others, but that cat is GENIUS,
with his whole sound, and to merge it and stomp deep on hideous grooves
down dirty and soaring like that; biting like Keith can...it's just remarkable,
all of it; and hats off to Ron for grace, class and his own power,
and for, thus far, surviving it.

I don't think a lot of contemporary fans care, why should they?
but in my own soul, which is all that really counts, I know exactly
how much of a 'real fan' I am, even when I was frothing critiques.
They're my boys, and they'd understand, (and not really care,)
which would be perfect. Also, they'd probably seen a lot of idiot blokes who were in love,
somehow, with Charles. whoa. and still proclaim Perks at a drop of ciggie.

by the time of ruby tuesday, I was sorta an expert;totally devoted.
2nd year of High School and beginning to get the picture, it was
a time of great sadness as well as amazing and inspiring joy.
and hard conflict that was hideous and bloody...
...and beginning to step away, I'd do that with what the 'counter-culture'
would turn into, as well, some years later.
I'd heard 'lose your dreams and you will lose your mind'
and it changed the frequency on EVERYTHING for mois.
and the following line makes you grow up fast, well it did me...

they understood; no one else did in quite that manner. I was sure of it.
still am.











___
p.s. I am SURE I do the BEST cover of ALL DOWN THE LINE that's ever been made by anyone.
I don't even do it on an electric. I reach for it most everyday,
I find some sucker to put on a harmony the way i extend things in my
own arrangment; because i want to and can and it's only rock and roll and all that, but it's a solid core i ride; i'm totally serious and never forget it,
all social media posting dramatics (which i sometimes am plenty full of)
aside., It's fun; I love fans; i learn a lot; but i really do live and breathe by this stuff and would not, would @#$%& not, have it any other way.



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damn, i knew there'd be a test

Buck and a half?

It’s not the money I spent, it’s the price I paid...and I’d do it again in a heartbeat. <3

82 shows starting at the Pontiac Silverdome in 81. 2 cancelled shows in San Jose 99. Cancelled show in Atlantic City 06. Cancelled show in Vegas 16. Beacon shows, but couldn't get in. Fonda Theater, but couldn't get in. Couldn't give an exact total, but don't regret a penny!

Much I spent. Very much!!!
I will never regret the money that I spent for attending their concerts from 1967 to 1982
and for the official records and bootlegs from the beginning to 1971 (Exile).

But then ...
Though I continued to buy every album and went to every tour 'til the early 2000s.
But meanwhile I really think it wasn't really worth. It had nothing to do with what they once were.
So each his own. Just my 2 cts.

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bv
Priceless

Jeroen

I got some Stones money burning a hole in my pocket right now...
A Stones Jones brewing in my brain... cant wait for the next live show! LETS GO!

...never kept a dollar past sunset...

Probably around 25 000 US dollars including air travel, VIP tickets for shows (around 4 or 5 shows with that particular choice) and all the records, vhs's dvd's and all the rest of it since 1998. Well spent money.

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shortfatfanny
...never kept a dollar past sunset...

It always burned a hole in my pants

Yes..so I lost a lot of money on the Stones

__________________________

Not enough. Take it already!

Not as much spent as so many on here. 13 concerts since 1975. Craziest though was friends telling me to fly in last minute for Candlestick Park 1981. Got a return air ticket on a department store travel agency credit card. Probably at a 24% interest rate. Caught the concert bus from downtown SF to the stadium, saw the first show. Was due to fly out home the next day. Friends talked me into a scalper ticket for the next day. Did that. Had to leave the second show during “Time Is On My Side” to get back to work on time and hailed a cab from Candlestick to SF International. That was tough (to leave mid-concert). They were closing the doors on the plane as I arrived at the gate. Sat in the very back two seats with a lovely stranger and we were given free champagne. In hindsight, probably should have stayed at the concert and dealt with the consequences later.

Oh well. I did pay off the credit card bill in 6 months.

Not Much !

Several concerts 1969 to 1981: about US$100

Most of the albums up to 1981 + Steel Wheels: about US$250

TOTAL: about US$350

Note: When US$350 is run through an online inflation calculator for those years, the total comes out at about US$1600. Still not much.



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Id pay anything to travel back to 1972, 1966, 1975 or 78. Or 76, 81. Even 82. Or 1965. 1967 of course, not to mention 1969. 1973 obviously.

Impossible to put a cipher on it.
But I still feel like I got a hell of a deal; deal of a lifetime. I am still reaping the rewards from my 'investment'. What the Stones gave me...I don't know if I can ever cash out.

I bought just about every album up until Tattoo You on 8-track (ugh! horrible medium!), then started buying again on vinyl, then CDs!! And an vast sum has been spent on bootlegs.

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odean73
Thousands.

Last tour i reckon in 3 shows, with hotels, meals, drinks etc around £3.500.

I don't regret one penny, and found this last tour so enjoyable and great memories and to think I had 18 family and friends at Coventry, was a dream come true.

In fact my sister in law recently stated, family members, used to think you was probably a bit eccentric in your choice of the stones, especially at family parties and then you persuaded us to go to Coventry and we are all converted now.

that's a good one odean. I managed to convert my wife and two daughters so they can't bug me too much for my Stones spending, just very very occasionally.


plexi

I don't know, but it would have to be in the tens of thousands. The best answer to this came from Leteyer at whose house I stayed in last year in Paris. When I asked how much he thought he had spent on the Stones, he emphatically said "Don't go there!"

plexi

Just tonight, I made my final bid on a copy of the Genesis Christopher Sykes book TOTA on e bay. It was the regular edition, not the leather bound one (which I just saw for $1,170).

I bid $335 and the winning bid was $340. I thought it's just as well, I shouldn't spend that kind of money,only on show tix. Yet, I am bummed and feel down.


plexi

I don't know and I don't care.
The money is gone but the memories will stay forever.

That's exactly what I was about to write, Roadster32!

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hopkins
By '72 I had everything commercially available in the United States at least once; several more than that. LP's to Cassettes to 8 Tracks bac to cassettes.
i'm not sure what the list price was for a retail pop album in the 60's but 6.98 would have been waaay up there....more like five or six bucks.

i don't recall what D.C. 7/4/72 cost but it was my first Stones show,
followed up shortly after at the last MSG show on Mick's birthday
and that cost $15.00, but you had to win the opportunity to buy thru a post-card lottery that I took VERY SERIOUSLY., I turned 21 years of age between
the D.C. July 4th stadium concert, and the furious last show.
You could not pick a day or night (they did one matinee as well as, 3, or 4?
evening shows.
I had to buy four though; which was no problem; everybody, i mean everybody
I knew wanted one.

i was comped for showws in 75 and 89 so four times total is all I've been with them in person.
i think i got a lifetime of inspiration from those 70 or so minutes.
i'm a soul music fan too, so Stevie and his crew, along with stu, nicky, jim...
the guys that made those records....
...i haven't one complaint, (haha) about ANY thing else, considering those four, and all that came before and a WHOLE LOTTA what came after...
i guess cumulatively only a very few hundred bucks.
Therer were books too; but they don't get a cut of that; except for free promo...

...i am LOW income senior, and can not at all for a second relate to the outgo fans today have to put out....i think they kinda left guys like me, even
original fans very, very early to the party, and Loud about it, in the dust as far as accessilbity but I do understand it's big business and used to be
something that was more sort of 'ours."

Sure there was Promo, Andrew came straight from Massive success
with The Beatboys, and had creative intelligence and a flair for drama.
But still; everyone was doing that and the music AND tv presence, shows
they EARNED that sucess.

Long before contemporary friends, or them even
really making that huge impact with those first steady hits one after another,
I was there. 12 when they broke. By 16 I had much older friends, college
and college drop-outs, that were expert in blues and blues rock, and
helped cement me to it, cause in '66 High School kids were not that
majorly knowing more than a few radio hits.

So after having best close friends older than me, and also turning 18,
with the experience of dating for a couple of years, and a really heavy love affair that painfully ended when my girl's Dad got transferred
to another State hundreds of miles away.
We tried hard, I started travelling hard real young, but it was too much for kids to keep together.
A whole lot of our friends were married with kids in their early 20's and we wanted to go that route, and all that dramarama....

...so these friends were 'worldly' and were already college age friends when I was in High School; so I pulled away from a lot of that,
and felt The Stones were the most solid cultural barometer a powerless kid could have.

I had a used Ford Falcon, three on the tree, at 16, and an AM radio,
tuned to NY stations.
I was who I still am. 'free to do what i want any ol' time,' ha which of course I am not,
but when I need to 'man-up' i put on All Down The Line and know for sure who I am and what I want.
"a sancrtified girl with a sanctfied mind to help me out right now"
and alla that.
May God Bless The Rolling Stones.

For me, "I've Got The Blues" was a lifesaver for sure in very rough seas.
When you listen to that early stuff at 18,
and are starting to approach
the age your heros were when they first started to jell,
well, it means more to you.

At 18, went back to ALL the Decca/London stuff with entirely new ears
and earned perspective,
and felt I they were steady company as i went
deeper and deeper into their influences,
my very own in usa, but as a
little kid when they were teens, getting 'it' in their own manner.

They were foundationally responsible for exposing me to real Jump music
by white guys; kids at that. it was mind-blowing and still is.

I'm only four or five years younger than Ron, how in the world
was he Jeff Beck's bass player just barely out of his teens?
And would get hotter than that when switching back to git with Faces.

And people, how could 18 year old Mick Taylor been THE MAN in Mayall's
(of all heros) Bluesbreakers?
and then....
.......
that boy is a genuis I swear. the rest have incredible talent, feel, charisma
(even if Chollie hates his, and Bill's too bush sketching out which bevy
he's about to levy)...
and a zillion compliments for K. Richards left school for guitar as a teenager also....
whoa.
but Taylor, not more important than the others, but that cat is GENIUS,
with his whole sound, and to merge it and stomp deep on hideous grooves
down dirty and soaring like that; biting like Keith can...it's just remarkable,
all of it; and hats off to Ron for grace, class and his own power,
and for, thus far, surviving it.

I don't think a lot of contemporary fans care, why should they?
but in my own soul, which is all that really counts, I know exactly
how much of a 'real fan' I am, even when I was frothing critiques.
They're my boys, and they'd understand, (and not really care,)
which would be perfect. Also, they'd probably seen a lot of idiot blokes who were in love,
somehow, with Charles. whoa. and still proclaim Perks at a drop of ciggie.

by the time of ruby tuesday, I was sorta an expert;totally devoted.
2nd year of High School and beginning to get the picture, it was
a time of great sadness as well as amazing and inspiring joy.
and hard conflict that was hideous and bloody...
...and beginning to step away, I'd do that with what the 'counter-culture'
would turn into, as well, some years later.
I'd heard 'lose your dreams and you will lose your mind'
and it changed the frequency on EVERYTHING for mois.
and the following line makes you grow up fast, well it did me...

they understood; no one else did in quite that manner. I was sure of it.
still am.











___
p.s. I am SURE I do the BEST cover of ALL DOWN THE LINE that's ever been made by anyone.
I don't even do it on an electric. I reach for it most everyday,
I find some sucker to put on a harmony the way i extend things in my
own arrangment; because i want to and can and it's only rock and roll and all that, but it's a solid core i ride; i'm totally serious and never forget it,
all social media posting dramatics (which i sometimes am plenty full of)
aside., It's fun; I love fans; i learn a lot; but i really do live and breathe by this stuff and would not, would @#$%& not, have it any other way.

Wow, when they invent a machine to download memories as images... Your first up son. All day

p.s. Ruby Tuesday is my 6 year old niece. First day at School, already the coolest kid...plus the fact she's A 6 yr old Ju Jitsu Artist whose beating 8 yr olds might be a factor..

2 Wives, umpteen Girlfriends.

2 Law enforcement encounters, 88 Jagger, 2006 Stones... (no convictions, they'll never get me...beep beep!)

I behaved at 1995, too blown away by it all & 2014 I just filmed and drank Coffee, oh the times they are a....

Every legit CD release on the CBS (85 - 91), Abkco London Decca 1985, Virgin (92 - 2005) Abkco Remasters (02), Universal Polydor (06 - now)

Every legit DVD/BR release

& all the great ROIO's be they Vid or Aud

I paid my Dad for his Mono and Stereo Collection of The Rolling Stones Ep to Get your Ya Ya's Out. To honor him for buying, loving, keeping, cherishing, playing them to me and letting me listen when he knew I respected how precious Vinyl is.

A Gift.

Posters, Memorabilia, Apparel (a lot of apparel), Accessories, Figurines, Books, Encyclopedia's (Wyman, Love him for it).

The Vault...it'll will not end for a long time. There's a lot of stuff to come...

Est Spend: $ 10,000 NZD, CD's are $6 NZD here and have been for a decade

I buy second hand where I can, [realgroovy.co.nz] & [slowboatrecords.co.nz]

But if you count the Instruments of Inspiration (Guitar's, Amp's, Speakers, P.A. & Mic's, Studio, Transport, Accomodation, Drink's, various accoutrement & accompaniments...oh & Food, i always forget Food..) then it's probably North of "A really nice Porsche" and I wouldn't have it any other way.

Sweet.