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jumpontopofmebaby
I say next summer. I think there will be a vaccine in record time. The whole world needs it. We can’t go by past experience. This is new uncharted territory
We are going to kick this virus right in the nuts very quick. And next summer we roll!
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FrogSugar
I just hope BV's wrong about waiting til 2022 for the next Stones shows... I'd like to think that next May things are back to "normal" in terms of big gigs and that we're all @ a Stones show. Time is not on their side unfortunately... :-/
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bv
I have got most of my tour expenses refunded, including Amtrak bookings and my intercontinental flight in and out of USA by SAS. The 1 star hotel I booked in Buffalo self-canceled my booking, because the tour was off, don't know why they figured out I was going to the show, but there is nothing else happening out there I suppose. Then I had two United flights and four Southwest flights prepaid and booked. These are converted into credits to be used in flights until Feb 2021. I will not fly to USA by then, so I will have my travel insurance refunding the rest. I guess I will be stuck in my own country for a long long while, like most others across the globe. Later on in life, we will talk about what (did not) happen back in 2020.
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TumblinDice76
So true. I'm almost half tempted to buy a knockoff 2020 Tour poster that are floating around out there to put my ticket in and display it with the rest of the tour/event Lithos I have.
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Hairball
Good idea...found this image on facebook from a San Diego news station ...KUSI... would make a nice litho.
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TumblinDice76
So true. I'm almost half tempted to buy a knockoff 2020 Tour poster that are floating around out there to put my ticket in and display it with the rest of the tour/event Lithos I have.
Good idea...found this image on facebook from a San Diego news station ...KUSI... would make a nice litho.
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24FPS
I don't understand. What does the CA after the USA slash mean? California? Last time I checked, California is still part of the USA, whether we like it or not.
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24FPS
What does the CA after the USA slash mean?
Official Country-Code and Internet-TLD for Canada - [en.Wikipedia.org] , [en.Wikipedia.org] .
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bv
I have got most of my tour expenses refunded, including Amtrak bookings and my intercontinental flight in and out of USA by SAS. The 1 star hotel I booked in Buffalo self-canceled my booking, because the tour was off, don't know why they figured out I was going to the show, but there is nothing else happening out there I suppose. Then I had two United flights and four Southwest flights prepaid and booked. These are converted into credits to be used in flights until Feb 2021. I will not fly to USA by then, so I will have my travel insurance refunding the rest. I guess I will be stuck in my own country for a long long while, like most others across the globe. Later on in life, we will talk about what (did not) happen back in 2020.
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kv2915
If they aren’t coming back why not cancel the tour then? Postponed=rescheduled.
Me and JessicaB would have been in Pit 1! We had a great hotel right across the street, and would have explored the area for a couple of days! Air Canada has given us credit, not sure for how long. Missing seeing Keith up close.Quote
DGA35
Well tonight would have been the Vancouver show. Instead, I'll be home watching one of my Stones DVD's. I'm sure at some point Mick would have said "How you doing tonight Vancouver? Anybody here tonight from Seattle? How about Victoria?We gonna do a new one for you tonight, this one's called Living In a Ghost Town. Keith would say It's Good to be here, it's good to be anywhere, then play his 2 song set. Obligatory crowd singalong to YCAGWYW, Satisfaction finale.
Newspapers and online reports will rave about how they can still rock at their age! Diehards will complain too many warhorses.
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2014SlayerMe and JessicaB would have been in Pit 1! We had a great hotel right across the street, and would have explored the area for a couple of days! Air Canada has given us credit, not sure for how long. Missing seeing Keith up close.Quote
DGA35
Well tonight would have been the Vancouver show. Instead, I'll be home watching one of my Stones DVD's. I'm sure at some point Mick would have said "How you doing tonight Vancouver? Anybody here tonight from Seattle? How about Victoria?We gonna do a new one for you tonight, this one's called Living In a Ghost Town. Keith would say It's Good to be here, it's good to be anywhere, then play his 2 song set. Obligatory crowd singalong to YCAGWYW, Satisfaction finale.
Newspapers and online reports will rave about how they can still rock at their age! Diehards will complain too many warhorses.
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2014SlayerMe and JessicaB would have been in Pit 1! We had a great hotel right across the street, and would have explored the area for a couple of days! Air Canada has given us credit, not sure for how long. Missing seeing Keith up close.Quote
DGA35
Well tonight would have been the Vancouver show. Instead, I'll be home watching one of my Stones DVD's. I'm sure at some point Mick would have said "How you doing tonight Vancouver? Anybody here tonight from Seattle? How about Victoria?We gonna do a new one for you tonight, this one's called Living In a Ghost Town. Keith would say It's Good to be here, it's good to be anywhere, then play his 2 song set. Obligatory crowd singalong to YCAGWYW, Satisfaction finale.
Newspapers and online reports will rave about how they can still rock at their age! Diehards will complain too many warhorses.
Against odds and conventional wisdom, I believe we will still see this show in Vancouver.
Eternal optimist here I know, but I still believe it!!
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bv
I am impressed by the optimists who are ready to tour any time soon, but with the band average age now ticking fast to the 80's, and they all being in the high risk group, we don't really want them out on the road on NYC, LA or any other city. I don't understand why people expect Mick, Keith, Charlie and Ronnie to expose them selves to the virus now, or in the near future.
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bv
I am impressed by the optimists who are ready to tour any time soon, but with the band average age now ticking fast to the 80's, and they all being in the high risk group, we don't really want them out on the road on NYC, LA or any other city. I don't understand why people expect Mick, Keith, Charlie and Ronnie to expose them selves to the virus now, or in the near future.
Speaking for this optimist, I don't expect or want a huge tour or any band members to expose themselves (or ourselves) any time soon.
That said, even the band appears to be optimists, based on their words and actions, if they weren't this tour would already be officially cancelled.
Hope and optimism don't cost anything, and generally can go a long way towards sanity and sometimes shaping reality.
I honestly could see a not too distant future with near instant testing at the gates, and advances in treatments/cure(?), perhaps even a vaccine fast tracked and available as early as next year. Likely.. No? Against all odds and conventional wisdom? Sure.
Possible... Absolutely.
I spoke of being optimistic about a Vancouver show in particular, because BC has some 2300 positive cases compared to Washington where we have 17,000+.
While the financial impact of the virus is huge to many, the idea that they could play several select locations in the future is still very viable. I also don't believe the recession of 2007-08 is the sole reason they didn't tour for five years, a factor perhaps, but to describe it as the reason they didn't tour for five years is inaccurate imo.
World is made up of optimists, pessimists, and realists.
I lean towards optimism, while still being very much a realist.
Reality is six months ago we couldn't have imagined the world would be where we are with this, not entirely crazy to hope that six months from now we are saying the same thing about a turnaround.
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angee
artedm, thanks for the link--I'd much prefer refunds from the airlines to credits they currently offer.