If you go to the September show and get a cheap seat, beware that this is the only venue in which I have ever heard a concert where the very upper seating section is so high that the sound is terrible. I have sat very high up in other stadia, like Giants Stadium in New Jersey for example, and the Stones sound system has no problem reaching the nose bleed seats. However, at Foxboro that is not the case.

"make up your mind, 'cause I gotta go"

That is correct. Read the reviews from the show there during the LICKS tour:

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Review by Robert Maleski

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I had a nose bleed seat for this one, and I have to say it was a mistake. I see that others have reviewed the sound, but I spent the last third of the show walking around the stadium, and my perception is that the speakers were just not designed to anticipate such a high altitude of seats as in the 300 sections. The sound was terrible up high, but fantastic down low.

The Stones were fantastic as well, but not so for the middle-aged American audience. Since I couldn't hear well for much of the show I decided to pay attention to the big picture. It is as though there were two parallel universes existing at the same time. On the floor and in the lower sections closest to the stage everyone was rocking with the Stones, and as you got progressively further from the stage in all directions (up and back), you gravitated into another world, where fans made up to ten beer trips out of the rows, spent time talking about everything and not paying attention at all to the show. I even saw a fight which resulted in no less than twenty fans permanently leaving their seats.

The stadium set up basically closed out from sale what looked like 25% or more of the seats, but obviously much of this was made up by the floor seats. There were lots of empty seats in the upper sections. Hundreds, if not thousands, of "fans" started streaming out towards the parking lot with several songs to go, and the closer it got to the end the larger the stream of people who were leaving.

Bjornulf

I was on the floor in row 26 and the sound was excellent.

thanks for the heads up .

it was the same at fedex field in 1997 (in maryland outside dc).. hORRIBLE if you were high up in the nosebleeds.. took seconds for sound to get to you and it was terrible...



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Does anybody know the Patriots season ticket password?

Giants Stadium was no better last time I was there, I often couldn't even tell what song they were playing until I heard what Mick was singing. These stadium tours are total BS, who wants to pay that money and get such a crappy sound.

don't want to, but will!

Also beware of parking in small lots set up in mini-malls along the road to the stadium. You will pay a few dollars less for parking...but on the Licks tour, the State Police rolled through all these little lots, busting everybody in sight for smoking pot, but myself and everybody else in the official parking lot did not even see a cop! I found this out the next morning in a Boston paper.
It's kind of like paying for police protection if you park in the stadium lot.

WAYNEPA Wrote:
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Also beware of parking in small lots set up in mini-malls along the road to the stadium. You will pay a few dollars less for parking...but on the Licks tour, the State Police rolled through all these little lots, busting everybody in sight for smoking pot, but myself and everybody else in the official parking lot did not even see a cop! I found this out the next morning in a Boston paper.


Wayne, I always park in those small lots. The last time I used that stadium parking it took about 2 hours just to get my car on the main road. I park, walk to the stadium, and then hang out in the parking lot (I usually find people I know).

I had a great seat in sec 128 last time they played Foxboro( GILLETTE) and the sound was great however I hate this place! IT SUCKS as a venue! Too huge, traffic is an unreal nightmare, in the middle of TIMBUCKTOO, no good hotels for miles, you had better LOVE WALKING! MILES and MILES we walked! NOT A FUN TIME!

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I had a great seat in sec 128 last time they played Foxboro( GILLETTE) and the sound was great however I hate this place! IT SUCKS as a venue!
Too huge, traffic is an unreal nightmare, in the middle of TIMBUCKTOO, no good hotels for miles, you had better LOVE WALKING! MILES and MILES we walked! NOT A FUN TIME!



Debra - I agree 100%, I HATE going out there. I only go for Stones shows, otherwise, it's not worth the hassle.

This will be blasphemous to some of you fans, but the way to go in Foxboro and Giants Stadium is as follows.

Foxboro: Get there at 4PM, park right up close to the stadium, catch the sound check and book the hell out of there when they start playing the second encore song.

Giants stadium: stay overnight at the hotel just across route 3 from the stadium. Position yourself right at the exit so you can run out at the last note of the second encore song, go to the hotel unimpeded and stand in your window with a cool beer watching the traffic snarl begin.;

I took my kids to a McCartney concert in Giants stadium [1993 I think], and in to two hours I moved far enough from my parking spot to toss a rock to my staring point. I hit the Connecticut line [12 miles away] after four hours, and as soon as I did the State police closed the highway for an hour due to an accident ahead. Better to have left early and missed the bows!!!

"make up your mind, 'cause I gotta go"