sweetcharmedlife Wrote:
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> 16 in 44, 2.75 yearly avg. I have tickets for 3
> more shows on this tour which will make 19. Then I
> hope to make 20 at wembly next year.


come on ! DO THE MATH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Roadster32 Wrote:
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> they 'll do Dublin next year.
>
> Don't worry Gazza.
>
> See you there.


Maybe they will, but I live in Belfast - not Dublin.

Erik_Snow Wrote:
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> sweetcharmedlife Wrote:
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> > 16 in 44, 2.75 yearly avg.
>
> I think there's something wrong here.


LOL..yes...thats 1 show every 2.75 years, not 2.75 per year...!

It will be 15 for just this tour.... each tour the addiction gets worse!!! (Or better as the case may be) - worse for my pocket book, better for the psyche! The other tours have usually been between 6 and 10 shows per tour depending on how long the tour is.

Im 45 and I am in the mid forties for shows starting in 75. I will have to check my stubs. Unfortnately the Only One I think I am missing is My very first show Boston 75.

just 2, one of them in '81 at Kemper in KC w/ Mick Taylor guesting
loudest show I've ever been to

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Gazza Wrote:
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> Erik_Snow Wrote:
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> > sweetcharmedlife Wrote:
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> > > 16 in 44, 2.75 yearly avg.
> >
> > I think there's something wrong here.
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>
> LOL..yes...thats 1 show every 2.75 years, not 2.75
> per year...!


I stand corrected.

I've shared taxi on the way to Kemper Arena in KC with a guy scalping stones t shirts on evry venue in 1981.
He skips over hundreds if he contiunes the same job making his living.

Gazza wrote about the British doctor:
hes bullshitting. Think about it for a second. They played their 1,000th show in 1967 and their 2,000th two months ago. They would have been on about 1,850 shows by June 2003 - so he'd need to have seen two thirds of every show theyd ever done.

he'd need to have already seen a few hundred in the Brian Jones era, and then pretty much every show ever since. or vice versa. Absolutely no way

Hey Gazza! He knows the Stones. He went to every gig from the beginning. He even went to rehearsals at Mick Avory's place back when they were LBB&TBB. He had a private practice and according to my friend Olaf, a walking Stones encyclopedia, the doctor is really famous among hard core collectors, too. He has been given stuff from the boys directly from the beginning. He's in his mid- to late 60's now, and I believe the guy.

It's amazing the devotion of so many..

In my case...after many years of wanting, neglecting and waiting, I finally(at age 44) saw them this abb tour....10 times. 5US-5UK. It was worth every penny and pence. Having done so, I now feel as though I can back up my claim as a "life long fan" :-)

hav seen them 44 times now so that makes 1.517 in about two weeks it drops to 1.467 :/

Life's just a cocktail party on the street

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source : Babylon calculator



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ive seen them twice
on two tours

licks and ABB

I hit 12 in Foxboro last month. My first was Foxboro 1994. I am 30.

.. everyone should have, should see em at least once... its the rolling stones

Steel Wheels (Staduim) 1

No Security (Arena) 1

40 Licks (Club) 1

A Bigger Bang (Arena) 1

MGM Grand (Arena) in Las Vegas will make it 2 for ABB.

Tralala Wrote:
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> Gazza wrote about the British doctor:
> hes bullshitting. Think about it for a second.
> They played their 1,000th show in 1967 and their
> 2,000th two months ago. They would have been on
> about 1,850 shows by June 2003 - so he'd need to
> have seen two thirds of every show theyd ever
> done.
>
> he'd need to have already seen a few hundred in
> the Brian Jones era, and then pretty much every
> show ever since. or vice versa. Absolutely no way
>
> Hey Gazza! He knows the Stones. He went to every
> gig from the beginning. He even went to rehearsals
> at Mick Avory's place back when they were LBB&TBB.
> He had a private practice and according to my
> friend Olaf, a walking Stones encyclopedia, the
> doctor is really famous among hard core
> collectors, too. He has been given stuff from the
> boys directly from the beginning. He's in his mid-
> to late 60's now, and I believe the guy.



so he followed them around the country, into Europe and maybe even to the US. In the 60's? In 1964 they were playing about 300 shows a year. How could anyone who wasnt part of the crew do that - and hold down a job as a doctor at the same time?

Not to mention attend the majority of shows on several continents over and over since '69.

Dont doubt that the guy has been to maybe hundreds of shows, but 1,200 seems implausible.

I'm 46 and have seen 39 shows. 82, 89, 90, 94, 95, 97, 98, 99, 02, 03, 05 and 06.

I used to know the exact number, but I've lost track the past several tours. I'll have to dig up my tickets and passes. I've seen approximately 50 shows, give or take a couple, since my first in 1975. 49 years old and holding.

I've got some catching up to do. Before this tour I never saw any band more than once per tour. I'm sure if you'd have asked me at the time I would have said "why would I do that? wouldn't it be basically the same show? why wouldn't I just spend my money on seeing a completely different concert by a different artist?"

That was before I knew how addictive this multiple concert thing can be. I've seen them three times on this tour and once each in '89, '94, '97, '99 and '02 for a total of eight times. Not even double figures - disgraceful!

135 going back to 1981....have 4 left on this tour {hopefully +1or2 with a beacon show...have all my tickets waiting to put in a collage {sp?}.....going to makes a stones ticket coffee table for a game room....i think the coolest tickets were back in 1981 ...the red ticket with the tongue

40 shows...30 years old. 1.33333 shows per year since birth

Gazza Wrote:

> Me. I'm 43 and have been to 41 shows. Hopefully
> I'll get to 'shoot my age' - to borrow an old golf
> term - next year


I'm 43 and have seen 40 shows. I will attend upcoming Oakland, Vegas, and LA.
to round it off to a nice 43 times in 43 years!

edit: my first show was in LA 1981, so really 40 shows in last 25 years.
From LA all the way to Stockholm, and alot of places in between.



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Seattle will be 49 for me. And then on to Phoenix for 50. I was able to hit both Roseland and Aragon Ballrooms in 2002.

Only 15 on this tour so 115.

36 since 1995. 8 this tour.

Just 6

2 in 1995 (Wembley)
1 in 1999 (Wembley)
2 in 2003 (Twickenham)
1 in 2006 (Twickenham)

I have only seen the Stones 11 times. That is every US tour since 1972 with a couple of tours that I saw them twice. I have paid from $6 to see them play with Stevie Wonder in 1972 to over $350 for the later tours. I wish I had seen them in the 1960's but they did not come thru Seattle to much back then (only in 65 & 66 ???). I may not have seen them the most times but I've seen them over a 34 year period and I loved every show.
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