sweetcharmedlife Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > 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.
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.
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.
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" :-)
Tralala Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > 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 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
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. RockOutCockOut