Got a $12.50 New Orleans Superdome July 1978 ticket for free!
Those were the days!
: )
Fred Hardin
Pleased to meet you........

Didn't pay for the first show.....SF July 75

First one I paid for was $11.50 Oakland 78 "Day on the Green #4" Mick's 35th B-day and final show of the Some Girls tour.
Santana, Eddie Money, Peter Tosh and the Stones
Just three days prior Aerosmith, Foreigner, Pat Travers, Van Halen and AC/DC played "Day on the Green #3
Two shows for less than $25

Last show (so far) LA 2006 $200.00

No Expectations Wrote:
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> Didn't pay for the first show.....SF July 75
>
> First one I paid for was $11.50 Oakland 78 "Day on
> the Green #4" Mick's 35th B-day and final show of
> the Some Girls tour.
> Santana, Eddie Money, Peter Tosh and the Stones
> Just three days prior Aerosmith, Foreigner, Pat
> Travers, Van Halen and AC/DC played "Day on the
> Green #3
> Two shows for less than $25
>
> Last show (so far) LA 2006 $200.00

Lucky you!! Did you taped the shows?

21,50 DM incl. fees (German marks that is)

Münster, Germany, 30. April 1976, breakfast show

I think it was about £25 back in 1995 ($50 at todays exchange rates but probably about $35 at the exchange rate at the time).

Bargain - and I was able to persuade my mates to go along too, something I can't do now. No hope to convert the uninitiated when ticket prices are like they are now. Even serious fans have second thoughts!

for pot or the ticket?

well it wasn't my first stones show, but the first i can remember the money sitch around...
...i think it was $15. for msg '72, but you had to buy four, IF u won the postcard lottery that even allowed you to buy in...
might have been cheaper but i think that's correct...they played a weeks worth of shows there, sold 'em all out...
...and the demand was so huge that you still had to send in dozens of postcards, hoping for a chance to buy in...

i had every friend, and a lot of people i didn't know, offering me outrageous prices for one of the four...
but billy don't play that...it DID feel like you won the lottery when you got the notification...
the show i saw, was astounding...stevie wonder was incredible too...
not an ounce of fat or foolishness the whole night long...whooo, it was grrreat.

it's embarassing i guess, but we were showing each other the goosebumps on our arms at certain really high points in the concert...
and there were a LOT Of them...
whooooo, it was epiphany city...rock and roll central...the holy grail...and obvious to everyone there, even at the time...

gosh, how'd the manage that without a tv screen and fireworks? and without some sillyass customized stage...?
...hmmm, guess they had to lean into the music, and the crowd. well thank goodness things 'evolved' eh?



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7.50 1975 last row in madison square garden

IR£12 for Slane in 1982. I think that was £10 sterling.

$10, 1978 cleveland

put it in this perspective... it was less than the "service charge" added on to a Stones ticket today.

you would think the stones would have second jobs in those days,lol

Thanks tjkeef for reminding me that my Anaheim tix were only $12.50 as compared to $450 in Las Vegas. How times have changes. Check out the Most Paid thread I started.

Scotty

rooster Wrote:
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> No Expectations Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Didn't pay for the first show.....SF July 75
> >
> > First one I paid for was $11.50 Oakland 78 "Day
> on
> > the Green #4" Mick's 35th B-day and final show
> of
> > the Some Girls tour.
> > Santana, Eddie Money, Peter Tosh and the Stones
> > Just three days prior Aerosmith, Foreigner, Pat
> > Travers, Van Halen and AC/DC played "Day on the
> > Green #3
> > Two shows for less than $25
> >
> > Last show (so far) LA 2006 $200.00
>
> Lucky you!! Did you taped the shows?


Have to admit at the time the thought never crossed my mind.

$12.50 to see the Stones play the classic "Philadelphia Special" at the Spectrum in 1972--$10 less than it cost me to buy the Great Dane boot recording of the show 20 years later...

I paid 17,- Deutsche Mark in 1973 in Frankfurt for the first show, but I also stayed for the second - so that makes it DM 8,50 or something around € 4,-

How much did your first Stones show cost?

Melbourne 1973....3 shows in two days...
Buckled Heart & Soul and the body buzzed for 30 days...High cost GREAT FEEL



ROCKMAN

>>Melbourne 1973....3 shows in two days...
>>Buckled Heart & Soul and the body buzzed for 30 days..<<

Seems more like its been 33 years, 11 months, 14 days excluding the end date*
to your buzz, no?

(*which is today between Europe <-> Australia )

Yeah I guess ya right open-g....never thought of it that way...YEAH!!!



ROCKMAN

I went from Japan to New Orleans in 1981.
It is wonderful memories.

No Expectations Wrote:
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> Didn't pay for the first show.....SF July 75
>
> First one I paid for was $11.50 Oakland 78 "Day on
> the Green #4" Mick's 35th B-day and final show of
> the Some Girls tour.
> Santana, Eddie Money, Peter Tosh and the Stones
> Just three days prior Aerosmith, Foreigner, Pat
> Travers, Van Halen and AC/DC played "Day on the
> Green #3
> Two shows for less than $25
>
> Last show (so far) LA 2006 $200.00


Wow,you sound a lot like another bay area guy who used to be on here. Your not related to StonesTod by any chance are you?.............Anyway,I remember the Oakland 78 well. My first ever Stones show. Didn't remember how much tickets where,so thanks for that. I do remember it being Mick's B-day and there being a 2 hr wait in between Santana left and the Stones came on. With circus acts to entertain. Including a highwire act. I remember more about that show than many others I went to as I got older.

"It's just some friends of mine and they're busting down the door"

My firsy was also in in Milw. in '75 and tix were 10 bucks, first show in double digits.

First for me was $55 for the BTB Tour...escalated quickly after that to $85 for No Security, $400 for 40 Licks (several shows)and $400 for BB (several shows).....become kind of a hobby for my wife and I...actually paid $600 a seat for 2nd row for 40 Licks. But we still love it.

OK, so I came late to the party... Hot summer day, jets and skydivers overhead, a great lineup and a great party. And $25.50 Cdn including Ticketmaster charge. Thanks, Stones!

my first like i said 7.50 1975 to 280.00 2006-- what a raise for the band-lol

$7.50 in Philly in 1969
A beer at the show costs more than that now!





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roryg Wrote:
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> My firsy was also in in Milw. in '75 and tix were
> 10 bucks, first show in double digits.


Mine were for on the field. Were you in the stands?

Are you still in Milwaukee area.

HA HA!!! $3 at Auburn 1969 Cheers!

I was on the field as well, but we moved to the seats behind home plate. Still in the area, but a bit west (Madison).

$5.50 - Chicago, 1965 - 5th row. Course they only played for something like 25 minutes back then.

35 SEK, Scandinavium 1973.