Ticket sales this time around have been a disgrace, and it's more the fault of the Stones than Ticketmaster. Brings greed to a new level.
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SpanishTony Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Any idea where one could purchase a copy? You can download any number of versions from a bunch of sites if you use bit torrent.
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Perhaps it isn't just the cost of the tickets that sticks in the craw. As far as I can tell, it is very difficult to get tickets without joining the fan club (that was my experience, anyway). As high as the ticket prices are, a lot of us end up having to add another 100.00 to that, regardless of what kind of seats we end up with. Also, I think that calling shows sell-outs, then having fan
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Any idea when these will go on sale? On a related note, it kind of sucks that people who were fan club members for the Licks tour and who rejoined yesterday to get in on the 2005 tour don't get the same extra early pre-sale access that those who joined the fan club 2004-May 9th 2005 are getting.
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That the press conference will take place in Bryant Park. Anyone know if there is any truth to this?
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Of course they don't physically have the tickets, but what do you make of the fact that they are offering specific seats and sections?
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That is exactly right. I was just reading about the new, more high tech ways that these scumbags horde tickets.
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So, these guys have someone in their pocket who has already provided them with specific seats and locations? Stones management and/or Clear Channel and Ticketmaster should be alerted to this.
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Ticketmaster has had this listing for the last few weeks. Any premature ejaculators on the board who blew their load already?
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The Beatles were revolutionaries, the Stones are the greatest Rock and Roll Band in the World, Brian Wilson is a musical visionary, but the Kinks are responsible for the greatest song ever written - Waterloo Sunset.
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Here's a good post on this topic that I found from a group that I am a member of: There's no guarantee that that "silver" CD you're ripping from isn't several generations down the line from freely circulating CDRs, or SHN/FLAC files. I can't speak about other artists, but nearly every Dylan "silver" CD that's been issued inthe last few year
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Don't get me wrong, we are all entitled to our preferences, and we all have our reasons for them. But, the earlier tirade against CD-Rs is making less and less sense to me. The sites that take their music seriously insist that certain quality controls are present when files are shared (EAC logs and md5 files). As far as artwork, how do you make a distinction between artwork created for CD
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Silver discs are factory made, and therefore of a higher quality. CD-Rs are burned from a computer CD burner. Kind of laughable going on about this sort of a thing when you may well be talking about an audience recording from say, 1969.
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Again, I'm afraid that the pot is not just calling the kettle black, but screaming at it. I claim no moral superiority, but evidently I've struck a nerve with you, since you brought a combative tone to a discussion that previously had none. If anyone is on a high horse it is you my friend. I've bought many a silver boot myself, but point of my post was to direct a fan who had no
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Contact me offlist.
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Isn't this really the pot calling the kettle black? How is collecting silvers a fine hobby when the people who buy them are enabling a profit to be made off the backs of the musicians they admire without compensating those arists? A person who intends to profit from a non-commercial release is taking something that doesn't belong to them, just as much as the music sharing/trading comm
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I agree, in theory. Unfortunately, pre-web, it wasn't that easy to find sources, and it was even harder to find people who actually were interested in sharing, rather than hording!
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So many great download sites where you can build a great, huge collection. There's no reason to buy boots any more.
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Street Hassle is one of the greatest songs ever written. Lou hasn't come close to matching that quality since The Blue Mask.
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I say revisit 1972 and open with Gimmie Shelter. Probably not though, since too much of the spotlight would fall on Lisa.
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Belive me, there are many Stones fans who think it should have ended when Brian Jones was given the boot. I guess we would have missed out on some good stuff, wouldn't we?
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Yeah, Daltry has said some pretty nasty things about Kenny Jones. I didn't see 2002. A friend went and was really unhappy. I've seen every other tour since 1979 though, and thought that they were probably better in recent years than at any of the past shows that I saw. Zak really fit them like a glove. Wish I could have seen Moon . . .
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If you haven't heard it, you should get ahold of the Vietnam Veterans benefit where Fogerty played the old Creedence songs for the first time in years. He makes a comment or two that allude to the emotional toll that the lawsuit, etc. took on him. In that context, maybe not so meanspirited or crass.
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CCR was, I think, the greatest American rock band ever.
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Uninspired performance. Rarely seen one from the Stones. But, I'd say a lame crowd is one who doesn't realize that their good time should end where mine begins.
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