An interesting thread here, covering, as I see it, JB music/style, demographics of an audience, and the ever present ticket price debate . So my comments on above, in that order: Music - JB is without doubt a brilliant guitarist, but it's almost as if he doesn't quite know what to do with it. First time I saw him, he was definitely in 'guitar workbook mode', as he romped th
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Probably 1965, my first Stones concert, ticket price 10/-, = one weeks pocket money. And hearing for the the first time, new releases The Last Time and Satisfaction; realising there were some great 'B' sides: eg Play with Fire, The Spider and the Fly, The Singer not the Song, all for 6/8d so two weeks pocket money meant three new records
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Quoteycagwywpmd How many people been to a concert where they didn't play Satisfaction? Well I did as it was in 1965 before it was written. At Desert Trip last year, so many people saying they went to Stones concerts 40 years ago, didn't meet anyone who said 50 years+! My favourite track from that 1965 concert (and probably still) is The Last Time, sadly neglected like so many others.
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QuoteBig Al QuoteDartfordRenegade QuoteBig Al So, if the Stones have decided to embark on their first proper U.K. Tour since 1971, what can the public realistically expect? Ideally, Northern Ireland should get its first Stones show since 1965; a show apiece in Scotland and Wales; a show in the north and midlands of England - Newcastle and Birmingham, perhaps - and rounding things of with a trio o
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16th Dec Carol Concert Royal Albert Hall London 17th March Joe Bonamassa, Brighton Centre
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Quotetatters Quoteycagwywpmd How many people been to a concert where they didn't play Satisfaction? Lots of people. They hardly played it at all during the 1970s. Ok, take your point. So how many, like me, went to a concert before it was written? Guessing most of you are younger than me?!
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How many people been to a concert where they didn't play Satisfaction? Well I did as it was in 1965 before it was written. At Desert Trip last year, so many people saying they went to Stones concerts 40 years ago, didn't meet anyone who said 50 years+!
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