Howdy, ya'll !

I just visited rollingstones.com for the first time in.............I don't know how long.

The "site of the month" for May 2009 is none other than Rocks Off.  

a toast

Wow!

GotToRollMe wrote on May 17^th, 2009 at 9:05pm:


Yeah, my bad. When I clicked on the link from RS.com, I saw the black background from the old messageboard and assumed it was on old link.

It's no big deal. We've been 'site of the month' for over a year simply because they can't be arsed updating their website.

Their recognition means nothing to me. It took them long enough to even acknowledge our existence.

They're a disgrace of a website. Not sure which of their 'crimes' is worse....false advertising by enticing fans to cough up $100 to join with the tease of club shows that never got announced, the promise of an 'exclusive' DVD that never existed and 3 years later seems to have been forgotten about, still selling tickets for European shows for several weeks in 2006 after Keith's accident even though local promoters were telling fans that their gigs had been cancelled, offering so-so tickets in the presale for the 02 shows and keeping the best ones for fan asylum, or  the 'Shine a Light' fiasco when they asked us to be an affiliate to help sell the DVD at Christmas 2007 with the sweetener that the affiliate with most sales would win tickets to the premiere in New York - and then refusing to disclose who actually 'won'. I'm 99% certain the main prize never existed or else they just changed their mind.

We went along with that charade because they'd offered us a chance to reward fans for supporting the band's latest release - Voodoo and myself couldnt have accepted the prize as we dont live in Canada or the US - and we felt it would give them a chance to redeem themselves. In the end they shafted us. And you. I can't speak for Voodoo but if there's a similar opportunity to work with them again, I personally won't have anything to do with it.

I'm absolutely amazed someone with a legal background hasnt taken them to the cleaners years ago. It makes my blood boil to see fans exploited in the way this fan club has operated in the last few years. The band themselves aren't without blame, because they've authorised these people to act on their behalf - but to be fair, they can't be expected to know what's going on on an everyday basis. Rs.com have almost done something in the last couple of years that I never thought possible - they almost made me hate my favourite band, and I'll never forgive them for that. At least I still have the great records and superb concerts to prevent that but they've been a major factor in what disillusionment I have.

No doubt next year if the Stones tour they'll be bombarding us with the same false promises yet again - hopefully Stones fans won't be like lemmings yet again and will vote with their wallets and tell them where to stick their membership.

Fuck 'em.

Pdog wrote on May 18^th, 2009 at 12:13am:



Hmmm? 

"  Rs.com have almost done something in the last couple of years that I never thought possible - they almost made me hate my favourite band, and I'll never forgive them for that.  "


This makes Joey scared !!!!!!!

RS.SCUM

I am sorry I accidentally made a new topic on this. I meant to post it here. I know I suck. at least I apologize!! It was a long time ago but the experience was so very agonizing. I am surprised that message board is still standing and hasn't burned in flames already.

what is that picture in got to roll me's post?  It is a good depiction of CRAZY in music form

Im not surprised at anything at RS.COM....Look up "fool" on Wikapedia and theres a picture of a guy wearing those Stones $300 "aviator" glasses...........

Which is at the Prado in Madrid which is where I'll be in 3 weeks!

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Lucky bastard!

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Take a quick detour to Lisbon and thank me later.

What part of Africa? Morocco?

I was in Tangier on a day trip when I was in the Costa del Sol about 7 years ago. Fascinating place, although a real culture shock. I got to ride a camel, pose with a  snake around my neck and even saw where the Stones recorded Continental Drift (no, it wasn't pointed out to me but when I got home and watched the 'Stones in Morocco' documentary a few days later I realised I'd been standing right outside the place where the recording had taken place)

Expect to be absolutely tortured by people trying to sell you something or wanting money, but after about the first 200-300 times you sorta of get used to it....

Then again, maybe things have changed since then - nowadays if they hear a Brit or American accent, they might assume that we're all broke.

Seriously, I'd like to spend a couple of days in it in the future to get the feel of it.

No..flew to Malaga from here. Stayed in Fuengirola which is a little further south. You get the ferry/catamaran from Algeciras which is about another 2-3 hours further south again.

Joujouka is a village in the mountains some distance outside Tangier, but the session took place in Tangier itself.

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I actually got robbed in Lisbon back in '82 or '83. It was kinda funny actually. I was hammered....out on the town drinking. It's really late 2or 3 in the morning. Looking for a place to drink I walk into this bar or tasca or whatever they call it, and it's all blacks. So wtf? it was open anyway. So I have a few...walk outside and these four or five guys jump me and take my wallet.....all the $ I had.  Anyway they had a bunch of wine they were drinking so I ended up  drinking wine with these guys for about an hour in the street. Then all of a sudden the guy shoved my wallet in my gut and more or less told me to get the fuck out there. Like he thought I was crazy. Once I had my hand on the wallet I was gone.  

Ten Thousand Motels wrote on May 21^st, 2009 at 7:31pm:



You lived over there for a few years didnt you?

Gazza wrote on May 21^st, 2009 at 7:44pm:


Yeah. Almost 5. Sometimes I wish I had never come back here. LOL. Looking back I kind of had it made. But then again all that cheap wine may have killed me had I stayed.

M, I might be going to Lisbon next year with some family. If there's also a Stones show, wouldn't that top it all?

Gazza wrote on May 22^nd, 2009 at 5:01pm:


Well, when ya put it that way...