Pdog wrote on Oct 15^th, 2012 at 4:51pm:


I hope the two-bit prick known as Quint Davis doesn't try to get them for Jazz Fest.


After the Springsteen clusterfuck this year, the last thing Jazz Fest needs is the Stones.

Just not enough room for the crowd unless they have the Stones in the New Orleans Arena.

The PPV sounds best, 65" Plasma and 140W of 7 channel sound!

I was born and raised in NYC and know that Newark is a shit-hole!
If it was MSG..... I'd be at the keyboard when the pre-sale scheduled to start!

Most of us are not going BUT FEEL LIKE THEY'VE ALREADY BEEN MUGGED !!!!!!!

For those that go leave your wallet in the hotel safe!!

Bill German will be in AZ next month and I'll be pleased to meet him when he speaks on his book tour
at 4 Maricopa County Libraries!
Bill's book 'Under Their Thumb' is a MUST READ !!!!

Rolling Stones' London concerts could set you back over £1,000

The Rolling Stones have announced their first live shows in five years, including two concerts in Britain, but fans who want a spot right in front of the stage face being charged more than £1,000 for a ticket.



The Rolling Stones have confirmed that they will play two live shows in London next month, but the cheapest ticket costs £106 including booking fees. Photo: REX FEATURES
By Sam Marsden8:55PM BST 15 Oct 2012

Even the cheapest tickets for their two nights at London’s O2 Arena next month cost £106 – more than the band themselves were paid when they performed their first gig 50 years ago.
Confirming widespread rumours, the rock group said they were playing four dates, two in Britain and two in the United States, to mark their 50th anniversary.
Tickets for the London shows on November 25 and 29 cost up to £406, including booking fees, for the best seats.
However, at present any Stones lover who wants to guarantee a place standing in the “tongue pit” in front of the stage, based on the band’s classic tongue and lips logo, will have to purchase a VIP hospitality package costing £1,140 including VAT.



By contrast, the original members of the Stones each received £5 – about £88 in today’s money – for their first concert at the Marquee Club in London's Oxford Street on July 12 1962. The late Brian Jones, who came up with the band’s name, was paid slightly more.
The latest gigs will be rather more lucrative for the ageing rockers. Reports suggest that promoters are paying them about £16 million for the four concerts.
The Stones last played live during their two-year A Bigger Bang tour, which ended at the O2 Arena in August 2007. It earned around $558 million (£347 million), making it the second highest grossing music tour in history.
Sir Mick Jagger, the band’s frontman, admitted on Monday that it felt “crazy” to have reached the 50-year landmark.
“You think it’s going to last a couple of years. At the time that seemed like a perfectly rational thing to say – why would you think it would go on for any longer? That was about the shelf life of a pop group at the time,” he told the Evening Standard.
“Obviously at the beginning you didn’t have any inclination. It’s a nightmare idea, really, that you’d do anything for 50 years at that age.”
The estimated 30,000 tickets for the two London dates went on advance sale on Monday to American Express card holders and people wanting a package including hospitality or hotel accommodation.
Tickets will be available to O2 mobile customers and subscribers to the Stones Archive mailing list from Wednesday, and will go on general sale at 9am on Friday.
The American concerts will be held at the Prudential Centre in Newark, New Jersey, on December 13 and 15.
Fans who manage to get one of the prized tickets are promised a run through the group’s greatest hits, which include "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction", "Honky Tonk Women" and "You Can't Always Get What You Want”.
The Stones have recorded two new songs - Doom And Gloom and One More Shot - which will be included in a repackaged “best of” collection called “Grrr!”, to be released on November 12.
Sir Mick suggested on Monday that the announced dates would be a teaser for a full series of shows. There have also been rumours the Stones are being lined up to play Glastonbury Festival next year.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/rockandpopmusic/9610328/Rolling-Stones-...

Best seats I could see

SectionBK B3RowESeats37 - 38Description INCL. VENUE FACILITY FEE £1
ENTRANCE H
Price Level 1
FLOOR SEATING
TypeTicket + 'Brussels Affair Box Set' (1 box set per 2 tickets)
Ticket Price£651.00 x 2
Price Details
SUBTOTAL*£1,302.00

over $2000 AUS. Can't do it. Add accom, air etc.

Ade wrote on Oct 15^th, 2012 at 7:12am:


"It's all about the pretty people!"

That's sad!

And, not cool at all!

As fan, I would much rather see REAL FANS enjoying the show!  Real fans bring an energy and magical feeling to the show!

I would be watching the Pay-Per-View show and go, "Hey, there's Voodoo Chile! Wow!  Cool!"

i have it on good authority that the 'special guests' will be Kid Rock & One Direction.

Apparently they will all be joining Mick for an exclusive, acapella version of "Streets Of Love", that post-show, you will be able to download, for a limited time, for a yet undisclosed fee.

Nellcote wrote on Oct 15^th, 2012 at 11:22pm:



'Cheaper' than £1,000 a ticket covers a lot of ground. Should we pleased if theyre only, say, £600 a ticket?

From what Ive seen on stonesarchive.com theres a presale for the £600 (+ £51) package which gets you an (unsigned) copy of the Brussels Affair box thrown in. Just like there was on the AMEX presale. I think theres one 'box' per order. Not per ticket.

So effectively, if I'm understanding this right, this free presale entitles you to a shot at an (albeit very good) seat which has a normal price of £350, but you get a boxed set thrown in. Which you may or may not already own as you're a registered stonesarchive member.

It gets better all the time!

160K views on youtube for announcement.

Edith, that is probably one of the "nicer" areas of the city. You can probably get in and out of the city pretty easy that way. I doubt there is mass transit from there to the arena. What I would do is if I saw lots of people walking to the arena I would probably walk it. If not, I would have the hotel call me a cab even though it's only about a mle and a half away. I apologize if I'm scaring the hell out of you-The sad reality is that Newark is not a place that you want to be walking around at night alone. Again, once you get to the arena ( nicknamed The Rock) you'll love it though. It is gorgeous and they received a lot of federal funding to build it in  Newark to try to revitalize the area. Unfortunately that hasn't happened yet. However, with the Stones in town all is good!!!

Thurs 29th
Best avail in Brussels pack


SectionBK 110RowRSeats284 - 285Description INCL. VENUE FACILITY FEE £1
ENTRANCE H
Price Level 1
LEVEL 1
TypeTicket + 'Brussels Affair Box Set' (1 box set per 2 tickets)
Ticket Price£651.00 x 2
Price Details
SUBTOTAL*£1,302.00

Rolling Stones fans' outrage as standard tickets for London 50th anniversary gigs set to cost up to £375
By Emily Sheridan

PUBLISHED: 07:52 EST, 15 October 2012 | UPDATED: 04:44 EST, 16 October 2012


..The news The Rolling Stones are performing again to mark their 50th anniversary has been met with joy by their legions of fans. But after hearing the band are set to net £15.7million from just four gigs, ticket prices are expected to be incredibly high.Standards tickets for their two-night stint at London's O2 Arena will cost between £90 to £375.


Back on the road: The Rolling Stones (L-R) Charlie Watts, Keith Richards, Ronnie Wood and Sir Mick Jagger have announced a 50th anniversary tour

Although tickets don't go on sale until Friday, many fans have ruled out trying to buy them after being put off by the inflated prices.
Fans took to Twitter to express their horror at the prices to watch the band, who have a combined age of 273, perform.
One Twitter user Jack Powell tweeted the band, saying: '@RollingStones how can the ticket prices be so high. Trying to get a loan. My one chance to see you and the price is shocking. Gutted.'
Another fan James Pagan said: 'How can the Rolling Stones charge 400 quid to see them in concert at the O2? I think everyone should boycott it.'

The rock group announced their new tour on Monday to coincide with their 50th anniversary as a band on a YouTube video.

The four-piece will perform two shows in London in November, follow by a pair of gigs in Newark, New Jersey the following month.



Frontman Sir Mick Jagger, 69, enthused: 'Everybody loves a celebration, and London and New York are two good places to do it in.'
Guitarist Keith Richards, 68, added: 'Sorry to keep you all hanging around but the waiting is over. I've always said the best place for rock and roll is on the stage and the same is true for the Stones.
'I'm here with Mick, Charlie and Ronnie and everything is rocking. See you very soon.'
The gigs will be their first tour since their two-year A Bigger Bang World Tour, which ended in 2007.
In 2006, the band were forced to cancel a string of dates after Keith suffered concussion after falling out of a tree while on holiday in Fiji during a break in the tour.
The group will perform to an estimated 20,000 people at London's O2 Arena on 25 and 29 November, and 18,700 at the Prudential Center in Newark on 13 and 15 December.


The venues are far smaller than others the band have played to in the past, such as 82,000 at London's Twickenham Stadium or an estimated 1million people on Copacabana Beach in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil in February 2006.
Appearing on Chris Evans' Radio 2 breakfast show on Monday, Mick said: 'I'm sure there's going to be something on Facebook very soon about the tour. It's not going to be a long tour, the first bit anyway... It's going to be a few gigs.
As well as a new tour, the band have recorded two new songs Doom And Gloom and One More Shot, which will appear in a new greatest hits collection Grrr!, which will hit stores on November 12.
Describing the new songs, Mick told Chris: 'It was a very quick recording session
Although the line-up had changed somewhat since their inception in the 60s, Mick and Keith will be joined by current members Charlie Watts, 71; and Ronnie Wood, 65, for this tour.
Previous Stones members include the late Brian Jones and Ian Stewart, and former bassist Bill Wyman, who left in 1993.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2217981/Rolling-Stones-fans-outrage...
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Stewed n Keefed wrote on Oct 16^th, 2012 at 7:14am:



So to get tickets through the Stones Archive pre-sale you have to buy the Brussels package? NO WAY!

Anyone heard anything about the O2 customers Presale?

Patrick wrote on Oct 16^th, 2012 at 9:01am:



Probably similar arrangemen to the Amex one, ie the cream of the worst value seats for the price category.

You'll rarely get much quality and value for money wise in a free pre sale.