The Rolling Stones (blues, house, rock, ballad, guitarist)

**Scarlett O'Hara** · 04-05-2013, 04:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Psy-Fi

$150 NZ is roughly equivalent to $125 US at current exchange rates.
The prices I paid were all in US dollars at the time.

1981 tour - $22.50 (adjusted for inflation, would be roughly $57 today)

1989 tour - $28.50 (adjusted for inflation, would be roughly $53 today)

1994 tour - $35.00 (adjusted for inflation, would be roughly $54 today)

1998 tour - $40.00 (adjusted for inflation, would be roughly $56 today)

Back in 1981, $22.50 was the most I had ever paid to see a show.
I saw them twice in 1989 & 1998, so that doubles my total price for those 2 years.

Ah I see. I honestly would pay any price to see them. I am really hoping they come to New Zealand this year. They will make fuck loads of profit if they do.

Monkeyleg · 04-20-2013, 12:20 PM

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I paid $150 NZ to see them. Beat that.

On the 1981 tour I got my buddy and me 8th row center seats at the Rosemont Horizon outside Chicago for $20+. I went to the Ticketmaster location at a local mall at 10 am, and there was nobody else there.

Of course, my friends and I saw Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin (1st tour), The Doors, Janis Joplin, Steppenwolf, and a whole slew of other big names in the 1960's and very early 1970's for $2.50, $3.50 or $4.50 a seat. We saw the Stones in Indianapolis in 1972 on the Exile tour, and I'm sure we didn't pay much more than $10, as I was a broke college student at the time.

Now I'm paying $633 each for 52nd row floor seats for the 5/28 Chicago concert.

My buddy and I have seen the Stones on every tour but one since 1972 (he saw them in '65 as well). I thought $300 a seat for the 2005 concert was a lot.

**Scarlett O'Hara** · 04-20-2013, 04:57 PM

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Originally Posted by Monkeyleg

Hi, all. I just now joined this forum to reply to this post above:

On the 1981 tour I got my buddy and me 8th row center seats at the Rosemont Horizon outside Chicago for $20+. I went to the Ticketmaster location at a local mall at 10 am, and there was nobody else there.

Of course, my friends and I saw Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin (1st tour), The Doors, Janis Joplin, Steppenwolf, and a whole slew of other big names in the 1960's and very early 1970's for $2.50, $3.50 or $4.50 a seat. We saw the Stones in Indianapolis in 1972 on the Exile tour, and I'm sure we didn't pay much more than $10, as I was a broke college student at the time.

Now I'm paying $633 each for 52nd row floor seats for the 5/28 Chicago concert.

My buddy and I have seen the Stones on every tour but one since 1972 (he saw them in '65 as well). I thought $300 a seat for the 2005 concert was a lot.

Well that's amazing how cheap you saw them in the 80's. I wonder why it's so expensive now. I wish I could have been around then to see more of their tours.

Burning Down · 04-20-2013, 05:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Vanilla

Well that's amazing how cheap you saw them in the 80's. I wonder why it's so expensive now. I wish I could have been around then to see more of their tours.

Probably because of Ticketmaster.

Monkeyleg · 04-20-2013, 06:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Burning Down

Probably because of Ticketmaster.

I don't know. I believe it was the Eagles who started charging "real money" for concerts in the 1970's. Before that, concerts were viewed as promotion for record sales. Now I think it's simply demand. People know this is the last time. Tickets for Paul McCartney's concerts this year are just as bad. Maybe he's hanging it up, too. If this wasn't the last tour, there's no way I'd shell out this kind of money.

I was thankful to see the Stones in 1972 and 1975 before they went nuts with all of the pyrotechnics and elaborate stages. I will say, though, that the 2nd-last tour (2000?) was fantastic. No gimmicks, no pyrotechnics, just the Stones playing. It was one of the best concerts they've done.

2005 was really, good, too. When they did "Night Time is the Right Time" with Buddy Guy, and Lisa Fisher belting out the song with Jagger, it was just incredible.

**Scarlett O'Hara** · 04-29-2013, 04:52 AM

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Originally Posted by Monkeyleg

I don't know. I believe it was the Eagles who started charging "real money" for concerts in the 1970's. Before that, concerts were viewed as promotion for record sales. Now I think it's simply demand. People know this is the last time. Tickets for Paul McCartney's concerts this year are just as bad. Maybe he's hanging it up, too. If this wasn't the last tour, there's no way I'd shell out this kind of money.

I was thankful to see the Stones in 1972 and 1975 before they went nuts with all of the pyrotechnics and elaborate stages. I will say, though, that the 2nd-last tour (2000?) was fantastic. No gimmicks, no pyrotechnics, just the Stones playing. It was one of the best concerts they've done.

2005 was really, good, too. When they did "Night Time is the Right Time" with Buddy Guy, and Lisa Fisher belting out the song with Jagger, it was just incredible.

Speaking of the Eagles, I'm dying to see them on tour. I just don't think they ever come here because we are a blip on the radar for many bands.

TheBig3 · 05-04-2013, 06:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Vanilla

Speaking of the Eagles, I'm dying to see them on tour. I just don't think they ever come here because we are a blip on the radar for many bands.

Tiny islands are rarely bigger than a blip on a radar, figuratively and literally.