lawrencej Wrote:
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> Just fyi - I attended this concert, and yes I am a
> banker. I can't say too much in this forum, but I
> will tell you that a) virtually everyone knew the
> Rolling Stones were playing, if they didn't they
> really had to try hard to stay completely
> uninformed b) not everyone was a fan but nearly
> everyone was appreciative and into it and c)
> multiple new and soon to be hard core fans were
> created by having the privilege to see the Stones
> in such an intimate venue.
>
> The criticism of the event on this site is a
> little misplaced in my opinion. I'm one of the
> people that have been described here as money
> grubbing, strictly business oriented,
> disinterested in the Rolling Stones or anything
> other than finance etc etc etc. The truth is I
> know a good portion of their music by heart, but I
> have never bought an album or been to a concert.
> Will I do so in the future? Absolutely. They are
> excellent. Think back to when you rediscovered
> this band - that's where I am right now. And yes
> perhaps I should have paid my dues by attending a
> larger concert first, but I got lucky, as did the
> 400-500 others that were there (not sure how the
> press got to 700, maybe the numbers grew on
> account of additional passes, models, etc).


Good for you, Lawrence...always good to see a 'convert' and I hope you get to see more Stones shows.

I think in general the critique is aimed more at the Stones and their motives for doing such a show than at the people fortunate enough to get in. As Bob Dylan put it, "I cant help it...if I'm lucky..."

maybe when one considers where these cats came from ... i mean: they weren't born rich.
somehow it doesn't surprise me that they would get a kick out of being paid 5.4 million or whatever
for a private party on the band's anniversary of all dates.

anyway i'm glad the people there dug it - that's what it's for

Enough said about this gig now. Don't you agree?

Yeah it wasnt the Folsom prison blues i guess.

Stones received $50.5 million for the Barcelona private party.


IORR............but I like it!

sweet neo con Wrote:
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> Stones received $50.5 million for the Barcelona
> private party.


cool! maybe they'll have some spare change now to help us pay for our poor iorr show ...

sweet neo con Wrote:
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> Stones received $50.5 million for the Barcelona
> private party.


No way. More like $5.5 million

Here's a link that says $50.5 Million.....

[www.azcentral.com]

It's possible that some journalist made an arithmetic mistake...

$62,000 per minute (X 80 minutes) does not equal anything close to $50 Million.
Added too many zeros...or messed up the decimal point I guess....or
can't read his calculator. I'm guessing it's inability to read a calculator.

I did a search this morning...and again this afternoon. It seems that some
publications that had printed $50 million may have corrected it.

az central.com still has the $50 MILLION figure.


IORR............but I like it!



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 2007-07-19 23:00 by sweet neo con.

Forget about those numbers. All reports that use the crowd number of 700 for the DB BCN show copied reports from IORR. That is my own personal estimate, not coming from any other sources. DB paid around 3.5 million euro which is 5 mill us dollars. Not bad really. May be we book them on the next tour. Like 1,000 people at a London club.

Bjornulf

bv Wrote:
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> Forget about those numbers. All reports that use
> the crowd number of 700 for the DB BCN show copied
> reports from IORR. That is my own personal
> estimate, not coming from any other sources. DB
> paid around 3.5 million euro which is 5 mill us
> dollars. Not bad really. May be we book them on
> the next tour. Like 1,000 people at a London club.


I'm in 100% bv,let's do it!,that was a good idea who ever posted it? About the seated for 1,000 dollars i guess we could have our own lottery system? by the way let's vote on where to have it LA for me, the Wiltern!



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2007-07-20 02:32 by stonesfrk.

It is very simple. A show cost 4 mill euro. That is their tab fare. If 1,000 people are coming that is 4,000 euro per person. Or at Brixton Academy only 1,000 euro because it can hold 3,900 people. Whatever you like. It's all down to 50% business and 50% pleasure, give or take some percent here and there.

I paid 10 canadian dollars for my Toronto Phoenix club show ticket and that is approx 6 euro so I am not sure if it is worth it, paying 100 times that for a private show, but we will see. You know a club show doesn't come that easy anyway. It just look that way. You have to sleep in the street. Suffer a bit. But then it is all worth it eventually.

Bjornulf

bv Wrote:
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> It is very simple. A show cost 4 mill euro. That
> is their tab fare. If 1,000 people are coming that
> is 4,000 euro per person. Or at Brixton Academy
> only 1,000 euro because it can hold 3,900 people.
> Whatever you like. It's all down to 50% business
> and 50% pleasure, give or take some percent here
> and there.
>
> I paid 10 canadian dollars for my Toronto Phoenix
> club show ticket and that is approx 6 euro so I am
> not sure if it is worth it, paying 100 times that
> for a private show, but we will see. You know a
> club show doesn't come that easy anyway. It just
> look that way. You have to sleep in the street.
> Suffer a bit. But then it is all worth it
> eventually.

This is true i slept in the street's of Barcelona for 2 night's and was going to go home but got talked out of it and made it to MADRID FRont row pretty center it was worth it! If we could pull 1,000 for everyone some how i think that would be fair and everyone had some what good seats,and the band agreed to some of the context of the gig.

We could even change out seat's half way through the gig like a rotation so everyone can get close!

Good luck to whoever's going to try and persuade me to move from the front row to halfway back while the show's in progress! I recommend a loaded pistol!

Gazza Wrote:
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> Good luck to whoever's going to try and persuade
> me to move from the front row to halfway back
> while the show's in progress! I recommend a loaded
> pistol!


HA Ha GAZZA,just get drunk and it will only be at the half way point,when your front row ,the b-stage 4 song's i just twiddle my thumbs anyway and flirt with lisa during HTW,so what? It's basically the same thing but another 4 song's and in a theater it is way different then a stadium anyway's.

Well 1000 people would have to pay 5 grand each to meet the 5 million requirement. Thats' pretty steep...........BUT.............People think I'm crazy.

"It's just some friends of mine and they're busting down the door"



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2007-07-20 04:46 by sweetcharmedlife.

Just heard that Mick apparently said:

"Thanks for having us - the best thing is that it's all coming out of your
bonuses"