>>>>>>So, I decided to buy a couple of tickets for their concert, coming in June of 2019. At the Gillette stadium. Logged in this morning, before 10 am, when they started the sale. The prices are outrageous. Minimum at about $300 per tickets and those are where you sit up in the stands and see the concert on the big screen. Anything remotely close is about $700-$1000 per ticket. And people buy them. I guess it is good that some can spend that kind of money.
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>>>>>>I would rather spend this money to go to NYC, stay in a nice hotel for 2 nights, go to a Broadway show or to a jazz concert at the Lincoln center.
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>>>>>Yep - and the tickets can get much more expensive than that. The trick is to know someone and get a pass that lets you go anywhere in the stadium including on the side of the stage and behind the stage where you don't have to pay for food or drinks :)
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>>>>>...but hey man - it IS the Rolling Stones! How many more times you going to have a chance to see Mick and Keith? ..of course I've been saying that since I first saw them in 1981 hahaha -- but still - it's a great show and they are getting older -- if you don't see them now you may never.
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>>>>I won't see them; period. I do have their concert DVD and this will be the closest to seeing them. I think in 1981 they were probably still playing themselves. Now, it is probably mix between the backup musicians and singers and the recordings. The rest is lip "singing" and jumping on the stage.
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>>>Faced with a similar decision several years ago, I paid (what then seemed) an outrageous sum to see Luciano Pavarotti in concert at Madison Square Garden. I was still grumbling when we took our seats, but he was breathtaking in person and I'll never forget that experience.
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>>>Not longer after that, it was announced that the had an incurable cancer and he died shortly later.
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>>>I still listen to him on CD, but it's nothing like that time I saw him in person. I'll never forget it and it was worth 3 or 4 times the price.
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>>>I wouldn't know the Rolling Stones from Little Orphan Annie, but if you love them, go and see them.
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>>I am glad you saw your favorite rock musician (grd). I don't really love the Rolling Stones that much. But I thought it would be nice, just to be a show-off to some friends. But not for $1000. They would have to come to our family room to perform for that kind of money.
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>For me concert tickets nearly always are connected with a female and generate usually fond memories.
>Sometimes expensive, but in my personal cost/benefit calc worth it - although $1000 was seldom hurdled and I saw the Stones only twice...
>OTOH I am a dirty old man and was never married, so coming from different grounds ;-)
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>I DO wonder you never even mention your wifes wishes in this ;-)

It is ok to be a dirty old man as long as you are dirty clean :)

Actually my wife wanted to see Billy Joel very much; I liked him too but not $400-worth much :). But her wish was my command and we gladly paid for these tickets. And she enjoyed the concert very much. I did too but tend to be more "people watcher" than the concert watcher. It is interesting to see how people react. What really surprised me is to see a group of young men (no more than 20 yo) who came to see Billy Joel and were dancing, sharing food, and truly enjoying themselves. I thought that only old farts like me would like Billy Joel. This really raised the new generation in my eyes.

Speaking about Billy Joel, I like reading biographies and one that stands in my mind was late Phil Ramone's autobiography. He was Billy Joel's producer, there were a lot of their professional relationship in the book.