Going to see the Stones

Shoalzie · Post by **Shoalzie** » Sat May 21, 2005 2:33 pm

I've only been to two concerts (Weezer and Foo Fighters)...I just bought tickets to see the Rolling Stones at Comerica Park on August 31. They haven't done a great album in years but I can't pass up the chance to see these guys before they finally call it quits. This is supposedly the last tour...but we all have heard that before. If they're as good as what they were on the Four Flicks DVD, it should be a lot of fun. Clearly, I've grown up in the wrong era for the type of music that I like. I would've loved to see the Stones, The Who, Zeppelin back in the 60s and 70s when they were in their prime and when tickets didn't cost an arm and a leg. I just got a job offer yesterday morning and I'm treating this show as a reward for getting my first job. They may be older than dirt but they're still the freakin' Rolling Stones. I dropped $160 for the field level ticket but I look at this as being the only time I see them.

Anyone else thinking about seeing the Stones this summer? Those two shows at Fenway Park would be a trip to see.

Bizzarofelice · Post by **Bizzarofelice** » Sat May 21, 2005 7:19 pm

Hmmm... $160 to see the Stones or $10 to see the guy the use to imitate, Chuck Berry.

Hafta think about that one.

Dinsdale · Post by **Dinsdale** » Sat May 21, 2005 7:20 pm

T & P.

I don't even offer my condolences because you have to sit through a couple of hours of really, really bad music. I offer them because something went so terribly wrong with your upbringing, that you want to see this show just so you can say "I saw the Stones!"

For this, I truly feel sorry for you.

I get the impression from your post that you're still quite young, so there's still hope.

Resist the Dark Side. Look towards the light. Listen to music because it's good, rather than what someone, or some internal need for acceptance tells you to. This is how music execs seek to take over your mind, and ruin it for anyone with a working brain.

Just say no.

Dinsdale · Post by **Dinsdale** » Sat May 21, 2005 7:21 pm

Oh, and what Bace said, times 1000.

For less than $15, I can go see 100 different bands that would humiliate the Stones.

Bizzarofelice · Post by **Bizzarofelice** » Sat May 21, 2005 7:26 pm

Dinsdale wrote:humiliate the Stones.

Since Steel Wheels and Flashpoint they can't be humiliated any more.

Dinsdale · Post by **Dinsdale** » Sat May 21, 2005 7:32 pm

Are you kidding?

I guess I'm a little older than you are -- I remember Undercover quite well. I was embarassed to be a person who listened to rock for a while.

Dinsdale · Post by **Dinsdale** » Sat May 21, 2005 8:44 pm

Looking through the listings.....

I'll bet I could go see Juliette Lewis' freaking band, and hear better music than the Rolling In Stupid People's Money is going to put on.

She's probably a natural-born singer.

Or, she's playing her new role of being an aging pissed-off rebel chick. A flick in which she comes to hip clubs in the U&L, and portrays Sleater-Kinney. Props, since that's quite a stretch for her acting talents.

Dinsdale · Post by **Dinsdale** » Sat May 21, 2005 8:50 pm

Dante's is a pretty small, intimate club, though.

As Dins gets a couple of brews down, the heckling opportunities are starting to tempt me.

The head bouncer and I go back at least a decade, and not in a good way, so it might not be in my better interest, but I try not to let my better-interest stop me from having a little fun on an occasion.

Hmmm......

If anyone can suggest any deece one-liners that a drunken idiot could drop on Juliette Lewis from the crowd, I might be persuaded. And I'd of course report back here....probably battered and bruised, but with a story to tell......because that is how I roll.

Invictus · Post by **Invictus** » Sun May 22, 2005 8:39 am

Jesus, I wouldn't scratch my nuts to hear that skank sing (she was cute in "Cape Fear" and went downhill after that) and Dinsdale runs to see her perform after hearing about how hard she rocks. Make sure you run off toe see Dogstar, or Russell Crowe's band, or how abot Megan Mullaly's group, I hear she rocks pretty hard.

Dude, never again talk about how shitty rap or hip-hop sounds or how there is no musicality to it at all. Anyone who would pay hard earned money to see some moderately talented actress perform in a talentless band has no idea what good music sounds.

At least tell me you did a little hogging at the show.

BSmack · Post by **BSmack** » Sun May 22, 2005 11:42 am

Steel Wheels was shere the Stones finished the shark jump that began with Undercover. Seriously, go to a nursing home and teach 5 old people to play bass, guitar and drums. I'm certain it will sound as good as a "Stones" concert. And you will feel much better because you are helping people, not wasting money.

Dinsdale · Post by **Dinsdale** » Sun May 22, 2005 5:04 pm

A) The early evening buzz was much too strong to have made it downtown for a show.

B) Vic, what part of me looking to cash in on "heckling opportunities" which might have resulted in a beating from the security staff did you not comprehend?

Invictus · Post by **Invictus** » Sun May 22, 2005 9:39 pm

Dinsdale wrote:Vic, what part of me looking to cash in on "heckling opportunities" which might have resulted in a beating from the security staff did you not comprehend?

I saw all that but you still paid good money to see a skanky slunt wail about the "angst" in her life. She "heckled" you once you stepped foot into the place and gave her your bread.

You would have liked to get your ass beat by security? IVO? Who likes getting a public beating and humiliation?

Did you ignore the hogging question on purpose or are you just being coy?

Dinsdale · Post by **Dinsdale** » Mon May 23, 2005 4:49 pm

Invictus wrote:I saw all that but you still paid good money to see a skanky slunt

Dinsdale wrote:The early evening buzz was much too strong to have made it downtown for a show.

Grasp at straws much there, Vic?

And dude -- $10 is "good money?" Heck, I'll pay that cover to see midget wrestling.

Bizzarofelice · Post by **Bizzarofelice** » Mon May 23, 2005 5:00 pm

Spending 15 to see Built to Spill. Doug is old and out of shape so it might be like seeing ths Stones.

MgoBlue-LightSpecial · Mon May 23, 2005 5:25 pm

Bizzarofelice wrote:Spending 15 to see Built to Spill. Doug is old and out of shape so it might be like seeing ths Stones.

3 songs in and it'll look like someone dumped a bucket of water on him.

Dinsdale · Post by **Dinsdale** » Mon May 23, 2005 5:31 pm

All this time, and I've never seen Built To Spill, even though it seems like they play the Crystal about every two weeks.

Shoalzie · Post by **Shoalzie** » Fri May 27, 2005 1:59 pm

Great, the opening act for the Stones will be Maroon 5, a band that I loath. Pittsburgh gets Pearl Jam, Toronto gets Beck and Motown gets Maroon 5...thanks Mick. Atleast give us Michigan rockers...Kid Rock, Alice Cooper, Seger, Iggy Pop, White Stripes...hell, where's Uncle Ted? :x

Rack Fu · Post by **Rack Fu** » Mon May 30, 2005 3:58 am

Shoalzie wrote: They haven't done a great album in decades [/img]

FTFY

In their heyday, no one was any better than the Stones. Circa 2005 - absolutely pathetic.

Funkywhiteboy · Post by **Funkywhiteboy** » Mon May 30, 2005 4:08 am

Rack Fu wrote:In their heyday, no one was any better than the Stones.

How many days in a heyday?
How many heys in a day?

:P :P

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