Rolling Stones
So on November 22, I did security for the Rolling Stones: A Bigger Bang Tour at Dodger Stadium in LA. Got to my company's offices (Staff Pro) at around 11am, and we all took a nice long bonding, 3 hour trip to Dodger Stadium where we watched Mission: Impossible 3, and heard cracks about the LA branch of my company. So we finally get there and they greeted us with chicken and pizza, and gave us a Free Staff Pro Flashlight Hyper since they had their own backstage people, they had me giving out wristbands to the people on the Floor. Did you know these people paid like $500-$700 for Floor tickets? WHO IN THEIR RIGHT FUCKING MIND WOULD PAY THAT MUCH MONEY TO SEE A BUNCH OF OLD GUYS PLAY OLD MUSIC IN A STADIUM WITH BAD SOUND?!?!?!? Don't get me wrong, I love the Stones, but if you're gonna charge that much money for tickets, it better come with a free car wash by Mick Jagger! I could understand if it's for a charity, but it's all just for them?? Please, like they really need all that money at their age, You know they whine for a senior citizen's discount whenever they can!

One of the things they had me do was mark a big 'X' on the middle of the ticket with a sharpie after I put the wristbands on them, Oh yeah, they LOVED that. "I paid $500 for this ticket, you're not gonna mark it up" "No, you paid $500 to sit 5 feet closer then the guy who paid $300" I would make them 'X'tra large for those guys Devil "Yeah thanks for fucking up my ticket"

So Bonnie Raitt opened up for them at around 7:00PM, by then they had me roving around for a while. She was eh... then there was a 45 minute intermission, before the pyro started suddenly, making me almost crap my pants. Then they finally came out and played. They played for 2 1/2 hours, banging out all their hits; Route 66, Satisfaction, Time Is on My Side, Mother's Little Helper, Under My Thumb, Sympathy for the Devil, You Can't Always Get What You Want, Start Me Up, etc. Though they didn't play Anybody Seen my Baby :( (Frown) The other thing was, I'm not sure if it was the acoustics of the stadium, or a bad sound tech, but the sound was very smashed together, and not in a good way either, Most concerts, the sound is very crisp, this one sounded like they hooked up an Ipod to a Megaphone. If I had paid to hear that, I'd be very disappointed. But the majority of the people who did pay, had an excellent time. Some of them were so drunk, they passed out before the stones even came on.

Before the show ended, they had me at one of the exits, to greet them off. This so as people begin to trickle out, I'm telling them to have a good night, drive safe, blah, blah, when I see this tall skinny mutha fuka with glasses who told me to have a good night. Ladies and Gentlemen, I have meet celebrities before, but none of them match the magnitude and coolness that is BOB SAGET! YES! I FINALLY MEET SOMEONE WORTH WHILE! Then about another 5 minutes later, Alec Baldwin came by. I was just about to tell him to have a good night when the concert officially ended with a bang so loud it made Alec duck and cover as if the Canadians were after him again, and instead of saying to him "Have a good night" I screamed out "Fucking Asshole!" (I was referring to the pyro, but I'm not sure if he knew that)

That was that, afterwards we all gathered back on the bus and made the trek home watching "You, Me, and Dupree" and having people (like me) yell out immature things like "BOB SAGET GAVE ME HERPES!"

"some of them were so drunk, they passed out before the stones even came on."


Yes I have been to those concerts with people just passed out up against a wall or pota john even befor the opening act!

I can't imaginge paying that for the stones either, Have a freind that paid a broker 750 for Dpeche mode front row tix!!! what a waste of $.
most I ever spent was 150 best seats ever for Pink Floyd Pulse and that was for 2 (first in line at ticket master

I'd only pay $500 if they reanimated the body of like Stevie Ray Vaughn and put on a one-time only concert.

Damn you Leflaw
You know, after taking a nap and waking up and rereading this, it's pretty funny!

500 bucks to watch rich old guys play old shit that you can hear on the classic rock stations for free, and oh yeah I guess it's the Rolling Stones, more like the Ungrateful Corpses. Imagine, if it wasn't for all the people who spent all that money over the years they wouldn't have shit, and even after that they have the gall to charge so much that the average person can't watch them. More power to you people who download their tunes on P2P ware for free!!!!

Then again, it could be Barbara Strisand, or the Who.. it goes on and on..

Bob Saget is Gangsta!

Flunky makes music fun again!

the stones... wow, an icon, one of my favorite bands to cover, a band I wouldve loved to see.... back in 1972! I have to wonder if I would go to a free concert in a stadium of old farts playing the same old music Ive heard 10,000 times before....

I passed out Dmusic's addy to a few bar bands with original music last month. Bars, yeah, thats the way to enjoy a live band