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Re: Cumulus points for Rolling Stones

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Woodstock was not a free concert until the hippies who didn't pay for tickets jumped over the fence and the organizers just could not stop all of them.

age and/or occupation (or lack of) ain't the issue here, but how bad you wanna see the stones live. Let's imagine that one gets free VIP tickets for the world championship of curling. One might not know what curling is or don't even like the sport, but since these VIP tickets were for free, one goes anyway. and if you put most people attending the stones concert in this particular case.... the show could suck. Do I make any sense ?
Yes, I do know about Woodstock. Just trying to wind you up because when you make a post if you can only express yourself by using terms like “..I had to go to f---ing Migros…” and “….don’t give two s**ts….”, you give a certain impression of yourself and are likely to be treated accordingly.

I heard that the audience at Dübendorf was not too enthusiastic and perhaps it was the venue (too big) weather etc that contributed to this but, having been attending concerts here for the last 18 years, I would not say that Swiss audiences were less responsive than anywhere else. Here, in Swiss Romande we have the Montreux Jazz festival at the moment followed by the Paleo festival next week and and the audiences, which have a high proportion of Swiss Germans, are noted for their warm and enthusiastic response.

As for free concerts, there have been quite a lot in London and Ive never noticed that the audiences were any less enthusiastic because they didn’t pay. VIP/Sponsors are a necessary part of staging these big shows and without them you would either have to pay more or, perhaps, have no concert at all.

Had you have got your free ticket from Migros would you still be complaining because it was free ?

Finally, a small dose of reality:


"The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench,
a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free,
and good men die like dogs.
There's also a negative side."

- Hunter S. Thompson
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