Rolling Stones Rock Paris With $20 Surprise Show

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This is one concert I'm sure all of us would have loved to attend.....

The Rolling Stones, who kick off their 50th-anniversary tour Friday in New Jersey, played a surprise gig in Paris on Thursday with tickets selling for just $20 a pop.

The Stone announced the surprise Paris show on Twitter on Thursday. Fans gathered at the Virgin Megastore in the Champs-Elysées in hopes of snatching up tickets made available to the public, Rolling Stone magazine reported.

On Thursday night, 600 fans packed into the tiny La Trabendo rock club to take in the Rolling Stones' first live performance since 2007, according to the band's official website. The Stones had been rehearsing for their 50th-anniversary tour in Paris, where they recorded two new songs, "Doom and Gloom" and "One More Shot."

Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts and Ronnie Wood drew from a catalogue of five decades worth of music. They played hits like "Route 66," "It's Only Rock and Roll," "Champagne and Reefer" and "Miss You," according to the Rolling Stones website. When the encore came, the band chose "Jumping Jack Flash" and "Brown Sugar."

Although they had only planned on performing for about 30 to 45 minutes, the Stones rocked the Paris stage for an hour and 10 minutes, according to The Hollywood Reporter. "You'd think some of us would be sitting by now but we're not!" Jagger said after the performance.

"I have seen them before, but it has been in larger arenas with 40 thousand people, and [in] such a small club it was incredible. They played all the hits. 'Brown Sugar' was still my favorite," fan Johan Anssens, who had waited in line for over three hours, told the BBC.

The band is reportedly set to perform an invitation-only show for the Paris-based investment company Carmignac Gestion at the Mogador Theatre on Oct. 29, THR reported. Reuters, however, say Carmignac has declined to comment on their Stones Paris show. The company previously sent out mysterious invitations for "the biggest secret event of the year," offering a date and location but no word on the performer.

The Stones will also play London's O2 arena in November. Tickets for the two shows sold out in seven minutes, according to Rolling Stone magazine. The price for these ranged from $152 to $600 per ticket.
 
Many years ago (back in the 60's) when I was in Med School back in Toronto there was club not too far from campus that advertised a concert one night but wouldn't say who it was. Cheap to get into. Next day it turned out that the Stones gave a similar concert as a lead in to their upcoming tour which was terrific. As well Margaret Trudeau the then very young and beautiful of Prime Minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau was at the concert and if memory serves me well there was a photo of her at the concert sitting on the floor in a dress with her legs spread revealing a candid shot of....

Man, the things we remember ;)
 
Only Rolling Stones concert I ever attended was Altamont. What a bummer.
 
I had second row seats at a Stones concert in Louisville, Ky and the Outlaws were the backup band. The Outlaws were awesome in concert. They were a super tight band that really rocked. Green Grass and High Tides kicked ass. The Stones came on and they sucked.
 
Well, back in those days plenty of green grass was being smoked at concerts. I can promise you that I wasn't participating though.
 
...I can promise you that I wasn't participating though.
*I suppose it is safe to say that you never met my friends Sherry, Pam, Leigh or Sammy, and it is also safe to say that you never attended a party at the corner of California and Sunshine in Huntsville, Alabama. It was actually California and some other street, but someone changed the sign to suit the moment. I'm really glad I wasn't around on the day Pam's parents returned home from Europe!

Anyway, I was there when Idlewild South was being ushered into the Southern lexicon. It was a blast, and somehow I have lived to tell the tale!





*Note: Any of my deeds that may be construed as having been in violation of any laws are now past the Statute of Limitations, and I have subsequently chosen a more appropriate path in keeping with my advancing age. :D
 
I saw only 3 shows, all of which were on the Bridges To Babylon Tour. I thought they were solid shows considering the age of them.
 
IMO one of the greatest Rock groups ever. Hell, Mick is like the Duracell Bunny, He just keeps going. The group is playing in their 6th decade of existence. If you want to see a really good show interspersed with Stones stuff, watch the Bluray version of Martin Scorcese's Shine A light.

I saw it in iMax one afternoon with a theater filled with old gomers yet when you watch the movie which made over 2 nights in a New York theater, the attendees are mostly young folks as well as Bill and Hillary Clinton and her mother

He can still strut his stuff while the rest of the band plays on each looking brain dead
 
When I saw them, I think they were mostly high out of their minds. Mick was riding this 20' inflatable dildo which somehow didn't do anything for me and distracted from the music they were already struggling to play.
 
Around Santa Cruz there is some kind of weed called "skunk" that people smoke everywhere, and that is kind of what it smells like. On the beach, going by apartments, watching groups of kids toking and hanging out, the Boardwalk.

If I had any of that at Altamont, I would probably still be there, immobile.

Can't understand how they smoke that stuff and remain functional at all, guess it's the amnesia generation.
 
I saw the Stones at Soldier Field about 4 years ago. It was so cold that it's the only time I've been at a rock concert and bought a hot chocolate. Mick was dancing about like a wee kid. Amazing! Elvis Costello opened for them, which makes me think that the "chocolate" might have been laced.
Mike(y Finn)
 

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