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Roseland Ballroom New York City DANCE PT 1 & 2 STORY The reason that Roseland Ballroom is listed here . . . it is for these reasons it was the Hardest ticket to get that tour . . . one of the Hardest Tickets to get for any Stones Show . . . adding in the Impromptu Parties as EVERY BAR - PUB - HOTEL - DELI - PLACE of BUSINESS YOU WENT TO AROUND ROSELAND for 2 Days . . . WAS Part of a Neighborhood BLOCKS PARTY . . . AND " Do You Have an Extra Ticket ? " So with the Uniqeness of a NY City Publicized Stones Club Show - Mysterious Access Protocals - and the Scarcity of even 1 Extra Ticket Available IN ADVANCE . . . it was a Block Party Treat Everywhere you went into, in the Neighborhoods of Roseland that was centered around Stones Tickets Chitter Chatter . . . it was a PRE Concert Blocks Party, Everywhere AND Anywhere . . . and Me & My Buddy went Anywhere & Everywhere . . . While most Fans were camping out at Roseland . . . or Hunkered Down close to their Computers to find out when it would be announced of the How What Where your tickets would be released and the Process . . . Fug That ! . . . Everywhere was a Happening of a Pre Concert Party . . . What a Beautiful Buzz All Around the Roseland Ballroom Streets . . . Here is my Often Repeated Story taken from Internet Postings to Rolling Stones Fan Club Sites back in the day of and after . . . AND . . . Because I was Probably the ONLY 1 with 4 TICKETS In Advance . . . When 2 Tickets was Off the Hook . . . Stones Concert Party Story. DANCE PART 1 Roseland Tickets NYC Everyone here musta seen posts by now that Roseland NYC was one of the finest Unique Stones Shows EVER. It's up there. I cannot disagree with that as Sound Energy Level, Buzz was off the charts What was also the case . . . was that it was the # 1 HARDEST TICKET to get in NYC for a Stones Show EVER. 1st Everyone that had a ticket was going. Using it. No sponsors / promoters. So no unwanted tickets there . . . and even The VIP A List was tiny just a Super A List of Mike Piazza NY Mets who was THE Top NY Sports figure at the time - Paul Schaeffer who worked his way in and I “heard” about only a few others crammed into a small balcony on the right like Denzel W. So NO tickets for re sellers scalpers fans that wanted in at any price. Zilch Zero. AND . . . mainly BECAUSE the Stones management implemented a crazy new high level security process on how only the purchaser would be getting in . . . . There would be NO actual tickets and NO actual advance notice of how you will get in !! . . . . . All you really knew was that you had bought 2 tix . . . a 2 tix Max . . . w/ no multiple purchase attempts or the system would forfeit the original 2 . . . only a she smiled sweetly blurb of more info to follow at some point in time . . . to be determined near the day of the show . . . WHEN & HOW this notice was coming ? . . . . Ya did not EVEN know that. By simultaneously using my personal credit card from home while my office people used my business credit card from a werk computer. I was a fortunate son and crazy trained FOUR tickets . . . Waited a good long time to see if the system would catch the same name and . . . . NOPE got the NoticeS. You GOT 4. Holy Sh!t 😊 Dance Little Sister Dance . . . Now my mind is racing can I still get fugged ? Should I cancel 2 ? . . . Being of Not sound mind when it came to purchasing Stones tix . . . I decided I was not gonna screw with or try to circumvent this off the charts threat system of seeing the Stones in a Once in a Lifetime NY City Club, possibly making 1000’s of $$'s against losing all four with a courtesy call . . . Final decision was to just show up, say it was a computer glitch about the other two and enjoy the show (If I get beat outta the $$ for two extra tix . . . no big deal) . . . . UNTIL . . . someone on a Hard-to-Use Kinda Krappy Chat Room site called TapaTalk for Stones fans, posted DESPERATE does anyone have 2 tix for Roseland REAL DESPERATE . . . ?? . . . That I responded to . . . Yeah Oh Yeah ya'll Never Make a Saint of Me and . . . . for Face $$ Value . . . plus a bar tab tossed in LOL . . . No guarantees Though . . . I knew it would be Complicated, Risky and probably wouldnot even go down, considering the Ticketing Process . . . while Almost All the people Ragged on Me in the Chat Room, thought it was BS or a Scheme . . . EXCEPT enter the nameless HAPPY Eventually Ecstatic Dentist gent in the picture above from the U.K. now onto DANCE PART 2 Getting The Roseland Tickets in your Hands Until ya got a notice that another notice which would come the night before . . . Any fugging with this ticket system and the Stones management would refuse the right to your 2 tickets. No one in their right mind would try to circumvent these off the charts for the time THREATS that . . . ONLY the purchaser would sign in have proper credentials AND guest ID (to make sure they were not on the list for another 2 Roseland Tickets NYC) . . . NOW Word is out that I have 2 extra tickets available from the Same Painful-to-Use Fan Chat Room Site Tap-a-Talk . . . I am getting serious offers from high rollers all around NY - the US and World Wide . . . $1000 of $$ were tossed around off the hook . . . my favorite was from LA $1000’s of $$ and Riviera Country Club (very famous glamorous hard to access private) golf tossed in anytime I get out that way . . . that persons name went right into my Palm (OldSchool IPhone) LOL (you know who you are) . . . but oh well I could not make any promises / guarantees to anyone . . . Mr. K from U.K. was still dying to go . . . constant contact w/ him everyday of “Did ya Hear the Music of anything new ?” . . . NOPE I’ll let ya know if I do . . . He is still sitting on a fence not ready to pull the trigger and fly out last minute with the slim chance that I would be able to transfer or even get those extra 2 tickets . . . He, Mr Dentist wanting as badly as the rest of us to see the Stones small club NY City . . . . all along . . . . remaining VERY skeptical that this was the real f’n deal. He even asked to see all of my ticket paperwork . . . ID - Fingerprint File 😊 . . . I believed I faxed to him in the UK at probably what was the same cost as a ticket . . . however he got it, all the valid paperwork FOR 4 TICKETS . . . he said all looked “kinda” legit . . . . I asked him if he was working for Scotland Yard 😊 . . . Then he said sorry a Dentist . . . I started thinking need to purchase that Bootleg “Cocaine on a Dentists Chair” LOL Anyway . . . he was not putting any $$ up front to hold the tickets . . . I did NOT ask for any btw . . . and who could blame us . . . this is a crap shoot at best . . . but he is ALSO wondering about a NEW PROBLEM . . . if I really do get the two tickets . . . would I just turn around and stiff him for a few $1000 dollars more like a Clint Eastwood spaghetti western Title . . . easily the going 2 ticket rate $$ was in the stratosphere, not just a few $$'s more, but $1000's . . . and probably the highest money % percentage % wise over face value for a Stones NY Ticket EVER . . . Mr UK K continued his due-diligent requests onto where I was staying . . . . the Paramount Mid Town . . . he called to even confirm my reservation . . . He is def Scotland Yard maybe CIA also 😊 . . . the Paramount vouched for me, knew me, as I stayed there a bunch around that time 😊 . . . that musta pushed his decision to finally come . . . I tell him I'm heading into the city a few days or so early before the MSG show . . . Mr K UK you can reach me at the Paramount hotel bar or leave a message on yer final decision . . . I am thinkin 75/25 he will show. Me & my buddies are bar bopping as usual around Mid Town - Theatre District, the Hells Kitchen Hell hole dive bars for a few days and Walters (Stones Dive Bar) everyday and night . . . some of these Hells K haunts are “notorious” ticket scalper hangouts and ALL are confirming NOT a single ticket is available for The Roseland . . . U can always get what seats ya want for MSG and NJ at a price but nothing for Roseland . . . Zilch Nada nuttin right now and don’t expect any! Mr K the dentist from the U.K SENDS THE MESSAGE . . . . finally HE IS DEF COMING . . . . to at least see the MSG show . . . and we still are clueless on what the final deal is on Roseland tickets for us will be. That notice on how to pick up tix FINALLY comes the night before as promised in some email (no cell messages at this time) . . . but I am out carousing in Hell’s Kitchen The Block Partys are all too kool to pass up . . . and there is already a block long line of sleeper bags at Roseland . . . front door and back door (hoping for anything tix sound check a glimmer of glimmer twins) . . . that Ticket message I get when I wake up around noon (good thing it wasn’t 1st get tickets shift 😊 . . . I have the last get yer passes to da show shift to show up at Roseland 4-6 PM with all crazy credentials needed in hand and HIGHLIGHTING THE THREATS of Don’t even think of finagling . . . I stroll downstairs to the lobby for coffee it’s a slow Monday and who's there waiting . . . My UK Dentist with NO Cocaine ☹ he is yelling my name . . . or probably just speaking it but on Monday AM sure sounded like a Led Zeppelin sound check . . . I am thinkin wtf is this hotel security complaing again about playin Tumbling Dice at 4 AM . . . I don’t know what he looks like but he knows me from my Scotland Yard-ish ID interrogations . . . . he goes we need to get to Roseland ASAP . . . . . there are lines around two block for tix . . . sorry my man me and my bud are going back bar hopping and we got the last shift for tickets . . . plus we promised some bar varments we would go see them again today . . . So grab yer mate and try to keep up. It's Gonna be a Cocktail BLOCK Party on the Streets. Off we go bar hopping (the names of the pubs I don’t recall or all I know is the first stop is now the closest bar to Hamilton the Theatre Play where you can catch all the understudies and more theatre riff raff) + + + ( The David Letterman Show Deli / Hello Deli with Rupert Jee ) . . . anyway it’s a fine start for a Monday . . . for me & my buddy . . . then we head off to the seedy notorious ticket scalper bars in Hells kitchen with my UK Dentist tagging along like a body guard asking every 15 minutes can we go get the tickets now . . . when can we go get the tickets . . . I don’t think he was ever more than 5 feet from me . . . when I pissed he pissed . . . this man handled 4 hours of bopping around Hells Kitchen Hell Holes all along hearing the Westies & Scalpers go NOT a chance are you getting in or any extra tickets . . . Kudo’s to Mr K from the UK for dealin with it . . . Now finally off to Roseland its around 5 and everyone sure looks like they got their tickets and are in line all the way back to Connecticut NOW I lay down the NON negotiable rules . . . LOOK ! . . . I am going in and getting MY 2 tickets ONCE and ONLY AFTER that AND I have MY 2 tickets IN HAND + Wristbands . . . You are to step forward and we will try to finagle the extra 2 for you - It's a No nonsense Deal - We shake hands DEAL. We walk in no one is really there as every one Yes, already has their tickets and are in line . . . he is not on any list of course . . . I get him past about 3 or 4 bouncer check points saying my name is on the list . . . finally we get to the ticket table and they are starting to let people in and I re hash . . . LOOK! You stay here 40 feet behind me REMEMBER our Deal . . ONLY & ONLY after I get MY 2 tix are you to step up ! OK he is kool with it . . . But, he really has No choice LOL . . . I walk to the ticket table show the Lady Jane my ID and my buddys ID she hands over the two badges and we are good EAZY PEAZY . . . now she goes OH . . . guess what you have two more . . . I point those are for him . . . she calls him over - no credentials - hands him the 2 tickets EAZIER & PEAZIER !!! We go outside I TAKE THE PICTURE . . . I believe some $$ was exchanged (enough to buy Cocaine on a Dentist Chair CD) no where near $1000's . . . Mr K-UK will have to confirm the amount and off to LAST in LINE LOL but happier than a pig in you know what. We get into Roseland with about 1 minute to spare before Johhny Lang hits his first note, the last possible spots in the back . . . LOL . . . he says c ya and is gonna elbow his way to the front . . . good luck . . . we stay in the back . . . . NOW THE MORAL of this STORY and the reason as ta Why THIS SHOW rates as one of the best . . . it’s because even from the worst seat back against the wall standing room only by the pissers it still ranks as one of thee most fun if not thee top sound and stones show. Coming from a person who has been in more front Rows NY City Stones Shows then maybe anyone else. And glad I came to your emotional rescue . . . Yeah you . . . whoever you are 😊 ( I since found out that the Ticket receiver is also a Kevin and an actual Real Dentist from the U.K. & now a Facebook Friend ) . . . Plus The Stones played DANCE pt 1. |
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