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What Would You Pay to See the Rolling Stones in San Jose?

No more jokes about the geriatric band ... they are coming, long past anyone would have predicted, May 8.

 

Campbell residents will be able to hop onto the light rail at Railway or Hamilton and be able to see The Rolling Stones on May 8 in San Jose.

Tickets go on sale April 8 at 10 a.m. for the Rolling Stones' 50th Anniversary Concert May 8 in San Jose, a place they played for the first time in 1965. They also play Oakland's arena May 5.

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With all the hoopla about the tour, there is one thing that is quiet: how much the tickets are going for?

Like the Eagles, the Stones have been notorious for pushing prices to the limits of obscenity. Last time they played ATT Park in San Francisco, the best seats were $500 a piece. If you got those, you were surrounded by the likes of Robin Williams and Phil Lesh and every Ferrari-driving one percenter in town.

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In keeping with the life of monarchs, the Stones are offering Citibank credit card customers a chance to pay more and buy early, on April 5. I once made the mistake of using that and paid twice would I should have for bad seats for the Police at Oakland Coliseum.

I could have gotten them for half price at the door. Live and learn. The show was good enough that I didn't regret it.

So how much for Stones tickets?

Ticketability, a second tier seller that claims "affordability, reliability, availability" as its motto, is listing them from $387 to $7,275.

Would you pay that? What's the most you've paid to see a live music performance? Tell us in the comments section.

 

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