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Cher
Feb-13-2011, 14:44 GMT
USA - United Staates America
 | When is the big tour going to be? I have
spent $5,000 to go to several venues to see you and Paul, it was my dream come true as I´ve never seen you together, never saw Paul at all. I heard Art was feeling better but that was last NOvember.
Paul I guess doesn´t care to do it anymore. I was the happiest person in the world last year at this time and it
never happened. It´s been a long enough
wait.
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linclink
Feb-13-2011, 15:14 GMT
USA - United Staates America
| I think Simon & Garfunkel will most probably tour again together this next year.
I haven´t read Paul ruling it out at all. I think Art was hoping that it would happen this year, to make up for last year, but obviously Paul has a solo album coming out, and that means, happily, a solo tour to support it. Paul´s birthday is in Oct. & Art´s in Nov. (just looked it up), so if they do it in 2012 they could call it the "How Terribly Strange To Be 70 Tour". :)
The proposed S & G tour of last year (I had tickets for both Toronto & Tanglewood in Massachusetts) was pretty short, so they could even conceivably do it at the end of this year...but my bet is that it happens next year. |
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linclink
Feb-13-2011, 15:21 GMT
USA - United Staates America
| As far as Paul touring goes...it´ll be after the album comes out, I wouldn´t worry too much about that. Supposedly he´s playing "Saturday Night Live" in the Spring, and festival rumors (Glastonbury Fest) & confirmations (Hangout Fest) are starting to come in now too...I´m sure we´ll be seeing those tour dates, & tickets for sale plenty soon enough.
My bet is a shorter world tour- major cities & venues. He´s turning 70 this year, and stamina has to be somewhat of an issue, but at the same time I think he´d like to get out there & do a nice major run while he´s still able to. |
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Cher
Feb-14-2011, 00:56 GMT
USA - United Staates America
| You call that a short tour? I can remember there was hardly a day off between cities and I was exhausted just thinking about it, considering the ages, yes I had Tanglewood tickets too which I thought might be a place where you could do a video. |
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linclink
Feb-14-2011, 02:00 GMT
USA - United Staates America
| Well it may have been whirlwind in it´s pace, but there were a few dozen dates over a little more than a month, so yeah, personally I´d call that real short. |
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Brenda
Feb-14-2011, 09:34 GMT
Australia
 | Cher,did you say you spent $5000 US dollars for a few S and G shows? How much do they charge in the US for concerts. Top price in Australia was onl about $300 |
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Brenda
Feb-14-2011, 09:43 GMT
Australia
| sorry it posted before I had finished. I only paid $100 ,not the best seats but I still enjoyed it. Hope you got a full refund! I would have expected tickets prices to be less in the US as it is a long way to travel over here and also huge distances between shows,their expenses must have been higher.
Re S and G I think it is more likely Art has not fully recovered his voice as he has no solo dates as far as I can see on his website. He cancelled his own shows as well as S and G . Nothing to stop him rescheduling them while he waits for Paul to be available. Hopefully you will see your cancelled shows in the near future! |
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Cher
Feb-14-2011, 16:06 GMT
USA - United Staates America
| Yes I did spend that thinking this might be my one and only chance to see them. Everyplace up here has ticketmaster and VIP tickets, it´s about the only way I know you can sit up front, I would never sit beyond the 4th row, otherwise, I´d see 2 inch people on the stage as I have at other
concerts and baseball games. |
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Brenda
Feb-16-2011, 11:01 GMT
Australia
| Cher.I know Paul is a little on the short size,but two inches from the fifth row???.Hopefully not. |
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Bodo
Feb-16-2011, 12:16 GMT
Austria
 | haha
but Cher meant ´otherwise´....so if you are in row 54, Paul is 2" big :) |
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Brenda
Feb-16-2011, 12:41 GMT
Australia
| I guess he would be happy with that! |
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Forum guest
Feb-16-2011, 15:40 GMT
USA - United Staates America
| I have sometimes felt that when you go to a concert it is really for the people in the first few rows, and the rest of the people are just sponsering the enjoyment of those people. Its a big big difference to sit very close. Far away in a big arena seems pretty pointless, that has stopped me from going to a lot of shows.
So, it sounds like a lot of money to spend on a ticket, but I can see Cher´s point that if you think it is one chance and you really want to see it, you might as well get the best seat you can.
That said, I cannot, having seen s and g quite a few times, say they ever put on a show worth thousands of dollars - I suspect Paul would agree.
At the Paramount, he had a joke after they played black slacks to the people in the front, he would say "I guess those hundred dollar seats are looking like a real bargain now...." |
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Brenda
Feb-16-2011, 22:32 GMT
Australia
| Cher are the first four rows all VIP tickets and how much was the cost of each ticket? I guess it depends on how many shows you had booked for the $5000. what exactly do you get for a VIP ticket besides a good seat? Hopefully you received a full refund. |
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Bodo
Feb-16-2011, 23:02 GMT
Unknown
 | Hi Brenda
In the US it is very common that at good selling shows ticket companies get all the good seats before the ´normal´ people. And then they try to sell those tickets to extraordinary prices. Let´s say 1000 $ for a 200$ ticket.
If you are a private person and do that, you go into jail. If you are a company, then this seems to be a normal business.
In the last few years the artists reacted, and just made the tickets more expensive - so not only those ticket-dealers earn the big amount.
In Germany/Austria such companies are not allowed - but private people try to buy and sell the tickets on ebay for high prices. It is illegal, but ebay does not react on that.
So spending 5000 USD for S&G shows is easy I would say.
I for myself only visit concerts WITHOUT any seats. So the real fans wait some hours in front of the stadion, they have fun, meet a lot of other funny and friendly people - and only the real fans dance in the first row. Not the rich who have no idea... |
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royd
Feb-17-2011, 01:10 GMT
USA - United Staates America
| I´m rich and I dance in the front row..... |
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