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Rolling Stones discussing possible October concert on Duke campus
BY PAUL BONNER : The Herald-Sun
[email protected]
Jul 20, 2005 : 12:05 am ET
DURHAM -- The Stones may be rolling into Duke this fall.
University officials have been in contact with booking agents for the Rolling Stones about a possible Oct. 8 concert at Wallace Wade Stadium during the veteran rock band's 2005-2006 world tour, university spokesman John Burness confirmed Tuesday night.
On Tuesday, a Duke basketball Web site, dukebasketballreport.com, featured a link to a European Rolling Stones fan site listing tour dates and venues, iorr.org.
The fan site listed the Duke concert as only rumored and as taking place in Cameron Indoor Stadium, which seats about 9,000. Most other venues in the tour seat in the tens of thousands.
The concert, if it happens, would not be in Cameron but in Wallace Wade, the university's football stadium, Burness said. It has a capacity of nearly 34,000 for football games.
The concert would fit between Stones' shows scheduled for Oct. 6 in Charlottesville, Va., and Oct. 10 in Philadelphia, according to the fan Web site list.
The fan site says that the Duke show replaces one that had been tentatively scheduled for the Borgata casino in Atlantic City, N.J.
Burness said he didn't know whether the Duke venue had been proposed as an alternative to another.
The group, led since the 1960s by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, kicks off its world tour in Boston on Aug. 21.
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band was the last act to play on a local campus, with a UNC show on Sept. 14, 2003
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| gimmekeef |
Sounds like a possibility but the economy is not good in that area and I dont know that they could get the $450 prices.Maybe if they priced it like Ottawa with $300 tops it might work.Also sounds like Borgatta is gone which plays into the no small clubs thing....pity... |
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| charlotte |
just read The Herald-Sun, and placed a call, this situation indeed has changed in the last 48 hours, Cameron would have been the ticket, WallaceWAde-please NO!!
got fucked without being kissed... |
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| mac_daddy |
just woke up and this was in my email...
fyi, yesterday, i emailed a buddy of mine, a hardcore duke hoops supporter, with the iorr link...
he posted it in the nonbasketball off-topic section of a duke hoops bbs. they picked it up and put it on their front page...
that is where the newspaper got it...
the info re: the football stadium is news to me, however... |
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| gimmekeef |
mac daddy...I really cant see them playing a 9000 seater in Durham NC....The stadium with 34,000 would be the only choice wouldnt it? |
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| mac_daddy |
This might be the first concert at Wallace Wade since the Dead 4/24/71 (http://www.archive.org/audio/etree-details-db.php?id=14972).
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| jb |
quote:
charlotte wrote:
just read The Herald-Sun, and placed a call, this situation indeed has changed in the last 48 hours, Cameron would have been the ticket, WallaceWAde-please NO!!
got fucked without being kissed...
I will be there with the young people of Duke!!! |
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