{"id":6002,"date":"2013-05-12T20:30:43","date_gmt":"2013-05-13T03:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forallevents.com\/reviews\/?p=6002"},"modified":"2013-05-12T20:31:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-13T03:31:00","slug":"rolling-stones-concert-hp-pavilion-san-jose-ca-05-08-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forallevents.com\/reviews\/rolling-stones-concert-hp-pavilion-san-jose-ca-05-08-13\/","title":{"rendered":"Rolling Stones Concert — HP Pavilion, San Jose, CA 05-08-13"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rolling Stones Concert<\/strong><\/p>\n

HP Pavilion, San Jose, California<\/p>\n

May 8, 2013<\/p>\n

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This was my second Rolling Stones concert.\u00a0 The first was in November of 2005 at SBC Park in San Francisco, part of the Stones Bigger Bang tour.\u00a0 I would rate them as two of the best concerts of my life.\u00a0 The Stones really know how to put on a show.\u00a0 They have this down and it just feels like a class act from beginning to end.<\/p>\n

They’re definitely older than they used to be (but who isn’t?), but they can still keep a full house enthralled for two solid hours without a break.\u00a0 The show lasted about two hours and fifteen minutes without an intermission and it was the same in the 2005 concert at SBC Park.\u00a0 That’s something I like about them.\u00a0 I hate intermissions.\u00a0 The Stones just keep the momentum going nonstop.\u00a0 The HP Pavilion seats 17,496, and they were probably close to capacity.\u00a0 About a quarter of the seats in the auditorium behind the stage were purposely left vacant, but they made up for it with seating and standing room on the main floor.\u00a0 I didn’t see any vacant seats.<\/p>\n

I had some good fortune in getting these tickets.\u00a0 I had heard about the upcoming concert probably on the radio.\u00a0 I checked into getting tickets and somehow found out that the day they were to go on sale there would be about 1000 tickets available at a drastically reduced price of $85.\u00a0 A friend who wanted to go urged me to try for them, so when they went on sale on a Monday morning I went online at that time and managed to score two tickets at $85. \u00a0I believe the next highest price was about double that.<\/p>\n

So I had the tickets, but they were will-call tickets.\u00a0 They would not send them out.\u00a0 They didn’t want any scalping of these low priced tickets.\u00a0 We had no idea where we were sitting.\u00a0 I figured it would be some sort of standing room, but it was actually a seat after all.\u00a0 On morning of the concert I received the following message from them:<\/p>\n

TICKET PICK-UP INSTRUCTIONS<\/strong><\/p>\n

Pick-up your tickets at the check-in table located at N. Autumn St. (under stairwell) adjacent to the South Ticket Window.<\/p>\n

The line forms starting at 6:15pm<\/strong> – do not arrive early. Seating locations are pulled at random. Doors open at 6:45pm<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

We will be using strict anti-scalper measures to ensure that these $85 tickets go to Stones fans and don’t end up on the resale market with wildly inflated prices. We appreciate your attention to the following, so that you have the best experience possible:<\/p>\n