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Following the Rolling Stones' announcement yesterday that the band's Hartford concert date would be moved up to early November, 1000 people waited in line at Boston's Orpheum Theater for tickets but were disappointed when the Ticketron outlet could only sell 36 tickets before closing...
...tour, we are promised, the Rolling Stones really will play Boston. The key question is one of logistics: what site would allow both proper safety and admission procedures and still enable the maximum number of Stones fans to see their heroes? Only 2800 persons can be seated in the Orpheum Theatre--the initially proposed venue--and even the crumbling Boston Garden, with 15,000 seats, is much too small...
...easy word to throw around, especially in this business, but it's rather dangerous to apply it in rock 'n' roll," Graham said. He added that the rock group felt "no anger, only disappointment" at the cancellation of two proposed Boston shows for the 2,800-seat Orpheum Theatre, which he described as the "righteous place" for a public concert...
...Stones representatives had contacted officials in suburban Lowell about a possible Sunday concert at the 4000-seat Memorial Auditorium. But the city's acting police chief. John Sheehan, rejected the idea because of potential security problems--the same reason Boston officials vetoed two concerts this weekend proposed for the Orpheum Theatre...
Boston officials cited that occurrence when banning the Orpheum concerts, but Graham denied that the Worcester crowd was unruly...