From audience reactions, and a large amount of those can maybe afford those prices there seems no lack of enthusiasm for these shows.
There's also some comment as to whether these bands offer anything other than a nostalgia journey for the baby boomer generation but again judging by audience turnouts it seems to be a wide age group showing up to see the bands for maybe the last time.
With The Who there just remains Daltrey and Townshend. The Stones more fortunately have all survived the years outside of the long gone Brian Jones.
Now that rock and roll has a 60+ year history these guys are some of the last of the original ground breaking hell raisers from a time when a young generation had as much to stand up against as there should be today.
And just like any art, with the Stones and The Who it can be seen more as performance art, it's really immaterial whether some critic might like it or not, it represents something much greater than the object or in this case a set of songs.
In fact for the Who themselves part of Quadraphenia represents two of the players that are no longer alive, Keith Moon and John Entwhistle. The technology presents them from a previous decade into the present day and to see this video role suddenly appear during the song makes a big connection to the audience, as no doubt it does to Daltrey and Townshend.
This may not be the cutting edge voice of young people any longer but it still represents what they stood for all those decades ago. And that is ageless.
Here's Bell Boy with Keith Moon still playing his part.
Filmed from the audience with the usual occasional hand held wobble.
