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I think that's a "damned if you do, damned if you don't" thing. I thought it looked kind of contrived, but then I thought "I'd rather look at those models than at fans like on the cover of NO SECURITY."Quote
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Hiring models for the front row for the Beacon show - Shine A Light
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duke richardson
airbrushing Bill is up there..
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I can't remember which CD they released that was supposed to have a multimedia component on it but I know that it wouldn't work on Windows or Mac. Definitely worth a blush.
Wasn't there also a VL game or something like that? I remember seeing them in low discount stores selling for $1.99. That's got to make you feel silly.
I still haven't seen Live at the Max because I don't have an 8,000 square foot television to play the letter box DVD or whatever format it's in presently. Way to reach your fan base.
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Dancin' in the Street with David Bowie...Wow was it horrid (one Stone only thankfully)
I always thought of it as being tongue-in-cheek, a bit of a piss-take. It's gloriously camp in the extreme and Jagger and Bowie revel in it.
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I'd have to say Altamont. It's not embarrassing in the traditional "my fly was open" sense, but they tried to recreate the peace and love of Woodstock and wound up with hate, violence and death. A failure of that proportion must have been very embarrassing, though they were probably a little too bummed over what happened to be embarrassed about it.
Altamont didn't go the way they had intended, and they probably considered it to be a fiasco at the time, but I'm sure that as soon as they saw the movie, they realized it was the best thing that ever happened to them. It cemented their "legendary" status forever.
It's personally never been part of their legendary status with me. The Stones always came out looking like buffoons in my eyes. They seem cool in concert and during all the build up, but Altamont always made them (or mainly Mick as he was the mouthpiece talking about Altamont during press conferences) look pretty foolish. Mick never comes across as a "true believer" in all the peace and love stuff, like he's just trying to hitch the Stones to the Woodstock bandwagon, and it goes horribly wrong, with the band losing total control over the situation they had created. I know for some Altamont adds to the whole "danger" element of The Stones, but to me they just look powerless and like they can't control their own creation.
As epitomized, in hilarious fashion, by the appearance of "the Altamont dog"....
He was just looking for his owner...
wonder if karma caught up with them at Altamont.....
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More Hot Rocks will answer this question. And all of is will agree, no?
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It's Only Satisfaction, Philadelphia 05
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Inviting Dave Matthews to guest on Memory Motel & then putting it on the live album.
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I can't remember which CD they released that was supposed to have a multimedia component on it but I know that it wouldn't work on Windows or Mac. Definitely worth a blush.
Wasn't there also a VL game or something like that? I remember seeing them in low discount stores selling for $1.99. That's got to make you feel silly.
I still haven't seen Live at the Max because I don't have an 8,000 square foot television to play the letter box DVD or whatever format it's in presently. Way to reach your fan base.
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Grison
Exactly the most embarassing thing ? ..... I mean it's not a thing....
It's the whiners and nosayers and all those people calling it dead since what ever time they mention.
We can always laugh or even cry about the past as the experience may have told us different. But on that day and on that hour it was mostlikely fantastic what ever the Stones or you did, because it felt right for that time.
A band celebrating 50 years in different styles and setups is not embarassing even if ticketprices are nuts. It's the only Rock and Roll band that never kept a secret that Streetfighing Man was a capitalist. But you didn't want to hear it even not today and that makes you embarassing.
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Grison
Exactly the most embarassing thing ? ..... I mean it's not a thing....
It's the whiners and nosayers and all those people calling it dead since what ever time they mention.
We can always laugh or even cry about the past as the experience may have told us different. But on that day and on that hour it was mostlikely fantastic what ever the Stones or you did, because it felt right for that time.
A band celebrating 50 years in different styles and setups is not embarassing even if ticketprices are nuts. It's the only Rock and Roll band that never kept a secret that Streetfighing Man was a capitalist. But you didn't want to hear it even not today and that makes you embarassing.
I guess most intelligent people know that the capitalists and bankers that are currently gauging this planet beyond repair and rendering the other defenceless inhabitants either homeless or at worst extinct have the biggests street gangs in the world to protect their avaricious endeavours but those are not the "street fighting" men Mick was talking about in the song, on the contary he was talking about the people who were opposing those mindless grunts...........
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lol........rolling eyes are lost on me......I guess unless there's an extinction event tonight you might be right........but where's the story going? wise up or melt down?
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lol........rolling eyes are lost on me......I guess unless there's an extinction event tonight you might be right........but where's the story going? wise up or melt down?
Still good enough to Start Me UP and take the swamp in Doom And Gloom
See you 50 years and counting. By the way: I'm counting
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You can save yourself some counting by just paying by Visa or MasterCard for your tickets.
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lol........rolling eyes are lost on me......I guess unless there's an extinction event tonight you might be right........but where's the story going? wise up or melt down?
Still good enough to Start Me UP and take the swamp in Doom And Gloom
See you 50 years and counting. By the way: I'm counting
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I have the Philly '05 show...can someone please remind me of the fuckup? I dont recall....
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I have the Philly '05 show...can someone please remind me of the fuckup? I dont recall....
The band was playing IORR for the encore, Mick was singing Satisfaction. I was shocked. They finally all grooved into Satisfaction. .