Re: Best song(s) from the 1969-81 tours?
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stonesstein
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Date: August 26, 2014 06:46
1969 - Live With Me could be THE SINGLE BEST LIVE TRACK of this band's career, period, but WOW is that a BIG statement! Still Keith was never sharper, and the interplay b/t Keith and MT was never better. "There's a score of hair-brained children"...........
1970 - Little Queenie or Prodigal Son - hard to chose any one track, but these are so good each night! Wish there was a clear non-muddy recording, but so different, but such a groove....
1971 - Let It Rock - gives LWM from 69 a run for the money. Hard to top this for a Keith guitar song, but listen to how he and MT simple groove is so "got to let it roll on...."
1972 - Jumping Jack Flash Bye Bye Johnny, and Rocks Off - REALLY? I could've named Dice, Brown Sugar, Street Fighter, Rambler, or All Down the Line, not to mention the incredible one-off Don't Lie to Me. However, these 3 tracks from beginning (Rocks Off - 3rd), middle (BBJ), and end (JJF) serve to demonstrate why this tour was the penultimate rock tour and rock and roll gig, because this music makes you teeth itch, palms sweat, and toes tap. Equaled rarely, never surpassed.
1973 New Zealand/Australia - Rocks Off and Rip This Joint - tough call again, as there are moments of transcendence in most of these tracks. These two, howevr, demonstrate this band cooking perfectly at 500 degrees in 15 seconds. Intense, but stay tuned...
1973 Europe - Midnight Rambler - there is no rock and roll band in any world who does not wish that they could propel music at this level for 13 minutes. Throw your panties on the stage, Martha, these people mean business!!
1975 - All Down the Line - while some 75 stuff is spotty at best, this track cooks quite well. While it is tough to pull one track out, this one is just mean, particularly from LA Friday Night.................
1976 Europe - Sympathy for the Devil - see Love You Live for as smoking version of this trax as known. Reinvented groove!!!!
1977 - While Around and Around and Crackin' Up are amazing, the real treat according to Jimmy Page is Dance Little Sister. WOW!
1978 - When the Whip Comes Down see Sucking in the 70s. Go get em'!
1979 - Jumping Jack Flash - complete with bum chord in the opeing mention, but one wonders why why why why and W-H-Y? Lawdy Miss Clawdy!!!!!!
1981 - Under My Thumb - of the greatest opening numbers ever - spotty tour, but this song was got everyone up whilst dancing......
stonesstein
Kick me like you did before
I can't even feel the pain no more
Rocks Off, 1972