They played 19 songs in Boston in 2006.
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Man, I just don't think they're interested in being funky boogie woogie anymore. They seemed like they would throw in songs like this in concert for their own enjoyment. They don't seem to do anything that even appears risky. Of course you can't blame them. You saw the uproar here when they did something as harmless, and popular, as Emotional Rescue. This just isn't the same band from the 60s
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Quoterollingon Also one thing worth mentioning here is the overall feeling of the whole band's stage presence and playing, in the 70s they still had a serious and genuinely aggressive attitude in playing and performing, they were still "dangerous", Keith Richards almost never smiled on stage...Also Jagger was much more serious. In 81/82 they still were quite aggressive on stage but they
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In retrospect there seem to be references to Brian and his fate in earlier Stones songs, 'I could not foresee this thing happening to you', 'Lose your dreams and youth, may lose your mind, ain't life unkind' and of course 'I have no expectations to pass through here again'. It's all ridiculous of course because Mick or Keith probably wrote those lyrics without a second thought to Brian, but maybe
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I thought they were good at the Hollywood Bowl in 2005. I caught them a year later (post coconut tree incident) at Dodger Stadium and I'm still shaking my head. It was the biggest spectacle, fireworks, light show, volume, but I'm not sure if the music was any good. Mick was great, and it was the first time I remember really being impressed by him. It was a hell of a show. I still think there
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They'll be back on the US East Coast. They haven't even tapped out Madison Square Garden yet.
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The best descriptive word of this tour is competent.
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I remember in '81 when they sent out Bill to radio stations. Now they trust Ronnie enough to do it, because Mick, Keith & Charlie sure aren't going to do it.
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I'm not sure they could pull this off any longer. I just heard the original on the radio an hour ago and it's quite manic. Anything less than real energy sounds like you're just shuffling along. Which of course is the treatment they're giving to Get Off of My Cloud every night, and it stinks and sounds like old men doing it. 19th Nervous Breakdown is a straight on rocker, not a freakin' samba.
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I wonder why they won't let him do Love In Vain? Or All Down The Line?
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An example of a Rolling Stones song that does have cover versions, but no one can replicate, or evoke the emotions. You simply have to have Brian on haunting slide. The ghost returns and adds an ethereal emotional sadness, akin to his recorder on Ruby Tuesday. With such a delicate song you'd think the bass would need to be almost non-existent, and yet Bill manages to add some very tasteful notes.
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QuotesanQ Most of these don't matter anyway if they aren't even playing live. It's that lip sync crap that they used to have to do. The best ones were when they actually played their instruments. It must have been flip flopped between the US and the UK. Very few groups did, or were allowed to do lip syncing. At the least it was a pre-recorded backing with live vocal. This went on until the mid-
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QuoteJumpinJackOLantern Quote24FPS Playing 'Better Than Ever' is a ridiculous statement. Maybe Ronnie personally, due to his sobriety, is playing better than whenever, but the stage Stones peaked many years ago and we are enjoying a shadow of what that was. And I don't give a crap if they ever record a new album if they don't get their bass situation right in the studio. It doesn't have to be Wy
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QuoteGazza Quotestonehearted I think it's highly likely that The Stones will record a new album, because, in the UK at least, a new Stones album will top the charts. In recent months both Rod Stewart and, currently, Black Sabbath have released new albums that have gone straight to #1--in the case of these artists, it is the first number 1 album they have had in 40 years. In 2012, Paul McCartne
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Playing 'Better Than Ever' is a ridiculous statement. Maybe Ronnie personally, due to his sobriety, is playing better than whenever, but the stage Stones peaked many years ago and we are enjoying a shadow of what that was. And I don't give a crap if they ever record a new album if they don't get their bass situation right in the studio. It doesn't have to be Wyman, and most likely won't, but the
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QuoteHis Majesty There weren't any singles drawn from Their Satanic Majesties Request in UK. In the UK atleast those abum track promos were to promote the album. Were they shown in the USA as promotions for the 2000 Light Years From Home/She's A Rainbow single there? Some of the photos you use for October 1966 RSG are from the earlier show in May. As far as I know, or remember, ther
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It's as annoying to watch American hosts on UK TV as it is to watch British hosts on American TV. Please come get Piers Morgan.
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QuoteDandelionPowderman Whip What the hell? Keith and Ronnie can't sing backup anymore on this song?
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Yes, it's a pity we never got to see if Lennon ever felt like revisiting his own art and giving it a spin on stage. He was only 40 when he died. Mick was making Undercover at that age.
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Is there any way to break these down between actual live performance and just lip synch? I don't consider the lip synchs to be much of a loss. All the pictures I'm seeing of no guitar cords are suspicious. What American program was Ready Steady Go associated with, Shindig, or Hullabaloo? I remember Ready Steady Go inserts sometimes. And what's the Promofilm thing again? Obviously it wasn't
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I don't remember Keith asking anyone to copy him. It may have been seductive, but anyone with any common sense knows you couldn't have done what Richards did without the cushion of wealth. And, the very fame he says he sought to escape with drugs, is probably what kept him out of jail a few times. I understood at an early age that I didn't have the net beneath me to misbehave like rock gods did.
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QuoteThatsWhatISay I will never get used to this unmanly falsetto... So...you hate the Stones, the Beatles, and the Beach Boys? That's a hat trick of falsettos right there.
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It was great to hear For The Benefit of Mr. Kite. Those guys McCartney employs can do just about anything.
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I took a 15-year-old to see the Stones at Dodger Stadium in LA in 2006. We got field seats up close for $175 (that will get you a nosebleeder now). She was absolutely awed by the show, and Jagger's energy. The pyrotechnics and the light show were indeed A Bigger Bang. When I knew it was nearing time for the B-stage, we grabbed her and got right up on it and she was able to see and make eye contac
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There's a certain strangeness to the whole affair. This 'guest star' every night is odd and gives it a slight feel that they need help. On the positive side you could say they're giving back to the younger generation of performers. It's surreal to see Mick Taylor, or I should say a guy that sounds like Mick Taylor, but looks nothing like what we remember, with them. And there's just that slight t
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A lot of these group guys, including some Beatles, shoot their wad on their first solo album with all that pent up songwriting. Then they don't know where to go. Lennon and Harrison's first were definitely their best. I was surprised at how uninspiring Keith was as a solo artist. Maybe if he'd made an album in the 70s, instead of the tail end of the 80s, it might have been better. Face it, he pou
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They opened with Sweet Little 16 when I saw them in '78 and I thought it was great.
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Quote71Tele QuoteTheGreek christina aguilera @ beacon theatre for martin scorese shine a light movie during a bigger bang tour ! I was there for that and it wasn't pretty, but I've seen far worse things. Maybe she didn't sound good live, but she was sure as hell one of the few highlights of the DVD.
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Quoteohotos An absolute train-wreck I experienced was Anybody Seen my Baby in Barcelona 1998, couldn't find any video. I saw them do the same thing on that tour in LA. Darryl, the greatest jazz bass player of all time, absolutely could not play handle that song and stood there and screwed up the opening.
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I'd be shocked if they could still pull off a decent cover, non-blues song in this post-Wyman era. I thought their cover of Like A Rolling Stone was one of the lamest recordings they've ever done. I'm talking studio recording. Their last successful cover (studio) was Harlem Shuffle, which was heavily Bill dependent.
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