QuoteRoll73 Although thinking about it - if they played an arrangement of GOOMC closer to the original ie a drum intro of a few bars followed by Keith's guitar and the rest joining in - it might have a little more impact. The way they're playing it now - it just kind of starts quite unceremoniously. Now you're getting somewhere. It's not the song, it's the execution. If Charlie would lay
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Quoteclance65 Quote24FPS Now you can see that they're actually selling seats behind the stage. Not behind the stage like you can see them or hear them, but literally behind the stage where you cannot see them, except for one or two musicians on stage, but behind those tiny little screens above the stage on the stage. Having this view would have been much better than behind the stage at Staples.
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QuoteOneHit Keith has plenty in the tank from the stuff with Steve Jordan last year. One More Shot would have made a great Winos song. Another Stones album wouldn't just be a faux-Mick solo album like many here would have you believe. Winos songs are mostly songs that couldn't make the Stones cut.
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Rear view might have been fine in the past when there was no staging in the arena and you could essentially see everyone's back on stage. Not this time. The stage is solid and they don't even have screens for those seats back there. Just be careful. Check a seating chart for the show and see if rear is just another term for the dreaded LIMITED VIEW.
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Quotetreaclefingers Quote24FPS They're lazy and hate each other and don't want to bring in anyone different or even massage Bill's ego a bit and get his old bum in the studio. There's no incentive to do an entire album if D&G & OS qualify as their new material for the stage. Albums don't make money now, tours do. It's the opposite of days gone by. The only reason to make an album is for a
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Quote71Tele Taylor's "blind spot" was that by the end of his time in the band (along with his other problems) he started to think that pop music was beneath him, and wanted to play the types of music that were gaining popularity at the time among certain musicians. I speak of that awful fusion of the type that he did with Jack Bruce. Unfortunately he was not able to appreciate that that
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They're lazy and hate each other and don't want to bring in anyone different or even massage Bill's ego a bit and get his old bum in the studio. There's no incentive to do an entire album if D&G & OS qualify as their new material for the stage. Albums don't make money now, tours do. It's the opposite of days gone by. The only reason to make an album is for artistic reasons. That doesn't s
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QuoteMunichhilton Why does Bill cross his Y? Because he heard it attracted metal detecting underage girls. Where we at? 321? 320?
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Quotedrbryant 24FPS - I think you are probably quite a bit mistaken in your view of how fans regarded Taylor back in the day. Many of us saw the band live - my first concert was the Stones in Hawaii when I was 12 years old. Back then Mick and Keith were all over the stage while Mick T, Bill and Charlie were glued to their spots. I loved me all, but Mick T was a star in my eyes. Perhaps I was
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Quotetoomuchforme Quotemaradona Indeed, Guillaume! have fun watching it !!! It's amazing how you can hear Darryl work on that one. Very solid rhythmic. excellent version. Totally disagree. No personality. No pop.
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What happened to the updates? All this bitching about some stupid website on this thread that has nothing to do with that.
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QuoteCarlG Has anyone noticed that later entry $85 seats are better? I found in Oakland tat people entering after posted show time (8pm) but well before the show actually started had lower levels. My guess is that the box office gave up that there would be a walk up crowd to buy seats and started to fill the unsold seats with $85 people. I entered Oakland arena at 7:15 and San Jose at 7:30 both
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An album with just the current lineup, with Darryl would probably not be acceptable. Like the tour, they need more pizazz. They'd need special guests on an album, the most likely being Mick Taylor and Bill Wyman. (Good luck getting Bill, now.) I'm not excited without those guys on board.
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Now you can see that they're actually selling seats behind the stage. Not behind the stage like you can see them or hear them, but literally behind the stage where you cannot see them, except for one or two musicians on stage, but behind those tiny little screens above the stage on the stage. Having this view would have been much better than behind the stage at Staples.
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If you want to look back to the actual period, 1969-1974, when Taylor was a Rolling Stone, he never fit in. I don't mean musically. I don't think the average fan at the time understood what he was contributing. It was more subtle than we realized. He doesn't stand out on their hit singles of that time. There's no signature lead on any of the better known songs. Yes, he was a standout on stage, bu
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How many more 'metal detector jokes' are they're going to be? It's like the lazy reference whenever Bill's name is brought up.
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He's an all in or all out guy. They acted lackadaisical with him and he wasn't in to it. I was hoping he'd get in the studio with them to make their recorded output listenable again. Oh well, people can bitch and moan about him, but it's our loss.
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Comparing it to other tours I would say it's better than Licks, at least the one concert I saw. It's musically better ABB because the ABB tour, at least the stadium version, seemed more about mind blowing effects than musicality. It is better than Steel Wheels, which was overblown. Voodoo Lounge was pretty good, but both it, and BTB were highlighted by the B-stage. No Security is the best tour po
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Why don't we stop the little boy sexist bs for a moment and think up some current women singers who might be more appropriate for the Stones. I vote Lucinda Williams. Anyone else have a constructive choice?
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I can't honestly say that volume of joy at seeing the Stones is there among the crowd, at least not in Staples on opening night. I think part of that is that these people have had so many opportunities to see the group since 1994 that there's a lack of novelty as there would have been in 1989, or seeing them in an arena ala 1999. There's been a lot of exposure for the group for the 50th. And
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Nope. The only way I knew was by coming on here (for the first LA show) and Bye Bye Johnny alerted that they were on sale right then. That e-mail signup was either a joke or a way to collect a lot of e-mail addresses.
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I want to be at a café on the Leidseplein, now! With a Wieckse and a smoke and street cars rumbling and their bells clanging and....sigh.
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Quotepinkfloydthebarber QuoteRockman ..... god I wish Mitch Hedberg was still with us good point because he said he taught himself to play guitar but it was a bad decison because he didnt know how to play it which is still much better than katy whoever Yeah, whoever, oh that's right, rich, famous, attractive katy whoever.
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Got any suckers willing to spend 5,070 HKD per seat? They'll be there.
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At least the article is relatively factual. The Rolling Stones did not start on the Dartford train platform as many state now.
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The randomness makes me grit my teeth when I remember that some couple came up out of nowhere and the authorities let them in at the front of the line, which was right in front of me. It crossed my mind at the time that they got the tickets I should have got. I always wonder where they ended up. They certainly weren't up in the Limited View rafters where I was. By the way, I think any ticket o
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Obviously no one in the Stones knows shit about choosing a good bass player. The best one they ever had was begrudgingly accepted because of his equipment when they didn't have jack. Then, lo and behold, him and Charlie, a musician they really wanted, had this chemistry and over time Bill became the bass sound of the Rolling Stones, as much as Keith became the guitar sound. 50 years from now, wh
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Strange. I remember Living Colour as being good, and Guns and Roses being great, and the Stones being creaky and old the first night I saw them all at the LA Coliseum. I went again to the closing night and the Stones were great.
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Maybe when they call it quits, and we are gone and they are seen through history's lens, World's Greatest Rock & Roll Band' will only be a small part of what they're remembered for. Some of their greatest music wasn't rock and roll at all. Most of their latter day music will be discarded as weakly derivative of material produced pre-Voodoo Lounge. Perhaps they will be remembered for one half
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And we get stuck with Darryl Jones. Not all rock stories turn out magical.
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