Has anyone of you got clues about the Stones playing or not playing at the opening ceremony or at any other event of the Summer Olympics?

Read some rumors about them performing together with Coldplay to background music, which would be recorded in the near future? Could that be the reason, why Ronnie compared going to the studio with preparing for the Olympics?


Do you know about any other spectacular music act around the Olympics -especially just before or after its opening? Where, when? Please advise!

Do the girls still scream, when you perform on stage? KR: Not on stage, but when I perform, yeah.

Where you hear that "backrground music" with Coldplay? Sounds strange, to say it mildly.

The Stones are going to studio in near future in any place...

- Doxa

Where you hear that "backrground music" with Coldplay? Sounds strange, to say it mildly.
Doxa

That's the source

Stars will sing to a backing track at ‘karaoke Games’


The Rolling Stones may feature in the shows

Ashling O'Connor Olympics Correspondent
Published at 12:01AM, April 13 2012

The majority of the music in the Olympic opening and closing ceremonies will be pre-recorded, causing industry critics to dub London 2012 the “karaoke Games”.
The Times has learnt that headline acts, which could include the Rolling Stones, Coldplay and The Who, will sing over vocal and instrumental tracks laid down in a studio ahead of the sell-out shows at the Olympic Stadium in Stratford.
London organisers had previously suggested that most of the closing ceremony, billed as a celebration of British music “from Adele to Elgar”, would be performed live, in contrast to past Olympics.
In February Kim Gavin, the creative director, said: “The intention isn’t to go out there and do a mime show.”
Beijing organisers were criticised in 2008 when it emerged that a nine-year-old girl had mimed a song recorded by a buck-teethed singer considered by Communist party officials to be too ugly to represent China.
The Musicians’ Union described London’s reliance on pre-recorded music as “shameful”. Horace Trubridge, assistant general secretary, said: “Coming from the UK, which is the home of live music, it is very poor.”
There will be live elements after the London Olympic Organising Committee (Locog) heeded the advice of Robin Millar, one of Britain’s most successful record producers who worked with the likes of Sade, Eric Clapton and Sting. He also produced the opening ceremony for the 1996 Atlanta Games.
“It’s not only possible but desirable in a flagship event like the Olympics to use live musicians,” he said. “I don’t think there was any genuine attempt to prevent this. It just hadn’t really been thought through as to what was possible.”
Some of the issues faced by organisers aiming for a surround-sound effect inside the bowl-shaped stadium included microphone feedback. The British weather is also a big consideration. A Locog spokesman said: “Due to the complexity involved, it’s just not possible for the music in all the shows to be live. There will be live musical elements but many of the songs will be recorded in advance. This is standard practice for an event of this scale.”
The organisers are secretive about the contents of the opening and closing ceremonies on July 27 and August 12 respectively. They are expected to feature Britain’s most iconic bands, although The Times reported this week that the Sex Pistols would not be among them.
[www.thetimes.co.uk]

So that's why Ronnie has been sworn to secrecy about what the Stones will be doing in that studio. Recording Olympics backing tracks...

...thats exactly what I was thinking, when reading Mick´s reaction to Ronnie´s interview.

Do the girls still scream, when you perform on stage? KR: Not on stage, but when I perform, yeah.

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A Locog spokesman said: “ ... This is standard practice for an event of this scale.”

hmp - Locog needs to talk to the Stones' sound people to find out how it's done

all right all right - i know shows consisting of short performances by a bunch of different Big Star Bands
is more complex in a lot of ways than shows by one band are - which is a huge reason why short-turn shows are often so awful.
but still - what a who-needs-it drag! why don't they just use holograms



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2012-04-17 18:43 by with sssoul.

If you watch the opening or closing ceremony you will know who's in it

This sounds like a bloody disaster.
Take rock out of the Olympics (and the Superbowl, and all the big-dollar Baby-Boomer pandering bullsh--. It's all turning into one giant f---ing Coke commercial anyway.

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