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HelterSkelter
The group played BEST in 1969 - all the big stages and shit from 1981 (Still Life) on are just circus distractions...... THE MUSIC was king in 1969....
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homerus
.Except i think that the group have never play better live than the BTB tour.
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glencar
Mick sings better today.
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HelterSkelter
The group played BEST in 1969 - all the big stages and shit from 1981 (Still Life) on are just circus distractions...... THE MUSIC was king in 1969....
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skipstone
It is my favourite stage of all of their stages and so far of all stages period (I liked Zoo TV as well, the big one anyway). And The Bridge is THE coolest stage...thing... of ANY stage ever.
As far as their performance goes, all I have to go from are the live radio show which is what the DVD is, of course, and the live album. They sounded fantastic. Better than Voodoo, better than SW/UJ and way better than Bang. Licks is the only contender for how good they've sounded live. And both of those are, for me, being compared to various live things I've heard from 69-73. That's where I put Bridges and Licks in place as far as how good this 'Vegas' era of the Stones sounds live.
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Gazza
yep..best Stones stage concept ever.
Cant say I'd agree that the band never played better than they did on that tour. Ronnie was AWOL for most of it and Keith was carrying him. Probably Keith's last genuinely GREAT tour and a consistently high standard of shows throughout.
The b-stage thing was great - this was the first tour where it was widely used. Only drawback was the long delay in getting them out to the middle of the stadium while everyone waited for the bloody thing to start!
The whole b-stage concept is played out now, though. Time to drop it, especially now they're almost exclusively using it for warhorses.
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Gazza
The whole b-stage concept is played out now, though. Time to drop it, especially now they're almost exclusively using it for warhorses.
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Gazza
yep..best Stones stage concept ever.
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Gazza
The whole b-stage concept is played out now, though. Time to drop it, especially now they're almost exclusively using it for warhorses.
The way I see it is that the b-stage is used to bring them closer to the audience. What they play there is not that important really. It's been used for rare stuff and it's been used for warhorses. Why is one better than the other?
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Gazza
yep..best Stones stage concept ever.
No, sorry. You really had to see the unfolding lotus stage from 1975.
Sorry if some of you were too young or it never came to your town,
but you had to see it to believe it. It was just incredible theater.
THe photos and video from LA don't do it justice.
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camper88
Gazza,
I think this has less to do with the use of the b stage, per se, and more to do with when in the concert they use the b stage and where they're at in the playlist. What I mean to say is that the b stage gets used just as the band is about to take a run down war horse alley--the home stretch of the setlist.
These two things happen to coincide, but it's not so much a b stage thing as it's related to when the b stage is used in the show. I've heard Starf**ker, Lil Red Rooster, Respectable, Rough Justice and Mannish Boy from the b stage, as well as an assortment of war horses and war ponies (eg. 19th Nervous Breakdown, Like a Rolling Stone). I think you have an argument about the tendency to rely on war horses, particularly in the last third of a show but I don't see it as a b-stage issue, exactly.
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austrianstones
i like this one, and the next five also........