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DandelionPowderman
You were unlucky, He was great in Oslo. Read the reviews. The HTW thing is due to the B-stage problem.
then he became more accessible to the masses, along with the rest of them... losing a lot of their coolness. separation + distance = true rock royalty. can you imagine them doing an organized meet-&-greet before a 1969-1982 show? it could only happen in the vegas years. sure wont see dylan doing that bs lol.Quote
Slickhe got clean. then he lost his glare and started smiling all the time. then he started posing instead of playing.Quote
NedKelly
Keith - what has changed really?
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DandelionPowderman
You were unlucky, He was great in Oslo. Read the reviews. The HTW thing is due to the B-stage problem.
Glad you got a good show,i enjoyed the shows i saw in 2006 but at the shows at the O2 in 2007 he was shocking B stage or not.Have a listen to the intro to Beast of Burden from the first show,and that's just one example.Ronnie was playing guitar for two that night.
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Slick
separation + distance = true rock royalty.
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Rockman
he hasn't played anything in 3 years - so he's been very consistent during this recent stretch
Lee Perry .... Sheryl Crowe ... Merle Haggard .... Jack White
you are so easily pleased. very annoying, really.
Nothing to do with easily pleased Tod... Just some the artists he's been involved with recently
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crumbling_mice
another let's knock the @#$%& out of Keith thread...I won't argue that he has played some lousy gigs, but he also played pretty lousy on Hyde Park - long before medical problems kicked in. I think it's more likely the B-stage syndrome, coupled with the fact that he enjoys himself a little too much on stage these days. In the heroin years, he still used to @#$%& up and play awful solos, and even get the chords wrong...it's just more easily seen these days, every fan has a mobile to record it, bootlegging is massive and the tv is never far away. He also knows he has a massive backing band and prefers the posing around more than the focussing on his playing. Fair play to him, for decades he didnt interact, he's just getting his share now. Don't knock him, when he's gone you'll all be wishing he was still here playing bum notes lousy solos and starting songs in the wrong key. It's rock n roll not the x factor!
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crumbling_mice
another let's knock the @#$%& out of Keith thread...I won't argue that he has played some lousy gigs, but he also played pretty lousy on Hyde Park - long before medical problems kicked in. I think it's more likely the B-stage syndrome, coupled with the fact that he enjoys himself a little too much on stage these days. In the heroin years, he still used to @#$%& up and play awful solos, and even get the chords wrong...it's just more easily seen these days, every fan has a mobile to record it, bootlegging is massive and the tv is never far away. He also knows he has a massive backing band and prefers the posing around more than the focussing on his playing. Fair play to him, for decades he didnt interact, he's just getting his share now. Don't knock him, when he's gone you'll all be wishing he was still here playing bum notes lousy solos and starting songs in the wrong key. It's rock n roll not the x factor!
I don't wish to knock him at all, but I totally disagree with your reasoning. It's not that he didn't mess up before, it's the whole spectrum of his playing has deteriorated: his timing and fluidity. At least before we had brilliance with occasional mistakes. What we have had recently is something else entirely.
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ROPENI
Now he needs Blondie to cover up for him in his playing...
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DandelionPowderman
That's the usual B-stage trouble. Sounds horrible. Lose the B-stage!
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Mathijs
After doing heroin, coke. LSD and whatever since '67, and then replacing it all with sumptious amounts of hard liquor, your brain goes "kgggggggggggggggg" when you're '60. And so it did.
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tumbled
what has happened is a serious knock on the head, a brain injury causing aneurysm and long term prone to seizures and having to take dilantin which leads to memory loss and various side effects of the drug. He is lucky to be alive