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"connection" is still almost unlistenable. anyone else think its weird the warhorses sound worse than tunes they don't play often

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liddas
Connection is one of the higlights!

I took my wife to see the SAL in a cinema when it was there. She knows The Stones quite a bit, since I play it a lot to her :-), but she is deffinitely not a fan. She loved Connection, she asked me whether we had it on some DVD when we were leaving the cinema, so I played her the Winos version from the Palladium show. She was not impressed at all, she said that the SAL version was way better, sung with so much more passion and intensity. I think she was absolutely right. For me it is also one of the highlights and it is a shame it has been editted in the movie.



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 2010-09-07 16:06 by Happy24.

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The problem with Connection is spelled Keith Richards. When I was listening to the album I used to go to the bathroom while that tune played.

Reahearsing for the tour? :-)

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"connection" is still almost unlistenable. anyone else think its weird the warhorses sound worse than tunes they don't play often

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liddas
Connection is one of the higlights!

I took my wife to see the SAL in a cinema when it was there. She knows The Stones quite a bit, since I play it a lot to her :-), but she is deffinitely not a fan. She loved Connection, she asked me whether we had it on some DVD when we were leaving the cinema, so I played her the Winos version from the Palladium show. She was not impressed at all, she said that the SAL version was way better, sung with so much more passion and intensity. I think she was absolutely right. For me it is also one of the highlights and it is a shame it has been editted in the movie.

I agree - SAL version of Connection was great at the cinema, a lot of emotion etc. However the CD version is just not as good (although obviously it's the same performance).

I put this down to the sound system at the cinema (IMAX in Waterloo, London)...the sound was brilliant, you could hear every instrument clearly, the horns sounded great..bass was good. Overall a great experience at the cinema, the CD doesn't compare.

I know the DVD / film as a different mix, so just wondering whether to get the DVD? Maybe the mix is better than the CD.

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I agree - SAL version of Connection was great at the cinema, a lot of emotion etc. However the CD version is just not as good (although obviously it's the same performance).

I put this down to the sound system at the cinema (IMAX in Waterloo, London)...the sound was brilliant, you could hear every instrument clearly, the horns sounded great..bass was good. Overall a great experience at the cinema, the CD doesn't compare.

I know the DVD / film as a different mix, so just wondering whether to get the DVD? Maybe the mix is better than the CD.

Probably you should blame your home sound system, not the CD!!!

Jokes apart, yes, film and CD are two different mixes.

C

<The highlight of the album for me is Some Girls and Faraway Eyes by a mile.>

I think Mick ruins FAE, too, rushing thru it totally without dynamics. I prefer the Handsome Girls version by a mile.

Some Girls is great.

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<The highlight of the album for me is Some Girls and Faraway Eyes by a mile.>

I think Mick ruins FAE, too, rushing thru it totally without dynamics. I prefer the Handsome Girls version by a mile.

Some Girls is great.

I do not own the album but I remember that when watching the movie I cringed my teeth because of Jagger's superfast "rap" lines that absolutely did not suit the song.

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keefriffhard4life
"connection" is still almost unlistenable. anyone else think its weird the warhorses sound worse than tunes they don't play often

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liddas
Connection is one of the higlights!

I took my wife to see the SAL in a cinema when it was there. She knows The Stones quite a bit, since I play it a lot to her :-), but she is deffinitely not a fan. She loved Connection, she asked me whether we had it on some DVD when we were leaving the cinema, so I played her the Winos version from the Palladium show. She was not impressed at all, she said that the SAL version was way better, sung with so much more passion and intensity. I think she was absolutely right. For me it is also one of the highlights and it is a shame it has been editted in the movie.

buy her between the buttons and some roses. play her the track. dude you're life is gonna be a dream.

i enjoyed the rush of the first few songs and listened every night to about fifteen minutes of it but that was all. it really started to get to me without good guitars in the mix and balanced against each other; tho a lot of other aspects hung together etc...not good is my opinion on this live set as a whole.
that dreaded "a missed opportunity" ......anythe band that night was better than what they ultimately made of it imo. the production vision and emphases has sorta shifted away from other versions of the same stuff (often live) that REALLY kick it man.



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keefriffhard4life
"connection" is still almost unlistenable. anyone else think its weird the warhorses sound worse than tunes they don't play often

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liddas
Connection is one of the higlights!

I took my wife to see the SAL in a cinema when it was there. She knows The Stones quite a bit, since I play it a lot to her :-), but she is deffinitely not a fan. She loved Connection, she asked me whether we had it on some DVD when we were leaving the cinema, so I played her the Winos version from the Palladium show. She was not impressed at all, she said that the SAL version was way better, sung with so much more passion and intensity. I think she was absolutely right. For me it is also one of the highlights and it is a shame it has been editted in the movie.

I agree - SAL version of Connection was great at the cinema, a lot of emotion etc. However the CD version is just not as good (although obviously it's the same performance).

I put this down to the sound system at the cinema (IMAX in Waterloo, London)...the sound was brilliant, you could hear every instrument clearly, the horns sounded great..bass was good. Overall a great experience at the cinema, the CD doesn't compare.

I know the DVD / film as a different mix, so just wondering whether to get the DVD? Maybe the mix is better than the CD.

Um, isn't Connection the tune they cut away from in the film and we miss half the performance of?

The real abomination is Little T&A -- it's also proof that they didn't do very much 'correcting' on this album at all since there are a handful of mistakes in this one performance. There are also a few in Far Away Eyes -- backups come in wrong. If they were going to fix things, they'd have fixed those no question.

I find the DVD mix annoying. I can't understand what all those level changes are supposed be about. Really? You show Keith's guitar so you pump the volume up on that one track until the shot cuts away? Ridiculous. Hated that aspect in the theatre.

I think for the most part the album sounds great and the performances are quite good. While some have criticized it, I think the Live With Me with Christina A. simply smokes. She was a little lost the first night, but the second night she screamed. And I usually hate their duets.

Sympathy For the Devil hasn't been played well since 69.

I was at both of these shows, and the album sounds better than either night did in the actual room.

J

Shattered is great on this! I was never a naysayer with SAL. I dig it...what the heck a great time.

<There are also a few in Far Away Eyes -- backups come in wrong.>

That is the most hilarious part of the movie, when Keith tells the woman in the audience to "shut up" when she tells Keith that he fvcked up the lyrics



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The real abomination is Little T&AJ

Right on there too. Completely forgot about that one!

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The real abomination is Little T&A --

J

I find this version of T&A very good. It is almost a different song compared to the original studio cut, and has nothing to do with those great trainwrek versions of the TY tour, BUT it swings nicely. Very happy groove.

C

Liddas, you must have Kool Aid in yer ears.

Just wanted to tell you that Hungarian state TV (comparable to BBC1) showed the movie (with Hungarian subtitles) yesterday evening - so my wife could for the first time not just enjoy the wonderful music and pictures but also get the gist of the talking ...

Really was a great experience for her - she had never seen it this way before ...

If you'd have told anyone in communist Hungary 35 years ago: You'll have the Stones on tv , well they might have sent you to jail - or if you were lucky put you in some psychiatric ward ...