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BB, Yes your alone..............i'm still waiting for there '68 NME release
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ManuelStones
I'm still waiting for the release of a live album from the ABB tour. Am I alone?
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I'm still waiting for the release of a live album from the ABB tour. Am I alone?
Yep - because they already did one.
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I'm still waiting for the release of a live album from the ABB tour. Am I alone?
Yep - because they already did one.
You mean the Biggest Bang DVDs? I mean CD.
For me their last live album is Live Licks.
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I'm still waiting for the release of a live album from the ABB tour. Am I alone?
Yep - because they already did one.
You mean the Biggest Bang DVDs? I mean CD.
For me their last live album is Live Licks.
Shine A Light!!
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ManuelStones
I'm still waiting for the release of a live album from the ABB tour. Am I alone?
I enjoy a lot the live albums, especially their intros.
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Blueranger
Would be more interested in a live album from the Voodoo Lounge Tour. They where like hungry wolfes on that tour!
So far, only one track from the stadiums has made it onto disc: I Go Wild from the cd-single of the same name.
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If they do not tour again -- God Forbid -- perhaps the last shows from London would deserve an official release?
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ManuelStones
I'm still waiting for the release of a live album from the ABB tour. Am I alone?
Yep - because they already did one.
You mean the Biggest Bang DVDs? I mean CD.
For me their last live album is Live Licks.
Shine A Light!!
You're right!!! But give me the benefit of the doubt. I see Shine a Light as a separate project from the tour and it doesn't content any ABB song!
It's not like Flashpoint to SW/UJ tour, No Security to B2B/NS, Live Licks to Licks... Comprende?
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Doxa
In talking about live albums nowadays I think few points needs to be noticed.
First of all, the concept of live album is one that belongs to the nostalgic past (fortunately a studio album not yet). There is no money in it. Thre appropriate vehicle for tour souveniers is DVD. Money is there. I think the change actually took place during FORTY LICKS TOUR.
If we look the Stones live albums, we can see that the concept of DVD actually saved them artistic/moneywise. Their last 'real' album that actually represented the tour was FLASHPOINT. And to this day it is still current album soundwise: the band and its nature, the arrangemnet of the songs, hasn't changed nearly at all ever since. It still as good album to apply any of their tours ever since: there are the most of the war horses with their familar arrangements (plus few 'flavor of the month' oddities). It sold nicely. To not make FLASHPOINT TAKE TWO, to make the live document more 'interesting', for the VOODOO LOUNGE TOUR they applied the current 'unplugged idea' and recorded few oddities from club dates. It sold nicely. For the next tour they skipped again the idea of FLASHPOINT vol 2. (war horses album played exatly same way they did in FLASHPOINT) and continued the habit of picking up rare songs. NO SECURITY flopped big time.
Then came the DVD format to rescue. FOUR FLICKS gave the change to recirculate the war horses set - plus few oddities - in a new form. It sold extremily well, and one can only guess the $$$ it made. Oh yeah, a double CD set was released afterwards but like Gazza described, its function was basically to fill the contract, and The Stones didn't show any interest being involved with it. It's idea was to marry FLASHPOINT and NO SECURITY together but not 'happily': each had a seperate CD. Of course, it was a flop sellwise. Its release rised many eyebrowns, for example, here at IORR at the time. You needed to be extremely hard fan to hurray its release.
A BIGGER TOUR continued the habit of teh prevuous tour, and its souvenier came in the form of another 4-disc DVD box. (There must be nice money in DVD-business). Then they have the Scorsese project. Another CD live realease was seemingly 'justified' for it being a "soundtrack" of the movie. Maybe someone bought that trick. Not many. More eyebrowns arose here at IORR.
So all in all, the idea of a 'proper' live album (CD, vinyl) as a artistic statement that gathers some public interest to gather some money, is something that has died a long ago. The Stones surely milked that out, too. It's the DVD that fills its 'souvenir'-like function (x) these days (and one can find each Stones tour since 1989 covered nicely with those by now.) I think it is natural: the visual aspect of The Stones live package/experience is such an essential part of it that a procuct without is doomed to be a torso. Another way to say it is: what the band musically offers these days does not stand in its own feet alone. I mean, to listen the version of "Jumpin' Jack Flash"/"Start Me Up"/"Brown Sugar"/"Tumblin' Dice" 1989, 1994, 1998, 2002, 2007, and think each of them deserves an independent release - aw, c'mon....
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(x) Back in the old days when the concept of live album was created, and then for years/decades considered as a natural part of productive result of a living rock and roll band, it was not any 'souvenir'. It was an artistic statement of its own that showed the live dimension of the band in the given time: that a rock band had a seperate function in live surrondings to deliver its goods. Unfortunately for The Stones, after majestic YA-YA'S The Stones screwed up big time their 70's live peak (party due to their own reason - LOVE YOU LIVE - partly not - THE LOST LIVE ALBUM).
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I'm still waiting for the release of a live album from the ABB tour. Am I alone?
Yep - because they already did one.
You mean the Biggest Bang DVDs? I mean CD.
For me their last live album is Live Licks.
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Redhotcarpet
[Spot on. And it should not be impossible for them to release the Toronto gig 1977 as a live album - the band minus Wyman is the same (cant compare to Taylor/Jones years), they do some blues and rock classics which makes it different and it has a historical value as well. Of course they wont because then LYL becomes pointless even for a fan of their 1975-1977 era, like me.
the grateful dead and pearl jam come to mind. miles davis has a lot of live albums. there are plenty of acts with more live albums than the stones. you should have thought harderQuote
slewan
I can't think of any other band that has released some many live albums (and so many useless ones) during their career