All Down The Line is one of my all time faves. To me it stands with JJF, HTW, BS and SMU.
My favourite live Version is from the "Like A Rolling Stone" EP from 1995.
Daryl really pushes the band and the song during the finish.

The 1972 version, on Philadelphia Special, is absolutely wonderful!

1972, New York and 1973, Brussels Affair (not the one on the official release, though).

The sunshine bores the daylights out of me.

The first night at the Beacon theater, Ronnie was transcendant. I remember turning to Beast and we were bot just kind of slack jawed...wow!

Texas '72, very good.

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My favourite live Version is from the "Like A Rolling Stone" EP from 1995.
Daryl really pushes the band and the song during the finish.

Agreed - an awesome version. And the definitive live version of Black Limousine on that EP as well (IMO of course).

I first heard this song live on the 1970 European tour.
What a thrill! One of my fave Stones songs ever.

"Well you can't say yes and you can't say no."



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best live version ?
is song on Brussels Affair ? = best live version
was song played on '72 tour = second best
song played on '78 tour = third best

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I first heard this song live on the 1970 European tour.
What a thrill! One of my fave Stones songs ever.

"Well you can't say yes and you can't say no."

Stonesrule, where did you hear that song played? As far as I know it wasn't on the setlist of the 1970 European tour. Or did you mean 1973?

Easy, the last one I've seen. Quebec.

Ya-yas

Oh wait...

Seattle'81 (the June 15 show). A version made of steel and concrete...



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Ladies & Gentlemen

One of the songs that the Stones cannot play well live. The least awful was Texas 78. I don't know why they insist on playing this live.

Despite the bad audio quality this is one of the very best:

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Despite the bad audio quality this is one of the very best:

Too slow for me...

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stonesrule
I first heard this song live on the 1970 European tour.
What a thrill! One of my fave Stones songs ever.

"Well you can't say yes and you can't say no."

Stonesrule, where did you hear that song played? As far as I know it wasn't on the setlist of the 1970 European tour. Or did you mean 1973?

They didn't play one song from what would become EXILE on tour in 1970 so he must be thinking of 1973 which they played All Down The Line in every show of that tour.

Kleerie, "All Down the Line" was played twice early in the tour.
As I recall, once in Sweden and also in Hamburg. My notes for that
tour are in storage with a whole bunch of other musical events I heard
in Europe and the UK in the early 70's which I see as something I eventually
will write about at length.


I am aware that the song does not show up on the Internet today but I stand
by the fact that it was definitely played in 1970. The early gigs of that
tour were seen by the band as an opportunity to work out a song or two that they felt had big potential.

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stonesrule
I first heard this song live on the 1970 European tour.
What a thrill! One of my fave Stones songs ever.

"Well you can't say yes and you can't say no."

Stonesrule, where did you hear that song played? As far as I know it wasn't on the setlist of the 1970 European tour. Or did you mean 1973?

They didn't play one song from what would become EXILE on tour in 1970 so he must be thinking of 1973 which they played All Down The Line in every show of that tour.

The song was still at an embryonic state in 1970, so very unlikely.
But why not, they already played Loving Cup in its "demo" form in Hyde Park, and there are still debates about Wild Hoses and Can't You Hear Me Knocking played or not in 1971.

From timeisonourside:

Performed onstage: 1972-73, 1975, 1977-78, 1981, 1994-95, 1998-99, 2002-03, 2005-07, 2012-15

They played Brown Sugar for most likely every show on that tour...

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Despite the bad audio quality this is one of the very best:

[www.youtube.com]

Even as an assumed Woodist I agree.

First of all, to Mitch, I'm a female.

Secondly, I was on that tour and heard "All Down the Line" as I noted above.

Thirdly, as a young reporter I was and am known for having an excellent memory, thanks to family genetics. Would YOU forget a great Stones song that you heard for the first time? When you were traveling with the band?

The kids from Time Is on My Side went by whatever had been printed up before the tour. Songs changes on that 1970 tour and several others were not unusual.

Bands who have been working in the studio a lot often get excited and are known to say to each other, "I really like this one or that one. Shall we
try it tonight?"

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One of the songs that the Stones cannot play well live. The least awful was Texas 78. I don't know why they insist on playing this live.

Listen to the version on Stripped Companion, that´s a great one.

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Despite the bad audio quality this is one of the very best:

[www.youtube.com]

Even as an assumed Woodist I agree.

Agree this one is very good. In general I think every version played with Taylor is better than any version played with Wood. Those Beacon theater shows are just a shadow of what the song used to be, imo. Not just because of Wood but Keith and Mick are performing it at a much lower level that the early 70's versions and the cheesy B/G vocals take away from the rough raw nature that was so compelling in the early versions.

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Kleerie, "All Down the Line" was played twice early in the tour.
As I recall, once in Sweden and also in Hamburg. My notes for that
tour are in storage with a whole bunch of other musical events I heard
in Europe and the UK in the early 70's which I see as something I eventually
will write about at length.


I am aware that the song does not show up on the Internet today but I stand
by the fact that it was definitely played in 1970. The early gigs of that
tour were seen by the band as an opportunity to work out a song or two that they felt had big potential.

It could be, stonesrule, though the info is not to be founded on Nico Zentgraf's website nor on the existing bootlegs from the 1970 tour. But I think All Down The Line was already 'under construction' in 1970, though I lack concrete knowledge about that.

Time to look into your notes and to write about them and your experiences during that fascinating era!

Edit: the acoustic version of ADTL was already recorded in 1969!
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Down_the_Line)



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Kleerie, you'll have to live with what I've written.

I am up to my eyes in writing a serious book (not about the Stones) with a serious deadline and my storage has some 200 full boxes of music stuff that would be lots of fun and work for me to go through but it will not be any time soon.

I absolutely stand behind what I have posted. Somebody out there surely was at one of the first six or eight gigs and knows the set-list. And yes, I know about 1969 and the studio. Heard some tracks.

Too bad a fine European music writer didn't detail the early days of the '70 tour. I recall meeting several lady "journalists" who turned out to be chicks
with crushes on Jagger as opposed to writing anything that saw the light of day
Maybe Bill Wyman's friend Pauline can get him to go through all his stuff...
Or just his really good memory.

Or Doxa may have some thoughts on clippings from the first 2 weeks of September
1970.

The version on the "Rocks Off" boot from February 24, 1973 is stunning.
The band is a ferocious machine working at peak performance.

The '72 and '73 "All Down the Line" performances are the best. I would probably say the Australia '73 versions (Rocks Off CD / BackStrap Jacket CD) are even a little better than '72. That says a lot since the '72 versions were fantastic.

After that,we have the 1978 soundboards and the underrated Frankfurt '76.

Since its return in 1994,the best versions are Atlantic City '06 (the best since '78 if you ask me) ; the 'Shine a Light' 2006 performance, the 'Stripped' b-side , Boston '03 , East Hartford 2005 , and the University of Virginia '05 rendition.

'14 on Fire was the worst since the Voodoo Lounge Tour but it was improved again on the the 2015 tour compared to 2014.

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Kleerie, "All Down the Line" was played twice early in the tour.
As I recall, once in Sweden and also in Hamburg. My notes for that
tour are in storage with a whole bunch of other musical events I heard
in Europe and the UK in the early 70's which I see as something I eventually
will write about at length.


I am aware that the song does not show up on the Internet today but I stand
by the fact that it was definitely played in 1970. The early gigs of that
tour were seen by the band as an opportunity to work out a song or two that they felt had big potential.

It could be, stonesrule, though the info is not to be founded on Nico Zentgraf's website nor on the existing bootlegs from the 1970 tour. But I think All Down The Line was already 'under construction' in 1970, though I lack concrete knowledge about that.

Time to look into your notes and to write about them and your experiences during that fascinating era!

Edit: the acoustic version of ADTL was already recorded in 1969!
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Down_the_Line)

Here that early 1969 take is. Love this embryonic version. Keith was so energetic with his rhythms back then it's a real treat.

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