I have just been listening to the live version of Moonlight Mile from the last tour and i must say the Stones performed it well. This song was alegedly co- written by Mick Taylor and he was upset for not being recognised for his contribution.
The live version is effective instrumentally and Mick sings it far more sensitively than many ballads on the last tour.The thing it does lack though is the final push near the end of the song. I think Mick has lost the raw vocal he possessed in the early seventies . The song peters out instead of developing into an epic.

I think it's great as well (only heard the version from Philly 99). Didn't know that they played it on the last tour???

Funny: I have just been listening to the 1999 version of the same song. Also this version was played not too bad, but it was not one of jagger's best performances ...
I agree that what makes the original take something more than a sweet ballad is that last verse, "Yeah I'm coming home ... "
I don't think they can't do it anymore. It's all a matter of dynamics. For sure it does not suit a stadium show.

C

DandelionPowderman Wrote:
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> I think it's great as well (only heard the version
> from Philly 99). Didn't know that they played it
> on the last tour???


they didnt. Only on the No Security tour.

NO they did it in 1999 in DC at the MCI Center in DC I saw a videotape of the
show.Jagger actually plays the riff which blew me away.

Thought Ronnie played in with vibrato and slide. He did the riff in Philly anyway.

No jagger on the intro actually played the riff and was playing in
open G.

The version from the '99 tour was very good. They should do it again occaisionally.

JumpingKentFlash

<and was playing in open G>

That sounds strange. I better have a listen then.

Didn't know that Jagger could play slide guitar???




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jagger plays no guitar on it live.
I was on show Philly 99.

Jagger played a fantastic slide-guitar on the b-side of the "God gave me ecerything single": -Blue-!
Great song, by the way..

stone72 Wrote:
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> jagger plays no guitar on it live.


Yes, he did.

You right , but he only play a few seconds
and you could hardly hear him playing.

I give them kudos for trying out MM in '99 - but I think it was pretty much a disaster. And, the crowd reaction was tepid at best.

It probably was from 1999 - i may have got the date mixed up.

T&A Wrote:
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> I give them kudos for trying out MM in '99 - but I
> think it was pretty much a disaster. And, the
> crowd reaction was tepid at best.


speaks volumes for the sort of people the Stones pander to these days. Idiots who pay hundreds of dollars for a ticket but cant recognise a song from one of their biggest selling albums that most harcore fans consider one of their best ever.

true enough, Gazza - but having seen two versions of it live first-hand - I wasn't exactly effusive in my reaction, either....they just didn't deliver (not that I expected them too - it really is a "studio song").

I saw them perfom it on opening night of the No Security Tour and it was a thrill to hear it live but the rendering was not as good as it could have been. They left out the entire coda!

They use a mandolin in the studio version which is really crucial to have in the song if it is played live. I guess Sway is the only song left from Sticky Fingers that is yet to be played live. Maybe next tour we will see them perform a whole album start to finish. They mentioned doing that last tour. Would be interesting.

Oh no another taylor gem that could never be played live by the weavers unless
they due a different arrangement with a SHORT SLIDE SOLO by MR Wood OUCH OUCH.

Same with WINTER and TIME WAITS ETC ETC

Mr Wood can you play Mr Taylor's classic LOOPING ENDING CLIMATIC SOLO THAT ENDS
MOONLIGHT MILE THAT leaves you breathless.

Hound Dog:

Actually they never really talked about doing whole albums, just album themes. And, we saw that even with that concept, they managed to underwhelm us once again...



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I'm sure he can't OpenG..........

Taylor did a tour of Japan in the early 90s with some anonymous band and played extended Moonlight Mile licks during one of the songs. Nice stuff.

Haven't heard it, but I imagine it being hard to do the song justice live - especially without the coda - since the studio version is almost a collage.

Moonlight Mile always felt to me as being a goodbye to the sixties and its dreams, a musical equivalent to the desastrous Altamont.


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They did Moonlight Mile at the MGM in Vegas on the Licks tour--an excellent version I might add.

As far as Memory Motel goes I thought this was played very well on the VooDoo Lounge tour. The Giants Stadium show in the pouring rain comes to mind. Best Stadium show I ever saw.

JonDupee Wrote:
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> They did Moonlight Mile at the MGM in Vegas on the
> Licks tour--an excellent version I might add.
>

No, they played it on the No Security tour. Moonlight Mile has not been played since.

Can someone tell me what show in Philly in 1999 they played Moonlight Mile! I was at the Philly shows that year and I didn't hear that! I know I would have remembered it! I went to the Union Center shows and the Vet Stadium. Thanks.

THey played Moonlight Mile in Philly on the 15th of March 1999.

That's correct, Monday, March 15th, 18th show of tour, sixth song. Great song, was glad to hear such a different classic. Truly a headphone song hard to pull off live but loved it anyway.