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tornnfrayed
I have been listening to Love you Live in the car recently and it struck me that musically the Stones were still very, very good in this period. And thinking more about this I had the thought that 75 was the last really great Stones tour. The Stones at the time were still very much a part of the anti-establishment/drug culture as were the crowds on that tour. By 1978, we had a newer, cleaner version of the Stones, with an entirely different sound. Gone were the evening concerts in smoke filled arenas, replaced with daytime concerts in cavernous baseball stadiums. Keith was clean and, you know, so were the crowds watching the Stones on that 78 tour. In short, the rough edges were gone as they have been from every tour since.
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tornnfrayed
I have been listening to Love you Live in the car recently and it struck me that musically the Stones were still very, very good in this period. And thinking more about this I had the thought that 75 was the last really great Stones tour. The Stones at the time were still very much a part of the anti-establishment/drug culture as were the crowds on that tour. By 1978, we had a newer, cleaner version of the Stones, with an entirely different sound. Gone were the evening concerts in smoke filled arenas, replaced with daytime concerts in cavernous baseball stadiums. Keith was clean and, you know, so were the crowds watching the Stones on that 78 tour. In short, the rough edges were gone as they have been from every tour since.
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tornnfrayed
I have been listening to Love you Live in the car recently and it struck me that musically the Stones were still very, very good in this period. And thinking more about this I had the thought that 75 was the last really great Stones tour. The Stones at the time were still very much a part of the anti-establishment/drug culture as were the crowds on that tour. By 1978, we had a newer, cleaner version of the Stones, with an entirely different sound. Gone were the evening concerts in smoke filled arenas, replaced with daytime concerts in cavernous baseball stadiums. Keith was clean and, you know, so were the crowds watching the Stones on that 78 tour. In short, the rough edges were gone as they have been from every tour since.
Some good points but...I would hardly say the rough edges were gone in '78 or '81. Keith was clean? MAYBE from smack but he, Ron and sometimes Mick were still drinking and doing enough coke to fuel a small army. The crowds were clean? Ha! I was at stadium shows in '78 and '81 and haven't seen so much out-in-the open voracious drug consumption ever since. I, personally would move the date for last Great Tour up to '81 - '82,IMO. And, BTW the '75 tour also featured daytime stadium shows...and '78 and '81 had indoor shows as well.
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tornnfrayed
I have been listening to Love you Live in the car recently and it struck me that musically the Stones were still very, very good in this period. And thinking more about this I had the thought that 75 was the last really great Stones tour. The Stones at the time were still very much a part of the anti-establishment/drug culture as were the crowds on that tour. By 1978, we had a newer, cleaner version of the Stones, with an entirely different sound. Gone were the evening concerts in smoke filled arenas, replaced with daytime concerts in cavernous baseball stadiums. Keith was clean and, you know, so were the crowds watching the Stones on that 78 tour. In short, the rough edges were gone as they have been from every tour since.
I usually say 1982 but honestly I really feel and know that 1975 and 1976 and 1977 are the last tours/concerts with the great, dangerous "real" Stones. El Mocambo being the swan song. You are spot on.
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slew
1978, 1981, 1989, 1999 and last years mini tour blows 1975 away, 1975 is the worst tour the Stones ever did. Mick Jagger sounded terrible.
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georgeV
It's clear that some people were not at the earlier tours and making judgments about quality based on bootlegs and videos.
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mailexile67
1978:the last FANTASTIC Stones Tour
1999:the last great Stones Tour