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Roots are offered up by the fistfuls: father Chuck Berry is paid homage to with blistering versions of “Carol” and “Little Queenie” while Robert Johnson’s “Love In Vain” may very well feature Taylor’s best slide guitar work of all time with the Stones (at least a tie with his “All Down The Line” solo from Exile on Main Street). There’s the required raunch right out of the Stones’ own songbook (“Live With Me”, “Honky Tonk Women”, and “Stray Cat Blues”). And then there are the two masterpieces of the album: “Midnight Rambler” and “Sympathy For The Devil”.

As a studio cut on Let It Bleed, “Midnight Rambler” didn’t pack half the wallop it does on Get Yer Ya-Ya’s Out. You can feel Jagger’s energy as he lays down a little blues harp honk and a snatch of lyric, pacing like a meat-starved jungle cat. The crowd knows what’s coming; they try to start the rhythm before the band cranks up, but are soon buried under a big wall of guitar crunch and bass/drum stomp. Jagger swaggers through a couple verses and then the nastiness begins: there’s a subtle rhythm shift and the guitars begin to drive the beast with fierce chords and fills, letting the harp blow wild. Watts and Wyman pile on a relentless pounding, thrusting rhythm – and in case there’s any question about what’s meant to be going on, you hear Jagger moaning through his harp. This is sex, ladies and gentlemen, this is what this is; this is the blues; this is sweat; this is need and want and desire; this is rock ‘n’ roll … this is sex. In this case, there’s unfortunately evil afoot here as well – after all, this Midnight Rambler is a bad cat, remember? The drums ease up, the harp fades back a few steps from the mike, the guitars take a big, deep, stretch … we’re just dallying in the clover now following that raucus boxspring-collapsing pounding … Taylor and Richards fire off little flutters, the notes bent into ticklish shapes, winding their way about as Jagger savors the moment: “Well, awl right …” You just know everybody in Madison Square Garden is either getting their breath or holding it, knowing that something good/evil/good is about to happen … and then it does. Over just the barest of chords, Jagger slurs, “Well, you heard about the Boston …”

WHAM!

Every ounce of energy on the stage is concentrated on one big, savagely deep thrust. A breath, and then: “Honey, it’s not one a’ those …”

WHAM!

Another pubic-bone bruising slam … and you know that everybody in the Garden at that moment feels it, unashamedly feels it and can’t do anything about it. “Talkin’ ‘bout the Midnight …”

WHAM!

Jesus. “Did you see me jump the bedroom door …”

WHAM!


I bet – 40 years later – that you could talk to people who were there that night and they’ll remember the feeling that slammed through their bodies every time the Stones dropped one of those bombs on them. Iggy and the Stooges offered up sex and violence, but theirs was more like going to the freak show; with the Stones, it was cooler than that … and everybody wanted some. At that moment, the Rolling Stones were laying the whole crowd at MSG.

The pace picks up slowly and Jagger testifies like a good bluesman should, strutting and preening. Suddenly, we’re rolling and a’ tumbling into the home stretch, the guitars all crunchy and Charlie Watts punctuating everything with cymbal crashes … and when everything finally collapses into a sweaty, quivering, breathless heap, you know you’ve been somewhere.

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Overrated. Not bad at all but overrated. I love LYL, which everybody hates

I used to hate it.

I quite like it now 36 years later.

Mick's singing is not as bad as I remembered and the band are excellent.

Keith is still the human riff at this stage.

Interesting becuase Keith was great of course, Mick was the problem, too young.

Jagger?

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For eternity, the final and incomparable live Stones album.

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Greatest live album by anyone.

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Good, not great. A bit overrated like anything by the Stones.

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flashhh
My favorite "live" album, followed closely by Waiting For Columbus.

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My favorite "live" album, followed closely by Waiting For Columbus.

Waiting for Columbus? THat's not even a "bootleg" . Is it a CDR of the 1997 Columbus show? In either case......it's easy to see that you're biased, as any "Columbus" show was only played in the 90s or 00s. Your post is dismissed, in other words.

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My favorite "live" album, followed closely by Waiting For Columbus.

Waiting for Columbus? THat's not even a "bootleg" . Is it a CDR of the 1997 Columbus show? In either case......it's easy to see that you're biased, as any "Columbus" show was only played in the 90s or 00s. Your post is dismissed, in other words.

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bye bye johnny

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My favorite "live" album, followed closely by Waiting For Columbus.

Waiting for Columbus? THat's not even a "bootleg" . Is it a CDR of the 1997 Columbus show? In either case......it's easy to see that you're biased, as any "Columbus" show was only played in the 90s or 00s. Your post is dismissed, in other words.

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My favorite "live" album, followed closely by Waiting For Columbus.

Waiting for Columbus? THat's not even a "bootleg" . Is it a CDR of the 1997 Columbus show? In either case......it's easy to see that you're biased, as any "Columbus" show was only played in the 90s or 00s. Your post is dismissed, in other words.

Obviously you know nothing of Little Feat, my man...

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My favorite "live" album, followed closely by Waiting For Columbus.

Waiting for Columbus? THat's not even a "bootleg" . Is it a CDR of the 1997 Columbus show? In either case......it's easy to see that you're biased, as any "Columbus" show was only played in the 90s or 00s. Your post is dismissed, in other words.

Obviously you know nothing of Little Feat, my man...

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flashhh
My favorite "live" album, followed closely by Waiting For Columbus.

Waiting for Columbus? THat's not even a "bootleg" . Is it a CDR of the 1997 Columbus show? In either case......it's easy to see that you're biased, as any "Columbus" show was only played in the 90s or 00s. Your post is dismissed, in other words.

Obviously you know nothing of Little Feat, my man...

Now I dismiss you....

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flashhh
My favorite "live" album, followed closely by Waiting For Columbus.

Waiting for Columbus? THat's not even a "bootleg" . Is it a CDR of the 1997 Columbus show? In either case......it's easy to see that you're biased, as any "Columbus" show was only played in the 90s or 00s. Your post is dismissed, in other words.

Obviously you know nothing of Little Feat, my man...

Now I dismiss you....

Quoting oneself, especially before reading the replies....that's lowest kind, Jerry, the lowest kind.

Like anybody can dismiss others because they're not a fan of Little Feat...!

The judge is blowing his whistle, telling the fellow with the tiny feet to get of the ground, mainly because of prancing around in high heeled shoes with a big mouth

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Haha...LMAO! Another shallow, narrow-minded I
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the vocals on over half of the song were completely over-dubbed.
A fake live album - which is apparently okay by Stones fans because
ERMAHGERD - STERRRRNS!!!!