This is another classic song that has been very much neglected.
Listening to the early version Get A Line On You the quality of this soul/gospel song really does shine through. It's the type of song i feel the Stones could always make a success of playing - it was included on Stripped but apart from that it has been very much neglected for over thirty years . I don't think it's a particuarly hard song to play and also the backing vocals of Bernard and Lisa would also be more welcoming on this song.
Maybe the Stones should consider Shine A Light for the next tour.

This song is the highlight of Stripped.

Shine A Light was played at the following shows:

1995
Paradiso, Olympia, Brixton, Basel, Munich, Schüttorf, Berlin, Wolfsburg and Rotterdam

1997
Norman (Oklahoma)

1998
Tokyo and Montreal

1999
Oakland and Anaheim



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Supposedly written by Mick for/about Keith. Great song.

I read some where it was written about Brian Jones

its about brian jones...GREAT SONG..

Great Song when Mick Taylor played the lead!! that sorry excuse for a lead Ronnie dispensed in the 90's isn't worth commenting about!!

Brian had his moments on Last Time & Everybody needs Somebody To Love, liked him
more than Mr. Wood but he didn't hold a candle to Mick Taylor!!!! MLC

Let's not start this Taylor/Wood crap again It's a good song, period. Great keyboards! That;s what really drives the song are the keyboards and the back up vocals

Cafaro - I prefer a good lead guitar!!! to each his own - MLC

Did they play this song back in the seventies?

Cheers,
Wuudy

MLC,
I agree about the guitar solos, they are some of the best studio solos Mick Taylor recorded. I simply saying the keyboards really bring this song to it's hights.

Wuudy - No they never played it live in the 70's that i know about - MLC

Thanks MCDDTLC. To bad, it would have been great.

Cheers,
Wuudy

They did rehearse it for the European Tour 73. Too bad it wasn't played live though.

yes potted shrimp,great highlite indeed.

john scialfa

best part of this song is Jagger's vocals!! Brilliant.

I respect women who can suck golf balls through a garden hose....

erikjjf Wrote:
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> They did rehearse it for the European Tour 73. Too
> bad it wasn't played live though.


Yeah, because the rehearsals sounded promissing enough. Too bad the trucks / cars / mopeds and other surrounding sounds screw up these recordings..... Still you can hear some nice Taylor guitar work!

What disc are those rehearsalrecordings on?

"Can You Hear The Mobile"

thanks

The Stones played " Shine a Light" on opening night last tour at the Fleet Center in Boston. It was Sept 3, 2002. It was awesome!

I will add "Loving Cup", "Let It Loose" and "Torn and Frayed" to the want list of songs for the 2005 tour. At least one of these should be rehearsed. After hearing MJ on "That's How Strong..." I think he could pull off "Let it Loose", which has never been done live, AFAIK. This song has such a great reliance on backing vocals and horns, I think it would be perfect for the present lineup. "Shine A Light " is great, too, but Jagger lets it all go on "Let It Loose"--"let it loose, let it come on down"--I'd love to hear this.

I'd love to hear Let It Loose live too but i am very doubtful these days Mick could pull it off. I've not heard him sing with such raw energy for a very long time ans i fail to see the comparison with That's How Strong My Love Is. Let It Loose is a real epic stax influenced soul song which requies Mick to really stretch his voice and hold the notes. It shouldn't be attemped unless he is sure he could pull it off. It the one song that really requires a first class vocal - anything less would prove very embarrassing.

Debra Wrote:
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> The Stones played " Shine a Light" on opening
> night last tour at the Fleet Center in Boston. It
> was Sept 3, 2002. It was awesome!


No, they didn't.
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