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Here, here. Moonlight Mile and Sway both fall into this category(I'm hugely grateful to have seen them both), and frankly, YES, I am quite desperate to hear anything outside the normal setlist. I've come to a place of acceptance that it'll never be like the Dead or Bruce level of variety, but time is short and I'll take what we can get.Quote
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By your logic they never should have revisited CYHMK, since it stayed "dropped from the setlist" for over 30 years (presuming they did actually play it in 1971). Why attempt to douse others' enthusiasm to hear a song they've never seen performed on stage?
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I don't get the sudden clamor for Silver Train. When it was new, they dropped Silver Train from the setlist after a few shows on the 1973 Europe tour, and it has stayed dropped for 40 years. Are people so desperate for variety in the set list that they get hot and bothered that the Stones rehearsed a warmed over knockoff of All Down the Line with a weak opening riff? Personally, I'd rather hear All Down the Line with Mick Taylor. THAT would be something!
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I don't get the sudden clamor for Silver Train. When it was new, they dropped Silver Train from the setlist after a few shows on the 1973 Europe tour, and it has stayed dropped for 40 years. Are people so desperate for variety in the set list that they get hot and bothered that the Stones rehearsed a warmed over knockoff of All Down the Line with a weak opening riff? Personally, I'd rather hear All Down the Line with Mick Taylor. THAT would be something!
Maybe people are getting spoiled. Setlist.fm shows that for the 41 dates for the "Goats Head Soup Tour" the Stones played a total of 19 different songs. For the 29 dates shown for the "50 and Counting Tour", they list a total of 66 different songs.
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I don't get the sudden clamor for Silver Train. When it was new, they dropped Silver Train from the setlist after a few shows on the 1973 Europe tour, and it has stayed dropped for 40 years. Are people so desperate for variety in the set list that they get hot and bothered that the Stones rehearsed a warmed over knockoff of All Down the Line with a weak opening riff? Personally, I'd rather hear All Down the Line with Mick Taylor. THAT would be something!
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I don't get the sudden clamor for Silver Train. When it was new, they dropped Silver Train from the setlist after a few shows on the 1973 Europe tour, and it has stayed dropped for 40 years. Are people so desperate for variety in the set list that they get hot and bothered that the Stones rehearsed a warmed over knockoff of All Down the Line with a weak opening riff? Personally, I'd rather hear All Down the Line with Mick Taylor. THAT would be something!
Just curious --- what are some other songs they've wasted their time playing?
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The different between Silver Train and Can't You Hear Me Knockin' is that the latter is a great song. Silver Train is an also-ran on a mediocre album.
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LieB
Thanks for the video. They didn't trainwreck it, so that's nice, but the song isn't fantastic. Kudos for playing it, but they should give Mick Taylor more and better material.
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It was only a mediocre album compared to the few that came before it. Compared to what came later it was freaking Sgt. Pepper.