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Stoneage
put on top of each other and repeated over and over it tends to be a bit monotonous and unexiting.
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AussieMark
The Stones are like any successful band, whether they are stadium superstars or a pub band - they get paid to play songs that the majority of the audience wants to hear.
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AussieMark
The Stones are like any successful band, whether they are stadium superstars or a pub band - they get paid to play songs that the majority of the audience wants to hear.
A clever insight! It is funny that the same laws of entertainment - the expectations of the audience dictate the artistic choice of the performers ("people want to listen only stuff they are familiar with") - prevail in both ends of a spectrum of a succesful show business. Both the millionare stadium superstars and the poor unknown local pub bands trying to entertain the customers have the same arguments for safe set lists based on 'war horses'/rock classics/evergreens... Luckily, there are some grey areas, or if not, there are still some performers who don't quite accept that rule... But then they are doomed to be not so big and popular at box office (Dylan, Young, etc.) or starve
to death (those poor bastards at local pubs who try to show artistic ambition, and play unknown originals, and get kicked out soon...)
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bv
I think it is VERY stupid to complain about setlists in this thread. The Rolling Stones have arrived into ADELAIDE for the first time in 19 years, and for the 2nd time in 41 years. Most people who went to see the Stones in Adelaide have seen the Stones ZERO or max ONE time ever in their life. It is only natural that they play their BEST set of songs, the same set they play in every city these days. Nobody want to hear Gomper and In Another Land. The Adelaide fans got the best show the Stones do offer these days, and I do feel sorry for those who constantly sit on the internet and complain about setlists. Get a life!
For those who complain every time, I assume you wake up every morning with a person next to you in the bed. Do you complain about the fact that this person is THE SAME person EVERY morning? Time for a change? Or time to realize you are getting old and grumpy?
I love what the Stones do perform. I don't demand changes every time. I love what they do. If I wasn't happy with the band I would follow Garth Brooks or somebody else, but I follow the Stones, the band who play usually the same setlist always, they have done so for 40-50 years now, and people love it.
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whiskey
YES I agree. Sensible comment. I don't give a rats what they play as long as they are here to give old fans like me a treat. I have not seen them since Perth 65, and I am grateful.
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mandu
not trying to be rude but why do they only play 19 songs and 22-25 songs?
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24FPS
Like I said, you either accept what they are now, or you don't go see them. But quit hoping for more. More is over.
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bv
Yes, I loved the Adelaide show. Great show, great songs, great venue, great crowd, nice weather. What more can you ask for?
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Macnee2
We not only had Stones Week with the boys staying in town, but a tour opener with the whole band in great form. This is not always the case as we have seen from other legs of the tour earlier this year. These guys give the greatest live show in 2014.
I would have rather heard All Down the Line than LARS, and Worried About You than LSTNT. Both of which are fair possibilities, played in Europe.
But this is petty, when I think that my 14yo girl got to see and enjoy the show put on by a group of old farts that she never believed could demonstrate ROCK the way they did on Saturday night.
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Doxa
Hmm... some odd vibes here. When I followed this thread I had the picture that 'finally and luckily people have gotten over set list complaining', since those kind of posts seemed to have disappeared. I thought that people finally had seen that there is no point or need to do such a thing. But now when I saw this campaign towards such complaining, I needed to check the thread again, if my memory or selected reading have fooled me.
There are over 400 posts here. Among them I chased two or three 'straight' set list complaint posts (which all were one-liners), then one or two so-so cases plus there was two or three complaints about playing "Like A Rolling Stone", one of them coming from an attender of the concert.
With respect, but I think there actually is not such a big problem these strong reactions seem to imply. But, of course, maybe shooting with a heavy gun just for a warning, even though there actually is not an enemy in sight, might have a point to prevent such misbehaving to happen in future...
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Doxa
Hmm... some odd vibes here. When I followed this thread I had the picture that 'finally and luckily people have gotten over set list complaining', since those kind of posts seemed to have disappeared. I thought that people finally had seen that there is no point or need to do such a thing. But now when I saw this campaign towards such complaining, I needed to check the thread again, if my memory or selected reading have fooled me.
There are over 400 posts here. Among them I chased two or three 'straight' set list complaint posts (which all were one-liners), then one or two so-so cases plus there was two or three complaints about playing "Like A Rolling Stone", one of them coming from an attender of the concert.
With respect, but I think there actually is not such a big problem these strong reactions seem to imply. But, of course, maybe shooting with a heavy gun just for a warning, even though there actually is not an enemy in sight, might have a point to prevent such misbehaving to happen in future...
- Doxa
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mandu
not trying to be rude but why do they only play 19 songs and 22-25 songs?
The 19 songs take 2 hours 15 minutes. They could play Rambler 5 minutes shorter and do the same with other songs, but personally I like shows to be 2h 15 max. A show of 3+ hours is too long. If you want more go to more shows.
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24FPS
Like I said, you either accept what they are now, or you don't go see them. But quit hoping for more. More is over.
So what do you say to the fans that have seen them play Lady Jane, I Wanna Be Your Man, Silver Train, the two new songs. Under The Boardwalk, Factory Girl, Out Of Control, Worried About You, 2000 Light Years From Home, Sway, Can't You Hear Me Knocking, She's So Cold, Dead Flowers, Streets Of Love (!), It's All Over Now, Little Red Rooster, The Last Time, Memory Motel + other gems on this tour?
It's not over, but they are at a stage in their career where they probably need to play it safer, to be able to do quality shows.
There will always be SOME surprises when the Stones are playing. Maybe that's why some people get so disappointed when it doesn't happen