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masseywinos
I was at the SARS concert in Toronto. It was a long and exhausting day. I'm glad I was there but would never attend something like that again. It is always said that ACDC blew the Stones off the stage and yes they were amazing. However it was a very long and hot day and extremely crowded and I think by the time the Stones hit the stage everyone was pretty much spent.
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SweetThing
The Who at Rock and Roll Circus...and then decades later at a benefit..forget which...
Of course we all know the Stones are the long distance runners that compare favorably more often than not in most metrics....
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muffie
Guns n Roses, LA 89.
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NICOS
James Brown........ I can't remember the year "65 ?
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DandelionPowderman
"Bands that have "blown the Stones off the stage"
Don't exist...
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DandelionPowderman
"Bands that have "blown the Stones off the stage"
Don't exist...
Check out Toronto, Canada 2003 and you'll probably realize the fact that
AC/DC blew The Stones with Justin Timberlake off the stage big time.....
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rocker1
By this I mean, there are several bands who have been said (or claimed themselves) to have "blown the Stones off the stage" when they opened or shared a bill with them. I don't mean this thread to be about bands who have actually done that, but those who have been mentioned, or clamied to do that.
The Stones are THE primo target for this kind of remark/comparison, as who wouldn't love to claim that they blew the "greatest rock and roll band in the world" off the stage? It sets them up to meet awfully high standards, and it's a bit of millstone when you have to deliver such kick-ass goods/performances every night, while at the same time having every opening or supporting band sort of gunning for you. My POV is that very few bands have really done this, though some certainly have, given the particular show. But...to list what I think may be the obvious:
* Lynyrd Skynyrd at Knebworth '76. Most of this is Artimus Pyle talking out of this ass, but to be fair, LS was cooking that day.
* Santana in '81 at Pontiac Silverdome. [Reminded of this because of a comment made in the recent thread about about the demise of the dome.]
* J. Geils and Geo. Thorogood throughout '81? They were great, to be sure, but I doubt they blew the Stones off the stage.
* Ike and Tina in '69 and Stevie Wonder in '72: Actually, I've never heard anybody say either of these two acts came close to blowing the Stones off the stage, but I'm anticipating that some may have heard/read where they did.
[ One act that I'm reasonably sure you cannot say came close to blowing the Stones off the stage was Living Color in '89. Yeah, good band..but they were such a warmup act for that tour. ]
I'm probably missing other obvious ones.
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LuxuryStones
Pointless thread imo. Either you're a fan or not. People come to see the Rolling Stones, so the supporting act always is second best. If the Mahavishnu Orchestra would have played for the RS as a supporting act in 1972, no Rolling Stones fan would have stated that their band was blown off the stage.
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LuxuryStones
Pointless thread imo. Either you're a fan or not. People come to see the Rolling Stones, so the supporting act always is second best. If the Mahavishnu Orchestra would have played for the RS as a supporting act in 1972, no Rolling Stones fan would have stated that their band was blown off the stage.
It's not nothing to do with being a fan or not being fan, it's got everything to do with absolutely mindblowing performances, and on THAT particular day at Knebworth in the summer of 1976 ... Lynyrd Skynyrd put on an amazingly good performance and the Rolling Stones were to a great extent overshadowed by it. It's that simple ... it's got f**k all to do with being a fan or not.
Just my two cents worth ...........
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LuxuryStones
Pointless thread imo. Either you're a fan or not. People come to see the Rolling Stones, so the supporting act always is second best. If the Mahavishnu Orchestra would have played for the RS as a supporting act in 1972, no Rolling Stones fan would have stated that their band was blown off the stage.
It's not nothing to do with being a fan or not being fan, it's got everything to do with absolutely mindblowing performances, and on THAT particular day at Knebworth in the summer of 1976 ... Lynyrd Skynyrd put on an amazingly good performance and the Rolling Stones were to a great extent overshadowed by it. It's that simple ... it's got f**k all to do with being a fan or not.
Just my two cents worth ...........
Some people think a certain concert was mindblowing, others don't.