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Palace Revolution 2000Like I say - I can definitely not speak for the last few years. was not present.Quote
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If it was as computerized and fail safe as you suggest there would ot be much use for a sound check. yet we do it to this day.
The sound check is still necessary to get the sounds and setup for each venue. It insures the gear hasn't broken since the last show, the new wiring and connections are are solid, and dials in the sound for the changes in environment. The recall functions of the mixing desks are not engaged until everything is dialed up perfectly, then other acts can do their sound checks with the same board and create their own "snapshots" of the settings. It is precisely the sound check settings that are recalled by the computerized functionality.
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AC DC SARS CONCERT 2003
Phil Rudd interview....
Do you have a favorite memory or two from the last, oh, few decades or so?
The greatest thing I’ve ever done with this band was smoke The Stones into
the weeds in Toronto in front of 485,000 people. [...] You don’t give us
an hour before you go on, mate. We’re not going to leave much left. [laughs]
[...].
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James Brown and the Famous Flames most certainly surpassed the Stones at the T.A.M.I. Show in 1964. Keith Richards admitted it.
From Wikipedia: "In interviews, Keith Richards of The Rolling Stones has claimed that choosing to follow Brown & The Famous Flames was the biggest mistake of their careers, because no matter how well they performed, they could not top him.
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Loudei
AC DC SARS CONCERT 2003
Phil Rudd interview....
Do you have a favorite memory or two from the last, oh, few decades or so?
The greatest thing I’ve ever done with this band was smoke The Stones into
the weeds in Toronto in front of 485,000 people. [...] You don’t give us
an hour before you go on, mate. We’re not going to leave much left. [laughs]
[...].
Take that bastard to jail...
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Pietro
James Brown and the Famous Flames most certainly surpassed the Stones at the T.A.M.I. Show in 1964. Keith Richards admitted it.
From Wikipedia: "In interviews, Keith Richards of The Rolling Stones has claimed that choosing to follow Brown & The Famous Flames was the biggest mistake of their careers, because no matter how well they performed, they could not top him.
Someone needs to go in and correct that wiki: It wasn't the Stones' decision to follow James Brown and close the show.
The lineup was the producers' decision, and the Stones were chagrined by it, and tried to tell Brown so.
They certainly were not embarrassed by their own performance, which was 100% stellar.
And someone up there said that at the time of the 2003 SARS benefit the Stones hadn't played in a while.
Au contraire: They paused in the middle of their European tour to fly over to Toronto for that.
They were probably exhausted. They did the show anyway. Good for them.
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Pietro
James Brown and the Famous Flames most certainly surpassed the Stones at the T.A.M.I. Show in 1964. Keith Richards admitted it.
From Wikipedia: "In interviews, Keith Richards of The Rolling Stones has claimed that choosing to follow Brown & The Famous Flames was the biggest mistake of their careers, because no matter how well they performed, they could not top him.
Someone needs to go in and correct that wiki: It wasn't the Stones' decision to follow James Brown and close the show.
The lineup was the producers' decision, and the Stones were chagrined by it, and tried to tell Brown so.
They certainly were not embarrassed by their own performance, which was 100% stellar.
And someone up there said that at the time of the 2003 SARS benefit the Stones hadn't played in a while.
Au contraire: They paused in the middle of their European tour to fly over to Toronto for that.
They were probably exhausted. They did the show anyway. Good for them.
They did the show....but not for charity...for cash. I believe the report I read was they got a $5 million guarantee. Plenty of other bands traveled or got together to do the show with little rehearsal time.
The show revealed the Stones as a band that just did not have 'it' anymore. Guitars without any bite that had been that way for a while. It just became embarrassingly apparent that day just how far they had fallen.
Love the band's 1982 and prior work. Had amazing times at many of their shows (and been really disappointed by some of their shows). They are a nostalgia act to party to, but their skills and power and edge are long gone.
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The AC/DC shows had one big problem from the beginning: The sound for
AC/DC was superb, the sound for the Stones was just painfully quiet and flat.
read my sad review for Oberhausen 2003 here: [www.iorr.org]
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Amanda Jensen in Stockholm 2014
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Pietro
James Brown and the Famous Flames most certainly surpassed the Stones at the T.A.M.I. Show in 1964. Keith Richards admitted it.
From Wikipedia: "In interviews, Keith Richards of The Rolling Stones has claimed that choosing to follow Brown & The Famous Flames was the biggest mistake of their careers, because no matter how well they performed, they could not top him.
Someone needs to go in and correct that wiki: It wasn't the Stones' decision to follow James Brown and close the show.
The lineup was the producers' decision, and the Stones were chagrined by it, and tried to tell Brown so.
They certainly were not embarrassed by their own performance, which was 100% stellar.
And someone up there said that at the time of the 2003 SARS benefit the Stones hadn't played in a while.
Au contraire: They paused in the middle of their European tour to fly over to Toronto for that.
They were probably exhausted. They did the show anyway. Good for them.
They did the show....but not for charity...for cash. I believe the report I read was they got a $5 million guarantee. Plenty of other bands traveled or got together to do the show with little rehearsal time.
The show revealed the Stones as a band that just did not have 'it' anymore. Guitars without any bite that had been that way for a while. It just became embarrassingly apparent that day just how far they had fallen.
Love the band's 1982 and prior work. Had amazing times at many of their shows (and been really disappointed by some of their shows). They are a nostalgia act to party to, but their skills and power and edge are long gone.
All of a sudden, after delivering magnificent club and arena shows on the Licks tour, they lost it - just like that? Hmm....
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James Brown and the Famous Flames most certainly surpassed the Stones at the T.A.M.I. Show in 1964. Keith Richards admitted it.
From Wikipedia: "In interviews, Keith Richards of The Rolling Stones has claimed that choosing to follow Brown & The Famous Flames was the biggest mistake of their careers, because no matter how well they performed, they could not top him.
Someone needs to go in and correct that wiki: It wasn't the Stones' decision to follow James Brown and close the show.
The lineup was the producers' decision, and the Stones were chagrined by it, and tried to tell Brown so.
They certainly were not embarrassed by their own performance, which was 100% stellar.
And someone up there said that at the time of the 2003 SARS benefit the Stones hadn't played in a while.
Au contraire: They paused in the middle of their European tour to fly over to Toronto for that.
They were probably exhausted. They did the show anyway. Good for them.
They did the show....but not for charity...for cash. I believe the report I read was they got a $5 million guarantee. Plenty of other bands traveled or got together to do the show with little rehearsal time.
The show revealed the Stones as a band that just did not have 'it' anymore. Guitars without any bite that had been that way for a while. It just became embarrassingly apparent that day just how far they had fallen.
Love the band's 1982 and prior work. Had amazing times at many of their shows (and been really disappointed by some of their shows). They are a nostalgia act to party to, but their skills and power and edge are long gone.
All of a sudden, after delivering magnificent club and arena shows on the Licks tour, they lost it - just like that? Hmm....
Not that they lost it just like that....but seeing them sharing a stage, same day, same venue with other great bands, it was apparent how far the Stones had fallen. They had been falling for years, live. If 72/73 was the peak, nothing from 1975, 78, 81, 89, 94, 97, etc....is even close and they get progressively further from being better 'live' than any other band out there. Fun 'show' but neither Keith or Ronnie has lit it on fire for a long long time.
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Amanda Jensen in Stockholm 2014
Kim Larsen in Gothenburg 82
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Come On
Amanda Jensen in Stockholm 2014
Kim Larsen in Gothenburg 82
Amanda Jensen, Stockholm 2014, unknown to me, was quite good, I thought. But did not blow the Stones off the stage in any way.
Kim Larsen, Gothenburg 1982, I was made to suffer to see on two consecutive days. Detestable to me.
On the first day, 19th of June, the Stones gave the most uninspired concert that I have ever seen of them, while the major support act, J Geils Band, seemed much inspired. Nonetheless, it is also a question of taste, no blowing off stage.
On the 20th of June, the Stones was much inspired themselves. Restored my confidence in the future of the band, that TATTOO YOU had contributed to undermine. A mighty foreboding of UNDERCOVER.
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Palace Revolution 2000Like I say - I can definitely not speak for the last few years. was not present.Quote
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If it was as computerized and fail safe as you suggest there would ot be much use for a sound check. yet we do it to this day.
The sound check is still necessary to get the sounds and setup for each venue. It insures the gear hasn't broken since the last show, the new wiring and connections are are solid, and dials in the sound for the changes in environment. The recall functions of the mixing desks are not engaged until everything is dialed up perfectly, then other acts can do their sound checks with the same board and create their own "snapshots" of the settings. It is precisely the sound check settings that are recalled by the computerized functionality.
peace
They have been using this technology for the last 20 years.
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Palace Revolution 2000
If it was as computerized and fail safe as you suggest there would ot be much use for a sound check. yet we do it to this day.
The sound check is still necessary to get the sounds and setup for each venue. It insures the gear hasn't broken since the last show, the new wiring and connections are are solid, and dials in the sound for the changes in environment. The recall functions of the mixing desks are not engaged until everything is dialed up perfectly, then other acts can do their sound checks with the same board and create their own "snapshots" of the settings. It is precisely the sound check settings that are recalled by the computerized functionality.
peace
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Palace Revolution 2000Like I say - I can definitely not speak for the last few years. was not present.Quote
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Palace Revolution 2000
If it was as computerized and fail safe as you suggest there would ot be much use for a sound check. yet we do it to this day.
The sound check is still necessary to get the sounds and setup for each venue. It insures the gear hasn't broken since the last show, the new wiring and connections are are solid, and dials in the sound for the changes in environment. The recall functions of the mixing desks are not engaged until everything is dialed up perfectly, then other acts can do their sound checks with the same board and create their own "snapshots" of the settings. It is precisely the sound check settings that are recalled by the computerized functionality.
peace
They have been using this technology for the last 20 years.
peace
That's just not so. I worked all those shows back then. and I am not really talking about what was being used. the point is that there was banks of gear that was off limits for openers. I know what you mean by these snapshots, although I have never heard that term used, but in order to make your snapshot - first you have to be allowed the use of the board, period.
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nobody blows the STONES offstage!!!