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Very very nice post
You simply can't write about this show without getting emotional. Well at least that goes for me. "Sticky Fingers" was my first Stones album...

People ask me this: What is the best ever show you have seen with the Stones? I mean I have seen them many times, but still, my answer is always the same: You can't compare shows. Like I can't compare my children. They are all unique. Sure there has been some outstanding shows. My best memories are from Roseland, Brixton, Wichita, and a number of great shows in Hartford, MSG and Buenos Aires. But still... As of today, it is all clear. My best Rolling Stones show ever so far was at the Fonda Theatre in Los Angeles California May 20, 2015.

They started off with "Start Me Up", like a regular show. Except Keith came walking on stage, Pierre strapped his guitar, the rest of the band arrived, and we got "Start Me Up". I was in the front, with friends to my left, and with half a dozen great looking girls in their 20's on my right. As some of them left before show start, I was up there in the front from the start. I was never more than 5-10 meters i.e. 15-30 feet away from Ronnie, Keith and Mick tonight, during the show. Charlie was close too, as the rest of the band. I use glasses at shows these days, but not tonight. I could not get any closer.

They did "Whip" and "All Down The Line". Both great songs. We were some 700 people in the crowd including the 100 or so in the celebrity balcony, but I hardly turned my back to the crowd. My only worry was the fact that this should have been available to more fans but then it would not work the way it worked tonight.

Then it is time for STICKY FINGERS. The whole album. Live. This was my first Stones album. The reason why I am here, why I am following the Stones, why IORR does exist. I got "Sticky Fingers" it in August 1971, and from that day I was hooked, Sticky Fingers and The Rolling Stones defined a large part of my life as from that date. SWAY was so great. And it was so great they started with my favorite song of the album! Dead Flowsers was another favorite. I just loved it.

The emotions came on "Wild Horses". I don't know why, I have got "Wild Horses" so many times live, but the way they did it, the small room, and the memories from my days back in 1971, as a kid age 16 playing "Sticky Fingers" to the pieces, at my parents home, my first home, I got tears in my eyes, it was such a great version of "Wild Horses". The camera man was always on our faces, I just hope he did not catch me in those moments. But I loved every bit of it.

I am not going to do a song by song here, because I am too tired, and I don't remember all the details. But I do remember Keith's white teeth! When his band members were shining, Keith was all smiles, and that is the best part of the show, when you enjoy it so much, and you see Keith do the same.

Matt Clifford was there next to Chuck Leavelle on many songs. It gave them a wider sound and it worked well. Karl Denson made the most outstanding solo on "Can't You Hear Me Knocking", I was frozen watching and listening to his unique rendering of the Bobby Keys spot on this song. Mick did mention it almost had a jazz touch. Sure it dit, and it raised the show to another level.

Chuck Leavelle did a great solo on "I Got The Blues". At this point of the show, I was still in my teenager room with my record player, listening to Sticky Fingers, and it just happened that the band who made this album was right in front of me, on stage, performing the very same album live right now.

Moonlight Mile. Again I got emotional. Half a year after I got Sticky Fingers I met my wife, still my wife now, she gave me the freedom to follow the Stones during all these 44 years, still counting, and I felt she was right here in this room. The musical rendering of the song was absolutely amazing, I wish they could do it more often.

As they closed the Sticky Fingers session with "Brown Sugar", my time machine trip back to my teenager days of 1971 ended quickly. Yeah Year Yeah, hands up, my mind was back in the stadium show mode, thinking about the next show in San Diego...

The rest you may read about on Internet. "Can't Turn You Loose" must be kept on the tour, for every show. It is a crowd pleaser, and I hope they will do it 15 times more on this tour!

Are they hot? Yes! Are they on? Yes! Are you going to San Diego? No? Get sorted! Get down there, it will be a mamory for lifetime. See you in San Diego on the real tour start Sunday May 24!

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Truly Excellent Post, Bjornulf.

Both from the head and heart. Sticky Fingers clearly means a hell of a lot to you. Was a real pleasure to meet you last year at the final rehearsal at the Telenor and thanks for the lift into town afterwards too

I'm contemplating bagging a last minute flight to Toronto in July to take in Detroit & Buffalo and that great read has pushed me closer to doing it....

Gregor

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You simply can't write about this show without getting emotional. Well at least that goes for me. "Sticky Fingers" was my first Stones album...

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Forget about the celebrities list. There will always be celebrities like presidents, kings, queens, mayors, Jack Nicholson (he is a great fan by the way) and so on. Let them drive their fine cars and sit on their balconies. They bring TV stations and they bring publicity so any band in the industry would love to have those in the crowd. And they don't take up space. There were plenty of fan space at the Fonda, may be not 50,000 seats, but several hundred real tickets for real fans. If you were not lucky, then don't blame anyone. Blame bad luck. Blame you did not go to LA. Blame your dog, blame yourself for not submitting your story. Blame youself because you did not make the Stones aware of the fact that you do deserve the ticket more than Jack Nicholson or even any other celebrity. But please do not blame me or any others on IORR.

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Not one video posted yet?

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of 'real Stones fans'? The people who were in that queue. And yes, to hear of them locked out while hired models and A-listers who don't give a damn get into the show leaves a bad taste in the mouth.

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Truly Excellent Post, Bjornulf.

Both from the head and heart. Sticky Fingers clearly means a hell of a lot to you. Was a real pleasure to meet you last year at the final rehearsal at the Telenor and thanks for the lift into town afterwards too

I'm contemplating bagging a last minute flight to Toronto in July to take in Detroit & Buffalo and that great read has pushed me closer to doing it....

Gregor

What? On the backseat of his bike??

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Forget about the celebrities list. There will always be celebrities like presidents, kings, queens, mayors, Jack Nicholson (he is a great fan by the way) and so on. Let them drive their fine cars and sit on their balconies. They bring TV stations and they bring publicity so any band in the industry would love to have those in the crowd. And they don't take up space. There were plenty of fan space at the Fonda, may be not 50,000 seats, but several hundred real tickets for real fans. If you were not lucky, then don't blame anyone. Blame bad luck. Blame you did not go to LA. Blame your dog, blame yourself for not submitting your story. Blame youself because you did not make the Stones aware of the fact that you do deserve the ticket more than Jack Nicholson or even any other celebrity. But please do not blame me or any others on IORR.

BV, I respect you and really appreciate what you do for the Stones fan community, but I can't agree with this. First off, 'several hundred real tickets for real fans' is a long way off what virtually everyone else who made it inside or was standing in the queue reported. And no-one is blaming you, others on IORR or indeed Jack Nicholson. It's not about blame, and it's ridiculous to suggest as you do that the many, many devoted and selfless Stones fans who waited a whole day in the queue for nothing ought to blame themselves because they didn't get in. Many of them paid a lot of money and went to extraordinary lengths to be there, and many wouldn't have done it had they realised what the situation with ticketing actually was. We want a definition of 'real Stones fans'? The people who were in that queue. And yes, to hear of them locked out while hired models and A-listers who don't give a damn get into the show leaves a bad taste in the mouth. That doesn't stop me being really happy for you and the others that lucked out.

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of 'real Stones fans'? The people who were in that queue. And yes, to hear of them locked out while hired models and A-listers who don't give a damn get into the show leaves a bad taste in the mouth.

Mick & Company were filming and didn't want some mangey 'real Stones fans' dudes up front and center. They wanted some pretty young jiggly things. You know, representing a new generation of Stones fans.

Here is a review from Rolling Stone Magazine
[www.rollingstone.com]

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Hi Gregor, you are mistaken about me being in BVs' car. I remember that day so clearly. I met you for the first time at Telenor Arena , but just missed Bard and gibsonman who I had met the previous evening. Also met Linda the English woman for the first time for years. First met her at MSG New York 2003. She was with the American lass.

When I got the bus back to town, I met you again on the bench opposite Stones hotel which I didn't realise. We saw Mick Taylor,Little Steven with Jane Rose, amongst others. Charlotte Watts was having a ciggy.

Left you still on the bench and said 'Hello Mick' to MT as he passed by me. Got a nice response.About 200 metres down the road met Chuck and his missus. They were so nice as we were strolling along. Chuck asked me if Rose could take a pic of the two of us and I could take a pic of Chuck, Rose and a Norwegian lady for them. Such nice people.

So, it wasn't me in the car, but who was it ? It was such a memorable day, I remember every detail.

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of 'real Stones fans'? The people who were in that queue. And yes, to hear of them locked out while hired models and A-listers who don't give a damn get into the show leaves a bad taste in the mouth.

Mick & Company were filming and didn't want some mangey 'real Stones fans' dudes up front and center. They wanted some pretty young jiggly things. You know, representing a new generation of Stones fans.

Here is a review from Rolling Stone Magazine
[www.rollingstone.com]

For the most part the review could have been written by Jagger as a PR handout, until they dared mention Taylor's absence, and that he was missed. By the way, has it ever been sussed out exactly WHY Taylor isn't here? Of course Rolling Stone could have answered that, or at least speculated, but we know they're not really journalists (see University of Virginia non-rape scandal).

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I'm glad I'm me and he's him. I wouldn't trade with him for anything, but I bet he would have traded with me the other night.

Just saying...

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[ By the way, has it ever been sussed out exactly WHY Taylor isn't here? Of course Rolling Stone could have answered that, or at least speculated, but we know they're not really journalists (see University of Virginia non-rape scandal).