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tomk
Let It Rock would be my vote, but it ain't gonna happen. 99% of the drunk, stoned kids didn't know it 1978 and 99% of the middle-aged folks drinking merlot and eating garlic fries won't know it in 2015.
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ab
I'm setting the bar pretty low. Whatever they open with, Keith has to get the opening riff nailed! His Hyde Park Start Me Up messes linger in my memory, as well as a few subpar Brown Sugar openers from 2002. You don't want a stadium show starting with some clam that makes the whole building cringe.
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Bastion
I Wanna Be Your Man
I don't know if it could have ever worked. It was cool because of what it means to their legacy, but they've just become so synonymous with the riff opener, and that didn't have it. Hell, when I saw them in 06 I saw them open with Its Only Rock And Roll and it didn't truly have the power and recognizable ability to truly open the show.Quote
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Bastion
I Wanna Be Your Man
This had the potential to be the best opener they've had since satisfaction on the btb tour but for some reason they didn't stick with it. It was cool when they did it but "there is a certain magic with repetition" as Mick himself once said. I would have liked to have seen this be a regular opener.
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RollingFreakI don't know if it could have ever worked. It was cool because of what it means to their legacy, but they've just become so synonymous with the riff opener, and that didn't have it. Hell, when I saw them in 06 I saw them open with Its Only Rock And Roll and it didn't truly have the power and recognizable ability to truly open the show.Quote
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Bastion
I Wanna Be Your Man
This had the potential to be the best opener they've had since satisfaction on the btb tour but for some reason they didn't stick with it. It was cool when they did it but "there is a certain magic with repetition" as Mick himself once said. I would have liked to have seen this be a regular opener.
They've set a standard and it works. They've kind of designated themselves to having to open with something like Jumpin' Jack Flash, Satisfaction, Start Me Up, Brown Sugar. For the set they play, it just sets the mood off right. Stuff like Get Off My Cloud and I Wanna Be Your Man are cool, but they're different and don't truly work. The only songs I can think of off the top of my head that would work well to open and aren't guitar based are Honky Tonk Women and Sympathy. Let's Spend The Night Together too is a good one. But the best ones are usually the riff machines.
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The Sicilian
Worst opener ever:
Let It Rock (just a terrible song that nobody knew then and now)
Worst idea for an opener:
Get Off My Cloud (it sounded atrocious on recent tours)
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RawIguanaCologne
They opened with MIDNIGHT RAMBLER once, didnĀ“t they?
In Australia?
They did it on the B2B tour in 1997, and it worked pretty well I think.Quote
UndercoverLovingcup
SATISFACTION...get that out of the way and let the show go on!!
It has become the obligatory yawner over the last 13 years and leaves nothing to the imagination...
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Father Ted
If this tour is all about celebrating Sticky Fingers, then Brown Sugar would be the one.