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DGA35
They will never cater to the 1% hardcore fans and not the 99% casual fans! My buddy lives in Tampa so he got really cheap scalper floor tickets and went with his wife and step daughter who is now in college. He's a huge fan and he said the step daughter liked the show but didn't know any of the songs!! I said not even Start Me Up?

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Stoneage
Sorry, but by now it doesn't matter. YGMR is sort of a modern day JJF. They like it and never make mistakes on it. I think it's wise to choose songs they can deliver on every time.

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umakmehrd
Sure was great to here all the positve reviews of the recent tour. But I gotta say when I see this one in the set list i'm not a big fan, I think they could insert so many better songs even from the later years ...

One Hit to the body
Out of control
Rock & a hard place

or keep an old gem in there like Monkey Man, rocks off etc..

Thoughts?

But i'm just glad they still "go us rockin"

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Hairball
"Hey, Hey... You Got Me Rockin now..."...sounds like a corny high school pep rally, and something Springsteen might have written and recorded - he should do a cover version of it.

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UGot2Rollme
In so glad they played it in Detroit rather than LSTNT,
because it does rock - Love Ronnies slide and Keith's solo is heavy - even Chuck adds some fire to it. I say keep it in on occasion.

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UGot2Rollme
In so glad they played it in Detroit rather than LSTNT,
because it does rock - Love Ronnies slide and Keith's solo is heavy - even Chuck adds some fire to it. I say keep it in on occasion.

Yes, I agree. Whilst I prefer Let’s Spend the Night Together as a song, in a live setting, I feel You Got Me Rocking works better. Even when Keith flaps the solo a little, the sheer oomph and energy carries it through. I feel the studio-take is a a tad ordinary, and yet, You Got Me Rocking is a fine live number, in my opinion.

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UGot2Rollme
In so glad they played it in Detroit rather than LSTNT,
because it does rock - Love Ronnies slide and Keith's solo is heavy - even Chuck adds some fire to it. I say keep it in on occasion.

Yes, I agree. Whilst I prefer Let’s Spend the Night Together as a song, in a live setting, I feel You Got Me Rocking works better. Even when Keith flaps the solo a little, the sheer oomph and energy carries it through. I feel the studio-take is a a tad ordinary, and yet, You Got Me Rocking is a fine live number, in my opinion.

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ProfessorWolf
thru & thru

little rain

laugh i nearly died

saint of me

don't stop

no spare parts

plunder my soul

brand new car

love is strong

hearts for sale

and so on, and so on....

try being somewhat realistic with your choices.....not gonna happen at this point.
We'd all love to hear different things, but those days are over...that's why the web vote is rigged show after show
I loathed YGMR for years.....but somewhere along the way in the 2000's I just accepted that mick loves that song.....so I should too because they're gonna play it whether I like it or not

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Rockman
(The songs) come in different ways, SO many different ways. For instance, You Got Me Rocking. It started off as Keith playing the piano as sort of a slow, boogie-woogie blues. And the form was, like, just the same thing going round and round and round. You never knew whether you were singing the verse or the chorus. And it was very fluid, good fun and all that. But then, when we went to play it with the band, it was like, Well, am I singing the verse here or what? What's going on? Is this a chorus? Do we need another part? So we had to decide if we needed a bridge there, and if this was going to work. I want to know when I'm finished singing the verse! I've got to know! Otherwise, it all sounded the same. Ah, it doesn't matter, Keith would say. Well, it matters to ME! And, of course, he's right. And I'm right. We're BOTH right. So we transpose it from piano to guitar - I was playing the guitar, Keith is playing piano and singing. And then I started playing slide guitar, and it started to sound like Elmore James. And then back to something else. Finally I said, Keith, you've got to come off the piano and play guitar. I can't hear what's going on, there's too much racket! Then the song had to take on the band thing, with everybody playing, so you start to codify it a bit, where the chorus is and so on. And it STILL doesn't have a lyric, and I'm STILL messing with the melody. Keith had a couple of them he was using when he played. If it's going to be a rock song, it has to have a definite chorus and melody. So, I picked one. Maybe that's not how Keith remembers it, but that's how I remember it.

- Mick Jagger, May 1994


The mystery guitar will no longer be a mystery if I tell you. (Laughs)
What the hell... It's a solidbody dobro, but I play it with a stick - just a little stick I picked out of Ronnie's garden. It's just an interesting percussion effect.

- Keith Richards, June 1994

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Rockman
Springsteen should do
a cover of Lavatory Lil ... that'd be funnier ...

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StonedRambler
At the Hurricane Sandy Relief concert in 2012 they were allowed to play two songs. Beside JJF they chose YGMR. And for a good reason. It's probably THE modern-day stones live song, if you like it or not.

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Stoneage
Apparently only I saw the last show in Miami. Do you realize that Keith isn't 39 anymore? He has clear problems with intros, his playing is on and off, sometimes more off than on and he sits down during parts of the show. Ronnie can't cover for him anymore and Ronnie's solos are quite bland. In this situation setlists are secondary. The main thing is being able to carry out the show with as few mistakes as possible. In that context songs like YGMR and JJF are good because they seem to suit the band. They are not as challenging as some other choices.

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StonedRambler
At the Hurricane Sandy Relief concert in 2012 they were allowed to play two songs. Beside JJF they chose YGMR. And for a good reason. It's probably THE modern-day stones live song, if you like it or not.

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Rockman
(The songs) come in different ways, SO many different ways. For instance, You Got Me Rocking. It started off as Keith playing the piano as sort of a slow, boogie-woogie blues. And the form was, like, just the same thing going round and round and round. You never knew whether you were singing the verse or the chorus. And it was very fluid, good fun and all that. But then, when we went to play it with the band, it was like, Well, am I singing the verse here or what? What's going on? Is this a chorus? Do we need another part? So we had to decide if we needed a bridge there, and if this was going to work. I want to know when I'm finished singing the verse! I've got to know! Otherwise, it all sounded the same. Ah, it doesn't matter, Keith would say. Well, it matters to ME! And, of course, he's right. And I'm right. We're BOTH right. So we transpose it from piano to guitar - I was playing the guitar, Keith is playing piano and singing. And then I started playing slide guitar, and it started to sound like Elmore James. And then back to something else. Finally I said, Keith, you've got to come off the piano and play guitar. I can't hear what's going on, there's too much racket! Then the song had to take on the band thing, with everybody playing, so you start to codify it a bit, where the chorus is and so on. And it STILL doesn't have a lyric, and I'm STILL messing with the melody. Keith had a couple of them he was using when he played. If it's going to be a rock song, it has to have a definite chorus and melody. So, I picked one. Maybe that's not how Keith remembers it, but that's how I remember it.

- Mick Jagger, May 1994


The mystery guitar will no longer be a mystery if I tell you. (Laughs)
What the hell... It's a solidbody dobro, but I play it with a stick - just a little stick I picked out of Ronnie's garden. It's just an interesting percussion effect.

- Keith Richards, June 1994

There's a melody?