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stargroover
Got my ticket for this birthday party!
Still think we will get some Stones there.
Probably :
Ronnie .....favourite to attend
Mick T.
Ronnie and Charlie ......second favourite
Charlie
Ronnie and Mick
Mick and Carlie
Mick
Keith
Mick and Keith
All the Stones(Complete outstander)
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corriecas
Still hoping for Ronnie and Charlie to show up. Dont think the Glimmer Twins will be there.
Jeroen
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stargroover
Now there is the Foxborough gig tonight,Tuesday 25/10,it is looking very unlikely any of them will show.Maybe we get a video message?
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mtaylor
"He never offered him to join the Rhythm Kings although it would have been an almost natural choice. So I don´t expect any Stone to join the 80th Birthday Gala."
MT did play with RK on some shows.
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stargroover
Got my ticket for this birthday party!
Still think we will get some Stones there.
Probably :
Ronnie .....favourite to attend
Mick T.
Ronnie and Charlie ......second favourite
Charlie
Ronnie and Mick
Mick and Carlie
Mick
Keith
Mick and Keith
All the Stones(Complete outstander)
Mick Taylor is in town for the Jack Bruce tribute concert on 25/10.
Might stay for Bill's anniversary concert.
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monkeymantoo
Mick Taylor was on great form at the Jack Bruce gig tonight. Let's hope he's there on FridayQuote
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stargroover
Got my ticket for this birthday party!
Still think we will get some Stones there.
Probably :
Ronnie .....favourite to attend
Mick T.
Ronnie and Charlie ......second favourite
Charlie
Ronnie and Mick
Mick and Carlie
Mick
Keith
Mick and Keith
All the Stones(Complete outstander)
Mick Taylor is in town for the Jack Bruce tribute concert on 25/10.
Might stay for Bill's anniversary concert.
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HMS
The Stones won´t show up uninvited. And an invitation is very unlikely after they treated Wyman so awful in 2012. I believe inviting Wyman/Taylor for 50 and counting was a planned and well executed humilation of the "unfaithful" ex-members. First they humilated Wyman off- and on stage. Then Taylor´s 2-year-long humilation began. He rarely ever had a chance to play his "signature tunes" like CYHMK or Sway and if they allowed him to play those tunes Mick usually stopped his solo after a few bars. They treated him to play acoustic guitar on Satisfaction, his major part of the shows was a few minutes of jamming on MR (anybody could have been doing that, it´s not a big thing). The top of it all was not even letting him know that he wouldn´t be part of the zip-code-tour. According to MT he was ready and waited on a call that never ever came. To be kicked out and not even told about being out is the biggest humilation possible. They acted really macchiavellian. I love the Stones, but they can be real mean if they want to. Bill will never forget what they´ve done to him in 2012. I also do not think Bill will invite Mick Taylor, he obviously doesn´t care for MT. He never offered him to join the Rhythm Kings although it would have been an almost natural choice. So I don´t expect any Stone to join the 80th Birthday Gala.
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mtaylor
Mick Taylor is in town for the Jack Bruce tribute concert on 25/10.
Might stay for Bill's anniversary concert.
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mtaylor
Mick Taylor is in town for the Jack Bruce tribute concert on 25/10.
Might stay for Bill's anniversary concert.
Mick T was in town for the Jack Bruce tribute. He didn't hang about however. And since Bill didn't extend an invitation to him, he's not planning to gate-crash the party.
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Lien
“I jammed with Charlie [Watts], Keith [Richards] and Ronnie [Wood] in a studio in Battersea nine months before the gig. Mick came on the third day,” says Wyman, in a characteristically flat tone, as he sits in one of the booths in Sticky Fingers beneath a wall decorated with Stones tour posters and concert photographs. “And they were getting over-friendly, Keith in particular. I invited Keith and Patti [Hansen, Keith Richards’ wife] to the house for dinner and he was all over me. He gave me a scarf with all these skeleton things on it and he kept hugging me, saying, ‘Man, it’s great to be back.’ And the talk was that I’d be heavily involved when they did their next thing.”
Wyman — who no longer has the cadaverous, crow-like air of a Rolling Stone but who now looks like your average 78-year-old millionaire, albeit one with hair — documents the frustrations that followed. They began when he was told he could only play two songs at the O2.
“And they wouldn’t tell me which two,” he says, managing to sound both indignant and unemotional at the same time. “It really disappointed me. I said, ‘Why don’t you let me do the last five, and then your guy [Darryl Jones, who replaced Wyman as the Stones’ bassist] can do the encore?’ No, no, no. So the day before the rehearsal I’m going through 50 Stones songs, thinking they’ll want me to do my signature ones like Miss You and Jumping Jack Flash. Then they tell me I’m doing Honky Tonk Women and It’s Only Rock’n’Roll.”
The torments didn’t stop there. “Two days later I went to the O2 for the soundcheck. I had to use his [Jones’s] amplifier and he plays completely differently from me. He plays with his fingers, hard, I play with my thumb, lightly. I didn’t have time to check out his amp settings. Then Mick says, ‘We’ve got to rehearse with Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck and this girl [Florence Welch] and there’s no time for a soundcheck — for you.’ In the end I just went on stage, plugged in and hoped for the best.”
What was the reason for such treatment at the hands of his former brothers in arms? “Maybe they were punishing me for leaving the band,” offers Wyman, to cries of protest from his personal assistant, who’s sitting at a table nearby. “They never wanted me to leave. When I came off stage and went to join my wife and daughters in the pit, the bass player started doing Miss You! He’s playing all my parts — and not as well as I thought he should. He’s playing the octaves as single notes. And then Mick starts saying what a great bass player he is, right in front of me. ‘Look at Darryl, isn’t he fantastic?’ goes Mick.”
Wyman shakes his head. “They never forgave me for leaving.
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stargroover
I think those hoping to score a ticket for tonight might have a struggle.The usual places like Viagogo etc have very little left.This clearly is the hottest gig in London tonight.
There is also Georgie Fame on at Ronnie Scots.Second performance at 11 pm.
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vertigojoe
Lets face it. It's been all downhill since he left.
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vertigojoe
Lets face it. It's been all downhill since he left.
That´s not true - simply not true.
With all their fillers VL, B2B & ABB were better albums than Steel Wheels (last one with Wyman on bass)
VL-Tour, Licks-Tour, B2B-Tour, Security-Tour and on and on - those tours were all much better than polished Steel Wheels/Urban Jungle-Tour (last tour with Wyman). Even ABB-tour was better. 2012-16 was often great considering their age.
In a couple of weeks we´ll get a great Blues-album.
I can see absolutely nothing "downhill" since he left.
Or did you mean it was "all downhill" for Bill since he left?
This to a certain extent might hold more truth.
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HMS
The Stones won´t show up uninvited. And an invitation is very unlikely after they treated Wyman so awful in 2012. I believe inviting Wyman/Taylor for 50 and counting was a planned and well executed humilation of the "unfaithful" ex-members. First they humilated Wyman off- and on stage. Then Taylor´s 2-year-long humilation began. He rarely ever had a chance to play his "signature tunes" like CYHMK or Sway and if they allowed him to play those tunes Mick usually stopped his solo after a few bars. They treated him to play acoustic guitar on Satisfaction, his major part of the shows was a few minutes of jamming on MR (anybody could have been doing that, it´s not a big thing). The top of it all was not even letting him know that he wouldn´t be part of the zip-code-tour. According to MT he was ready and waited on a call that never ever came. To be kicked out and not even told about being out is the biggest humilation possible. They acted really macchiavellian. I love the Stones, but they can be real mean if they want to. Bill will never forget what they´ve done to him in 2012. I also do not think Bill will invite Mick Taylor, he obviously doesn´t care for MT. He never offered him to join the Rhythm Kings although it would have been an almost natural choice. So I don´t expect any Stone to join the 80th Birthday Gala.
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Mathijs
But in all honesty, it was Taylor himself who blew it. It just wasn't any good what he played. It was unrehearsed, uninspired, sloppy. So they quickly moved him to Midnight Rambler only, which is a blues jam in B, where not much can go wrong. But even there Taylor managed to step on Jagger's and Richards'toes, by overplaying and being too present. It just wasn't a big success.
Mathijs