I understand why he had to play acoustic on Satisfaction. The few times he played electric he awfully overplayed, tried to steel the solo and made weird variations of the riff.

5 tickets now left of stubhub with the cheapest being a single in the rafters for £120 + fees. I think he could have filled the O2 arena itself for this 1-off event so a pity he's gone for the Indigo.

10 on Viagogo from £176 + fees. It looks like this really is the hottest ticket in town as a previous poster said.

Still, it's his birthday do so his choice. Perhaps he prefers the intimacy of a smaller venue.

Nothing on getmein or seatwave or returns to the box office.



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I understand why he had to play acoustic on Satisfaction. The few times he played electric he awfully overplayed, tried to steel the solo and made weird variations of the riff.

Listening to Brussels I always felt that he ruins some of their signature songs by playing weird variations. MT just ain´t no team-player.

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Yayy - way cool! Can't wait for this show!

Waiting for a phone call to see if I have got a ticket

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Another piece of non evidence based speculation from me .....

I guess one problem in O2 2012 was that Mick and Keith's relationship was on such fragile ice after THE Book and the deterioration of Keith's chops after the accident.

As a result I suspect Keith had much less influence on who did what than Bill expected him to have based on the past. In addition his playing had been so unreliable that the regular band had been rearranged somewhat to close in to support him in various ways.

I think you're right here. Bill has said that when he was in the band, Keith would lead the rhythm section, and that he and Charlie would sort of intuit where Keith was going. I'm pretty sure that's not the dynamic that has developed with Darryl.

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Mick recognised keith needed a completely supportive bass back up to avoid disasters and putting in different band members , even as solid as Bill, on the big numbers might have been risky. Things seem much better now.

The " Miss you " stuff, however , does seem a bit thoughtless of Mick

I wonder if it wasn't an attempt to tease Bill that fell flat. Mick seems to like Bill well enough. I'm thinking of the pictures of Mick on stage with a newspaper headline about Bill pinned to his shirt.

" I suspect Keith had much less influence on who did what "

Well before the O2 shows, Keith said in an interview (was it Rolling Stone?) that "Darryl is not going anywhere [during the show]" which clearly suggested Bill will not be involved very much. So Keith must have known in advance.

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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

for the life of me i cannot understand what the hell mick taylor was thinking during that guest spot.i was really pulling for him too..
the shows i saw i couldn't help but cringe when he was out there,i was saying to myself "mick just fade into the backing musicians and throw in your licks here and there-be mick taylor,stay back and let your guitar do the talking.
what does he do?-he jumps out there in front with jagger and starts walking around the front of the stage and as mathijs said horribly overplaying.it was as if he wanted his big rockstar moment and he just didn't fit in with them, visually or musically.
if you've seen the stones enough times you can sort of see how things are going onstage by looking at jagger and richards-about the tenth forced smile and i knew they were gonna cut ties with him..he could've done more work with them but he just blew it..again.

Well... I can agree on the over playing and wanting his moment to a degree. But also I can feel Mick Jagger is loving this, the jamming and all. In my opinion Mick J is loving the feeling during Midnight Rambler. And there is/was more potential there. Who can really tell where and why it ended?

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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

for the life of me i cannot understand what the hell mick taylor was thinking during that guest spot.i was really pulling for him too..
the shows i saw i couldn't help but cringe when he was out there,i was saying to myself "mick just fade into the backing musicians and throw in your licks here and there-be mick taylor,stay back and let your guitar do the talking.
what does he do?-he jumps out there in front with jagger and starts walking around the front of the stage and as mathijs said horribly overplaying.it was as if he wanted his big rockstar moment and he just didn't fit in with them, visually or musically.
if you've seen the stones enough times you can sort of see how things are going onstage by looking at jagger and richards-about the tenth forced smile and i knew they were gonna cut ties with him..he could've done more work with them but he just blew it..again.

Mick Taylors playing with The Stones 2012-2014 was very utfortunate due to the fact that he was JUST as rusty as Keith and Ronnie compared to the golden years.

You could clearly understand Keith and Ronnie allowing their chops fading to an amateur level after years of too much fame and money. But Mick Taylor was supposed to be the underdog playing Keith and Ronnie off the stage showing that he still was a relevant guitarist. Sadly this didn't happen and Taylor was just a shadow of his former shelf. Don't blame this on age, Jeff Beck is still great, cause he still plays guitar on his free time.

With that said Taylor's playing on White Room at Jack Bruce tribute was better than I had expected.

Merchandise

T-shirts with Ronnie's design for Bill's birthday ;

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I don't understand this. Not sticky. Nothing.

(Always took candy from strangers)

With many thanks to Beast, who is now enjoying this concert and was so kind to send me these pics she took at the O2.

While waiting for the birthday gig some old pics and 7" covers and posters were being shown on the screen:







Happy Birthday to Bill:



Joe Brown on stage, playing Ruby Tuesday:





Van Morrison on stage:







Harlem Shuffle:

"They say never meet your heroes. These Gentlemen @vanmorrison @RobertPlant are an exception to that rule. Backstage at @bill_wyman 80th"



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Sterling work as ever Cristiano. Thank you very much sir! Would love to have been there but sold out ages ago and I was too slow

Thanks!

Stevie Van Zandt presenting a Lifetime Achievement award to Bill Wyman with Bob Geldof



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Stevie, Bill and Geldof doing Little Red Rooster



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"It's Percy Plant sounding fab on I Feel So Bad."



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"Robert and the fantastic Imelda May"



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Great just great. Thanks to everyone keeping us current with this!
Bill looks happy. To think Van the Man is there with him is just great.
Keep it coming if you can.

No Stones but a video message wishing him a very happy birthday.

Initial thoughts; Excellent and from where I was sitting you could hear every note of Bill's bass. Cracking version of Beast of Burden done.

Highlight though was an 80 year old Wyman performing Si Si Je Suis live for the first time.

Some more pics from Beast (thank you again! ) and some infos about the setlist:

Holly Stevenson - Beast of Burden and Time is on My Side
Bob Geldof - Little red rooster and Route 66
Bill - Je Suis un Rock Star
Mick Hucknall - King bee, Reconsider Baby and 634-5789
Beverley Skeete - It's a Man's World
Imelda May - Let The Good Times Roll and I'm Crying (the Animals' song)

Note: by judging the record labels on the screen, Robert Plant did You Need Loving

Bill receiving his Lifetime Achievement award and some more pics from Beast:

Photos by Alan D West/PA