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Thank you Hairball, lovely review.
My thoughts exactly!
Thank you and have fun tonight, Hairball.
Thanks as well, Hairball!
Looking forward to your take on tonight..
You're all welcome - good times!
As for tonight- I can probably sum it all up in one word (or name): NEIL
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Front row pit...last minute
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Me, I'm waiting for reviews from people who were there to experience the performance live.
Quote of thread.
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Posted by: Hairball ()
Date: October 8, 2016 22:15
A few random thoughts of night 1 of weekend 1:
Roger Waters' gigantic screen is unbelievably amazing!!!eye popping smiley.
Thank you. I stopped reading afer this.
GIGANTIC SCREEN... HAHAHAHAHAHAAHAAAA
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latebloomer
Thank you Hairball, lovely review.
My thoughts exactly!
Thank you and have fun tonight, Hairball.
Thanks as well, Hairball!
Looking forward to your take on tonight..
You're all welcome - good times!
As for tonight- I can probably sum it all up in one word (or name): NEIL
Great to see you last night Hairball - I'm gonna try roaming tonight. Last night I got up to the front row section of the second seated section, this night I'll try closer
The show rocked even though getting out of there was a nightmare!!!!!
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Posted by: Hairball ()
Date: October 8, 2016 22:15
A few random thoughts of night 1 of weekend 1:
Roger Waters' gigantic screen is unbelievably amazing!!!eye popping smiley.
Thank you. I stopped reading afer this.
GIGANTIC SCREEN... HAHAHAHAHAHAAHAAAA
LOL...you have something against gigantic screens? In stadiums and gigantic festivals where screens have been the norm for 30+ years?
Not sure what you're point is...maybe you haven't been to a concert in the last 30 years?
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Posted by: Hairball ()
Date: October 8, 2016 22:15
A few random thoughts of night 1 of weekend 1:
Roger Waters' gigantic screen is unbelievably amazing!!!eye popping smiley.
Thank you. I stopped reading afer this.
GIGANTIC SCREEN... HAHAHAHAHAHAAHAAAA
LOL...you have something against gigantic screens? In stadiums and gigantic festivals where screens have been the norm for 30+ years?
Not sure what you're point is...maybe you haven't been to a concert in the last 30 years?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
Wrong. I have something against Roger Water and his big SCREEN and your opening words of your thread.
PS: I was at The Paradiso Club Gig 1995 in Amsterdam first row, that's only 21 years ago.
Seen them a few times after that. Never saw Roger Waters live with his GIGANTIC SCREEN. Only on TV. Boring.
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crholmstromEnjoy Neil tonight, Hairball! Looking at some setlists from the past few weeks, I suspect you're going to get a few new songs. Will hope for the best on that front for you. I'm not super keen on "Indian Giver" but maybe it will be better live. I kind of suspect you are going to get a Neil appearance with Paul for "Day in the Life". Both Neil & Paul seem to enjoy the occasional cameo. Paul certainly seems to be in the spirit of the thing. I saw him in March & it was a fun show. We got Krist Novoselic for a rousing "Helter Skelter" here at the encore. It was pretty cool as Krist is a good guy & keeps a relatively low profile. Have fun!Quote
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Hi Sarah, it was great to see you as well!
Easy to roam around, and possibly even easier tonight - basically go down either side aisle towards front and enter inwards at any point. Most of the security were very casual. I wore my color coded lanyard/pass under my shirt as to not to be noticed, and an occasional security would barely look at my colored wristband, but never told me to get out of any section. Sometimes I was told to "please find your seat", and then I'd meander to the next section from there along with hundreds of other people standing and/or dancing in the aisles. It was a full on party atmosphere down there when the Stones were on, and sometimes close to being crazy packed and over crowded. About to jump on the shuttle for round two...I'll be on the lookout for you down front!
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That's the quote of the day from the above article:
"Stripped down, the Stones are still a rock & roll band to be feared."
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So I listened to the Keith solo in Sympathy For The Devil as posted above, and I can't see the problem many here have with it.
But I can see why the Stones don't go out of their way to cater to the "hardcore" margin of their fan base -- because they could never do right, never play the perfect enough list of songs, and never play said songs well enough.
In the case of the fan forum environment, "hardcore" may just as well translate to "hardcase" -- like a hoard of rabid Broadway theater critics eager to close down a show after opening night.
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That's the quote of the day from the above article:
"Stripped down, the Stones are still a rock & roll band to be feared."
Yes!
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That's the quote of the day from the above article:
"Stripped down, the Stones are still a rock & roll band to be feared."
Yes!
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That's the quote of the day from the above article:
"Stripped down, the Stones are still a rock & roll band to be feared."
Yes!
That jumped out at me too when reading that review. Go Stones, yeah!
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Loved the setlist from last night!
Both of Keith's songs and Come Together being the standout surprises for me. I'm going next weekend (*Just scored a pit ticket for $389 on stubhub!!)and am hopeful there are perhaps even one or two more or different surprises.
Gotta think they'll up the ante a bit...
Good job! It's pit or nothing at this thing, I am afraid. Pit is very intimate and relaxed. It feels like a private show for a few thousand people. Everything else at the venue is a waste of time. I strongly urge people to upgrade.
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So I listened to the Keith solo in Sympathy For The Devil as posted above, and I can't see the problem many here have with it.
But I can see why the Stones don't go out of their way to cater to the "hardcore" margin of their fan base -- because they could never do right, never play the perfect enough list of songs, and never play said songs well enough.
In the case of the fan forum environment, "hardcore" may just as well translate to "hardcase" -- like a hoard of rabid Broadway theater critics eager to close down a show after opening night.
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You know, we now live in the information age. But sadly, and sometimes scarily we also live in the disinformation age. It's sometimes hard to distinguish the information from the disinformation. For example, I watched the movie Interstellar, and it was boring crap. It was so bad I didn't care about the outcome of the story. After I saw it, I didn't even mull it over in my mind, I pretty much forgot it by the next day. So I go onto the IMDB and to my shock the first 10 or 15 user reviews said that it was the best science fiction movie ever and gave it a 10/10. Only after getting trough the first 15 reviews did you start to read real and balanced reviews. Many of these reviewers agreed with me and said that the movie was compete and total crap.
So, what's the conclusion? The conclusion is that money has corrupted the user reviews on the IMDB and starving writers in India are paid to spam the IMDB with fake glowing reviews just to get a bigger box office draw during the typical two-week theatrical run. You have to wade through the crap to find the real user reviews, and that is a crying shame. Just about anything can be corrupted. Typically, the fist day a movie is released the IMDB gets flooded with a bunch of fake positive reviews. Next door there are people in boiler rooms calling Canada and the US telling you that you haven't paid your taxes and there is a virus on your computer.
So, relating it to this discussion, it is a bit of a pain for being slammed down by giving your impression of the performance, even if you only watched YouTube clips. Clearly, this was not a great performance and yet you have fanboys giving glowing 10/10 reviews, which is fine. But when the fanboys bash the people that were not so impressed, that's not so fine.
The "real" Rolling Stones is watching them perform Brown Sugar in Ladies and Gentlemen. It's on a whole other level. There are many other examples. The "decent" older Rolling Stones is the Newark concert from late 2012. There was still a sense of the greatness, and it was so nice to see them back and really trying after another long hiatus. But sadly, last night was neither "real" or "decent," it was going-through-the-motions poor.
If some people loved it and thought it was fantastic, fine. But we also need to listen to those that didn't like it. I did not even watch SFTD but from what I am reading, I probably shouldn't watch it.
As far as the professional reviews that were posted here goes, I read them and I am getting a strong sense of disingenuousness. It's like they don't want to say anything negative because they don't want to upset the money apple cart associated with the whole event, and they are going soft on the Stones because now they are really old for a rock and roll band.