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Stoneage
Of course you can't start up with a blues or a ballad. You need energy and up-tempo.
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spain73
Ticket Fighting Man
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ElGeordie
In 1982 they used "Under My Thumb" I thought it was a great opener.
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eduardoacdc
-SFM
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doitywoik
I wonder if they have enough trust in Keith's state/abilities to let him open the show with a riff. From that perspective perhaps SFTD again.
Otherwise I always liked Under My Thumb as a show opener.
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StonedAsia
Smoke This Joint
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doitywoik
I wonder if they have enough trust in Keith's state/abilities to let him open the show with a riff. From that perspective perhaps SFTD again.
Otherwise I always liked Under My Thumb as a show opener.
Good point doitywoik...could be that the "riffmaster" needs to warm up a bit before unleashing a proper riff, and the plodding/meandering Sympathy as opener gives him the time to do so.
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TE
- I wanna be your man (O2)
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Oslo
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MizzAmandaJonez
Time is on my side
Everyone sings along -
Save the energy for the end
Saw Neil Young open Desert Trip with After the Gold Rush and it was slow, mellow and one of the best openers I've seen by anyone
Just my 02c and looking forward to seeing some of you in Scotland
CHELSKEITH
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MizzAmandaJonez
Time is on my side
Everyone sings along -
Save the energy for the end
Saw Neil Young open Desert Trip with After the Gold Rush and it was slow, mellow and one of the best openers I've seen by anyone
Just my 02c and looking forward to seeing some of you in Scotland
CHELSKEITH
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MizzAmandaJonez
Time is on my side
Everyone sings along -
Save the energy for the end
Saw Neil Young open Desert Trip with After the Gold Rush and it was slow, mellow and one of the best openers I've seen by anyone
Just my 02c and looking forward to seeing some of you in Scotland
CHELSKEITH
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MileHigh
I haven't really watched the SFTD opener from No Filter I on YouTube but I have really mixed feelings about that song live. Of course the high water mark is GYYYO. By the time the Bigger Bang tour rolled around it started to feel like it was beaten to death and just plain boring. Like an old warhorse on its last legs.
Plus, I get cringes from the drum machine. It just doesn't seem right. This is not Daft Punk it's the Rolling farking Stones!
Then I factor in that they can't deliver an opening "bang" like they used to. I saw them open with JJF in 2013 and it was sort of like a hollow fulfillment of a life-long dream. By then I was too old to get a thrill out of it and they were too old to deliver the song with some serious bang.
Part of it is the thinness of their sound. Yes, they came back as a "guitar band" in 2012 but my sense is that they are still a drums/bass/piano/backing vocals band and then they hang guitar chords loosely and sparsely onto that structure. Keith sometimes plays a skeletal version of a song and if he stops playing for 10 seconds sometimes you barely even notice it. For example I think Plundered My Soul could be an awesome opener but it has to be thick and dynamic and the swing has to be forceful and hit you. But if it is more like little wispy guitars and guitar licks on top of a steady metronome framework it would be awful.