Boy, talk about being off key!!!! Sad thing is, this is nothing new. I have plenty of Boots from 2002 and 2003 where Keith just started Brown Sugar off so bad. Not sure which show it is but it was so bad he started the intro over again after just strumming the riff twice.

Exact same thing happened at Ford Field in 2002 and that ended up being one of the best stadium gigs of the tour. Maybe its him making up for the rest of the show...

I don't remember it being that bad at Ford Field (I was there and have it on Boot). I'll have to listen to it again.

Drake, thanks for the boot!!!

it is pretty horrible sounding..i remember in FARGO,ND on the No security..his intro to JJF was pretty off key...

In Columbus Keith was not off key ,he just started BS on the wrong chord.Quite normal, he's only been rehearsing this tune for 35 years!

exactly OFF KEY

hm. was it in 98 that he began playing it with a (deliberate) re-start?


"What do you want - what?!"
- Keith

LOL, Keith f*cks up brown sugar again?!
Listen to the boots of Amsterdam arena 1st gig and Vredenburg from the Licks tour, nothing new for Keith!

Cheers,
Wuudy

Perhaps it is not so easy with his arthritis to hit the right tone.

SjH.

It's a subconscious thing. It's Mick's song & riff.

----------------------------
"Music is the frozen tapioca in the ice chest of history."

"Shit!... No shit, awright!"

Ever heard JJF from the concert for the blinds benefit '79
talking about off key, and in half the song too!!

I just love that JJF-version.

Keith played it wrong in Stockholm on 18 july, 2003 too. But it sounded great anyway It's charm!

So you like false notes and a Jagger sounding as if he just smoked 10 cuban cigars with a cold?
Then you must like the sex pistols too...lol

He also @#$%& it up in Edmonton on the Bridges Tour. Doesn't matter. It's fun.

JumpingKentFlash

Vredenburg....... uff.... a disaster!

Yes, a very unhappy opening of BS by Keith then, but listen closely to Vredenburg and you'll notice it's Mick making things actually worse by singing his opening line a few bars too soon, right as you think they're getting the song on track. The band follows him - probably by arrangement - and is only pulled further into the shit.

----------------------------
"Music is the frozen tapioca in the ice chest of history."

"Shit!... No shit, awright!"

The intro indeed is pretty bad, also there some 'wrong notes' from Ronnie as well after a few bars. Interesting that everyone hears it, not only the 'educated musicians'

Greg,
You're right about the Vredenburg screw up.
As far as I remember it, it seemed Keith nodded to Mick when to come in the song after the weird intro riff, but Mick didn't pay attention and made it sound even more terrible than it was...
The same happened with Stray Cat Blues at the Stockholm Cirkus a few weeks before...

The Vredenburg show is funny. They completely mess up there. When it happens I just smile.

shedooby Wrote:
-------------------------------------------------------
> So you like false notes and a Jagger sounding as
> if he just smoked 10 cuban cigars with a cold?
> Then you must like the sex pistols too...lol


big deal!!! keith made a mistake....i guess he's human after all...remember, the stones music isnt about perfection...its about feel...and as for the sex pistols...never mind the bollocks is a greater album then you could ever imagine...get a clue

here's food for thought: who cares?