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The original studio version from ER is perfection magnified a gazillion times . One of my favoritesQuote
LeonidP
I like the '81 versions (Hampton, for example), but don't think you're going to get much better than the studio version.
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DandelionPowderman
Roskilde 2014 is pretty good, except for Mick flubbing the lyrics in the beginning.
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glimmerman
If Keith would play a six string in concert he would nail the studio essence.
High or Low, here we go.
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24FPS
The problem is that a big part of the song is the famous Stones wobble. Bill's rubbery bass is outstanding on this studio track. Darryl is not as loose as Bill, and can't replicate that sound. Or he could and for some mysterious reason has chosen not to for 27 years.
Do you think Bill's parts are so distinctive, and such a part of many of the Stones classics, that Darryl just refuses to play them the right way? Or was Bill just that much more talented as a rock 'n roll/Rolling Stones bassist? Bill's bass lines are part of the classic songs. It doesn't seem like it would be that hard to play those lines the way they're meant to be heard. Ronnie sticks pretty close to what Mick Taylor was doing, or Keith's part when he has to.
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HouseBoyKnows
Agree on Paris 3 2017. I reported at the time it was "ramshackle fun".
Still, I think the best versions were during the later dates of the 1981 tour.
HBK
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treaclefingers
SSC, my initiation into the stones club has never been equalled live.
There are other songs in this camp, immediately Rocks Off (possibly my fave Stones song, certainly top 5) comes to mind.
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treaclefingers
SSC, my initiation into the stones club has never been equalled live.
There are other songs in this camp, immediately Rocks Off (possibly my fave Stones song, certainly top 5) comes to mind.
Totally agree, and I would add "Shattered" as another example of this. In my opinion, the studio track is brilliant and unsurpassed; the live versions, not so much.
On the flip side of this discussion (perhaps worthy of a new thread), I find the live version of "Midnight Rambler" from Ya Yas far superior to the studio version on Let It Bleed.....
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treaclefingers
IORR at about 1:50
I know this is heresy, but when I heard this version that I couldn't believe how good it sounded, more in the style of the original studio recording.
I haven't heard the Stones do it like that, or that good and I wondered why that would be?
Is it missing Bill and the wobble? But there are obviously live versions with Bill out there. Is it the tempo?
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TooTough
Wembley ´82, what a start:
from 3´10 onwards
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treaclefingers
IORR at about 1:50
I know this is heresy, but when I heard this version that I couldn't believe how good it sounded, more in the style of the original studio recording.
I haven't heard the Stones do it like that, or that good and I wondered why that would be?
Is it missing Bill and the wobble? But there are obviously live versions with Bill out there. Is it the tempo?