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Mick Jagger and Keith Richards on the Paradiso ‘stripped’ shows (1995):
Mick: “All sitting on stools in a line – that wasn’t really the Rolling Stones. Also, I thought MTV Unplugged was really boring television… The results of the filmed Tokyo sessions were terrible. It was the dullest TV I’d ever seen – and boring without an audience. So we finally decided, Let’s do a club show. And we lighted on the Paradiso. It’s an interesting old place. We’d never actually played there. But I went there to score drugs once (laughs)….

…We had to do this nod to the acoustic business, to see if it works. In rehearsal, Beast of Burden was really good. But last night, with the audience, it was a bust because I couldn’t hear anything. I wasn’t singing on my own out there. I had 100 backing vocalists going, Never, never, never in funny Dutch English. I felt that we would take the best elements from Unplugged, the intimate thing of it, without actually doing it completely unplugged.”

Keith: “When this whole thing came up, I said, Guys, forget about the acoustic guitars. It’s about ATTITUDE. Scale it down, take it back to where the song was when you were cutting it.”
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Keith: “When this whole thing came up, I said, Guys, forget about the acoustic guitars. It’s about ATTITUDE. Scale it down, take it back to where the song was when you were cutting it.”
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If there is more, I’d love to know!

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At the No Filter US-Tour 2019 they did acoustic sets of 2 songs on the B-stage: [iorr.org] - (see the reports).

But it wasn't a Jagger/Richards acoustic set à la 1969-70, was it?

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Zero chance, Mick will be bored to death with only 10 minutes in rehearsals.

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Not possible with Keith,s guitarplaying now

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saltoftheearth
They could have done some shows only with rarities (not necessarily only acoustic) in a small club or maybe even on the Montreux Jazz Festival years ago if they would have liked the idea and rehearsed properly. And surely a live album would have sold well. But obviously they never thought about it, and now it's too late.

Shadows of the evening crawl across the years...

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Mick Jagger and Keith Richards on the Paradiso ‘stripped’ shows (1995):
Mick: “All sitting on stools in a line – that wasn’t really the Rolling Stones. Also, I thought MTV Unplugged was really boring television… The results of the filmed Tokyo sessions were terrible. It was the dullest TV I’d ever seen – and boring without an audience. So we finally decided, Let’s do a club show. And we lighted on the Paradiso.

…We had to do this nod to the acoustic business, to see if it works. In rehearsal, Beast of Burden was really good. But last night, with the audience, it was a bust because I couldn’t hear anything. I wasn’t singing on my own out there. I had 100 backing vocalists going, Never, never, never in funny Dutch English. I felt that we would take the best elements from Unplugged, the intimate thing of it, without actually doing it completely unplugged.”

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I think the question is being asked mainly because folk might be thinking that because of their age now, maybe a slightly scaled down (in terms of stage size and all the running about etc) show might be the way to go ?

Personally, I think that a general scaling down (venue size/stage size/less running around) of what they do might be the way forward, perhaps a combined fully electric show and a number of acoustic songs (seated) could work ? A kind of half/half ?

But I can just hear BV piping up with "not commercially viable" and "they can sell out stadiums" etc, so much as it might be desirable and even feasible in some form or other - it'll never likely happen !

All to play for. We'll see .. or (heaven forbid) maybe we won't !?

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If there is more, I’d love to know!

The Rolling Stones – EMI Studio
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paulywaul
I think the question is being asked mainly because folk might be thinking that because of their age now, maybe a slightly scaled down (in terms of stage size and all the running about etc) show might be the way to go ?

Personally, I think that a general scaling down (venue size/stage size/less running around) of what they do might be the way forward, perhaps a combined fully electric show and a number of acoustic songs (seated) could work ? A kind of half/half ?

But I can just hear BV piping up with "not commercially viable" and "they can sell out stadiums" etc, so much as it might be desirable and even feasible in some form or other - it'll never likely happen !

All to play for. We'll see .. or (heaven forbid) maybe we won't !?

I think its all rather sad, and tawdry too, that commercial considerations rule supreme ALL the time. Whatever we might get, and it is a BIG might, will have to meet stringent and almost impossibly high, financial thresholds. Before lots of people get annoyed with me and say I'm being stupidly unrealistic and idiotically idealistic, please know I'm simply saying AN OCCASIONAL gesture would be nice. One or two semi-freebies scattered here and there for us, the great unwashed long-time fans among the throngs of corporate concert goers and wealthy yacht-owning 'rawk-lovin' hangers-on...