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How anyone can say the Voodoo Lounge tour was borderline bad seems borderline insane to me
I find the Voodoo Lounge tour the worst tour they have done in their entire career.
The stage, the sound (those guitars....), the clothes, the posing, the songs, the playing -there's just nothing to like for me.
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Seems like only yesterday.We had Bill Wyman and the Rythmn Kings at a half empty York Barbican and the following night Stones in South Yorkshire.I remember racing down the M1 after the wet amazing gig at Don Valley stadium in Sheffield and heading to London.Initially I was queuing outside Virgin records,then got word it was to be Tower Records for the £10 tickets.Chris Evan’s confirmed the location on his morning radio show. 500 tickets had already been allocated to the Stones friends and Family.1,500 were up for sale.Someone in the queue allocated numbers and I got spot 150.Relief when I got that wrist band.
The queue at the Empire started early the following morning.Some folk had queued for 31 hours before doors opened at 7.30 pm.The Stones arrived in black limos and were shielded by white barriers as they entered the side door.
Celebrities were everywhere.Marianne Faithfull so friendly to fans.
Managed to get right at the front,leaning on the stage directly in front of Keef.Cameras everywhere at this gig.Already spotted myself numerous times from recent clips.The Stones were on amazing form that night.So relaxed and jovial too.Sloppy on occasions.Mick admitted they “fuxxed up the ending “to Melody.
This show is probably number two on my favourite Stones gigs of all time,number one being the previous night at Sheffield.
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The Stones arrived in black limos and were shielded by white barriers as they entered the side door.
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Yah! Me too!
The great beginning with "Not Fade Away"!
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How anyone can say the Voodoo Lounge tour was borderline bad seems borderline insane to me
I find the Voodoo Lounge tour the worst tour they have done in their entire career.
The stage, the sound (those guitars....), the clothes, the posing, the songs, the playing -there's just nothing to like for me.
Mathijs
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They've had a couple of rather flat tours. 1975-76 were very rough. 1994-95 was lacking.
Of course, some great performances on those tours with certain songs but overall, ehhh, 75-76 they were quite sloppy and messy yet still killed with Honky Tonk Women, You Gotta Move, YCAGWYW, Star Star; 94-95 looser than the STEEL WHEELS tours, which made songs like Tumbling Dice, Rocks Off, Shattered, Sweet Virginia and Monkey Man outstanding, but the VOODOO tour, overall, was lacking tenacity, which was in full swing with 1997-99.
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...I like the sloppy and messy-ness, I think that's how RnR should be.
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How anyone can say the Voodoo Lounge tour was borderline bad seems borderline insane to me
I find the Voodoo Lounge tour the worst tour they have done in their entire career.
The stage, the sound (those guitars....), the clothes, the posing, the songs, the playing -there's just nothing to like for me.
Mathijs
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They've had a couple of rather flat tours. 1975-76 were very rough. 1994-95 was lacking.
Of course, some great performances on those tours with certain songs but overall, ehhh, 75-76 they were quite sloppy and messy yet still killed with Honky Tonk Women, You Gotta Move, YCAGWYW, Star Star; 94-95 looser than the STEEL WHEELS tours, which made songs like Tumbling Dice, Rocks Off, Shattered, Sweet Virginia and Monkey Man outstanding, but the VOODOO tour, overall, was lacking tenacity, which was in full swing with 1997-99.
Well....I simply love the 1975 tour, I think it is utterly fantastic. It's a time capsule to when RnR was raw, dirty, sleazy and drugged out, like the mid-1970's were for the Stones. I like the sloppy and messy-ness, I think that's how RnR should be. I think Charlie's at his very best, driven by Ollie Brown, I love Wood's playing, I love the gnarly sound of the guitars, I love Jagger's drugged out 'Only RnR' character.
I agree the 1976 tour is not one of their best tours, even though some shows are actually quite good. But the setlist is subpar, the playing is rough, Billy Preston's ego is too big. I also don't like the sound very much, even though they sound quite good on some audience tapes.
The Steel/Wheels Urban Jungle tour was a slick enterprise, but their playing was outstanding. It might have been the best tour of Keith, they still played quite fast, and the great, great Bill Wyman was utterly fantastic. To be honest, no tour since Bill Wyman left has come close to the level of when Bill still was with them. Darryl Jones just doesn't have what it takes to make the Stones great.
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The first part of the 1975 tour was excellent (listen for example to the Boston recording), then it deteriorated, and when they had arrived in LA, Jagger's voice was shot so it's a pain to listen to.
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GasLightStreet
Have you heard the August 14, 1994 Street Fighting Man? Keith needed a song map he got so lost. Go to 59:30.
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but what sort of hardware do i need to play the ultra hd?
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Have you heard the August 14, 1994 Street Fighting Man? Keith needed a song map he got so lost. Go to 59:30.
I think my main gripe with the VL tour is the guitar sound. Keith sounded so frigging terrific on his '93 Winos tour, so thick, fat, aggressive, so bold and loud, and then on the VL tour a year later and he sounds thin, clean, no drive and no energy, like a toy transistor radio. And Wood doesn't sound any better, and his playing start to suffer as well...
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You have to pay taxes by delivery!
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They've had a couple of rather flat tours. 1975-76 were very rough. 1994-95 was lacking.
Of course, some great performances on those tours with certain songs but overall, ehhh, 75-76 they were quite sloppy and messy yet still killed with Honky Tonk Women, You Gotta Move, YCAGWYW, Star Star; 94-95 looser than the STEEL WHEELS tours, which made songs like Tumbling Dice, Rocks Off, Shattered, Sweet Virginia and Monkey Man outstanding, but the VOODOO tour, overall, was lacking tenacity, which was in full swing with 1997-99.
Have you heard the August 14, 1994 Street Fighting Man? Keith needed a song map he got so lost. Go to 59:30.
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Have you heard the August 14, 1994 Street Fighting Man? Keith needed a song map he got so lost. Go to 59:30.
I think my main gripe with the VL tour is the guitar sound. Keith sounded so frigging terrific on his '93 Winos tour, so thick, fat, aggressive, so bold and loud, and then on the VL tour a year later and he sounds thin, clean, no drive and no energy, like a toy transistor radio. And Wood doesn't sound any better, and his playing start to suffer as well...
Mathijs
However, I think Wood didn't give a damn because he was always out of his mind, he started to worry about the sound only later, when he managed to be a bit lucid.
I don't know who decided the sound, but there's a reason why in their solo careers they were different.
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I'm realy looking forward to it.
But I wonder why they don't release any current show. I don't count the HD N.Y. release. It was nice but very short. They toured in 2017, 18, 19, 21, 22 and 24. The last release was Cuba 2016.
So, hopefully they'll come up with something next year.
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I'm realy looking forward to it.
But I wonder why they don't release any current show. I don't count the HD N.Y. release. It was nice but very short. They toured in 2017, 18, 19, 21, 22 and 24. The last release was Cuba 2016.
So, hopefully they'll come up with something next year.
The last release was the live album included on Honk.
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Have you heard the August 14, 1994 Street Fighting Man? Keith needed a song map he got so lost. Go to 59:30.
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Mathijs
I think my main gripe with the VL tour is the guitar sound. Keith sounded so frigging terrific on his '93 Winos tour, so thick, fat, aggressive, so bold and loud, and then on the VL tour a year later and he sounds thin, clean, no drive and no energy, like a toy transistor radio. And Wood doesn't sound any better, and his playing start to suffer as well...
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I think the sound of the guitars depends a lot on what they wanted at that time.
However, I think Wood didn't give a damn because he was always out of his mind, he started to worry about the sound only later, when he managed to be a bit lucid.
I don't know who decided the sound, but there's a reason why in their solo careers they were different.
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I'm realy looking forward to it.
But I wonder why they don't release any current show. I don't count the HD N.Y. release. It was nice but very short. They toured in 2017, 18, 19, 21, 22 and 24. The last release was Cuba 2016.
So, hopefully they'll come up with something next year.
The last release was the live album included on Honk.
Yes, that's right. But it was just a couple of tunes and far from a complete show including video etc.
And the live tracks were only a part of the deluxe version.