Re: sway
Posted by:
Glass Slide
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Date: March 14, 2006 03:04
kahoosier Wrote:
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> It seems to me that the people that bitch that the
> song has strayed from the album sound, are the
> same people who bitch on other threads about the
> Las Vegas Revue Stones who have given up rawness
> to sound more like an album. These are the people
> who crave the edge, the roughness of the '78 tour
> than cry that Ronnie's solo the other night does
> not do the Mick Taylor studio solo justice, be it
> Sway, CYHMK, or even WAY.
First off Worried About You is not Mick Taylor--it's Wayne Perkins.
Secondly, I can only speak for myself, but at $600-700 a show (including girlfriend's ticket) I do not want to hear "album renditions" by any stretch of the imagination. They did that in '89-'90 and it was cool at the time cause of the ecletic set list (2000 Light Yrs, Ruby Tuesday et al) and the amount of time since they had last toured--but thankfully, it was a one-time only kind of deal--good for them--it actually makes that tour kind of unique.
Thirdly, compared to '78 or any tour post-'81-'82, is comparitively speaking, a "revue" (if you do not agree--please account for the 5-10 people who didn't used to be there)--it goes w/o saying it is far far better then nothing, which is the alternative. The band, for a whole host of reasons, ain't going to sound like they used to---ever. By the way, there is nothing wrong with that--it is a fact of life--my issue is with those who think it somehow sounds like it did back then--it does NOT--get over it. No one should expect that--it is inherently unfair.
Fourthly, if you want to focus on Mick Taylor (and for the record-I do not-I only mention him when others do), the solos I heard this tour were not even in the same galaxy as the studio versions. Does that make them unenjoyable or per se bad? Not necessarily--some may enjoy them more--good for them-every one is entitled to a subjective opinion. To say, however it "sounds like 1975" is, I am sorry, foolish--listen to the boots--they do not lie or get caught up in the moment.
Fifthly, under what reasoning is it, that those who have the termidity to voice a criticism have some kind of deep-rooted "psychological problem"--that is "group think" at it's worst- I often see well-reasoned-dissenting opinons described as such--why? Yet those who say things like "better then 1975"--which really can't be justified--get a pass? To me, that is much harder to reconcile and imo somewhat delusional.
This is a "forum" which, I always thought meant that opinions of all types could be expressed--not just those which conform to what some think is the way to go. I would never tell anyone what to think and sure do resent it when others attempt to pull that same BS on anyone who dares to dissent--save the mind control for facsist states--they raise to an artform.