seeing all the posts complaining about mistakes the Stones make in their shows, I wonder what exactly is it you do like about their live performances ?

I think the things that make every live concert special and memorable are the unexpected things, the impromptus, the jamming, the asides and, yes, especially the glitches …

Playing music is not a job on an assembly line, music is alive, it involves feeling, feedback from the audience, feedback from your fellow musicians …
If you watch the guys on stage, they move around, they talk to each other, maybe they feel like trying something different on the spur of the moment, see if the others catch on and go along … if they do, fine, if they don't, well then maybe there's a glitch, so what ;-) That's the fun about playing live. And if we're lucky and all of them are in top form at the same moment, then maybe we'll get a magic night.

One reason I like being FOS is because then I can choose who to watch, like watching Keith while the camera is on Mick … At one point in Barcelona Ronnie and Keith were standing side by side jamming away on their guitars, Keith was looking down (at his hands or feet or whatever), all concentrated … and Ronnie poked a finger under Keith's nose as if saying "hey wake up you got something funny under your nose" and they both laughed. If this kind of banter makes you miss a beat or play a wrong note, well, it's called "live" - and that's what I like about it.

Because they are the friggin' Rolling Stones...

Because I get to go to Rome, London,Dublin,....:-)

Because they are great!

Get drunk, look at women, the music's not bad either.

"No Anchovies, Please"

i like Blondie Chaplins guitar licks and loud fireworks.

Adrian-L Wrote:
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> i like Blondie Chaplins guitar licks and loud
> fireworks.


Not to mention nachos !

It's cool being FOS looking back and pretending
your Buster Keaton and an angry mob is chasin' ya.....



ROCKMAN

Yes, Cat, you have put down some nice reasons and there are so many more to go and see the greatest RocknRoll Band of all times live, you name them and end up writing a book. The vibes, the feelings, The Stones! Anybody who hasn't seen the Stones live yet: Do go and see them now, it's unbelievable. See you in Hamburg.

Cos I can feel the magic in th air...

great post, Cat - thank you!

also worth noting is Frank Zappa's classic response to that very question:
"of course i go to the Stones' shows - you just KNOW you'll get a blow job!"

why exactly do you like to see the Stones "live" ?........Because it would suck big-time to see them dead!!!

The best part is almost the few moments before they actually hit the stage and you can literally feel the tension building ....

...when the tape music shifts to the "entrance music" (the best for this ever was "Continental Drift")

......and then slowly, slowly and KAPOW!!!! - one of the Riffmeister's monsterriffs tearing the night apart

MICK JAGGER

Chuck Leavell and the horn section.

two words: kent smith.

*and i'm just like that bird - singing just for you*

because every damn song they play is among my favourite songs of my life.
they make me so darn happy! when i am down i simply listen to the stones for hours and come out feeling great!!!!!
live my favourite part is watching Charlie!
d

" when i am down i simply listen to the stones for hours and come out feeling great!!!!! "
Yes!

I love they passion for playing the blues live everywhere and sharing it with us

To see what Keef will do (or not do) next!

RogerStones Wrote:
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> I love they passion for playing the blues live
> everywhere and sharing it with us


then you must not like the ABB tour!

*and i'm just like that bird - singing just for you*

I really don´t know, but it always worked fine

It's still jumping jack flash and it's still and after all the only band left from the time we were young and now we're still young

Coz every show is like watching a tightrope act. You never know if they're gonna fall off or hop, skip, jump along it. That is what makes it exciting.

NickB

You can't always get what you want.....

www.myspace.com/thesonkings

its the energy

> The best part is almost the few moments before
> they actually hit the stage and you can literally
> feel the tension building ....

Agree 100%. Those final moments before the house lights go are so exciting words cannot describe it. In some respects I never want the show to start because I know it has to end but what a ride from Point A to Point B.

Exactly? Its Mick.

Its the "buzz" in the air....and then the lights go out and you know whats coming....almost hard to describe to someone who has never seen them live!

mofur Wrote:
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> The best part is almost the few moments before
> they actually hit the stage and you can literally
> feel the tension building ....
>
> ...when the tape music shifts to the "entrance
> music" (the best for this ever was "Continental
> Drift")
>
> ......and then slowly, slowly and KAPOW!!!! - one
> of the Riffmeister's monsterriffs tearing the
> night apart


100 % true.

x r



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