When I did see the review in the swedish papers I got surprised. I think they all had a great night, including Keith. Well, maybe I`m too subjectiv, but I had a great concert and the rest of the audience had a great night. The audience and the band did support eachother and enjoyed eachother.

Rock journalists have always been enuchs at orgies. If the Stones were going to play Chicago tonight, I could tell you exactly what our idiot "critic" would write the next day. It is the same every time regardless of the show. Whenever I ask anyone who has just seen them for the first time what they think, answer always sonething like "Blown away...amazing...best show I ever saw.."

Any other videoes from Gothenburg??

noughties Wrote:
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> How come many fans are young? (and with black
> T-shirts with the tongue?)


Just beacause the Stones span over so many generations
nowadays it just gets this way.
Thankfully enough there's a lot of young people that enjoy
and cherish the GREATEST ROCK AND ROLL IN THE WORLD.

My nephew was one of them last night!

Been Stoned since 1964 and still am!

It was a great concert! I brought my wife, son and brother in law and they all enjoyed it! My wife has seen the Stones many times but for the other two it was a first! Regardless of what the louse tabloids in Sweden sys it was a really great show. Keith was on fire after a shaky start. Jagger as always great! What a man! I am 56 but I would really have had a cardial arrest after all that jamping about. In many ways I really thinh that this sholud be the last tour. If we look at Keith with sober eyes this is obvious or---?

Fan Since 1964 Wrote:
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> noughties Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > How come many fans are young? (and with black
> > T-shirts with the tongue?)
>
>
> Just beacause the Stones span over so many
> generations
> nowadays it just gets this way.
> Thankfully enough there's a lot of young people
> that enjoy
> and cherish the GREATEST ROCK AND ROLL IN THE
> WORLD.
>
> My nephew was one of them last night!


I'm a little surprised too that there were so many young people at the show. Maybe there are no other big rock bands around anymore in todays music. The 80s was much better in that respect. Then Rolling Stones really had competition for the audience. I mean, today Robbie Williams is counted as a rockstar. Certainly a great entertainer but not really a true rocker. Rolling Stone's music is eternal. Rock on!!!

It was a great gig yesterady. Midnight Rambler YES YES YES

Some pics from yesterday. Some more later on,tired as hell now so soon bedtime. Copenhagen tomorrow









It´s Only Rock´n Roll



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2007-08-04 22:27 by Harlix.

Keith was absolutely NOT dead drunk, and needed no support from Ronnie before the show. This is the honest truth. I know, I met them 2 hours before, backstage.

Vilhelm
Nordic Stones Vikings

Gazza Wrote:
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> FrankM Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Forgive my language but that reviewer sounds
> like
> > a man with a paper ass-hole. Not even one
> hundred
> > percent sure what that means but I have heard
> that
> > phrase and it seems to fit that guy. Anyone who
> > criticizes Jagger's performance is not being
> > unbiased imo. It's one thing to criticize
> Richards
> > but to then criticize Jagger and call him
> > desperate is just plain silly.
> >
> > Jagger and Watts are at the top of their game
> so
> > imo Keith would have to be god awful for a
> concert
> > to get an overall bad review. It seems like
> that
> > guy was just focused on the negatives and
> > overlooked all the positives.
>
>
> He was there. You weren't. How can you therefore
> describe ANY criticism of a show as "not being
> unbiased"? Surely you not being able to accept
> reading anything negative about a show you havent
> seen or heard is being biased ?


Well I formed an opinion based on what many have said in this thread and what I know about their current playing ability. We all know there are reporters that love to bash them and based on what I read of his review (the portion that was posted here) he seems to be one of them. Of course this is just my opinion.


>He actually isnt
> criticising Jagger at all. He's saying he has an
> impossible job because, whilst hes still up to it,
> other band members quite clearly arent.


Well if you interpreted it that way that's fine. It seemed more like bashing to me. I mean Jagger and Watts are the ones carrying the band these days. It seemed to me like he was trying to take one of their positives (Jagger's performance) and turn it into a negative by saying he looked desperate. Again just my opinion and the way I interpreted it.

Fan Since 1964 Wrote:
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> Yezus!
>
> Just woke from the dream. Alive again after last
> nights Stones Bang.
> Full of expectations I got to Gothenburg and
> visited
> Park Lane to catch the mood at the preparty.
> (Thanx Wille for the party).
> Parked the car underneath Ullevi and exited the
> parkinglot right outside Ullevi.
> Immediately me and my friends caught the wibes in
> the air. Stones fever was rising!
> My nephew (16 years old and a virgin to
> Stonesconcerts) bought a t-shirt.
> Then off to Park Lane. Back at Ullevi in due time
> for gate opening.
> Found a great spot to the right of the stage
> (Keith side).
>
> From the start to the finish the band played
> excellent and Ronnie had at last got a place in
> the mix. At last we could hear him loud and clear.
> Finally he got the attention he so well deserves.
> And talking about the sound, the soundtechnicians
> must have been pretty proud about themselves last
> night. A crisp clear sound was bought to us. Best
> sound I've ever heard on a Stones concert.
>
> This is the best concert I've been to. I really
> did think that about the concert in Stockholm in
> 2003 which was really good. My question was at
> that time "Can they make a better concert?" Well
> they did.
>
> I've been emotional the last 10 days which I
> always get when I realize that there will be an
> end coming closer like a wall of bricks, hitting
> us smack right on the chin. No exception from last
> night we come closer to the final bow for every
> concert. But they gave us Satisfaction last night
> in many ways.
>
> Thanx once again Mick, Keith, Ronnie and Charlie
> and to rest of the band.


OK, how would you compare them now to their 1972 tour? I mean, if they are excellent now.

Impossible to compare these tours for me if you mean
the 1972 North American Tour because I wasn't in the US then!

Been Stoned since 1964 and still am!



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2007-08-05 00:01 by Fan Since 1964.

Neither was I and yet I can easily say that they were Gods back then.

Here's what Aftonbladet said about Gothenburg:

"Keith brukade vara gruppens motor. Men i kväll är han bara en trasig och gammal rockmaskot."

"När de sista fyrverkerierna dundrat färdigt kommer en konstig känsla krypande.
Den är tom och lite sorglig."


Markus Larsson


Doesnt sound like excellent to me.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2007-08-05 00:04 by LA FORUM.

Well that reporter must have been drunk himself.
Both Keith and Ronnie did play excellent.
Reports in the Swedish newspapers are obviously not
positive but still they are also a bit too negative.

I read both Aftonbladet and Expressen and just a
couple a days ago when Aftonbladet were saying that Keith
was too drunk to play Expressen hailed the Stones and said that
the Stones were excellent and peaked their form before the Gothenburg
concert. Just some days later both papers are nagging on Keith.

I think that the concert was better than the last one Stockholm 2003
and mind you Keith was drinking at that tour too.

I think that the reviews in the papers are a case of bad work and the reporters
that wrote these reviews are not competent too write about music or even know
what happened in Gothenburg.

Been Stoned since 1964 and still am!



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2007-08-05 00:15 by Fan Since 1964.

The show yesterday was nothing short of excellent. Second best of the ABB shows I´ve seen. Only downer was during Satisfaction, when Keiths amp did not sound OK, the speakers sounded as if they were blown. But that did not stop Keith. He´s a trooper.

Vilhelm
Nordic Stones Vikings

Hello Wille!

Thanks for the party in Gothenburg!

Been Stoned since 1964 and still am!

You´re welcome! We had more than 400 people as guests, and everybody seemed happy. I was really tired when I got to bed at 0400 in the morning...still tired. And tomorrow Copenhagen!!

Vilhelm
Nordic Stones Vikings

mickijaggeroo Wrote:
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> You´re welcome! We had more than 400 people as
> guests, and everybody seemed happy. I was really
> tired when I got to bed at 0400 in the
> morning...still tired. And tomorrow Copenhagen!!

President of the Vikings ... and tired at 04:00 ? What's the matter wid you boy ? Need some Puerto Rican girls ta wake you up ?

See you at Hardrock tomorrow .... !!!!

Melbourne Age - 5 August 2007



ROCKMAN

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We got fantastic places at the fence, right in front of the B-stage. A little to the right - KEITH's side - our hero! Also great photos from the Main Stage. I wonder if you have ever seen so beautiful photos from an amateur!

Also 30 great pictures from the RONNIE WOOD ART SHOW at Galleri Viktoria, Gothenburg Sweden.



And what about THE BEATLES?! Well, they are my heroes as well! Take a look at the website!

Enjoy!
Bengt Warmlind
www.magicalbeatletours.com



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2007-08-06 02:35 by stonesullevi.

mickijaggeroo Wrote:
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> Keith was absolutely NOT dead drunk, and needed no
> support from Ronnie before the show. This is the
> honest truth. I know, I met them 2 hours before,
> backstage.

A Danish newspaper quotes one of your fellow vikings who reported that Keith was very drunk. So what's the story here?

Link: [ibyen.dk]

I was at the concert too, and I agree with you that the gig was great and Keith didn't appear to be drunk at all.

Sohoe Wrote:
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> mickijaggeroo Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Keith was absolutely NOT dead drunk, and needed
> no
> > support from Ronnie before the show. This is
> the
> > honest truth. I know, I met them 2 hours
> before,
> > backstage.
>
> A Danish newspaper quotes one of your fellow
> vikings who reported that Keith was very drunk. So
> what's the story here?
>
> Link: [ibyen.dk]
>
> I was at the concert too, and I agree with you
> that the gig was great and Keith didn't appear to
> be drunk at all.

Not true. But it seems the newspaper wanted some "good" headlines... Keith was in a very good mood, not dead drunk. No leaning on Ronnie, he ran around in the room like a kid.

Vilhelm
Nordic Stones Vikings

Nothing about the concert in Copenhagen last night in Swedish papers today.
Maybe the editors have locked both Markus Larsson och Per Nunstedt in their
respective offices.

Or maybe they've decided themselves not to try to write another "drunk" story once again.

Been Stoned since 1964 and still am!



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2007-08-06 17:10 by Fan Since 1964.

mickijaggeroo Wrote:


>
> Not true. But it seems the newspaper wanted some
> "good" headlines... Keith was in a very good mood,
> not dead drunk. No leaning on Ronnie, he ran
> around in the room like a kid.


I am almost quite sure I'll agree with you mickijaggeroo, but who the f*** made up that story by quoting Ove T ? Hasn't Ove T got enough "influence" to slam back at the press ? I would think so. He's normally a great guy. Still is I am sure : ) Like all of you Stones neighbours : )

Im sure the stadium tours wont end , just that.
im young , the stones are for all people in the world!

wipeacdc@hotmail.com
never too old or young to rocknroll!!!!!!

no nervous breakdowns Wrote:
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> mickijaggeroo Wrote:
>
>
> >
> > Not true. But it seems the newspaper wanted
> some
> > "good" headlines... Keith was in a very good
> mood,
> > not dead drunk. No leaning on Ronnie, he ran
> > around in the room like a kid.
>
>
> I am almost quite sure I'll agree with you
> mickijaggeroo, but who the f*** made up that story
> by quoting Ove T ? Hasn't Ove T got enough
> "influence" to slam back at the press ? I would
> think so. He's normally a great guy. Still is I am
> sure : ) Like all of you Stones neighbours : )

It's Expressen. It's the number one tabloid isn't it?

Sohoe Wrote:

> It's Expressen. It's the number one tabloid isn't
> it?

Yes, but what's the reason for Expressen quoting Ove T ? Being journalistic whores or..... ??

beats me

This questions puzzles & engages me too;
but till we know I can just state Expressen is the 2nd tabloid in Sweden,
for almost a decade Aftonbladet has been bigger.
I also note all the morning papers were fairly to very positive.

<Keith was absolutely NOT dead drunk, and needed no support from Ronnie before the show. This is the honest truth. I know, I met them 2 hours before, backstage.>

Why did Tingvall say that he was drunk? Isn't he one of the Stones Vikings?

Didn't he say that after the Helsinki gig? Perhaps newspapers just used that quote again for Sweden...


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