Satisfaction sucks throughout the whole European tour. It sounds completely out of tune. And Keith fails to remake the intro of the 89/90 tour. Absolutely horrible playing! It's beyond me how they can butcher such a great song.
I'd prefer a version where you can at least make out the riff. I mean this is the basis of the whole song. Anyway, there are probably a hundred other ways to reinvent the song. But this one is rubbish.
Everybody knows the riff of Satisfaction. The fact that they have managed to mess this up, is quite unbelievable. At Oslo it sounded like a noisy engine.
This proves that The Stones to some extent is quite a shitty band!
The new Satisfaction is no worse than any other live version of Satisfaction from 1981 or any other time.
Regardless of whether Keith likes it or not, they cut a perfect track back in 1965. A track that just ooooozes sensuality, with the two guitars just kind of slithering back and forth -- the studio version is the definitive single in the history of rock and roll (or at least critics generally rank it no. 1). Live, they have always played it about 2 times too fast, with Mick's vocals in that annoying lower register and generally floating in and out of pitch. They have not stayed true to the original recording (well, except for the Ed Sullivan Show back in 65), and turned it into a rock-march stadium warhorse. I would love to see them play at the right tempo, a "real" version of Satisfaction (and Street Fighting Man, for that matter).