Looks like they're just kidding, ain't it?

Vide at about 02:12:

that kind of thing was a pretty common part of the stage routine for decades.
it still happens now & then, and for sure it's usually meant as humour -
but i don't blame Ronnie for not always finding it funny.

there's a cool story in ... i forget what book! about a rehearsal session where
Mick kicked one of Charlie's drums for "fun" and Charlie told him off: "i don't go kicking your microphone!
and while you're at it, lay offa Ronnie too!" go Charlie :E



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I remember seeing Keith kicking Ronnie just below his knee, and for sure - it was not for fun! Ha ha ha, Ronnie got hit by Keith's terrible eyes and told to play guitar, instead of just play.....

This was on the B-stage at the MSG on the B2B tour I think.

I remember at Bercy in 2003 Mic pushed Ronnie a bit nasty.

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> I remember at Bercy in 2003 Mic pushed Ronnie a
> bit nasty.

i was there too !!!
how did i miss that ? damn !

>> it was not for fun! Ha ha ha <<

yeah: ha ha.
like i said: it's *usually* meant as humour, but a] not always, and b] it's not always funny,
regardless of how it's meant. bigger siblings can be like that sometimes,
and we littler siblings develop our own survival tactics.

not quite the same but: i think it's in the Saitama footage that some underwear
lands hopefully at Ronnie's feet, and just as he's taking a kindly interest in it,
Mick pulls him back and viciously kicks the underwear off the stage.
who knows what's going on under the surface of these incidents, but that seemed mean!

Here's nice pic from 1975:

Photo by Christopher Sykes

Mick was angry because Ronnie stole his eyeliner.

Bill's been shoved around a bit too, y'know!

Funny how Mick picks on the guys with both hands full.
I wonder how he would stack up against Bernard?

with sssoul Wrote:
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> that kind of thing was a pretty common part of the
> stage routine for decades.
> it still happens now & then, and for sure it's
> usually meant as humour -
> but i don't blame Ronnie for not always finding it
> funny.
>
> there's a cool story in ... i forget what book!
> about a rehearsal session where
> Mick kicked one of Charlie's drums for "fun" and
> Charlie told him off: "i don't go kicking your
> microphone!
> and while you're at it, lay offa Ronnie too!" go
> Charlie :E


OK, you were almost perfect from memory, withsssoul, but here's from Rolling Stone from 1975 (from Logie's recent post):


Onstage, Wood is as much Jagger’s foil as Keith’s. Jagger kicks, pokes and prods him, yanking him across the stage like a puppet, pretending to attack him savagely. How come you pick on him so much? I asked Jagger. “Well he picks on me, you know, we’re just doing this sort of David [Bowie] and Mick Ronson routine.”

Wood says he enjoys the whole thing. “I think Mick’s been dying to get his hands on another guitarist,” he noted with an air of comic confidentiality. “He came to me and said, ‘If I come and attack you . . . you don’t mind, do you?’ He really loves to make it look real.

“In Montauk, when we were rehearsing, we’d be sitting there playing and he’d suddenly come up and kick me. And he tried it on Charlie’s drums – once - he never tried it again. Charlie did a mild flip-out and said, ‘Listen I don’t unplug your mike lead, so don’t upset my drums. And while we’re at it, don’t keep buggin’ Ronnie.’”


theplexiglass

keith gave mick some serious abuse at saitama - during TD particulalry and he (keith) quite clearly calls him (mick) an f'ing @#$%&

OLDKR

oldkr Wrote:
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> keith gave mick some serious abuse at saitama -
> during TD particulalry and he (keith) quite
> clearly calls him (mick) an f'ing @#$%&
>
> OLDKR


Why?

I remember stories of Keith punching Ronnie on stage. Anyone know about this?

Ronnie is at a disadvantage:

he's still the newcomer

he's a nice guy


and they take advantage of this and him with the underlying threat always there that they could kick him out of the band. Bastards.

They are like dogs who can sense when a person or another dog has a little fear and then they are just all over him. Bastards.

They push him around like a little kid brother. Bastards.

I may add more later.


Plexi

Someone posted a video from this summer where Mick forcefully pushes Ronnie, and it doesn't look playful. That's the only time I've ever thought of Mick to be an @#$%&.

>> stories of Keith punching Ronnie on stage. Anyone know about this? <<

you probably mean the scenario that Nick Kent hallucinated at Wembley in 82:
he wrote that Keith punched Ronnie for not saving the start of She's So Cold.
the story's been repeated all over the place in ludicrous detail,
but the footage is widely available now, and no one punched anyone.

>> Funny how Mick picks on the guys with both hands full. <<

smile: with a couple of notable exceptions. he said in an interview in Tokyo last year:
"i never resort to physical violence with Keith - it doesn't really get you anywhere."

novica Wrote:
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> > I remember at Bercy in 2003 Mic pushed Ronnie a
> > bit nasty.
>
> i was there too !!!
> how did i miss that ? damn !


i was there too - front row at the very end. i don't remember it either, but thought the show was great...

I actually saw this pushing happen in Helsingfors 2003. I looked just like LOGIE's picture. Ron, who didn't have his best night, was smoking at the amplifiers during a song and Mick pushed him to the front of the stage, like he was saying "play something ffs". But it wasn't an ugly pushing session.

Any footage of the Saitama incident?

the full Saitama show is in circulation on dvd -
if you ask on the hot stuff forum i'm sure someone can help.

(there's nothing like what oldkr describes in the Saitama Tumbling Dice footage i have -
are you thinking of some other show, oldkr honey?)



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