Was ER ever played live? Any links to hearing/ seeing it if so? My stones trivia is substandard I know!

Thanks

Never played.

Live debutes and last appearances: [rocksoff.org]

I've often wondered how it would go over live. I bet the reason they don't and ever won't is because of, from what I read, people laughing and imitating Mick on Fool To Cry during that tour.

Imagine an entire stadium cooing duing ER while Mick is trying to be serious?

Their only Top 3 hit never played live, incredible.

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Their only Top 3 hit never played live, incredible.

I'm not surprised - dreadful song! Their worst ever single imho.


"As we say in England, it can get a bit trainspottery"

I'm sure they could play it, and I really wish they would. Mick managed the falsetto quite magnificently on Worried About You on the Licks tour.

Worst single, Deltics? Come off it!



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Their only Top 3 hit never played live, incredible.

I'm not surprised - dreadful song! Their worst ever single imho.

I could think in about 10 worst singles than ER, including the 3 singles from the ABB album.

I love it - playful lyric & vocal, slinky rhythm with great bass from Ron Wood and Charlie playing those catchy, funky patterns...I imagine it's so not a guitar song that playing it live would be, what Mick on piano (much fleshed out by Leavell) Darryl not quite bringing Wood's finesse, and Charlie hearing some programmed part a second and a half late...Keith posturing with his guitar, back to the audience, who cant quite hear the little guitar fills from the record...I dig the last minute or two especially, with Bobby Keys and (Ron's?) guitar doing that funky dialog thang as Charlie gets frisky, too bad they didn't let it groove on another minute or so......Also, Mick at 65 prolly couldn't sustain the falsetto vocals for much of the song's six minutes...Which reminds me of the '89 "Undercover" where you hear the main riff but neither Keith nor Ron is touching his guitar. I haven't heard any versions from the last tour, but Unless they radically rearranged it there was too much programming involved (in '89 - 90) - the original had all that synthetic drumming for drama added, a big sonic widescreen production, and those harsh
FX over the killer Wyman bass figures and great guitar riffing and soloing...

I like the unedtied version of ER on that mostly ER boot, what, Static In The Attic. One of the best sounding studio boots I've ever heard - of ANY body.

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I love it - playful lyric & vocal, slinky rhythm with great bass from Ron Wood and Charlie playing those catchy, funky patterns...I imagine it's so not a guitar song that playing it live would be, what Mick on piano (much fleshed out by Leavell) Darryl not quite bringing Wood's finesse, and Charlie hearing some programmed part a second and a half late...Keith posturing with his guitar, back to the audience, who cant quite hear the little guitar fills from the record...I dig the last minute or two especially, with Bobby Keys and (Ron's?) guitar doing that funky dialog thang as Charlie gets frisky, too bad they didn't let it groove on another minute or so......Also, Mick at 65 prolly couldn't sustain the falsetto vocals for much of the song's six minutes...Which reminds me of the '89 "Undercover" where you hear the main riff but neither Keith nor Ron is touching his guitar. I haven't heard any versions from the last tour, but Unless they radically rearranged it there was too much programming involved (in '89 - 90) - the original had all that synthetic drumming for drama added, a big sonic widescreen production, and those harsh
FX over the killer Wyman bass figures and great guitar riffing and soloing...

So well put...especially recognizing Bobby's great work and wishing the end groove would have gone on longer...

I've always thought the inspiration/influence
on this song was Marvin Gaye's Got To Give It Up.

I love this song

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I've always thought the inspiration/influence
on this song was Marvin Gaye's Got To Give It Up.

interesting. never thought of that but could be. especially the extended version of got to give it up with the sax solo.

...Not in the Rolling stone's style but a great single...

Not much guitar - maybe that's why no live.

Nothing for Keith and Ron to do but pose and wave ..... hey, they're pretty good at that.

"No Anchovies, Please"

I really like ER, Mick's falsetto is damn good and Charlie's drum play is very...well, somewhat "catchy", know what I mean?

I cant get the image out of my head of the boys performing this song(no instruments) like The Temptations with matching sharkskin suits! Always cracks me up!

Will always have a place in my heart for this tune and agree that if they could do Worried About You, they could have done this also. It would have worked well during Licks or '81.

How about the album - would it have been better if Hang Fire, Little T&A and, uh, No Use In Crying was on it?

YES.

NO the album ER is perfect as it is. It doesn't need any of those songs (least of all WAY which has a magnificent home of its own as the kick-off for side 2 of TY).

I wonder what that guy with a strange name has to say about this album? I mean the NME reviewer who bashed SOME GIRLS but (partly) praised DIRTY WORK. Logie?

- Doxa

This album would be vastly improved by the exclusion of the boring "Summer Romance" and the truly embarassing "Where The Boys All Go". For me, every other track is a winner.

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I wonder what that guy with a strange name has to say about this album? I mean the NME reviewer who bashed SOME GIRLS but (partly) praised DIRTY WORK. Logie?

- Doxa

Dont think it was Charles Shaar Murray who reviewed Emotional Rescue in the NME but I do remember whoever reviewed it basically saying that the only 3 good songs on it were Down in The Hole, Shes so Cold and either Dance or Let me Go, and that All About You was 'wretched'.

Emotional Rescue wouldnt have worked well at all in concert. Unlike Worried About You, not enough guitars, its too long and Jagger couldnt consistently hit those notes in concert (more of the song is falsetto than WAY is, and nowadays he gets round the high notes problem by yelling it. He couldnt do that with ER)

I love "Where The Boys All Go"! Real tongue in cheek and great rythmn....

ER is a springtime album for me. Just as much so as The Cult's Sonic Temple. At least I associate ER with spring - a friend of mine had it and played it that spring (?) or, well, the following springs thereafter. So that's where it sits with me. As goofy as some of it is, like Send It To Me and Where The Boys All Go and the swampiness of Down In A Hole, it's good car washing music, hanging outside music, etc...