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shortfatfanny
by Ronnie Wood
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baxlap
The Beatles. The Stones had police blessing for the 5th Avenue stunt, while the cops shut down the rooftop concert.
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batcave
The other thing is that the rooftop gig was five years from when the Beatles played on the Ed Sullivan show and you wouldn't even guess they were the same band, you certainly wouldn't have expected them to break out She Loves You or I Want To Hold Your Hand and we are only talking about five years.
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tatters
Incredible to think that the Beatles entire catalog was recorded in just seven years. Seven years is how long it's been since the release of the last Stones album.
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Honestman
Jimi at Monterey
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Redhotcarpet
Let it be is cooler in a way because of the coolness of the band, the total make over from the last time they performed live, concert being on a roof, the song selection etc.
But of course I'd pay anything to see a perfect version of the Stones 5th ave. flatbed truck film. Anything. Holy grail is what that is. I love it.
Part of the performance (and a journalist commenting the scene) is also preserved on the "Missing Jewels" box set. Sound quality is bad as well.Quote
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Redhotcarpet
Let it be is cooler in a way because of the coolness of the band, the total make over from the last time they performed live, concert being on a roof, the song selection etc.
But of course I'd pay anything to see a perfect version of the Stones 5th ave. flatbed truck film. Anything. Holy grail is what that is. I love it.
Sometime around the release of Some Girls, there was a radio documentary on the history of the Stones that included a more or less complete flatbed truck performance of Brown Sugar. I had it on a cassette for awhile, but it seems to have gone missing. Sound quality was poor. Similar to what you hear in the youtube clip.
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lem motlow
if you could go back and stand next to the beatles on the rooftop or have front row tickets to the best night of the 72 stones tour what would you do?
Watching Beatles on top of the roof playing easy going songs or watching a high energy kick-ass Stones show with Mick Jagger in high energy top form - there is no question at all. Mick Jagger and Stones way ahead of Beatles.Quote
lem motlow
if you could go back and stand next to the beatles on the rooftop or have front row tickets to the best night of the 72 stones tour what would you do?
sadly,most people would pick the beatles.myself i wouldnt stand out in the cold for 5 minutes watching them.their stuff sounds so dated now,its just got that groovy 60s trippy bullshit sound to it.
to me the only thing cooler than watching the stones on the flatbed would be watching the beatles be thrown off the top of a building.
Yeah, wonderboys Beatles - Stones only is bullshit. Keith is lazy, Jagger doesn't know how to sing, Charlie and Bill are pure bullshit. Beatles learned Stones everything about Blues..... here we go again. Macca did introduce Mick and Keith to music - blah, blah, blah, blahQuote
GumbootCloggeroo
Easy going songs? Right. I'm sure people weren't sure if it was The Beatles up there or Perry Como
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Naturalust
Its too bad that one of AC/DC has been removed from Rockmans link. I saw it last month and thought it was cooler than the Stones and the Beatles put together.
Rockman's link didn't work so I hope the one below does.
I was living in LA when U2 set up on a roof downtown and played "Streets with No Name" , one of the only song by them that I like. It created major traffic jams as people rushed to see what it was all about. They made a pretty cool video of the event. I thought that was pretty cool at the time. But check out AC/DC with Bon Scott , these lads are the REAL DEAL , singing "It's a Long Way to the Top (if you want to rock and roll). Whoo Hoo!
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whitem8
But that video is the studio version, not live.
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Sleepy City
And excuse the typos, the "n" doesn't always work on this keyboard!