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kish_stoned
beatles left the building 40 years ago stones are still hear playing live
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DoomandGloom
With a few weeks to digest what we witnessed I can't help but become less critical of the Stones performances and begin to place those nights in historical perspective. In a way the anniversary celebration can only be compared to The Beatles goodbye some 40 years ago and I'd say The Stones did pretty darn good with their farewell which I hope continues for a decade...
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GravityBoy
I want to start a thread.
DoomNGloom 2012 vs DoomAndGloom 2013.
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2000man
2012 Stones vs Fat Elvis?
Elvis was singing his fat ass off like he still meant it (well except for Hound Dog...oh and All Shook Up....and well a few others)...
The Stones would be shamed
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stonehearted
If you can laugh like that, you must not be that lonesome tonight, or any other night for that matter.
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marcovandereijk
I considered this their "rooftop moment":
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stonehearted
If you can laugh like that, you must not be that lonesome tonight, or any other night for that matter.
I'd say it's obvious that Elvis is ON something that night, it's not obvious that he's "not lonesome" tonight, when acting like he does. Doesn't strike me as "happy laughter" ...
THe Elvis shows of 1977 are wierd to listen to.....because they're so bad, compared to concerts from previous years, yet he always has a couple of numbers that are incredible, like he's giving it all a few places during the concerts
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stonehearted
Neither. Macca beats them both by a mile in a scene filmed for his 1984 movie Give My Regards To Broad Street, where he is filmed actually busking [Yesterday] in front of a London train station--and no one recognizes him!
Here's the story behind that scene and what Paul thought about not being recognized in public, with a guitar and singing perhaps his most famous tune no less.
Paul McCartney Busking In London In 1984 & No One Seems To Notice
In 1984 Paul McCartney filmed "Give My Regards To Broad Street," and while the movie ended up being a flop -- the plot revolved around McCartney losing his tapes and trying to get them back by midnight -- it did feature one very memorable scene.
In the film, McCartney busks -- donning ruffled hair and disheveled clothes -- in front of the Leicester Square Station in London. Unfortunately (or fortunately?) for McCartney, no one recognized him as the former Beatle.
“Y’know, they just made me up and dropped me off," McCartney told the New York Daily News in 1984. "I told ‘em we’d never get away with it, but they kept putting dirt on and rufflin’ up me hair -- I was looking better and better -- and I figured, why not."
"So I was standin’ there plunkin’ chords, doing this silly version of the song, and no one noticed it was me," he continued. "No one wants to look a busker in the eye of course, ‘cus then they’d get his life story. So they’d toss coins and I’d be going, ‘Yesterday, all my troubles -- thank you, sir -- seemed so far away.'"
Despite the obvious snubs, McCartney's pride wasn't wounded. In fact, he enjoyed his busking experience, as he recalled an encounter he had with a group of punks who just wanted to dance.
"This fabulous drunk Scotsman, who didn’t know me from Jesus, came up, threw his arm around me and gave me all his coins," he told the Daily News. "I started doing these little dances and some punks came by, studs and leather, and they were dancing, too. Not because this guy’s a Beatle, but because this was something happening."
And in case you're wondering what he did with the money, he donated it to a local mission. However, that didn't stop the media from saying otherwise.
"After we did it I made sure the money was donated to the Seaman’s Mission, because otherwise I knew someone would say ‘And I’ll bet he kept the money too, the old skinflint! So the next day on the telly this woman said ‘And Paul McCartney busked at the rail station last night and he kept the money too.’ I guess it’s a better story that way.”
Source: www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/21/paul-mccartney-busking-london-1984-give-my-regards-to-broad-street_n_1615119.html
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drbryant
His busking of "Yesterday" might be the only thing to like about Broad Street - it's so bad that it needs to be seen to be believed. Most of his new renditions of old Beatles and solo material sound like karaoke. Lost in the shuffle - Paul's last great ballad, "No More Lonely Nights".
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drbryant
His busking of "Yesterday" might be the only thing to like about Broad Street - it's so bad that it needs to be seen to be believed. Most of his new renditions of old Beatles and solo material sound like karaoke. Lost in the shuffle - Paul's last great ballad, "No More Lonely Nights".
I hope you have experienced his concerts since you can make such a statement.
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soulsurvivor1
NOW, WHO DID EVERYTHING FIRST?
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mickschix
I don't know how anyone who loves music could, in good conscience, bash the Beatles...I think that some Stones fans must consider it being disloyal to say anythng NICE about the Beatles. It is not being disloyal, and remember the early Stones were fans of the Beatles, wanted to be like them ( in SOME ways), and even socialized with them quite a bit in the 60's. They even timed the release of their singles very carefully so that they did not steal the thunder of the other band (by having records released at the same time.) I happen to love the music of the Beatles still, and I think McCartney is a mega talent. For anyone that doesn't think so, I guess they haven't seen him in concert.