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How cold could it have been in West Palm Beach,Florida on November 30th ??
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How cold could it have been in West Palm Beach,Florida on November 30th ??
I think they took the stage very late at night. Festival show wasnt it?
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You guys must be listening to the wrong 1981 releases.I'll quote my earlier post :
" I recommend some of the many 1981 soundboards that surfaced a couple of years ago.They are light years ahead of Still Life.Saint Paul 1981,Cedar Falls 1981,Louisville '81,Lexington '81.Just listen to "Let It Bleed" from any of these shows (not Philadelphia or Phoenix as they messed it up at those shows).That's trademark Rolling Stones.Also,Imagination from the last month of the '81 tour was excellent. "
The guitar sound on these CD's is far from weak.To clarify things these discs are from the Dog & Cat and Empress Valley labels.They are different from what has always been out there.These soundboard tapes have just surfaced within the last few years.The Hartford shows are right up there as well.One of the two Hartford '81 shows was in circulation for years as a soundboard (not quite complete) but,the other was available only as a fair audience recording.Now,the other show (I'm pretty sure that it's the first of the two shows -) is available as a soundboard (usually packaged with the other concert) and it is excellent quality.
I'm not saying that it was the best tour the Stones have ever played but,people here are selling it way short.
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How about attendance? Probably their least attended stadium show EVER was the Louisiana Supe in 1994 - less than 25,000 people showed up...they haven't been back since. And Heartbreaker sucked - it's NEVER been a good song live. It SUCKS. I don't know why they continue to do it.
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The 3rd London O2 show.
No way.Everyone said this was a solid show.It was definitely not their worst show ever.
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And Heartbreaker sucked - it's NEVER been a good song live. It SUCKS. I don't know why they continue to do it.
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Attended:
Hague 98 (show OK, terrible weather)
Twickenham 2 2003 (nosebleed seats, poor sound - tape sounds better but all seems a bit untogether)
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changing the setlist just wasn't an issue before the current age of wide sharing of shows via the internet and the nonsensical sport of setlist-watching.
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Philly 81
first show...
Yes!
It's certainly an entertaining show to listen to because it's so sloppy, and Ronnie going on about his lost ring. Tops was a disaster, and Satisfaction was deliciously horrible!
I'm not sure but I remember one show from 81 where during Let it Bleed they couldn't find the bridge (James Brown call your office!) and it just kept going and going . . . and going.
It was probably Phoenix,maybe Philly.
I was at the first Philly show in 1981. Lots of trainwrecks... I couldn't believe it was THE Rolling Stones.
They destroyed LIB... Mick stopped the song in the middle of a verse, and said to Ronnie something like: "No, it goes to F there."
And Ronnie said to Mick: "Oh... I thought it goes back to C." Then they finished what was left of that number.
The day wasn't a total loss... I drew this picture that afternoon:
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I can not imagine anything worse than Cologne 2006. Ronnie Wood was completely out of it and produced nothing but blatant noise (and he was high in the mix..). Keith Richards could not be bothered, he delivered a lick here and a hook there, otherwise he was just posing and mugging, and his guitar performance in "Sympathy" (which was the usual bore, btw) was just atrocious. I really wondered what must happen before they finally will be booed off the stage. The average concert goer does not seem to care.