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Father Ted
You stat that an astonishing 40% of their catalogue has never been played is far higher than I'd assumed. I'd love to hear them do Memo From Turner, Dear Doctor and Sister Morphine.
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Father Ted
Hearing all of Exile played live would be amazing. And I can see the appeal for Ron as that was recorded before he joined them. But even looking back into the past, they didn't bother with much of Exile even when it was their latest album. Very few album tracks actually seem to make it out of the studio.
None of those songs are fiddly to play but I've wondered if there were competence issues which affected which songs they could play well live?
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Gazza
They actually gave it up after one or two performances in 1971 because it was a disaster - and thats even with Taylor in the band at his peak.
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Hound Dog
Father Ted,
They did do Tumbin Dice, Happy, Sweet Virginia, All Down The Line, Rip This Joint and Rocks Off at every show during the 72 tour. That is a good amount off a new album. Nowhere near the 2 news songs shows they started doing with ABB. Plus they were doing a lot from Sticky Fingers which they never got to tour behind in the US. Also during that tour they barely touched any of their material that was more than a few years old.
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Gazza
They actually gave it up after one or two performances in 1971 because it was a disaster - and thats even with Taylor in the band at his peak.
something tells me that a 1971 disaster would be reckoned as a 21st century masterwork....
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Hound Dog
Father Ted,
They did do Tumbin Dice, Happy, Sweet Virginia, All Down The Line, Rip This Joint and Rocks Off at every show during the 72 tour. That is a good amount off a new album. Nowhere near the 2 news songs shows they started doing with ABB. Plus they were doing a lot from Sticky Fingers which they never got to tour behind in the US. Also during that tour they barely touched any of their material that was more than a few years old.
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skipstone
When Licks and ABB came out, all the guitar mags did interview with Keith. He stated that they were basically going to play the hits because that's what people want to hear.
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JumpingKentFlash
I agree that ABB lacked some newer tunes. It began quite good with The Worst, OOC and YGMR along with some great ABB tracks. They dropped some of those though. And now people complain about that? Let's journey back to 2005 right here on IORR. Many people said that, and I quote: "OOC is a momentum-killer that late in the setlist". And "Why does Keith play The Worst? He should do Coming Down Again". So people want new stuff, but when they get it they don't like it? And Rough Justice wasn't played right "Sounds like YGMR". "ONNYA doesn't sound right to my ears". Please.... And what happened when they put their foot in the water with the new arrangement of 19th Nerveous Breakdown? It was hated by many and loved by few.
About not playing 40% of their back-catalogue: With some tracks it's a big let-down that they didn't play them (One being Soul Survivor - If they did play it, I never heard it). But also remember that some of their tracks are crap. I could cut away many tracks from Emotional Rescue, Undercover and Dirty Work that should never again be mentioned. There's tracks like that from all decades. Even from Exile On Main Street. I wouldn't be much interested in hearing Just Wanna See His Face live. It's just a filler track and it's frankly not their most exciting song. Maybe they realized what is crap, and what is not??? I can live without hearing Back To Zero live. Let alone Gomper.
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Gazza
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cheers, mate....
(and who are these bashers of bang tour version of 19NB? never met a one....)
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marcovandereijk
I've been thinking about the subject the last couple of days, and maybe the content of A Bigger Bang,
which absolutely rocks and gets me happy every time I hear it, is a tiny bit too generic for
being played in concerts. I mean, for every song on ABB you can think of an older song in the
catalogue that has about the same groove and vibe. So, maybe if they have to choose between playing
Rough Justice and a song like All down the line, or between Rain fall down and Miss You or between
This place is empty and You got the silver, the choice is made for the song which proved
its value in concert on earlier occasions.