Thanks for the 2223 find! I had made several attempts to get this information within this forum, and on google.
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I'm visiting Toronto next month and staying near the Harbour Castle, where the Stones were staying for their 1977 performance. In what suite was Keith staying when he was arrested? - excellent article posted elsewhere here over the years - mentions that the band and their entourage was on the 29th to 34th floors, and even mentions that Mick Jagger was in 3424. But I can't find
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Two worst: (1) Boston on their 1978 "Don't Look Back" tour. Driving to the show, we were listening to a tape of the just-released "Don't Look Back" and every song sounded like some of the "meh"/filler songs from their first record. We were less-enthused for the show when we got there, than we'd been when we set out for it, and it's the only s
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Besides The River Tour being so arguably great (Springsteen's not for everyone, and neither is The River - I love both, and the show I saw was fantastic!), the "singularity" of this tour is just catching up with me. As an album, The River is great. But it doesn't hold the mythical and totemic status, among Bruce fans or rock fans, that other major albums, especially double
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QuoteRollingFreak I wonder if he does stadiums in the US, and more importantly whether he continues this full album performance. Seems Bruce forums are split both ways. Continue to play the album so it doesn't look like he's "giving up" on that theme and becoming an oldies act or dropping the album finally because the whole tour for some has been seen as an "oldies"
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QuoteAquamarine QuoteRoscoe I can't view/listen to the clip right now but earlier in the tour the entrance music was The Pretty Things recording of "Big Boss Man". Probably hasn't changed. Yes, that's what it is in the clip, though it takes a while to make it out. Thanks, Roscoe and Aquamarine, for answering this important question! It was driving me nuts since I saw
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To go a bit more off topic on this off topic thread, what is the "entrance music" Springsteen is using on his tour? If you watch any video of a show start ("Meet Me in the City"), you'll hear it as the band takes the stage. For example: I'm not even sure it's a Springsteen song; it has a vague rockabilly feel. Can't google the answer, and I don&
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I'm a bigger Stones fan than Springsteen fan (love both though). Looked forward to seeing him last week, truly, but there was a big "bucket list" element to it; I'd never seen him before, somehow. So though looking forward to it, there was a sense of obligation as well. Let me tell you, it was amazing. Springsteen at his 80s peak, like Dylan at his 60s/70s peak, neve
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QuoteKoen I think what is meant here is "characterized by or making extremely fine distinctions; overly detailed or subtle; hairsplitting." via: Yeah, I just meant it in the sense of having so much natural interest in the band and its members that you pick up and retain all kinds of knowledge and arcanery about them, that a casual fan, or a "songs-only" fan, would not. F
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I saw Bruce Springsteen on his recent tour, enjoying it immensely. My extensive discussion, at a minutiae level, of Springsteen, his music, his songs, etc., prompted a friend to say I had "Talmudic" interest in Bruce. That's an interesting concept. There's a lot of music I like, but when it comes to a deep knowledge of a band, its history, why they were "on"
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I had referenced in an earlier thread years ago, but at the time it was publicly inaccessible. Funny column, in which the star-struck owner of the Washington Redskins, and a Washington Post columnist, meet the befuddled and somewhat disinterested Stones before a concert in DC. My favorite part is Charlie's concern that the souvenir helmets the band is being given will mean a Redskin wil
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"What a dopey drug, you know — dopey in the sense of nondope. What a dopey nondope." Keith's take on methadone has been my favorite Keith line since the day I read it in 1981.
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Quoteswiss Anyway. It's so interesting to consider the similarities and points of divergence between these two seminal bands... What would Mick be able to handle, musically and thematically--seems like nothing too lyrical, nothing too emotionally honest, nothing too intellectual (tho he's somewhat intellectual, or at least thoughtful or intellectually curious, as a person), nothin
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I read and enjoyed the earlier thread, about who, Jagger or Lennon, had the better rock singer voice. I was surprised how much support Lennon got in this, a Stones forum. I don't have a preference; I greatly like them both. But it made me think how (usually) non-interchangeable Jagger and Lennon are. I actually could see Jagger doing a credible rendering of "Jealous Guy" a
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Quotestupidguy2 He had a nice touch with melody and I always felt he wrote from the heart. Even though I doubt there are five Phil Collins songs I'd just "have to hear," this to me is the pinnacle: Written from the heart, delivered from the heart, beautiful lyrics, and a moving performance. As someone happily married for 25+ years, who doesn't let a lot of people i
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QuoteFillmore I woulnd´t want no fiddler in "my" Stones show. Not even in the countryesque songs. "Faraway Eyes," Ft. Worth, 1978, with Doug Kershaw is a highlight of that show and tour.
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I appreciate everyone's comments. Is there a ready source (even youtube) of much from the 8-8-75 Buffalo show? I'd love to listen to it. Incidentally the irony is not lost on me that this year's tour was basically all outdoor shows - although a few were smaller-venue than the 50-80,000 seat mega stadiums.
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Is there any consensus formed around any "epic" outdoor stadium concerts the Stones have done? In all the recounting of their best shows - of all time or on a given tour - the indoor ones bubble up to the very top. Maybe only Cleveland 1975 is ever mentioned as possibly the best show on its respective tour. Altamont and Hyde Park in 1969 were epic, but for non-musical reasons (al
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I don't find it a coincidence that Steve Miller is all over this list. I liked his stuff, yes, when it was fresh, but how it "made the cut" to be getting airplay 40 decades later eludes me. I'd put Springsteen's "Rosalita" on the list. Love Bruce, but, even when his "catalog" was about 50 songs, never got it and always found it overrated.
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I think the 1981 tour deserves credit - both on its own, and in context. Standing on its own, it was a great tour. Probably Hampton was the best of the shows, but I had friends who saw them in at least five different cities on the tour (including in the dreadful wind and rain in Buffalo), and all said the shows were fantastic. By "in context," here is what I mean: The post-�
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I had missed this when it first appeared on July 10, and it probably has a limited shelf life before going into a paid archive. But has reviews of all the Stones shows in Buffalo through 1997: 1966, 1972 twice, 1978, 1981, and 1997. They're jpgs from microfilm, so some need to be blown up in a photo editor for readability, but pretty interesting. I'm getting the vibe that the
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QuoteNaturalust To answer this more seriously....Last tour it was Mick Taylor's participation that got me to the show, this tour it was the promise of a Sticky Fingers set. I guess I'm a sucker for whatever gimmick they are using. Both gimmicks turned out to be a bit less than promised but Taylor even on one song and Moonlight Mile were worth the effort for me. I think it impossible
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QuoteWitness You seem never to have been that interested in the Stones. Essentially, to me this comes out as a Las Vegas subject once again. 1) I am in opposition to that tag. Now only on a smartphone I am unable to state my alternative point of view by quoting. 2) Las Vegas or not Las Vegas, the Stones, beyond what they supply as musical experience, and to which I sometimes have had d
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This is going to sound like one of the dumber posts ever on here, but I sincerely want to know, from people who have seen the Stones going back to the 1960s or 1970s, and then on a recent tour, why you've gone multiple times, and what kept you coming back. Among my friends, many have caught this year's tour - at least four different cities. Some have been hardcore fans; some went ou
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Quoteonlystones He sung "whip the women" in Philadelphia in 1972. Boot is or was on youtube. I've found a couple Philadelphia 1972 boots on youtube, one clearly labeled July 20, the other labeled July 20/21. In the July 20 version, it's definitely not "whip the women." They did two July 21 shows, and maybe he sang the rarer lyric in one or both of those shows.
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Quotejazzbass Interesting that Mick chose to use the very seldom used live "whip the women" lyric. I was going to ask about that. Even at Altamont, first public performance of the song, he sang "you should have heard him" instead of "hear him whip the women." By 1975, they'd sung "Brown Sugar" perhaps 100 times in concerts or performances, and
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I can't wait to listen to all of these. Thanks. By the way, I think the song is in the smallest uppermost stratum of all they've done. And betting if I heard ANY version for the first time, I'd think so. It is deservedly played at ever concert. But some renditions are more "throwaway" than others.
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This is an odd post, because of course Jumping Jack Flash is on the short list of best Stones songs ever, but since they've played it at virtually every concert since its release, picking your favorite rendition is like picking your favorite Kraft macaroni and cheese dinner. The first one was probably great, the most recent filled a need, and the dozen or thousand in between all kind of run
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I know the early to mid-60s Stones had a reputation for rudeness and dangerousness. But to whom, and to what, was this attributable? Mick and Brian were calculating enough to want to make the Stones big and get rich - and in that spirit, "played along" with things like washing their hair for Ed Sullivan, or "cleaning up" the LSTNT lyrics. Keith was too shy in those da
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Quotemighty stork I was the one who posted this on "what are you listening to this very second" a while back because I too thought it was too good to keep to myself. Also just like you there was 1 or two I did not recall seeing when they first appeared. Thanks for putting it up again, I think I'll have another listen while I watch the next football game. "Lets Spend Some TIME
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