QuoteSpud QuoteCaptainCorella I'm just intrigued by the mention of an "Official" fan club. What have I been missing all these years? Last experience I had of any "official Fan Club" was that promoted on the release of Undercover in '83. On first release it came with a slip promoting the Rolling tones Official Fan Club. I dutifully sent off my submiss
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QuoteBashlets In 2003 the stones official fan club for like $3000 per person put us up in a hotel in London near the Astoria. ] I'm just intrigued by the mention of an "Official" fan club. What have I been missing all these years?
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QuoteNashvilleBlues ^ on the EP vs LP discussion, I have found no clear-cut criteria that makes something an EP vs an LP. Sleep’s Dopesmoker is a one song album that is an hour long. Circle Jerks’ Group Sex is 14 songs in 17 minutes. Categorize those! What about 12" singles? And I have at least one 7" single with more than one track on one of the sides... that's almost an EP!
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Quotestargroover The Stones arrived in black limos and were shielded by white barriers as they entered the side door. The (fleet of) cars carrying what I assume were close family & friends from (I guess) their hotel all had a badge to identify them to get through checks/roadblocks. It read.... "The Empire Strikes Back" Nice on.
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QuoteMabru The Dutch universal Facebook posted a trailer Nice video. I'm looking forward to spotting people I recognise in the audience!
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QuoteBig Al QuoteCaptainCorella><>< QuoteBig Al QuoteCaptainCorella QuoteSpud [...and maybe posters to this thread should also own up as to whether they all still fit ...and not just then trendy baggy jobs from the 80s and 90s ] I still have two 1973 European Tour t-shirts that fit me. So, you were a size XXL in '73, and in 2024, you're still an XXL Almost. I
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QuoteBig Al QuoteCaptainCorella QuoteSpud [...and maybe posters to this thread should also own up as to whether they all still fit ...and not just then trendy baggy jobs from the 80s and 90s ] I still have two 1973 European Tour t-shirts that fit me. So, you were a size XXL in '73, and in 2024, you're still an XXL Almost. I was XXXL in '73 and now I'm an M.
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QuoteSpud [...and maybe posters to this thread should also own up as to whether they all still fit ...and not just then trendy baggy jobs from the 80s and 90s ] I still have two 1973 European Tour t-shirts that fit me. <grin>
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Quotefrankotero I had a funny thought. Wonder if any fans ever approached Peter Jackson and asked him to work his magic on bootlegs. I'd love to hear what he can do with Stuttgart 1999. He could be busy with this stuff the rest of his life. The answer to your first question is YES. Peter Jackson is a huge huge personal Beatles fan. I recently watched a long (Beatles oriented) podcast t
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Quoteexilestones There's a logical train of thought that a release can't be better than the technology used. I discovered that the Tami Show's Blu-ray was far better than the previous DVD (a different company had the rights when Blu-ray was released). That makes a great deal of sense. But once you let Peter Jackson (and his team) near the product, they seem to be able to rever
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If it was 25th December, then it's "TOTP". If it's 31st December then it's "Pop Go The Sixties". And all of this was SO close to Altamont (6th December), and the two shows at the Saville Theatre on 14th December. Extraordinary times.
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Didn't Noddy Holder say that the ongoing royalties from "Merry Christmas Everybody" have bought him his last two houses?
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QuoteBig Al QuoteLien Artwork with citymap looks like this shirt 'Shepherds Bush Common'? I live in the area, and have never once heard it referred to as that. It's colloquially known as 'Shepherds Bush Green' Wise point. My own grandparents lived nearby and my grandfather had a stall in the local market. As far as I can tell the artwork is a reproductio
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QuoteIrix Shepherds Bush Empire (London, UK), 8-Jun-1999 - . I was there! Guess I'll have to buy myself a souvenir... but is it only being release in France? WTF!
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QuoteThe Joker I'm very fond of the very tasteful pink 12" vinyl edition.
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Synthesized Euro-Dance-Pop.
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Quotebv QuoteMisterO Frankie Valli is 90 and is still touring. Including performing three show's in three days in different cities. I hope to see him perform this September in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Who knows maybe the Stones have 10 plus years a head of them! Did you actually see Frankie Valli (age 90) live on stage? Don't forget that Wyman will be 88 in about 3 weeks time.
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QuoteTubeman They might have been touring Australia this month AFL in Australia baulked at $20m for 4 songs (As opening Act for Grand Final yesterday) </irony> Must be true, it was in the Daily Mail </endirony> Somewhere in the innards of iorr there's a well sourced posting that gives an informed account of how much The Stones charge for a private (or one-off??) gig.
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QuoteAquamarine I first saw her in the Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, she had amazing longevity as an actress. And was super-cool till the very end. She was also wonderful in Alan Bennett's The Lady in the Van. I VERY much agree! Those are performances for which she should be remembered, rather than the Downton/Potter ones.
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QuoteRockman But what gets me is if you're not happy with it why did you give it more oxygen ??? I never, ever, wrote that I was not happy. I'd bothered to read what you posted and I was admitting incomprehension and was seeking meaning in the placing of the posting. If you read my short query another way, then that's your problem.
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QuoteRockman Print Run --- The Wire 485 --- July 2024 What am I missing? How is that article sufficiently either Beatles or Stones related to be in this thread?
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QuoteRisingStone So the truth is The Sound of Music soundtrack outselling Sargent Pepper or Are You Experienced, let alone Their Satanic Majesties Request, in 1967. And the majority of the households had to be content with watching The Avengers or The Prisoner in black and white rather than in colour. So much for the swinging, isn’t it? Note This is NOT, double repeat NOT, a lame spelling f
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QuoteIrix QuoteProfessorWolf time to transfer all those hard drives back to tape There would be far better solutions for long-term data preservation, e.g. laser-inscribed quartz glass which is durable for 1020 years. But such solutions are probably (very) expensive. But that would still be digital which would upset the analogue purists...
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QuoteProfessorWolf time to transfer all those hard drives back to tape (digital tape that is) wikipedia.org Interesting sub-thread which perhaps should be cut out of the Beatles vs Stones and made free standing. I'd never heard of this format and read the Wiki link. There I found this.... LTO tape is designed for 15 to 30 years of archival storage.[52][53] If tapes are arch
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If you live outside of the USA or the UK, then getting hold of a real hard copy of this album is something of a challenge. My copy finally arrived yesterday and I've now listened to it..... As ever Bill works with outstanding musicians. The band works really well, and Terry Taylor is, as usual, a standout. The music is just right - very blues influenced. Those are frequent observations
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The issues described here will most surely make any European Tour more complicated in many ways. (That goes for all bands, not just The Rolling Stones).
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QuoteTornAndFried QuoteRicky A Mick Jagger Handwritten Set List: I recognize some of the songs on the setlist (Mona, You Better Move On, Not Fade Away...), but not others... anyone here with a better reading perception? Thanks 1. TBY = Talkin' (A)bout You (Chuck Berry) 2. W.Dog = Walkin' The Dog (Rufus Thomas) 3. Mona = Mona (Bo Diddley) 4. Johnny = Bye Bye Johnnie (Chuck Berry
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Here's a link to the actual auction
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Everyone reading this is bound to know about the Charlie quote.... "Five years playing, 20 years hanging around" The TV documentary where he said that was originally shown on the BBC in 1986 and Charlie's answer was to a question put by David Hepworth. BUT.. for reasons wholly incomprehensible, later releases of the SAME documentary have the question overdubbed by someone w
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Quoteserpico71 "In molti si aspettano a breve le nuove date per le tappe europee, e secondo le nostre fonti sarebbero già in fase di organizzazione delle date italiane, di cui una quasi certamente all’Olimpico di Roma." Prof. Google says that the above translates to... "Many expect soon the new dates for the European stages, and according to our sources they would already be
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