Quote24FPS It IS their best since Some Girls. And more well rounded too. I'm still awed by the moments of pure beauty. It was pure genius to recognize the same old bass wasn't going to cut it and to have the you know whats to fix it. Jesus, Keith's guitar on Rolling Stone Blues is authentic as you can get. +1 Also, I rate HD higher than GHS among their 1970s products.
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Quotematxil QuoteMadMetaphoricalMax I can vividly recall Emotional Rescue coming out, and getting it with the big thermal camera poster and everything, handling the execrable reviews from the British music press, and managing to like to brass arrangement on Indian Girl; it's been a long time since I gave it a spin, but I only really liked Dance and Let Me Go on side one, and the last three o
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Quoterayrad 2023-08-17-20 GREEN MAN FESTIVAL LOST MAP PRESENTS WEIRD WAVE * / SPIRITUALIZED / FLOODLIGHTS / JAMES ELLIS FORD / GENTLY TENDER / DUR-DUR BAND INTERNATIONAL / BETH ORTON / BROADSIDE HACKS (PLAY THE WICKER MAN) * / YASMIN WILLIAMS / GINA BIRCH / ETRAN DE L’AIR / COURTNEY MARIE ANDREWS / AOIFE NESSA FRANCES / LADY MAISERY / SPENCER CULLUM / DYLAN MORAN / GOAT / CONFIDENCE MAN / JAKE
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Florence + the Machine (support: Willie J Healey) Lizzo (support: Joy Crooks) KT Tunstall (support: Andy Burrows — missed out) Black Country, New Road Bob Dylan (x3) Eric Clapton (x2) The Doobie Brothers The Wedding Present (support: No Windows) Sad Lovers & Giants A Tribute to Jeff Beck (x2) Bruce Springsteen (x2) Depeche Mode (support: Young Fathers — missed out) Roger Waters
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Madonna in London — tonight. Her final two-month European tour date and my last gig to attend this year. Last night I was going to Far From Saints gig in Islington, discounted ticket secured. As I arrived at the air b&b type accommodation I had booked a couple of months before, lo and behold, it turned out that someone else lives there! I spent the rest of the all evening, feeling despera
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FTR this is the entire e-mail I received: “We look forward to welcoming you to G Live on Monday, 4 December for our fundraising gala in memory of, and celebrating the life of Gary Brooker MBE. The performers, including Paul Carrack, Mike Rutherford, Roger Taylor, John Illsley and Mike Sanchez, under the musical direction of Andy Fairweather, have just completed three days of rehearsal, and it’
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Clapton pulls out of the Gary Brooker tribute. I received an e-mail from the ticketing agency this morning: “Sadly, during rehearsals, it was necessary for Eric Clapton to withdraw from the gala due to ill health.”
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QuoteTheflyingDutchman Quotechriseganstar I may be wrong, and I'm sure someone will correct me if I am, but I think that the last time Mick Taylor was on stage was 7th October 2016 with Ben Waters et al at the Bacon Theatre, Cheltenham. Et voilà. I was there. IIRC the last number of the night was Crossroads played by most if not all of the musicians on the list, featuring Terry Re
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Mr. Tambourine Man from the Budokan, February 20, 1978 — Bob Dylan’s Japanese debut. The footage was unearthed in 2007 as well as the multitrack recording tapes of February 28 and March 1 that were used for the recently released Complete Budokan 4CD/8LP box sets. It was shot in 16mm film for the news broadcasting back in the day, and in quite a deteriorated condition when located after almost
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Quotebitusa2012 Quoteschwonek QuoteTopi Let's just take one tour/leg/mini-tour at a time. I agree! Today I just feel like the Stones throw me a puck that says: Hackney Diamonds World Tour 2024/25. “World Tour” that only includes the US and Europe? That’s really just a Northern Hemisphere tour, surely? You know, “world tour” has always been a joke even if it includes Australia and Japa
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Deborah Bonham Robert Plant presents Saving Grace
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QuotePaintMonkeyManBlack Teaser? Crypto.com Arena (former Staples Center)? It is an arena, not stadium, though.
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This is not a grower for me. Seized me the instant I first heard it. My favorite on HD.
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QuoteMonicaDe QuoteRisingStone Quoteangee Mick said onstage that the altitude in the mile high city of Denver was getting to him, so I don't know if he will come back. Hope so. Denver was included in the 2023 NA tour that was cancelled at the last minute. See the discussion on p.19 of this thread. Why not next year? Business is often above personal likes and dislikes. Just to remind
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Quoteangee Mick said onstage that the altitude in the mile high city of Denver was getting to him, so I don't know if he will come back. Hope so. Denver was included in the 2023 NA tour that was cancelled at the last minute. See the discussion on p.19 of this thread. Why not next year? Business is often above personal likes and dislikes.
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French tour May 2024 announced:
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QuotePaddy I played the big 4 over the weekend and then listened to HD after a weeks break. HD is the best album The Stones could have released in 2023 I think… To hear Beggars Banquet and then HD kinda F**ks my head, Hackney Diamonds is an amazing achievement for a band that’s been around this long and so many albums into their career. It sounds urgent and of now in places and there’s ties bac
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Quotetwo4fun111 Louisville will be played to be made up as Covid stopped the tour opener there. Stadium holds 60000. You are right, I forgot about Louisville. I edited my previous post and added Louisville.
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Quoteartedm looking at the calendar with rest days could be as high as 22 shows also the singer Kenny Chesney just announced USA stadium days around this same time so you can guess availability april 24 wednesday april 28 may 2 may 6 may 10 may 14 may 18 saturday may 22 may 26 may 30 june 3 june 7 june 11 june 15 saturday june 19 june 23 june 27 july 1 july 5 july 9 july 1
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The Stones are supposed to play some 20 dates. If they re-implement the aborted 2023 plan and visit the same 14 places, or somewhere close to them, then what will be the remaining, more or less 6 locations? My wild guess would go to the cancelled 4 cities for the 2021 tour, i.e. San Diego, Buffalo, Louisville, New Orleans as well as one or two LA dates. The rest might be Montreal or one Florid
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QuoteTopi QuoteHalup QuoteTopi Quoteschwonek For the reference, these were the rumored dates for the summer tour 2023, as published here on IORR: Jun 18 Edmonton Alberta Canada, Edmonton Commonwealth stadium (48,000) Jun 30 Chicago IL USA, Soldier Field (50,000) Jul 08 Foxboro (near Boston) MA USA, Gillette Stadium (50,000) Jul 20 Cleveland OH USA Cleveland FirstEnergy Stadium (50,000) S
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The more I give it a spin, the more I’m convinced HD is The Rolling Stones at their best — in the year 2023 (sorry for repeating my mantra). It occurred to me that, as an another example of an album a forward-thinking producer worked magic on to refresh the overall sound of a group with a long career, HD reminds me of Firepower, Judas Priest’s 2018 release. “What a joke,” you may say? Give it
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Quotefrankotero Jimi was something extraordinary. Though I was too small at the time but I think people realized how special he was and thought it was a good idea to capture as much as they could. Just my opinion. Yeah, Jimi was a phenomenon, a force of nature to watch at all cost.
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I don’t think I can add anything substantial to this thread as I can’t call myself a fan. I haven’t got even one record of their album, vinyl or CD. But I caught them twice in Osaka, in 2001 and 2010. Both fun to watch, in a similar sense as a Kiss show on a good night. Forget everything and indulge in a pure rock ‘n’ roll circus, adrenaline-inducing guaranteed 100 %! Bought a ticket for 20
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QuoteLeonidP Quotegotdablouse QuoteIdorh ...Mick also worked very hard to ensure that the new drummer Steve put down more varied drumming. .... Agreed, I recently listened to Talk is Cheap and the production makes it sound like it's a solo album by a drummer. ... Woah, so Mick is teaching a lifelong drummer how to drum? Nice, a man of many talents. I don’t think Mick “taught” Steve how t
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I saw them at the Osaka-jo Hall, March 22, 2001, the final date of their “farewell tour” in Japan. It was my third Kiss show after 1977 and 1997. The show lasted about 2 and a half hours, very professional and thoroughly entertaining, a fantastic night. What made the evening even more special was, we were greeted by the arena staff in Kiss make-up, ticket-collectors and ushers alike, most of them
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QuoteBig Al QuoteNashvilleBlues Quoteopj 7 september 1968 The New yardbirds in Gladsaxe pop Club, First Concert ever. True. They weren't called Led Zeppelin yet. First Led Zeppelin show was 55 years ago today. Yes, but I think that New Yardbirds show can be considered Zep’s first. After all, they only billed themselves as the ‘New Yardbirds’ for contractual reasons; their earliest dates
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For me, Hackney Diamonds doesn’t resemble any of their previous releases, even those from the so-called modern era, i.e. Steel Wheels-A Bigger Bang. In my previous post, I described HD as the definitive modern Stones album, but in truth, it has stepped into a new realm, an album belonging to its own. So unique. And that’s the greatness of HD.
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Never been interested in TS, but I have seen her live once at Summer Sonic Osaka 2010. She was the sub to headliner Stevie Wonder on the main stage. Caught her performance briefly, for about half an hour or so, using the gap between Jónsi (of Sigur Rós) and Pixies on the indoor stage, who were more of my musical taste. I don’t remember much about her show except that she giggled often while chatt
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A number of folks here find fault with HD, claiming this is fundamentally Mick’s solo album, among other flaws. Mick is the leader and frontman of the band. Through their entire career, he has always made his presence felt, more or less. Ultimately, Mick singing, and Keith and Ronnie playing guitar by his side or in the back — that’s The Rolling Stones. Simple as that. Then, someone might
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