QuoteTumblinDice76 7,500 covered seats in the pavilion at Alpine. Stage has a covered roof on it so stage sets are a bit limited. Sounds like an amphitheater type or something. Must be vastly limited for that gigantic Steel Wheels set...
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I saw him with The Mindbenders in Glasgow last year as part of the Sixties Gold package show, which has now turned out to be the first and last time for me. And I know Stepping Hill Hospital where he passed away that is situated near where I used to live. All of these have come home to me now. R.I.P.
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QuoteJimmy C I saw them 8th row on the first night at Alpine Valley. And it was definitely not the full Steel Wheels stage at Alpine Valley. An odd venue choice since the rest of the tour was at stadiums and Alpine is a shed out in the middle of nowhere that takes at least 2 hours just to get out of the parking lot at best. I’m curious how it was not the full Steel Wheels stage in East Troy/
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Murrayfield Stadium, Edinburgh, June 9, 2018. That was my 30th Rolling Stones show since 1989. QuoteRisingStone A tight, solid performance, not a bad show really — there isn’t a bad Rolling Stones show, for that matter — but I felt something was thin, if not entirely missing. Call it the fifth element or whatever you name it. I don’t think they were phoning it in or going through the motion
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Quotebitusa2012 QuoteTumblinDice76 Charlie turns 80 on June 2nd 2021. If no tour before that, maybe a one off show in their future but no more tours. This i agree with. One cannot not escape their age. They are getting on. Like us. I can see some one offs in the US. And perhaps a very short “residency” of sorts to wind it all up in the UK. But a tour? I don’t see how it could happen. Agreed.
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Led Zeppelin - Houses Of The Holy It sold in tons. But the negative responses from both music journalism and general public that greeted this album are legendary. Back in the day, most of the criticisms were seemingly pointed at The Crunge, Dancing Days and D’yer Mak’er, the ‘lightweight threesome’. However, beneath the superficiality of these often daft-sounding tracks — along with the album c
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Charlie And The Chocolate Factory (2005 Tim Burton version) Of all the tracks, I love ‘Veruca Salt’ — it feels like more genuine and authentic than any psychedelic songs written and produced in the real era c.1967, makes me feel euphoric whenever I hear it.
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Bob Dylan - At Budokan Largely disparaged, dismissed or ignored by critics and Dylan enthusiasts alike over the years as his “Vegas” album. I feel there is rich musicality in the kaleidoscopic arrangement adopted for reinventing the material when it comes to the performances recorded and heard on this album. FYI see the customer reviews on amazon.co.uk — most of the voices are surprisingly posit
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QuoteGazza The derisory way he was underused last time he played with them was one of the most wasted opportunities of their entire career I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again — The boys should have let Mick T play Midnight Rambler onwards and stay on stage till the end of the show for the 2012-14 tours. That would have made the “50 and Counting” years even more memorable and celebratory
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QuoteRisingStone They keep on rollin’ in the contaminated world! Note the photo credit in the end registers Kyoto, but the majority of the Japanese scenes are actually from Osaka, i.e., Shinsekai streets, the Tsutenkaku tower, Osaka-jo (castle) etc. Found today the end credit amended —- it shows “Osaka” now. All of the Japanese street scenes are from Osaka BTW. The gigantic blowfish (00:3
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The irony is, the catchy, upbeat All Right Now is one of the most atypical Free tunes. That it became their biggest hit and best-known song is a paradoxical twist in rock history. It is no surprising people’s opinions on this one vary.
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I saw him only once, the Festival Hall, Osaka, October 31, 1977. I can’t say I’m a dedicated fan, then and now, but I was quite impressed by the energetic performance by Rory and the band, which ran about two hours and ten minutes. I was very close to the stage (fourth row), and midway through the show, the whole crowd on the floor stood up, many behind me dashing forward. He wore zero showbiz
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Never seen The Stranglers live, but I had a strange encounter with Dave Greenfield in person. It was early July, 1994. I was visiting London, and turn of the events led me to attend a publisher’s party held at a pub, somewhere in Goodge Street if I remember correctly. That was an afternoon party for launching a new science fiction book (of which title and author’s name I don’t remember now), and
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It was fifteen years ago...Cream Reunion at the Royal Albert Hall, London, May 2, 3, 5 and 6, 2005. That was the event. I was at the first and last nights. Were you there?
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Let It Bleed — deep but sophisticated. An exquisite balance is achieved on this one.
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Gone with the train...he will be sorely missed.
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Here is a trivia for you. This footage reminds me of Lisa’s Japanese connection. I remember that in the Stone People (the Japanese Stones-zine) interview that was conducted during her stay in Tokyo for the Steel Wheels tour, she mentioned that she had once stayed and worked in Fukuoka (where she would perform with the Stones in 1995 for the VL shows) for some time — presumably sometime in the 80’
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They keep on rollin’ in the contaminated world! Note the photo credit in the end registers Kyoto, but the majority of the Japanese scenes are actually from Osaka, i.e., Shinsekai streets, the Tsutenkaku tower, Osaka-jo (castle) etc.
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Cool that your first Stones live experience was one-off like this, not another one of the shows from a tour. The shortness doesn’t matter. I would have felt privileged.
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Some people take this one-off performance under unusual circumstances and in different settings too seriously even if the cause is serious. I’m glad they are alive and well.
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Two messages: “Stay home.” “Keep social distance.” “Don’t touch your face.”
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These two old threads may be useful for deeper understanding: “Mick Jagger Tokyo Dome 1988” “What’s your opinion of the Steel Wheels tour?” I remember that some Japanese fans who flew over to America to catch the Steel Wheels Tour prior to the Tokyo shows already observed some similarity to Mick’s solo shows...there you go.
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QuoteStonesfan2146 What was the matter with Micks voice? he sings Gimme Shelter so different just one year later on the Steel Wheels tour? This version of Gimme Shelter sounds a bit like the 70s version but with older Mick. Tis is 89: Mick was not in his best nick on these Tokyo shows. He caught a cold in Osaka and had to have the fourth and final Osaka show postponed from March 19 to 2
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QuoteRip This To me that was a rare Mick error...dangerous....he is smarter than that...he and the security detail could have been seriously hurt...there was "foreign substance" involved there for sure....yikes. Mick both underestimated and overlooked the hero worship mentality shared by the Japanese Rolling Stones fans who had been waiting for them to come and play for umpteen years,
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It was one off. Mick didn’t do it again the following day, the second night at his Tokyo Dome show, March 23, 1988. The general consensus is that he concluded he had made a mistake for his rare stunt. I wasn’t there. But I saw all of his four Osaka shows, and he didn’t do it at any of these shows, either. FYI Mick’s Tokyo shows were the commemorative events for the opening of the massive Tokyo
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QuoteRollingFreak QuoteChrisL QuoteMilan Full Ginger Baker tribute concert: Awesome. Thanks to all who made it. This is absolutely fantastic. We basically got the whole thing here through various videos almost 24 hours after it happened, but so great to see it complete and looks much better quality than what we had before. Big thanks to all that made it, looks wonderfully done. Brillian
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QuoteHairball So it doesn't quite look like the journalist himself is being lazy by saying it's better than anything on Tempest, but he's simply stating that's what other people are saying - and I happen to be one of those people. While reading the Guardian review, I didn’t get the impression that the “journo” was either lazy or ignorant. On the contrary, I felt he was quite
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Quotestanlove QuoteMadMax One journo calles Murder Most Foul better than anything on Tempest. What a lazy thing to say, geezer obviously haven't heard the record. Although the lyrics are great it doesn't come near stuff like Pay In Blood, Duchesne Whistle, Scarlet Town, Soon After Midnight, Narrow Way and Long And Wasted Years. Everyone has opinion. I think its the best thing he h
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Music For The Marsden, the all-star charity event at the O2 Arena. For the finale, all but Clapton and Van Morrison turned up and performed All You Need Is Love. All I feel now is — love is not enough.
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QuoteMisterDDDD QuoteHairball Could be a reference to Hendrix's If 6 was 9.... I agree with the possible Hendrix if 6 was 9 reference.. but maybe with a Beatles twist.. number 9, number 9, number 9... “You are Number 6.” “I am not a number! I am a free man!” ...sorry I can’t help myself
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