Listen to If You Can't Rock Me into Get Off Of My Cloud. There is something majorly screwed up about it. I don't know what Mick is doing but he seems to be in some alternate universe.
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I agree that the band totally settled down in the second half of the Rich Stadium show. There is a Bob Dylan show in the fall of 1990 with the roadie band (after GE Smith left) where Bob sings I'll Remember You but the band is clearly expecting I Believe In You based on the lick the one guitar is playing
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In the Old Gods book (which I know is factually unreliable) it says at the final show of the 75 tour at Rich Stadium just outside of Buffalo that Mick, Keith and Woody took acid and Mick sang Brown Sugar as the band played Street Fighting Man (or something like that). The last fact is clearly not true but there is a major screw up during the If You Can't Rock Me/ Get Off Of my Cloud segue. I
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Neil Young's Time Fades Away is made up of new songs
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Gotta say that NSP with new vocals is better than I feared. The over pronunciation is there and there's way more emotion in the original guide vocal but this works for me better than any of the Exile new vocal stuff.
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Of the artists mentioned in the orginal post, the only one I think should be in the Hall is Warren Zevon. He will never get in but it is a tragedy because he was a great writer and he actually played rock 'n' roll. Madonna, Leonard Cohen etc. are worthy in their own way but they didn't play rock 'n' roll.
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washington bullets the right profile complete control i'm so bored with the u.s.a. four horsemen
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Cleveland is dreadful - my understanding is the Stones were blown off stage by opener Kansas which will tell you how bad they were.
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I only listen to albums. Have 1000 store bought CDs - my burned stuff is all bootleg. I own albums where I know it's not a truly great album (or even good) but I find unsuccessful albums are as informative about the artist as the successful ones. I prefer anthologies for older artists (Chuck, Muddy, the Wolf etc.). Albums represent a snapshot in time. Some things don't age well but that
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I agree nothing seems finished and unlikely they ever were. Claudine sounds finished (the revved-up version).
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So you've been placed in charge of putting together a disc of Some Girls outtakes for the reissue. You are allowed 10 songs. What do you put on it? Me? I'd put Claudine for sure. Really like No Spare Parts. Do You Think I Still Care is nice. Fiji Jim. Everlasting Is My Love. What else might you select?
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There have been many great American bands - the Velvet Underground, CCR, Little Feat (with Lowell George only),Lynyrd Skynyrd, many more. It's just that Britain produced some truly great bands from 1963- 1976 (I consider The Clash the last truly great British band). Most great bands since 1976 are American, IMO
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ABB is the only post-Wyman Stones album that I thought was actually good. I liked it from the get-go. I was surprised by the generally negative view of it on this board but to each his/her own. Particularly like Rough Justice and She Saw Me Coming. When reviewed in the Globe & Mail (Canada) the headline was Mick, You Can Sing and I found that to be the case. Sure there's filler and I can
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Emotional Rescue was not supposed to be a major Stones album - more of a piss-take than anything else - similar to Some Girls but clearly not as good. The only keeper is "She's So Cold" imo.
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If you want to hear the KOL do a credible Stones tribute check out Dusty on their first album which sounds like an authentic Beggars Banquet outtake.
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I agree Barcelona is the best show on this tour. Dylan played the only version of Lay Lady Lay from this tour at this show and launched into Senor spontaneously for the Spanish audience. I also agree with Gazza about the Blowin In The Wind from this show complete with a singalong if you can imagine that - it is one of the warmest moments at any Dylan show. I also really like Cologne. In particula
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Technically this isn't an alternate take - it's the master take that they went back and worked on to create the released version. The vocal is Mick's guide vocal, later peeled off and overdubbed with new vocal. Listen to Respectable on Place Pigalle - it's the take they used on the album but they edited it down and redid the vocals but the basic take is the band playing live -
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After 9/11 I went to Detroit with a friend of mine to see Bob Dylan. My friend was taping with a DAT. They had metal detectors. He failed the metal detector 3 times and eventually used the "I have a metal plate in my leg" line. Then he got in. If they discover a recorder they will not allow you in with it. If they catch you with one during the show, they will take the tape, not the reco
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I agree that the Las Vegas 11/22/97 is a great modern era show.
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I received this record in the mail yesterday. I was surprised by how good it was -definitely in the vein of I Got My Own Album and Now Look or those Clapton albums from 75-76. Very soulful - Bobby Womack really brings things up a notch on the songs he's on. Cover of Spoonful with Flea is first rate. I found most of the songs to be quite memorable - better than your average Ronnie Wood album.
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little known fact - keith gave an interview in late 74 to british magazine and said he was pretty sure the new guitar player would be wayne perkins. also said new album would be called cockroaches - they used this name for secret gigs eg. el mocambo
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Lettingitbleed - I think your set list is excellent(except you put Too Much Blood twice!). I think they would have had one or two other Tattoo You songs but excellent choices - well paced set.
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Imagine the Stones had stayed on course in the 1980s and kept the U.S. tour schedule of a tour every three years and there had been a tour in 1984 to promote Undercover. Just for the fun of it, speculate what the set list would have been. The rules are that there should be a 24 song main set with one Keith song as the 13th song and a single encore. There must be at least 5 Undercover songs.Tr
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The generally negative view of ABB on this board has always mystified me. Of the records that the Stones made since 1989, it is the only one I truly enjoy. For me, it is a good record because it's actually about something. It's a break-up album and probably reflects Mick's break-up with Jerry Hall. Generally I can't think of songs more meaningless than Flip The Switch or You G
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1981 was my first tour. I saw them at Orchard Park and the first Pontiac. In Orchard Park (Buffalo) the wind blew so hard they had to cut the pastels down for fear of the entire stage lifting up and crushing the 20,000 on the floor. The pastels were shaped in the form of a flag etc but the replacement was not. Orchard Park was good because you could hear the band kick it into gear from Tumbling D
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Bob Dylan At Budokan is horrible. It is the only Dylan album I don't have on CD. The best line about it is Rob Sheffield in the most recent Rolling Stone Record Guide who calls it "immaculately frightful". Don't get me wrong. I was in England in 1978 and that is the biggest impact I have ever observed of a tour on a nation. I think the European shows would have made a much bet
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As far as Keith's first half of the seventies being incredibly gloomy, I am not in the least bit surprised. Your Keith Richards - the world's most elegantly wasted human being - (is that a Nick Kent quote or Charles Shaar Murray?) - you're a junkie living with a woman you love and have children with but - you know - there are problems. The police seem to show up a lot looking for t
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I am going to defend two songs listed Sparks Will Fly - because the music is the best thing on Voodoo Lounge - rocks way better than Love Is Strong or You Got Me Rocking. Sure that one line will make some people cringe but I love the groove. Sweet Neo Con - I understand why people don't like it but it is different from all other Stones songs in that it is the most pointed lyric in any
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