I bought one of those, in order to be free of uncertainty about obtaining a ticket to the first Hyde Park concert as well
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They "should", or rather could (as I have posted earlier), as an alternative, make it a traditional double album's length. Record 1: Suitable live versions, preferably with younger guest artists, possibly gaining new strata of customers of Stones albums . Record 2: A studio album (preferably with, but even without Mick Taylor) of new songs. A studio album that then will get l
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My reading of your post is that you are in the process of starting to take a Woodist stance in the discussion about who has been the most adequate guitarist of the Stones in addition to Keith Richards. With that as starting point you invite posters to answer if they would go (or have gone) to concert of this "50 Years and Counting"-Tour in case Mick Taylor had not been a special guest.
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Quotecrawdaddy Not sure on that one as being a guest and hoping for 3,4 or maybe even 5 songs is special. Knowing that he will be on every song at every gig...........will the feeling change? Didn't take me long to realise that would be the ideal world farewell tour for The Rolling Stones. I don't want to know anything about a declared final tour. I don't want to know anyt
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QuoteMasseolle51 Yes, I agree! But aren´t we all getting a wee bit nostalgic now? would love to hear some of these live but most people not! Off the hook, you better move on etc could maybe work but Walking through the sleepy city no way! I hope they come to Sweden next year but this is probably just in my imagination (running away with me)! I for one would most of all like that they might rec
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I hold "Hot Stuff" to be one of a couple or three really good and interesting songs on an album that all the same to me belongs to one of quite few slumps in this great band's careeer. Apart from being categorized as a funk song, isn't it "toasting"- inspired singing during the latter part of "Hot Stuff"? In other words, funk with a reggae flavour, possib
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QuotePalace Revolution 2000 Not so much this very song, but I wish they'd o a lot more of their early Blues material. Their early covers, and their early originals. They might not be giving their early writing enough credit. But "Off the Hook", "Little by Little", "Grown up Wrong" are super-cool little numbers. Can you dig a re-thought 2013 version of "It
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QuoteHairball If given the choice, I might have paid $100 extra to hear this classic rather than Emotional Rescue. Oh, dear! To me it is rather "both .... and" instead of "either .... or". Confronted, for instance, by your point of view, I am afraid that Mick Jagger might reflect that it is better to practise "neither ,,,,, nor". That it is better in most cases
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Thank you, you confirm the thought I used too much time to write down!
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A closer reading than during the most hectic working hours, reveals that the Stones ticket in the combined packet with the Who and Bon Jovi is "a GA Tier 3 ticket for the Rolling Stones on 6th of July". But I who later will receive a GA Tier 3 ticket for July 13th, have been given the expression that the Tier 3 tickets were not sectionized. Meaning early arrival will mean the poss
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Quotejohnnythunders AEG just emailed me to offer a bundle of these three gigs at a "bargain" price GA for Stones and Bon Jovi, Reserved Seating for the Who Clever marketing or getting desperate ? Does anyone know what is meant by General Admission in this connection? I'd rather spend £ 199 on a ticket that might permit me to enter tier 3 than £ 399 to tier 1. In such a
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As to July 6th: Where are the Stones tickets of that type of ticket package situated? Is it a socalled section D4 for the Stones part? It is complicated enough for me to obtain a perspective of the tiers 1, 2 and 3. There was for instance an illustration in a post from beepee2, dated April 11th, 1202 Also tiers 1 and 2 are available at - I must correct - 399 and 299 £ for a single Stones
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Quoteduffydawg Yep.... HERE IS A FACT JAGGER: THE ROLLING STONES ARE NOT THE GREATEST ROCK AND ROLL BAND EVER - BUT THE ROLLING STONES WITH MICK TAYLOR IS THE GREATEST ROCK AND ROLL BAND EVER. DEAL WITH IT. PUT HIM ON STAGE!! Much as I have started to dream about and still would love Mick Taylor even rejoined the band like an "as if" full time member: If the quoted would be
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QuoteBrstonesfan It is sad how they are treating him once again. They simply refuse to A acknowledge that he made them the greatest band particularly when the could not compete with the Beatles pop and Zeps rock. He gave them real real musicianship to,accompany Jagger/Richards great song writing abilities at the time. What is, was and has been great about the Rolling Stones, did not
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From my point of view: The warhorse phenomen had not come into being at this early stage of the Stones' careeer. That belongs to times much later on, when, as a gradual development, the conservatism of their aging audiences is taking the upper hand on curiosity and lust for new material. It means the arrival of the saddening mentality of craving almost only for the old grand numbers an
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Once again and as always, an interesting first response, Doxa, from you, exposed to a challenge. My motive for, seemingly misplaced, bringing up that theme also in this plea thread, had to do with the plea itself. It was to demonstrate that also one, (in addition to the honourable threadstarter, of course, and Dandelion Powderman,) who is mainly positive to what the band has achieved during
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QuoteDandelionPowderman Keith is the Stones. To the extent that the Stones can be reduced to one formula (really, it can't), it is not. My proposition: If there is to be one such formula, this one formula is instead to be found in the balance of the contradiction between Mick and Keith. We can have different wishes as to this balance. Myself, as one, who wishes for change and innov
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I think it is advantageous to draw a distinction between "safety" and "control and coordination", in the context of the Stones during more than the two last decades, something which usually is not done. It is important if one shall get an adequate understanding of the increased (premeditated) control and coordination which belong to "the new professionalism" startin
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QuoteDoxa And back to dreaming. I hope that there will be an official DVD box made out of this tour. And that having some special features section which includes all the different Taylor numbers they have made. - Doxa I have been dreaming along the same lines, and even thought about a title. I suggest "Déjà vu". Apart from the literal sense, I guess that it might be a cor
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As much as I earlier have written "And if possible, that the potentially extended participation from Mick Taylor would be to different songs to avoid the risk that a pattern becomes a routine." I would be delighted if Mick Taylor could play on varying songs. The element of a somewhat lessened premeditated control and coregraphy, compared with what has been the case since 1989,
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Quotemickschix I wish I could bank on your theory, BluzDude, because that would be the best way to celebrate my last time seeing the Stones. I hate even thinking of a " last time" but this might be it. I seldom regret not seeing a particlar show but that Staples Center show came as close to a dream set as I've seen in a very long time! Whatever it might be, do not think of it as
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QuoteDoxa Hmm.. on the second thought, I am not happy at all of that description "role in the band" (by elunse), For me it is more like a question of dynamics within the band: the whole band is like a field of force, driven by different tendencies; if you put some odd a force there - like Taylor now - it affects to everything. Before those numbers - starting with "Midnight Rambler&
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QuoteDoxa rtr is making solid points. This ia a "Taylor lovefest" here, but I don't see anything wrong in that. It is nice to see people so thrilled, and I am one of them. Actually I was looking for a reaction like his/hers to come, since the band has played now with the same concept from 1989 or 1994 (if we count Wyman or not) with an incredible success - so it is no wonder tha
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QuoteGreen Lady Final setlist: 1 - Get Off Of my Cloud 2 - IORR 3 - Paint it Black 4 - Gimme Shelter 5 - All Down the Line 6 - Far Away Eyes 7 - Sway with Mick Taylor 8 - Doom and Gloom 9 - One More Shot 10 - Can´t You Hear me Knocking with Mick Taylor 11 - Honky Tonk Women 12 - You Got the Silver - Keith 13 - Before They Make me Run - Keith 14 - Midnight Rambler with Mick Tayl
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I have been away from IORR lately, and I have not read much of this thread. I express my view as one that holds the view that there have been many peaks of the band's career. The one peak Mick Taylor was involved in, the third in my understanding, started before he joined and ebbed before he broke away. In my outlook three out of four albums, starting with SOME GIRLS (controversially be m
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My intuition is that with Mick Taylor hopefully in the studio, preferably as a rejoined member of the band, their interacting could change in a favourable way, and that this new personal chemistry would inspire more passionate and ambitious studio development of their song ideas. In that case their own songs ought to be much more interesting.
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QuoteDoxa........................... I like it better than the hundreds autopilot versions they run through the Vegas Era.................................... - Doxa Now I want to ask: Shall we take this, Doxa, that you consider the Stones to have moved past a Vegas Era and entered a post-Vegas Era, all according to your terminology?
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QuoteSweetThing Well, lets see.. The Dark Ages lasted longer than The Renaissance.... so, then, well, therefore the Dark Ages were the best version of humanity. It is debateable though to which extent those rather highflown analogies would hit the target that you here mean them to do. And to the more limited extent they still possibly could be said to do some justice, one might then in the nex
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Quotelazzzybones .......................................... This is a golden opportunity for the band to perform in that lineup.I'd say the same if Brian were still alive. All the same, I have to repeat that I find it rude to suggest that the replacing guitarist should leave the stage. It must suffice that the other band members (minus Bill Wyman) are playing.
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