Just in from this gig in Dublin. Bloody horrible weather. Himself was on fire, the brother came along for his first Bruce gig and was blown away. 3 hours, 29 songs...hardest working man in showbiz.
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Quotejohn r Personally the only reason cds are 'dead' is the need to sell new technology and the state of the music industry, which has regressed to pre-60s single culture via downloads. The RS are shortsighted if they dont include bonus material on these remasters - otherwise only fanatics and audiophiles might bother. Improved sonics since 1994 are only an incentive for a small portio
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Quotedcba Imho they (Sony +the Stones) should try to break new grounds with these reissues. The only way to achieve this is to follow the Neil Young path, that is putting out the music on bluray format. CD is dead! Look at this thread : it shows we'll hold on to the CD editions we have and we'll scorn these "new" Sony versions. OTOH a new better format WILL raise interes
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Quotedrewmaster QuoteNikolai QuoteStonesTod beatles and stones still competing - 40 years after the fab four folded I have a feeling the Beatles are going to win this one. I get the feeling that a lot of people on this board are more excited about the Beatles remasters than the Stones remasters. Still trying to get my head around that one! Drew Naturally; the job done by Bob Ludwig in
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QuoteRApparently you, my friend, care as you're pretty adamant in your defense of St. Springsteen. Some might even say obsessive. I USED to be a big Bruce fan (first shows pre BTR). Now I find him to be a tiresome, hypocritical boor who has surrendered his muse to the politically "correct." He's rendered himself as artistically relevant as Sheryl Crow and Melissa Etheridge.
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no need. in terms of presentation alone, the Beatles have won hands down. Additional material v a cardboard box to put the albums in... Stones 0 - Scousers 1
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ahem....
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Quotepaulywaul Hmmm ... there's a few topics of discussion missing from this thread !! Setlists ? Ticket prices ? Greed ? Age ? Keith's playing ? Mick's hair ? Ronnie's habits ? Chuck's contribution ? Blondie's contribution ? We've seen it all before ? we've heard it all before ? They're crap ? We hate them ? why are they still doing th
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QuoteGazza Quotetextmonkey QuoteNanker Phlegm I'm tempted by Dublin. Whats the RDS like as a venue ? it's good. I've only been once, and that was to see Bruce on the Sunday performance last year. I'm sure brother Gazza could give you more detail on it, but it's a fine venue. It's a large complex so once you go in the main gate and show your ticket, there's a l
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QuoteNanker Phlegm I'm tempted by Dublin. Whats the RDS like as a venue ? it's good. I've only been once, and that was to see Bruce on the Sunday performance last year. I'm sure brother Gazza could give you more detail on it, but it's a fine venue. It's a large complex so once you go in the main gate and show your ticket, there's a large compound for you to wa
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there you go, richard
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QuoteGazza Maybe the DVD they're going to talk about will be the fan club one.... maybe. and maybe monkeys might fly outta my butt!
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oh and by the way, i'm not blaming the banks *solely* for this mess. I'll give 'em 85% of the blame 'cos some financial institutions certainly engaged in 'hard selling'. However, just 'cos you're 'hard sold' something doesn't mean you have to take it. I get emails every other day from deposed Nigerian dictators asking me for my bank details i
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well that's not a link, but it's better than nothing I'm not au fait with the Community Reinvestment Act, but from what I have gathered, whilst this act may have certainly had an effect, there are also innumerable cases of financial institutions (not just in the US) offering loans at tantalizingly low interest rates (for two years) to people who really can't afford to pay
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QuoteGoldsmithNope. Root of the problem - Banks being forced by over-regulation to give loans to people they knew couldn't afford them. As for the rest of your post, you clearly show that you have no idea how the futures markets work nor do you understand their importance in providing liquidity to certain industries that operate on a seasonal basis. I must have missed that memo...can yo
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Quotemarcovandereijk At this moment the financial markets are driven by emotion. No rational expectations across the world at all. Most banks and financial institutions are really healthy businesses. It would be rational to trust your money is save with them. The banks and financial institutions would even be saver if everyone trusted that their money is save with them... ... The thing that
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so, d'you mind me asking why the hell you bothered posting in the thread? You do, indeed, have a valid opinion on Oasis, but it's nothing to do with what the OP asked; "Anyone else bought it yet and what do you think?"
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Aye - Brian Boyd in the Irish Times had an article that dropped a fairly heavy hint too...
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QuoteRickster Yes as long as the Stones are healthy enough they will tour more. Why you ask plain and simple they love every aspect of it the crowd screeming the partying the travel allof it. The only one that might rather sit at home is Charlie, and it don't take much for Keith to talk him into going on the road. So in my opinion they will never build any tour as a farewell tour yes its tru
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re the 'retard' comment...i can see how people with developmental disabilities would be hurt by being lumped into the same sentence as Dubya...
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Quoteinopeng After his use of the "R" word last night I would love a chance to knock his teeth out. R word? There's now an 'R' word? I knew there was a 'C' word, and maybe an 'F' but I didn't get no memo about an 'R' word...
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Quotemelillo a friend of mine who has the U2 deluxe versions said that he already had all of the extras or bonus material on all of them, so for what ever that info is worth we will see And here you can see that in Ireland, where U2 would have the most fervent of fans, the re-issues sold sod all. In these times, you need to really give the punters value to make deluxe editions sell...
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Okay - it's bugging me over ten years and i can't find a definitive answer. When SF was released back in '71, the typeface on the cover of the album was somewhat similar to a few lines of text knocked out by a cheap typewriter, and all small enough to fit in the belt of the model on the cover. Kinda like this I picked up my Virgin re-issue of this on CD in '94, the m
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I joined, for $100, the fanclub of a long established Rock'n'Roll band and was promised a DVD upon joining. It's two years on and it's still not arrived, so if you want to get hacked off at shoddy service from the business element of a rock band/artist, it's pretty rife sadly. The same band DO, however, have a lovely line of 'Back to School' attire in thei
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There's nothing to suggest that technology can't keep improving sound reproduction, in the same way that there's nothing to suggest that, say, a silicon chip the size of a thumbnail can't do twenty times more things in ten years time than it can now. The question becomes 'will we be able to appreciate the difference'. Computers doubling in efficiency every x years
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QuoteWinning Ugly VXII [email protected] Unless they are going to include outtakes and unreleased songs, a total waste of plastic. Buy a good turntable, find clean copies of the original lps, and listen to them like they were meant to be heard. Scotty It's definitely not a total waste,even if they only improve the sound.I don't have a record player in my car and I don'
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QuoteWinning Ugly VXII QuoteBritney QuoteBarn Owl ...and will they be released on memory sticks? Great marketing idea: The Memory Motel Stick, or The Sticky Finger. My problem with the " Shine A Light " memory stick was that it was only 512 mb for a two cd set @ 700 mb each cd.They compressed the music.They should have used a 2 GB memory stick > 1 GB for each CD (as there are
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This is a real hard one to call. I guess the options are something along the lines of a) re-release the albums vanilla, with a bit of sonic tweaking. Digitally remastered (again). Single CD b) re-release album with a second disc which is, perhaps a 5.1 version - a la LOVE by the Beatles. Or offcuts/live-tracks from the era/b-sides c) re-release albums with sonic tweaking but with a few odds&
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i also noticed that the post 71 stuff has mostly disappeared off iTunes
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QuoteBaboon BroNot fair to cut out Satisfaction in all the places they havent been. I do not want to hear Gimme Shelter as it has been played the last decades. funny you mention that - i've seen 'em 4 times and Gimme Shelter was only played once; i can't tire of it. Any of the other warhorses i'll glady lose tho!
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