That's where the technology has changed to require a different mind set for stage design. 25 and 30 years ago the screen technology wasn't so good and certainly wasn't up to being the main focus of the stage. So to make a real statement you needed a lot of fancy architecture. The potential size and the brightness we have in today's screens totally redefines the para
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Yep ..I remember buying a phase pedal around 1978 . They were the big thing for a while...then more extreme sounding flangers and the like came to prominence. I could never take to those...I probably lacked the vision and imagination.
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Don't know what you all see in any of it... ...just a bunch of long haired layabouts making am awful bloody noise ...and they look old enough to know better !
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Hilarious really that we should invent FX pedals to mimic the effect of somebody sticking their thumb on top of a tape deck capstan roller...or the sound of an echoplex with serious speed stability issues. ...and god knows what Leo Fender must have sai when first told that folks actually wanted his amps to distort
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QuoteDoxa ... Spot on Gas. It stands alone on its own merits. The most common argument is that it's not as good as so and so. Why do people feel the need to compare all the time? Do people really want the band to regurgitate the classic Stones' sound from the 70s? I certainly don't. That was then but this is now. It's a great album. Yeah, when I listen to such gems like OUT
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Yes...not a phaser...but there's something else going on behind that more obvious tremolo. Maybe a Leslie derived thing ?
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Safe journey to a better place
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It's all just symptomatic of who MT is. As a musician, and probably as a person, he's the type who needs a framework provided by somebody or something else in order to give of his best. He's never been best equipped to "plough his own furrow".
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There was a brief article about the exhibition and the photographer on BBC news the other day.
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QuoteDoxa ... and I cannot demand my beloved Rolling Stones to offer me goods like they used to. But still they give me something like no one else does... - Doxa And that I think also sums it up for me, and doubtless for many other folks around here.
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Fingerprint File is one of two "wildcards" that I'd be interested to hear them play today. The other is Torn n Frayed . I think each could work in its own way on today's stage.
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Could certainly be interesting... there are precedents ...didn't he once play bass on SFTD with EC on guitar ? ...but Keith might then have to play his instrument for a whole song !
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I was pleasantly surprised by the sound of HD . In the context of today's typically over loud and over compressed offerings..it sounds pretty good.
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QuotePalace Revolution 2000 QuoteSpud We all have different tastes and values when it comes to sound quality...and, obviously, different playback systems... But some folks I think equate "good" sound with a big impressive "in yer face" and overtly HiFi presentation ...which isn't always what you want from a recording. True. What you said earlier is very much the wa
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The fewer changes made, the fewer changes to remember for band & crew alike. Sad though it is for we lunatics, they aren't thinking about the audience members who attended the last show ...let alone the last ten.
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When we start getting this silly... ...we might conclude that this specific argument has rather exhausted itself The wider debate about whether the often ramshackle sound of the Rolling Stones should be committed to record warts and all is one that has raged for a generation. We're all right, wrong ...right, left... and she's gone
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This is perhaps one of those where we should respect the contrary opinion , agree to differ, and not get too upset about it .
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We all have different tastes and values when it comes to sound quality...and, obviously, different playback systems... But some folks I think equate "good" sound with a big impressive "in yer face" and overtly HiFi presentation ...which isn't always what you want from a recording.
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QuoteElmo Lewis I know absolutely nothing of the technical aspects, I just know the album sounds muffled (for lack of a better word). Maybe dull. I love most of the songs on here, but the production leaves something to be desired. Ditto Ronnie's Gimme Some Neck. Glimmers first time out? Interesting . the only version of Gimme Some Neck I've ever had is my original day of re
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QuoteDoxa ... Maybe it is a new low - if we forget for the sake of the argument the old GOT LIVE tracks - but I think it is more a case of semantics at this stage. Like Dylan put it, "I used to care, but things have changed"... - Doxa You were the right the first time . .. "..laziness or pragmatic reasoning." I suspect the decision to release the Racket show was prett
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QuoteDandelionPowderman Black And Blue sounds wonderful, imo. I can understand if it's too clean for others, but for me it's very pleasant to listen to. . Don't get me wrong, it does sound fantastic.. But after you've played it, you've heard it all ... ..It has no secrets
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QuoteDandelionPowderman When we're discussing the live album, it's kinda relevant if they use tracks from the studio album to touch it up, no? It certainly is relevant. But, that said, I think some folks get too hung up about it. If something's not right in a live performance, it's gone in that instant... ...but you don't necessarily want to hear it over a
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I always thought B&B sounded almost too clear & transparent for a Stones album. They need a bit of dirt and a bit of murky mystery in the mix.
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Wonder if anyone ever suggested to Bill that he take a bass solo ? ...I suspect his reaction may have been ...
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QuoteSomeGuy For me IORR is a top album alright. It's got more raw and raunchy songs on it than its immediate, softer predecessors in that it has the guitars turned up more loudly than before, Jagger singing more abrasive than usually (not always a good thing though here it works), the drums are heavier. ... And that's exactly what the bland and listless EQ and mastering engineered ou
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In about a week's time is our best information so far .
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Quotedownagain I would suggest choosing the guitar you're most interested in learning to play. Motivation is key. Wise words. For all but the most outrageously talented, learning guitar is difficult at first. Many give up before they've really got going. Whatever your talent level...it's all about how much you want to do it. What I would say. and whatev
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Not the best song ever written... ...but it's a band letting rip, having some fun, playing some simple RnR ... ... it's not for thinking about
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That might be a useful document for some folks, conveniently packaging various odds and sods which haven't been very readily available .
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There was certainly some promotion of HD in Japan because folks were posting photos of it on here. Maybe it was largely restricted to record shops ?
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