QuoteEddieByword Quotekeefriff99 QuoteEddieByword The way Mick was going at it, I doubt it..............(I think only Charlie might pull the plug at some point...... I heard from a paramedic from the Cardiff show that Mick has a running room backstage and he runs for an hour before the show starts...............I thought he was 'pumped up' for SFM.................. I seriously doub
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Gut reaction - I’m not thrilled that he did the album with Greg and Ryan, but I would have said the same about Paul Eppworth on the last record, and one of his tracks (Queenie Eye) turned out to be my favorite song on New. But this interview has me feeling much better about it. The worry I had is that it would be more like the record Liam Gallagher did with Greg Kurstin, or the recent stuff U2
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QuoteCristiano Radtke "On Friday the full audio track for Tumbling Dice taken from upcoming release No Security, will be available to stream on all major platforms. In the meantime here's a short clip for you..." Still not wild about the mix on this, but so happy to finally have it (and it looks fantastic).
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After Licks had progressed beyond the “stage decorations flanking one big screen” look, I always felt ABB was a bit of a step back. While the sides did look cool and futuristic when lit up in the dark, in daylight it looked like a parking garage.
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Re: can they fit No Filter indoors - I think given they’re only doing 15 shows at a time these days, stadiums are kind of the only option if they want them to be profitable. I’d be very surprised if we see another 2013 style tour.
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Quotebarbabang How many times was Shattered in the set since 2012? One or twice? Great surprise. Even since 2005 rarely played I think. Good thing there wasn't a power cut again, that knocked it out for the rest of the tour in '89...
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Iirc it was Mick having to cancel a Twickenham gig in ‘03 which put paid to consecutive gigs going forward.
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Quotekevos This is great info. Thanks so much. Not really sure why Rambler, Dice & Miss You are done every show nowadays? If its cos they think they are crowd pleasers There are certainly others more well known that they could churn out every night Dice has been done every night since it was released, I’m pretty sure. It’s one of those (along with Rambler and JJF) that they always seem to p
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QuoteDoc - ABB : Saitama is obvious True story. I understand on some level the notion that Keith “slowed down” after No Security, but this show from right before his injury in ‘06 shows clearly that he was still capable of turning in the kind of performance we’d kill for these days. Pre-tree Keith was still a force to be reckoned with.
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One thing the pictures of the London shows have made clear: this stage setup looks much more compelling when you can see the city behind the screens (as in Croker and much of the '17 tour), instead of blacked out stadium seats.
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Quotesundevil suprised the stones don't periscope for the "true" fans these days. who buys all their stuff? i'm not willing to curse the lack of periscopes, i wanna curse the $3600 airfares to dublin, i mean c'mon! What tour was it where you could call a premium phone line to listen to the first few songs? Licks, maybe? That seems so quaint now...
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Quotemarianna I have lost respect for Neil Finn. I can understand Mike Campbell joining FM, because he's a guitar player and lost his band. He also has worked with Stevie over the years. Neil only worked with Mick Fleetwood very recently. Neil is a singer-songwriter who fronted two relatively successful bands. So, now he's giving up his identity to sing another person's songs, and
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QuoteGasLightStreet QuoteHonkeyTonkFlash Why do we even have a rehearsal thread at this point? It was fun back when people used to be able to congregate outside and hear what they were trying out different. Apparently no one gets that close anymore. U2 have been extremely quiet about their rehearsal location yet alone any leakage. Completely untrue, we had detailed reports of every night of U
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Pretty sure it’ll be Simon Townshend and Frank Simes, as it has been since ‘09.
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QuoteJah Paul QuoteMisterDDDD I equate this to the Stones "firing" Ronnie Wood as far as the impact on the band, although perhaps I diminish Buckingham's talent in that comparison. It's a little different...Buckingham's role as a songwriter, guitarist, vocalist, arranger and producer cannot be overstated. A significant stage presence as well. Indeed - it's more
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Neil is my favorite songwriter of all time, and I’m still having mixed emotions about this. It’ll be great to see him get to play to slightly bigger crowds than normal. But it doesn’t seem like a particularly natural fit for him. Nonetheless, I guess I’ll be seeing FM for the first time now...
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QuoteMileHigh Here are somethings I have been wondering about for years. When a band plays an arena or a stadium, are the guitar players and the base player still playing on their own little on-stage amps which are then picked up with microphones a few feet in front of each amp? Presumably then the signals go to the main mixing console to then go to the main PA system. If this is indeed true
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I remain confused by the clear articulate Keith we see in these recent newspaper interviews, and the spaced out mumbling Keith we see whenever he’s on film. If this is what sobriety does, it should be a great tour.
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Quotepaulywaul The St Giles is a poxy, dreary, characterless, over-priced dump in "West End Shopping Central", i.e. near the junction of Oxford Street and Tottenham Court Road. People - use your brains, you can do a lot better !!! It’s also nowhere near the O2 either, so was a curious choice then too.
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I suspect anyone looking at potential Twickenham gigs as a tidy ending to a career is overestimating how much the band cares about such things. Mick has never seemed the least sentimental about the band’s history.
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QuoteLeonidP Paul McCartney - Coming Up, Live Paul McCartney - Coming Up I don't recall the circumstance of why I knew the live version first, I think it was a b-side, but I loved it ... then I heard the studio version and it sounds so lame compared to the live version. The 2013 Radio 2 version, with the Peter Gunn theme in the middle, is my favorite. There have been other released ver
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Quote35love I sometimes think Sir Paul and Sir Mick have a competitive bet running; You retire first, No YOU retire first, I’ll quit when you quit, that bugger I can’t let him outlast me... Mick is at a substantial disadvantage in that particular race, as - Paul’s stage act involves no running about - Paul’s entire band is 20-25 years younger than he is None of which is meant at a sli
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Quotepeoplewitheyes I've loved this song for several years, but had never heard a live version. Then I heard this one from 1980. Holy smoke! What a performance! What piano playing! What great blow! Who out there saw EJ in the 70s/early 80s? Tell us about it please! ‘82-‘84 Bennie was the best Bennie. Particularly with Elton setting off a looped note on his piano, sitting
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Quoteycagwywpmd QuoteDandelionPowderman QuoteMonsoon Ragoon Why should they play festivals? They get much more bucks for own shows I guess, compared with appearances at festivals that are sold out before they get booked. 2013 was different as there wasn't a real UK tour. I think they get what they want from festivals as well. It was rumoured they lost money at Glastonbury as they altered
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QuoteSend It To me I remember Jagger making a comment to this effect at one point in the 90's or 00's about the production costs of Stones tour. Obviously, with a new (very nice) stage on a 14 show tour, the break even point is definitely not like 30 shows. Wonder where it actually is... Ah, despite the purists, I miss the ridiculous stadium stages... For this current setup I don
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I’d be surprised if they got a new StuFish set just for these Euro shows. They used the previous set from ‘14-16, so perhaps this one has two or three years in it.
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QuoteJah Paul QuoteHairball Imagine if Mick were to hire a bunch of young whippersnapper studio musicians and tour the world playing his solo material and a bunch of Stones songs. Although they are certainly younger than he is, McCartney's band members are hardly "young whippersnappers" - guitarist/bassist Brian Ray is 62...guitarist Rusty Anderson is 58...and keyboardist Paul &q
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I love Paul’s music and I’m really happy he’s still touring, he continually puts on incredible shows (even if his voice has become more hit-and-miss since about ‘13). But it’s not a completely fair comparison with the Stones. His 38 song sets routinely run 2:45, which is still a LONG gig, but if they were Stones songs, it would have to be 4 hours. Similarly, Paul is *one* 60s rocker touring wi
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On paper, a brilliant show with the kind of setlist we've been asking for for years. Based on the various cellphone clips... a less than perfect execution. But they've got the rest of the tour to get that right. Well done, boys.
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Quotekeefriff99 Never heard any Bono lip-syncing rumors...it wouldn't surprise me if a few high notes were touched up through their extensive backing track system, but lip-syncing entire songs? Hell no. Not from what I saw. The only "touch up" in the show vocally is the falsetto "woo"s in Elevation, and that has been in place since they began playing it live in 2001.
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