QuoteBig Al Would anyone agree that at a concert attendee's judgement can be somewhat clouded by the overall experience? That is the very definition of the concert experience, though. Judgement gets clouded by second-hand reports and audience recordings that capture only a part of that experience, and at a remove too. I'd cleave to the experience over YouTube ruminations any day!
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Hyde Park, while great in lots of ways, is much too quiet in terms of volume for a Stones show. Twickenham!! That was great when they last played there, Charlie's last UK gig.
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I love seeing the videos drop the day later, though for sure they are a shadow of what went on in the stadia. I can see that the band is playing great, I love hearing the different inflections and feel on successive Honky Tonk Women and JJF etc, but I agree they are not really fit for useful (or gratuitous) criticism, by their very nature. But this tour sounds immense. Maybe there's not much
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Quoteemotionalbarbecue Some people in UK supports Spain.... Spain scottish supporters Oh yeah, the other nations in the UK loathe the English, especially behind a ball. And especially the Scottish. Still, I relished their abject 6-0 defeat in the opening round, so all is fair in love and fandom. England played well last night but Spain were better - if England deserved to win they would hav
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I absolutely love Rough and Rowdy Ways, and the concert I saw at The Palladium, it's my favourite of his since Time Out of Mind, though Tempest is a good second.I can imagine him following that lean, minimal musical path somewhere new, with those associational lyrics strolling behind, or maybe he'll release an album of Dead covers (pass, thanks) or gospel songs (yess please) - both of w
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They were incredibly loud and clear at Twickenham in 2019 - Charlie's last UK stadium show - but not quite loud enough at Hyde Park, which really sucked, especially within hearing distance of a foghorn Sloane with a couple of idiot mates who wouldnt stop talking very loudly until - praise the lord - she peeled off for a p*ss and never came back.
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QuoteDoxa Yeah, a big hand to ProfWolf for providing the links here. It is so easy for me just to wake up and catch what my favourite had been up to there in America in previous night.. - Doxa They're so fantastic for faraway eyes here in London to see come the morning after the night before, thank you Professor Wolf! Yes, I'm loving Ronnie's solos and as someone else has
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QuoteProfessorWolf smu sounds off something about the guitars Keith's sounds great to me, and Ronnie's coagulated solo thickens the goat's head soup...
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Willie's new album The Border is an excellent addition to a massive catalogue. Highly recommended. I reviewed it for The Arts Desk. The title song and Hank's Guitar especially good, but so's the rest of it.Here'#s the link if yr interested...
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I thought his playing on the first US post-Charlie tour was equally amazing and consistent. There's some internal energy coil that gets activated in the righgt conditions...
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Watching the videos from thousands of miles away in London, all I can say is hellzapoppin baby, this is utterly magnificent. That Honky Tonk Women - crunchy chords the size of Stonehenge, man, just amazing. God bless the sun, the moon and the Rolling Stones... Also love how the crowd goes nutso at the 'laid a divorcee in New York City' line - there's still some raw life in all
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Quotekeefriffhards I'd rather have one last solo album each from Mick, Ronnie and Keith, as opossed to another Mick/ Andrew Watts solo album with Keith and Ronnie playing on it. In my humble opinion Keith and Ronnie's last solo albums were better than HD. I'm so surprised Ronnie hasn't made another solo-album since I Feel Like Playing. It was one of his best, reall
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What's depressing is the rash of judgmental bo$$ocks regarding behaviours and addictions that have been well known and thoroughly chronicled since the 1960s on, in all their ugliness and outlawness. I'm looking forward to seeing this, but I can't see any reason for anyone here to look down their noses in judgment at the behaviours of rock n roll musicians and their partners and ass
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That Shake Your Hips sounds bloody amazing.
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One from the higher end of Keith's catalogue. I love the guitar figure, and the gnomic questions, it goes deep in a typically minimal way, and the backing vocal from Mick adds a special layer. Love it. As much as I love BtoB Keef songs too ...
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Quotemaumau QuoteMadMetaphoricalMax QuoteStoneage QuoteMauMau Mick VS Quiet American Audience 1 - 0 Or 1-0 to the audience if you look at it that way. You should never take the audience for granted. Sometimes you'll have to work for it. Imagine lesser known bands - they'll get nothing for free... Why the sour trolling?.... sour trolling?! what u talking about? I was emphatizing
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QuoteStoneage QuoteMauMau Mick VS Quiet American Audience 1 - 0 Or 1-0 to the audience if you look at it that way. You should never take the audience for granted. Sometimes you'll have to work for it. Imagine lesser known bands - they'll get nothing for free... From the videos they are sounding f$%$ing great!! So why the sour trolling? - in what way is this band NOT working for it
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Love that drum pattern Steve is racking out for Sympathy!
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"For me the new album lacks character bite the Stones sound. Depth feeling emotion. It’s a sterile as a hospital ER" For me, it is the exact opposite. So interesting .. I find it packed with bite, weight, feeling, replete with riffs of character and vintage, stronger vocals from Mick than I've heard on record for quite a few records, strong arrangements and lovely detailing - ea
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QuoteMathijs QuoteMadMetaphoricalMax I've always loved the long instrumental Munich Hilton, but it appears it's from later sessions than B&B.... The best-known version is from Paris 1977, but they did takes from 1975 to 1983, with parts of Dancing Girls added to it. Mathijs IS the 1977 one with vocals? It's the (very lo fi bootleg) of the instrumental 12-minute version t
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I've always loved the long instrumental Munich Hilton, but it appears it's from later sessions than B&B....
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Funny to see the boy Damon losing it at the Coachella audience because they didn't know his biggest hit song and didnt want to sing its crappy chorus. He is the gift that keeps giving, but now he should give it up... As for Mogwai, I wouldn't even bother to flush them down Glasgow' worst sh*tter if they all died on it. That's one group that should have died young ....
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Quotededospegajosos QuoteMadMetaphoricalMax 'half baked demo sounding rushed job' What a load of nonsense. Each to their own, though. I exagerated for dramatic effect, please dont cry. I like the album though, you can like bad things, I like ABB and its not very good...even if they released a christmas album I think I would also like it, its the stones after all.. but I can be re
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'half baked demo sounding rushed job' What a load of nonsense. Each to their own, though.
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"HD is excellent. It won't surprise me in 10 or 15 years when the Stones are done or dead that HD is considered amongst their best LPs" I have a strong premonition that you will be proved right! It's lean, mean, a shower and a grower, it's not overstuffed, every track has something good going for it, which cannot be said of most legacy albums - recent Who and Macca ones
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'It's not great bass playing'. I bow to higher knowledge, but it sounds fab to me and sounds like a great launch pad for Ronnie's blistering solo, which I love.
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People get in to different songs and albums in a variety of ways, which can be interesting to hear about and identify with, if you are a fan of the band. But when people hate an album, what they have to say about gets boring and repetitive REAL quick. And I've had a lifetime of haters in print or in person telling everyone how much they hate the Rolling Stones. 80s music hacks were the worst
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I do love both. Back in 2015, I reviewed Cross Eyed Heart and thought it was among the best of new releases from the Stones world in a long time (the vaults were already putting out gems from the archives). Blue and Lonesome I also liked a lot, and Little Rain will always be a top 10 Stones fave for me - but then comes Hackney Diamonds and it's a step change in focus, quality, cohesiveness a
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I do love both. Back in 2015, I reviewed Cross Eyed Heart and thought it was among the best of new releases from the Stones world in a long time (the vaults were already putting out gems from the archives). Blue and Lonesome I also liked a lot, and Little Rain will always be a top 10 Stones fave for me - but then comes Hackney Diamonds and it's a step change in focus, quality, cohesiveness a
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Now that she is the supreme embodiment of pop star-ness in the 2020s, bringing joy, identity, cohesion and good songs to billions around the planet, it's time for the backlash, at least from the progressive side of life, the venerable left-wing mag New Statesman over here in the UK has run some gloriously censorious, finger-wagging judgements in recent features like 'Taylor Swift's
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