I always regretted that Voodoo Lounge is not the classic it could have been if it included some of the best tracks from Wandering Spirit and Main Offender. Voodoo Lounge could have been a milestone album.
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What a question! YESSSSSS!
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RNR Circus and Gimme Shelter may well be just two exceptions from the rule... Gimme Shelter was available before in various formats (Video, Video CD, DCD), but I must say that the Criterion Remaster Version (and the bonus material in particular) is simply fantastic. Speaking of totally unreleased material, just Metamorphosis (1975) and RNR Circus (1996) come to mind...that's a twenty years
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I'm pretty sure that the Stones simplay cannot live without this board. The read it when they wake up, they read it before they go to sleep. They read it before they go on stage, they read it after leaving the stage. They read it practically all the time. Because they are so keen to know what we die-hards think about them and their activities, if they are on the right track or not.
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Dreaming is not forbidden...and if we all would be die-hard fans of other artists, dreams would come true, at least sometimes. However, we are die-hard Stones fans, and as such, let's face it, dreams will be just that -dreams- until the Stones finally call it quits and finally focus their attention on their glorious past. It is also possible that any as yet unreleased audio and video docu
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Midnight Toker Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > There are two kinds of decisions: good ones and > bad ones. MT leaving the Stones was a bad one. He > now appears to have a chip on his shoulder and has > zero rapport with his audiences. Well, my point in my previous post is that Taylor's decision to leave the Stones turned out to be a bad de
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Let's not forget that Taylor was never a full member of the band in legal terms. He worked for the Stones on a monthly (or weekly) wage. He was an employee, just like many on this board are employees of the companies they work for. In the public eye, Taylor was a Stones member, but in fact he was a hired gun like the backing musicians nowadays. All other circumstances and suggestions asid
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J-J-Flash, very well done. Like T&A, I agree with every single word. And your interviews explain perfectly why it is possible that people come out of the shows claiming "it was a great show" and still feel somewhat disappointed by the fact that it is more or less the same procedure as every year setlist-wise.
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Anita? Anita is a very nice person. Always very pleasant to talk to. But understably shy when all you want to talk about is THE ROLLING STONES. Just like the Dunns as mentioned elsewhere on this board. A couple of years ago, a fan disrupted our conversation (without even introducing himself) and mumbled something like "Hey Anita! Bring me to Keith! I know you still can do it!". I mean,
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Doxa Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Do I sound nostalgic or something? > > - Doxa Don't worry even if you do, Doxa. It's not your fault. Blame it on the nowadays Stones sound and song arrangements that makes you (and me) praise the old days...
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I actually heard Under My Thumb live during the Bridges tour a couple of times, and to be honest, I was not too impressed. It sounded quite lame compared to 1981 and 1982 when it was the ideal show openener. No comparison, really. In 1981/82, it was a barnstorming rocker, bringing everybody up to their feet. During BTB, the arrangement changed significantly, most notably the main riff was played
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Nice one. Nice excursion into basic economics. But all I can tell is that a lot of fellow long-term Stones fans don't go this time. You can't hear their voices on this board, they quietly disconnected from further Stones activities. But as long as other, probably younger fans fill in these voids, it will go on and on and on, with further inflationary prices increases until the end of ti
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Apart from all these "technical circumstances" (age, health) they main factor is if a new album will be in them, if they are buring, if they still feel they want to do one - call it whatever you want. If they feel they will not be able to top A Bigger Bang then they most probably will not record another one...going out with "A Bigger bang" if you know what I mean... After all
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Rockingfan Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > DAN > I agree that the prices in Germany > increased dramatically and they will and always > have a problem to sell all this tickets. Most of > the promoters had financial problems after the > Stones tour. The german promoter of the Voodoo Lounge tour in 1995 even went bankrupt after the tour.
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I doubt that they can pull this one off live...just like Mixed Emotions or One Hit, She Was Hot is one of these songs that for one reason or another, are difficult to pull off on stage. And they know it.
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bv Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Strange logics... Either you get free tickets or > pay 1000 Euro... > > I pay for every single show I go to like every > other person in this normal world. I pay 100-150 > dollars on average which would be 120 Euro. I > don't understand what you mean and I don't have > the privelege to
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bv Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > It's supply and demand. Simple as that. They have > played 43 sold out shows on this tour, average > ticket price in the USA 150 dollars. Still there > have been scalpers at many shows selling last > minute tickets. > > It seems like there are some amateur economic > students here whoi live
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Supply and demand. Indirectly bv confirms that the Rolling Stones business is like any other business, no matter which romantic dreams Stones fans all over the world may have. Some try to escape reality by blaming it all on anybody else except the musicians...and create a Michael Cohl monster to have someone they can throw all their anger and frustrations at. Of course, he gets well payed for his
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Well, sumi, F.U.C. The Captain, as far as I'm concerned, I am not judging about bootlegging. I just explain what the laws, the copyright laws in particular, say. I do this because there are a lot of misconceptions about copyright laws on this board, most notably the misconception that it is not against the law to trade unauthorized concert tapes as long as you do it for free. You might argue
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KYRIAKOS Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > F.U.C The Captain quoted Proudhon some posts up: > "Property is theft". Theft is a negative word in > this equation. It is negative because theft is > illegal property. So it is a property too! It is a > kind of a paradox.We could ask ourselves whether > property is legal or illegal. But t
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The GR Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Recording a show is not a bootleg. If you record > a show you are only breaking the terms under which > you bought the ticket (no cameras recording > equipment etc). If you sell the recording you are > breaking the law, compounded by if you make a > sleeve and sell it as a legitimate product, ie a
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Now that's an interesting question! As far as I remember it, Taylor was on a wage, means that he was paid like an employee. I'm afraid that if this monthly or weekly wage covered all his work for the Stones, including performances, he receives no royalties at all nowadays cause it was all covered by his wage back then. Like as studio or session musician - they get paid one time and that
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Yep. I know I sound like a teacher now but Tomcat 6 is right with his remark that in legal terms, unfortunately there is no difference between trading and selling... So Drake's Columbus show being "hijacked" by Sister Morphine is effectively a case of bootleggers bootlegging a bootlegger. It's hard to face it because morally, giving away something for free is usually rated hig
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I'm not trying to defend the Beatles but 'Yer Blues' sounds hardly like New Kids On The Block to me. Otherwise, this is just a boring discussion. Grow up! The Stones and the Beatles always treated each other as comrades, despite all this "who's better than..."-bullshit amongst their fans. Of course there was a competition between them, but the musicians respected eac
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Run Rudolph Run = quintessential rock'n'roll...Keith at his very , very best. Everytime I listen to this tune and "They Harder The Come" from the single flipside I deeply regret that Keith did not release a full solo album in the 70's when his voice was still intact.
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OK then, please accept my apologies.
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you are pushing it too far, cirrhosis. you are an absolute idiot if you believe this is funny. psychopath.
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cirrhosis' theories, girls in bars and beers aside, I agree with you, Leonard. The crunch is gone. It's a pity. Guitars sound pretty tame by now. Seems to me that the more backing musicians they added, the more the crunch suffered. After all, the Stones used to be a guitar band...
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Well, according to cirrhosis' "theory of everything" the crunch is still there. And if you can't hear it, it tells a lot about yourself and your concept of crunching. And your unhappy state of mind, of course. You see, cirrhosis' theory of everything explains everything. In fact, the crunch in the Stones guitar sound is still there. If I understand cirrhosis right, you ju
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G. the Cock Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Maybe I am exaggerating or just got some serious > ear damage after listening to the recently > released audience tapes. In my opinion it's way > better than the most of them all at least. > > > > Truth is stranger than fiction > > stoned greetings > G. The Cock Th
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