Amongst my lifelong interest in things British like the Stones and the entire British invasion has been James Bond. Being the right age as an adolescent/teen in the 60s I loved Bond and all the spy shows like Avengers, I Spy and Man from Uncle. The main thing I remember liking about OHMSS which I recently watched a part of (have the amazing box set of all Bond films on blu-ray) are the skiing
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QuoteGasLightStreet Bud Light is promoting free water in beer taverns. Wonderful. Seeing that Philadelphians love Cheese Whiz, that shouldn't be a problem at all. Agree about the Bud Light. The rest of your post is kind of trollish, but I took the bait. Philly is a long recognized foody restaurant city and every city is famous for some sort of local junk food delight that bewilders o
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Parade starts at 11:00. Bud Light is promoting free beer in taverns/pubs along the route as part of their Dilly Dilly ad campaign converted to Philly Philly for the occasion. Expect this to be a raucous celebration but less likely to get out of hand with lots of families in attendance and during daylight hours with massive police presence. No late night drunks. Philly loves the Eagles, but
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Perhaps I am oversimplifying, but what just happened in the NFC playoffs and SB seems to demonstrate that a good QB can win with the right pieces in place on the rest of the team. Foles was good enough to step in when Wentz went down because the other pieces were in place, especially receivers and O-line. However, he had to perform at a high level to make it all work. If the Eagles had a typical
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Happens to me a lot, usually when someone learns that I am a Stones geek. But the conversation will often be that they remember seeing the Stones during some decade and, after I quiz them a bit, I tell them what year it was. HBK
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Quotehopkins QuoteHouseBoyKnows QuoteHouseBoyKnows Maybe it's just that the there are no posters from the Philly area on this thread, but I have been surprised about how little respect the Eagles get, even after dominating the so-called best defense (Vikes) with a so-called backup quarterback (Foles). The Pats are vulnerable and not invincible. We saw that during the regular season. The
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QuoteHouseBoyKnows Maybe it's just that the there are no posters from the Philly area on this thread, but I have been surprised about how little respect the Eagles get, even after dominating the so-called best defense (Vikes) with a so-called backup quarterback (Foles). The Pats are vulnerable and not invincible. We saw that during the regular season. They've lost SBs when favored
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I've been a Wishbone fan since the 70's and seen them in every lineup incarnation multiple times including just last September. Andy and Ted co-exist in separate bands now and some of the fans are in one or the other's camp. However Andy Powell owns the name and has has released many excellent WBA LPs over the years whereas Ted simply relives the older "warhorses".
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Maybe it's just that the there are no posters from the Philly area on this thread, but I have been surprised about how little respect the Eagles get, even after dominating the so-called best defense (Vikes) with a so-called backup quarterback (Foles). In part, the ambivalence is due to the bad reputation Philly sports fans have which makes them easy to root against. That reputation is deb
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Although technically a Mick solo track, his version of Memo from Turner is vastly different from the band version. Using that approach we could get into tracks like Lonely at the Top. HBK
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QuoteMadMax "I write on this thread again, because it is unfathomable how any in IORR (where Five 10 outta 10 songs. Putis43, maybe Oasis is the same for ya as Arctic monkeys or coldplay is for me but I can't really see why when one must consider Oasis one of the 5 Big English ROCK N ROLL bands of all time (Stones, Beatles,The Who and Led Zep are the other 4). Who else could join this
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Hampton video is much better because it was shot as a multi-camera professional pay-per-view television event. From what I can tell, Leeds seems to be taken from the cameras used for the video screens in the stadium and is almost all head shots or waist-up angles at best. The viewer rarely gets to see guitars being played or full band member camera angles. For this reason, I love the audio, bu
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Not Fade Away and I Just Want Make Love ... listening to late night Detroit AM from my small town Michigan home. 1964 - 10 years old. It's all Over Now sealed the deal but, truth be told, I was into all the British bands equally and I didn't become a Stones diehard until Ya-Yas smashed me over the head when I was 17. HBK
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Midnight Oil 2x Elvis Costello Tom Petty /Peter Wolf Dada Stiff Little Fingers Wishbone Ash Paul Kelly Rolling Stones Paris 3 Brian Setzer Orchestra
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I've posted this before on an Exhibitionism thread. ". . . There's a section on Stones in the studio where you can listen to several tunes with a fake studio mixing board. You can adjust the faders up or down for vocals and instruments. Listen to Rocks Off with just Nicky's piano. A true revelation of his subtle but important contribution to the band's sound in those y
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You never know . . . so I will try to hit at least one show on every tour. Las Vegas last year and Paris 3 this year have already been part of that plan. Traveling from Philadelphia to wherever. . . . HBK
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Amongst a few already named, I can add both Paradiso shows in 1995 from my list. HBK
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Thanks to Hopkins for another brainy rant. One of my best friends is a Lou fanatic to the same level that I love the Stones. I've seen Lou with him maybe a dozen times over the years going back to early 70's. I love all the usual standards, but my go-to LP is Legendary Hearts and the track Bottoming Out. HBK
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So this is possibly among the longest trips, but a little unorthodox, to say the least. I have to travel from Philadelphia to Sydney on business in October. But instead of flying directly back to the US, I will continue around the world and fly from Sydney to Paris, via Hong Kong, for the last show. Then home to Philly to complete the circumnavigation of the earth, thanks to the Stones (and
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I'll start it off. Miss Amanda Jones Dirty Work (the song - not the album) Flip the Switch If we include covers - Down the Road Apiece
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I think the improvement in the technology since the nineties in large hI res video screens and programable LED lighting has made fancy stage designs less important. The fans in the rear sections get am amazing visual display which may actually be better. I'd rather see twin 60 ft images of Keith in real time than a giant inflatable or fire breathing dragon. HBK
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QuoteRollingFreak QuoteHouseBoyKnows I saw the Philly show and made sure to be there for a solid Peter Wolf opening. Has anyone pointed out that Petty has gone with a locked setlist the entire tour, with almost no deviation whatsoever - except for cites with two shows and maybe 1-2 song changes? Just saying. . . to all the Stones set list whiners. Even at their worst they vary 2-3 songs p
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I saw the Philly show and made sure to be there for a solid Peter Wolf opening. Has anyone pointed out that Petty has gone with a locked setlist the entire tour, with almost no deviation whatsoever - except for cites with two shows and maybe 1-2 song changes? Just saying. . . to all the Stones set list whiners. Even at their worst they vary 2-3 songs per gig. HBK
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I'm enjoying the discussion here as it's evolved into a comparison to Ya-Yas and that's the basis of my reaction to LYL. LYL came out on or near my 24th birthday. I was already on my 3rd copy of Ya-Yas and had probably seen L&G 20 times by then. Not to mention my worn out cassette of Brussels 73. Saw the Stones for the first time in 72 at MSG and several times in 75, most
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My full Toad's Place story here if you have the time and interest . . . HBK
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I attended most east coast gigs on the tour from Toad's Place (pulled some shenanigans to get in) to the final night in Atlantic City . . . maybe 13 shows total. Biggest positive - a great crop of new songs and rarely played oldies like Rooster, Play with Fire, 2000LR etc. Plus warhorses neglected since '75-76 like GS, MR, IORR. Biggest negative - What the hell happened to the gu
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Nice archival footage of the '78 stadium experience and really appreciate the effort put into to sharing it. I kinda wish the audio was from any of the many 78 soundboards rather than a mix of Love you Live and 2000 era stuff. I get the Monkey Man tribute, but Just saying . . . . HBK
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I came down from Philly for both DC shows. This was the first tour that I started saying to my friends that the Stones had something to prove to keep me traveling to their gigs. I loved the stage but was quite annoyed with some of the staging BS like the guy on stilts etc. Glad they got rid of it soon after. Live debut (for me at least) of Not Fade Away, Monkey Man, Memory Hotel, Hot Stuff
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The evolution of the set lists is one of my favorite topics. Adding 60's gems back to the set list started in 81, continued with Steel Wheels with additions of Rooster, PIB, 2000LY, Play with Fire. Plus this was to me the beginning of the warhorse era by bringing back SFTD, MR, IORR and GS which were abandoned from 78 to 82. Then, despite all of the complaints about the warhorse era,
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Yo Glimmerman! So happy to see you are still rockin' with the Pontiacs. Love that you are doing this. Wish I could be there with some of the old Philly gang. Will be thinking of you. BTW July 12th is our wedding anniversary and daughter Haley is getting married this weekend with some of the usual local suspects in attendance. Rock on my friend. Best wishes to family. HBK
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