QuoteSilver Dagger Very weird choices in there. Ridiculous that none of these were included and this is just the tip of the iceberg: Stones - Brussels 73, Mick's Birthday 72, Acetates, Black Album, Got To Be Worked On Bruce Springsteen - The Roxy, LA, 78, Bottom Line Club 75 Neil Young - Tokyo 76 Patti Smith - Bottom Line Club 75, Roundhouse 76 The Who - Fillmore East 68,Amst
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1960's: December's Children 1970's: It's Only Rock and Roll 1980's: Undercover 1990's: Bridges To Babylon *Special notice to Ya Ya's...one of the 5 greatest live albums ever in the genre and somehow rarely mentioned in lists of top Stones albums. This is the album that defined their new, heavier sound and feel to a modern, more discerning audience, and th
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Quote24FPS Why would anyone have to stand on their seats? Why isn't standing up enough? Getting up on your seat fs with the freedom of the person behind you. And your near the stage! You have to get up on your seat and block the view of people behind you when you can clearly see the stage, and they can't? They want to see the Stones, not you. Good point...sorry for the misprint...in m
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Quoterobertfraser (Peripheral comment: I will never forget being at the Opening Steel Wheel Tours Show in Veteran's Stadium in Philly in a row of seats - seats!! on the pitch in front of the stage!! at a stadium show!!! What was that?!! - near the front of the stage, and I jumped up on top of my chair and started jumping up and down and screaming in excitement and my entire row joining up wi
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Quotescottkeef Theres no doubt the Stones became more polished and an "event" from 89 forward and I understand fans that are younger or came to the table later to prefer them(although I think there are those that dont too). Those that understand what the band was about from the beginning and came along with them all the way from the early 60s and thru the 70s I believe understand very
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Quotemelillo sound was better and cleaner in 89 but 81 was the classic raunchy bum notes both in playing and vocals just rockin and rollin along with those classic keith and woody backup vocals that were priceless on the 81 tour along with 78-75, no frills no vegas backup nonsense Exactly. 1981/82 were the last Stones Tours where the danger, the mystique, and the raunchiness were still relevan
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QuoteLillithFlair Quotesweetcharmedlife Quotehbwriter QuoteLillithFlair Hi, newbie here. Interesting reading on this forum. Now as I'm new feel free to take this or leave it but I was lucky enough to work with the Stones tour a few years ago. I was a fan since I've been a kid, but during that time I really grew to respect the organization and the people they have working for them
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QuotePalace Revolution 2000 QuoteSwayStones May be some Iorreans here ? :-) Photo George Shuba Don't know about that particular show, but it looks much like my first Stones show '78 in Philly. After the first ecstatic sprint across the empty field, and setting up as close to the stage as possible, this is how we spent the next 10- 12 hours. At first it's all about &#
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His new album is sublime. One of the absolute best of 2011 so far. Good to hear that his live show in Manchester was well received...I heard less than complimentary reviews about his Glastonbury show.
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July 25th 1972. First show. I was just a young kid who got lucky and scored tickets with a neighbor's older daughter (and no...I didn't score with her). We were dropped off outside the Garden and all I can remember is that it felt like I had entered an Alice-In-Wonderland world of glamour, danger, sex, and incredible carnal energy...but I don't remember anything specific because I
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This article (see below) somehow dovetails nicely with U2's Bono and The Edge's plans to avoid tax and live in a Malibu reserve...being the moral heroes that they present themselves to be...well, here is another supposed hero of the progressive 'movement'...and yet more clay feet...fascinating how the elites believe that their public politically-correct sanctimony cancels out
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QuotegeorgeV Garden State '78 is awesome! Agreed. Got the original vinyl version 30 years ago and it is a precious possession of mine. A phenomenal document of that vivifying, gloriously punky tour...the Stones reclaiming their cutting-edge bad-boy spirit...sounding filthy and nasty and dangerous again...and going back to their roots as the greatest bar band ever...
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Quotebrianwalker Quotepgarof Seen them on all tours since 71, When they played the MNews arena and Wembley arena in 2003 they were definatly NOT vegas, they were raw and at their best. The Vegas stuff on this board is over the top. I saw them in 1981 and they sucked. As far as I am concerned 81 was nothing but a blown opportunity. This was the Stones at their most famous, and most popula
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QuoteChrisM I have been a fan of Keith and his playing for 40 years and then some but I'm objective enough to know that his guitar skills have deteriorated dramatically. That's not hate. That's an objective observation based on attending many concerts and listening to many live performances with a critical ear. It's a great pity that this has happened and brings me no joy but
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Quote71Tele Everything on Some Girls, many things on Emotional Rescue, a few things on Tattoo You. Slim pickings after that, and live, the less I say the better. Yea. Exactly. The best things since then for me are his riffing on Saint of Me...and my favorite Ronnie moment of the last years is his fantastic work on Let Me Down Real Slow...that guitar picking on the outro is the best work he
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QuoteRocky Dijon After much consideration, I do have a suggestion for re-sequencing the album and making use of the three bonus tracks. The key was to sequence the album (ike Exile)in four 20 minute bursts of music. This allowed for thematic progression and better use of the recurring lyrical themes by treating each of the more sides as if they were conceptual albums. The Stones hardly lend thems
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Thanks Keessie!!!!!!!!!!!!! This is like finding The Holy Grail for me. WOW!!! Why didn't the Stones release this in 1977 ???? !!! This release would have been completely relevant in that time frame...Autumn 1977...Pistols and Clash have exploded on the scene...the Stones prove they're not Dinosaurs...this filthy little barroom set is totally in keeping with the Zeitgeist and the Sto
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QuoteStonesTod QuoteTurd On The Run Doxa: there is no way to make even a decent album by Stones standards out of it. StonesTod: you can blame producers or technology or whatever - it all boils down to subpar material, which no producer or technology is going to enhance. Rocky Dijon: I really couldn't re-sequence the album and feel that it would somehow work better. I respectfully d
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Doxa: there is no way to make even a decent album by Stones standards out of it. StonesTod: you can blame producers or technology or whatever - it all boils down to subpar material, which no producer or technology is going to enhance. Rocky Dijon: I really couldn't re-sequence the album and feel that it would somehow work better. I respectfully disagree with these opinions. One mu
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I listened to my Deluxe Edition (with the B-Sides) of A Bigger Bang for the first time in years while driving in my car the other day. I was struck by how much excellent material there was and how the poor song selection and sequencing undermined what should have been a phenomenal late-career release. I decided to test my theory and I reconstituted the album as I would have liked it to be. B
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QuoteRocky Dijon A BIGGER BANG is the only time when I questioned the choice of lead-off single. I thought "Rain Fall Down" or "Dangerous Beauty" would have been better choices for first single than "Streets of Love." I consider it criminal that "Dangerous Beauty" and "Laugh? I Nearly Died" were never performed live on the tour. I question MANY
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Never mind all this technical stuff...just make sure you play it fast and furious and let it rock!
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Kind of a mess. Jagger looks fit, but he's still in that mode from Shine A Light, where he mistakes frantic, kinetic movement for intensity of performance. It is as if proving that he is ageless is the point of his performance...and this has become self-parody.
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QuotePalace Revolution 2000 To say that Aerosmith didn't take off building on the archetype of band dynamics that the Stones originated is foolish. And the Stones did create this: the wiry, androgynous flamboyant frontman, with the dark brooding music-man guitarist henchman by his side. Add the solid no nonsense drummer. Add the R&B and blues influences. Add the singer whipping out a ha
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Fascinating. The hand of fate. Thank God Bill Wyman got the gig. He was so integral to their sound and made the Stones swing like no one else could have.
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QuoteJames Kirk Anybody who thinks that Mick Jagger is going to turn his back on a $500 million payday because Keith Richards claimed he had a "tiny todger" is out of their mind. Richards has said foolish stuff like this before. As a matter of fact he said the same exact thing several years ago and nobody made a big deal out of it. I get the feeling that while Richards annoys Jagg
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QuoteHis Majesty Well, the talk in this thread has helped lessen the sour taste, but the book has changed my perception of Keith and the Rolling Stones forever more just as Bill Wymans, Tony Sanchez's etc did. Anyway, put all their bad points together and they really are/were quite a horrible bunch of people. Guns, Knives, women beating, screwing each others women, junkies, alcoholics,
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Keith Richard's mythological persona: the elegantly wasted Rock and Roll pirate was never a nice guy. Having Read Spanish Tony's book many years ago - among many others - it was clear that here was a self-absorbed, amoral, pampered, self-indulgent, totally spoiled, delusional, junked-out, temperamental prick...and we loved him for it. It was a vicarious thrill to observe this amazing
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Quoteineedadrink i still think that if he had released it when he was supposed to, it would have surpassed anything the Beatles ever did. It would have equaled Peppers...no doubt...and changed music history in the process. As much as I love Brian Wilson's SMILE I always feel while hearing it that his voice is just too mature for many of the songs...rendering some of the songs a bit twee a
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Hilarious. Fantastic. Those were great days...the Stones '78 Renaissance.
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