It is truly amazing that after all these years The Rolling Stones can still tour stadiums! It will be 2019, 50 years past the iconic 1969 tour! I hope the rumored date of June 17 is true for MetLife Stadium. That will be 40 years to the day from my first Stones show, June 17, 1978! Unbelievable
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How to pick? That's one song that's almost always great. I'm partial to Ya Ya's as it's the one that hit me first. Tokyo 1990 is very good. As for more recent ones, Havana Moon is very good. there's just too many.....
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QuoteGasLightStreet QuoteRedhotcarpet QuoteDoxa QuoteGasLightStreet It started, obviously, in 1989 with SFTD because Mick wanted them to sound like the records. Here's Keith with that as well: Over the years, you develop a simplified road version of a song that you get used to. But this time, we thought, Let's go back and listen very carefully to the records to find what we were orig
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QuoteBungo I was watching the Sweet Summer Sun / Hyde Park show the other day and it struck me how retarded a song like Sympathy For The Devil has become over the years compared to the amazing versions heard on Get Yer Ya Yas Out. Why don't they just play it like that? 2 guitars, drums and bass. And the guitar lines they play in these current versions are just childish and un-musical compare
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Quotejpasc95 Quoterollmops Ronnie does a badass tremolo job on YCAGWYW; I bet you Ronnie burned down his guitar pick of that solo.The smell of the plastic burning against the strings is a fine moment when one rockandrolls a solo that way. Fantastic job Woody. Rockandroll, Mops Yes totally agree It's not that easy to play a solo on 2 chords. This one was played in Paris on the 7th of Jun
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QuoteTheflyingDutchman Quotepowerage78 Nothing is better than GYYYOUT ! The only significant difference between Ya ya's and LyL is the lead guitarist, and Billy Preston of course. I somewhat disagree with that. To me it was a very different sound. The guitars were much more distorted and raunchy, and Mick's vocal style had changed quite a bit. It seemed a bit looser and sloppier
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As we all say, judgments are hard from a little video device but the clips I've watched sound really good. The band sounds tight and even the numbers they haven't done in ages sound good. When was the last time they did Shattered? I realize they're playing to an older crowd these days but the audience is what bugs me in these clips. The Rolling Freaking Stones are playing right in
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Just checked out a video of Neighbours. Gotta admit I was almost afraid to, having remembered how ferocious it was in 1981. But wow, I was quite impressed. They really rocked it. Not as frantic as 1981 but still pretty hot and lot of good guitar from Keith and Ronnie. They seem to be in better shape than on the first leg of this tour! Still capable of surprising us a bit!
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Love In Vain Live With Me It's All Over Now If You Can't Rock Me Stray Cat Blues
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Quotelem motlow I hate gauging a show by you tube but those videos show a band playing really well. And guys,can we please stop attacking the crowd for being “lame” and “unenthusiastic “ they have no obligation whatsoever. They paid their money and can sit quietly and listen,scream and yell or whatever they want,they’re not the ones performing. Agree it's hard to judge well by YouTube vid
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Quite a few... Jumping Jack Flash Street Fighting Man Sympathy (Ya Yas style) YCAGWYW Under My Thumb Gimme Shelter Dead Flowers HTW Black Limousine Let's Spend The Night Together Let it Bleed Let it Rock Let Me Go She's So Cold Beast of Burden Brown Sugar All Down The Line Oh well, I'm probably forgetting a whole bunch too...
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QuoteHomerSimpson QuoteHonkeyTonkFlash Funny how clueless even we diehards can be sometimes. When Miss You came out, even though it became a big hit, I thought of it as a rather atypical novelty for the Stones. I actually thought after the 1978 tour they might forget about it. Silly me! I've always loved the way Miss You was played on the 78 tour. I wish they would/could go back to playi
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Funny how clueless even we diehards can be sometimes. When Miss You came out, even though it became a big hit, I thought of it as a rather atypical novelty for the Stones. I actually thought after the 1978 tour they might forget about it. Silly me!
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Black and Blue, which I love but at the time seemed to have some very un-Stonsey songs: Hot Stuff, Cherry, Fool, Memory...
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Quotehopkins Well Pauls a fine singer. Ann a bit the screecher, why they need two lead vocalists? but I'm sure if Jeff Beck is involved, he's gonna bring out the absolute unique Best out of any artist he's choosing to work with... ....ann wilson is playing with Jeff, not an opening act? just wondering. I'd go see Jeff Beck if it was just him w a rusty bait bucket and a
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Just a thought - It would be something if a 2019 US tour were billed as their last, as it would the 50th anniversary of the legendary 1969 tour. I don't think the Stones would want to bill it that way though.
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Quotemosthigh If you made minimum wage in the US in 1969, it was $1.30 an hour. Now its roughly $10 - $11 an hour. In '69 you had to work about 6.5 hours to afford a top tier ticket. ($8.50) Now, Lucky Dips aside, it would be at least 10 hours of wages to afford even a nosebleed, never mind Gold Pits and the like. It's never been just about the workingman, and many/most of them
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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.
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Quoterogerriffin Quotebitusa2012 Re Black & Blue on the press release: "Black And Blue (1976) Gatefold sleeve with original inner bag and lyric sheet" LYRIC SHEET????? My original copy of Black and Blue has no lyric sheet...anyone's??? Original is Blue Vinyl with lyrics sheet. Really? Never heard of that. I bought it the day it came out and it was black vinyl a
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<BRIAN JONES 1962 - 1969 IAN STEWART 1962 - 1963 MICK JAGGER 1962 - KEITH RICHARDS 1962 - BILL WYMAN 1962 - 1993 CHARLIE WATTS 1963 - MICK TAYLOR 1969 - 1974 RONNIE WOOD 1975 -> Technically correct about Stu, but he remained an integral part of the band - official or not - until the 1982 tour, plus some studio work after that..
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J. J. French?! As if ANYONE gives a flip about his opinion.
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Quotecolonial The Rolling Stones longevity unprecedented with stats. that keep on a changin' with another update next month. But hey what an inspiration this group of 7 great musicians has been and still is with the band going into it's 56th year.. There's never been anything remotely like them. Sure, there's been plenty of jazz and blues guy, etc. who've played into
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QuoteKevinLocksPerm I personally live in the second decade of the 21st century. Where do you live? Do you live in the modern age or do you live in 1969 or 1972? When did the clock stop ticking for you? I did go on holiday to 1971 once but it was only a holiday. I did come back. Very hard to answer. I tend to accept living in 2018, but as relates to my Stones fandom, I frequently teleport
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Quotecaschimann Brooklyn Bridge for Bridges in 97. The yellow zeppelin 2002 at Van Courtland Park, New York, The 3 song mini-gig at Julliard School 2005. And since then? It all went online to RS com. Videos - smart and well produced - took over the job of good old press confrence. A lost. I think. My fave was them rolling down 5th Avenue blasting Brown Sugar for 1975. Now that we're
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Quoterollingvince Hi, I want to take my 10 years old godchild to Amsterdam in the Premium standing. Don't know if he's Gonna Enjoy it. He loves to wear his tongue T-shirts. How old were you on your first Stones gig? Or how old were your youngest fans you took with you? Rollinvince, Belgium My first show was at age 17, Crosby, Stills & Nash at the Garden, NYC. 1977
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Quotemitchrambler What is Charlies and bills best performance as a duo? They were a mighty powerhouse on the 1981 tour.
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QuoteSomeGuy I think every album from Steel Wheels on is too long. As such, I find A Bigger Bang to be a rather enjoyable album, I play it probably more often than any of the late 60s & early 70s ones (but that's for another reason, somehow I dont play highlights that often because theyre too special, sort of). Coming from Bridges To Babylon (a most deplorable album), A Bigger Bang is
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I've listened to it a lot of times since it came out. It's one of my favorites of the post - Some Girls - Tattoo era.
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He's an incredibly lucky guy. Most people don't get away that easy with years of massive drug use, chain smoking, and heavy drinking. I'm not judging him, just saying...
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I don't know if it's fair to say Ronnie "lost his chops." He's played very well with the Stones, although sometimes better or worse...I think it's more accurate to say his style changed when he joined the Stones. Maybe he felt his Faces style was not what was warranted, but who knows? On the 1975 tour there were some glimpses of his Faces style, but he quickly evolve
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