I think they were trying to fit in with the times and appear more like newer, hipper bands of the time: punks. Play faster, rougher with more snarl/growl in Mick's delivery, shorter songs, push out some energy and be on and off in 75 minutes. And at 75 minutes it would have been a long punk set at the time. Such a big change from 1975. But at the same time they were trying to change pace in
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I Got The Blues from Sticky Fingers. His loneliness, his plaintive passion just envelope the great backing my the band and give me the chills every time I hear it.
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Maybe it was my proximity to Canada but he was huge here. One of my first concerts, in Niagara Falls. Great voice, tight band and could really tell a STORY in his songs. Such a gifted writer. KevinPenthouse mentions Keith's debacle days in Toronto. Gord had his a few years earlier, though in LA. His hit song "Sundown" was about getting away from a truly toxic girlfriend that h
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I would love to see them together. At least here in the States, Nick has toured with Los Strait Jackets backing him. I loved Billy Bremner's guitar work and vocal work with Rockpile and loved his work with The Pretenders, filling in seamlessly for James Honeyman-Scott. A shame we do not hear more from them all.
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With all the upfront investment in stage, video, effects, rehearsal, visas, entourage travel, legal work......and maybe most critical, sadly, insurance...an overseas 15-20 date tour has to be challenging. An illness or injury and a show or 2 or cancelled, or sales lagging (70,000 people in each of 30 US stadiums is not happening like in the 70s thru 1981. 42,000-45,000 more like it, if that) or
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Spot on. Total shit. I did not get the buzz when they broke a few years ago, or now.
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Who fan from before I was 10 yrs old, listening to Tommy when it came out. Have seen the band over a dozen times in different incarnations, and they were still killing it, even post-Entwistle in the 2010s. Roger was in good voice. Pete still playing with power. But saw them on the orchestra tour early in Covid and, wow, had things declined. Roger has lost a lot of power, and Pete seemed lost a
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I think the band, or at least Mick, being seeing the rise of punk in the NYC, and the fading disco/glam scene, and did not want to appear to be yesterday's news....Even though Some Girls still have country and disco/R&B elements, their live show gave Just My Imagination a bit of punk attitude. Respectable, and When The Whip Comes Down, even All Down The Line, in all their sloppiness and
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I have a close family member who suffers from schizophrenia, with paranoia, among other serious illness. It's a horrible disease. Very few effective meds exist today, and those that do carry heavy side-effects, leading to sufferers often no complying with treatment and instead 'self medicating'. And that never goes well. Addiction to anything that will muffle all the things going
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The Stones have done benefit concerts before. Nicaragua. Live Aid (not the Stones but all 3 current members). SARS Concert in Toronto. (I won't count the concert of the blind in Oshawa). Any others? While the Stones set at SARS was a bit of a letdown (OK they were low energy and lost the momentum build by ACDC, Rush and The Guess Who), Keef going after someone in the crowd who was abu
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I think most on the 'never played' lists earned spots there for a variety of reasons. Some are bad and were bad to begin with . Others did not age well. Some just don't fit their live sound or personal or Mick's voice anymore. But I think some are more timeless and would still sound great, like: Citadel Shake Your Hips Casino Boogie Coming Down Again (though I bit too
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Procol Harum was the first band I 'discovered' on my own in 1972 at age 12. Prior to that my gateway to music was a much older brother who loved the Stones, Beatles, Who, The Band, Dylan. Procol had lyrics that were often way outside the norm - definitely not the formula of boy-meets-girl, boy-loses-girl of 60s and early 70s pop. Musically, the Hammond organ and grand piano, with the o
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Thanks BV. There are so many big and little details to arranging a tour by any band, let alone the Stones. I's dotted, T's crossed on everything from venue availability, contracts for everything, finance, personnel availability, routing, insurance, transportation, visas, permits...mind boggling detail. I can only imagine the piles of paperwork. A machine with many moving parts.
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Cleveland is an easy 3 hour drive from Buffalo. Also a short ride from Detroit and Pittsburgh. 5 hours from Toronto. Plenty of places to stay. Plenty to do around town. The only negative of the last show I saw, in Pittsburgh in 2021, was the crowd's lack of energy. The band had 'it' still.
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Someone has been very busy. I look forward to retiring just to be able to spend time with music. This working life has made it hard the last several years. Thanks for all the posts. I also missed CD1. Possible report?
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I hope your recovery continues, buoyed along by well wishes and great music. Here's to a better 2023!
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Thanks for the upload. I agree, we may very well need something fun and uplifting to listen to...often...in 2023. I only saw the B-52s once, opening for The Who in 1982 in Orlando, in a rowdy, super drunk, violent crowd. First time and only time I have left a show a little early over worries about a crowd. Fights breaking out everywhere. The B-52s did not get very far into their set when
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Adrian Belew/Jerry Harrison and their band doing Remain In Light in Buffalo in February.
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I 100% agree Doxa. A labour of love it flows smoothly, with good interpretation of good songs. I like that they chose some relatively more obscure numbers, too. Not trying to out-do anyone, just play what they love. I would love to have their next record be another cover album. More blues, maybe even acoustic with Keff, Ronnie and Mick only.
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The boys had done some incredible songs with social commentary/message before. But the lyrics, music, vocal delivery on this were just a very very weak effort - a throwaway song. Recently married, and with my very first CD player, my wife surprised me with the brand new CD the day it was released. I fell in love the CD player technology that I could instantly skip to the next song as I listene
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Thank you for all your work putting this together, and for sharing. I'm looking forward to starting 2023 listening to this
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Production sounds dated but I have always liked the track. It works. The album was an improvement over Emotional Rescue, had some interesting grooves and subject matter. Production sounds dated, as it does on a lot of albums of the era. Looking back, the wheels on the bus were getting wobbly, but the bus was still running. The bus fell apart on Dirty Work
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Thanks for posting. What an amazing show it must have been to Stevie and his amazing band as he was putting out some of his best work, and close to exploding, and then the Stones we were doing their best work. Chills.
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Thank you for posting Pittsburgh to WeTransfer! I was at the show and loved it. The band sounded great. Yes Keef was a little off, took more breaks and let Ronnie take over in songs, but Ronnie had a great night. The crowd lacked energy (maybe as it was an OLD crowd...I'm 62 and felt young...lots of people there with walkers and scooters which was both good to see someone out trying to e
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Thanks so much for this! I remember how excited I was that they were touring again. I remember thinking 78 might be the last. Then 81 was lots of fun and they seemed revitalized....then.....once Dirty Work hit, thinking they were done as a band. Guess I was wrong. : )
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Thank you!!!
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Thanks for all the effort. Lots of work and lots of generosity!
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I have been a huge Who fan since I was 11 years old at heard Who's Next. Quadrophenia was life-changing - both with a story I could relate to, and the power and precision of the music. Entwistle's bass on The Real Me revealed a whole different way to use the instrument. I still get chills listening to it almost 50 years later. I've traveled to see The Who and, live, always pre
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Thanks for finding, downloading and posting to WeTransfer. I don't think I have heard any of these versions before. Exciting
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Thanks for the post and cataloging all of this!
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