QuoteTate Quotetommycharles QuoteHairball Living about 25 miles south of Santa Barbara, the local station from there plays the tune 'Santa Barbara' seemingly at least once a day. Have to confess it has kind of grown on me, but maybe I've been brainwashed due to overexposure. Whatever the case, probably the only U2 tune I can name since Beautiful Day which also grew on me due to
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QuoteHairball Living about 25 miles south of Santa Barbara, the local station from there plays the tune 'Santa Barbara' seemingly at least once a day. Have to confess it has kind of grown on me, but maybe I've been brainwashed due to overexposure. Whatever the case, probably the only U2 tune I can name since Beautiful Day which also grew on me due to being overplayed. It's
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Bono/U2 have been plenty vocal - their 2 shows last year and their entire tour this year feature anti-Trump moments.
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Much slower Start Me Up than most of the '89/90 shows.
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QuoteHairball I never fully understood the hatred for Dancing with Mr. D. Sure it's not a Sympathy or a Gimme Shelter or a Brown Sugar, and yes the lyrics are cheesy, and yes it's a bit lazy sounding, but it has a great groove and guitar riff Totally agree. It does everything you ask of a Stones song, and while I'm glad Heartbreaker still shows up every once in a while, this one
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QuoteCristiano Radtke Quotefyp933 the never ending farewell tour continues Yeah, isn't it great? How many people who couldn't seen them will now be able to do that? Amen. They're on fire at the moment, and I'm quite happy for them to continue as long as they'd like, even with roughly the same show.
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"Were Nirvana any different? Or were they just good?" That whole section was great to listen to.
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QuoteTheBlockbuster QuoteIrix Get Off Of My Cloud - Desert Trip #2 - Official Video Snippet: . Is the audio really from Desert Trip? Sounds like it's too well-mixed for being recorded only a few hours ago. I would guess they took the audio from Shanghai or Tel Aviv 2014. I think this is Zilker Park 2006 actually.
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Received this set yesterday, have seen Paris and Brixton so far. Paris was very good (perhaps apart from Shattered), including an excellent I Go Wild. Brixton was on another level entirely, though. So much energy, great guitars, great Mick... I sort of laughed to myself when the accompanying book suggested Brixton might be the greatest Stones show... but it doesn't seem so far fetched now.
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QuoteNICOS They should add this one to the setlist again.................................. Hmm. There are plenty of songs they could resurrect and do well, I'm not sure I'd want to chance Rip This Joint.
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QuoteThe Sicilian QuoteStoneage At least they are the world's greatest nostalgia act right now. I guess we can all agree on that. Macca could rival them but he's only 1/4, the Stones are 3/5... I think there is tremendous pressure on the Stones to put on a show for the ages. I know McCartney will. If the Stones come out with that stale boring show of the last few tours, they will be b
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QuoteMore Hot Rocks Didn't Mick use the cage during Out Of Control during this show. It was soon dropped. Maybe it was more embarrassing then cherry picker. Was dropped by the time they got to San Jose, I'm fairly sure. The clip of it in the Four Flicks doc is from Denver.
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Quoteboogaloojef QuoteDandelionPowderman Quoteboogaloojef This is interesting because of the diverse set list and it contains arguably some of the best shows with Ronnie but it is not as good as Brussels Affair, Live At Leeds 1971, Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out or Ladies And Gentlemen The Rolling Stones in my opinion. It's better than Leeds and L&G, imo. Not even close. This was the start
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QuoteHonkeyTonkFlash Another thing that makes certain songs stand out on certain tours is the element of surprise; you didn't expect to hear them. Some examples for me: 1978 - Love In Vain! They hadn't done that in awhile. 1981 - Time Is On My Side! When had they last done that? And YCAGWYW - I didn't hear it in 1978 so didn't know if they'd bring it back. 1989 - 2000
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QuoteRollingFreak Quotetommycharles You couldn't take Pete out of The Who's current show and still have it work. There have been times (mostly in 2007) where you *could* have taken Keith out and still had a show. I know what you mean, but I really DON'T think so. The Stones is Mick and Keith, The Who is Roger and Pete. I misspoke a little - remove from the mix, I meant. Not as
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From my perspective, it's more about whether the principals are still driving the show. The Stones could have 20 people on stage, and as long as the main thing happening is Mick, Ronnie, Charlie, and Keith, it still seems like the authentic Stones. With The Who 89 (and 96-97 to a lesser extent), Pete, Rog, and John were no longer the main event, the supporting players carried the show. Th
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Undercover was a good era for Keith.
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QuoteChacho Speaking of Fort Collins; I was at that show. I was a freshman at CSU at the time. I have a bootleg of the Nov 7 show but it is not that good. The show was held at Moby Gym, at it was called at the time. The venue was never created for accoustics. A lot of echoing. Maybe that's why the bootleg isn't that good. At any rate, it was this concert that made me a life
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Very impressed with this release. My previous 89/90 experiences had only been with Flashpoint and At the Max - both fine releases, but both made it clear to my ears why this tour was always referred to as the birth of the Vegas Stones. In this show, though? They're a hard working, guitar driven rock band. The keys and horns only seem to complement the guitars, never overpower them. Keith,
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The primary argument against a Jagger solo record is, I think, the success of Doom and Gloom. It didn't burn up the charts particularly, but it was critically well received, and is, generally, a well recorded, well written track. Even if the Stones are just the session players to flesh out his demos, there's a worthwhile record to be made there.
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Re: standing in stadiums - Cincinnati certainly prompted a reappraisal of it, but U2, Pearl Jam, and other still regularly have GA pits in both arena and stadium shows. Stones, Macca, etc. avoid it for financial reasons - they can charge $350 for a front row seat, but not for a place in line which might be at the front and might be behind 2000 other people.
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That Saitama Rambler is just brilliant.
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More guitars! We need more guitars!
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Operations Manager at a background screening company. I know what you did the last 7 summers.
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QuoteElmo Lewis Is this the first tour that "Wonderful Christmastime" has been played? Not quite - he played it on the short "Good Evening Europe" he did last December. But that was only... 6 shows? ish. So it's hardly had any outings.
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Just saw it in Fort Collins, amazing. All Down The Line was an unexpected highlight, that song rocks something fierce. Picture and audio were good, although the songs from the "white jumpsuit" show were noticably louder than the others, which was just weird. Interview beforehand was... I don't know. Mick seemed like he'd just taken some of whatever Keith was taking for the
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Saw the Denver gig, same setlist but without Tequila... was an incredible night, and, as previously mentioned, featured plenty of non-Beatle tunes that geniunely went down well. The Fireman tracks in particular were BRILLIANT.
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I like them, but I'm less excited about the direction they've taken post-American Idiot. AI is a great record, but somewhere on that tour they started to believe their own hype, like they speak for everyone in a generation and that their songs can change the world.
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I think for DVD shows it's decided a little while in advance - Mick says in SAL that he's conscious of not putting in "rare" songs that were also "rare" in the Austin show that was also filmed. But for the other hundred or so shows on tour, Chuck and Mick decide the setlist in the early afternoon of the show day. On ABB it seemed like as much as 8 or 9 songs might
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Quotewindmelody Saitama was among the stronger ABB shows, I like to watch it, but the performance is a little strange. Strange how? And I agree, Keith did kind of abandon the riff after the first try on this JJF, but at least he plays all of it (and indeed all of most of the songs, a blistering Let's Spend The Night and Oh No on this show).
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