Rolling Stones: Classic or Dud

do it , do it, do it , do it, do it, do it

Hey baby

You’re such a natural, you don’t need no actin’ schoo

Ain’t no use.

I picked up Hot Rocks Part 2 for a buck at a yard sale and it was well worth it. I doubt I need much more than what's on this.

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It has been out for a few months in CD, but that live "Ladies and Gentlemen l, the Rolling Stones" live release recorded on the Exile on Main St. Tour is great.

I mean it's not the only stones I've ever gotten into, I'm just saying going forward it meets my needs and still sounds fresh.
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q: should i bother seeing the stones next summer? they're gonna be playing a couple hours' drive from me, and i've never seen them. is it actually worth shelling out for a ticket to see the 2019 version of this band?

saw them a few years ago, was decent but would not pay to see them again, as I remember they had great tunes and I had a good times but I found the playing lacking

would see them if they played a festival I attended or if I was invited, wasn't bad

Can Keith still fret at this point?

he did some solo tracks mid-concert, that was the low-point

Not to mention Charlie

they're still the greatest rolling stones cover band in the world. worth seeing them once imo.

Going to see them again for first time in many years cuz wife has never seen them and wants to do so. Way back when I also saw Keith do a show with his New Barbarians group and that was kinda fun -- although I have now seen a couple folks grumbling about his current live renditions of solo tracks (as Niels did x-post)on the tour

When I saw them 20+ yrs ago on the Bridges to Babylon tour it already kind of felt like Keef was a little...uh, free with his playing

worth seeing them once imo.

yeah I'd have to agree there - I'll see any act like that at least once! and hey, maybe you'll totally dig it and you can go again some time

hardly any acts like that left on my "bucket list" though, saw Van Morrison this summer and I think that does it for me wrt "legends"... would like to see him again though, cause I feel like that show could have been much better...

I have seen the band be good before, I've seen the band be bad. I have never seen the band be great. interestingly, Mick has finally loosened the reins a little bit in recent years and shaken up some setlists, dusting off some seldom played stuff. however, he's pretty smug and mechanical about the whole thing, though I do not know if that is a new development. and the rest of the band is pretty visibly lazy about their duties, but that's not new either.

long story short, ticket cost aside it's probably better to see them now before Keith dies then wait for the inevitable Mick Jagger and Friends Tour the Stones when he passes.

I will say, there have been long stretches of time when I have absolutely loved the stones, and other times when I have been more ambivalent, but none of the shows I saw were remotely memorable.

Stones and Company featuring John Mayer

I guess with the Stones, for me, much of the appeal is in the playing, and, much as I appreciate Satisfaction and other hits, I really only love the playing on Beggars Banquet, Let it Bleed, Sticky Fingers and Exile on Main Street, and when I saw them a few years back that's not exactly how they were playing

which is to say while they have good songs I think the magic's in the playing, and while the songs remain the same the playing doesn't (although they were not bad, just not magical)

I heard "Start Me Up" blasting from a car the other day. That is one hot hot performance

yeah Beast of Burden rules too, guess I came off a bit too exclusive

Haven't they been good-not-great live for almost forty years? I don't remember glowing reviews of the Steel Wheels and '81 tours.

there have been hopeful glimmers of some sort of return to form, but yeah, by and large they have been pretty much by the numbers since the 80s.

https://variety.com/2018/music/news/how-the-rolling-stones-shes-a-rainbow-got-a-seven-figure-synch-renaissance-1203092132/

wow that variety article makes me want to die

it reads like an abkco press release ffs

kinda horrifying to think that boomer classics not only never faded away after release but now we get to live through yet another revival as the barely-animated corpses who wrote those classics squeeze some more cash out of them for their 50th anniversaries

hey no one's buying Mick Jagger solo albums at Best Buy anymore

hey no one's buying Mick Jagger solo albums at Best Buy anymore

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Fwiw, this isn't even the first time "She's A Rainbow" has been used in ads. Apple licensed it to help launch the iMac, which was where I first heard the song.

Yeah, I was gonna say I remembered it on some advert at the back end of the '90s/beginning of the '00s, but couldn't remember what it was for. Also recall 'You Can't Always Get What You Want' on another ad around the same time.

i would like to cosign ums ie that article makes me want to die also

u_u

in other news, happy birthday keef

http://i.imgur.com/ZqLDJji.jpg

what the fuck is "the synch community"

wow that variety article makes me want to die

― No Smockin' (upper mississippi sh@kedown)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronization_rights

GREAT keef pic!

what the fuck is "the synch community"

it's what happens when corporations eat a word that used to mean something

I thought it might be some kind of amateur thing, calling it a "community", but I guess she just means ad companies lol

Ok this might be a hot take and I like the Stones but...have they ever been great live? Like maybe in the Jones era in the 60s? Whenever I dip into even peak-era live stuff I am always disappointed

Get thee to the Marquee Club!!
Also the live in Brussels show
and there’s another one I am forgetting

idk what is happening here (but i like it like it yes i do) (sorry)

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/09/27/19/2CC276D400000578-0-image-a-65_1443377434228.jpg

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The 71 Marquee gig? I feel like I listened to that and it didn't do anything for me

and my favorite tshirt

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The Ladies & Gents set is good, as is the Some Girls '78 set.

xpost huh. welp

Some Girls 78! Yes. Love that.

The thing is, live Stones rarely have the transcendent quality live like, say, The Who had for so long.

that is very true. I think the Stones def were way better in the studio than they ever were live. Or at least the studio showed off their arrangements a lot better.