Rolling Stones: Classic or Dud

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

Fixed

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.

if that 1978 set is the small club gig I'm thinking of, it's fantastic

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

― Infidels, Like Dylan In The Eighties (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, December 18, 2018 6:22 PM (eleven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah, The Who were four individuals that always used to somehow coalesce into one unstoppable entity such was the degree to which they could somehow read each others minds musically.

With The Stones, they were always sloppy - they either somehow managed to sloppily make it come together or make an awful hash of it, depending on what mood they were in.

Also, The Who had a superior rhythm section - their bassist is one of the greatest rock bassists of all time and they had a drummer that didn't sound lumpen and could actually perform a good sounding drum fill.

Ok this might be a hot take and I like the Stones but...have they ever been great live?

I was gonna bring this up so glad someone else did cuz I think the answer is actually no, they were never consistently great live, even during their (multiple) peak periods. they were *always* sloppy, occasionally really hitting their stride for great moments, but they were hardly a lean, live performing unit and there are *tons* of shitty performances of theirs widely available that demonstrate this. they were def better in the studio.

Also, The Who had a superior rhythm section - their bassist is one of the greatest rock bassists of all time and they had a drummer that didn't sound lumpen and could actually perform a good sounding drum fill.

― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Tuesday, December 18, 2018 6:47 PM (seventeen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

?? don't disagree about moon, but charlie watts was (is?) a great drummer, easily my favorite musician in the stones

I mean when I think about the Stones live I think about two things: one a dude getting killed at a concert & two them getting torched live so bad by the Who that their roadie buried the tape in his barn.

It is just weird to me that a band I love doesn't have a live record from the era that I like more than the studio albums

I think about the Stones live I think about two things

thought for sure one of these would be getting hilariously pwned by James Brown on the T.A.M.I. show

Ha, there is that too!

Oh and stealing Stephen Stills's idea of wearing a Jets jersey.

Every time I contemplate seeing the present-day stones (one "last" chance to see the legends) I think of Buzz Osborne's description:

I could not be bothered to see them live now. I saw them in the early ’80s and it sounded like amplified motocross. They’d literally be halfway through a song before I could tell what it was. “Oh, it’s ‘Satisfaction.’” It was this horrendous cacophony, which is good on one side, but that’s not what they were trying to do.

The '89 and '94 tours were much better. Everything I've seen of the '81 tour is hopped up and cynical, i.e. "Let's hurry the fuck up, we got chicks and blow waiting."

Oh and stealing Stephen Stills's idea of wearing a Jets jersey.

― chr1sb3singer, Tuesday, December 18, 2018 1:18 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

"I invented wearing football jerseys in rock n' roll" - Stephen Stills, the original Kanye

"I invented wearing football jerseys in rock n' roll" - Stephen Stills, the original delusional hack

Stills seeing Jagger wearing that jersey and biting his knuckle in rage is beautiful image

"I invented wearing football jerseys in rock n' roll" - Stephen Stills, the original delusional hack

― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 18 December 2018 22:09 (four minutes ago) Permalink

Tbf Stills also said that "Ohio" was a good song but needed another verse to really be considered a classic song like "For What It's Worth" which was written by Stephen Stills

Jagger wore the pants too

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Is that a Walter Payton jersey? Shouts to another fan of inhalants!

LOL

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