Rolling Stones: Classic or Dud

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)

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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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sure anyone can wear a football jersey, but can they record over a Jimi Hendrix solo to do an organ overdub?

With 44 new answers, I expected at least one of them to be dead.

Ron Wood's been a hologram for years.

Brian Jones has been dead for a while iirc.

they've all been dead for decades. on the inside.

Please, Stones, go away, gracefully

little late for that

lol

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what the fuck is "the synch community"

― L'assie (Euler)

my understanding is there is this gentleman by the name of andrew wendland who has, for the past fifteen years, been listening to pink floyd albums while watching movies to discover all the movies that "synch" up with pink floyd albums

Anyone ever watch the Exorcist synched to Goats Head Soup?

whoa

that’s a thing ?

lol such easy marks itt

Thread got me listening to Tattoo You again last night - not all that bad for an outtakes collection.

“Security was a bit slow, and I saw some guy heading straight for Mick”, said Keith.
“I have no idea what this guy is gonna do...all I know is that he’s trying to get his hands on Mick, and I’ve got a weapon in my hands...” - Hampton Coliseum (1981).
Keith Richards is 75 today. pic.twitter.com/cGjFGpWn5S

— Music History (@RockWalkLondon) December 18, 2018

Dang — retweeted ✅

Keith's cool and all, but it's Mick who doesn't miss a note

From upthread, getting owned by James Brown is nothing to be ashamed of. I dunno about live Stones after 1964 but their T.A.M.I. set is fucking great.

I think I'm finally arrived at the knowledge that, as much as I love Exile, etc, the Brian Jones Stones is the real Stones

Thought you were gonna write, "Dirty Work is a fucking great album" after "as much as I love Exile, etc,"

When I was a child, I spake as a child, understood as a child, thought as a child; when I became a man, I knew Undercover was super underrated