Rolling Stones: Classic or Dud

this corny & i know they’re ~all~ hella old but
briefly:
real talk:
I dont like thinking about mick’s mortality tbh

It could also be FUN for him, maybe! He’s not laying bricks

I didn't go, but I know a buncha other people who saw the tour opener last night and said it was great, and that Mick looked as healthy as can be. Apparently they only played 2 hours to the minute, which does indeed take some, er, stones, but hey. I guess people left pretty happy. God knows when I'm in my 70s I wouldn't want to stand around for much longer than that, either.

I also heard it was a good show.

I think they've been doing the two-hour shows for awhile now. They share setlist pics on social media, revealing 18-21 songs per show, including a 2-song encore.

According to last night's setlist, "Sad Sad Sad" is the token obscurity.

Their performance in the Global Citizen benefit thing was pretty cool. Mick looks & sounds great.

Charlie Watts playing the air drums was the highlight of the entire telecast. But how does Charlie Watts not have any drums in his house?!

sold em for heroin

at a certain point, you don't even need drums. you just ARE drums

He wanted to show off his bitchin' old man Dockers.

is this the greatest octagonal comp of all time?

Through The Past, Darkly (Big Hits Vol. 2)

Jumpin' Jack Flash 3:40
Mother's Little Helper 2:40
2,000 Light Years From Home 4:45
Let's Spend The Night Together 3:29
You Better Move On 2:40
We Love You 4:34
Street Fighting Man 3:10
She's A Rainbow 4:35
Ruby Tuesday 3:12
Dandelion 3:56
Sittin' On The Fence 2:53
Honky Tonk Women 3:03

i mean get out of here!

it's got everything you could want

"You Better Move On" sticking like a sore thumb.

That comp was the first Stones cassette I ever had!

Mick sounded awesome tonight!
Also I love that Ronnie is always reliably the one having the most fun. <3

was keith doing anything on that guitar?

mick sounded and looked great. wtf surely this quarantine is going to restrict whatever supply of virgin blood he imbibes to keep himself youthful?

I liked his curtains, too

Jagger in strong, convincing voice surprised me. Charlie was a strong #2. He hadn't looked that happy drumming in years.

Keith looked sad. I was surprised by how good Mick + Ronnie sounded.

Yeah, Mick and Ronnie were great. I was expecting to see Mick in his standard entertainer-bot mode, and was really pleased to see him so present and so into it.

<3

Watching now. Nice.

Keith seemed a bit frustrated with his performance or the monitors or something

loved Charlie with his luggage kit

Jagger looks and sounds amazing, but he should reconsider that hair color

keith mumbled something toward the end; some people think he said "brian jones." so my theory is that he was playing brian jones' acoustic part. it was one of the few "let it bleed" tracks jones played on. he certainly wasn't playing his own electric part. so...maybe a method to his madness.

A weird and elastic relationship between what Charlie was doing and the drum sounds on the track, the only reliable connection was waving the stick at the chair arm and the "shh shh shh" cymbal sound. The snare drum was a proper muted snare drum so he was either triggering samples or part of the drum track was a prerecorded thing. Mick and Ronnie were amazing!

you guys are exceedingly generous, but why not I guess

It’s gonna be the death of may

Brian May?

they kind of functionally played a song they've been playing for 50 years, the drummer occasionally hit the arm rest on a stuffed chair and the guitarist was mostly able to balance his guitar in his lap

i come in peace but what would a "bad" rendition sound like

Fair enough. But the singer, who was once described by someone as a "joke," to put it mildly, convinced. As did the other guitarist.

It's true, MIck has surprising spunk

that didn't come out right

shit I did it again

three for three

I dunno, I’m not particularly a fan of that song (and only moderately a Stones fan in general), but it really connected w/me somehow.

Mick’s performance was genuinely comforting to me somehow, I can’t explain it.

I get it, I liked it too! But.

The Billy Eiilsh "Sunny" was tight, I ff'd through the rest

If he had done the schoolmarm thing, well then you might have a point but

It's not like they were going to go to the trouble to do something like this: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=256157795776818

Mick’s performance was genuinely comforting to me somehow, I can’t explain it.

I had the same reaction. It was so friendly, which is not what I usually expect from Mick. He somehow managed to convey that he was performing for YOU, the individual person sitting alone in front of your computer.

xp whoa

I hate this song because even Jagger in 1969 couldn't project the empathy the arrangement and his lyrics offered. But his showman's professionalism produced something empathetic last night; he looked like he was also trying to wake up Watts and Keith (Ronnie was already reeadyt to go).

I was comforted by the fact that ye olde Mick
could still belt it but with the kind of tenderness the moment dictated

It’s not the song, or even any kind of precision in performance, but for me it’s the reassurance that they can still show up & make me feel correct for loving them all this time

otm

af

New Single (about wanting get laid during a quarantine?): https://rollingstones.lnk.to/GhostTownSo

Kinda dig it, disco Stones throwback vibes

wanting get laid during a quarantine

otm