Rolling Stones: Classic or Dud

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

Mick wants to party, but it’s a party of one lol

Mick truly has had to fold up his penis and go home.

this is better than it should be

Surprisingly good!

yeah it's pretty good!

is it autotuned? the higher register vocals? i was focusing on the lower vocals, first, which are much poorer quality, thinking "why did they leave them in?". but then as i listened to the high side again, it seems like the lower parts are there to add "grit" to the autotuned sheen. could be wrong

Are they still playing the instruments or is this a “concept” of some sort

YouTube clip shows them in a studio (Mick’s house?) recording it, so it seems they did.

Reminds me of this (solid) forgotten throwaway:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjwIhyMfvRY

i loved highwire

the live album that accompanied it mixed in crowd sounds from get yer yayas out

Tunes where Mick plays harp usually work out well.

that's true

‘Almost Hear You Sigh’ is my lockdown tune of choice

mmmmmmmmmmm silky smooth
as wine

You guys watched this clip? Holy shit, it's good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBlLbNVBKCc

Not until just now. Thanks!

I think you shared that one time on a Some Girls thread or somewhere, which eventually led me to buying that '78 Texas DVD/CD from which it came.

The whole show is pretty hot, but that clip might be the peak.

They have some tour memorabilia in the booklet. The band played a handful of smaller theatre shows under aliases in between stadium/arena dates. The DFW one was filmed for an aborted theatrical release.

amazing clip - does Bill have a broken finger on his fretting hand?!?

Chet Flippo's tour report (which includes some behind the scenes stuff on that show) is something else: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/the-rolling-stones-the-road-aint-what-it-used-to-be-202953/

78 era stuff is better than that new Ghost Town video/song

The best part of that clip is that I am sure the tour budget included private jets, entire floors of hotels, clothes, food, booze, drugs, stage props, security, limousines, all the things you would expect the Stones would require in order to function on the road but:

Stones account, with a green visor, arm garters, hunched over a rolltop desk calls out through the smoke:

"Mick, I've crunched the numbers and we just can't afford another mic stand & mic for backing vox, how about Woody & Keef just share one?"