| 21st September 2006 04:13 PM |
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| luxury1 |
funny you mention the RIcky Martin reference in regards to Charlie, jb. Now, dont ya'll get crazy on me, but a close friend of mine suspects Charlie is gay....there, I said it out loud. |
| 21st September 2006 04:20 PM |
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| Saint Sway |
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erikjjf wrote:
Acoustic, it seems.
thats a cool pic. Odd but cool. Keith looks like he doing a Stevie Nicks impersonation.
but yeah... Ronnie on acoustic slide not lap. Sounded great on the phone. Cohl should come up with a way to charge fans for that... oh, wait! Nevermind.
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| 21st September 2006 04:24 PM |
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| Saint Sway |
just a thought...
can keith fit a slide on his gnarled finger? |
| 21st September 2006 04:25 PM |
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| GotToRollMe |
quote:
throbby wrote:
Hey Saint Sway! Ronnie was standing and playing acoustic on YGTS, Keith was in trenchcoat. Regardless of Keith's lack of guitar it was a nice moment for me.
Throbby, didja get any pics? (fingers crossed)
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| 21st September 2006 04:27 PM |
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| mrhipfl |
quote:
Saint Sway wrote:
just a thought...
can keith fit a slide on his gnarled finger?
Of course, it just has to be a bit bigger. |
| 21st September 2006 04:30 PM |
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| Gazza |
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luxury1 wrote:
funny you mention the RIcky Martin reference in regards to Charlie, jb. Now, dont ya'll get crazy on me, but a close friend of mine suspects Charlie is gay....there, I said it out loud.
LOL...Its the 40 years of marriage bit. Dead giveaway every time |
| 21st September 2006 04:40 PM |
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| throbby |
What a groove on MR! Different than I've heard before.
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| 21st September 2006 04:42 PM |
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| throbby |
No pictures I'm afraid. Too focused on other things last night. Just a few from the final bow. |
| 21st September 2006 04:51 PM |
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| GotToRollMe |
quote:
throbby wrote:
No pictures I'm afraid. Too focused on other things last night. Just a few from the final bow.
Can't say I blame ya. I think I would've been too blown away by the power and glory of it all to think about taking photos. (I am gonna try to get some shots from AC if I can manage it though.) |
| 21st September 2006 04:59 PM |
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| GotToRollMe |
quote:
Gazza wrote:
LOL...Its the 40 years of marriage bit. Dead giveaway every time
LOL! |
| 21st September 2006 05:10 PM |
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| lotsajizz |
quote:
Saint Sway wrote:
Keith great on Sympathy. An endless Rambler!!
Keith became so lost on 'Sympathy' that they turned him waaaay down. And 'Rambler' was endless because Keith lost his way there too. To accentuate the positive however, as I have said "Ain't Too Proud To Beg" and "Streets Of Love" were fun and well played..... |
| 21st September 2006 05:30 PM |
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| luxury1 |
Oh, I just thought of another moment--Mick did seem to be geniune in his thanking the crowd for being there, mentioning that he realized they have played Boston 5 times in the past year, adding he really appreciated it, or something along those lines. It was different from his usual banter, which caught my attention and had me thinking that maybe he truly was grateful for the diehards showing up--again--
I love these guys. |
| 21st September 2006 05:56 PM |
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| chevysales |
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lotsajizz wrote:
Keith became so lost on 'Sympathy' that they turned him waaaay down. And 'Rambler' was endless because Keith lost his way there too. To accentuate the positive however, as I have said "Ain't Too Proud To Beg" and "Streets Of Love" were fun and well played.....
i beg to differ i was pretty focused during sympathy and i heard keith throughout doing his part. i never heard him turned down last night... if you heard the guitars did you notice ronnie on stage early on struggling with a guitar and his tech working on amp? he then went completely off stage and came back on with a new guitar and his tech again still playing with amp? this is ronnie i am talking about.
i only comment on what i saw and heard and each of us are entitled to our opinions but by no means did i think keith was much worse than other times... heck does anybody here remember licks opening nite at banknorth and the joke keith was all over the stage posing not playing for virtually the whole show? that imo was one of the worse nights i have seen him in recent years.
many of us have jaded memories (the 60's took their toll on all of us) but many many times the sound plainly sucked for 70's stones shows wether the venue or sound system but you could count on the shitty playing by keith circa 1975. |
| 21st September 2006 06:05 PM |
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| pdog |
Jizzy was wishing he was in SF, with me at G&R, No!
Charlie is gay.... NO! |
| 21st September 2006 06:10 PM |
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| throbby |
lotsajizz, nothing personal, but imho you are most definitely full of lotsashit when it comes to your overall negative take on last night's performance.
I've been listening to MR for the last hour and if I knew how to post an MP3 your undue negativity would be plain for all to see. They maybe were not album perfect on this, but they definitely found a groove and rocked it out.
Funny thing on MR, Ronnie's guitar fucked up and he was strumming air guitar while he was waiting for the tech. |
| 21st September 2006 06:18 PM |
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| GimmeExile |
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luxury1 wrote:
Oh, I just thought of another moment--Mick did seem to be geniune in his thanking the crowd for being there, mentioning that he realized they have played Boston 5 times in the past year, adding he really appreciated it, or something along those lines. It was different from his usual banter, which caught my attention and had me thinking that maybe he truly was grateful for the diehards showing up--again--
I love these guys.
Nice touch, Mick! I hope he feels the same way about Los Angeles. |
| 21st September 2006 06:19 PM |
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| chevysales |
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throbby wrote:
lotsajizz, nothing personal, but imho you are most definitely full of lotsashit when it comes to your overall negative take on last night's performance.
I've been listening to MR for the last hour and if I knew how to post an MP3 your undue negativity would be plain for all to see. They maybe were not album perfect on this, but they definitely found a groove and rocked it out.
Funny thing on MR, Ronnie's guitar fucked up and he was strumming air guitar while he was waiting for the tech.
bingo the air guitar part i had forgot about that. he also prior to that tossed back stage a part of the guitar. |
| 21st September 2006 06:38 PM |
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| PiotrRS |
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throbby wrote:
I've been listening to MR for the last hour and if I knew how to post an MP3 your undue negativity would be plain for all to see. They maybe were not album perfect on this, but they definitely found a groove and rocked it out.
Funny thing on MR, Ronnie's guitar fucked up and he was strumming air guitar while he was waiting for the tech.
throbby - you have it recorded? I'll help you with posting mp3. how did you record it? (if you recorded it on the phone than well, I won't help you, I won't have clue  |
| 21st September 2006 06:43 PM |
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| throbby |
A friend of mine recorded the song, one of his favorites. Quality is ok, I've heard worse. |
| 21st September 2006 07:16 PM |
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| GotToRollMe |
quote:
luxury1 wrote:
Oh, I just thought of another moment--Mick did seem to be geniune in his thanking the crowd for being there, mentioning that he realized they have played Boston 5 times in the past year, adding he really appreciated it, or something along those lines. It was different from his usual banter, which caught my attention and had me thinking that maybe he truly was grateful for the diehards showing up--again--
I love these guys.
Nice! "Doing It For The Fans!"
Thanks so much for posting this stuff, guys. I was kinda ambivalent about Giants (not my favorite place to see a concert), but now I'm chomping at the bit! Bring it on, boys!
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| 21st September 2006 07:21 PM |
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| lotsajizz |
the proof is in the music....post it, Mr. Throbby, I am confident it will distress the truly knowledgable fans here...btw, post the "Sway" where Keith butchered the cue for the second verse...or post the "Sympathy" where he appears to forget on what song he is soloing...I have seen them two dozen times and posted rave reviews here when they have deserved it. Last night Keith did not deserve it.....but Woodie did. Face it, the man was hurt much worse in that fall than they are letting on.....not that this will stop me from leaving for Halifax tomorrow.....I am fan-a-tic and am praying that my fears will not be realized and it was just Keith gettin' too drunk backstage and he will be better next time....hope springs eternal....and shit, the rest of 'em can do fine!!
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| 21st September 2006 07:46 PM |
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| GotToRollMe |
From today's Boston Globe:
Returning with a bang, the Stones rock, and roll back the years
By Jonathan Perry, Globe Correspondent | September 21, 2006
FOXBOROUGH -- When Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards told a Boston audience in January that Boston ``was becoming a habit," he wasn't kidding. Maybe it's because Richards calls Connecticut home when he's not falling out of coconut trees in Fiji, but the Stones have certainly had a penchant for kicking off tours in this neck of the woods in recent years.
Even with a few stumbles along the way, some silly (that coconut incident), some serious (drummer Charlie Watts battling throat cancer; guitarist Ron Wood entering rehab), and some certainly to be expected (singer Mick Jagger being afflicted with laryngitis, likely due to a touring schedule that seems to get longer, rather than shorter, each year), the Stones have hit the Greater Boston market five times in roughly a year.
Somehow, though, they keep managing to surprise us -- not just with their improbable endurance and Jagger's staggering ability to defy the aging process, but by the band's stubborn determination to meet its own outsize expectations. Last night, launching the fall North American leg of the band's ``A Bigger Bang" tour, the Stones opened the two-plus hour show with the Eastern-tinged ``Paint It, Black" for the first time in its 44-year history.
The band received an affectionate welcome from the 44,000-strong crowd (Richards and Wood especially) and was in feisty, crash-bam-boom form, blaring gleefully and biting down hard on a chewy ``Live With Me" and ``Monkey Man," and an arch, but guitar-bleary ``Sway." The latter was stripped of the original's despondent poignancy perhaps, but it nevertheless boded well for a show that yielded the old Glimmer Twin gold of a classic Stones spectacle. And not just the crowd-pleasing entertainment juggernaut the band's long since become, but what they once, were too.
Now more than ever perhaps, the epic hoodoo nightmare "Midnight Rambler" has become the Stones's showpiece and a window into the pre- stadium days, when they seemed a five-headed hydra of blues, lust , and theater: There was Mick as tomcat, the years dripping off him with every shake and snake of his hips, blowing dirty harmonica as Keith's and Ronnie's guitars circled him, wailing and rumbling with timeless dread and malevolence. Richards beamed and delivered a sweet-tempered ``You Got The Silver" before springing forward a decade with the raunchy ``Little T & A." ``Sweet Virginia," with Jagger on acoustic and harp and the band working out its lifelong country-blues jones, was a treat. It was moments like these that reminded you that no matter how much they change, or earn, or stumble, some things never change with the Stones, thank goodness.
© Copyright 2006 Globe Newspaper Company.
http://www.boston.com/ae/music/articles/2006/09/21/returning_with_a_bang_the_stones_rock_and_roll_back_the_years/
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| 21st September 2006 07:58 PM |
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| Nellcote |
It's the Stones, dammit.
You get them, warts & all.
Somehow, we keep going back for more.
Hey Throbby, how is Clark Kent these days? |
| 21st September 2006 07:59 PM |
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| lotsajizz |
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Nellcote wrote:
Somehow, we keep going back for more.
Halifax Saturday...you goin' Nellcote?
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| 21st September 2006 08:04 PM |
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| Bitch |
Thanks to everyone for posting their reviews, if I can sum it up, this is a generalization of last night's performance: the setlist rocked, Ronnie was on a roll, KEEF fucked up here and there, MICK flubbed a few lines but was hot, and the sound varied depending where you were seated. As usual no one had any complaints about Charlie. Darryl and Lisa were rockin' too.
The imperfections and variations are what makes each show unique, so when I see the RS I enjoy those parts of the show more than a perfect copy of any studio version.
Nice pics of the boys, they're looking good! I love to see them smile! Thanks to the pic takers and pic posters!
Next week at Giants Stadium, I hope to get Monkey Man, Sweet Virginia, Little T&A, and You Got The Silver (and any other surprises.) I feel like it's Christmas! LOL!
sing to the tune of Dear Doctor:
Dear Santa,
please have the RS
play some rare tunes
I've been good,
like a loyal fan should!
I bought all the CDs,
and the merchandise
been a loyal fan for years,
lol.
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| 21st September 2006 08:09 PM |
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| Nellcote |
No Canada for me.
I would get tucked away at immigration
for "priors"... |
| 21st September 2006 08:11 PM |
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| LadyJane |
Look at this gem taken and posted by Shidoobee's nursejane.
Keith's face is amazing!!!
LJ. |
| 21st September 2006 08:17 PM |
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| deuce |
^ Regardless of performance quality, seeing those two together will always be one of the coolest things ever. |
| 21st September 2006 08:18 PM |
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| jaggergurl |
LJ!! Are you psychic? OMG.. you have email! |
| 21st September 2006 08:19 PM |
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| Gazza |
LMAO..what an expression on Keith's face. That grimace gives the impression that Mick has just dropped an "air biscuit", and is attempting to deny "ownership"
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