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Which Rolling Stones concert would you rather attend?

#84
GretschWretch said:
The upcoming 2022 tour (tentatively titled the Walking Dead Tour), or this one?



Ol' Bill is testifying like I've rarely heard him do on records, and this is one of the best examples I know of the boomy, hollow-body bass sound that dominated so much of the early sixties.
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So Anyway, I'd pick the TAMI show, only because I might have also got to see the legendary performance of James Brown. When I saw the TAMI movie in '65, even a 13 year old could tell who was the real thing.
 
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#85
Allegedly the Stones have been doing the Walking Dead tour since 1980. Yet there they are. I’d rather have seen them with Brian for $5 than today for $200, but they still kick most of these youngsters’ asses.
 
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#86
bobyoung53 said:
The only reason they hired Darryl is because Charlie was actually a jazz drummer and he had the pick and wanted a jazz bassist, I've never thought he fit.
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Too bad they didn't get Joey Spampinato like it appears Keith wanted. He would have been perfect for them. Jones is a fine bassist, but in the context of the Stones he just sounds kind of generic. In a tune where Bill would play with really interesting space and Willie Dixon-like grease, Jones will just pump 8th notes. But apparently that's what the Stones want now.
 
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The show in France where they recorded a live album somewhere in the seventies. Jagger speaking French to the audience and the killer lead guitar solo in “You can’t always get what you want”: good stuff. Good live album.

I like Bill. An interesting man with many interests including playing the bass, meeting people, entertaining creatures, archiving the band’s journey, owning restaurants and now selling pin finders…! Very wealthy (I presume), he seems to be a simple down to earth cool dude living a good life.

I remember reading that he got the gig with the Stones because he had a powerful amplifier that band members could plug into, loud volume, cool.

We take this for granted now, but back in the days, musical instruments and amplifiers were expenditures that many kids and their parents could not afford.
 
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eh_train said:
Not that I'm wishing it, but if one more member passes people can say they're going to hear a Who.
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#99
2F/2F said:
Have you never really listened to their records? He's a magician, on every one.
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I'm not following this. What part of anything I said references records? I was spotlighting a live performance, and I was playing Stones material in 1966. And what I was hearing in that earlier concert and other live performances is not what I heard on the records in many instances.

But my favorite part of the TAMI concert is not the band but the sheer exuberance and joy reflected by the audience. THAT was the rule, not the exception, at that time.
 
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pbass2 said:
Too bad they didn't get Joey Spampinato like it appears Keith wanted. He would have been perfect for them. Jones is a fine bassist, but in the context of the Stones he just sounds kind of generic. In a tune where Bill would play with really interesting space and Willie Dixon-like grease, Jones will just pump 8th notes. But apparently that's what the Stones want now.
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I thought exactly the same thing, Joey would have been perfect for them.
 

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