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Reply #177 - May 4^th, 2013 at 10:21pm

I agree...I've been listening to the clips since last night. They did a fantastic job with this. They really seemed to rehearse this to death because this performance doesn't sound as wobbly as other opening night debuts (Dan mentioned during rehearsals that they worked on it one day for a straight 45 minutes).

It's really fascinating how they tweaked this song to meet their needs for a live setting. They kind of shifted things around a bit, changed a few parts to make it less complicated. The studio track is utter perfection but there would have been too many traffic jams had they followed the studio cut to every last note last night.

I never noticed how similar this tune is to "Miss You." Both are obviously "disco" tracks, but in addition to that: both have fantastic bass lines, both have a "woo hoo hoo" singalong bits for the crowd (obviously more dominant in "Miss You"), both are four on the floor beats, both have a little break in the middle and both have talking parts ("I"ve been walking through Central Park..." vs "I will be your knight in shining armor..."). The songs are very much distant cousins.

They may have realized this as they were trying to finally perform this live. They realized it's a rather complicated track so they made it completely easy on themselves....they made the riff (as played by Darryl and the horns) the main focus that drives the tune, instead of Charlie coming in with the snare during the chorus only, he's there for the whole song and of course, Mick only uses the falsetto during the first verse using it as an intro...the rest of the time Bernard and Lisa help with the falsetto. I might say that it's sliiiiightly watered down from the studio cut but nevertheless they totally opened it up and made it to a danceable tune.

Hopefully it's not the last we see of it!

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Paranoid Android Rocks Off Regular Offline The Rocks Off Ladies Rule You Bastards!! Posts: 6,342 Chapel Hill, NC Gender:	Re: Tour Opener. Staples Center, Los Angeles. 05/0 Reply #178 - May 5^th, 2013 at 12:35am gimmekeef wrote on May 4^th, 2013 at 8:55pm: OK guys I mocked the ER tune...but they pulled it off......You guys were right! It only took you 3900 posts to realize it!!! :
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Re: Tour Opener. Staples Center, Los Angeles. 05/0
Reply #179 - May 5^th, 2013 at 12:44am

macdaddy wrote on May 4^th, 2013 at 2:40am:

oh, and a HUGE thank you to Chris for the ticket, and to Paranoid Android, who facilitated the hookup-Rocks Off friggin' rules!!!

I am just so thrilled that you got hooked up and I ( and others) got to live vicariously thru your and Chris...

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Reply #180 - May 5^th, 2013 at 1:06am

Apart from the greatness of this man taylor made smile

, three things stood out for me:

1) The only band or artist in the world who can pull off playing Emotional Rescue while also playing Gimme Shelter, JJF, and Factory Girl all in one show is the Stones. That is the true sign of greatness. It's not just about versatility, but they play all these styles with state of the art songs written by themselves. NO ONE in the world can do that or really has ever done that.

2) The greatest songs are the ones that still sound powerful live and they breathed new life into what has always been a fantastic song: Emotional Rescue. For all the Keith centric people: Keith even likes this song. People focus on the beat and the falsetto, but the lyrics are absolutely fantastic and I wish they would breathe life into the rich history that is their catalog and play more songs like this. People said Mick was trying to be Prince but Prince has never written a song as good as this.

3) Ronnie Wood played a blinder on Factory Girl. People can talk all they want about technical skills, but no one can play that song with the flavor and sense of melody he played on that. Oddly, his sense of melody reminded me of the great Nicky Hopkins.

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Re: Tour Opener. Staples Center, Los Angeles. 05/0
Reply #181 - May 5^th, 2013 at 2:59am

The Wick wrote on May 5^th, 2013 at 1:06am:

People said Mick was trying to be Prince but Prince has never written a song as good as this.

And...this is where you lost me...I have never heard anyone ever compare Jagger to Prince...When ER was recorded, Prince had not even released Dirty Mind...which was only his 3rd album...to put it in perspective...1999 wasn't released until 1982, and Purple Rain in 1884.
And the last part of your statement is so ridiculous, I won't even debate it.

Prince, is simply, arguably the best musical entertainer of the last 20 years. He is everything all of us here on these boards complain about
when it comes to the our beloved Stones...Prince : Unpredictable set list every night...slammin' guitar playing, every night...in touch with the audience...
even let's them come up to the stage and dance...and just just A-listers...Z-listers as well...and his $500 seats are about 200 strong per show...and they include bar service and
stage side tables with velvet ropes...they truly are VIP seats. The rest of us have to sit in regular arena seats hoping to get our $20( what I paid 2 years ago) -$90 dollars worth that night.

I respect your opinion...thanks for letting me vent.

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Re: Tour Opener. Staples Center, Los Angeles. 05/0
Reply #182 - May 5^th, 2013 at 4:57am

Patrick wrote on May 4^th, 2013 at 7:12pm:

Rollin92 wrote on May 4^th, 2013 at 8:52am:

Agree completely Patrick, I'm hoping that he'll play on a good couple of numbers at Hyde Park. I knew not to pay too much attention to Keith's 3 guitar's make things interesting statement, but I thought the rehearsals with Taylor would signify a greater involvement. But in all probability he'll get 1 song a night and he is in no position whatsoever to turn it down....quite frankly for a bloke who was a key part of their sound, as well as Wyman, these token song(s) are a little bit thankless.

Nevertheless, as far as I'm concerned Mick T is better than having no Mick T, I look forward to him cooking with gas over the coming weeks Grin

Which Hyde Park date are you in for Patrick?

True! 6th July, yourself? Lookin forward to it!

6th as well, its my second ever concert so I am counting down the weeks

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Reply #184 - May 5^th, 2013 at 8:07am

Prince has bar service at his shows??? Holy Christ, that is just fucking brilliant. Who serves? Like buxom looking serving wenches? Or they got spiffy looking maitre'd types? Doesn't matter. It's the concept. The Stones really need to work on getting this. At least roll some pre-tapped kegs down the aisles, or something to show they know how to put on a goddam event!

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Boomy Rocks Off Regular Offline Posts: 375 Indiana Gender:	Re: Tour Opener. Staples Center, Los Angeles. 05/0 Reply #186 - May 5^th, 2013 at 9:05am Beer tastes better when drinking it out of the Stones pint glasses....get 'em all frozen in the icebox and pour a bottle of Oberon in it with the weather all nice and tunes crankin'......... Yes! Since it's Cinco De Mayo I'll sub Modelo for the Oberon, though.
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Re: Tour Opener. Staples Center, Los Angeles. 05/0
Reply #187 - May 5^th, 2013 at 10:19am

Rollin92 wrote on May 5^th, 2013 at 4:57am:

Patrick wrote on May 4^th, 2013 at 7:12pm:

Rollin92 wrote on May 4^th, 2013 at 8:52am:

Agree completely Patrick, I'm hoping that he'll play on a good couple of numbers at Hyde Park. I knew not to pay too much attention to Keith's 3 guitar's make things interesting statement, but I thought the rehearsals with Taylor would signify a greater involvement. But in all probability he'll get 1 song a night and he is in no position whatsoever to turn it down....quite frankly for a bloke who was a key part of their sound, as well as Wyman, these token song(s) are a little bit thankless.

Nevertheless, as far as I'm concerned Mick T is better than having no Mick T, I look forward to him cooking with gas over the coming weeks Grin

Which Hyde Park date are you in for Patrick?

True! 6th July, yourself? Lookin forward to it!

6th as well, its my second ever concert so I am counting down the weeks

Me too. My only 2013 show.

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Re: Tour Opener. Staples Center, Los Angeles. 05/0
Reply #189 - May 5^th, 2013 at 10:44am

Boomy wrote on May 5^th, 2013 at 9:05am:

Beer tastes better when drinking it out of the Stones pint glasses....get 'em all frozen in the icebox and pour a bottle of Oberon in it with the weather all nice and tunes crankin'.........

Yes!

Since it's Cinco De Mayo I'll sub Modelo for the Oberon, though.

Cinco to you too Mmmmm
Let's go get drunk

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Reply #191 - May 5^th, 2013 at 1:51pm

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It´s great to see how easily and properly they played Emotional Rescue. Unlike Sway in the previous tour, that sounded right all the way. Such a simple and efficient groove.

totally agree BtB!!!

It is almost ironic how long we had to wait for a song that seemed so simple to play live...

and WELCOME to ROCKSOFF!!!

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Re: Tour Opener. Staples Center, Los Angeles. 05/0
Reply #192 - May 5^th, 2013 at 2:02pm

sirmoonie wrote on May 5^th, 2013 at 8:07am:

Prince has bar service at his shows??? Holy Christ, that is just fucking brilliant. Who serves? Like buxom looking serving wenches? Or they got spiffy looking maitre'd types? Doesn't matter. It's the concept. The Stones really need to work on getting this. At least roll some pre-tapped kegs down the aisles, or something to show they know how to put on a goddam event!

Getting ready...setting up

This pic is grainy but you get the idea...you can see the servers waiting on orders

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Reply #194 - May 5^th, 2013 at 2:17pm

This is a fun video. You can totally see that Keith Urban is a fan...he is soaking in every moment that he can while he's up there. He's having a ball with Mick on vocals trying to guess when the "delectable" lyric comes up, he's getting some face time with Keith (which includes a full bow when he shakes his hand)...rocking out with Ronnie and makes it a point to thank Charlie before he leaves the stage. One of the great moments from the night:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--0mxgq2kFM&list=UU4AEN6y1aU2pGzP4gQdtnWg&index=1...

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Reply #196 - May 5^th, 2013 at 3:05pm

Justin wrote on May 5^th, 2013 at 2:17pm:

This is a fun video. You can totally see that Keith Urban is a fan...he is soaking in every moment that he can while he's up there. He's having a ball with Mick on vocals trying to guess when the "delectable" lyric comes up, he's getting some face time with Keith (which includes a full bow when he shakes his hand)...rocking out with Ronnie and makes it a point to thank Charlie before he leaves the stage. One of the great moments from the night:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--0mxgq2kFM&list=UU4AEN6y1aU2pGzP4gQdtnWg&index=1...

Yeah, I don't know anything about him, I'm not into Country Music, I don't anything about him, other then he's from down under, married to Nicole Kidman, I made it a point not to watch one single episode of American Idol this year, & I did it, but I knew he was one of the judges, turns out he's an allright guy!! thumbs up!

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Some Guy Rocks Off Regular Offline Posts: 16,083 Atlanta Gender:	Re: Tour Opener. Staples Center, Los Angeles. 05/0 Reply #199 - May 6^th, 2013 at 7:13am Justin wrote on May 4^th, 2013 at 9:03pm: Much better sound on this clip of ER: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMxuJ5SnsIo This fucking solidifies it, I am grooving with white man's overbite.
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