Is it time yet?

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Wha' can a poor bwoy do
'cept to sing like... Smokey-ooo?

What a delightful Stoonzian gear change.

LadyJane wrote on May 25^th, 2013 at 8:19pm:



Because its a song from a year before he joined the band?

He did play on what Dan described as a smoking hot rehearsal on one of the days in Hollywood, though. Its not a song I expected them to use him on, to be honest. Unfortunately.

Sounds like we're down to a couple of Taylor songs a night again.

LadyJane wrote on May 25^th, 2013 at 9:21pm:



Sony.

Of course they dont all HAVE to be on UMG. It just makes it easier to get clearance, I suppose.

It'd be very easy to cobble together about 14-15 duets and fill a CD, ditching the ones that they think didnt work.

Has the setlist changed AT ALL after Keith's set?? Since Staples 1???
I think not.

LadyJane wrote on May 25^th, 2013 at 9:50pm:



Nope. The last nine songs have been performed in the same order at all eight arena shows in 2013 - and all five arena shows in 2012.

With one exception. The opening night in London when they went over curfew and had to omit the closing song 'Satisfaction'.

In fact, the last 14 songs (ie from 'Doom and Gloom' onwards) have been static at all eight arena shows apart from San Jose (when they dropped D&G), CYHMK the other night and the last three shows when instead of Before They Make Me Run & Happy, Keith played You Got The Silver all three nights with Happy following it twice and Before They Make Me Run once.

The second half of a Stones gig must be the most amazingly predictable setlist in rock music. How can they not get bored doing that? Its as if they think they'll fall off the end of the world and be eaten by dragons if they even change the running order slightly.  The variation in the last three decades has been minimal.

With their catalogue, it's pretty cringe worthy.
I don't give a shit about "playing to the regular Joe's" either.

Oh well.
Onto Chicago we go.

At least ER is back in and YGTS remains.

I swear to God if I get YGMR at 2 on the 31st, SV will have to hold me back from storming the stage screaming
"I will not be Omaha'd". LOL.


PS. I'll be damned. Just hung up with a childhood friend who is a fan not a fanatic. She went with her Hub and 2 daughters. Called me screaming from the cab. "Amazing. OMG. They are fantastic. My daughter is in love with Keith Richards. They played everything."

Gazza wrote on May 25^th, 2013 at 10:24pm:


I'm hoping that for the Hyde Park gigs they'll model the set list partly on what was played in 69, I'd love them to play "Stray Cat Blues" but somehow I'm not convinced that they will....

Worst set list of the tour. YGMR is a fuckin' joke.

Plenty of piss breaks......Angie,ER ,MS (Greatest rock n roll band in the world doing 2 DISCO songs ) ........... WTF !

Unleashing Taylor was just a marketing ploy. If the play that crap next week, I'll be fucking booing  

Why all these shite guests?Why has Jagger not got the balls to let them just play like a rock n roll band any more ?

sc uk

tertainment / Music
Rolling Stones: Concert review
Mick Jagger and the boys have drolly dubbed their current concert tour “50 and Counting,” but this show’s gotta be rolling to a close soon.

The Rolling Stones at the ACC. From left, Ron Wood, Charlie Watts, Keith Richards and Mick Jagger.
Rick Madonik / Toronto Star
The Rolling Stones
At the Air Canada Centre

The Rolling Stones have drolly dubbed their current concert tour “50 and Counting,” but this show’s gotta be rolling to a close soon.

I don’t mean that in a nasty, “Get off the stage, you old men!” way, by any means. If anything, last night’s Stones gig at the Air Canada Centre — the first of two Toronto stops of just an aggregate 29 dates on the 50 and Counting jaunt begun late last year with a smattering of dates in Paris, London, New York and Newark, N.J., with another local show to come at the ACC on June 6 — served notice to cynics that the aged rock ’n’ roll combo is still capable of hitting its stride from time to time.

From time to time. I want all of you delusional Boomers living on that planet where you come out of every single Rolling Stones gig declaring “They’ve still got it! That was better than ever!” to repeat that with me: from time to time. Because it’s not all great anymore.

It’s still pretty good by times, don’t get me wrong. It’s the freakin’ Rolling Stones up there, after all, and Saturday found the late-sexagenarian core of Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts and Ronnie Wood — bolstered by such long-serving side players as bassist Daryl Jones, keyboardist Chuck Leavell and powerhouse vocalists Lisa Fischer and Bernard Fowler — making more discreet use of an army of backing players (and teleprompters) than on most recent tours and largely carrying on as best they could after 50 years as the rough-’n’-ready rock band they once were rather than a sprawling “revue.”

And they could still hold it down. They really could. Early, early single “Get Off of My Cloud” provided a decent approximation of scrappiness as the opener, and the Stones followed that up even harder with a reasonably buzz-sawing “You Got Me Rockin” — not to mention a well-timed Rob Ford joke from Jagger to break the ice and get Toronto’s major contemporary conversational preoccupation out of the way.

“We won’t be doing any jokes about the mayor tonight,” he said. “It’s too easy a target.”

Jagger, who’s in remarkably good voice for a chap who’ll be 70 in July, broke his promise and tried a second Ford joke later on in the set, but it was too weak to bear mentioning here. As was, for that matter, rather a lot of the set’s first third, which fell off sharply after a spirited vocal duel between Jagger and Fischer on “Gimme Shelter” into a wan “Angie,” a “Street Fighting Man” that just kind of collapsed in on itself at the end and a gangly-in-a-bad-way “Emotional Rescue” that signalled beer and bathroom breaks were coming all around well before the new tunes from last year’s Grrr! compilation — the tough-enough, if somewhat raggedly presented “Doom and Gloom” and the wretched “One More Shot” — made their appearances.

Then Keith came out, did his frontman thing, raised the room’s spirits with “Happy” and things fired up a bit. And then they fired up a bit more when prodigal ’70s guitarist Mick Taylor emerged wearing a natty scarf to slash away alongside Richards and Wood on a greasy extended run at “Midnight Rambler.”

And then they fired up a bit more as the Rolling Stones — yes — hit their stride with a limber “Miss You” that had grandmothers dancing in the aisles like the teen tarts they no doubt once were and a “Start Me Up,” a grizzled “Tumbling Dice” and an autopiloted-but-still-kinda-awesome-because-the-song-is-awesome “Brown Sugar” that suddenly didn’t seem nearly as worn-out and unwelcome as they maybe did when you were walking into the venue earlier in the evening, dreading another Rolling Stones show.

It all fell apart again during “Sympathy for the Devil,” during which the fact that Jagger had donned a furry yak/Beelzebub cloak couldn’t distract the room from what, at times, sounded like three or four different songs being played over each other at once. The appearance of a choir from Mississauga’s Cawthra Park Secondary School Mississauga was a nice touch for “You Can’t Always Get What You Want,” as was the reappearance of Mick Taylor after “Jumpin’ Jack Flash” for the climactic encore presentation of “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction,” even if he sat down midway through and seemed to be done with it before the rest of the ACC was.

It was fine. It was … good. Maybe not worth $500 or whatever the hell people were paying for tickets (or not paying, because there was a serious walk-up ticket line last night). I’m through pissing on the Rolling Stones all the time because it’s expected of a critic born in 1974. I had great seats. I had fun. The songs are great. And I don’t think I’ll get a chance to see them again because, that second Toronto date on June 6 notwithstanding, this really did feel like the last time. So that was something. I’m glad I got to see the Rolling Stones one last time. I want them to go out with the dignity they’ve got, and I think they do, too.
http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/music/2013/05/26/rolling_stones_concert_rev...

Toronto Globe & Mail
Pictures.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/music/in-pictures-rolling-stones-rock-toront...