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Edith Grove Agent Provocateur Offline Disco STILL sucks! Posts: 12,336 New Orleans Gender:	Re: David Bowie hommage from The Rolling Stones Reply #1 - Feb 16^th, 2016 at 4:23pm If Let's Spend The Night Together wins the song vote today, it would kind of be a tribute, sort of...
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Reply #6 - Feb 17^th, 2016 at 2:24pm

Factory Girl wrote on Feb 17^th, 2016 at 5:11am:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9G4jnaznUoQ

Dancing in the Street...they could do that one, but not on their agenda apparently.

God help us. I'd hope not.

The problem is that at the rate the Stones' contemporaries and influences are shuffling off these days, they could be adding a new song every week.

Its hard enough to get them to play anything other than a warhorse these days, without expecting them to play an unreleased cover at a stadium show in a market where the audience might not even be that familiar with whoever it is they're honouring.

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Factory Girl Rocks Off Regular Offline Posts: 2,194 US Gender:	Re: David Bowie hommage from The Rolling Stones Reply #8 - Feb 17^th, 2016 at 4:36pm G, Bowie was known world wide. If they played DIS, it would be appreciated and understood by the audience, but as I've said above, it is not on their agenda.
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Reply #10 - Feb 17^th, 2016 at 5:40pm

Factory Girl wrote on Feb 17^th, 2016 at 4:36pm:

G,

Bowie was known world wide. If they played DIS, it would be appreciated and understood by the audience, but as I've said above, it is not on their agenda.

Known, yes - but he was hardly the global star in South America that the Stones are.

I doubt there would have been too many people more delighted than me had they covered a Bowie song, but I don't think it was ever a reasonable expectation. Maybe had they been playing in Europe, the US or maybe Japan, but not so much in South America.

Covering a song that Bowie covered would have been a horrible choice IMO

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Reply #12 - Feb 17^th, 2016 at 8:39pm

"Rebel Rebel," a song allegedly written as a Stones knock-off, would have been an obvious choice. But I'm thinking that if any tribute cover would have been played, it would have been if Bowie's death had coincided with a US or Euro tour, so that a mass Bowie audience would have been reached and then the number dropped when the tour was over. If they played a tribute cover in SA and then dropped it above the Equator, the fan and media reaction would be WTF? Also, their tribute cover trend has been to cover older influences and not contemporaries (though James Brown was borderline contemporary), and to cover black artists so as to celebrate the Stones' musical roots. All a shame, as I was really hoping they'd rip through "Rebel Rebel" instead of being scooped by Gaga. So the LP cover of Made In the Shade (see my avatar) is all that remains of old love....

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Reply #13 - Feb 17^th, 2016 at 10:10pm

The Stones do not do tributes. They are beside all that. Though Jagger and Bowie and all of them knew each other very well ... and though they are go way back together in a small sense of the concept. Though the music world has lost a true artist in every sense of the word (and even though I personally love Bowie and though his last album in extraordinary ..)

The Stones should stick to being 'The Stones' .. in 1968 .. in 1978 ... and even here in 2016 (they do not do tributes .. only 'covers' at times .. and they do not bring up said things on tour or in their albums. They are beside all that kind of jazz. That is how it always was.. and that is how it be -

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Reply #15 - Feb 18^th, 2016 at 8:31am

Ian Billen wrote on Feb 17^th, 2016 at 10:10pm:

The Stones do not do tributes. They are beside all that. Though Jagger and Bowie and all of them knew each other very well ... and though they are go way back together in a small sense of the concept. Though the music world has lost a true artist in every sense of the word (and even though I personally love Bowie and though his last album in extraordinary ..)

The Stones should stick to being 'The Stones' .. in 1968 .. in 1978 ... and even here in 2016 (they do not do tributes .. only 'covers' at times .. and they do not bring up said things on tour or in their albums. They are beside all that kind of jazz. That is how it always was.. and that is how it be -

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Well, when I saw them in 2005, they were flashing huge pictures of Ray Charles and James Brown on stadium-sized video screens above their stage, and then performing those people's songs, in commemoration of their passing away recently. I think those would qualify as "tributes."

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Reply #16 - Feb 18^th, 2016 at 10:32am

Ian Billen wrote on Feb 17^th, 2016 at 10:10pm:

The Stones do not do tributes. They are beside all that. Though Jagger and Bowie and all of them knew each other very well ... and though they are go way back together in a small sense of the concept. Though the music world has lost a true artist in every sense of the word (and even though I personally love Bowie and though his last album in extraordinary ..)

The Stones should stick to being 'The Stones' .. in 1968 .. in 1978 ... and even here in 2016 (they do not do tributes .. only 'covers' at times .. and they do not bring up said things on tour or in their albums. They are beside all that kind of jazz. That is how it always was.. and that is how it be -

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Reply #18 - Feb 18^th, 2016 at 1:04pm

riffkeither wrote on Feb 16^th, 2016 at 2:41pm:

I'm saddly disapointed by the fact that the Rolling Stones don't play even one song of David Bowie in their new Olé Tour 2016.
Why such a thing !!

Why should they? It would probably be more awkward than anything else. Just let people mourn how they want to mourn.

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job Rocks Off Regular Offline The last of the hard core troubadours. Posts: 191 Orange County, California Gender:	Re: David Bowie hommage from The Rolling Stones Reply #19 - Feb 18^th, 2016 at 1:05pm andrews27 wrote on Feb 17^th, 2016 at 8:39pm: "Rebel Rebel," a song allegedly written as a Stones knock-off If that's true, then it's a pretty shitty knock-off. Great song but an awful Stones knock-off.
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Reply #20 - Feb 18^th, 2016 at 7:49pm

Gazza wrote on Feb 17^th, 2016 at 5:42pm:

Voodoo Chile in Wonderland wrote on Feb 17^th, 2016 at 5:10pm:

Hold your horses B&B... Mick will be in "The Concert for Bowie", I hope he sings "Five Years"

Has that been confirmed or is it still just another case of tabloidesque assumption?

It was just my imagination...

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Reply #21 - Feb 19^th, 2016 at 8:32am

job wrote on Feb 18^th, 2016 at 1:05pm:

andrews27 wrote on Feb 17^th, 2016 at 8:39pm:

"Rebel Rebel," a song allegedly written as a Stones knock-off

If that's true, then it's a pretty shitty knock-off. Great song but an awful Stones knock-off.

But it made money...and if Mick and Keith had come up with it, it would be making money on every hits record forever.

From wiki:

'Originally written for an aborted Ziggy Stardust musical in late 1973,[6] "Rebel Rebel" – completed in January 1974 and released the following month – was Bowie's last single in the glam rock style that had been his trademark. It was also his first hit since 1969 not to feature lead guitarist Mick Ronson; Bowie himself played guitar on this and almost all other tracks from Diamond Dogs, producing what NME critics Roy Carr and Charles Shaar Murray called "a rocking dirty noise that owed as much to Keith Richards as it did to the departed Ronno".[7]

'The song is notable for its gender-bending lyrics ("You got your mother in a whirl / She's not sure if you're a boy or a girl") as well as its distinctive riff, which rock journalist Kris Needs has described as "a classic stick-in-the-head like the Stones' 'Satisfaction'".[8] Bowie himself later said, "It's a fabulous riff! Just fabulous! When I stumbled onto it, it was 'Oh, thank you!'"[9]'

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Reply #23 - Feb 20^th, 2016 at 7:14pm

One of the stylistic links between Bowie and the Stones is the use of acoustic guitar for rhythm guitar on out-and-out rockers, with the acoustic heard prominently at a song's beginning. I don't have to name the instances, I'm sure.

But whatever happened to the rumor, which was well-heard at the time of the song's release, that it's Bowie playing the acoustic on "It's Only Rock 'n Roll"? In 1974, that rumor seemed to have been issued to the press by the Stones camp. Does anyone else remember this? I doubt it's true, but it was definitely put out there with the album release hype.

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Reply #24 - Feb 21^st, 2016 at 5:53am

andrews27 wrote on Feb 20^th, 2016 at 7:14pm:

One of the stylistic links between Bowie and the Stones is the use of acoustic guitar for rhythm guitar on out-and-out rockers, with the acoustic heard prominently at a song's beginning. I don't have to name the instances, I'm sure.

But whatever happened to the rumor, which was well-heard at the time of the song's release, that it's Bowie playing the acoustic on "It's Only Rock 'n Roll"? In 1974, that rumor seemed to have been issued to the press by the Stones camp. Does anyone else remember this? I doubt it's true, but it was definitely put out there with the album release hype.

Do you mean on the song or the album?
It is Bowie on Back Up Vocals...on the song as well as Ronnie Wood on Acoustic 12 string

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