B J Conlee wrote:
Maccaroni1974 wrote:
Yankeefan2 wrote:
How sad, that was incredibly awful. Terrible song choice, I could not believe he picked "Lady Madonna". I was absolutely shocked how terrible he sounded.
Agreed. Sappy story that preceded it as well. Shoulda stuck with Yesterday. He needs to take a page out of Jaggers book, color his hair again, move around a bit, and wear shoe lifts.
Between tonights embarrassment, MIA on SNL(horrible), the Olympics fiasco, and the Jay Z debacle we may never recover from the humiliation. Teenagers and millenials are laughing at us all around the world
Maccaroni...wonder why you are on this site. And you saying that "teenagers and millenials are laughing at us" is not very believable to my ears. I'm sure you are laughing as well.
It reminds me of the only time I saw the Stones live. It was back in 2011. A friend of mine had an extra Stones ticket in Philadelphia where I'm from. His brother had gotten sick. Since I had never seen them, I paid for the ticket and joined my friend. Ironically, I had seen Paul at the same venue in Philly about 4 or 5 months earlier.
While the Stones show was good and worth the money, there was a major difference in the 2 shows. The major difference was this:
The Stones had a big band with a lot of extra players and they had a bunch of background singers. All night I was waiting for Mick or Keith to speak to the audience but it never happened. They were parading around doing the "Rock God thing". Again the show was good and they played most of their hits but I could hardly ever hear Mick's voice with all the background singers who were mainly black singers with great voices.
What a contrast seeing Paul's show...He had just a 5 piece Band (his same band today) and he "talked" to the audience many times betwee songs. At the time they were interesting tidbits about the previous song. You heard his voice distinctly (this is when his voice was really good compared to today) and you felt like you knew him as a person. He was real and authentic compared to Mick and Keith who as I said were just playing their "Rock God" personnas. Both great shows back to back but I would go to a McCartney show anyday over the Stones at least at that time.
I was always a Beatles fan over the Stones because you felt like you knew all four members and they had much better albums. Also, I have always loved Macca's variety of genres. I don't find Paul's slower songs in general to be "sappy schlock" in any way. Paul can go great rockers but I love many of his mid-tempo songs and ballads.
As I said, this was 2011 when Paul's voice was loads better than today. In that show, Paul gave his fans many surprises like bringing back Venus and Mars/Rock Show, Ram On, Letting Go and 1985 from Band on the Run for the 1st time. On the Beatles side he did I'm Looking Through You, Michelle, Two of Us, and I've Just Seen a Face, 4 songs I hadn't heard him do before. Unfortunately, since that 2011 tour, Paul has not varied his Setlist and consequently with so many of the same songs, his show "banter" has gotten way too predictable. But his shows are real and Paul is very authentic when you see him in person. For a Greatest hits show, the Stones give a great concert but you certainly can't say that you know them after one of their concerts. As I said, Keith and especially Mick want to play the Rock Gods. If that is what you are looking for, I'm happy for you. But I've always been a Beatles' guy and will always be. I will give the Stones credit that they wait several years before doing a tour (and they probably need the money) but they don't overexpose their brand. Paul I feel has toured way too much which is a reason his shows have gotten stale.
Stones didnt tour in 2011, and Abe does a bulk of the singing to support Paul. Many Stones recordnings have outside singers on them IE Merry Clayton etc, so those extras are brought on stage to replicate the sound of the records.
Mick generally doesnt tell stories like Paul. This is true. That being said, do we really need to hear the story about Jimi Hendrix and his guitar tuning, and George being a great Ukelele player for the last 20 years!?!
As far as the setlist, Stones dont play as many songs as Macca, but most of their songs are a bit longer, and it isn't just hits. Below is arecent setlist from 2019. Songs 2-6, 8-9, 12 and 16 are hardly huge hits. Thats 45% of the setlist.
- Jumping Jack Flash
- It's Only Rock'n'Roll
- Tumbling Dice
- Bitch
- Ride 'Em On Down
- Monkey Man (vote song)
- You Can't Always Get What You Want
- Play With Fire (B-stage acoustic)
- Sweet Virginia (B-stage acoustic)
- Sympathy For The Devil
- Honky Tonk Women
--- Band introductions
- Slipping Away (Keith)
- Before They Make Me Run (Keith)
- Miss You
- Paint It Black
- Midnight Rambler
- Start Me Up
- Brown Sugar
--- Band off stage
- Gimme Shelter
- Satisfaction