Rolling Stones...

[CaledonianGonzo]

What price this Gary Clark, Jr bod as a guest?

Guested with them in December, showing face again tomorrow night in Boston, playing the Avalon Stage on the Sunday.

Haven't heard note one. Is he worth a goosey.

[Wooderson]

What price this Gary Clark, Jr bod as a guest?

Guested with them in December, showing face again tomorrow night in Boston, playing the Avalon Stage on the Sunday.

Haven't heard note one. Is he worth a goosey.

He's big in the States. I'd say its pretty much a lock for him to guest with the Stones. Some dull as dishwater cover.

[Wooderson]

I think the Muse cover was down to it being a surprise! (Maybe it had been reported, I didn't know...I was down the front and didn't realise it was the edge for a bit!). The atmosphere difference was really weird though yeah! I was expecting to get the spine tingles again with the opening notes !

Muse had a much younger/more enthusiastic following at their show. I doubt that even a lovely balmy evening would have granted U2's version a similar pop.

[The Nal]

What price this Gary Clark, Jr bod as a guest?

Guested with them in December, showing face again tomorrow night in Boston, playing the Avalon Stage on the Sunday.

Haven't heard note one. Is he worth a goosey.

Yeah hes not bad. Talented bloke. Skuzzy sort of guitar sound. Very Junior Kimbrough. Good Sunday sunshine music.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXlvJQl5xLI

[Wooderson]

Yeah hes not bad. Talented bloke. Skuzzy sort of guitar sound. Very Junior Kimbrough. Good Sunday sunshine music.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXlvJQl5xLI

Everybody wants to be Jr Kimbrough now.

[tevaburger]

What price this Gary Clark, Jr bod as a guest?

Guested with them in December, showing face again tomorrow night in Boston, playing the Avalon Stage on the Sunday.

Haven't heard note one. Is he worth a goosey.

he's very good and worth catching him. and he's right on after Evan Dando in Avalon too. that's definitely an option for me depnding on the PIL, Nick Cave times

[CaledonianGonzo]

Last night's setlist:

Get Off Of My Cloud

It's Only Rock'n Roll

Paint It Black

Gimme Shelter

Going Down (with Gary Clark, Jr.)

Beast Of Burden

Sway (with Mick Taylor)

Emotional Rescue

Doom And Gloom

One More Shot

Honky Tonk Women

You Got The Silver (Keith)

Before They Make Me Run (Keith)

Midnight Rambler (with Mick Taylor)

Miss You

Start Me Up

Tumbling Dice

Brown Sugar

Sympathy For The Devil

--- Band off stage

You Can't Always Get What You Want

Jumping Jack Flash

Satisfaction (with Mick Taylor)

Few surprises, with Mick Taylor doing the treble with Sway and Gary Clarke Jnr reprising his turn on Goin' Down. Only 4 more shows to go before they hit the farm.

[russycarps]

emotional rescue. It's inevitable.

I listened to miss you yesterday.............I'm looking forward to it. There, I said it.

[Wooderson]

With Clarke Jr in the mix I would wager this setlist will be the same (bar maybe two tracks) at the G.

They'll lose the crowd big time between Going Down and Honky Tonk btw.

[The Nal]

With Clarke Jr in the mix I would wager this setlist will be the same (bar maybe two tracks) at the G.

They'll lose the crowd big time between Going Down and Honky Tonk btw.

Beast of Burden is in that run. People love that. And Sway is a tune. But its a little slow for a festival gig I spose. Honky Tonk Women is awful rubbish though.

Edited June 13, 2013 by The Nal

[CaledonianGonzo]

I'd be surprised TBH. Bobby Womack's also in the mix, making It's All Over Now more likely than them wheeling on someone who's a complete unknown in the UK.

I also think they'll drop a couple of numbers for time purposes, and ER is likely to be one of them.

[Gnomicide]

emotional rescue. It's inevitable.

I listened to miss you yesterday.............I'm looking forward to it. There, I said it.

I've been listening to some Classic Rock Radio stations in the US through Tune-in Radio over the last few weeks. When it comes to Stones tracks, they seem to play Miss You more than any.

They then usually go into an advert about addiction therapy.

[opencube]

I think the Muse cover was down to it being a surprise! (Maybe it had been reported, I didn't know...I was down the front and didn't realise it was the edge for a bit!). The atmosphere difference was really weird though yeah! I was expecting to get the spine tingles again with the opening notes !

U2's set was effected by a pretty severe technical issue too. It knocked out of sync the 'click tracks' that the band use. All down to the Pyramid Stage warm up DJ getting a bit too excited and jumping up and down and knocked over some computer equipment. Thus intro synths and effects were knocked out of action.

Hence why the intro to Streets didnt go as planned.

Anyone that had listened to U2 live sets before the Glastonbury gig can notice the difference.

Here is a blog post by the U2 Tour manager:

I was to learn later that, almost simultaneously, two massive gig-threatening events had come to pass.

Back stage, the BBC have their whole live broadcast set up and also, in a separate trailer, Smasher (our touring video director) had his whole set up to switch the screen cameras and control all the video playback material. Literally at the moment that Larry first started beating the hell out of his drums at the top of Real Thing, the generator powering Smasher’s truck died, dumping his entire system into darkness.

Later he told me that he actually thought he was going to have a heart attack (no doubt, like me, having fantasised about worst-case-scenarios). He genuinely thought that U2 were now on stage playing in front of seven giant video screens showing diddly-squat, but then he noticed that the little back-up system he’d brought with him had kicked in and was happily running on its own battery. He stuck his head out of the trailer and could see that there was light blaring from the screens and that all was well. Smasher’s MacBook was running the Damien Hirst piece all by itself, and the day was saved.

Meanwhile on stage, catastrophe of similar magnitude was simultaneously being avoided by the narrowest of margins. Terry, who on the 360 tour plays keyboards and runs the computer click-tracks from ‘underworld’ beneath the stage, was set up on stage right. There’s no ‘underworld’ at Glastonbury and earlier in the day I’d joked with Terry that he would finally see U2 play live, rather than via the complex CCTV set up we have on the 360 tour.

He was set up on Edge’s side of the stage, tucked behind one of the video screens that we’d brought. BetweenTerry and the front edge of the stage, the Glastonbury DJ had a little set up, to entertain the crowd during the changeover periods. Said DJ had decided to stay there to watch U2 and, going with the festival spirit, nobody objected him being there. Not, that is, until U2 kicked into Real Thing and this guy started dancing and jumping about like a lunatic, knocking over Terry’s computer rack in the process.

Many songs are played in a manner we call “off the grid”, i.e. it’s just the four of them playing at whatever tempo Larry is beating out, but songs that play over loops or effects (e.g. With or Without You or I’ll Go Crazy), or that have synchronised video content, need to stay exactly in sync and so are played over a click track (that the audience don’t hear). All of this comes from Terry’s computer set up, and so do all of the video triggers that launch the visual images at exactly the right moment. You can imagine that this is not an uncomplicated set-up, and I’m sure poor Terry saw the whole thing in slow motion, as his central nervous system crashed to the floor.

Thank the universe that, just prior to hitting the deck, Terry’s machine had sent the trigger to Smasher’s video playback system so the Damien Hirst video sequence had launched. Literally seconds later, both Terry and Smasher’s set-ups had both been rendered useless but by then the gig had started, the band was playing and the visuals were running themselves from the back-up laptop. If you listen back to the BBC broadcast you can hear that during the first verse of Real Thing Terry’s “weedly-weedly” keyboard runs are missing because he wasn’t able to play them at the same time as scraping his computer off the floor.

[Brave Sir Robin]

If they're going to do a blues track with Gary Clark Jr (or maybe even Clapton), I hope it's Champagne & Reefer myself.

And on the subject of appropriate tunes, I'm Free would go down pretty well too.

[cokebabies92]

If they're going to do a blues track with Gary Clark Jr (or maybe even Clapton), I hope it's Champagne & Reefer myself.

Another vote for Champagne & Reefer.

[The Nal]

Honky Tonk Women from last night. Complete Stones panto but it sounds pretty decent

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGD3rC-ZUgY

As does Satisfaction, minus the dud start.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVasBV0Q_7g

Edited June 13, 2013 by The Nal

[tevaburger]

Honky Tonk Women from last night. Complete Stones panto but it sounds pretty decent

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGD3rC-ZUgY

As does Satisfaction, minus the dud start.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVasBV0Q_7g

they're looking better and better each passing week and will be spot-on for Saturday on the farm. and to think we were reading just a month or two ago that The Nal wouldn't be anywhere near this 'mess'...

big night in Boston last night. pics of Mick backstage at the Garden in a Boston Bruins jersey, the local beloved ice hockey team, whose arena the Stones were playing in were opening up the Finals away to Chicago during the gig and said match went into triple overtime....funnily enough latter parts of that match coincided with a bit of channel-swapping myself as Sir Paul and band doing a 5/6-song set on the Colbert Show, if you want to YouTube search that. good interview and set.

Macca at Fenway Park in Boston on July 9 by the way...perhaps the most iconic baseball stadium in America

[russycarps]

sounds from all the recent videos that they will sound ok. They just need to rethink that run of dud songs after gimmeshelter...(not all total shit songs, but you know what I mean)

[The Nal]

they're looking better and better each passing week and will be spot-on for Saturday on the farm. and to think we were reading just a month or two ago that The Nal wouldn't be anywhere near this 'mess'...

This "shitty mess". That video that was knocking about back then sounded like sick cats fucking each other on an out of tune guitar plugged into a practice amp.

Very happy to say thats no longer the case though. Same for a lot of others it seems. I'll be hopefully in the pit for this doing a lot of Jagger hands-on-hips dancing. Really looking forward to it.

[FloorFiller]

sounds from all the recent videos that they will sound ok. They just need to rethink that run of dud songs after gimmeshelter...(not all total shit songs, but you know what I mean)

yeah those few songs between Gimme Shelter and Emotional Rescue (or Honky Tonk Women, depending on how you look at it) need to be chosen wisely or they could lose a lot of the crowd. best sticking with the likes of Wild Horses and other better known songs rather than album tracks / covers i'd have thought. though i guess it depends on who they've got as guests etc. from the first song after Gimme Shelter up until Honkey Tonk will be a lot of people's beer and bathroom breaks (if others have analysed the setlists as much as we have... which they probably haven't)

[russycarps]

yeah those few songs between Gimme Shelter and Emotional Rescue (or Honky Tonk Women, depending on how you look at it) need to be chosen wisely or they could lose a lot of the crowd. best sticking with the likes of Wild Horses and other better known songs rather than album tracks / covers i'd have thought. though i guess it depends on who they've got as guests etc. from the first song after Gimme Shelter up until Honkey Tonk will be a lot of people's beer and bathroom breaks (if others have analysed the setlists as much as we have... which they probably haven't)

street fighting man would fit nicely in there I think....

[The Nal]

street fighting man would fit nicely in there I think....

And Bitch. And Angie.

[FloorFiller]

And Bitch. And Angie.

yeah those three would be fantastic for that spot. hopefully we'll get at least one of them - lesser played (on this tour) Stones singles / hits rather than album tracks / covers

[russycarps]

it really would be very simple for them to put on a so-called legendary set wouldnt it when you look at all the songs they've rehersed and played this tour

They are bound to fuck it up though

[CaledonianGonzo]

Bitch and Wild Horses are both album tracks, mind.

Well, they released Wild Horses as a single in the US, but that doesn't count!

Edited June 13, 2013 by CaledonianGonzo