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Originally Posted by estranged4life
this past tour and it was indeed a show with lots of spontaneity,
I liked how the Stones chose a specific album each night to highight from their careers (ON Jan.28,2003 it was "Exile On Main Street"...Loved hearing "Sweet Virginia", "Loving Cup" & "Rocks Off" live! ...
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Well that`s a new info for me. I think they have become their own revival band. At the Urban Jungle tour 89 they played a lot of material from their current album Steel wheels. The album was in the focus of the show and of course there were lots of other songs from the 80`s to the 60`s too.
In 1994 they only had I think 3 new songs in their setlist from their current album. The rest was the greatest hits catalogue. I wasn't really pleased with that approach but still visited the show.
In 1998 or 99 as the Internet vote rubbish began they just did the Greatest hits catalogue. Every moron voted for Satisfaction and that f.e. is a song that I don`t want to hear ever again because it has been played a trazillion times. Be that as it may- I am glad to hear that they mix it up too and that at some shows there seem to have been rare songs. But the time for them to tour for a new album which is in the focus of the show (as it should be) is over and as long as this is the case I won`t go to a Stones show again. That is my definition of a revival band- no new material, relying on old stuff over and over, pleasing people who think of their youth and their first joint then.
The same goes with FM. Let people vote on the Internet and you won`t hear a single new song. Red rover would be buried and never see the light of the day again on stage. Remember people like that radio idiot last week or so that said how he only wants to hear the old hits on the show and that even while LB sat beneath him. He should crush his Turner on these peoples heads rather than during a show
Finally I`d like to mention Lou Reed who toured in support for "New York" and did the whole album live except "Good evening Mr. Waldheim". After that he also did songs from the predecessor and then some other 80`s stuff and finally also the old hits.
Or N.Young doing his new stuff no matter how much some people think he should do his own revival tour.