Rolling Stones 50th Anniversary - Update AUS/NZ '14

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  • SatansFuton
    SatansFuton Posts: 5,399
    kasedoug wrote:
    It's a lottery. People that have been lined up for hours are going to go nuts if they miss out.

    There hasn't been any actual word yet on what the lottery is all about. Some people seem to think it's just to decide where you'll be seeing the show from once inside. There was something about people lining up for tickets, then those with tickets will be in a lottery for wristbands. Or something. Hell if I know. Various information keeps coming in, and it's confusing. Some people are now talking about a change of venue because somebody from a band named "NewBuild" or "New Build" has taken to Twitter saying something about the Stones stealing their venue for the night, and then saying they talked the Stones into playing somewhere else (yeah right), so there's no telling what's going on.
    "See a broad to get dat booty yak 'em, leg 'er down, a smack 'em yak 'em!"
  • kasedoug
    kasedoug The Golden State Posts: 3,011
    SatansFuton wrote:
    kasedoug wrote:
    It's a lottery. People that have been lined up for hours are going to go nuts if they miss out.

    There hasn't been any actual word yet on what the lottery is all about. Some people seem to think it's just to decide where you'll be seeing the show from once inside. There was something about people lining up for tickets, then those with tickets will be in a lottery for wristbands. Or something. Hell if I know. Various information keeps coming in, and it's confusing. Some people are now talking about a change of venue because somebody from a band named "NewBuild" or "New Build" has taken to Twitter saying something about the Stones stealing their venue for the night, and then saying they talked the Stones into playing somewhere else (yeah right), so there's no telling what's going on.

    Tickets are being sold at the El Rey Theatre (which is booked tonight with Shugie Otis) but the gig will be at the Echoplex. New Build was supposed to play the Echoplex tonight and they've been bumped to another venue. The official press release (http://www.aeglive.com/promos/therollingstones/gig.html) says it's a ticket lottery. If selected, person can buy 1 ticket at $20 and then has to have ticket, wristband, and ID to enter.

    ...and here's word from the venue:

    The Echo ‏@TheEchoLA 2m
    The Stones show at Echoplex is SOLD OUT. No tickets available at the door. Need Gov issued ID, ticket, & matching wristband to enter. Enjoy!

    Apparently it was a late number drawn so all the people at the back of the line will get in and the ones who had been lined up for hours got shut out. Yikes.
  • SatansFuton
    SatansFuton Posts: 5,399
    kasedoug wrote:
    Apparently it was a late number drawn so all the people at the back of the line will get in and the ones who had been lined up for hours got shut out. Yikes.

    I think the purpose of the random drawing was to keep the "insiders" who seem to be at every one of these secret shows (these insiders never seem to share the information with other fans either) from being the only ones to ever get in. It's not really fair that the people who have been lined up since 5am aren't getting in, but for the people in the back, middle, or wherever, it's not fair they weren't operating on the same intelligence the people at the front had.

    Also, Stones just put up a pic from rehearsals...

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    "See a broad to get dat booty yak 'em, leg 'er down, a smack 'em yak 'em!"
  • wpg pearl
    wpg pearl Posts: 1,258
    i wonder if they might hit up the El Mocambo when in Toronto........
    ajb
  • SatansFuton
    SatansFuton Posts: 5,399
    Concerning the lottery, from what I'm gathering, and from a post I just read by Dean at IORR, it wasn't the people up front or in the back or who lucky/screwed. He said a woman went down the line with a bucket of numbered tickets which people drew randomly. Then they went back to the front of the line and had somebody draw a ticket from another bucket, the ticket number drawn as well as the 200 or so after that got the wristbands.

    Also, they let more people in besides the lotto winners. After the lottery was finished another line formed, and those with lotto tickets who didn't win were allowed to buy tickets. So many people left after the lottery announcement that everybody who stayed pretty much got in, they just stopped letting the others in 30 minutes ago.
    "See a broad to get dat booty yak 'em, leg 'er down, a smack 'em yak 'em!"
  • SatansFuton
    SatansFuton Posts: 5,399
    Mick Taylor rehearsing.

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    And since Keith isn't playing with a capo on the 7th fret, it means they're rehearsing something other than Midnight Rambler with Taylor.
    "See a broad to get dat booty yak 'em, leg 'er down, a smack 'em yak 'em!"
  • cutz
    cutz Posts: 12,255
    The Rolling Stones
    Echoplex, Los Angeles, CA, USA
    2013-April 27

    Mick, Keith, Charlie, Ronnie, Darryl, Chuck, Bernard, Lisa

    onstage: 09:20 PM PT

    You Got Me Rocking
    Respectable
    She's So Cold
    Live with Me (with Bobby Keys)
    Street Fighting Man (first since 9 Nov 2003)
    That's How Strong My Love Is (Otis Redding)
    Little Queenie (Chuck Berry) (first since 19 Sep 1998)
    Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me) (The Temptations)
    Miss You (with Bobby Keys)
    Love in Vain (with Mick Taylor)
    Midnight Rambler (with Mick Taylor)
    Start Me Up

    Brown Sugar (with Bobby Keys)
    Jumpin' Jack Flash

    offstage: 10:50 PM PT
  • SatansFuton
    SatansFuton Posts: 5,399
    edited April 2013
    cutz wrote:
    The Rolling Stones
    Echoplex, Los Angeles, CA, USA
    2013-April 27

    Mick, Keith, Charlie, Ronnie, Darryl, Chuck, Bernard, Lisa

    onstage: 09:20 PM PT

    You Got Me Rocking
    Respectable
    She's So Cold
    Live with Me (with Bobby Keys)
    Street Fighting Man (first since 9 Nov 2003)
    That's How Strong My Love Is (Otis Redding)
    Little Queenie (Chuck Berry) (first since 19 Sep 1998)
    Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me) (The Temptations)
    Miss You (with Bobby Keys)
    Love in Vain (with Mick Taylor)
    Midnight Rambler (with Mick Taylor)
    Start Me Up

    Brown Sugar (with Bobby Keys)
    Jumpin' Jack Flash

    offstage: 10:50 PM PT

    I accidentally fell asleep last night before they probably even took the stage, so I'm seeing this setlist for the first time right now. Really good club gig setlist, really like seeing Love In Vain and Street FIghting Man.

    I especially love seeing That's How Strong My Love Is, probably my favorite Stones cover. Otis Redding's version was a cover too though, it's actually an O.V. Wright song written by Roosevelt Jameson. Though the Stones version resembles Otis' musical arrangement of the song a little more than Wright's version.

    Really surprised to see Little Queenie, they've sort of stopped doing Chuck Berry covers in recent years.

    Also, not to nitpick, you probably know this, but since you were handing out writing credits for cover songs, Love In Vain is by Robert Johnson.
    Post edited by SatansFuton on
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  • SatansFuton
    SatansFuton Posts: 5,399
    Some pictures of last night courtesy of the official Stones Facebook page...

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    And somebody posted this on IORR. Brown Sugar is not one of my favorite Stones songs, and live versions don't do much for me either, except the Brussels Affair one was kind of interesting. But it's a video of it from the warm-up gig last night, and it's pretty smoking. Especially the last couple of minutes, they're really getting into it and seem to be having a lot of fun, and the guitars sound great. Both Keith and Ronnie do some nice fills. The sound isn't the greatest, but the sound and picture are better than the typical cell phone video (the tambourines are a bit loud near the beginning) but it's not pro shot.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=naZ1mLxZzFA
    "See a broad to get dat booty yak 'em, leg 'er down, a smack 'em yak 'em!"
  • voodoopug
    voodoopug Posts: 1,011
    SatansFuton wrote:
    Mick Taylor rehearsing.

    taylor_zpsfff8221b.png

    And since Keith isn't playing with a capo on the 7th fret, it means they're rehearsing something other than Midnight Rambler with Taylor.

    Ronnie is playing in open tuning with his "Stay with Me" guitar and has a slide. I suspect this is "Let It Bleed" they are rehearsing. It's possible that he's playing Love In Vain, but I believe Keith plays that in an open tuning and usually on a tele. I also think it could be a three guitar version of Dead Flowers if they added a slide part for Ronnie.
    There's Pearl Jam, The Rolling Stones, Chuck Berry, Robert Johnson......and then everybody else.
  • cutz
    cutz Posts: 12,255
    Did anyone see that they released $85 tickets for tonight's show in LA? Also did the same for the Oakland show.

    Think ther was a SHIT-LOAD of UN-SOLD tickets because of the high prices?
  • SatansFuton
    SatansFuton Posts: 5,399
    cutz wrote:
    Did anyone see that they released $85 tickets for tonight's show in LA? Also did the same for the Oakland show.

    Think ther was a SHIT-LOAD of UN-SOLD tickets because of the high prices?

    The prices are certainly high, but I don't think that's why they were unsold (at least not the only reason), and I don't think they would have stayed unsold. Anytime you have the media constantly reporting unsold tickets and making it sound like the building won't get filled, people don't get in a hurry to buy them. In fact they usually just go down there the day of the show and try to get the tickets that are desperately being dumped off. In a way the media sort of fueled their own story. Same thing happened the first time I saw them in '97 and by show day only about 1/5 of the tickets had been sold, by show time it was packed though. Everybody just came up there to get tickets the night of the show.
    "See a broad to get dat booty yak 'em, leg 'er down, a smack 'em yak 'em!"
  • cutz
    cutz Posts: 12,255
    Tonight's set list?




    https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BJY_yC8CMAEm_xh.jpg
  • SatansFuton
    SatansFuton Posts: 5,399
    cutz wrote:
    Tonight's set list?




    https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BJY_yC8CMAEm_xh.jpg

    I had been hoping it wasn't, but so far it is looking right. I have no problem with the setlist, other than it being the same old shit with the exception of Factory Girl, but the guests. Those fucking guests. I really hope somebody added that as a joke. Gwen Stefani? On Wild Horses no less? Keith Urban?

    :fp:

    I still wouldn't care for it much, but it would make much more sense if they switched those songs. Keith Urban would make more sense on Wild Horses, and while Gwen makes no sense at all, she makes even less sense doing Wild Horses.
    "See a broad to get dat booty yak 'em, leg 'er down, a smack 'em yak 'em!"
  • kasedoug
    kasedoug The Golden State Posts: 3,011
    cutz wrote:
    Tonight's set list?




    https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BJY_yC8CMAEm_xh.jpg

    Seems right from what they've been reporting on twitter thus far. I'm not the biggest Stones fan but that's pretty solid (I've never seen them before, so I'd want to see the more common songs). Guests are odd. I had a pair of the $85 seats in my cart 3x yesterday but couldn't find anybody that wanted to go (and pay for their own ticket) so I had to let them go. Seen nightmare stories on twitter from the people that bought $85s that the will call lines are long and unorganized. If you have those seats, get there early to grab your tickets. Did see that one person I know ended up with tix that would have regularly been $600 each in the $85 sale.
  • cutz
    cutz Posts: 12,255
    SatansFuton wrote:
    cutz wrote:
    Tonight's set list?




    https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BJY_yC8CMAEm_xh.jpg

    I had been hoping it wasn't, but so far it is looking right. I have no problem with the setlist, other than it being the same old shit with the exception of Factory Girl, but the guests. Those fucking guests. I really hope somebody added that as a joke. Gwen Stefani? On Wild Horses no less? Keith Urban?

    :fp:

    I still wouldn't care for it much, but it would make much more sense if they switched those songs. Keith Urban would make more sense on Wild Horses, and while Gwen makes no sense at all, she makes even less sense doing Wild Horses.

    Yea, so far that looks like that's the set list(after 5 songs). Same old shit is right. I saw them in Newark, NJ in December and they played almost that same set list.(they didn't play Factory Girl, Emotional Rescue and Get Off Of My Cloud). 20 out of 23 songs!!

    I wish they did away with the dog & pony show(aka:guest> :lol: ), and just played some different songs.

    Mick Taylor is ONLY getting ONE song?? MAYBE he'll get more as the tour goes along?(Can't You Hear Me Knockin'?)
  • SatansFuton
    SatansFuton Posts: 5,399
    cutz wrote:
    Yea, so far that looks like that's the set list(after 5 songs). Same old shit is right. I saw them in Newark, NJ in December and they played almost that same set list.(they didn't play Factory Girl, Emotional Rescue and Get Off Of My Cloud). 20 out of 23 songs!!

    I wish they did away with the dog & pony show(aka:guest> :lol: ), and just played some different songs.

    Mick Taylor is ONLY getting ONE song?? MAYBE he'll get more as the tour goes along?(Can't You Hear Me Knockin'?)

    I forgot Emotional Rescue, but I'm not a fan of the song, but anything different is good. And that's a fucking joke only giving Taylor one song. The guy is the best musician ever to step foot in that band, played on their most iconic albums, and he gets the same amount of songs as Gwen Stefani and Keith Urban? He got two at the club show, and one of them was Love In Vain. But no, do Midnight Rambler, again, like every show last year.
    "See a broad to get dat booty yak 'em, leg 'er down, a smack 'em yak 'em!"
  • cutz
    cutz Posts: 12,255
    SatansFuton wrote:
    cutz wrote:
    Yea, so far that looks like that's the set list(after 5 songs). Same old shit is right. I saw them in Newark, NJ in December and they played almost that same set list.(they didn't play Factory Girl, Emotional Rescue and Get Off Of My Cloud). 20 out of 23 songs!!

    I wish they did away with the dog & pony show(aka:guest> :lol: ), and just played some different songs.

    Mick Taylor is ONLY getting ONE song?? MAYBE he'll get more as the tour goes along?(Can't You Hear Me Knockin'?)

    I forgot Emotional Rescue, but I'm not a fan of the song, but anything different is good. And that's a fucking joke only giving Taylor one song. The guy is the best musician ever to step foot in that band, played on their most iconic albums, and he gets the same amount of songs as Gwen Stefani and Keith Urban? He got two at the club show, and one of them was Love In Vain. But no, do Midnight Rambler, again, like every show last year.


    ^^^^Man, i agree with you on every word!!!^^^^^^

    I've been checking out some the comments on IORR about the set list, and some are making me laugh.............................. Only because ther true> :lol:
  • SatansFuton
    SatansFuton Posts: 5,399
    cutz wrote:
    I've been checking out some the comments on IORR about the set list, and some are making me laugh.............................. Only because ther true> :lol:

    Stones fans and PJ fans aren't all that different are they? :lol: People bitching, more people bitching about people bitching than actual people bitching, etc. The only difference is that they don't care all that much about merch.
    "See a broad to get dat booty yak 'em, leg 'er down, a smack 'em yak 'em!"
  • cutz
    cutz Posts: 12,255
    SatansFuton wrote:
    cutz wrote:
    I've been checking out some the comments on IORR about the set list, and some are making me laugh.............................. Only because ther true> :lol:

    Stones fans and PJ fans aren't all that different are they? :lol: People bitching, more people bitching about people bitching than actual people bitching, etc. The only difference is that they don't care all that much about merch.


    :lol::lol::lol:

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