{"id":290,"date":"2007-02-16T14:16:02","date_gmt":"2007-02-16T19:16:02","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-12-16T22:43:32","modified_gmt":"2009-12-16T22:43:32","slug":"half-assed-rant-are-the-stones-really-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/half-assed-rant-are-the-stones-really-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Half Assed Rant: The Stones Suck Live!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0FXsipDFFzg?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nWhen the whole discussion about <strong><em>The Rolling Stones&#8217;<\/em><\/strong>lackluster performance in <em>\u201cRock &amp; Roll Circus\u201d<\/em> came up on RTH recently, it got me to thinking, <em>Are The Stones ever good live?<\/em> I\u2019ve seen firsthand the \u201cmach schau\u201d they put on in concert (September 1981 at Philly\u2019s old JFK stadium). No frontman before or since one moved like the nancy-pants <strong>Mick Jagger<\/strong> did. No one looked less pleased to be playing live than <strong>Bill Wyman<\/strong>. No one looked smaller on the big stage than <strong>Charlie Watts<\/strong> did at that show. Only <strong>Ron Wood<\/strong>and <strong>Keith Richards<\/strong> seemed up to the task of rocking the 100,000 or so fans in attendance. The only thing that saved me from completely hating the show was getting high for the second time in my life (the first time being the night before on my 18th birthday).<\/p>\n<p>So they may be over-the-top live &#8211; too much so for my taste &#8211; but some fans counter that they are a &#8220;great live band&#8221; in a musical sense. <strong>The People<\/strong> must be right? They have released at least 8 live albums so the thinking could go, <em>They must be doing something good live<\/em>. But do people actually like these albums? I had <em>Got Live if You Want It<\/em> and <em>Get Yer Ya-Ya\u2019s Out<\/em> and I could never get into them. You know what always bummed me out? <strong>All the songs were sluggish!<\/strong> It\u2019s like Charlie Watts thought he could get some extra oomph in the songs by playing them 15% slower. No thank you! I want to see some ENERGY live. I want to hear some ENERGY live. <\/p>\n<p>Jagger\u2019s vocals also bum me out. I know it is hard to sing when you are shaking your butt like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.charo.com\/\" title=\"http:\/\/www.charo.com\/\"><strong>Charo<\/strong><\/a> and skipping across the stage but some of fans actually want to hear the melodies and hear the tone of the singer&#8217;s voice they&#8217;ve grown accustomed to hearing on record. <\/p>\n<p>Am I alone in this half-assed rant? Anyone care to back me up? What does RTH think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the whole discussion about The Rolling Stones&#8217;lackluster performance in \u201cRock &amp; Roll Circus\u201d came up on RTH recently, it got me to thinking, Are The Stones ever good live? I\u2019ve seen firsthand the \u201cmach schau\u201d they put on in concert (September 1981 at Philly\u2019s old JFK stadium). No frontman before or since one moved <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/half-assed-rant-are-the-stones-really-go\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[45],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}