Red Mosquito

Posted: **Wed July 17, 2024 9:51 pm**

Sorry, also listen to Pigpen era Dead play Good Lovin’ - maybe the one from Ladies and Gentlemen… - Pigpen gets so gritty he may have climaxed himself mid rap.

Posted: **Thu July 18, 2024 6:42 pm**

Rolling Stones - On Air

This is the last of three focuses on the earlier live recordings, this one being largely absent an audience on the air. While their performances are similarly a burst of energy, this frankly works better in the smaller bursts of the other live albums, and less so over an hour and a half, especially with the recording quality jumping up and down. That said, I found Roll Over Beethoven, The Spyder and the Fly, and I Just Want to Make Love to You as the highlights.

The Essential Performances: Roll Over Beethoven, The Spyder and the Fly, and I Just Want to Make Love to You

Up Next: Rolling Stones - Love You Live

Posted: **Thu July 18, 2024 9:07 pm**

liebzz wrote:Dawes - Live from the Rooftop (Los Angeles, CA 8.28.20)

The world of virtual concerts, the couch tours, was settling in by the end of the summer. Dawes joined that fray with this show and live release, a pretty good live album in the end featuring at least a few songs that sounded better than their counterpart releases. Maybe they just grew up some, but the band I enjoyed from their last album is here, rather than the earlier live releases I just didn’t care enough for. The songs I enjoyed really felt like genuine highlights more than sticking out from otherwise good enough bunches of songs. This time, it’s Things Happen, Feed the Fire, Roll With the Punches, From a Window Seat, Somewhere Along the Way, A Little Bit of Everything, and All Your Favorite Bands, with a few other good ones thrown in. It helps that the sound is again pristine at least compared to when there’s a bustling crowd.

The Essential Performances: From a Window Seat, Somewhere Along the Way, All Your Favorite Bands

Up Next: Goose - Swanzey, NH 2020.10.03

Have you listened to any of the shows with them as a three-piece this year?

Posted: **Thu July 18, 2024 9:15 pm**

oasisfan35 wrote:
liebzz wrote:Dawes - Live from the Rooftop (Los Angeles, CA 8.28.20)

The world of virtual concerts, the couch tours, was settling in by the end of the summer. Dawes joined that fray with this show and live release, a pretty good live album in the end featuring at least a few songs that sounded better than their counterpart releases. Maybe they just grew up some, but the band I enjoyed from their last album is here, rather than the earlier live releases I just didn’t care enough for. The songs I enjoyed really felt like genuine highlights more than sticking out from otherwise good enough bunches of songs. This time, it’s Things Happen, Feed the Fire, Roll With the Punches, From a Window Seat, Somewhere Along the Way, A Little Bit of Everything, and All Your Favorite Bands, with a few other good ones thrown in. It helps that the sound is again pristine at least compared to when there’s a bustling crowd.

The Essential Performances: From a Window Seat, Somewhere Along the Way, All Your Favorite Bands

Up Next: Goose - Swanzey, NH 2020.10.03
Have you listened to any of the shows with them as a three-piece this year?

I have not yet.

Posted: **Fri July 19, 2024 11:45 am**

Rolling Stones - Love You Live

In the 1970s, the Stones seemed always on the razor’s edge between thrilling and frightening. The whole thing could unravel in an instant and that brought an energy with it that’s unmistakably them. This album represents that moment in time well. The first part of this is somewhat of a train wreck. If You Can’t Rock Me/Get Off of My Cloud is straight bad. Hot Stuff is ugly. And yet here, Star Star is right on that edge, and it’s in You Can’t Always Get What You Want that the knife’s edge turns to epic in a massive solo, and then from there side b is a major recovery, hitting up songs from that great El Mocambo show, and then going into some classic hits they nail expertly. A tale of a band that could be disastrous as they could be phenomenal.

The Essential Performance: You Can’t Always Get What You Want

Up Next: Rolling Stones - Still Life

Posted: **Fri July 19, 2024 9:27 pm**

Rolling Stones - Still Life

I haven’t heard this one in years, and my recollection wasn’t great. Turns out this is pretty good, a mix of classics and deeper cuts and covers in a brief 39 minute blast, though bizarre that they included Hendrix’s Star Spangled Banner as a fading outtro - makes no sense. In any event, Under My Thumb and Going to a Go Go are the best of the bunch here.

The Essential Performance: Going to a Go Go

Up Next: Rolling Stones - From the Vault: No Security San Jose 1999

Posted: **Sun July 21, 2024 9:07 pm**

Rolling Stones - From the Vault: No Security - San Jose 1999

Continuing along The Rolling Stones eras tour, the big stadium shows that marked from Steel Wheels all the way to present are the new focus. This one is a fantastic show, with the band in great form and Mick sounding particularly good here. This set list largely focuses on some classics while still taking some deep dives elsewhere through newer songs and some early stuff. Highlights for me here are Bitch, and I Got the Blues.

The Essential Performances: Bitch, I Got the Blues

Up Next: Rolling Stones - Voodoo Lounge Uncut

Posted: **Mon July 22, 2024 11:38 am**

Rolling Stones - Voodoo Lounge Uncut

We’ve got a couple more shows hanging out in the 90s. This one from Miami on the Voodoo Lounge tour, the Stones sound great, in the midst of their rejuvenated prime as the big stadium rock band. The first part of the show mixes classics with new stuff (hello Satisfaction early in the set). The acoustic set in the middle of the main set is quite good, with Angie, Dead Flowers, and Sweet Virginia being the perfect mix of songs to throw in there. Before They Make Me Run is a great Keith song. Soon thereafter is the prototypical barrage of hits to close the show, with Monkey Man thrown in. Another really excellent show.

The Essential Performances: Angie, Dead Flowers, Sweet Virginia, Monkey Man, Satisfaction

Up Next: Rolling Stones - Bridges to Bremen

Posted: **Tue July 23, 2024 12:39 am**

Rolling Stones - Bridges to Bremen

This one in quality is remarkably close to the last one. In the middle of the first part of the show, the band tears through a run - Paint It Black, Saint of Me (where the crowd surprisingly pushes the band back into a short jam, and Out of Control - not an expected run of excellence, but those are the moments that end up sticking. Much like late era Stones, this one plays in that toy chest until crunch time when the hits pile on top of each other. Another excellent show.

The Essential Performances: Paint It Black, Saint of Me, Out of Control

Up Next: Rolling Stones - A Bigger Bang Live

Posted: **Tue July 23, 2024 1:00 am**

liebzz wrote:The Essential Performances: Bitch, I Got the Blues

Read this as one song n did a double take

Posted: **Tue July 23, 2024 1:05 am**

Yeah that’s fair. They at least come from the same album.

Posted: **Tue July 23, 2024 1:04 pm**

Rolling Stones - A Bigger Bang Live

These guys seem to just keep getting better love with age. Now well into their 60s, the Stones played Copacabana Beach in front of a whopping 1.5 million folks on a seven story height stage. That’s the kind of over the top craziness that energizes this band, and they really brought it on this one. The highlights here for me were a spirited It’s Only Rock & Roll, Tumbling Dice, Keith’s Happy, and Honky Tonk Women which was about as solid as that gets. It goes without saying, much like seeing Baba O’Riley, Born to run, and arguable Alive, that there are few songs that explode into a sense where you feel like your mind has separated from your body like Satisfaction and this performance exemplifies that energy. What a live band.

The Essential Performances: It’s Only Rock & Roll, Tumbling Dice, Happy, Honky Tonk Women, Satisfaction

Up Next: Rolling Stones - Hackney Diamonds (Live Edition)

Posted: **Tue July 23, 2024 1:49 pm**

i should get back into some live shows from them. I loved Stripped back then, and some 98 shows from No Security. Also got that Bigger Band box set, which i barely saw it and the live cd too.

I should listen to those.

Posted: **Tue July 23, 2024 1:56 pm**

VinylGuy wrote:i should get back into some live shows from them. I loved Stripped back then, and some 98 shows from No Security. Also got that Bigger Band box set, which i barely saw it and the live cd too.

I should listen to those.

In short, yes, you should. They may not really alter much from studio presentations, but they bring an energy to the songs that’s unmistakably them. I always thought it was foolish to compare Pearl Jam to the Grateful Dead, even in fan bases. But a comparison to a modern day Stones might be quite apt at this point. And that’s meant as a pure compliment to both. The Stones still seem to me to be rock music personified, but I know they are not for everyone here.

Posted: **Tue July 23, 2024 1:59 pm**

yeah they are incredible live. I hope to get them next year if they tour in SA

Posted: **Tue July 23, 2024 9:50 pm**

Rolling Stones - Hackney Diamonds Live Edition

The last stop on the Stones eras, the present day. Granted, this was a warm up album release small club show in NYC’s Racket Club, but the Stones show here they still very much have it, and the new songs, 4 of them, are the stars of the show. Whole Wide World, Bite My Head Off and Sweet Sounds of Heaven with Lady Gaga all highlight this short addendum to Hackney Diamonds. This is likely it on the journey with the Stones, every second worth it.

The Essential Performances: Whole Wide World, Bite My Head Off, Sweet Sounds of Heaven

Up Next: VOLA - Live From the Pool

Posted: **Tue July 23, 2024 10:32 pm**

liebzz wrote:Rolling Stones - Voodoo Lounge Uncut

We’ve got a couple more shows hanging out in the 90s. This one from Miami on the Voodoo Lounge tour, the Stones sound great, in the midst of their rejuvenated prime as the big stadium rock band. The first part of the show mixes classics with new stuff (hello Satisfaction early in the set). The acoustic set in the middle of the main set is quite good, with Angie, Dead Flowers, and Sweet Virginia being the perfect mix of songs to throw in there. Before They Make Me Run is a great Keith song. Soon thereafter is the prototypical barrage of hits to close the show, with Monkey Man thrown in. Another really excellent show.

The Essential Performances: Angie, Dead Flowers, Sweet Virginia, Monkey Man, Satisfaction

Up Next: Rolling Stones - Bridges to Bremen

Listening to this one...Tumbling Dice sounds awesome.

Posted: **Tue July 23, 2024 11:06 pm**

VinylGuy wrote:
liebzz wrote:Rolling Stones - Voodoo Lounge Uncut

We’ve got a couple more shows hanging out in the 90s. This one from Miami on the Voodoo Lounge tour, the Stones sound great, in the midst of their rejuvenated prime as the big stadium rock band. The first part of the show mixes classics with new stuff (hello Satisfaction early in the set). The acoustic set in the middle of the main set is quite good, with Angie, Dead Flowers, and Sweet Virginia being the perfect mix of songs to throw in there. Before They Make Me Run is a great Keith song. Soon thereafter is the prototypical barrage of hits to close the show, with Monkey Man thrown in. Another really excellent show.

The Essential Performances: Angie, Dead Flowers, Sweet Virginia, Monkey Man, Satisfaction

Up Next: Rolling Stones - Bridges to Bremen
Listening to this one...Tumbling Dice sounds awesome.

The Tumbling Dice from I believe a single around the Stripped time (Backstage Rehearsals into Olympia, Paris - July 2, 1995) is one of my favorite 'live' bits ever released.

Posted: **Tue July 23, 2024 11:15 pm**

Also all the cuts from Voodoo Lounge are awesome

Im loving I Go Wild a lot. The band sounds awesome. Jagger is killing it.

Damn what a great album too.

Posted: **Tue July 23, 2024 11:24 pm**

VinylGuy wrote:Also all the cuts from Voodoo Lounge are awesome

Im loving I Go Wild a lot. The band sounds awesome. Jagger is killing it.

Damn what a great album too.

They were in a good spot as a band I feel, SO MANY outtakes and rehearsals circulating. One of my favorite eras of theirs.

Red Mosquito

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