These guys still know how to rock.

Mrs.E and I went to see them a couple of years ago at the beginning of the
"Licks" tour at the Fleet Center in Boston. It was horrible because of the
disgusting sound system at the Center.

This performance was actually better, sound-wise.

RCE

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These guys still know how to rock.

Mrs.E and I went to see them a couple of years ago at the beginning of
the "Licks" tour at the Fleet Center in Boston. It was horrible because
of the disgusting sound system at the Center.

This performance was actually better, sound-wise.

RCE


That's the band's fault. Any band that has the desire and the budget can
bring in whatever equipment they want and make almost any hall sound good.
The Stones have never really cared much about their sound. The Dead, on the
other hand, were able to produce breathtaking sound back in the early 1970s,
simply by trying, and hooking up with the appropriate sound geeks (a company
named Alembic, which is still around).

The knowledge has been passed on to bands like String Cheese Incident, who
does a fantastic job with their sound, even in outdoor locations, which are
usually difficult. They have no shows scheduled at the moment, but check in
the spring and see if they're going to be near you:

www.stringcheeseincident.com

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"RCE" wrote in message
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These guys still know how to rock.

Mrs.E and I went to see them a couple of years ago at the beginning of
the "Licks" tour at the Fleet Center in Boston. It was horrible because
of the disgusting sound system at the Center.

This performance was actually better, sound-wise.

RCE


That's the band's fault. Any band that has the desire and the budget can
bring in whatever equipment they want and make almost any hall sound good.
The Stones have never really cared much about their sound. The Dead, on
the other hand, were able to produce breathtaking sound back in the early
1970s, simply by trying, and hooking up with the appropriate sound geeks
(a company named Alembic, which is still around).

The knowledge has been passed on to bands like String Cheese Incident, who
does a fantastic job with their sound, even in outdoor locations, which
are usually difficult. They have no shows scheduled at the moment, but
check in the spring and see if they're going to be near you:

www.stringcheeseincident.com


You may be right. My son saw James Taylor at the Fleet Center and said it
was fantastic.
The Stones play too loud.

Hey .... did youse guys know that they actually introduce a low level of
distortion (called dither) to CD recordings in order to make them sound
good? Without it, low volume passages on CDs would be noticeably distorted
because of the low digital sampling rate. More useless information.

RCE

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"RCE" wrote in message
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These guys still know how to rock.

Mrs.E and I went to see them a couple of years ago at the beginning of
the "Licks" tour at the Fleet Center in Boston. It was horrible
because of the disgusting sound system at the Center.

This performance was actually better, sound-wise.

RCE


That's the band's fault. Any band that has the desire and the budget can
bring in whatever equipment they want and make almost any hall sound
good. The Stones have never really cared much about their sound. The
Dead, on the other hand, were able to produce breathtaking sound back in
the early 1970s, simply by trying, and hooking up with the appropriate
sound geeks (a company named Alembic, which is still around).

The knowledge has been passed on to bands like String Cheese Incident,
who does a fantastic job with their sound, even in outdoor locations,
which are usually difficult. They have no shows scheduled at the moment,
but check in the spring and see if they're going to be near you:

www.stringcheeseincident.com


You may be right. My son saw James Taylor at the Fleet Center and said it
was fantastic.
The Stones play too loud.

Hey .... did youse guys know that they actually introduce a low level of
distortion (called dither) to CD recordings in order to make them sound
good? Without it, low volume passages on CDs would be noticeably
distorted because of the low digital sampling rate. More useless
information.

RCE

That's amazing. I'm gonna go tell Carmela about that. She's my cat. She was
trying to tell me something earlier today, and she wouldn't shut up. She had
food, she'd been played with, petted, brushed, and her litter box was
spotless, so it must've been something about CD recording technology. What
else could it have been?

"RCE" wrote in message
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These guys still know how to rock.

Mrs.E and I went to see them a couple of years ago at the beginning of
the "Licks" tour at the Fleet Center in Boston. It was horrible because
of the disgusting sound system at the Center.

This performance was actually better, sound-wise.

RCE

I saw their first last US concert 25 years ago in Hampton Va. It was a great
four hour show with George Thourgood and the Destroyers opening.

RCE wrote:
These guys still know how to rock.

Mrs.E and I went to see them a couple of years ago at the beginning of the
"Licks" tour at the Fleet Center in Boston. It was horrible because of the
disgusting sound system at the Center.

This performance was actually better, sound-wise.

RCE

You think?

The garage band down the block is tighter than the Stones were tonight.
How the H do you flub up "Satisfaction" after 40 years? You could see a
couple of the guys were really frustrated- I thought the bass player
was going to climb right up into the drummer's lap for a while there as
they struggled to get their licks together. Lot's of unhappy glances
exchanged every time somebody screwed something up. They were literally
"jamming" instead of performing. Very disappointing show.

My suggestion, fewer drugs and less booze before a performance- and
more rehearsals.

Around 2/5/2006 9:08 PM, wrote:

My suggestion, fewer drugs and less booze before a performance- and
more rehearsals.

Maybe that's part of the problem - not nearly enough drugs and booze
before the performance as in the good ol' days.


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RCE wrote:
These guys still know how to rock.

Mrs.E and I went to see them a couple of years ago at the beginning of
the
"Licks" tour at the Fleet Center in Boston. It was horrible because of
the
disgusting sound system at the Center.

This performance was actually better, sound-wise.

RCE

You think?

The garage band down the block is tighter than the Stones were tonight.
How the H do you flub up "Satisfaction" after 40 years? You could see a
couple of the guys were really frustrated- I thought the bass player
was going to climb right up into the drummer's lap for a while there as
they struggled to get their licks together. Lot's of unhappy glances
exchanged every time somebody screwed something up. They were literally
"jamming" instead of performing. Very disappointing show.

My suggestion, fewer drugs and less booze before a performance- and
more rehearsals.


Some* of the problem was technical in nature. Mick & Keith were using
wireless rigs so they could wander all over the stage. The floor monitors
were spaced pretty far apart and although they knew they had to remain near
one to hear what they were singing/playing, it was obvious that this was
unlikely to happen. Charlie's drum zone was surrounded in a plexiglass box
on the sides (maybe the back, too - didn't notice). This was done so at
least he could be isolated from all the crowd noise and hear himself.
Otherwise, nobody would've been anchoring the band. Wood & Jones seemed to
remain pretty still, in an effort to not get lost like the others. On a
normal stage, the monitors would've been clustered more closely.


*Some: Less than the total of all the problems. A subset. A indirect
suggestion that one problem was clearly evident, while others could not be
determined. This has been test. If it had been a real emergency blah blah
blah....

wrote:
RCE wrote:

These guys still know how to rock.

Mrs.E and I went to see them a couple of years ago at the beginning of the
"Licks" tour at the Fleet Center in Boston. It was horrible because of the
disgusting sound system at the Center.

This performance was actually better, sound-wise.

RCE


You think?

The garage band down the block is tighter than the Stones were tonight.
How the H do you flub up "Satisfaction" after 40 years? You could see a
couple of the guys were really frustrated- I thought the bass player
was going to climb right up into the drummer's lap for a while there as
they struggled to get their licks together. Lot's of unhappy glances
exchanged every time somebody screwed something up. They were literally
"jamming" instead of performing. Very disappointing show.

My suggestion, fewer drugs and less booze before a performance- and
more rehearsals.


Yes sir...I don't know how the Stones justify their outrageous fees.
Have to admit, I've never seen them live...(my son wouldn't let me go
along with him & his buddies when they played the Maritimes last summer)
but age & lifestyle is really creeping up on these guys.
I like to hear them the way they sounded in the 60s.
Now I don't think they're a reasonable facsimile of a rock band.

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wrote:
RCE wrote:

These guys still know how to rock.

Mrs.E and I went to see them a couple of years ago at the beginning of
the
"Licks" tour at the Fleet Center in Boston. It was horrible because of
the
disgusting sound system at the Center.

This performance was actually better, sound-wise.

RCE


You think?

The garage band down the block is tighter than the Stones were tonight.
How the H do you flub up "Satisfaction" after 40 years? You could see a
couple of the guys were really frustrated- I thought the bass player
was going to climb right up into the drummer's lap for a while there as
they struggled to get their licks together. Lot's of unhappy glances
exchanged every time somebody screwed something up. They were literally
"jamming" instead of performing. Very disappointing show.

My suggestion, fewer drugs and less booze before a performance- and
more rehearsals.


Yes sir...I don't know how the Stones justify their outrageous fees.
Have to admit, I've never seen them live...(my son wouldn't let me go
along with him & his buddies when they played the Maritimes last summer)
but age & lifestyle is really creeping up on these guys.
I like to hear them the way they sounded in the 60s.
Now I don't think they're a reasonable facsimile of a rock band.

I agree. I thought they stunk last night. Maybe that is because I
generally never cared for them.

My wife and I did get a kick seeing all the teenyboppers scream and jump
about over them......a bunch of 60 some year old drugged out has-beens who
are old enough to be their grandfathers.