JoeSpareBedroom wrote:


Especially since they are only a 'reasonable simile' of themselves from
their hey days.

.....and their sound system is designed (?) to cut through sheet metal.

I love the Rolling Stones, but not their last few concerts.

One of the biggest putoffs is the video. The entire concert is filmed
in a studio before it ever hits the road, and that's what is shown on
the video screens. Jagger et al do a masterful job of stepping through
each tune in a precisely choreographed routine, but a lot of times it
gets off a bit. If you're close enough to watch those famous lips
singing on stage, you will notice that they are often out of sync with
the supposed "live" video on the big screens.

Begging the question: If the video is canned, how much credibility can
we assign the music? What are we really hearing in the concert hall? Is
it no more "live" than the video?

Also begging the quesion: If you're not prepared to spend several
hundred dollars or more per seat to sit up close and you are
essentially going to be watching the canned performance on the video
vs. the live performance on stage, why not just say "screw it", rent
the video for $7 when it becomes available, and see the same thing?

Of course then there's the conspiracy theory: With a pre-recorded
concert and a group of convincing doubles, the real Stones could take a
night off every once in a while and nobody would be the wiser.

Sort of like some of the "one-hit-wonder" bands back in the 60's. There
were several cases where a record company would release a song that was
supposed to be the work of some new band but was actually just cranked
out by some studio musicians. The so-called group Steam, from 1969-
("Nah, Nah, Nah, Nah, Nah, Nah, Nah, Nah, Hey, Hey Hey, Goodbye") is a
specific example of this. If the song proved to be a hit, the record
company would cash in by hiring a few different groups of musicians,
teaching them all to play the song at least semi-close to the record,
and then during those few weeks while the song was hovering near the
top of the charts the band could be booked to open concerts for
headline acts in three or four remote locations around the country on
the same night. Nobody knew who the musicians in these one-hit bands
were or what they were supposed to look like, but it was a good way for
the record company to stir up additional hype for the song as well as
to make a few bucks from the gate.