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27 Jul 18 - 10:01 AM (#3939850) Subject: The Rolling Stones should call it a day! From: Bonzo3legs I have a recording from their recent London Stadium gig, compliled from a number of in ear monitor feeds to produce a sort of stereo field. Quite frankly their playing is awful now, they sound like a schoolboy band at their second ever rehearsal! |
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27 Jul 18 - 10:12 AM (#3939858) Subject: RE: The Rolling Stones should call it a day! From: GUEST,Manch Yes, and Sonny Boy Williamson said many years ago, those boys want to play the blues so bad, and that is what they do |
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27 Jul 18 - 12:44 PM (#3939884) Subject: RE: The Rolling Stones should call it a day! From: Bonzo3legs Their Chuck Berry & Bo Diddley days were the best. |
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27 Jul 18 - 02:44 PM (#3939913) Subject: RE: The Rolling Stones should call it a day! From: David Carter (UK) Who was playing lead guitar? Keith Richards has lost it, which is why they bring in Mick Taylor, for instance at Glastonbury 2013. |
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27 Jul 18 - 04:13 PM (#3939930) Subject: RE: The Rolling Stones should call it a day! From: Bonzo3legs I've no idea, but they all play out of time with each other! |
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27 Jul 18 - 04:50 PM (#3939933) Subject: RE: The Rolling Stones should call it a day! From: Dave the Gnome We watched them on telly about 2 years ago and they were ok but how much of it was in the mix and how much was them, I don't know. |
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27 Jul 18 - 05:07 PM (#3939938) Subject: RE: The Rolling Stones should call it a day! From: Big Al Whittle Bearing in mind - they probably get paid more for each gig than most of us make in our lives - why would they stop? |
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27 Jul 18 - 05:29 PM (#3939941) Subject: RE: The Rolling Stones should call it a day! From: Steve Shaw Because they don't need more money? |
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27 Jul 18 - 06:42 PM (#3939956) Subject: RE: The Rolling Stones should call it a day! From: GUEST,Observer What!!! Halt the career of one of the best folk bands the country (Or should I say Cuntry as Backwoodsman/ Muskrat would say). You should all be ashamed of yourselves. All those 60s and 70s "folk icons" that are being played in so-called "folk clubs" - personally speaking if I want to listen to any of that music I will listen to a recording - none of it is improved or bettered by some twat with a reedy voice and a mediocre accompaniment on a six string guitar. |
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27 Jul 18 - 06:44 PM (#3939958) Subject: RE: The Rolling Stones should call it a day! From: Steve Shaw So which banned ex-member are you then? :-) |
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27 Jul 18 - 06:44 PM (#3939959) Subject: RE: The Rolling Stones should call it a day! From: Brian Peters why would they stop? Maybe they don't stop because they enjoy playing? A pal of mine who's a fine bass player and a more than decent guitarist went to see them in Manchester, and reported not only that they played really well, but also appeared to be having a lot of fun. |
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27 Jul 18 - 07:21 PM (#3939967) Subject: RE: The Rolling Stones should call it a day! From: GUEST,keberoxu Did they not have an album, a studio album in the last five or ten years, receive a Grammy Award for Best Traditional Blues? 2016 or something? |
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28 Jul 18 - 02:18 AM (#3939984) Subject: RE: The Rolling Stones should call it a day! From: BobL Quite a few bands seem to be still flourishing, long past the normal best-before date of the rest. I saw a full-page ad yesterday for Iron Maiden's forthcoming tour - apparently already sold out. Presumably the ad space was firmly booked long ago. Well, if they can still bring in the customers.... And Fairport Convention are their own tribute band. |
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28 Jul 18 - 03:52 AM (#3939998) Subject: RE: The Rolling Stones should call it a day! From: The Sandman I wouldnt give Mick jagger a floor spot the only thing hes any good at is mincing about |
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28 Jul 18 - 04:45 AM (#3940017) Subject: RE: The Rolling Stones should call it a day! From: Steve Shaw Well you can't always get what you want, Dick. |
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28 Jul 18 - 04:54 AM (#3940021) Subject: RE: The Rolling Stones should call it a day! From: Iains We do not insist politicians retire, so why criticize performing musicians of advancing years. They must be doing something right if people still pay to see them. They are also far more entertaining. Seems there are one or two embittered posters here. Envious perhaps? |
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28 Jul 18 - 04:58 AM (#3940022) Subject: RE: The Rolling Stones should call it a day! From: GUEST,Bob Mould I like how they sound these days It's more akin to Howlin' Wolf or Sam Hopkins. I can see why some people would prefer their earlier, safer duller, more vanilla sound, but for me this new feel has more soul. |
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28 Jul 18 - 05:01 AM (#3940023) Subject: RE: The Rolling Stones should call it a day! From: GUEST,Modette I saw them recently - fantastic. |
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28 Jul 18 - 05:06 AM (#3940025) Subject: RE: The Rolling Stones should call it a day! From: Bonzo3legs "And Fairport Convention are their own tribute band" - current line up are twee beyond imagination. I regularly play a recording of a Cropredy warm up from August 1992 which is superb!!! |
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28 Jul 18 - 05:19 AM (#3940027) Subject: RE: The Rolling Stones should call it a day! From: GUEST,johnmc I imagine a recording created as described might not do justice to the actual sound in the arena. It might even make the playing seem out of time. You get some appalling sound from TV broadcasts of live rock, for example. |
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28 Jul 18 - 05:32 AM (#3940030) Subject: RE: The Rolling Stones should call it a day! From: Backwoodsman "none of it is improved or bettered by some twat with a reedy voice and a mediocre accompaniment on a six string guitar." Well thank fuck I've got a good voice and I'm a decently competent guitar player (as Guest: Observer should know, if he/she is the 'banned ex-member' I'm guessing he/she is!). :-) :-) |
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28 Jul 18 - 06:06 AM (#3940033) Subject: RE: The Rolling Stones should call it a day! From: GUEST,Observer Unfortunately "Baccy" most who do attempt 60s and 70s pop hits in folk clubs do not have good voices and no matter how competent you or anyone else is on guitar you simply cannot make it sound like a four or five piece pop group. As to your own self proclaimed talents I'll take your word for it as to my certain knowledge I have never seen or heard you 'perform'. As for "The Stones" I am sure they will continue to perform until such time as no-one is prepared to part with their cash to see them - good luck to them! |
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28 Jul 18 - 06:18 AM (#3940037) Subject: RE: The Rolling Stones should call it a day! From: Big Al Whittle surely that's the point of folk clubs. you are a folk. you have a voice. you want to sing. it does not have to be a 'good' voice. |
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28 Jul 18 - 06:22 AM (#3940038) Subject: RE: The Rolling Stones should call it a day! From: Backwoodsman Ah, not the guy I thought you were! But of course, a solo performer isn't (or shouldn't be) trying to 'make it sound like a four or five piece pop group' - I certainly wouldn't. He/she should be doing their own, solo interpretation of the song. The over-arching memories I have of Bruce Springsteen concerts are the songs he sang with just his own acoustic guitar accompaniment. Absolutely wonderful 'hairs-on-the-back-of-your-neck' stuff. I 'do' two or three classic pop songs, that's all, but I try to do them 'my way', otherwise simply trying to duplicate a band-record is not only very in-satisfying for me, but also doomed to result in failure. And I don't sing them in folk clubs, only 'acoustic music' clubs or open-mics. Regarding the Stones, I'm in absolute agreement with you! |
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28 Jul 18 - 06:25 AM (#3940039) Subject: RE: The Rolling Stones should call it a day! From: Backwoodsman Un-satisfying! Bloody iPad predictive text! |
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28 Jul 18 - 08:26 AM (#3940061) Subject: RE: The Rolling Stones should call it a day! From: theleveller If they're enjoying doing it and people are prepared to pay, what's the problem? Personally, I wouldn't pay a ridiculous amount to see them. But neither would I pay £75 to see Richard Thompson, and I really like him. I saw Steve Harley a few months ago and The Levellers last week and both were superb, although it was a little strange to see them sitting down to perform. |
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03 Feb 21 - 09:33 PM (#4091366) Subject: RE: The Rolling Stones should call it a day! From: voyager Keith Richards bio 'LIFE' fell into my book pile this month. Quite a talented musical android (part-human, part-bluesman, part-reptilian) he has evolved to. |
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04 Feb 21 - 12:16 AM (#4091370) Subject: RE: The Rolling Stones should call it a day! From: The Sandman I do not rate them ,So what, they have their fans that go to their concerts and enjoy their music, why should their enjoyment be stopped just because someone on mudcat thinks that other peoples enjoyment should be stopped. |
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04 Feb 21 - 12:22 AM (#4091371) Subject: RE: The Rolling Stones should call it a day! From: Joe Offer I haven't followed them lately, but I certainly liked what they did in their first twenty years. They brought lots of great blues songs to our attention. Same with Cream and Led Zeppelin. You can certainly find fault with them, but they brought a lot of good songs to our attention. -Joe- |
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04 Feb 21 - 06:05 AM (#4091389) Subject: RE: The Rolling Stones should call it a day! From: Johnny J Back in the sixties, Mick and Keef were struggling to come up with a song for a Double "A" Side for "Let's spend the night together". Keef said "I think we should call it a day, Mick..." Then "Ruby Tuesday" was born :-)) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2CfgWPj3ls |
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04 Feb 21 - 06:58 AM (#4091400) Subject: RE: The Rolling Stones should call it a day! From: Bonzo3legs On 18 April 1964 I sat listening to Saturday Club on the BBC Light Programme and recorded this by the Rolling Stones at their best!! |
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04 Feb 21 - 07:50 AM (#4091404) Subject: RE: The Rolling Stones should call it a day! From: The Sandman The Great Sonny Boy Williamson no 2 said of The Rolling Stones."Those boys they want to play the blues so bad and thats just what they do."Sonny boy really could play here he is. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bY0vcg2F-I just because they played the blues so bad, thats a not a reason to give up playing fifty years later |
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04 Feb 21 - 10:02 AM (#4091432) Subject: RE: The Rolling Stones should call it a day! From: GUEST,James Phillips The Stones are now just a corporation which sells "last chance to see The Stones before you die" experiences for hundreds of dollars a ticket. That's the only reason anyone goes to see the Stones these days. To cross it off their list. |
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04 Feb 21 - 10:54 AM (#4091442) Subject: RE: The Rolling Stones should call it a day! From: meself The Great Sonny Boy Williamson no 2 said a lot of things. He told a very young Junior Wells that he was 'too stupid' to learn how to play the harmonica, as an example (according to an older, successful, Jr Wells). |
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04 Feb 21 - 11:39 AM (#4091446) Subject: RE: The Rolling Stones should call it a day! From: punkfolkrocker When I was 15, our band was starting to get basically proficient in 'pub rock' classic R&B songs.. At that time I had to be the clever clogs and insist we were too young and inexperienced to be anywhere near as authentic as real old black blues singers, still slogging away on tours in their old age.. Which lead to teenage schoolboy joking about how funny the distant future will be when the Rolling stones are even older* codgers jamming their hits in a faded rock star's retirement home... [* By rock/pop standards, they were already getting on a bit in their 30s.. old geezers at least twice our age...!!!]... |
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04 Feb 21 - 11:43 AM (#4091448) Subject: RE: The Rolling Stones should call it a day! From: Bonzo3legs Was he really great? I don't think so. |
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04 Feb 21 - 12:25 PM (#4091457) Subject: RE: The Rolling Stones should call it a day! From: The Sandman well bonzo your opinion on SonnyBoy, just shows what an unmusical ignoramus you are, he certainly could play blues harmonica better than any of the stones and better than most other people he was on a par with Sonny Terry as one of the best. Bonzo 3 legs does not think Sonntboy williamson no2 was not a great blues harmonica player, that has given me the best laugh of the day. To paraphrase Martin Carthy, who is this berk |
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04 Feb 21 - 12:31 PM (#4091458) Subject: RE: The Rolling Stones should call it a day! From: The Sandman correction Bonzo 3 legs thinks Sonntboy williamson no2 was not a great blues harmonica player |
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04 Feb 21 - 12:36 PM (#4091459) Subject: RE: The Rolling Stones should call it a day! From: The Sandman Anyway the stones should continue all the time they want to i read keith richrds biography , i quite liked him, of all of them he came across as having a genuine love of playing music |
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04 Feb 21 - 12:40 PM (#4091460) Subject: RE: The Rolling Stones should call it a day! From: The Sandman Bonzos statement about sonny boy no2, reminds me of an occasion when walkabout verse tried to tell me that the english concertina should not be used for playing harmony. |
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04 Feb 21 - 12:47 PM (#4091461) Subject: RE: The Rolling Stones should call it a day! From: John P Please stop trying to get other people to stop playing music. It's disgusting. Please stop assuming that the only reason an old person would still be playing music is for the money. It's insulting. I'm old, I still play music, and I don't care about the money. Here's hint: If you don't need the money, what reason is there for performing other than that you enjoy it? Please stop bashing the performances of whole classes of people. It's unworthy, not to mention rude, ignorant, incorrect, and stupid. |
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04 Feb 21 - 01:08 PM (#4091462) Subject: RE: The Rolling Stones should call it a day! From: The Sandman the stones started off as an rand b band, they did a fairly good version of little red rooster, after the death of brian jones they changed directioN to some extent. i can think of better blues singers than jagger joanne kelly and steve rye was a very good english blues harminca player, but mick jagger is not just a mediocre blues singer he is a front man an entertainer and a dancer. and a competent and decent pop singer jagger richards wrote some good pop hits and jagger sings these well enough , the stones have given a lot of pleasure to people ,why the feck should they stop, just because some self important musical critic, , who also appears to know nothing about blues harmonica playing, thinks what they did 50 years ago was better, that is not a sensible reason to stop giving their fans pleasure., and for them to stop enjoying themselves |
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04 Feb 21 - 01:09 PM (#4091463) Subject: RE: The Rolling Stones should call it a day! From: Bonzo3legs He was certainly no better than Keith Relf, and not a patch on Little Walter. |
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04 Feb 21 - 01:54 PM (#4091471) Subject: RE: The Rolling Stones should call it a day! From: The Sandman this is so funny.. sonny boy no2 born 1912 no better than keith relf,born 1943 keith relf was the yardbirds lead singer who would undoubtedly had been influenced and would have copied sonny boy no2. yes little walter was also a very good harmonica player, but you said of sony boy no2 Was he really great? I don't think so. and to say he was no better than keith relf when sonny boy influenced him is a joke, Bonzo. you are barking up the wrong tree |
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04 Feb 21 - 02:06 PM (#4091474) Subject: RE: The Rolling Stones should call it a day! From: The Sandman The rolling stones should not call it a day. Bonzo stop thread drifting and stick to your subject, you clearly know not much about blues harmonica |
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04 Feb 21 - 04:10 PM (#4091500) Subject: RE: The Rolling Stones should call it a day! From: GUEST,Sol Saw them a couple of years ago. The second note of the first song intro of the gig ("Start Me Up") was an absolute corker. Keith laughed about it for ages. Not embarrassed in the slightest. Good on him. Great concert - loved every minute. Never ever thought I'd go and see a group of rockers who were 10 years older than my grandad when he died.:-) |
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05 Feb 21 - 05:47 AM (#4091565) Subject: RE: The Rolling Stones should call it a day! From: The Sandman Bonzo you must learn a little objectivity, you may think the stones are not as good as they were ,but let others have the opportunity go to their concerts. I do not like cliff richard , and think he is worse than he was 50 years ago, but i would not try to stop others from going to see him |
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05 Feb 21 - 06:16 AM (#4091571) Subject: RE: The Rolling Stones should call it a day! From: Bonzo3legs I don't do "must" !!! |
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05 Feb 21 - 06:17 AM (#4091572) Subject: RE: The Rolling Stones should call it a day! From: Bonzo3legs Cliff Richard & The Shadows 1960 - "that sound" !!! |
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05 Feb 21 - 06:39 AM (#4091575) Subject: RE: The Rolling Stones should call it a day! From: Backwoodsman ”Cliff Richard & The Shadows 1960 - "that sound" !!!” Indeed, Bonz. Responsible for my taking up the guitar in 1961. |
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05 Feb 21 - 07:43 AM (#4091579) Subject: RE: The Rolling Stones should call it a day! From: Johnny J I'm a bit late to the party but if they still want to perform and can get an audience, why not? There might be an argument that older performers should give way so that younger musicians can have an increased opportunity to progress and succeed. I don't necessarily agree with that either but it doesn't apply here. We get endless discussions and debates, for instance, about folk clubs which book the same old artists while younger acts don't get a chance. However, even there, if an artist(s) can draw an audience and is still popular enough then age shouldn't matter. Of course, a club committee or booking agent should also consider acts on their artistic merit too. It shouldn't all be about "bums on seats". However, the above doesn't apply here as the tours and concerts are being promoted independently. So, they aren't holding any other artists back or preventing them from getting gigs. So, good luck to them. |
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05 Feb 21 - 11:45 AM (#4091624) Subject: RE: The Rolling Stones should call it a day! From: Big Al Whittle bit of a bugger without bums on seats though... |
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08 Feb 21 - 04:54 AM (#4092084) Subject: RE: The Rolling Stones should call it a day! From: The Sandman in my experience most artists i have known are not concerned about holding artists back , they often help other artists and encourage them ,but they are most concerned with their own careers.every performer wants to carry on performing as long as they can it is kind of addictive. the stones areonly concerned with promoting themselves having a good time and playing music ,nothing wrong with that, let them carry on mick and crew, take no notice of bonzo |
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08 Feb 21 - 03:52 PM (#4092183) Subject: RE: The Rolling Stones should call it a day! From: voyager 1. - Agree with the premise of this thred 2. Last waltz for this group ('Hang It Up'). 3. Caught the Stone act 4 times in my day (age 69) 1967 @ Hollywood Bowl w/Buffalo Springfield as opening act All I remember is Mick, back to the audience, playing the tambourine on his bum Early '70s w/ BB King, Ike and Tina Turner Review, Terry Riley Could no fathom why the Stone were top billing Early '80s tour w/ George Thorogood opening act (bad to the bone) Lots of stage netting for acrobatics and Mick's 'simian' posturing Sticky Finger Tour (mid '90s) - playing in DC Football stadium (concrete fishbowl) that "did not rock". Lots of stage gimmicks. Always amazed that our mid '60s junior high dances played tunes that are still on the airwaves today. Skimming thru Keith Richard's LIFE rock bio these days. His power-chord rock riffs (Start Me Up, Tumblin' Dice and Jumpin' Jack Flash) are he Stones highlights to me, followed by Mick's songwriting, Charlie's Harpo Marx style drumming and Bill Wymans straight face bass riffs are the best for me. So much human 'road kill' in the ascendancy of this group. Hang it Up voyager |
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11 Feb 21 - 05:09 AM (#4092576) Subject: RE: The Rolling Stones should call it a day! From: GUEST,Tunesmith The Rolling Stones should have quit in 1963, and left the blues to the people who could really sing it...and without the phoney American accents. |
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11 Feb 21 - 08:08 AM (#4092598) Subject: RE: The Rolling Stones should call it a day! From: GUEST The BBC sessions from 1963-64 show the Stones at their best. |
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11 Feb 21 - 09:26 AM (#4092620) Subject: RE: The Rolling Stones should call it a day! From: Mrrzy Totz disagree with OP. As long as they want to keep performing, they should keep performing. You probably couldn't pay me enough to go see them, but that is my choice. Don't like'm? Don't go see'm. But to say they should stop performung because you don't like them any more? Balderdash. |
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11 Feb 21 - 09:36 AM (#4092622) Subject: RE: The Rolling Stones should call it a day! From: punkfolkrocker How many 60s bands who still gig, even have just one surviving original member...??? The Stones are unusually / unnaturally long lived... |
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11 Feb 21 - 11:49 AM (#4092636) Subject: RE: The Rolling Stones should call it a day! From: leeneia Yay for John P, who said "Please stop trying to get other people to stop playing music. It's disgusting." I agree with you, John. The tendency to quash other people's music is everywhere. I call it the Great Shut Up. |
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12 Feb 21 - 04:04 AM (#4092725) Subject: RE: The Rolling Stones should call it a day! From: Rusty Dobro If we stopped people playing when they approached 70, I’d have missed Sonny Boy Williamson, John Lee Hooker, Chuck Berry, Bill Haley, Bo Diddley, Jimmy Rogers, Stefan Grappelli, John Mayall, Peter Green, Les Paul, George Melly and many more. I do have a personal interest in this discussion..... |
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12 Feb 21 - 06:33 AM (#4092743) Subject: RE: The Rolling Stones should call it a day! From: gillymor I haven't been up with their stuff after Some Girls but if they'd hung it up in '63 there'd be no Beggars Banquet, no Let it Bleed, no Sticky Fingers, no Exile on Main Street which are among some of the best Rock albums ever made, IMO. |
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12 Feb 21 - 08:24 AM (#4092763) Subject: RE: The Rolling Stones should call it a day! From: GUEST,Brimbacombe Agreed gillymor. If Sympathy for the Devil or Gimme Shelter (to name but two) were released today, they would sound fresh, exciting, threatening, innovative, inventive. These songs are more than 50 years old. In a world as fickle as pop music (and all its sub-genres) how many other bands or artists could you say such a thing about? I love the Beatles and the Beach Boys, but I think their sound has dated more. If people are still willing to pay to see them perform, good on them. If the Stones still want to perform, presumably to some extent because of their love of music and performing, then good on them. Lots of people further down the chain will benefit too, from support acts to roadies to caterers to techs to journalists, and so on. Whether they play the blues badly or not, their music has brought joy to millions, and I and many others think they've produced some of the greatest songs ever put to vinyl. Go stick the intro to Paint It, Black on now. However you want to categorise their music, there's no way that that's 'bad'. |
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12 Feb 21 - 12:30 PM (#4092819) Subject: RE: The Rolling Stones should call it a day! From: voyager Canonical Rolling Stones joke here - What's the difference between the Rolling Stones and a Scottish farmer? The Stones sing - 'Hey you, get off of my cloud'. The Scottish farmer shouts - 'He McCloud, get off of my ewe". (ouch) |
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12 Feb 21 - 01:41 PM (#4092830) Subject: RE: The Rolling Stones should call it a day! From: GUEST,Tunesmith BTW, I'm pretty sure that The Stones reacted to The Beatles my deliberately adopting a " bad boy" rebellious image. For example, I think that they were the first rock group - in the UK - to dump those silly suits. And, they decided to write some rebellious songs "Satisfaction", "Get off my cloud" etc. And this was all to try to step out of The Beatles shadow with a very different image. Of course, it might all have been Andew Oldham's idea. |
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12 Feb 21 - 04:05 PM (#4092857) Subject: RE: The Rolling Stones should call it a day! From: gillymor lol, voyager, never heard that one. |
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13 Feb 21 - 04:53 AM (#4092909) Subject: RE: The Rolling Stones should call it a day! From: Acorn4 Still some truth in the old adage "What would survive a nuclear war?" Cockroaches and Keith Richards. |
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13 Feb 21 - 06:01 AM (#4092914) Subject: RE: The Rolling Stones should call it a day! From: WalkaboutsVerse Any English who think AMERICAN pop, rock, blues & (c)rap are somehow above English folk plus classical music are fruitcakes, frankly - i.e., they should "know it's only (American) rock & roll" &, rather, practice & perform their OWN good culture. My WalkaboutsVerse poem "Nationalism Without Conquest" |
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14 Feb 21 - 04:15 AM (#4093049) Subject: RE: The Rolling Stones should call it a day! From: The Sandman why would the stones take any notice mack jigger is like dorothy drew fond of dancing |
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16 Feb 21 - 02:14 PM (#4093419) Subject: RE: The Rolling Stones should call it a day! From: leeneia From the original post "a recording compiled from a number of in ear monitor feeds to produce a sort of stereo field." It occurs to me that maybe the trouble was not with the band, but with the synching (sp) of the various feeds. |
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16 Feb 21 - 03:50 PM (#4093434) Subject: RE: The Rolling Stones should call it a day! From: Bonzo3legs No, definitely in sync, just not playing very well. |
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16 Feb 21 - 04:13 PM (#4093438) Subject: RE: The Rolling Stones should call it a day! From: The Sandman no reason for them to give up ,i mean mick dances better than the shadows, i mean the shadows dance was twee ,mick dances with energy charlie plays the drums okay. |
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17 Feb 21 - 05:43 AM (#4093523) Subject: RE: The Rolling Stones should call it a day! From: Gordon Jackson WalkaboutsVerse, you're rather letting the (English) side down by using the American spelling of the verb ;). |
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17 Feb 21 - 07:46 AM (#4093550) Subject: RE: The Rolling Stones should call it a day! From: The Sandman wav its practise |
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18 Feb 21 - 12:07 PM (#4093678) Subject: RE: The Rolling Stones should call it a day! From: WalkaboutsVerse Yes, I stand corrected, thanks, GJ and TS. No excuses as I have published a poem on this matter "For Better or Worse" |
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18 Feb 21 - 12:26 PM (#4093685) Subject: RE: The Rolling Stones should call it a day! From: GUEST,Jamie McC As someone who was at the London Stadium gig, I thought they were terrific. I think the majority of the 70,000 fell much the same. Of course we didn't have the benefit of hearing it via a selection of 'in-ear monitor feeds to produce a sort of stereo field' and had to settle for the simple experience of actually being there. |
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18 Feb 21 - 01:11 PM (#4093693) Subject: RE: The Rolling Stones should call it a day! From: The Sandman jamie mc long may you enjoy them, |
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18 Feb 21 - 02:23 PM (#4093703) Subject: RE: The Rolling Stones should call it a day! From: Gordon Jackson As long as they enjoy it, and as long as a sufficient number of others enjoy it, they can go on as long as they want, surely. It's just like floor spots in a folk club, but on a slightly grander scale |
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18 Feb 21 - 06:32 PM (#4093727) Subject: RE: The Rolling Stones should call it a day! From: leeneia Never mind how to spell practice. How does one make sync into an -ing word? |
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19 Feb 21 - 01:59 AM (#4093762) Subject: RE: The Rolling Stones should call it a day! From: Backwoodsman A hyphen? ‘Sync-ing’? That’s how I do it, right or wrong IDC. |
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19 Feb 21 - 03:53 AM (#4093764) Subject: RE: The Rolling Stones should call it a day! From: Gordon Jackson 'Syncing' or 'Synching' are both considered correct, in which case I prefer the latter. The 'c' in the first one looks like it should be soft. |
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19 Feb 21 - 05:46 AM (#4093778) Subject: RE: The Rolling Stones should call it a day! From: GUEST,Jamie McC I'd agree with 'Synching'. The past tense is, of course, 'Sunk'! |
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19 Feb 21 - 07:51 AM (#4093788) Subject: RE: The Rolling Stones should call it a day! From: Backwoodsman Yep, ‘Synching’ looks right to me - much nicer than my ‘sync-ing’. Another one for my personal thesaurus. |
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19 Feb 21 - 09:07 AM (#4093800) Subject: RE: The Rolling Stones should call it a day! From: The Sandman do you have a thesaurus , I thought you lived in a tree like most backwoodsmen |
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19 Feb 21 - 12:20 PM (#4093838) Subject: RE: The Rolling Stones should call it a day! From: WalkaboutsVerse A better practiCe, then?! ;-) |
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19 Feb 21 - 12:44 PM (#4093849) Subject: RE: The Rolling Stones should call it a day! From: PHJim Canadian spelling is "practise" for a verb and "practice" for a noun. "I'd better practise if I want to improve." "Choir practice is at seven o'clock." American spelling is "practice" for both verb and noun. Although it seems that spelling and grammar is becoming less and less important to a lot of folks. Even résumés and job applications don't seem to use standard spelling and grammar any more. |