I sat on the hill at the bottom of the Grange school in Runcorn that day with a few mates. The sound was great. It's only afterwards when we found out why. So no sight, apart from the back of the stage, but most of the sound those at the event didn't get.. 😂😂
omg, I was 21 when this gig happened. I lived just up the hill from Spike Island. I didn't have a ticket, so I crawled under a metal fence to get in. Watch this video and on minute 1:20 there is a picture of me sitting on the grass on the right with a blue tshirt on. What the frig is up with my hair. Good times
I was there - aged 16, and it truly was an amazing experience. The man speaks the truth - we were all off our heads. A bunch of youngsters enjoying the freedom and the music. Who'd have know we were a part of music history. What a day - it gives me good bumps looking at this footage.
How lucky we were back then...feel sorry for the youngsters now...they need to rise up and make events like this happen again...fuck covid compliancy lets have freedom again!!!!!
I was there. I went on a bus from Derby bus station, with my then girlfriend, K F. It was a great day, but a long day. which seemed to go on forever.. and the sound was pants.. but like Noel said, It didn't matter - this was my generations woodstock and it meant everything....
Let me RESPECTFULLY disagree with you. True, they didn't commerically succed like the Beatles but face it; every English band state the Stone Roses as a major influence; Oasis, radiohead, pulp, blur, sleeper just to name a few. Even the NME called their album the best of all time. The Stone Roses are the most influential band to come out of england for the last thirty years. The English think of Ian Brown, John Squire, Mani and Reni as legends in the way we look at bands that were at woodstock
Two words, one band: Joy Division. Even though I am a great admirer of the Roses and I was at this gig, JD surpass them in the "legend" status and probably legacy also. Music is subjective so there is never an absolute.
@@martynflynn8368 Roses on a completely different and advanced musical level:: bass/drums section one of the best all time, and Squire a guitar wizard. JD had great intensity, and a unique sound, but the Rises footprint is massive. They were the only band after the Smiths that mattered, and jump started the Britpop movement
"the point was all of them people being there" exactly, this was the rave generations woodstock, no less, and we had a blast, one of the best days of my life
I went with my sister's and mates it was fabulous.i live in Widnes so spike island isn't far from us . Love the Stone Roses I was 20!! Can't believe how long ago it was . 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧👍👍🙂🙂
Big thanks for putting this up and big thanks to my bro for gettin me into the roses haha he dragged me along to this (in my defence I was only 14) and bunked in to hear a terrible sound set up on a crazy windy day and did I love it...damn right i fuckin did. It ignited a love for music that never died from that day to this and for that Messrs Brown, Squire, Mounfield and Wren i thank thee
The stone roses last gig at hampden was mad the wind was blowin the sound every where and it was like a massive bowl with the fans in the middle and made it all the better,once in a lifetime for me.
I wish I had been one of the 3.7million people who went to spike Island, the 40000 who saw the pistols at the 650 capacity 100 club and the entire population of earth who went to woodstock back in 69. I missed out big time.
Same here, in my dictionary filed under Stone. I've just had a look at it and it's in near mint condition and it's probably the best designed ticket in my collection, such a beautiful graphic.
I remember purchasing a couple off possibly the same wee scallies myself.And that was in that vicinity.Certainly made it a night to remember,especially the light from that helicopter,eh?Crazy looking back as a forty year old Father,indeed. Great days,mate.
Absolutely mate. All their tunes they made still stands really strong so many years later. But I would love to see John Squire and Ian Brown to make peace with each other. They may never be on stage together again but I don't want them enemies forever. Musically they changed England for the better. God Bless both of them.
Thank God I was wrong. At least they are friends again. They'll go down in musical history as one of the great English Bands: their music will outlast them.
@@Dbusdriver71 I think the problem is that Brown and Squire can't settle their differences. Such a shame really; all that hype around the long-awaited third album and yet they only managed to record two new songs. Rock and roll is a young man's game. Let Ian concentrate on his solo career, Squire with his paintings, Mani in Primal Scream, and as for Reni... well, let's just say he will go down in history as the best rock and roll drummer who didn't live the same lifestyle as Keith Moon.
@@gregkiteos1936 I got the impression that there was some tension between Ian and Reni; old pain and resentment from the past. Back in the day, The presence of Doug Goldstein probably didn't help based on what I read but there can be some truth in what you have posted. You think that no matter what, Gareth Evans or not, that they simply grew apart?
@@Dbusdriver71 They were a great band that had bad management. The fact that it took over 5 years to release Second Coming says it all. From what I've read this Gareth Evans fellow sounds like he was only looking out for himself. Something went wrong at the record label, and by the time it had taken to resolve the issues, Ian was high on drugs a lot of the time and the members were at each other's throats. Who knows what could have happened if they had headlined Glastonbury in 1995 - the timeline could have been so very different. And yes, about Reni and Ian - apparently Ian got pissed off with him during a gig in Holland in 2012 and stormed off the stage, and they didn't finish the gig, so that meant they didn't perform Resurrection.
Stormed the fencing me and my mates and about 50 others, that's how we managed to get in, via a cattle bridge over a field miles away! The only way we could get on the island! Top day! Little Hulton boys on tour✌😁👊
I want to point out to you that while The Stone Roses second album 'Second comming' didn't do so well in England, it did really well in America; David Geffin said it was successful financially although he had to get on them to finish it. So yes, America knew about the Stone Roses well enough while England rejected their second album.
Yeah it sure does, I had them on earlier today "the complete" album, love the song "Standing Here". I'm gonna see Ian Brown live in december. I appreciate his work as a solo artist but I sure hope he plays some Roses songs too.
I was 20 at this gig and was buying acid (Starwberry Fields tabs if I remeber correctly) from around the mixing desk area from scouse kids who were almost half my age, terrible really looking back as 40 year old father!!
as we're being courteous, I must say thank you for setting the record straight, I like that TURN IT UP, I've now caught a grip of myself, interesting your ideas about the free love at the time, I seem to remember abit of that, or at least alot of sweaty hooligans chewing up the mdma, unlike your good self I'm not one for sycophancy and the swirling nostalgia pot of our culture... I leave that for enlightened ones such as Sifu Noel Gallagher, a master of average.
Even after so many years it is still a touchy subject. True, The Stone Roses werent as commerically successful but what angers die hard fans is that their manager didn't have any musical sense. He convinced them to sign that deal with Silvertone which ultimately led to their demise. He still walked away rich. They potentially could have been the biggest thing since The Rolling Stone if it werent for Gareth Evans. I say that because their music still endures and hold up EXTREMELY well.
Makes me feel better about just turning 50, I was 19 when we got in my VW Jetta and went up there... taking acid when we got in wasn't the best idea but it's made for a great memory.. One Love ✌
@EASTLANDS70: I was in college back then and I saw both the Manchester bands and the grunge bands come up a few years later. I remember thinking the Manchester scene was doomed because besides the Stone Roses, I didn't hear any serious musicianship in those bands. I love British power pop and I was excited initially but quickly realized it wouldn't take off globally. Grunge was different. While I loathed that scene, I knew it had staying power. A lot of those bands went mega-huge and still are.
@JuanKallot depends what ya mean by trippin, ppl have various variations off the word trippin. hallucinate is 1 for instance whilst another is just freakin out
i cant remember the sound being that bad pmsl....then when i seen footage i thought "that wasnt what i fukin heard lol (it was my hazy drug addled mind/concept)"...for me that was a day when liverpool n manc shook hands
I was 18 when i went to this gig, it was just another gig of many that me and my mates attended in 1990 ..I didn't give a shit about 11 years of been locked up by conservative government, I was too young and high to give a shit.
America is the biggest most important, influential & happening music market in the world. Off course it's important to succeed there ! If you wanna be a legendary band, you really want to make your mark, you have to do well in the USA like The Beatles, Stones, Floyd, etc. However, maybe due to their unique briliance -the roses might just be the exception to the rule.I know Ian has done gigs in Japan & Dubai which suggests he does have a global following & therefore maybe so do the roses.
Although I love Stone Roses, to break the US, you have to be able to do it live. Brown wasn't the best singer live and to go over there and play live they would qoukd of been destroyed by the critics. We loved them for what they were, warts n all.
i remember what you remember too, but call it nostalgia, call it what you like, but for 4 or 5 years between 86-91 there was a definite feeling of free love....all down to the mdma you talk about.....as for noel gallagher, theres no point at all criticising him for his music, he is not being interviewed here for his music he is being interviewed as an eyewitness of the whole experience.....i just dont get what his music has to do with this particular video
Hey it's cool, I appreciate you being polite, not like that other clown. I never intended to cause an argument at all so your not really disagreeing with me as such.I just need to make myself clear. I too love the SR's I enjoy their music & understand their influence. I think they were good enough to take over the world, they should have done that & the fact that they didn't - that's what bothers me !
After they sacked their manager Gareth Evans, they played a few times; once in New York and Once in Hollywood. They lost up to four years in court being sued by Silvertone. They won but four years later, their momentum was gone and the album 'Second comming' just didn't do as well as the first.
I wasn't aware i lived in Merseyside. Widnes is Cheshire, or has been since 76'...never agreed with it. And for the other 1000 years was Lancashire, and rightly so....my grandad went to his grave refusing to recognise Cheshire lol.
would you like to catch a grip of yourself mate? Noel, as a fan is entitled to give his opinion as much as any other roses fan in the country And seeing how he was actually at the gig, it qualifies him and another 29,999 people to have an opinion on the actual gig just a little bit more than myself or yourself Have some respect for crying out loud this is a roses fan talking about the roses, your comments and attitude is 23 years out of sinc with the feeling of free love at the time of the gig
I got there midday and was already drunk; no ecstasy. The wind was already going about so I movied downwind and stood up against a building while I smoked a joint. The music was meager until the Roses took to the stage. Some of it was alright though, but not like the Roses. They were still brillant. Believe it or not, some of the people were f*ck*n sober. I didn't thing it was possible. I cherish this concert but blackpool was still better.
@tomthefunky It's sad, but sometimes you need the media to tag you along in order to get known worldwide in the way these Madchester dreamers wanted to; but that meant being mainstream, and that's something these great artists didn't want. Maybe the reason why, for example, purists detest Oasis: they came from an Indie scene and they got commercially acclaimed. An example of how the media does influence a movement is once again, grunge. If you're on the US, expect to have the spotlight on you.
Noel's speaking sense. This is what I've been telling all the cantankerous fuckmuffins who are saying they'll sound shite at Heaton Park... it's not the point. Bands rarely sound studio quality live... in fact Pink Floyd are the only band I've watched live who sounded like their albums. When the opening riffs and base lines to classics like Waterfall and Sally Cinnamon waft across the ears of all of us there next June, the place will explode... and we'll have something to tell our grandkids.
@zosothedestroyer That's not reliable. Britpop was a derivative out of Madchester. Its influences were higher in number, they also included bands from the 60's and 70's, most notably art rock and progressive bands. It was no response to Grunge, that's something MTV or NME would say, considering how they produce ignorance to sell more. And being response or not response, at least it was a better genre/movement.
