This has got to be, hands down, the greatest LIVE performance ever assembled!! Thank you Stones 🙏🏼 Mick's arguably the best front man of all time, Keith whales, Charlie holds it all together & those back-ups, WOW!!! 👍🏼🎸🎤🎶
Keith is so on top of his game hell and absolute- and all the band is thrilled, even Mick who doesn't like being "up-staged" but they seemed to know Keith was so with it and let him go. This is such a happy video!!
Let’s not forget Charlie KILLED this…Keith’s whole solo? Go back and listen again to the work Watts is doing in the background over that timeframe. That subtle swing, man!
Mesmerizing- every performance has the magic of the first time- musical genius's- nothing else like the Stones- seeing them again soon on Hackney Diamonds Tour- bringing my sons (again!)
I have listened/watched a dozen or more different performances of Sympathy, but damn, I think this is the best one I've ever seen! The energy level in both Mick and Keith, the power in the music and the extended riffs of Kieth are all so superb and powerful it totally sucked me in. Jagger is at his taunting, mocking, leering best, best I've ever heard keith on this piece, and his body movements almost amplifying the fire coming from his guitar.
Could'nt agree more we finally get to see all sides of Kieth ebullient , totally free and in his element , almost showing off , taking off his coat of darkness and years of abuse , the Stones were absolutely excellent in this set ...should release is as a live album
RIP Charlie xxx. I tell ya what...for such a small country did we in the UK produce some bands or what? Stones, Beatles, Led Zep, Floyd, Queen. Five of the most listened to bands in history. The UK rocks like no other. As for this tune, one of the best ever written. Very sharp poetry to weave historic events together. Genius.
Keith plays everything in open G he rocks this solo, I think the reason for him still being around is when you look at him you would swear he's already been dead for awhile
The greatest front man this planet has ever seen, beyond iconic he left the planet a long time ago, he's totally unreachable. Jagger / Masterpiece...☝🏻🎤😈✌🏻
What a way to make a living putting smiles on people's faces and forgetting the outside world for a few hours. Best live performance of this iconic number by far. I was 40 yrs old. Don't waste your youth young people.
I have seen the Rolling Stones five times ever time Mick Jagger amazes me with the energy that he puts out onstage and I don't know how it is is going to be near 70 and still running around crazy God bless them
Actually Mick is 78 near 80...saw them in Philly 2019 about 2 months after Mick had open heart surgery. They still rocked and put on a great show. I got to see them also in Philly for the 98 Bridges to Babylon tour when I was 13. First concert and after that I was hooked.
I have been watching some of their performances from past weeks, Mick is 80 and he's still pretty much the same, moving around and voice as strong, he's not human. I can't come up with any other 80 year old rock star, singer or dancer moving like he does.
In my youth, I always regretted having been born so late I could not see the Beatles and in the 2nd half of the 80ies I thought I will never be able to see the Stones. I saw the 9 times live. Honestly thank you, god!
Fortunate enough to see the Stones here in Perth in Australia three times, 65, 73 and 94. On the 94 show Keith played just like this, from one side of the long stage to the other. Magic stuff. They opened with "Not fade Away", it had been raining lightly during the opening act ( Aussie band called Cruel Sea) and the rain stopped as Not fade Away began. 73 they had Mick Taylor with them. I'm 71 now. I've seen them all pass this way, Dylan, first time in 66 with the famous world tour with the Hawks, later the Band ( a life changing experience for a fifteen and a half year old teen) and in the following years, with Tom Petty, Patti Smith. Ry Cooder came, Dire Straits, BB King, Cocker, Animals, Jackson Brown, JJ Cale, Tom Waits,) Leo Kottke, Crosby Stills and Nash, Springsteen, Eagles, Buddy Guy, Houndog Taylor and the House Rockers, Albert Lee, Clapton, Pink Floyd, Derek Trucks, Sonny Terry and Albert McGee, Bowie, Frigid Pink, and not forgetting the most awesome concert I have ever been to, Led Zeppelin. So it goes. What a life.
The best ever version of Sympathy with Keef at his very best..look at the spontaneous smile of love for music on his face while his guitar talks word by word like the devil himself...
This is by far the best live performance this band has ever done. 🎤 Mick is actually singing on key and in tune, instead of his usual, arrogant, lazy, awful stuff. 🎸Keith is at the Top of His Game. He seemed as happy as a kid turned loose in a candy store. 🥁Charlie was in sync with Keith. 🪨Bill and 💎Ronnie did their best to keep up... 🚤🚒🏍️🏎️🚅🏇⚡☄️🚀✈️
I have been playing guitar for 50 years. I've played a LOT professionally. I believe this is the greatest rock and roll band that ever was. And there were SO many greats of course, like Chuck Barry. But the Stones may have been the BEST there ever was. THIS is a Rock And Roll Band
Wyman's bass absolutely blows up the room and creates all that space that Keith and Ronnie play in. The casual listener just doesn't hear it. It took me a long time to figure out what role he played in the Stones. But once you hear it, you can't unhear it. The guy was a wolf in sheep's clothing. Sometimes I think his stoic act was just a game he played, to be unnoticed off to the side while laying down the most essential groove. Dude was a beast.
I must have watched this vid 20 times by now - and it just keeps getting better. Keef was having a great time and Mick was strutting his stuff. Amazing that at 30 YEARS later, the Stones are still going strong and Ronnie Wood is also.
O M G this version will go down in history as one of the GREATS.....Mick is at his best , it all flows flawlessly they are all at the pinnacle of musical perfection. Absolutely brilliant.
Well fuck me for not remembering seeing this but man oh man is Keith on top of his game, and our so beloved Charlie -watching grooving and just so loving it all. Mick is a bit off, but the others totally grooving and covering for him. But remember, it will not be the Stones without Keith and Mick; hard enough to recover losing Charlie. This is such a wonderful video!!
Dylan...Lennon and McCartney...Jagger/Richards...and the popular song was forever changed...Pleased to meet you! Bless you all in your sorrow tonight....The Rolling Stones: GreatestRock BandEver!! No contest. Goodnight dear Sir Charles...
Richard McCauley and me in 1965 saw them at the Houston Music Hall. we were behind the stage and above. something like a catwalk. WATCHED jager be Jagger. STILL going strong HELLUVA A SHOW then. RIP Richard. SEMPER FI
What a performance and what an end-note. Bang!…Mick’s hands shooting back towards the band. And Charlie grinning, looking very satisfied…as he should. He knew-they had just killed it.
