Stones at Old Trafford last Tuesday

Leisure · Post by **Leisure** » Mon Jun 04, 2018 11:20 pm

Going to see them, as it must surely be their last tour! Anyone else going?

tybfc · Post by **tybfc** » Mon Jun 04, 2018 11:34 pm

Leisure wrote:Going to see them, as it must surely be their last tour! Anyone else going?

Watch out for bald headed members in yellow pants throwing stones at the Yorkies.

A Lancs win tomorrow.

tim_noone · Post by **tim_noone** » Mon Jun 04, 2018 11:37 pm

Leisure wrote:Going to see them, as it must surely be their last tour! Anyone else going?

I'm going....gotta see em before I die !!!

cricketfieldclarets · Post by **cricketfieldclarets** » Tue Jun 05, 2018 1:23 am

tim_noone wrote:I'm going....gotta see em before I die !!!

Before they do!!!

Claret Till I Die · Post by **Claret Till I Die** » Tue Jun 05, 2018 6:08 am

I'll be there. Been a while since I've driven to Old Trafford, for those in the know where's the best place to park. I'll be setting off by 4.30pm latest...

Rammy1968 · Post by **Rammy1968** » Tue Jun 05, 2018 7:06 am

I hope you get some satisfaction Pete?

enduroclaret · Post by **enduroclaret** » Tue Jun 05, 2018 7:07 am

Claret Till I Die wrote:I'll be there. Been a while since I've driven to Old Trafford, for those in the know where's the best place to park. I'll be setting off by 4.30pm latest...

The best place to park is outside your house, then use public transport and have a few beers.

jdrobbo · Post by **jdrobbo** » Tue Jun 05, 2018 7:09 am

Wonder if we’ll get red skies tonight...

I like a Ruby Tuesday.

Jel · Post by **Jel** » Tue Jun 05, 2018 7:18 am

I'll be there. Really looking forward to seeing them.
It's probably going to be the best best gig ever for me, I've seen Queen, Roger Waters The Wall in Berlin and Bowie 5 times.
I've just got a feeling this will trump the lot!

gc14 · Post by **gc14** » Tue Jun 05, 2018 8:30 am

Stretford Railway Club on Chester Road (5 mins walk) has a nice car park if you give them a ring they will let you use it,
Said there would be a small charge but let us use it free of charge as 5 of us called in for a few (cheap) beers

claretblue · Post by **claretblue** » Tue Jun 05, 2018 8:36 am

Claret Till I Die wrote:I'll be there. Been a while since I've driven to Old Trafford, for those in the know where's the best place to park. I'll be setting off by 4.30pm latest...

don't park on the square!

Claret-On-A-T-Rex · Post by **Claret-On-A-T-Rex** » Tue Jun 05, 2018 8:41 am

I'd love to go but it's curry night tonight...

jdrobbo wrote:I like a Ruby Tuesday.

B-dum tish!

ClaretTony · Post by **ClaretTony** » Tue Jun 05, 2018 8:42 am

I'm jealous - wish I was there tonight, a long time since I saw the brilliant Stones live. I know it's only rock'n'roll but I like it.

Those of you going, have a great night.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLjz9G9n1Ts" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

KeighleyClaret · Post by **KeighleyClaret** » Tue Jun 05, 2018 8:44 am

Saw the Stones at Don Valley stadium. They had to knock it down afterwards

TVC15 · Post by **TVC15** » Tue Jun 05, 2018 8:55 am

I thought Moaningrinho was buying John Stones when I saw the thread title

Dyched · Post by **Dyched** » Tue Jun 05, 2018 11:52 am

Anyone know what time it will roughly finish?

quoonbeatz · Post by **quoonbeatz** » Tue Jun 05, 2018 11:59 am

just around midnight.

Dyched · Post by **Dyched** » Tue Jun 05, 2018 12:00 pm

quoonbeatz wrote:just around midnight.

Really??

quoonbeatz · Post by **quoonbeatz** » Tue Jun 05, 2018 12:09 pm

no, not really. it will be around 10:30-11ish.

Claret Till I Die · Post by **Claret Till I Die** » Tue Jun 05, 2018 12:11 pm

Dyched wrote:Really??

Wooooosh...

Leisure · Post by **Leisure** » Tue Jun 05, 2018 1:16 pm

quoonbeatz wrote:no, not really. it will be around 10:30-11ish.

Curfew is 10.30pm but whether or not the Stones take any notice of that who knows!

Wokingclaret · Post by **Wokingclaret** » Tue Jun 05, 2018 1:28 pm

Thought Stones plays for City

Hendrickxz · Post by **Hendrickxz** » Tue Jun 05, 2018 4:32 pm

Can you pay on the gate

Corky · Post by **Corky** » Tue Jun 05, 2018 5:13 pm

Not my cup of tea at all. Mick Jagger trying to sound and act like Don Covay never really did it for me but got to take your hat off to them for their longevity.

Guitargeorge · Post by **Guitargeorge** » Tue Jun 05, 2018 5:19 pm

Seen them on quite a few occasions. First time was Nelson Imp when it cost me 40p equivalent. Seen numerous stadium tours with most expensive costing me 300 times more than the first one.

Hipper · Post by **Hipper** » Tue Jun 05, 2018 6:33 pm

Corky wrote:Not my cup of tea at all. Mick Jagger trying to sound and act like Don Covay never really did it for me but got to take your hat off to them for their longevity.

Nor mine but must agree.

The one song I do like:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yGFuX2KDQs" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Claret Till I Die · Post by **Claret Till I Die** » Tue Jun 05, 2018 11:53 pm

Outstanding tonight...

Graham25goals · Post by **Graham25goals** » Tue Jun 05, 2018 11:58 pm

Hipper wrote:Nor mine but must agree.

The one song I do like:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yGFuX2KDQs" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Is this song about doing smack?

Bin Ont Turf · Post by **Bin Ont Turf** » Wed Jun 06, 2018 12:02 am

Graham25goals wrote:Is this song about doing smack?

No but this is about getting off it, maybe............

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C39kQoprfP0" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Leisure · Post by **Leisure** » Wed Jun 06, 2018 12:26 am

Great show. My favs were, Gimme Shelter, Like a Rolling Stone and Sympathy for the Devil. Must have been 70/80,000 there tonight.

bobinho · Post by **bobinho** » Wed Jun 06, 2018 12:31 am

Didn't get there tonite, but saw em a few years ago at the o2. Outstanding. Gimme shelter and sympathy was excellent that nite too.

cricketfieldclarets · Post by **cricketfieldclarets** » Wed Jun 06, 2018 2:41 am

Pheonomenal night. What a show. Best band of all time. To have that longevity and energy is something else.

ClaretTony · Post by **ClaretTony** » Wed Jun 06, 2018 8:48 am

Some positive feedback from you following last night - still the greatest live band I've ever seen

thedoge · Post by **thedoge** » Wed Jun 06, 2018 9:17 am

Are my eyes playing tricks,on the first photo are 2 red topped security staff about to Chuck someone out.

UpTheBeehole · Post by **UpTheBeehole** » Wed Jun 06, 2018 9:21 am

cricketfieldclarets wrote:Pheonomenal night. What a show. Best band of all time. To have that longevity and energy is something else.

Was it £30 to sit in the away end?

tim_noone · Post by **tim_noone** » Wed Jun 06, 2018 11:31 am

ClaretTony wrote:Some positive feedback from you following last night - still the greatest live band I've ever seen

Never had a night like last night!! Topped life events from the joys of birth to the sadness of passing...the energy and emotion generated by the stones and the crowd I've never felt before ever....you just had to be there,truly amazing musicians ...quotes mick jagger I'm happy to be in Manchester,quotes The Amazing Keith Richard "I'm happy to be anywhere" Awesome Event

tim_noone · Post by **tim_noone** » Wed Jun 06, 2018 11:43 am

thedoge wrote:Are my eyes playing tricks,on the first photo are 2 red topped security staff about to Chuck someone out.

Some poor bugger was dragged out right on cue as the Band walked out! Felt for him if it was summat and nowt...

hampsteadclaret · Post by **hampsteadclaret** » Wed Jun 06, 2018 2:37 pm

The Rolling Stones have done hundreds of concerts of course, and the counter-culture one at Altamont Speedway Free Festival, in California nearly 50 years ago, is particularly infamous....it had an attendance of about 300,000.

There was a lot of hard drugs and drinking, and the Hell's Angels were 'assigned' security duties for the event [mistake],... one man was murdered, three others died, and bunches of hippies were beaten up by out of control rockers....it was a bad scene man

The video footage is very good quality for the time, and is worth a view.

- the man who was murdered by the Hell's Angels [Meredith Hunter] was brandishing a gun, and some eye witnesses have suggested that Hunter [off his head with methamphetamine] was out to do serious harm to Mick Jagger or one of the Stones, or somebody else on stage...this incident is on the link at about 6 minutes.

This is a pretty good version, from the event, of 'Sympathy for the Devil'.....'Under my Thumb' is also worth a look...this is just after the murder and Jagger is clearly put off his stride by events.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj6y6tohW_0" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

houseboy · Post by **houseboy** » Wed Jun 06, 2018 3:27 pm

I've never seen the Stones as I have not been quite a big enough fan to bother (I like them but not mad about them) but one of the coolest things I've ever seen was recorded at a gig somewhere when a guy ran on stage and ran towards Keith Richard. Richard, not knowing what the hell the guy was going to do, kept playing until the perfect moment then swung his guitar off and, in one marvellous movement, crowned the guy round the head with it, rendered him immobile, then put it back on and continued playing as if nothing had happened. Security carried the guy away and the Stones were no worse for the experience. Marvellous moment.

cricketfieldclarets · Post by **cricketfieldclarets** » Wed Jun 06, 2018 6:56 pm

tim_noone wrote:Never had a night like last night!! Topped life events from the joys of birth to the sadness of passing...the energy and emotion generated by the stones and the crowd I've never felt before ever....you just had to be there,truly amazing musicians ...quotes mick jagger I'm happy to be in Manchester,quotes The Amazing Keith Richard "I'm happy to be anywhere" Awesome Event

Someone next to me even cried...

cricketfieldclarets · Post by **cricketfieldclarets** » Wed Jun 06, 2018 6:59 pm

Although musically perhaps they may have been better 50 years ago. It was made even more amazing by the sheer energy displayed at the age of (in Charlie Watts case) 77 years old! Outstanding.

Longsidelenny · Post by **Longsidelenny** » Wed Jun 06, 2018 7:22 pm

Not my cup of tea give me the Nolan sisters any day

tim_noone · Post by **tim_noone** » Wed Jun 06, 2018 7:57 pm

cricketfieldclarets wrote:Someone next to me even cried...

Well....the moment got to me!! To see four old geezers in their seventies playing with such passion and energy I doubt you'll see anywhere on earth it was a privelige!!

dermotdermot · Post by **dermotdermot** » Wed Jun 06, 2018 8:43 pm

hampsteadclaret wrote:The Rolling Stones have done hundreds of concerts of course, and the counter-culture one at Altamont Speedway Free Festival, in California nearly 50 years ago, is particularly infamous....it had an attendance of about 300,000.

There was a lot of hard drugs and drinking, and the Hell's Angels were 'assigned' security duties for the event [mistake],... one man was murdered, three others died, and bunches of hippies were beaten up by out of control rockers....it was a bad scene man

The video footage is very good quality for the time, and is worth a view.

- the man who was murdered by the Hell's Angels [Meredith Hunter] was brandishing a gun, and some eye witnesses have suggested that Hunter [off his head with methamphetamine] was out to do serious harm to Mick Jagger or one of the Stones, or somebody else on stage.

This is a pretty good version, from the event, of 'Sympathy for the Devil'.....'Under my Thumb' is also worth a look.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj6y6tohW_0" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

An absolute nightmare. There’s an entertaining snip in the film where Santana drummer, Mike Shrieve, is narrating to the newly arrived Jerry Garcia and Phil Lesh about how the’stewards’ had beaten up the singer from the Jefferson Airplane during a performance. They looked somewhat bemused with Lesh saying ‘you mean they’re attacking the musicians? Well that doesn’t sound right’. The next shot is of a poncho sporting Garcia turning on his heels with guitar in case and making a beeline for the helicopter before it departed.

Alanstevensonsgloves · Post by **Alanstevensonsgloves** » Thu Jun 07, 2018 8:40 am

thedoge wrote:Are my eyes playing tricks,on the first photo are 2 red topped security staff about to Chuck someone out.

Just looked for that. Was like playing a rolling stones version of Where's Wally!

bfcmik · Post by **bfcmik** » Thu Jun 07, 2018 8:58 am

I've never been a big fan of theirs but had the chance to get tickets for the Rolling Stones gig at Coventry Ricoh Arena last Saturday. My son who has watched loads of live gigs by many different groups, summed it up as "The .. Best .. Show .. Ever!". Amazing to watch and listen to the energy and buzz these old men continue to display even if they look like every note could be their last note in the case of Watts and Richards.

hampsteadclaret · Post by **hampsteadclaret** » Thu Jun 07, 2018 10:00 am

46...Charlie Watts is 78 [amazing] and Keef will be 75 later this year, again pretty amazing in view of his 'exploits'.

ŽižkovClaret · Post by **ŽižkovClaret** » Mon Jun 11, 2018 3:38 pm

Bit the bullet and shelled out 2200kc (About 75 quid) for a ticket for their show here on the 4th July. No small amount considering our lower salaries, but hey, they wont play here again i dare say.

No word on support for here yet, so hoping for someone decent.

Steve1956 · Post by **Steve1956** » Mon Jun 11, 2018 4:59 pm

The greatest rock n roll band ever...bar none....Probably.

ecc · Post by **ecc** » Mon Jun 11, 2018 5:14 pm

"Sympathy for the Devil"

I must admit I thought they didn't play that live (since Altamont).