I can't bee-leeve almost forty years later Jagger felt obligated to finesse the tag line on "Start Me Up..." I also think its weird that it wasn't till the last forty seconds or so that we were allowed to see Darryl on screen. Assuming it WAS Darryl, all I really saw was a black guy in a hat... and Chuck Leavell, who could not be heard in the mix at all... Still and all the Stones at the Super Bowl sure beats "Up With People..."
"you make a dead man ..." go silent? I thought it was the worst halftime show I can remember. Especially bad compared to the MoTown pregame bit with Little Stevie Wonder. Josh Stone held up really well.
I assume you're talking about the "you make a dead man" line. I don't know if Jagger dropped the last word, or if the show producers did it for him. Everything's on a 5-second delay since the Janet Jackson debacle.
I used to think she was just a slip of a girl, but she looked like she could have suited up and taken a place in the Pittsburgh secondary.
How can you tell? The camera shot at that second was from the upper deck of the stadium. I was paying attention b/c I wanted to see if he'd say it, and though the music was continuous I had the impression that the censors could cut Jagger's mic without cutting the music. It just sounded a bit edited to me.
1. there's no loss of ambiant at that point. 2. There's no abrupt break off of the "n" sound. 3. He makes his punctuation gesture at the end of "man," not a syllable later...
Radio reports this morning had Mick agreeing to drop the line, but the censors were ready in case he didn't.
Yeah, his wind is clearly shot-- which is a real problem, since it was his gift for phrasing which made him special... Dan Wetzel is reporting that they censored him, so I may be wrong; but if I am, the equipment has improved a lot more than I think. I suppose you could record a sample of the ambient from his mike earlier in the song and use it to delete the word when the moment arose; I still think the "N" from "man" would sound wrong, as the "c" starts directly out of it with no pause. You would either have to cut it short or fade it quick, and neither happened. I've got it on tape and I've rerun it many times. Wetzel says there's a line in "Rough Justice" was cut too... I did think they should have played "Imagination" instead of "Satisfaction" in honor of Motown...
"How about, What I'd like is, I'd like to hug and kiss you." "Wow! That's much better!" "Yeah! Everybody can enjoy that."
I do believe that you can get the lyrics to the Rolling Stones songs from any number of spyware-downloading russian web sites. They could just make Mick's mike mack at the apropriate moment and keep the others recording. Not that you can even tell. The audio was terrible. I think something was wrong with the microphone. That's probably what the two guitarists were talking to each other about 30 seconds into the first song.
She can take me down any day. (Ummm. She isn't young enough that I can be arrested for those thoughts, is she? )
They sucked!!! It was only three songs, why were they so bad? Jagger was god awful and the band sounded like they've never played those songs before. Are they this bad in a full concert? How long does it take them to "warm up"?
Not sure I'd have described it as bad. Jagger's definitely lost lung power and Woody was into weird sounds on that artificial national but I thought it was pretty good; Keef and Charley and Darryl are what I listen for anyway. You're just not going to get a tailored sound when it has to be set up, performed and torn down all in forty minutes and leave the field playable... oh and the sound people only get to assess the venue empty-- no warm up act. But the band played good, it just had a bootleg sound to it. Same thing happened to McCartney. There's no doubt that "Satisfaction" is pretty tired these days... songs go in and out of health over the life of a band, and its not in an up period... rather they'd picked almost anything else. I saw a full show on the "Bridges to Babylon" tour and they were superb, and the sound was excellent. Don't know what the current tour's been like. The Stones issued a statement deploring the censorship; so I guess I better start looking for a good recipe for crow. Wonder if I could adapt Chicken Enchiladas...