Rolling Stones - Tour 2013 - Actual concert reviews/aktuelle Konzertberichte

Rolling Stones Tour
"50 AND COUNTING"

Aktuelle Konzertberichte:

• Süddeutsche.de zum Tourauftakt der Rolling Stones: STICKY FINGERS AM OPERNGLAS

• Glastonbury, Article by METRO: Rolling Stones set Glasto alight

• Kurier: Schlamm, bunte Party und die Stones: Glastonbury 2013

Rolling Stones at the O2 Arena London - 25 Nov 2012

O2 Arena, London  (with special guests)

• Daily Mail: THE LIVING STONES,
  great report, fantastic photos !!

Set list
I Wanna Be Your Man
It's All Over NowGet Off of My Cloud
Paint It Black
Gimme Shelter (with Mary J. Blige)
Wild Horses
All Down the Line
Going Down (with Jeff Beck)
Out of Control
One More Shot
Doom and Gloom
It's Only Rock 'N' Roll (with Bill Wyman)
Honky Tonk Woman (with Bill Wyman)
Before They Make Me Run
Happy
Miss You
Midnight Rambler (with Mick Taylor)
Start Me Up
Tumbling Dice
Brown Sugar
Sympathy for the Devil

Encore
You Can't Always Get What You Want (with the London Youth Choir)
Jumpin' Jack Flash

Legendary 100Club, London, Oxford Street Survives

Good News:  100 Club Survives

An unlikely source has stepped up to save London's historic 100 Club. After months of support from music's elite as the 68-year-old landmark faced foreclosure, the Converse athletic footwear company is buying in. Former Beatle Paul McCartney, Rolling Stones' Ron Wood and Mick Jagger and more lent their fame to raise publicity and cash for the club in efforts to keep it open. Now Converse is partnering with the famed destination to promote its brand. Right so!

(source U.J.Benson News) 

Newspaper articles, comments and other stuff concerning the campaign SAVE THE 100CLUB:

100 Club, London - to close at the end of the year!

by Mike Sanchez on Thursday, 23 September 2010 at 11:12

You may have seen an article in today's London Evening Standard:Closure Threat To 100 Club

ITS stage has seen the West End debuts of Oasis, the Sex Pistols, The Clash and The Buzzcocks, while Bob Dylan, David Bowie, Mick Jagger and Paul Weller can still sometimes be glimpsed in the audience.

Yet the 100 Club in Oxford Street - described by Aerosmith's Joe Perry as "the finest rock'n'roll club in the world" - could close within a few months because of soaring overheads unless it can find a buyer. Its rates bill has hit £4,000 a month and landlord Lazari Investments now charges rent, with VAT, of £166,000 a year.

The cellar club's owner, Jeff Horton, said: "It makes me so angry. The Government, Westminster council and even some of the commercial landlords say they want to help small businesses, they say they want to preserve London's uniqueness, they want to help multi-cultural venues.

"Yet we're all that and all these organisations have all dumped on us from a great height." His father started running the venue in 1964, but it opened in 1942 as a jazz club.

Mr Horton sees few alternatives to closure after Lazari raised the rent by 45 per cent. "In 1985, when I took over, the rent was barely £11,000 In the US the rents are frozen at certain venues that have a bit of heritage. Here it's a total free-for-all."

He added: "What the 100 Club needs is a buyer or major sponsor to step forward. Barring that, we're closing at Christmas despite being as popular as ever. It really is insane."

I believe the closure threat is very real. So this could be your last chance to buy tickets for this small, intimate and historic club..

Me and my band will be performing our last show there on Saturday 2nd October 2010.

Mike: I've probably played the 100 Club 300 times since 1984.

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Kommentare von Ulle Bayer aus der Schweiz:
Hallo Gudrun,
dies ist auch für mich eine ganz schlechte Nachricht, weil viele Erinnerungen wieder wach wurden und nun bald "kein Zuhause" mehr haben. Ich wünsche Dir eine schöne Woche.
Grüess
Ulle

26 Sep 2010
Liebe Gudrun,
wir haben heute innerhalb unserer Internetradiosendung (Memoryhits FM Heartbeat Radio) " UK-CHARTS September 1961 + 1962" dieses Thema aufgegriffen und über die bevorstehende Schliessung berichtet und dabei auch auf Deine Seite hingewiesen. Ich hoffe, dass wir alle gemeinsam zusammen eine Lösung finden um die Schliessung abwenden zu können.
Grüess
Ulle


Antwort G.S. 26 Sep 2010
Lieber Ulle,
das finde ich ja fantastisch & herzlichen Dank !!! Es geht leider zur Zeit vielen Clubs ähnlich, aber dies ist sicher ein besonderer Fall, da viel Historie dranhängt. Im Frühjahr wollte man auch den "Half Moon" in Putney/London (ebenfalls historisch, die Stones, U2 u. viele andere haben dort gespielt) schließen, dort ist es jedoch gelungen, ihn zu erhalten. Die Resonanz bei den Musikfreunden war überwältigend; ich habe das damals auch mit verfolgt

Ein Internet-Freund und ständiger Gast im 100Club hat in UK eine Kampagne gestartet und alle möglichen einflussreichen Stellen angeschrieben; ich werde ihm von deiner Aktion berichten.
Ganz lieben Dank nochmals und einen schönen Sonntag,
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Below: Save the 100 Club campaign Robert Elms interview
BBC Radio London 94.9
Robert Elms Show with Clem Cattini & Tony Morrison

SAVE THE 100 CLUB - A Very Special Benefit Gig on 01 Dec 2010

SAVE THE 100 CLUB, Benefit Gig on 01 Dec 2010
featuring Stephen Dale Petit & His Band
Special Guests: Ronnie Wood, Mick Taylor, Chris Barber and Dick Taylor
with
Jack Greenwood, drums
Laurenzo Mouflier, harmonica
Damon Wilson, drums
Sam Odiwe, bass

My photos are posted in a Flickr album, just click on the Ronnie photo to the right and you are there !

I added a press review (link below) which says it all, so no further comments needed. It was one of the gigs you don't see every day, full of emotions, fun and excellent music.
Let's all hope for the best, long live the 100 Club.






Preview by MUSIC NEWS:

100 Club campaign

added: 7 Nov 2010 // by: Andy Snipper

 

London's iconic but beleaguered Temple to Music, Oxford Street's 100 Club,continues to receive increasingly high profile pledges of support from the worlds of rock and blues.
New Blues pioneer Stephen Dale Petit has announced the donation of all proceeds from the forthcoming single taken from his new album 'The Crave', the appropriately titled 'Need Your Love So Bad', to the Save The 100 Club campaign. The single, now officially titled 'Need Your Love So Bad (Save The 100 Club)' is released on December 6th and is expected to sell heavily to an enthusiastic, fast-growing and proactive grassroots movement which includes nearly 20,000 Facebook supporters.

This follows Stephen Dale Petit's December 1st 100 Club Benefit gig at the club featuring Special Guests, Rolling Stones' guitarists Ronnie Wood and Mick Taylor and (exclusively confirmed here) a rare live appearance from octogenarian British Blues Boom architect, jazz trombonist Chris Barber.

In the early 1960s, Barber (along with blues trailblazers Alexis Korner and John Mayall) was directly responsible for encouraging young hopeful musicians like Eric Clapton, Peter Green and members of The Rolling Stones and helped to foment the British Blues explosion that in turn resulted in the British Blues Invasion exported back to the US in the mid to late 1960s.

Organizer Petit enthuses 't's fantastic that Chris Barber's coming down to play ' he's the Godfather of modern British music and his connections to the 100 Club are deep and longstanding'.

PRO 7 NEWS WROTE:
Ronnie Wood und Mick Taylor waren gestern Teil einer Rettungsaktion
für den legendären Londoner 100 Club.
Dem Club droht wegen der ständig steigenden Mieten und explodierenden Kosten die Schließung. Mit einer Reihe von Benefizkonzerten wollen inzwischen etablierte Stars helfen, wieder Geld in die Kassen zu spülen. Wood ist schon lange ein Unterstützer des 100 Club und hatte sich laut BBC 6 Music für die Veranstaltung mit Mick Taylor, dem Gitarristen, den er bei den Rolling Stones ersetzt hatte und Jazz-Musiker Chris Barber zusammengetan. Besitzer Jeff Horton wäre gezwungen den Club Weihnachten zu schließen, wenn er keine finanzielle Unterstützung erhält. Angeblich hat Frank Black von den Pixies dem Club inzwischen 150.000 US-Dollar gespendet.
Author WENN

• This review names it:
  The Daily Telegraph - Save the 100 Club, London

  "It was Ronnie Wood's remarkably youthful performance which transformed this benefit gig to save the venue into a rock 'n’ roll concert. Rating: * * * * " (full article under above link)

   

Chuck Berry, Bill Wyman's Rhythm Kings & Guests, Heineken Music Hall Amsterdam - 17 March 2008

The Advert says:
"Bill Wyman's Rhythm Kings will be in concert with the legendary Chuck Berry and Mick Taylor for a special one-off concert being held in Amsterdam on March 17, 2008. Called Rock 'n' Roll Legends and Stars Concert, the gig will bring you a fantastic array of musical styles and wonder, with an evening of true music legends."



Chuck &  Band:
Chuck Berry, git, voc.
Charles Berry jr. - guitar
Jim Marsala - bass
Daniel Trustrup Rossing - piano
Jean-Michel Biger - drums.

Die Kurzfassung:  Ganz schlechte Fotos ... eine Fahrt mit vielen Hindernissen, endlosem Verkehrsstau und schlechter Wegbeschreibung - und so doll war der Gig auch nicht, lediglich Bill Wyman's Rhythm Kings mit Special Guest Mick Taylor haben alles herausgerissen!  Der Sound in der Halle war miserabel. Später gabs dann noch ein Autogramm von Chuck's Sohn, Charles Berry junior. Bis auf die Rhythm Kings, die immer sehenswert sind, hätte man sich diesen Gig, verbunden mit den Strapazen, sparen können.

Rhythm Kings:
Bill Wyman, bass, voc
Terry Taylor, git, voc
Beverley Skeete, voc
Albert Lee, git, voc
Graham Broad, dr, backgr voc
Nick Payn, sax
Frank Mead, sax
Geraint Watkins, keyb., acc.

Special guest:
Mick Taylor, git, voc

My review:
From Switzerland to the Netherlands. Sunday travel day, I would have loved to see Albert's gig on the mountain but I decided to go to Holland early enough not to be under time pressure which turned out to be wise. Drove all day through heavy rain, poor route description and thick traffic in Amsterdam didn't help.

The security at the entrance wasn't tight, cameras allowed. A stand-up gig, the front row was already occupied by people who had queued there for a long time. I could find a place 3rd row on the right side from where I had a good view on Albert, Nick and Frank. I heard a babel of voices around me, people came from Sweden and other countries, we were not the only ones from abroad. Unfortunately it was terribly hot in there, and I felt like a sardine in a tin. Worst of all everybody was pushing and spilling their beer all over the place. Finally even the tribunes and the balconies were packed with people, some of which wearing Stones shirts. I spotted the usual suspects in the crowd who turn up at all Stones-related gigs, but it was impossible for me to move one inch.

 

Then the Rhythm Kings took the stage, and immediately all the trouble was forgotten. They started at full speed and were top-notch. The set was shorter than usual as the slow numbers were left out, but I enjoyed it to the full. On the list were Muleskinner, Chicken Shack Boogie, I put a spell on you, All night long (Geraint on accordion, superb), That's Rock'n Roll, Jump Jive & Wail, Race with the Devil, Too late and others. Then Bill asked Mick Taylor to join who did two numbers with the RKs. The first one was a blues (don't remember the name) which was great, the 2nd song was "No expectations" from the Stones album "Beggar's banquet". I usually love this song but not the way he did it. That was it for Mick Taylor.

Albert finally did "Tear it up" which was a scorcher, people danced like mad as far as the space allowed it. Special mention to Nick and Frank who played fantastically this evening and did a lot of funny movements.

Rhythm Kings off, and now everybody was waiting for Chuck to take to the stage. I decided to get out off the crowd and moved my way up to the tribune where I was at least able to breathe normally. Chuck kept us waiting to the limit. I didn't expect too much as I had seen Chuck play in Berlin in 2007.  He's touring on the basis of his former success, but he's a legend and a pioneer of rock'n roll. Eventually he came on, dressed in red glitter, his trademark cap on, his son Charles Berry jr. played guitar, Jim Marsala on bass, Daniel Trustrup Rossing on piano, and Jean-Michel Biger on drums. Chucks daughter Ingrid Berry-Clay was missing due to illness as we learned later.

Chuck did his usual numbers, but the sound left to be desired (while the RKs sound was fantastic) - on the tribune it was simply dull and strummy. I talked to a sound engineer up there and he said he couldn't trust his ears how bad it was. I expected not too much of the show, but there were some moments. The old standards are still working although Chuck didn't do proper lyrics and his voice was failing often. The audience however made up for it and acted as a great vocal section! And you have to take into account that Chuck is 81. At some point he did what was supposed to be his famous duck-walk. The RKs watched Chuck's performance from the backdrop and a lot of photos were taken. There was a selist but Chuck didn't bother to stick to the listed order and not all the listed songs were played. At last Chuck asked a couple of girls onstage to dance to his last tunes - among them our music buddy Mela - and then he left the stage and it was all over - no encore given.

I managed to get Charles Berry jr's autograph at the stage door where he was loading his car. He and Jim Marsala were very friendly and had a few words for us. Chuck himself had been taken away immediately after the show.

This gig fell in the middle of Hogan's Heroes Germany/Austria/Swiss Tour, and I had a lot of trouble to get everywhere I wanted. That goes for Albert as well who had to jump on planes in between the bands' Euro Tour. It would have been much wiser to stay in Switzerland for Hogan's Heroes but 'hindsight is easier than foresight' as they say. 

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Here's a review from Chuck's Austrian gig a couple of days later (in German only) but it reflects exactly what we experienced in Amsterdam.

Hier eine Pressenotiz über Chuck's gig in Oesterreich einige Tage nach der Show in Amsterdam. Habe diese hier eingestellt, da sie exakt unsere Eindruecke bestaetigt.

Chuck Berry: Wer braucht denn gestimmte Gitarren?
20.03.2008 | 18:54 | THOMAS KRAMAR (Die Presse)

Rock'n'Roll: Chuck Berry, 81, im Wiener Gasometer: Coole Schlamperei. Wer nicht begreifen kann oder will, dass es im Blues keine falschen Noten gibt, war wohl enttäuscht.

„It's good to be here... – well, it's good to be anywhere“, pflegt Keith Richards, 64, einer der gelehrigsten Schüler Chuck Berrys, bei Konzerten zu sagen, und Rührung ist ihm gewiß. Berry war am Mittwoch u.a. im Wiener Gasometer, und da er doch noch um 17 Jahre älter ist als Richards (obwohl er ca. um 17 Jahre jünger aussieht), kann man mit noch mehr Recht sagen: Gut, dass er überhaupt da war.

Gibt es sonst Positives zu berichten über den Auftritt? Das kommt darauf an. Wer auf akkuraten Ablauf, präzise Rhythmen, gestimmte Gitarren etc. gesteigerten Wert legt, wer nicht begreifen kann oder will, dass es im Blues keine falschen Noten gibt, war wohl enttäuscht bis empört. Denn Chuck Berry, adjustiert mit Matrosenmütze und Glitzerhemd, ließ von Beginn an keinen Zweifel daran, dass ihm derartige Strebertugenden aber so etwas von egal sind.„Carol“? „Little Queenie“? Egal!

Recht hat er. Es gibt Myriaden von gut gestimmten und gut gelaunten Combos, die für geringes Entgelt bereit sind, Chuck Berrys Klassiker originalgetreu ad libitum zu spielen, bis der Mond untergeht und alle heimgehen, da muss es der Meister selbst nicht tun. Der braucht seine „Carol“ nicht mehr zu umschmeicheln (was er eigentlich ohnehin nie tat), er bellt ihr lieber nach, so rüde, dass sie sich ohne große Abschiedsszene gleich in die „Little Queenie“ verwandelt. Und bevor er seine Band in ein rhythmisches Chaos stürzt, das jeden g'schupften Ferdl – Perfektion hin, Perfektion her – stolpern lassen hätte, singt er schalkhaft vom „backbeat“, den man nicht verlieren kann...

So fehlte die Grammofon-im-Schrebergarten-Seligkeit, die bei Rock'n'Roll-Abenden gern aufkommt, sogar das „Hail! Hail! Rock'n'Roll!“ in „School Days“ klang nicht nach Nostalgie, sondern ungestüm; „Around And Around“ krachte, als ob sich eine Punkband der ersten Stunde daran vergriffe; bei „Johnny B.Goode“ spielte er die Gitarre vielleicht nicht, wie man eine Glocke läutet, aber höchst listig und lässig, listiger und lässiger als sein Sohn, der in jeder Hinsicht die zweite Gitarre spielt und unter den Launen seines Vaters gewiss einiges zu leiden hat. Beim „You Never Can Tell“ hatte man den Eindruck, dass Chuck Berry heute noch über seine eigenen, höchst pfiffigen Zeilen schmunzeln kann, immerhin hat er die Stelle mit den „700 little records“ inzwischen auf „CD's“ geändert, man geht ja mit der Zeit.

So verging die Zeit rasch, nach 45 Minuten erklärte Berry, nun sei alles gestimmt, das Konzert könne beginnen, es kam noch ein staubtrockenes „Johnny B.Goode“, ein verlängertes „Reelin' and Rockin'“, und dann war dem Meister auch schon nach Feierabend zumute. Schade, aber egal; gut, dass er da war.

("Die Presse", Print-Ausgabe, 21.03.2008)