Jan 2, 2013

The Ronnie Republic Welcomes Al Jazeera

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Chloelouise and The Ronnie Republic welcome Al Jazeera to the beautiful coat of many colors of the United States.

Yes...I love going to London and seeing all of the different news channels from around the world.....cl

My thing....bringing the world together with food.........cl

really.....the lady that sits next to me in my sewing class wears traditional Muslim clothing...the fabric is beautiful...and she is beautiful, too. I love her....she is trying to find a pattern to make her traditional dress and fortunately there are plenty of directions on you-tube.

Food and fabric...that makes everyone human and interesting....it brings people together all around the world. It's just everyday people...trying to get dressed and eat and take care of their children.

What is my favorite restaurant.....forever and always....DZ Aikens deli in San Diego. Really, their food is soooooo fresh and high quality.

I hope Al Jazeera will have some space for food and fabric.......cl

“U.S. viewers have clearly demonstrated that they like the way Al Jazeera provides compelling, in-depth news to audiences across the world,” the Director General said. “Our commitment to the voice of the voiceless, bringing stories from under-reported regions across the world and putting the human being at the center of our news agenda is at the heart of what we do. Everyone at Al Jazeera takes great pride in the independence, impartiality, professionalism and courage of our journalism. I look forward to bringing these standards to our new American audiences and working with our new colleagues at Current.”

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JANUARY 02, 2013

Al Jazeera to buy Al Gore's Current TV, build new U.S.-based cable newschannel

For years, I and other critics have argued that Al Jazeera, the newschannel founded and funded by the government of Qatar, has earned a prominent place in America's array of cable news outlets, thanks to their incisive coverage of the Arab Spring revolts and war in the Middle East.
But no one predicted the channel would earn its foothold through purchase of a floundering cable concern owned by a former vice president of the United States.
Al Jazeera announced today it has acquired Current TV, the liberal-focused cable channel funded and co-owned by onetime Vice President Al Gore. According to Forbes magazine, Current co-founder Joel Hyatt sent staffers a memo with the news earlier today, saying he had spent a week in Qatar observing Al Jazeera's operations. The magazine quoted a possible sale price at $400 million.

Hyatt wrote: " it became clear to us that Al Jazeera was founded with the same goals we had for Current: To give voice to those whose voices are not typically heard; to speak truth to power; to provide independent and diverse points of view; and to tell the important stories that no one else is telling. Al Jazeera, like Current, believes that facts and truth lead to a better understanding of the world around us."
Al Jazeera announced plans to scrap Current's programming -- which now includes weekday shows featuring former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer and former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm -- to create a new, U.S.-based channel.

Current TV has struggled for visibility and focus since its founding in 2005, beginning as a home for liberal-oriented documentaries and morphing into a more left-leaning analysis and opinion channel than liberal channel MSNBC. Hiring former MSNBC star Keith Olbermann to lead a restructuring of the channel and relaunch of his show Countdown didn't fare well -- Olbermann was eventually fired amid growing friction with executives, countersuing the company.
Al Jazeera has experienced its own setbacks in the U.S. cable market, struggling to earn access to American households amid suspicion of its Middle East roots and Arab-centric programming. Today, Time Warner Cable dropped Current from its lineup, though Bright House Networks, which often shares programming with Time Warner, still has Current in its digital tier as I write this.
Al Jazeera expects to double its American staffing to 300 in staffing the new channel, which will be available in 40 million homes even after the Time Warner cancellation. Where this new channel will fit in the axis of right-leaning Fox News, liberal-oriented MSNBC and non-partisan CNN remains to be seen.
But anything to shake up the status quo in American cable news programming can't be all bad.
AL JAZEERA TO START NEW U.S.-BASED NEWS CHANNEL
Acquisition of Current TV Will Make Al Jazeera Channel Available in more than 40 million American Households
NEW YORK – (January 2, 2013) – Al Jazeera Media Network today announced that it will launch a new U.S.-based news channel that will provide both domestic news and international news for American audiences.
The Network has won numerous U.S. and international awards for its journalism and with more than 70 bureaus across the globe it has one of the largest bureau footprints and newsgathering forces of any news network in the world.
Al Jazeera Media Network also announced that it has acquired Current TV in the United States and that the new U.S.-based news channel will be available on Current’s distribution network when it is launched in 2013. There will be a transition from existing programming until the new Al Jazeera channel begins to air.
The new channel will be headquartered in New York City. In addition to the existing Al Jazeera news bureaus in New York, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, Miami and Chicago, Al Jazeera will open additional bureaus in key locations across the United States. Al Jazeera’s expansion will double the network's U.S.-based staff to more than 300 employees.

Al Jazeera Director General Ahmed bin Jassim Al Thani said that the creation of the new U.S.-based news channel and the purchase of Current TV are historic developments in Al Jazeera's 16-year history. He said, “For many years, we understood that we could make a positive contribution to the news and information available in and about the United States and what we are announcing today will help us achieve that goal. By acquiring Current TV, Al Jazeera will significantly expand our existing distribution footprint in the U.S., as well as increase our newsgathering and reporting efforts in America. We look forward to working together with our new cable and satellite partners to serve our new audiences across the U.S. I am both exceptionally pleased and very proud that we could take this very important step.”
Al Jazeera’s decision to create a U.S.-based news channel was based in part on the fact that Americans have already shown a great demand for its news and programs: Almost 40 percent of all online viewing of Al Jazeera English comes from the United States.
“U.S. viewers have clearly demonstrated that they like the way Al Jazeera provides compelling, in-depth news to audiences across the world,” the Director General said. “Our commitment to the voice of the voiceless, bringing stories from under-reported regions across the world and putting the human being at the center of our news agenda is at the heart of what we do. Everyone at Al Jazeera takes great pride in the independence, impartiality, professionalism and courage of our journalism. I look forward to bringing these standards to our new American audiences and working with our new colleagues at Current.”
The new U.S.-based news channel will be the latest addition to the Al Jazeera Media Network which consists of: Al Jazeera English, Al Jazeera Arabic, Al Jazeera Documentary, Al Jazeera Balkans, Al Jazeera Sport, Al Jazeera Mubasher, Al Jazeera Mubasher Misr (Egypt Live), Al Jazeera Mobile, the English and Arabic Al Jazeera web sites Al Jazeera.net and Al Jazeera.com, and supported by the Al Jazeera Media Training and Development Center, the Al Jazeera Center for Studies, and the Al Jazeera Public Liberties and Human Rights Department. As part of the Network’s expansion it is also planning to launch Al Jazeera Turk for the Turkish-speaking region in 2013.
The Al Jazeera Media Network is one of the most-honored news organizations in the world. In 2012, it won some of the most prestigious awards in journalism including:
•     Franklin D Roosevelt Foundation - Four Freedoms Award for “Freedom of Expression and Speech”
•     Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award Grand Prize
•     Alfred I. duPont Award
•     Columbia University Journalism Award
•     George Polk Award for Television Documentary
•     Foreign Press Association Award for Best Environmental Story of the Year
•     Amnesty International Media Award
•     The George Foster Peabody Award
•     Scripps Howard Award for Television/Cable In-Depth Reporting
•     Royal Television Society Award – News Channel of the Year 2012

Al Jazeera has won a wide range of additional awards (http://www.aljazeera.com/pressoffice/2012/04/2012416161854868952.html) and has been nominated for several Emmy Awards including an International Digital Emmy Award nomination for its 2008 U.S. election coverage. Al Jazeera has recently won praise from a number of American leaders including Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Senator John McCain.

To learn more about the acquisition of Current TV and how to find Al Jazeera programming on a cable provider, please visit www.aljazeera.com/america.

Join the online conversation by following @ajenglish on Twitter with the tag #AJEUS, and like us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/aljazeera or watch us on www.youtube.com/aljazeeraenglish.

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Somebody did talk

by Larry Hancock

Happy New Year everyone! Given that this is the 50th Anniversary year of the JFK assassination, I'm going to revisit the JFK plot with a couple of posts before I go back to wrap up my covert warfare manuscript. If you have not visited the new web site http://www.jfkfacts.org, you should - its a good place to keep current on discussions which will be going on this year.. They had requested a post from me and the following has just gone up on the web site....I'm going to post it here as well and then return in a few days with a post or two on my view of when the actual conspiracy came together and how it evolved into the attack in Dallas. But for now, here's is a revisit of John Martino for those who may not be familiar with research in that area....

Somebody did talk. His name was John Martino. He was a credible source,
and his story has been corroborated in significant ways. What he said is one
of the clearest indicators that opponents of JFK's Cuba policy had
foreknowledge that Kennedy might be assassinated in Dallas.

http://jfkfacts.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/John-Martino.jpg

Castro Political Prisoner

Martino, a native of New Jersey, was a petty racketeer as a young man.
Arrested for gambling and loan sharking charges, he developed an
Expertise in electronic equipment related to gambling. In the 1950s, he gravitated
to south Florida and then to Havana where his skills won him a security job
at the casino in the new Deauville Hotel in Havana.

When Fidel Castro's revolutionary movement took power in 1959, the
Deauville was closed and Martino was arrested for criticizing Castro. He
spent three years in jail, a bitter experience that he detailed in his
book "I Was Castro's Prisoner." Upon his release, he threw himself into the
clandestine war against Castro. A publicity tour for the book took him to New
Orleans and Dallas in the fall of 1963 where he associated with other anti-Castro
activists.

In the days affter JFK was killed, Martino devoted considerable effort to
linking Lee Harvey Oswald to the Cuban government, claiming that Oswald
had gone to Cuba (a claim that has never been verified). Without supporting
evidence, Martino gained attention from investigators but convinced no
one of his claims.

In 1975 Martino was dying and he knew it. He started telling a quite different
story about the events of 1963, confessing to two acquaintances that he
had participated in a conspiracy to assassinate President Kennedy.

The first was John Cummings, an investigative reporter at New York's *
Newsday*, who had covered Martino’s return from Cuba in 1962 and stayed
in contact with him over the years.

"He told me he'd been part of the assassination of Kennedy," Cummings
recounted later. "He wasn't in Dallas pulling trigger, but he was
involved. He implied that his role was delivering money, facilitating things. He
asked me not to write it while he was alive." It is worth noting that
Cummings was an award winning reporter who did not make his reputation by
believing tall tales.

The second person to whom Martino confided was a former business partner
named Fred Claassen. He said Martino told him. "The anti-Castro people put
Oswald together. Oswald didn't know who he was working for--he was just ignorant
of who was really putting him together. Oswald was to meet his contact at the Texas
Theater [the movie house where Oswald was arrested]. They were to meet Oswald in
the theater and get him out of the country, and then eliminate him. Oswald made
a mistake....there was no way we could get to him. They had Ruby kill him."

Martino's widow Florence declined to talk to congressional investigators
in the 1970s, but later acknowledged her husband's story to British author
Anthony Summers. She said that her husband had advance knowledge of
JFK’s assassination. "Flo, they're going to kill him," she recalls him saying
in November 1963. "They're going to kill him when he gets to Texas."

Martino's son, Edward, then a senior in high school, recalls that on Friday
Nov. 22, 1963 his father told him to stay home from school and listen to
the radio. When the news came from Dallas, "my father went white as a
sheet. But it wasn't like 'Gee whiz'.' It was more like confirmation."

Martino, now a business consultant and custom software developer has not
profited in any way from his story. Nor did his mother, now deceased.

Summers reported the Martino story in Vanity Fair magazine in 1994 and
His 1998 book "Not in Your Lifetime. The most complete version of Martino's
involvement in the anti-Castro movement and his subsequent confession is
found my his 2010 book "Somebody Would Have Talked."

There were other people who showed foreknowledge that JFK would be killed
in Dallas but none whose story is so well-documented as John Martino. He
was somebody who talked.

Hannity Ratings Plummet After 'Taking Back America" Statement

copied from the inquisitor from yahoo................

Sean Hannity Ratings Plummet, Loses Half His Viewers After Election

Sean Hannity’s ratings have plummeted after the 2012 election, as the conservative television host saw his audience dwindle after GOP challenger Mitt Romney failed to unseat President Obama.
Hannity saw his audience fall by about 50 percent after the election ended. Though it was not entirely unexpected that Hannity’s ratings would drop after the biggest political event in the last four years, his decline was sharper than other conservative pundits, Salon noted. Bill O’Reilly saw his viewership drop by only about one-third.

Among the important demographic of viewers aged 25-54, Sean Hannity’s ratings were even worse. More than half of what is known as the “money demo” stopped watching.
Many believe that Sean Hannity’s ratings suffered as a result of his failed rhetoric. Throughout the election he hyped up Mitt Romney’s chances to win the election, seizing on the Republican’s strong performance in the first presidential debate to all but call the election.
From the New York Daily News:

So what happened to Hannity?
The going wisdom is that viewers who basked in his preelection anti-Obama rhetoric tuned him out when they were stunned to wake up on Nov. 7 and discover that the President had won a second term — a scenario that Hannity had all but promised could never happen.
Before the election, Hannity was riding high in the ratings and topped thought leaders on the right, like Dick Morris, Ann Coulter, Peggy Noonan and talk radio bulldog Mark Levin, who predicted Obama would lose in a landslide.

As his ratings dropped, Sean Hannity also saw himself the center of attack from the right. Outspoken actor Ed Asner in early December claimed that Hannity was “behind on his rabies medicine.”

and from cl.........I like to listen to all kinds of news and radio...it's just what I have always done. Really, that statement of "taking back America," what does that mean? It is really a horrible statement if you think about it. The United States is a beautiful coat of many colors and we have always been founded and operated on that concept. During the Hilary Rosen outburst many called in and tried to tell Sean what point they felt Hilary was trying to make. The people were actually very nice but Sean wasn't having it. At one point after the 3rd caller said Hilary was not trying to down play Ann Romney but simply stating she was not going out to an actual facility to work, Sean said, "Well, this is what I am paid to think and I am sticking with it." I am going on memory with these words. Sean is out of style and losing popularity. I feel it is because he is so unreasonable.

Jan 1, 2013

BRAVO TO CNN FOR HIRING ANN CURRY

Congratulations to CNN for being soooooo smart.......

Ann Curry Begs NBC To Release Her From Her Contract

Posted: Jan 01, 2013 8:48 AM PST Updated: Jan 01, 2013 8:48 AM PST

MAILONLINE.COM - Ann Curry is begging NBC bosses to let her out of her contract so she can accept a high-profile anchor job at CNN.
Curry is reportedly earmarked for Anderson Cooper's coveted 8pm slot at the rival TV station by her former Today show boss, Jeff Zucker, who will take over as president of CNN Worldwide in February.
If she quits without the green light from NBC, a clause in her contract bans her from working for any other news outlet.
'Ann wants out of her contract, big time,' a source close to the situation told RadarOnline. 'She has formally asked her attorney to explore exit options from the network.'
But the website claims NBC bosses are unwilling to release Curry without a fight.
'If Ann were to just quit, there is a non-compete clause, which would prohibit her from working for another news outlet for two years,' the insider said.
Zucker, previously executive producer at the Today show and one-time head of NBC Universal, wants to put Curry in the prime-time 8pm slot currently occupied by Anderson Cooper, RadarOnline reported.
Curry's lawyers are arguing that her dramatic demotion from Today in April was in fact a breach of her contract terms by NBC.
'Ann's lawyer feels that there is a very strong case to be made that NBC has breached terms of the deal because Curry was demoted from TodaToday is set to finish the year trailing its rival Good Morning America. Curry was dumped as co-anchor of the NBC morning show after Today lost its top spot, as bosses thought a fresh face may bring back viewers.

BRAVO TO CNN FOR HIRING ANN CURRY.......
I have always said CNN is a beautiful coat of many colors representing the coat of many color that is the United States of America. All ages, all people, all religions--all of the news for everybody--that is CNN. I just love it and that is what it should be. To me they seem to be a caring network and I like that and that is how I like to get my news and information and that is why I watch them.

Example: Wold Blitzer inquiring about Hillary Clinton. He said he was worried about Mrs. Clinton and wanted to know what was going on. That was very nice and I appreciated it. I am very proud to say I have been a Hillary girl forever and I really appreciated the kind sentiment.

Good job CNN!!! Happy New Year to all of my beautiful and knowledgeable news ladies of CNN.

Chloelouise

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Rolling Stones Get Loose With Mick Taylor in First Newark Show John Mayer joins the band on guitar for 'Respectable'

from Rolling Stone Music...........

The Rolling Stones perform at Prudential Center on December 13, 2012 in Newark, New Jersey.

Kevin Mazur/WireImage

By Patrick Doyle

December 14, 2012 8:30 AM ET

Seven songs into the Rolling Stones' set at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey, last night, a roadie handed Mick Jagger a printout. "We're going to do a request," Jagger said, adding that fans voted for a song of their choice on the band's new mobile app. The winner? 1964's "Around and Around."
"That's an old one, isn't it?" Jagger said. "We haven't done that one in a long time!" (According to fan site It's Only Rock and Roll, they last played the song at Toronto's El Mocambo Club in March 1977). They tore through the Chuck Berry classic, Jagger clapping upward and dancing furiously as if channeling his old T.A.M.I. Show performance, Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood weaving double-string licks as the song swung in a way it never really has before. "Yes!" Jagger said with a grin afterward. "That's right!"
The Rolling Stones 1963-1969: Behind-the-Scenes Snapshots
The Stones got loose last night, their fourth of five 50th-anniversary shows this year. Without the high-profile guests of the other recent shows (Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton), the band seemed to revel in playing with each other. Charlie Watts grinned ear to ear as he pounded the brooding intro to "Paint it Black," Wood nearly bounced out of his chair while nailing the pedal steel lines to "Happy" while Keith belted the song with such glee he appeared emotional. Jagger was chatty and personable between possessed performances, at one point reflecting on playing Newark in the summer of 1965. "Thank you for 50 years of coming to our shows," he told the crowd. "Thank you very much."
Like the other recent shows, the set began with largely early- to mid-Sixties cuts; they played "Get Off of My Cloud" with machine-gun attack, and were triumphant on "The Last Time." It's a marvel to see them play these songs, all sounding fresh again after years of dormancy.
The night's first truly bone-chilling moment came during "Gimme Shelter," when the band conjured a dark musical storm while backup singer Lisa Fischer howled lead vocals alongside Mick for the first time since the Bigger Bang tour, reminding us no one does the job better. (Mary J. Blige sang with Jagger at one of two London shows and in Brooklyn, and Florence Welch handled the other London show.) "I love you!" Jagger told Fischer afterward.
Jagger soon welcomed John Mayer for "Respectable," a welcome surprise song choice. Mayer delivered with a manic, wicked solo; Ronnie Wood matched him with his own, grinning as he effortlessly pointed his guitar neck toward the crowd. Richards went next, firing away rhythmic blasts with intent focus. But Mayer took the last word with a frenzy of flashy notes. It felt like bad form, but Keith didn't seem to care, flashing a giant grin – this was a party. They soon flashed forward, nailing the new time-shifting apocalyptic workout "Doom and Gloom," a new live highlight.
"New Jersey is the only place you don't have to be working out to wear a track suit," Jagger joked. He also made reference to the "12-12-12" benefit at Madison Square Garden the night before. "We had an amazing time," Jagger said. "We even had Bruce open up for us." (Springsteen joins the band on Saturday in Newark). The night's only weak moment was "One More Shot" where everybody seemed so lost it nearly fell apart, the band looking at each other for cues. Afterward, Keith shrugged at the crowd and laughed.
But there was nothing quite like seeing Mick Taylor play with the Stones again. For his first time playing with the band on U.S. soil since 1981 (he played with them in London late last month), he emerged unassumingly and unannounced, but as soon as Richards launched into an 11-minute "Midnight Rambler," Taylor unleashed flourishes of virtuosic greatness that were unmistakably him. As Jagger howled furious harp lines, Taylor rocked back and forth, grooving harder than he did on the entire 1972 tour while the band gave him plenty of room to stretch out. "Mick Taylor!" Jagger said afterward. "He's great! Really good!"

It was a marathon from there, the band nailing the slinky air-tight groove of "Tumbling Dice" – Keith played the riff eyes-closed, as if meditating in it and a raucous "Brown Sugar." The guitars blared full force in "Jumpin' Jack Flash," with Richards grinning with each riff stab as Jagger punched the air as he sprinted the catwalk tirelessly; after a heavy "Satisfaction," Taylor returned to take a bow with his old bandmates.
Earlier in the night, during his solo set, Keith Richards referenced Hurricane Sandy while talking to the crowd. "I know you guys had a rough time. We admire the way you stuck with it. Keep on trucking, you know?" We felt the same way about them.
Set list
"Get Off of My Cloud"
"The Last Time"
"It's Only Rock 'n Roll (But I Like It)"
"Paint It Black"
"Gimme Shelter"
"Respectable" with John Mayer
"Wild Horses"
"Around and Around" (first since El Mocambo March 5, 1977)
"Doom and Gloom"
"One More Shot"
"Miss You"
"Honky Tonky Women"
"Before They Make Me Run"
"Happy"
"Midnight Rambler" with Mick Taylor
"Start Me Up"
"Tumbling Dice"
"Brown Sugar"
"Sympathy for the Devil"
Encores:
"You Can't Always Get What You Want" with The Choir of Trinity Wall Street
"Jumpin' Jack Flash"
"(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction"

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Good lord, bring Mick T. back to the band.

from Rolling Stone Music........and some very interesting comments about San Diego.........

evilizac • 15 days ago
Good lord, bring Mick T. back to the band. . . one last album, he would bring all of the ballads up to a beautiful level, they need a melodically gifted player like Mick Taylor to balance out the solid rockers the band has put out with some tasteful playing. . .
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- Kathy Swenson evilizac • 15 days ago
  Taylor returned to take a bow with his old bandmates....WWW.AmericanJobByGoogle.qr.net/jVFB/watch?v=C1DZATdBBI
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- Tom evilizac • 15 days ago
  Moonlight Mile is fantastic, even if Richards doesn't play on it.
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AR • 15 days ago
Where was Bill Wyman?? Without the Watts-Wyman engine room, sorry, it just don't cut it!
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WWWalnut • 15 days ago
That's the first time I've been able to make it through a live clip of the Stones in 25 years. That was really, really good. Is there really not room for 3 guitarists up there for the whole show? It's just a natural-born fact - Mick Taylor makes the Stones better! Also Jagger is a wicked harp player!
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Jethro • 15 days ago
Wish they'd give Taylor an extra song or two. The Stones have never done Time Waits For No One live. It'd be great to hear them do it with Taylor.
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Steve Wimer • 15 days ago
$50 is a bit pricey to see them on television. I'll wait for the DVD.
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Flick666 • 14 days ago
pedal steel on "Happy"? Really?
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Jim Kamlowsky • 14 days ago
It's amazing how much tighter they've gotten since the first show. Rock on!
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Jamie Potter • 14 days ago
I hope they release this particular set on DVD.
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Mick • 15 days ago
Same set list,except for a 2 songs? Come on guys. Mix things up a bit. It's called rehearsing b4 the show.
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Chuck Ungar • 15 days ago
Mick Taylor looks like he lost a bunch of weight. He was pretty big a not too long ago. Maybe he did it because of this show.
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richardllanes • 12 days ago
I have seen The Rolling Stones six times in San Diego, CA. The best one was in 1969 with Mick Taylor and Bill Wyman. Their first song was Jumpin Jack Flash with the introduction that made Keith Richards songs so original with Bill Wyman's bass runs. The second best was in 1981 when Ian Stewart the sixth stone toured with them, he was their piano player who died in 1985 of a heart attack. The Steal Wheels tour of 1989 which finished off in Europe in 1991 was fantastic. It can be heard in it's full set in the DVD titled The Rolling Stones at the Max. They played 2000 light years which was fantastic along with Mick Jagger's Rock and a Hard Place which I think is one of their best songs.In 1969 they did not switch guitars around all the time like they do now. They are tuned different which makes it easier to play certain songs but like Jumpin Jack Flash the way they did it in 1969 sounds just like the record. The way they play it now does not! The four DVD set from Best Buy has four DVD's. The first talking to the band members, the second at Madison Square Garden, the third at a new stadium in London and the fourth at a club type setting in Paris. Those two DVD's the Rolling Stones are at their best.
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Devyn Damore • 14 days ago
Hey, that's the video I shot at the show. Where is my royalties check? haha
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steve-o • 14 days ago
Was there the other night, tightest they've been in decades. Buzz coming in was "yeah...mick taylor", buzz was the same leaving only a bigger "yeahhh". If this is about it for them, they should really bring MT back, they are soooo much better w/ him
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Peter Williams • 15 days ago
withtaylor there i wish they'd done moonlight mile

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Rolling Stones Rock New Jersey With Mick Taylor and John Mayer

from Spinner..........

Posted on Dec 14th 2012 12:30PM by Dan Weiss
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Dave Allocca, AP

Fifty years. That's five times as long as the Beatles' career, and quite a bit longer than most other bands (or marriages). Rock 'n' roll was meant to explode and fall apart, so how humanoids like Keith Richards, Mick Jagger and company have survived the ringer this long remains a mystery. Nevertheless, better the world's greatest rock band make it to 50 years than someone else.

For the first New Jersey stop on this very-limited, very-pricey victory lap of a tour, the Rolling Stones not only didn't disappoint, they outclassed 50 years of successors, including rightful ones. Frills were few: John Mayer hopped on early to roast his axe on "Respectable," and Mick's mysteriously quick costume changes from sparkly to sparklier jackets barely distracted from the well-aged thunderous canon (more like canyon) of hits. Only the Stones could toss off Richter-scale levelers like "Gimme Shelter" and "Paint It Black" in the first few numbers.

After Mayer's swift exit the band wasted no time bleeding every poignant note of "Wild Horses" raw and covering Chuck Berry's "Around and Around" for the first time since 1977. The garage-y new "Doom and Gloom" held its own with "One More Shot," and an extra-funky "Miss You" provided some respite as an extended jam. Mick performed a swiveling dance in the breakdown as both the snake and the charmer, attempted to help the beer-guzzling crowd through those "woo-hoo-hoo-oo-hoos" and yelled "where'd you get that New Jersey?" before Bobby Keys' sax did its thing.

Jagger and Ron Wood circled the coincidentally-or-not mouth-shaped stagepath. "Honky Tonk Women" was the only tune upstaged by the backing-screen visual: An animated X-rated King Kong with the woman replacing the ape as the role of skyscraper-climbing monster and fighter-pilot monkeys trying to shoot her down. But as Keith took the stage for the impressively-sung "Before They Make Me Run" and ageless "Happy," the night never again turned its attention from the music.

The biggest story is of course Mick Taylor, who appeared and ripped an elongated "Midnight Rambler" to shreds in a giant onstage guitar huddle. The whole night tumbled into a vortex of great rock history from there: "Start Me Up," "Tumbling Dice" and "Brown Sugar" all in a row, impossibly hard-hitting even five decades on, with Mick prancing around like he's 29 in a ridiculous blue waistjacket, bantering a flag about and returning in a gigantic cape of fur spaghetti to play Mr. D as the opening shakes of "Sympathy for the Devil" took hold. Keef's solo suddenly sounded a few decibels louder than any of his other playing Thursday night.

Not ones to waste time at this age, or as pleasing and demanding showmen, the Trinity Wall Street Choir was quickly hustled up onto either side of the stage for a tremendous encore of "You Can't Always Get What You Want," for which Jagger strapped on an acoustic. Again, his purple sparkling grandeur clashed with the natural musical forces thundering throughout the Prudential Center, but the Stones invented rock's absurdly sized contradictions if anyone did. But the sheer overtaking pleasure of these classics at this point didn't require answers, just dancers. Jagger won the crowd's participation after a particularly torrential Wood solo and a rare bish-bash climax from the normally fantastically controlled Charlie Watts.

Then without further ado, rock achieved middle age, came full circle, lined up the planets, etc., -- whatever monster-truck metaphor have you. The finest rock band in the world did "Satisfaction," the greatest rock song. And to their credit, they still sound hungry. "All I hear is doom and gloom," rightfully mocked Jagger's newest lyrics of the night. These titans have been providing an alternative for half a century, and there's no reason to think they'll stop now.