Your favorite live Rolling Stones song performance

I saw the Toronto show on that tour and I completely agree with you.
One of the best concerts I have ever attended.

 

All of the Goats Head Soup songs sound good on this one. You could tell it was new material that they were anxious to play. When that string of songs begins, you can hear them tightening up their playing and singing compared to the looser feel of the previous tunes. Great stuff.

Mark

 

Let It Rock on the b-side of the Brown Sugar single.

 

Gimme Shelter - Philly '72

 

Some other contenders:

Goin' Home/Satisfaction - Paris '67
All Down The Line - Paradiso '95 (or maybe it's Brixton - whatever version wound up on the Like A Rolling Stone CD single)
Out Of Control - MSG '98
Route 66 - Got LIVE! EP
Imagination - Phoenix or Hampton '81

 

Super ditto!!! Keith at his best for the period, Lisa nailed it on that one too.

 

As far as officially released, still Sympathy from Ya-Ya's. Listen to it five times, each time singling out each one of the five's parts...stunning.

 

Ah, the agony of choice...

1. Midnight Rambler (Brussels Affair)
2. Love In Vain (Ladies And Gentlemen)
3. Midnight Rambler (Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out)
4. You Can't Always Get What You Want (Ladies And Gentlemen)
5. Sympathy For The Devil (Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out)
6. Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker) (Brussels Affair)
7. Dead Flowers (Ladies And Gentlemen)
8. Street Fighting Man (Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out)
9. Gimme Shelter (Ladies And Gentlemen)
10. Tumbling Dice (Brussels Affair)

Obviously, this could all change with the impending Roundhouse and Leeds tracks.

 

Poor Woody! Nothing from the Ron Wood era?

 

When I posted I tried to mention songs that had not already been posted.

I like The Spider And The Fly from Stripped quite a bit.

 

Yes, Spider & the Fly rocks, Mick sounds great.

 

2000 Light Years From Home, Steel Wheels Tour

 

"Mona" from the BBC 64 live stereo broadcast.

 

The live BBC version of Cops And Robbers is pretty cool.

 

It's cheating on several counts, but Keith Richards' performance of "You Don't Move Me" from the Palladium in '88 (if memory serves) is amazing. It's available only on bootleg, wasn't included on the official live album from that night. It's a great song to start with, but the venom and the killer guitar solo on the boot is amazing.

To follow the rules, I choose the '78 KBFH broadcast that has Mick screaming "Thank YOOOOOO!" repeatedly before launching into Just My Imagination.

 

Surprised no one has mentioned Just My Imagination from the '78 or '81 tours (probably because they never had a decent official release until recently). Both are just outright fantastic, let-it-all-loose covers that arguably trump the original source material.

"But in reaaaaality, SHE DOESN'T F&^KING KNOW ME!!!"

 

I love that! What I like about it so much is how joyful it is. It's so much fun to hear the performers play exuberantly, without coolness, detachment, or irony. And it's a nice little reminder that both artists had been there, back in the "old" R&B, black-and-white-TV era. Neither "Uptight" nor "Satisfaction" were really that old at the time--the songs would have seven years old in 1972--but in retrospect they seem like complete throwbacks in the context of a '70s rock concert.

 

I also really like the version of "Street Fighting Man" from "Brussels Affair" (which John Fell mentioned earlier). It's so fast and wild, it practically sounds like the stage is melting.

 

Just my Imagination- Houston 1978
Beast of Burden-New Jersey 1978
Out of Control-Vegas 1999

 

This is a tough one and all my picks have already been mentioned, but, what the heck, I wanna play!!

Midnight Rambler and Sympathy from Ya Ya's - Leave me breathless after all these years.

Tumbling Dice - a tie between Philly 72 and Brussells 73.

Gimmie Shelter - Brussells 73 (But as previously mentioned the version recorded in london)

Let It Rock - Leeds 71. This may well be the best live two and a half minutes of rock n roll ever captured on tape!!!

OK...Thanks for letting me play!!!!!

 

This would be my answer as well.

 

Under My Thumb & I'm Free, Satisfaction, the extras on Ya Ya's...Rocks!!
Mercy Mercy Live 1969 Hyde Park... Keith might be out of tune..but I don't care..

 

I have that boot as well. Definitive that is. I will have to give a listen to disc number 2 again. Great boot!

 

Wow, This is why I come to this place! Incredible!