there's some things i want to see at a rock show. shite vocals and a dancing bird is not one of those things. that wasn't a concert. that was an epitaph.
They didn't go out with a bang, but a whimper. Sad in more than one way. Alas, if they hadn't split, who knows how it would have gone? They might have just become a boring MOR dad rock band who were seen as "that band with the good first album". Their legacy lives on.
I still hope that I'll live to see Brown, Squire, Mani and Reni onstage together again someday. One Love.
I was there, 17 years old and with stars in my eyes about seeing Stone Roses. Frankly this is the worst concert I have ever seen, even through my rose colored teenage glasses (And I've been to hundreds of concerts since then). The guitarist was technically good, but it was a bit like throwing someone from Iron Maiden on stage to play with the Smiths. He was doing hammer ons and pull offs during the Waterfall intro?! Everyone in the crowd was cringing and shaking their heads.
Brown is an appalling vocalist, period! You don't expect every singer to have a voice like Marvin Gaye, but the ability to carry at least one note would be appreciated - And he can't even do that. To be honest I don't like the Stone Roses. Not because of there music, but because of the legacy they left behind of creating a none stop conveyor belt of 'mad fer it' shite from Manchester. Those Fuckwits from Burnage especially.
totally agree, love john squires and hes definately a quality guitarist and musicalist but wrenys abilties sometimes get overlooked in this band, he was very simply superb.
the band acknowledge that. he was the most talented musician in a technical sense than any of them. and could play the guitar and bass just almost as good as he could play drums
no, every single member of this band was important thats why they were so good. without any one of them, it doesn't sound like roses. squire and reni are the cake, mani is the icing. and ian was the cherry. its not really a cake without any one of those ingrediants
he was mate, im reading his book at the mo and it said he was drinking and smoking weed before the gig, bad idea! im a massive fan of the roses, but this is embarassing, they were obviously just trying to cling onto sumfing that they use to have a few years ago, which was brilliant! no mani no reni no point. roses 4eva tho!
I don't get it,Mani talkin up the Roses before the gig sayin that they were better off with out John,but Mani had agreed to go to the Scream,But Reading was a mistake, i saw them at Liecster in 95 and as good as it was like you said,no Reni no point.
brown went on to do some interesting solo stuff...................but just can`t carry it off live.............we was laughing at him the last time I saw him live ,he was so bad,he fooking mullered the gig
This is just absolutely terrible. At least Ian rebounded nicely! I think its about time for the real Roses to just reunite already. I'm not usually for reunions,but theres just too much unfinished business with the Stone Roses.
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said it b4 Squire was jealous of the fans wearin RENI style hats,how pathetic is that.JS is now reduced 2 an incoherant,mumblin joke,he cant speak the coke has destroyed his brain,thats y musically he is impotent n his viagra is IAN,MANI N RENI,without the 3 hes 's just ordinary,plenty can play his part ,but the other 3 r immortals,BROWN has killed him off.writing blinded by the sun he thought he was being smart,genius-esq,trying 2 render IAN MUSICALLY FINISHED,but IB come back n destroyed him!!
JOHNNY MARR. Happy. why do you take such pride in telling me i did something wrong? are you just doing it to piss me off. i wrote it in two seconds sorry for mis spelling it i hope i haven't offended you? maybe report me to the grammer police. Idiot
i was there and its not true that it was terrible or that people were walking away. it was just very obviously the end. his voice was no worse than it always was and aziz did a good job although they tossed up i am the ressurection.
i admired the brass fucking balls of it to be honest. although to be fair when i was fifteen i would probably have jumped off a cliff if the stone roses had told me too
i feel sorry for ian here i dont know why but he looks lost and kinda lonely. john and ian where obviously extremely close and done everything together. the roses had it all
the playing and singing in ian brown solo shows is casually much worse, but at least he's in good vibe in the show. but in reading he was just bored and confused
rathcooligan2006 (2 weeks ago) whats with the fuckin niggers? " elizabeth my dear" .culture?...that was a mistake for ian and mani - There all better than you.
I admired em for doin this show and love *High time* & *ice cold cube* performed here but the dancer is a mistake makes the image cheap.. if they just had it as them playing, ian singin better without being messed up from the weekend there, changed the setlist to not include squire written songs ie "second coming" to avoid johns complex guitar work, it would have been better ...think they wanted to prove they didnt need john...the stone roses did and thats what people expected!!
what the fuck is that ugly fucking lesbian doing? this is a fucking lads song. and whats with the fuckin niggers? " elizabeth my dear" .culture?...that was a mistake for ian and mani
I saw the Stone Roses at Reading 96 (it was my first big festval, I was 16). I remember it being disappointing - but not totally disastrous. I was probably about 20 feet from the front, my memory is that people were just gutted that the Stone Roses were poor, but I don't remember people booing or anything like that. It was just total disappointment and the realisation that a band you loved were on their way out.
Whilst that was far from a great performance, it's not really any worse than most of his vocal performances, I'm not sure why this gig has such a reputation for having bad vocals when he sounds about the same as most of his gigs.
I have listened to lots of Roses gigs, and yes, he has sang better, and his voice here isn't great, but neither is many of his other gigs. Leeds '95 springs to mind. I think it was more the circumstances that has lead to this gig being singled out...no Squire, dancing woman and the likes.
Yeah. Theres no reni at this gig either. Seems like the guitarist is doing the backing vocals in the absence of reni and it sounds bad. Just not the same band really.
What I said is true, this gig along with 1 or 2 other gigs where fans booed and threw things onto the stage in protest paved the way to the breakup. Sqier and Reni leaving was also a factor, but the biggest one was these last gigs.
oh and i forgot to say, Ippinson imploring the crowd to "put ya hands in the air!" and "lets hear you sing it!"...truly out-Spinal Tapping Spinal Tap. Where did it all go so hilariously wrong? (too many points to mention...the court case, the drugs, the laziness, Reni going then Squire). still, they wouldn't be The 'Roses if they'd just had a career path like any band.
From the greatest band in the world...to er, 3 session heads from Simply Red, Asia & Orchestral Manouvres In The Dark (Maddix, Ibrahim & Ippinson) plus an about-to-leave Mani and a can't-be-bothered Brown. with DRY ICE! and fuckin' YAZZ in thigh boots and the sort of dancing that should be reserved for 'a tribute to 2 Unlimited'. and they broke the old 'Roses say-nowt mystique at the press conference by savaging Squire while all WEARING SHADES. ho-hum.
I was cringing to be honest. From 4 working class lads giving it loads of manc attitude to dancing girls! Despite that I didn't think Reading would be the last gig. Wish they'd reform!
I was at this gig. Ians voice was terrible although he looked cool as fuck. The band was very tight but I spent most of the gig kicking myself that i'd not seen the original line up. Still I saw the last Stone Roses gig! Half of em ;-(
what did you think when the dancing girl came out?! its funny, i remember on an old roses net mailing list type thing ('stone roses hq') a lot of roses fans who had just been there thought it was great and that the band was going to continue
so tragic. personally i think they never wud have recovered from the loss of reni and it went slowly downhill from that point, a real shame to see how ended up after losin reni AND squire.
personally, i think it was a very roses thing to do though, im glad they burned out rather than faded away - EVERYONE remembers how the roses split, u know what i mean? most of their key moments (outside of the music) were fairly shambolic, e.g. paint terrorism at former record label, the late show... its just a shame that it took squire leaving for ian to realise what the band meant to him
yeah definitely, totally agree with u. not many bands did wat they did, and ian did well himself carryin the band on post squire. but ur spot on there mate, proper roses fan too, knowin ur history lol:-)
They have all been approached recently to do a GB reunion tour, they'd sell out every venue as you know. They are all up for it* and would give proceeds from the gigs to charity's, only one thing though, *one member of the band doesn't want to know.........yeah you guessed it, Brown. Shame.
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n u cant blame him.Squire left 'em in the shit n now wants a payday,F/O,BROWN'S SOLO career is sellin out venues,on his own,SQUIRE wud have 2 come on stage n kneel 4 forgiveness at brown n then they cud get it on,RENI,MANI,IAN N JOHN wud show the world how its done,,dream though,it wont happen...squire wud av 2 do sum serious arse lickin n apologise ,so......
The fact that at moment of writing, 1,128 people have seen this and only 2 people have favourited is very sad indeed. I love this band but this is evil for them to go out like this.
This is the first I've ever heard of the infamous Reading performance. TBH, Brown sounds no worse than his average live performance here. I think it just comes down to the fact that a lineup without Squire and Reni was a complete farce and could never be accepted.
yeah dugsie i loved the song "high time" i asked ian brown why he never released it on UMB like ice cold cube when i was at a signing and he said he lost the demo for it lol , ive download the song and it's a great song with great lyrics he should definitely release it!!!!
yeah i really like that song too, but unfortunately dont have a dvd copy of the gig to rip. i think 'high time' was written by aziz and ippinson though, so maybe thats why he doesnt want to use it anymore... though having said that, 'nah nah' was written by just ippinson and he used that at the time
thanks for posting video,as always wanted to see it,great to see the king monkey has shown his true colours and come up trumps!!!ian brown amazing ICON
It's so sad. They should have called it a day after Squire left, because Ippinson, Maddix and Ibrahim could never deliver the same feeling to those songs as Squire did and this horrendous performance of them at Reading just proved that the Roses had become their own tribute band. How could Ian have been so foolish?
and a poor tribute band at that- i think that maddix and ippinson had a lot more influence on the roses at the time than people realise-such a shame-cant beilieve people slag off squire for leaving the group at that time when he had no choice
Thats what happens when you hire annie lennox as a backing dancer.
superfurrymanimal80 3 months ago
ten storey crock of crap more like.......fnarr fnarr fnarr fnarr,,,,,, jesus wept! LMFAO x1000
busterabcat 7 months ago
there's some things i want to see at a rock show. shite vocals and a dancing bird is not one of those things. that wasn't a concert. that was an epitaph.
thevoid99 7 months ago
ohhh nooo, oh this is awful :'(
THE DOWNFALL OF SUCH A TRULY ICONIC BAND!
JoeyDPro2009 7 months ago
Karaoke gone bad. Read about this '96. NME or Melody Maker. Brown was on the front?
Noodles37UK 10 months ago
O.M.G!
ianbrownshairdo 1 year ago
This was a travesty of a final show and not how a band like the Stone Roses should be remembered.
paulph12002 1 year ago
a dancing girl??? really??? what a fucking shame! its sad to watch
jimmyadcock 1 year ago
They didn't go out with a bang, but a whimper. Sad in more than one way. Alas, if they hadn't split, who knows how it would have gone? They might have just become a boring MOR dad rock band who were seen as "that band with the good first album". Their legacy lives on.
I still hope that I'll live to see Brown, Squire, Mani and Reni onstage together again someday. One Love.
devtherevLS 1 year ago
@devtherevLS You will =] x
themasterexploder 4 months ago
I was there, 17 years old and with stars in my eyes about seeing Stone Roses. Frankly this is the worst concert I have ever seen, even through my rose colored teenage glasses (And I've been to hundreds of concerts since then). The guitarist was technically good, but it was a bit like throwing someone from Iron Maiden on stage to play with the Smiths. He was doing hammer ons and pull offs during the Waterfall intro?! Everyone in the crowd was cringing and shaking their heads.
Mancomb48K 1 year ago
You laugh at Ian Brown at your peril, you fickle fucker(or are you a fuckle ficker?)
TheNeitherboth 1 year ago
whoever is doing the background vocals should be put up against a wall and shot
mileyoreilly07 1 year ago 2
this is horrible to watch
what a shame
TheMrbollox 2 years ago 9
Okay
Ian sucks, but who the fuck is backing vocal? Because he sounds as bad as me
Porterjoh 2 years ago
'lets hear you sing it'
Just no.
38Highbury 2 years ago 3
@kingshahine. it depends what kind of cake. i love a bit of cheesecake me, wouldnt really fancy a cherry on it and im sure itd still be a cake!
I know what ya mean tho, one of the last bands where each member was as vital as the other.
ayeayebadman 2 years ago
Brown is an appalling vocalist, period! You don't expect every singer to have a voice like Marvin Gaye, but the ability to carry at least one note would be appreciated - And he can't even do that. To be honest I don't like the Stone Roses. Not because of there music, but because of the legacy they left behind of creating a none stop conveyor belt of 'mad fer it' shite from Manchester. Those Fuckwits from Burnage especially.
TerryNutkins80 2 years ago 2
bahahaa!
diemythtruth 2 years ago
This is a rare example of a performance that really IS as bad as people make out...a performance so bad it finished them for good. A great shame.
tristessa56079 2 years ago 3
I'm a guitarist, and the main thing that draws me towards a band apart from a good tune is the guitaring.
But i've got to say it was Alan Wren who made the groove in this band, a simple 5 piece drum kit sounded like nothing on earth.
Check out Waterfall on live on OSM
Drumtastic
Coppertunes 2 years ago 5
totally agree, love john squires and hes definately a quality guitarist and musicalist but wrenys abilties sometimes get overlooked in this band, he was very simply superb.
toryglenlad1234 2 years ago 3
@toryglenlad1234
the band acknowledge that. he was the most talented musician in a technical sense than any of them. and could play the guitar and bass just almost as good as he could play drums
kingshahine 2 years ago
or just a 3 piece, which 90% of his best stuff was done on. Made it sound like a different instrument at times.
38Highbury 2 years ago
@Coppertunes
no, every single member of this band was important thats why they were so good. without any one of them, it doesn't sound like roses. squire and reni are the cake, mani is the icing. and ian was the cherry. its not really a cake without any one of those ingrediants
kingshahine 2 years ago 2
I'm never took anything away from any of the other band members, I'm well aware how important they all were, If you read what I said again........
"it was Alan Wren who made the groove in this band"
Coppertunes 2 years ago
Wow what a way to ruin a legend. Fucking shambolic!
mattinozzell 2 years ago 3
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Portis1Luv 2 years ago
ian must of been well stoned to let that pole dancer on stage...
carlos7217 2 years ago 4
he was mate, im reading his book at the mo and it said he was drinking and smoking weed before the gig, bad idea! im a massive fan of the roses, but this is embarassing, they were obviously just trying to cling onto sumfing that they use to have a few years ago, which was brilliant! no mani no reni no point. roses 4eva tho!
jimmyadcock 2 years ago
I don't get it,Mani talkin up the Roses before the gig sayin that they were better off with out John,but Mani had agreed to go to the Scream,But Reading was a mistake, i saw them at Liecster in 95 and as good as it was like you said,no Reni no point.
carlos7217 2 years ago 2
As well as that other lost classic, em.. aye, "ca mind fit it was ca'd and at" eh?
skintypoos 2 years ago
aye, but they sang High Time...
skintypoos 2 years ago
thats fucking embarrassing tbh
brown went on to do some interesting solo stuff...................but just can`t carry it off live.............we was laughing at him the last time I saw him live ,he was so bad,he fooking mullered the gig
pompeyloyall 2 years ago 3
just sad. so many things gone wrong. dancing girl. a dancing girl?! whose idea was that?
lazyitus 2 years ago
this was sad.
Portis1Luv 2 years ago 3
"Let's hear you sing it".... oh dear god. And dancing girls? What the hell were they thinking?
Waterfall64 2 years ago 7
I was there too, people were standing open mouthed not believing how bad it was.
Killersurfbunny 3 years ago
I was there, a sad end to a great band. But from the ashes arose....
decashpoy 3 years ago
not the roses
aaronrhcp90 3 years ago
This is just absolutely terrible. At least Ian rebounded nicely! I think its about time for the real Roses to just reunite already. I'm not usually for reunions,but theres just too much unfinished business with the Stone Roses.
Mozzer232 3 years ago
This is painful.
219970 3 years ago
The Not Roses.
Jupiteloota 3 years ago
whats with the hatred for JS. without him you can;t comment
gmc15972 3 years ago 6
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said it b4 Squire was jealous of the fans wearin RENI style hats,how pathetic is that.JS is now reduced 2 an incoherant,mumblin joke,he cant speak the coke has destroyed his brain,thats y musically he is impotent n his viagra is IAN,MANI N RENI,without the 3 hes 's just ordinary,plenty can play his part ,but the other 3 r immortals,BROWN has killed him off.writing blinded by the sun he thought he was being smart,genius-esq,trying 2 render IAN MUSICALLY FINISHED,but IB come back n destroyed him!!
NAH1HODGE 3 years ago
Chris Helme wrote Blinded By The Sun.
So you clearly have no idea what day it is.
Well done ;)
whitelabeldemo 3 years ago 3
you twat john squire is the greatest guitarist song writer to ever live
benjirichardshooper 3 years ago 2
johnny marr? (benjirichardshooper)
oneilexpress 2 years ago
JOHNNY MARR. Yes Fuck's sake
benjirichardshooper 2 years ago
..you spelt Johnny Marr wrong, mate...
hofsteveO 2 years ago
JOHNNY MARR. Happy. why do you take such pride in telling me i did something wrong? are you just doing it to piss me off. i wrote it in two seconds sorry for mis spelling it i hope i haven't offended you? maybe report me to the grammer police. Idiot
benjirichardshooper 2 years ago
Sense of humor failure alert...
Your are nuts..
hofsteveO 2 years ago
you talk such rubbish.john squire is amazing,he was what made the stone roses.
Ritchie1504 3 years ago 6
@Ritchie1504 Reni had a ton to do with it too m8.
Portis1Luv 1 year ago
just fuck you
benjirichardshooper 3 years ago
thata not the stone roses what was bown and mani thinking ffs
joydivision808 3 years ago 2
Este pobre iba más pedo que Alfredo...
more drunk than alfredo!!!!
casi ni acaba el concierto y sus ritmos iban precisamente a su ritmoooo
Mirian was there.
Mirianitis 3 years ago
appalling, if i ever perform this bad live.....remember i wrote this....c.hughes.
Chrisruleshughes 3 years ago
he NEVER was a gooooood singer. jus had the attitude. liam gallagher destroys him vocally.
Chrisruleshughes 3 years ago 2
well said
VanMocen 3 years ago 3
liam took everything off brown,attitude,swagger,cockiness,hes just an imposter,but hes done a top job of it
NAH1HODGE 3 years ago
somebody's finaly got it in one, nice one m8
jaynorth1989 3 years ago
AMEN 2 that m8
NAH1HODGE 3 years ago
..oh yes..
And add Tim Burgess aswell...
hofsteveO 2 years ago
i was there and its not true that it was terrible or that people were walking away. it was just very obviously the end. his voice was no worse than it always was and aziz did a good job although they tossed up i am the ressurection.
i admired the brass fucking balls of it to be honest. although to be fair when i was fifteen i would probably have jumped off a cliff if the stone roses had told me too
reltonpelton 3 years ago
Aziz is shite thats why Ina Brown is pissed. Fucking shite.
mangoumbanga 3 years ago 2
i feel sorry for ian here i dont know why but he looks lost and kinda lonely. john and ian where obviously extremely close and done everything together. the roses had it all
freewillyplz 3 years ago 2
I was at this gig, it was f****g awful. Ian Brown was Flat from the first song. most people where walking away. What a dissapointment.
sandy50star 3 years ago
who's that 'orrible lesbian dancing,no wonder they finished,garbage dancin round ghosts of gods(ian,mani)
NAH1HODGE 3 years ago
the playing and singing in ian brown solo shows is casually much worse, but at least he's in good vibe in the show. but in reading he was just bored and confused
lbgunit 3 years ago
rathcooligan2006 (2 weeks ago) whats with the fuckin niggers? " elizabeth my dear" .culture?...that was a mistake for ian and mani - There all better than you.
shareschannel 3 years ago
Ian would fuckin twat you and fuck you off out of the gig for sentiments like that pig!
seerauberjohnny 3 years ago
you don't know how much that comment made me laugh?
Hughezy 3 years ago
I admired em for doin this show and love *High time* & *ice cold cube* performed here but the dancer is a mistake makes the image cheap.. if they just had it as them playing, ian singin better without being messed up from the weekend there, changed the setlist to not include squire written songs ie "second coming" to avoid johns complex guitar work, it would have been better ...think they wanted to prove they didnt need john...the stone roses did and thats what people expected!!
shareschannel 3 years ago
i think this is the point of them dropping down,
as mutch as i hate to say it,
but there purley still the best or one of the best brit bands gone!!
ripstoneroses 3 years ago
More to the point, why are they playing a song written purely by Squire?
So much for 'we don't need him'.
whitelabeldemo 3 years ago
what the fuck is that ugly fucking lesbian doing? this is a fucking lads song. and whats with the fuckin niggers? " elizabeth my dear" .culture?...that was a mistake for ian and mani
rathcooligan2006 3 years ago
that comment had me laughing my arse off
Hughezy 3 years ago
wat a lot of pish!
cant even hear brown singing! this isnt even the roses man
bunch of imposters on the fuckin stage...........roses RIP
lovespreads11 3 years ago
This is fucking horrendous what a prick Ian brown is.
pedrothecruel 4 years ago 3
It is horrendous.
whitelabeldemo 3 years ago
I saw the Stone Roses at Reading 96 (it was my first big festval, I was 16). I remember it being disappointing - but not totally disastrous. I was probably about 20 feet from the front, my memory is that people were just gutted that the Stone Roses were poor, but I don't remember people booing or anything like that. It was just total disappointment and the realisation that a band you loved were on their way out.
toffee1980 4 years ago
It's the only gig in the history of music thats badness is such legend that I actually kind of wish I was there!
I've never heard of a performance that has created such infamy.
Mozzer232 4 years ago
Dancing woman? What the hell were they thinking?
sleeming88 4 years ago 3
I think they weren't thinking, that's the problem!!
219970 3 years ago
this just isn't the stone roses.
whitelabeldemo 4 years ago 2
apperantly Brown went out and smoked weed all night with Cressa- thts wat 'ruined' his voice.
Still a legend.
jakewilks56 4 years ago
Whilst that was far from a great performance, it's not really any worse than most of his vocal performances, I'm not sure why this gig has such a reputation for having bad vocals when he sounds about the same as most of his gigs.
paulsawers 4 years ago
u shld probably listen 2 him alot more then....coz this gig, was the worst Ian's voice has ever been
TaylorMayed07 4 years ago
I have listened to lots of Roses gigs, and yes, he has sang better, and his voice here isn't great, but neither is many of his other gigs. Leeds '95 springs to mind. I think it was more the circumstances that has lead to this gig being singled out...no Squire, dancing woman and the likes.
paulsawers 4 years ago
Yeah. Theres no reni at this gig either. Seems like the guitarist is doing the backing vocals in the absence of reni and it sounds bad. Just not the same band really.
desy2478 4 years ago
Its nothing to do with the voice this is the stone roses but it doesnt feel like it
mylestails 4 years ago
Ian Brown is a fuckin' AWFUL live singer.
sleeming88 4 years ago
they decided to break up after this mainly because of how bad the performance was
JamesBCS 4 years ago
crap...they split, coz they were going nowhere, without squier and reni....6 month after this, mani left, and tht was it
TaylorMayed07 4 years ago
What I said is true, this gig along with 1 or 2 other gigs where fans booed and threw things onto the stage in protest paved the way to the breakup. Sqier and Reni leaving was also a factor, but the biggest one was these last gigs.
JamesBCS 4 years ago
the best thing they ever done
BobHaulk 4 years ago
no squire no reni... shockingly bad
where8angels8play 4 years ago
That`s pretty crap
SimonDolan 4 years ago
oh and i forgot to say, Ippinson imploring the crowd to "put ya hands in the air!" and "lets hear you sing it!"...truly out-Spinal Tapping Spinal Tap. Where did it all go so hilariously wrong? (too many points to mention...the court case, the drugs, the laziness, Reni going then Squire). still, they wouldn't be The 'Roses if they'd just had a career path like any band.
hennocksholinepurpur 4 years ago
From the greatest band in the world...to er, 3 session heads from Simply Red, Asia & Orchestral Manouvres In The Dark (Maddix, Ibrahim & Ippinson) plus an about-to-leave Mani and a can't-be-bothered Brown. with DRY ICE! and fuckin' YAZZ in thigh boots and the sort of dancing that should be reserved for 'a tribute to 2 Unlimited'. and they broke the old 'Roses say-nowt mystique at the press conference by savaging Squire while all WEARING SHADES. ho-hum.
hennocksholinepurpur 4 years ago
You said it. I just feel for all the regressive fans who stick by a wounded, dying band through thick and thin. Move on people!
blackdice23 4 years ago
not the same without john and reni.
glacierfish 4 years ago
whats with the fucking girl!
ianbrownshairdo 4 years ago
LETS HEAR YOU SING IT....
hofsteveO 4 years ago
Ian Brown should be forced to learn an instrument. Preferably his voice.
nosferatudasvampir 4 years ago
absolutely
tom1182 4 years ago
I was at this it was so shit that I fuct off to listen to Underworld in a packed tent. Still, I love the Roses!
twintornado 4 years ago
I was cringing to be honest. From 4 working class lads giving it loads of manc attitude to dancing girls! Despite that I didn't think Reading would be the last gig. Wish they'd reform!
floydwarb 4 years ago
I was at this gig. Ians voice was terrible although he looked cool as fuck. The band was very tight but I spent most of the gig kicking myself that i'd not seen the original line up. Still I saw the last Stone Roses gig! Half of em ;-(
floydwarb 4 years ago
what did you think when the dancing girl came out?! its funny, i remember on an old roses net mailing list type thing ('stone roses hq') a lot of roses fans who had just been there thought it was great and that the band was going to continue
decadentcherub 4 years ago
i wish he had released "HIGH TIME" like ice cold cube!!!
fitz81 4 years ago
so tragic. personally i think they never wud have recovered from the loss of reni and it went slowly downhill from that point, a real shame to see how ended up after losin reni AND squire.
madeofstone1989 4 years ago
personally, i think it was a very roses thing to do though, im glad they burned out rather than faded away - EVERYONE remembers how the roses split, u know what i mean? most of their key moments (outside of the music) were fairly shambolic, e.g. paint terrorism at former record label, the late show... its just a shame that it took squire leaving for ian to realise what the band meant to him
decadentcherub 4 years ago
yeah definitely, totally agree with u. not many bands did wat they did, and ian did well himself carryin the band on post squire. but ur spot on there mate, proper roses fan too, knowin ur history lol:-)
madeofstone1989 4 years ago
They have all been approached recently to do a GB reunion tour, they'd sell out every venue as you know. They are all up for it* and would give proceeds from the gigs to charity's, only one thing though, *one member of the band doesn't want to know.........yeah you guessed it, Brown. Shame.
dibzzz 4 years ago
Never gonna happen now, Squire says he's retired from music. Or was he just saying that in the hope of Brown changing his tune?
Andrew077 4 years ago
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n u cant blame him.Squire left 'em in the shit n now wants a payday,F/O,BROWN'S SOLO career is sellin out venues,on his own,SQUIRE wud have 2 come on stage n kneel 4 forgiveness at brown n then they cud get it on,RENI,MANI,IAN N JOHN wud show the world how its done,,dream though,it wont happen...squire wud av 2 do sum serious arse lickin n apologise ,so......
NAH1HODGE 3 years ago
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The fact that at moment of writing, 1,128 people have seen this and only 2 people have favourited is very sad indeed. I love this band but this is evil for them to go out like this.
joshuajubilee 4 years ago
This is the first I've ever heard of the infamous Reading performance. TBH, Brown sounds no worse than his average live performance here. I think it just comes down to the fact that a lineup without Squire and Reni was a complete farce and could never be accepted.
lzymot 4 years ago
yeah dugsie i loved the song "high time" i asked ian brown why he never released it on UMB like ice cold cube when i was at a signing and he said he lost the demo for it lol , ive download the song and it's a great song with great lyrics he should definitely release it!!!!
fitz81 4 years ago
yeah i really like that song too, but unfortunately dont have a dvd copy of the gig to rip. i think 'high time' was written by aziz and ippinson though, so maybe thats why he doesnt want to use it anymore... though having said that, 'nah nah' was written by just ippinson and he used that at the time
decadentcherub 4 years ago
Where did u get the download ive been lookin for ages
dugsie 4 years ago
It can be found on e-mule
atticpatio 4 years ago
there was a new roses song played that day ''high times'' class id love to see it uploaded
dugsie 4 years ago
always wondered if it was as bad as people say but fuck me that's tragic. actually quite distressing to hear it.
1poorbaby 4 years ago
thanks for posting video,as always wanted to see it,great to see the king monkey has shown his true colours and come up trumps!!!ian brown amazing ICON
splitbus1965 4 years ago
long live john squire and reni.
whitelabeldemo 4 years ago
It's so sad. They should have called it a day after Squire left, because Ippinson, Maddix and Ibrahim could never deliver the same feeling to those songs as Squire did and this horrendous performance of them at Reading just proved that the Roses had become their own tribute band. How could Ian have been so foolish?
Andrew077 4 years ago
and a poor tribute band at that- i think that maddix and ippinson had a lot more influence on the roses at the time than people realise-such a shame-cant beilieve people slag off squire for leaving the group at that time when he had no choice
jumpingjack7877 4 years ago
the coolest band ever endend up as these bunch of tits? shame and that dancin lesbo whats that about!?! smoke a dick brown/ippinson r.i.p roses
jumpingjack7877 4 years ago