Play With Fire was filmed in Montreal, Olympic Stadium, 14 December, 1989. One of the best live performances from The Steel Wheels North American Tour 1989.
Great song, but I can see why they don't perform this one live very often. It just wasn't meant for a stadium or arena. The synthesizer and piano make this sound like that music you hear in Chinese restaurants.
I like how Keith opens the song with the back strum on the guitar. So much of that studio stuff they could not do live in the 60s, like getting a harpsichord sound projected to an area sized crowd.
I was excited to find a version of them playing the song. So many of the 60s videos of this song are Mick mouthing the words and they are miming to the record, which is how they did the TV performances back in the 60s for the most part. It is not as sexy to see Mick as an old man singing this song but I did get a glimpse at how Keith played it. In the record they tuned down the guitars to E flat. Here it appears in standard tuning.
hate it. Mick is doing it wrong. He's pronoucning stuff the wrong way, more in a country voice than a ballad voice from the sixties. The piano sounds electronic, only kieth is doing well.
I love the new arrangement. Really innovative IMO. The Piano is so cool and even Keith strums a few new riffs. Wonder how much fluff Mick and Keith have had over the years?
Great song, but I can see why they don't perform this one live very often. It just wasn't meant for a stadium or arena. The synthesizer and piano make this sound like that music you hear in Chinese restaurants.
202pdiddy 1 month ago
@7777srd Toronto
Gazza63 1 month ago
wasn't Montreal where Keith got popped for heroin possession in the late 70's?
7777srd 5 months ago
I like how Keith opens the song with the back strum on the guitar. So much of that studio stuff they could not do live in the 60s, like getting a harpsichord sound projected to an area sized crowd.
TDS4UT 6 months ago
I was excited to find a version of them playing the song. So many of the 60s videos of this song are Mick mouthing the words and they are miming to the record, which is how they did the TV performances back in the 60s for the most part. It is not as sexy to see Mick as an old man singing this song but I did get a glimpse at how Keith played it. In the record they tuned down the guitars to E flat. Here it appears in standard tuning.
TDS4UT 6 months ago
hate it. Mick is doing it wrong. He's pronoucning stuff the wrong way, more in a country voice than a ballad voice from the sixties. The piano sounds electronic, only kieth is doing well.
Deathsquad49 7 months ago
I love the new arrangement. Really innovative IMO. The Piano is so cool and even Keith strums a few new riffs. Wonder how much fluff Mick and Keith have had over the years?
lancer89032 8 months ago
INCREIBLE :O !!!!
tataso 8 months ago
Not as intense as the original version he sang in the 1960s, but still good.
Gabzthevamp 8 months ago
nevermind thats not a fender
poolshark98 11 months ago