This came out in 2004 – or at least that’s when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):
Since the early ’90s, The Rolling Stones have stuck to the same basic game plan — release a studio album, do a world tour, put out a live album.
But with the two-disc Live Licks — their eighth concert release — Mick Jagger, Keith Richard and the rest of the lads are getting ahead of themselves. Not to mention pushing their luck. Live Licks, taped on their last tour, follows 2002’s Forty Licks anthology and 1998’s live set No Security, making it the third live set and/or compilation since their last studio disc — which would be 1997’s Bridges To Babylon, for those who can remember that far back. Granted, the performances on this 23-song set are cracking, the set list has left-field entries like Monkey Man and Worried About You, and the production is vibrant, with Keith and Ron Wood’s slashing guitars sharply separated in the mix. But really, how many more live versions of Satisfaction and Brown Sugar do they expect us to buy? Get back to the studio, boys — and by my math, you owe us a double album.
