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cn854
Another killer 1970 version
But you have to admit, when the boys hit the stage on the 1972 American Tour and Keith played the first chords of BS, that was incredible feeling!!!
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ryanpow
"Did Mick or Keith write the Brown Sugar Riff?" is becoming the next "Taylor Vs. Wood".
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howled
If I was Mick and Keith, I would have put only Brian and Bill on the credits for Gomper, and let them take the blame for it
Gomper is ace.
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HMS
BS is one of those songs that made the Stones the greatest R n R-band in the world. One of their best songs and perfect in every way. You´d never get tired of listening to it.
I remember that I heard BS for the very first time in a Sylvester-Stallone-movie called "Nighthawks". At that time I didn´t even know that it was a Stones-song. Years later I bought Sticky Fingers and recognized the song immediately.
An absolute fantastic song, thrilling and exciting and it still sounds very fresh, a timeless classic.
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HMS
BS is one of those songs that made the Stones the greatest R n R-band in the world. One of their best songs and perfect in every way. You´d never get tired of listening to it.
I remember that I heard BS for the very first time in a Sylvester-Stallone-movie called "Nighthawks". At that time I didn´t even know that it was a Stones-song. Years later I bought Sticky Fingers and recognized the song immediately.
An absolute fantastic song, thrilling and exciting and it still sounds very fresh, a timeless classic.
As a huge fan of live Stones, I have to say that Brown Sugar is one of those tunes where the studio version is hard to beat on stage. It's got a certain slinky groove that they don't quite catch when they try to do it at the studio tempo. In the old days, they could make it exciting by speeding it up a bit, but now that they do it "right," it seldom lives up to the original.
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ryanpow
"Did Mick or Keith write the Brown Sugar Riff?" is becoming the next "Taylor Vs. Wood".
Mick did... period!
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Rocky Dijon
All of that aside, listen to Mick struggle to play the damn song backstage at Madison Square Garden with Ike & Tina Turner sitting next to him. It's dreadful. This reminded me of the stories Andy Johns or Glyn Johns would tell of Mick struggling to play "Bitch" or "Tumbling Dice" and then Keith walks into the studio and nails it. Yeah, it might be Mick's tune, but we wouldn't have that opening riff without Keith.
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Redhotcarpet
Mick wrote the riff, the video shows him playing it slowly and instructional" almost with a forced cool laidback attitude because of the intimidating Ike Turner. Thats what i see in that clip.
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Redhotcarpet
Mick wrote the riff, the video shows him playing it slowly and instructional" almost with a forced cool laidback attitude because of the intimidating Ike Turner. Thats what i see in that clip.
He doesn't play the riff, merely a simple version of the chord sequences.
He probably wrote the song, though, but got some help by his friend, to make it sound that good
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GravityBoy
I don't think the percussion/drums on this track should be underestimated.
There is a great low underbeat (jungle beat?) going on, something they never captured live (except at Altamont?).
What was Charlie doing to play that? Was he assisted by someone/thing?
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exhpart
I think he's a bit more pc these days so yes it's intentional. Not sure if it's neccessary as surely we all know it's a song from 1971!