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Angus MacBagpipe
The "Handsome Girls" bootleg, from which this performance is taken, is a killer collection - it just surges with ragged energy. So much better than the official live releases.
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Four Stone Walls
but still let down by the pointless and ineffectual Ronnie twangings. He detracts
from it.
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liddasQuote
Four Stone Walls
but still let down by the pointless and ineffectual Ronnie twangings. He detracts
from it.
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He's playing exactly what he should be.
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Four Stone Walls
'what he should be'?
Then it's not exactly live, is it, if he's just performing a prescribed role?
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Four Stone Walls
That's part of my point - the other being that I don't think that he 'should be' playing Faces' style twangings in this number - or any number really - but especially not this one. His casual open twangings suited the Faces - fine - a good-time, fun-time, not-taking-things-too-seriously band. Fine. Great band.
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Four Stone Walls
Here are the Stones getting back to form and aiming to be 'taken seriously' - regain their R&R credentials - (after their Raunch and Sleeze excursions in '75-76 during which they'd been derided for being tired old farts, going through the motions and no longer relevant, etc. etc.)
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Four Stone Walls
Any guitarist could do the 'playing what they should be role'. Not any guitarist would lighten the tone of this number in the way that Wood does.
He's done somewhat better since - but really, since '73, the strength of the live HTW has depended on the presence and pacing of one guitarist - not the combined dynamics of two as '69-73 - when its sum being greater than its parts depended on the guitarist who did not pace the song not just 'playing a part' - or what he was 'supposed to'.
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Doxa
And as comical and pretendous those Jagger's punk manouvres are, Keith IS punk as far as street credibility goes!
- Doxa