If this was a "clean" song that could be played on the radio a friend of mine thinks that this could have been the Stone BEST song ever.

Any truth to that?

Not near the best but a very good song I think James

Its a very good song, but I would put in on par with any other Chuck Berry influenced song. Its about equal to Respectable or Neighbors or IORR. The guitar work may be better tha the others. Keef proably did it 7 million times before he got it right.

don't give me that ole one two, one two three four

yeah that's good, not great, keith solo rules!

This songs rocks live but is weak on GHS.

Charles Baudelaire
1821-1869

gibb76 Wrote:
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> If this was a "clean" song that could be played on
> the radio a friend of mine thinks that this could
> have been the Stone BEST song ever.
>
> Any truth to that?


Nope

Cant see what the link is between changing a couple of repeated words to make it radio friendly and turning into the best song theyve ever done

No matter what they did with it, while its a good song there are a few MUCH better on that album - Winter and 100 Years Ago to name the most obvious two.

it was a pisser on that 75 tour

Star Star in 75 was better than 78. although I could do without the props.

the balloon was a good thing , some girl in philly got so hot from it she threw her pants on the stage

Oh well in that case I withdraw me comment. The balloon obviously was a well though-out strategy.

The John Wayne line makes the song IMO

Love this tune as is. No need to change the lyrics.
Imagination.

"Pass it on" (Keith talking about the music)

Jimmy Page was quite a rage.....I did not know the reason why

don't give me that ole one two, one two three four

Definately in my top ten. And I'd have to disagree, adamently. The 75 version pales in comparison to 78. The weave was in full swing, on a good night, in 78.

And I think it IS one of the best Stones tunes of all time. That, Midnight Rambler, The Last Time, and ONNYA have it tied right now for me. Who knows what it'll be in 10 minutes though.

Its one of their best rockers much much better than anything on Some girls or Tattoo you.

Wasn't it already censored on the US original version of the album? The "fruit" verse has a very sloppy second voice saying something else on top of the dirty word.

Jagger himself has said he thought it woulda made a great single had it not been for the lyrical content....

I don't know about their best ever, but I think it would have been a very popular song. That said, a song is both lyrics and music, so we don't know what the substituted lyrics would have done to the song. I think the gist of the post is that a lot of peeps never got to hear a rockin song. I'd say it's as good a Chuck riff as IORR, if not better.

cc Wrote:
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> Wasn't it already censored on the US original
> version of the album? The "fruit" verse has a very
> sloppy second voice saying something else on top
> of the dirty word.


It actually insane. They had to censor "pu**y clean". But could say "f%6ker" 10 million times. Go figure.