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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2018-09-12 14:07 by UrbanSteel.

This is what the Stones followed (at least in the Movie and on the DVD)

Again, thanks for the clips. The story goes the band made the audience wait and wait because the skinny white English boys had a problem following the great James Brown.

It was well worth the wait though! ><

Watching those TAMI show clips - it makes me thinking that those could be the best moments of their whole career. I maean, they got different, and developed and all, but basically, I don't think they got any better as a tight band as they then were.

Forget James Brown - the poor guy got NO ANY chance when those five guys hit the stage and showed the world what is ROCK AND ROLL TODAY AND TOMORROW. They were a five-head monster in which each part was an important organ part of the whole. I don't think any rock band prior and after - including themselves - would give such a lesson of the idea of ROCK band. And they are so bloody natural and 'innocent - even though they have never been more rebellous and dangerous.

I think that best captured moments of the Stones EVER are the TAMI show and the 1964 Pool Winner's performance. Their lost their original tightness quite quickly - the difference can be heard in their 1965 Pool Winner's concert and also in their BBC recordings during the era. It took until 1969 they found the tightness again within a new scheme. But that is another story.

My point - to repeat - is that what is incredible and great in those TAMI clips is basically the thing that makes the Stones such an unique rock band (and greatest of them all, and the first and the last, to quote Dylan). The elixir needed is there, and it has been the same elixir ever since when they happen to hit the heights, be it later during Taylor or Wood-era. It is beyond my linguistic capacities to describe that.

- Doxa



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 2009-04-15 12:29 by Doxa.

Hey, what happened to the Big beat files? Was this one considered official and therefore got banned/deleted?

Anyway, wonderful stuff altogether, great performances from other artists as well. Nevertheless, The Stones are outstanding. On the other hand, Doxa´s got a good point.