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Mathijs
On some of the tracks there's slide guitars that really aren't done by Taylor nor Richards, I still really doubt the drums on Following the River is Watts, and indeed, the bass on most of the traks just does not sound like Wyman at all...I've been listening to Bill since '83, and most of it just does not sound like him....
I don't have any proof, let's keep that clear, but my ears are telling me something different than what Jagger wants us to believe here.
Mathijs
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Mathijs
Well, I am having big, big doubts about the genuinity of the tracks...I wanted to learn the riff to Plundered My Soul, and only then I noticed how botched and edited this part is, with vintage sounding parts, but also very modern sounding ones...On some of the tracks there's slide guitars that really aren't done by Taylor nor Richards, I still really doubt the drums on Following the River is Watts, and indeed, the bass on most of the traks just does not sound like Wyman at all...I've been listening to Bill since '83, and most of it just does not sound like him....
I don't have any proof, let's keep that clear, but my ears are telling me something different than what Jagger wants us to believe here.
Mathijs
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mckalk
Was Bill brought in to re-do or add bass parts? I can't find it now, but I thought I read a quote from Jagger alluding to that. I mean overall, I like the songs..good songs are good songs, but I think MJ has been less than forthcoming on their "history". I guess it is his decision in the end, they are his songs.
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Mathijs
Well, I am having big, big doubts about the genuinity of the tracks...I wanted to learn the riff to Plundered My Soul, and only then I noticed how botched and edited this part is, with vintage sounding parts, but also very modern sounding ones...On some of the tracks there's slide guitars that really aren't done by Taylor nor Richards, I still really doubt the drums on Following the River is Watts, and indeed, the bass on most of the traks just does not sound like Wyman at all...I've been listening to Bill since '83, and most of it just does not sound like him....
I don't have any proof, let's keep that clear, but my ears are telling me something different than what Jagger wants us to believe here.
Mathijs
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crumbling_mice
I stated at the time of release that I didnt think any of these bonus tracks came from the exile era...and some sound positively recent in sound quality. We have, as they say in the smok, been mugged off!
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ablett
"I stated at the time of release that I didnt think any of these bonus tracks came from the exile era...and some sound positively recent in sound quality."
But if that is true surely thats a good thing? That the Stones can produce a quality product?
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crumbling_mice
obviously i wasnt referring to Loving cup, soul survivor ...geez I ask yer...
anyway as i said...there is no way they were all from that era...if you have a half decent stereo and half decent ears you can tell straight away
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klrkcr
So,,, seriously - who were the musicians??? Any ideas/ suspicions?
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71Tele
I have listened to the "new" Exile tracks a number of times now, and have noticed that the bass on the more "Jaggerized" songs like "Following The River" sounds much different in tone and even style than Bill's playing. Don Was is a bass player. Could they? Would they? It's not like they haven't wiped Bill before, as on some of the original Exile tracks. I've been listening to Bill for forty years, and this just sounds - different. Maybe some magic was worked with eq, and it was brought up more in the mix, but I am starting to wonder.
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69boogie
It won't belong before you guys will be discussing how the disc labels were printed, and did they dare possibly use this kind of cheap ink instead of the much better other kind.