Kind of weird and unexpected, a painting within a great rocker of a tune, the bridge in Rocks Off is always one of my favorite parts to listen to on Exile. It slams the song into a completely different mood for eight bars. the sound of the whole thing is kind of otherworldly.
One of the best bridges in rock and roll.

Some days just seem to be good for listening to Exile.. today is one .

Yeah, Claptons horn-section made it...

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I love the bridge as well, so avoid listening to "Rocks Off" on LIVE LICKS where it becomes A Bridge Too Far.

Yeah, can anyone throw some light on what happened to it on Live Licks - I just thought I had a dodgy copy. It sounds to almost skip, really weird and ruins the song. Why the hell would they do that on purpose?

Apparently Mick messed up the words (not an uncommon occurrence for Mick in live performances) so instead of using a recording where there was not an error they opted to edit the verse out. For someone unfamiliar with the song, the join is probably unnoticeable, but most people bothering to buy a live album from a group in their sixties would likely know the song well and would quite naturally find the edit jarring.

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Apparently Mick messed up the words (not an uncommon occurrence for Mick in live performances) so instead of using a recording where there was not an error they opted to edit the verse out. For someone unfamiliar with the song, the join is probably unnoticeable, but most people bothering to buy a live album from a group in their sixties would likely know the song well and would quite naturally find the edit jarring.

Thanks for that Rocky...it's unbleievable they thought it would work, it sounds clumsy in the editing by anyones standards, why not just leave the @#$%& up in there, at least it would be a genuine recording of a live song and would, in my opinion, have given them more credibility. I don't play it because it annoys me so much!

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Yeah, Claptons horn-section made it...

Which he got from Delaney & Bonnie and Friends...

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Apparently Mick messed up the words (not an uncommon occurrence for Mick in live performances) so instead of using a recording where there was not an error they opted to edit the verse out. For someone unfamiliar with the song, the join is probably unnoticeable, but most people bothering to buy a live album from a group in their sixties would likely know the song well and would quite naturally find the edit jarring.

Thanks for that Rocky...it's unbleievable they thought it would work, it sounds clumsy in the editing by anyones standards, why not just leave the @#$%& up in there, at least it would be a genuine recording of a live song and would, in my opinion, have given them more credibility. I don't play it because it annoys me so much!

What actually happened was that Charlie came back in on an off beat and messed the song up for a while. On the Twickenham DVD, this has been corrected but for the live album they just chopped a section out. Utter madness.

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Yeah, Claptons horn-section made it...

Which he got from Delaney & Bonnie and Friends...

but...but....ec was a friend in delaney and bonnie and friends...it's all so confusing...

Anyone figured out what Keith sings here? Shoeshine? Oh let go?

On stage in '72 that bridge is another nice Taylor touch.

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Yeah, Claptons horn-section made it...

Which he got from Delaney & Bonnie and Friends...

I do not think Delanie and Bonnie & friends had managed to sell more than two albums without ECs name... when it was figured out by his fans that he actually play with a band with that peculiar name they suddenly were booked for the biggest tour in US...

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i wrote to the guy listed on the Live Licks cover as the party responsible for "digital editing"
and he tried to tell me that cut must be the way the Stones played the number that night -
it's painful when you get these glimpses of how dumb some music business people think fans are

>> Shoeshine? Oh let go? <<

the first is "get your shoes shined" i believe - i've kind of given up on understanding the second bit,
but whatever those sounds mean, that countervocal is an astonishingly powerful moment

i love the Rolling Stones

Clapton gave D&B marquee-value, but the fact is that he and Harrison and Mason heard something authentic in their sound, and that's why they all jumped on board for their English tour.

The musicians in D & B's band included Price and Keyes (and Radle and Whitlock and Gordon) who then went to play on Harrison's "All Things Must Pass" and "Eric Clapton," which Delaney produced. Clapton credits Delaney for really teaching him how to sing on that record, which formed the basis for his sound and solo career.

It's also said that Delaney taught Harrison slide guitar, which was key part of his sound during his solo years.

In the film "Festival Express" D&B can be seen jamming with the Grateful Dead during a train ride, and teaching them a song: "Going Down The Road Feeling Bad."


So the core of the "Friends" jumped ship and joined Derek and the Dominos, and Price and Keyes hooked up with the Stones. Since they got their first brush with fame playing for D&B, I say Jim and Bobby were more "their" horn section than Clapton's.

And even though they were short-lived and are now largely forgotten, Delaney and Bonnie had a huge, influential role in the music of the late 60's/early 70's.


I'd like to see D & B and Friends get into the RnR HoF. That would get some players who have long-deserved to be in, like the rest of the Dominoes, Jim and Bobby, Leon (again), and even Billy Preston.

great summary, Loog Droog, and yes D & B and Friends ..in the HOF, the sooner the better.

that version Bonnie Bramlett did of 'Superstar' by Lean Russell, made famous by Karen Carpenter, is so powerful...

The circle is unbroken, Loog Droog.

It's been ages since I've viewed, but D&B have a great cameo in the old early 70s Drive-In Theater classic Vanishing Point ( avoid recent remake ). D leads a nomad-like, rattlesnake handling, desert dwelling, Jesus lovin' revival thingie.

Known at the time as the " naked hippie chick on a motorcycle movie." A great period in movie making when happy endings were not always a given (and naked chicks with real boobs road motorcycles).

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Thats right....
Forgot Guns used that one too.

...and Primal Scream in 1997, one of the best records of the nineties, Vanishing Point, along with Be Here Now, B2B, Time out of Mind, Tellin' Stories, Screamadelica, Stanley Road, Voodoo Lounge and Definitely Maybe.

Mind you, 4 of those came out in 1997, one of the best music years since 1972 and probably the last REALLY Great music year in history. Nowadays one can be happy if ONE good record is released a year...

Part of the evolution I guess...

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