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Happy24
I just saw Ringo yesterday doing this Rolling Stones cover :-) Anyway, I love both versions of this song, just as I love both bands. I hope it is allowed now, almost 50 years later :-)
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Blue
Well, for starters, great electric slide work!
Great bass playing too!
Certainly wipes the floor with The Beat-less' version.
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neptune
One of the most revolutionary rock songs ever. Slide guitar had never been used like that before.
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neptune
One of the most revolutionary rock songs ever. Slide guitar had never been used like that before.
As an actual song it isn't particularly good, but the brilliance is what they did with it of course.
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treaclefingers
The lyrics are amazing....they really speak to me.
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Silver Dagger
It features amazing bass but sonically speaking the record has no real bottom - just all treble. And incredibly it's a sound the Stones were to return to on a couple of tracks on Dirty Work - in the middle of the over-layered and over-produced sounds of the 80s.
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Come On
.. And even more important: How would the song had sounded with Lennon at the microphone?
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scottkeef
Bill has said in numerous places that the "home-made" bass of sorts that he assembled early on(theres lots of pics ) was his favorite and that he used it nearly exclusively for recording through the late 70s long after he had stopped using it for performing. I dont know if this is the one used for recording this song but it does make ya wonder...
He used it in the studio a lot, but not as often as he implies. There's loads of photos of him recording using the Framus and Vox basses during 60's.
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Sleepy City
I played this to a bass-playing friend a few years back & he swore that Bill was using an acoustic bass! He's wrong of course, but I can't recall hearing quite the same bass sound on any other RS record.
You're friend was right, Bill used various short scale hollow body basses until early 1970. He started with a big body Framus Star Bass in early '64, and switcehd to the smaller Star Bass somwhere in '65. Stripped of its paint he last used this bass on the Hyde Park gig. He endorsed the Vox Bill Wyman bass, and used a Vox Astro IV V273 violin Bass for some of the BB and LIB sessions. These where all hollow bodied.
On I Wanna Be Your Man Wyman uses the large bodied Framus Star Bass.
Mathijs
I think maybe SleepyCity's friend meant "acoustic" as in upright bass?
Yes, or an unplugged acoustic bass (like a 4-string acoustic guitar, not sure if they even existed then though). Something without an electric pick-up in other words.
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.. And even more important: How would the song had sounded with Lennon at the microphone?
Still not as good as The Stones (George & Paul were no substitutes for Brian & Bill).
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I wonder what Mick, Brian and Bill could have done with Twist and Shout ?
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I wonder what Mick, Brian and Bill could have done with Twist and Shout ?
They had too much taste to cut novelty dance records, but (just like The Beatles) I doubt if they'd have done as good a job as The Isley Brothers did with their cover version.
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treaclefingers
But not too much taste to cut novelty records....ie, My Girl, Under The Boardwalk
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Blue
Well, for starters, great electric slide work!
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Blue
Well, for starters, great electric slide work!
Anyone who says Brian Jones was overrated needs to listen to that solo. Still awesome nearly 50 years later. Incredible to think no one had played slide guitar like that in the UK before this.
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Blue
Well, for starters, great electric slide work!
Anyone who says Brian Jones was overrated needs to listen to that solo. Still awesome nearly 50 years later. Incredible to think no one had played slide guitar like that in the UK before this.
I concur!
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I said novelty dance records...
Jagger/Richards wrote some true novelty dance songs theirselves..listen to Congratulation...(not to be mistaken for Dylans own Congratulation from The Wilbury III)..