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Silver Dagger
The Stones sure loved Chuck Berry around this time and this was their third cover of his in 2 years. It lacks the same impact that Carol and Little Queenie had on the 69 tour but it's always a gas to hear the Stones playing that primal rock'n'roll.
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Silver Dagger
The Stones sure loved Chuck Berry around this time and this was their third cover of his in 2 years. It lacks the same impact that Carol and Little Queenie had on the 69 tour but it's always a gas to hear the Stones playing that primal rock'n'roll.
Their fourth Berry-cover. They played Roll Over Beethoven as well
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Silver Dagger
The Stones sure loved Chuck Berry around this time and this was their third cover of his in 2 years. It lacks the same impact that Carol and Little Queenie had on the 69 tour but it's always a gas to hear the Stones playing that primal rock'n'roll.
Their fourth Berry-cover. They played Roll Over Beethoven as well
AND Don't you lie to me!
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marcovandereijk
(Don't you lie to me is a Tampa Red cover, but they played Around and Around.)
I love the Texas 78 version, even though it takes some time for Mick to get the right groove.
It is a brave thing to open a show with a cover-song for a band that had so many great songs
of their own to chose from. Didn't Keith use the opening licks of this song in later years
to start It's only rock 'n roll?
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Silver Dagger
The Stones sure loved Chuck Berry around this time and this was their third cover of his in 2 years. It lacks the same impact that Carol and Little Queenie had on the 69 tour but it's always a gas to hear the Stones playing that primal rock'n'roll.
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Let It Rock (live in Leeds 1971)
(Chuck Berry)
University Of Leeds, Leeds, UK, March 13, 1971
Mick Jagger - vocals
Keith Richards - electric guitar
Charlie Watts - drums
Bill Wyman - bass
Mick Taylor - electric guitar
Nicky Hopkins - piano
Bobby Keys - saxophone
Jim Price - trumpet
In the heat of the day down in Mobile, Alabama
Working on a railroad with a steel driving hammer
I’ve gotta get some money, buy some brand new shoes
Tryin' to find somebody take away these blues
She don't love me, try to singing in the sun
Payday's coming and my work is all done
Yeah, in the evening when the sun is sinking low
All day I’ve been waiting for that whistle to blow
I’m sitting by the teepee built right on the track
Rolling them bones ‘til the foreman come back
Pick up you belongings, try to scatter about
We've got an off-schedule train comin’ two miles out
Yeah, everybody talking, trying to scramble around
Picking up their money, tearing the teepee down
Foreman want to panic, ‘bout to go insane
Trying to get the workers out the way of the train
Engineer blow the whistle loud and long
Can't stop the train, he had to let it roll on
Produced by Jimmy Miller
First released on:
The Rolling Stones - “Brown Sugar / Bitch / Let It Rock” 7” single
(Rolling Stones Records RS 19100) UK, April 16, 1971
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Let It Rock (live in Fort Worth 1978)
(Chuck Berry)
Will Rogers Memorial Center, Fort Worth, Texas, US, July 18, 1978
Mick Jagger - vocals
Keith Richards - electric guitar
Charlie Watts - drums
Bill Wyman - bass
Ron Wood - electric guitar
Ian Stewart - piano
Ian McLagan - keyboards
In the heat of the day down in Mobile, Alabama
Working on a railroad with a steel driving hammer
I’ve gotta get the money, buy some brand new shoes
Tryin' to find somebody take away these blues
She don't love me, here him singing in the sun
Payday's coming and my work is all done
Yeah, in the evening when the sun is sinking low
All day I’ve been waiting for that whistle to blow
I’m sitting by the teepee built right on the track
Rolling them bones ‘til the foreman come back
Pick up you belongings, try to scatter about
We've got an off-schedule train comin’ two miles out
Yeah, everybody talking, trying to scramble around
Picking up their money, tearing the teepee down
Foreman want to panic, ‘bout to go insane
Trying to get the workers out the way of the train
Engineer blow the whistle loud and long
Can't stop the train, he had to let it roll on
Produced by The Rolling Stones
First released on:
The Rolling Stones - “Some Girls Live In Texas ‘78” CD
(Eagle Vision ERDVCD065GV) UK, November 18, 2011
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Silver Dagger
The Stones sure loved Chuck Berry around this time and this was their third cover of his in 2 years. It lacks the same impact that Carol and Little Queenie had on the 69 tour but it's always a gas to hear the Stones playing that primal rock'n'roll.
Their fourth Berry-cover. They played Roll Over Beethoven as well
AND Don't you lie to me!
C
Yep, and Bye, Bye, Johnnie, but the two latter was played in 1972
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71Tele
1978 is a pale remainder of the epic 1971 Leeds version. I still get chills whenever I hear Charlie drop that first snare beat, and Keith's several solos are perfect. 1978? Eh.
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DandelionPowderman
Detroit 1978 is the best ever, imo. Probably the best Stones show ever, as well:
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71Tele
1978 is a pale remainder of the epic 1971 Leeds version. I still get chills whenever I hear Charlie drop that first snare beat, and Keith's several solos are perfect. 1978? Eh.
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Doxa
To continue my post above - I had hasty memeories here, but I recall reading once that Jagger was fed up singing Chuck Berry songs any longer. That those songs didn't relate to him, or to the times or their style any longer. I recall this being in 1975/76.
This could make sense since I think in that tour (1975/76) they didn't play (until Knebworth?) any Berry songs. But as the band then went 'back to basics' (in El Mocambo and then in 1978 tour), most likely being inspired by new energetic bands like Dr. Feelgood, and The Sex Pistols) Jagger seemingly rethought his stance.
I am very thin ice here, so I wait to be corrected if my memory makes is typical tricks...
- Doxa