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Edith Grove
01:00 on a Tuesday morning in your part of the world and this is all you have to do ?
You have no life !
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His Majesty
There is an equilibrium - A story of the stones
1962 - 1972 is pure naive energy and creative aspirational wonder. The musical journey almost fully completes itself within those years. Present through out those years is the balance between the male and female muse. All the best bands have them and all suffer when the balance between them sways too far to one side.
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In 1973 they still aspired to greater things, but the inbalance between Goats Head Soup and the 1973 European tour show that the bands equilibrium was damaged. They had reached their natural conclusion really, all things must pass. It was during this time that the female muse gently flew away, leaving some long lasting, deeply felt memories.
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1974 - 1986 is the sound of a group of male musicians realising the female muse has left them, but they keep on trying to fool both themselves and their fans in to thinking she hasn't. The cold reality hits home eventually and then those musical men mostly become all about money.
An empty, broken musical heart, but a healthy bank balance to cover the pain.
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slew
Strange post about the female muse!!
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His Majesty
How does your friend handle listening to jones era songs that don't or barely feature him?
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His Majesty
How come it took 4 edits to get to that smiley face. Did you need someone to come to your emoticon rescue?
OK, I should definitely go into the IORR hall of fame for that one.
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slew
Strange post about the female muse!!
Meaningless pop-psycho fluff. Still... it wasn't there earlier.
Creeeeeepy....
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Doxa
Good stuff, His Majesty!
Reminds me vaguely of one person talking about the Stones in Finnish radio back in 1995 (she is an artist of her her own right). She had been hanging in Richmond back in 1963, but that's not important. But she made the point that The Stones lost feminine side in their doings soon afterwards when Brian Jones left the group, and they became a rather masculine, a typical 'boys' band' from the 70's on (and of course, she didn't find them inspiring any longer). I remeber this clearly because I had never thought that way; it gave a brandnew perspective.
This might overlap with your point of "female muse" - maybe Jones actually had quite a lot to do with that.
- Doxa
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vermontoffender
I really don't understand why anyone who doesn't like the Stones post-'73 would still follow, or comment on, what the band is doing in 2012.
Seems like a colossal waste of time.
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vermontoffender
I really don't understand why anyone who doesn't like the Stones post-'73 would still follow, or comment on, what the band is doing in 2012.
Seems like a colossal waste of time.
I love this post.
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vermontoffender
I really don't understand why anyone who doesn't like the Stones post-'73 would still follow, or comment on, what the band is doing in 2012.
Seems like a colossal waste of time.
I love this post.
It is hardly a colossal waste of time.
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His Majesty
How come it took 4 edits to get to that smiley face. Did you need someone to come to your emoticon rescue?
OK, I should definitely go into the IORR hall of fame for that one.
Cos I realised i'm not the only one with mixed emoticons.