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DandelionPowderman
This thread's a mess...
I recall you did a promise regarding this thread. Forgotten?
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Jesse
Good Grief! You're still at it! Still repeating the same things and telling each other what you want to hear. This may be the longest thread but it's also the most boringly repetitive one.
Everyone gets it: you love, adore and kiss the boots of MT. You think he should play on more songs because he really really makes the Stones better. But mean insecure Mick Jagger is wary that MT might have too much influence on the band. Riiight.
Just listen to yourselves. You spew nonsense. Jagger is a superstar with or without the Stones. So are Keith, Charlie and Ronnie. They're much sought-after musicians who draw audiences and big bucks wherever they go. Unfortunately, it's MT who needs the Stones. You know that too. Sure he was important in their past -- but that was then. HE chose to leave; he wasn't fired. I'm not a bleeding heart to care if he was paid properly back then. He was a big boy and could have handled things differently if he wanted to. It's gracious of the group to bring him back, whether they felt they owe him something or just for kicks. Sure Keith said "once a Stone, always a Stone" but he said a lot of clever things like that. Mick Taylor is no longer a Stone. NOBODY thinks Taylor is a Stone.
Nobody except for the few of you on this thread who almost childishly idolize him and argue for him. (I think he'd be embarrassed by some of you. Stop acting like he's a child. You don't even know what he wants to do with the Stones.) Sure he gets applause -- hell, he's good. And audiences love seeing a past band member (of any band) make a return appearance, so they'll clap like crazy when he steps on stage. In Chicago they clapped a lot for Taylor Swift too!
MT is a wonderful guitarist but no longer fits in with the group. (Now I'm repeating myself.) I watched all the clips of this tour and I'm glad he started to smile, chat and walk around a bit. I felt sorry for him, when he played but stood like a mummy; people laughed at that.
Admit it boys and girls, most people at Stones concerts are not the music experts you folks "claim" to to be. They're talking and dancing, not listening as carefully as those of you who replay the clips on laptops 10 times. They came to see Mick, Keith, Charlie and Ronnie. Maybe some of you saw the Stones waaay back when, but this is NOW.
MT doesn't play how the Stones want to play on stage, like it or not. Personally, I think he was getting "into" the show aspect as the tour progressed. But who calls the shots? Him? Jagger? you folks? Why should the Stones go through extra practice to fit around MT's way of noodling after all these years? You idolize the guy so of course you think they should but come on....
Instead of repeating the same things on this thread, why don't you work on getting MT more publicity or even more appearances? (Some of you pretend to know people in the industry.) Then go to his shows, make him more successful, bring him more $$$. Put him on a diet and workout regime too. It'll be better for his health and he'll be much more appealing to audiences.
You whiners could do it -- so help your idol!
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DandelionPowderman
This thread's a mess...
I recall you did a promise regarding this thread. Forgotten?
You'd rather answer a question, DandelionSuperman, I put to you about when, what you call "wonkiness", started than stop posting in this thread. And about which early songs this phenomenon is at work and which not. There was one question to His Majesty there as well in a post of mine deep down on page 95 of this thread.
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DandelionPowderman
This thread's a mess...
I recall you did a promise regarding this thread. Forgotten?
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Jesse
Marianna,
I wrote an extremely long blog -- eight paragraphs -- yet you only pay attention to my one snide comment about weight. You seem very sensitive about weight comments. Says more about you than me.
Your attitude says a lot about you. What, are you saying you think I'm fat and you imply you're thin? Guess what, I'm not fat, but I care about other people's feelings, unlike some people. But I know what kind of person signs up for a board to criticize the physical appearance of a member of a band. What does physical appearance have to do with being in a band? The only truly thin members of the Stones, anyways, are Jagger and Woods. They look anorexic and unhealthy. If that's what makes you want to throw your granny panties at the stage, so be it. It has nothing to do with music.
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Witness
I don't play any instruments, however, so I am not able to tell when (at which played songs or versions of songs) this phenomenon is at work, and when it is not. Maybe, it is not necessary to play an instrument, maybe, that anyone, by practise perhaps, can train up their ears' ability to notice it. Myself I am a primitive listener, I have only got my taste, so I have not got that ability so far.
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Witness
Then I wonder, I do, when the "wonkiness" started. At the outset my memory seems to tell me that there was a perhaps odd mixture between Brian Jones' blues oriented guitar and Keith Richards' Chuck Berry-oriented riffs. Was it from their playing of the Chuck Berry covers during rehearsals and concerts that the upcoming "wonkiness" gradually spread among other songs played as well? All of them or only some early songs, studiowise and live? I would like to ask you, DandelionPowdwerman, to make an evaluation of songs on the first two studio albums and the German Decca compilation AROUND AND AROUND (covering most of the two early EPs and a couple of early singles):To what extent is that "wonkiness" present there on which songs?
And I also wonder,.................: Long ago I read it being said that Brian Jones lost confidence in his guitar playing over time. Rather puzzling for a musician that well capable of picking up so many instruments. Could it be possible that the development of this "wonkiness" that must be as much about Charlie Watts (and Bill Wyman) as it is about Keith Richards, might have had some influence - and understandable effect, not denigrating either on his behalf - on Brian Jones allegedly losing self-confidence in his guitar playing?
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DandelionPowderman
The Stones were wonky from the get-go.
My question from one that is not himself able to register it: Do you thereby state that Brian Jones was as much a part of it as Keith Richards? In that case possibly indicating that this phenomenon most of all stems from Charlie Watts (and Bill Wyman)?
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 2013-07-22 12:47 by Witness.
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Jesse
Marianna,
I wrote an extremely long blog -- eight paragraphs -- yet you only pay attention to my one snide comment about weight. You seem very sensitive about weight comments. Says more about you than me.
Your attitude says a lot about you. What, are you saying you think I'm fat and you imply you're thin? Guess what, I'm not fat, but I care about other people's feelings, unlike some people. But I know what kind of person signs up for a board to criticize the physical appearance of a member of a band. What does physical appearance have to do with being in a band? The only truly thin members of the Stones, anyways, are Jagger and Woods. They look anorexic and unhealthy. If that's what makes you want to throw your granny panties at the stage, so be it. It has nothing to do with music.
Some things will never change, that's for sure.
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Doxa
This is relevant again.
MORE TAYLOR PLEASE!!!
- Doxa
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DoomandGloom
It must feel good to be Mick Taylor.
He's doing better than Pete Best.Quote
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DoomandGloom
It must feel good to be Mick Taylor.
Lol.
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DoomandGloom
It must feel good to be Mick Taylor.
Lol.
I saw recently his numbers are on the rise he will be richer soon enough, Gibson will name guitars after him, he is a legend... but he has to turn it up in my opinion.. Gary Clarke Jr. turns The RS into a powerhouse, Taylor has been hit and miss. If it were just between them purely for stage command and no history, Clarke would win the job. Maybe he has lowered himself to the other guitarists level rather than choose to musically command. He did it once or twice on CYHMK but his unsteadiness was apparent on many other nights. With Ron Wood's gig we saw a laid back Taylor playing in the moment with beautiful intuition but getting there with a mega wattage rock machine, that's another art.Quote
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It must feel good to be Mick Taylor.
Lol.
Not financially.
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DoomandGloomI saw recently his numbers are on the rise he will be richer soon enough, Gibson will name guitars after him, he is a legend... but he has to turn it up in my opinion.. Gary Clarke Jr. turns The RS into a powerhouse, Taylor has been hit and miss. If it were just between them purely for stage command and no history, Clarke would win the job. Maybe he has lowered himself to the other guitarists level rather than choose to musically command. He did it once or twice on CYHMK but his unsteadiness was apparent on many other nights. With Ron Wood's gig we saw a laid back Taylor playing in the moment with beautiful intuition but getting there with a mega wattage rock machine, that's another art.Quote
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DoomandGloom
It must feel good to be Mick Taylor.
Lol.
Not financially.
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I saw recently his numbers are on the rise he will be richer soon enough, Gibson will name guitars after him, he is a legend...
Send me a link if you can but that's awful... It ain't as easy as it looks kids.Quote
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DoomandGloomI saw recently his numbers are on the rise he will be richer soon enough, Gibson will name guitars after him, he is a legend... but he has to turn it up in my opinion.. Gary Clarke Jr. turns The RS into a powerhouse, Taylor has been hit and miss. If it were just between them purely for stage command and no history, Clarke would win the job. Maybe he has lowered himself to the other guitarists level rather than choose to musically command. He did it once or twice on CYHMK but his unsteadiness was apparent on many other nights. With Ron Wood's gig we saw a laid back Taylor playing in the moment with beautiful intuition but getting there with a mega wattage rock machine, that's another art.Quote
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DoomandGloom
It must feel good to be Mick Taylor.
Lol.
Not financially.
I agree about Gary, but he really fvcked up Bitch in Hyde Park.