Re: Open G you should be embaressed by that silly
Date: April 26, 2005 00:42
"The real test is the music itself and those sounds don,t lie and you can fool
some of the folks some of time but not all the time."
yeas those sounds don't lie
not even
100 years ago
winter
can you hear the music
angie
till the next goodbye
time waits for no one
if you really want to be my friend
short and curlies
etc
all top stones sounds i suppose
it's funny how in your opinion Mick Taylor get credit for the best songs that Mick and Keith alone wrote and mostly played by themselves at the end of the sixties, while Ron takes all the blame for the worst music Mick OR Keith have been writing lately
i tell you what it is not a lie - maybe just an opinion, but i think pretty strong (and that has little to do with MT or RW)
it is not a lie that Black and Blue, Some Girls and Tattoo You are better than Goat's head soup and Iorr
that MT solos on those album did not make the stones step forward by a single inch as a band
that on Sticky fingers solos on sway and Cyhmk are memorable but that album i praise for keys' sax on BS, mixture of guitars and no solo on BS, horns on bitch (more than for the solo, and whose is it?), Billy's organ solo on IGTB, ry cooder's guitar sound on SM, strings on moonlight mile and no solo, guitars mix in YGM and no solo...
The same goes pretty much for exile too where MT is good not for his magic solos, in fact there's only one vibrato solo on the album and it is the wonderful one on SAL, MT is good because Mick and Keith songs and playing is great and he just merges in (in RO, RTJ, TORR, SYH, VB etc) pretty much as RW merges in Somegirls. And Keith was in control back then as it is on SG or ER, and on EOMS you hear what keith wants you to hear about guitars, and i think it is pretty much him. period.
And i don't think we want to discuss here the "role" of saint MT on LIB, do we?
So, i think that Keith is the riff master and it is him to praise and blame for the good and the bad and not to make this funny idol of a musician that, with all my respect, has never been more than a great session man.
Well, you know what it is not a lie? that, incidentally, the clown has been member of three great bands that have respectively a massive, large and good role in the history of r'n'r. So...what are you still talking about
sounds don't lie, you're right