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DandelionPowderman
The breakdown is classic for reggae and dub. Nice to hear Keith doing it. The horns sound Caribbean to me. Great, great track
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Roll73
Keith is on BBC Radio 6 (The Huey Show) - this Saturday from 10am
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Man, There's some serious bubbling going on in the original Greory Isaacs version.
I really hope there will be an extended version at some point and Keith has a go on it.
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LongBeachArena72
Awesome music with an irresistible off-beat played by black men and women from Jamaica who smoke a lot of ganja. Keith is to reggae as Kenny G is to jazz: you can call it that if you want ... but you'd be wrong!
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LongBeachArena72
Awesome music with an irresistible off-beat played by black men and women from Jamaica who smoke a lot of ganja. Keith is to reggae as Kenny G is to jazz: you can call it that if you want ... but you'd be wrong!
First time I've read a racial reference like that on this board. Hope it's the last.
Music is a universal language, it brings people together, it doesn't draw lines between them.
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LongBeachArena72
Well, it's the best of the four so far for me but that's just because it's a cover of a good song written by someone else!
My main problem with it of course is that I (like the majority of people in the world outside of Stones message boards) simply do not find Keith Richards an effective lead vocalist. That fact alone, I realize, pretty much exempts me from offering an opinion about Keith's solo music.
I see this as a "but the Emperor has no clothes!" situation but I recognize that almost all of you see it another way. In any event, with four universally acclaimed "great" tracks Keith is well on his way to an album for the ages. In my opinion LET IT BLEED only has six unequivocally great tracks; Keith's already 2/3 of the way there with the four sneaks from CROSSEYED HEART!
I won't comment on the "is it reggae?" issue other than to say that no, it isn't. The Congos, Bunny Wailer, Peter Tosh, The Wailers, and Toots and the Maytals (not meant to be an exhaustive list) play reggae. Keith does not. The Clash came kinda close but that's about it for pasty English rock stars and reggae.
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LongBeachArena72
Awesome music with an irresistible off-beat played by black men and women from Jamaica who smoke a lot of ganja. Keith is to reggae as Kenny G is to jazz: you can call it that if you want ... but you'd be wrong!
First time I've read a racial reference like that on this board. Hope it's the last.
Music is a universal language, it brings people together, it doesn't draw lines between them.
Yeah that was a totally lame statement.
So in line with your unthoughtful analogy LongBeachArena72, since it was black men (and woman) who originated and played the blues that Keith so loves,
what are we to call it when the Stones play a blues tune? Would we be wrong to call it blues?
Or how about Johnny Winter - would I be wrong if I said he was great blues musician?
Or John Mayall? Clapton? Peter Green? Etc., etc. etc.?
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LongBeachArena72
Awesome music with an irresistible off-beat played by black men and women from Jamaica who smoke a lot of ganja. Keith is to reggae as Kenny G is to jazz: you can call it that if you want ... but you'd be wrong!
First time I've read a racial reference like that on this board. Hope it's the last.
Music is a universal language, it brings people together, it doesn't draw lines between them.
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LongBeachArena72
Well, it's the best of the four so far for me but that's just because it's a cover of a good song written by someone else!
My main problem with it of course is that I (like the majority of people in the world outside of Stones message boards) simply do not find Keith Richards an effective lead vocalist. That fact alone, I realize, pretty much exempts me from offering an opinion about Keith's solo music.
I see this as a "but the Emperor has no clothes!" situation but I recognize that almost all of you see it another way. In any event, with four universally acclaimed "great" tracks Keith is well on his way to an album for the ages. In my opinion LET IT BLEED only has six unequivocally great tracks; Keith's already 2/3 of the way there with the four sneaks from CROSSEYED HEART!
I won't comment on the "is it reggae?" issue other than to say that no, it isn't. The Congos, Bunny Wailer, Peter Tosh, The Wailers, and Toots and the Maytals (not meant to be an exhaustive list) play reggae. Keith does not. The Clash came kinda close but that's about it for pasty English rock stars and reggae.
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DandelionPowderman
It is pure reggae, from Jordan's beat, via Keith's brilliant locked in bass/guitar rhythm to the vocals. Don't let amateurism fool you here, folks.
What else should it be? And who else here would know reggae better than Keith who has lived and breathed this kind of music since the early 70s?
Here Keith does a really heartfelt cover of a great reggae song, and what do his "fans" say, LOL!
I can't believe what I'm reading here. "I've been listening a lot to Bob Marley, hence I know reggae". Really? Really?
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LongBeachArena72
Awesome music with an irresistible off-beat played by black men and women from Jamaica who smoke a lot of ganja. Keith is to reggae as Kenny G is to jazz: you can call it that if you want ... but you'd be wrong!
First time I've read a racial reference like that on this board. Hope it's the last.
Music is a universal language, it brings people together, it doesn't draw lines between them.
Yeah that was a totally lame statement.
So in line with your unthoughtful analogy LongBeachArena72, since it was black men (and woman) who originated and played the blues that Keith so loves,
what are we to call it when the Stones play a blues tune? Would we be wrong to call it blues?
Or how about Johnny Winter - would I be wrong if I said he was great blues musician?
Or John Mayall? Clapton? Peter Green? Etc., etc. etc.?
C'mon, man, this is an internet message board frequented by blowhards, magpies, and jokers (of which I am proudly one) not a @#$%& ethnic studies symposium. OF COURSE we are all enlightened people and not one of us has a drop of racist blood in our bodies.
Yes, my statement was completely hyperbolic and stereotypical. There is of course no one way to define reggae (or the blues or jazz, etc.). There are just people, like me, who have aesthetic opinions about what's "good" and what "sucks."
To try to answer the only serious question above, by Hairball: I don't know what makes a great blues player or who gets to be called authentic, to be honest. All the people you mention above are incredible players, in my opinion. I think that they--and The Stones--have earned their stripes in that genre and can be called bluesmen. Are they better/worse than Robert Johnson? Who the @#$%& knows?
But, I do stand by my position when it comes to reggae. I have never heard it played convincingly by white people. (Of course I also think Chet Baker sucks compared to Louis Armstrong, so go figure.) And, by the way, just for the record, some of my best friends are white people!
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DandelionPowderman
It is pure reggae, from Jordan's beat, via Keith's brilliant locked in bass/guitar rhythm to the vocals. Don't let amateurism fool you here, folks.
What else should it be? And who else here would know reggae better than Keith who has lived and breathed this kind of music since the early 70s?
Here Keith does a really heartfelt cover of a great reggae song, and what do his "fans" say, LOL!
I can't believe what I'm reading here. "I've been listening a lot to Bob Marley, hence I know reggae". Really? Really?
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Roll73
Keith is on BBC Radio 6 (The Huey Show) - this Saturday from 10am
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Hairball
Along with The Harder They Come, there's quite a few other movies to see:
Rockers. Similiar in style to The Harder They Come with a storyline,
but also filled with great clips of great reggae artists (including Gregory Isaacs) c.1977.
Roots, Rock, Reggae. Perhaps the best documentary of Reggae made.
Roots, Rock, Reggae Documentary
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LongBeachArena72
I won't comment on the "is it reggae?"
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issue other than to say that no, it isn't.
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72hotrocks
My Second Opinion after 4 songs in a row.
I FAKING LOVE IT.