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The Joker
Forgive the terrible pun...
But fact is: the 1978 and 1981-82 tours witnessed some deleveraging on the horn section... 1978 had almost no wind section at all, nada, and 1981-82 tours had only a saxophone... Remember some wannabe critics saying already at that time it was a good time the Stones stripped down, and do without that Exile on Main Street brass that sounded too much funky soul music in their squared mind...
I disagreed. However, I think one horn only is awkward. Listening to the single saxophone of 1981-82 I feel sorry for it to be alone, quite drowned in that ocean of guitars. Moral is: horns have to go in pair, like nuts (other terrible pun, I can’t resist...)
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The Joker
Forgive the terrible pun...
But fact is: the 1978 and 1981-82 tours witnessed some deleveraging on the horn section... 1978 had almost no wind section at all, nada, and 1981-82 tours had only a saxophone... Remember some wannabe critics saying already at that time it was a good time the Stones stripped down, and do without that Exile on Main Street brass that sounded too much funky soul music in their squared mind...
I disagreed. However, I think one horn only is awkward. Listening to the single saxophone of 1981-82 I feel sorry for it to be alone, quite drowned in that ocean of guitars. Moral is: horns have to go in pair, like nuts (other terrible pun, I can’t resist...)
I like it that it varies over their career how much horns there are. (You don't mention their earlier days.)
At the moment, if it could become obtainable, I would very much like to have a studio album of new songs which would explore the use of three guitars (Mick Taylor counted in). This as the dominant feature.
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The Joker
Forgive the terrible pun...
But fact is: the 1978 and 1981-82 tours witnessed some deleveraging on the horn section... 1978 had almost no wind section at all, nada, and 1981-82 tours had only a saxophone... Remember some wannabe critics saying already at that time it was a good time the Stones stripped down, and do without that Exile on Main Street brass that sounded too much funky soul music in their squared mind...
I disagreed. However, I think one horn only is awkward. Listening to the single saxophone of 1981-82 I feel sorry for it to be alone, quite drowned in that ocean of guitars. Moral is: horns have to go in pair, like nuts (other terrible pun, I can’t resist...)
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jamesfdouglas
The 75-76 tours didn't have horns either.
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letitloose
The thing that annoys me is why Bobby Keys was left off most of the latter day recordings. For example Rough Justice was crying out for a rip snorting sax solo, to push it over the edge. Why didn't they bother?
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Silver Dagger
Punk was all about stripping excess fat off rock'n'roll and the Stones listened and learned....for a while.
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2000 LYFH
They finally got some Satisfaction...