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Doxa
One of the graetest rock and roll performances ever caught on record. Maybe the most vital one ever.
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Doxa
One of the greatest rock and roll performances ever caught on record. Maybe the most vital one ever.
- Doxa
Sorry but that's 'Like a Rolling Stone' with Bob Dylan from 'Highway 61 Revisited'....
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I know I’m gonna be Exiled from the IORR for writing this, but I gotta be honest, I don’t especially dig Rocks Off. I mean, it’s okay and all, and there are some nice country-blues licks in there, but I certainly don’t get what all the fuss is about. So sue me.
The opening riff sounds tentative and mushy, and when Jagger comes in he sounds beaten down and depressed. To be sure, that dispirited Jagger voice works brilliantly in the context of their finest ballads (for example, the vastly superior Moonlight Mile, which has similar lyrical themes to Rocks Off), but his torpor here deflates the experience of Rocks Off, as opposed to elevating it. None of the other members of the band, with the exception of Charlie, sound particularly awake or thrilled to be here. And to make matters worse, when those rather shrill horns come in (as they do far too often on the rest of Exile as well) they seem to imply that the Stones themselves are too zonked out to carry the song without some outside assistance.
Is this song meant to get the adrenaline pumping? If so, it fails, at least for me. Or is it meant to be a downer? If so, it succeeds.
Drew
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DandelionPowderman
<Is this song meant to get the adrenaline pumping? If so, it fails, at least for me. Or is it meant to be a downer? If so, it succeeds.>
It's both, I'd say.
The verses and the bridge are kinda melancholic. The choruses are upbeat.
However, the general mood of this song is dark, very dark.
It's your opinion, and that's fine. This song takes me places, and the recording is near perfection for me.
The transition from the bridge to "the sunshine bores..." is a showcase in dynamics, so brilliantly executed, that I suspect it to be art by accident
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DandelionPowderman
<Is this song meant to get the adrenaline pumping? If so, it fails, at least for me. Or is it meant to be a downer? If so, it succeeds.>
It's both, I'd say.
The verses and the bridge are kinda melancholic. The choruses are upbeat.
However, the general mood of this song is dark, very dark.
It's your opinion, and that's fine. This song takes me places, and the recording is near perfection for me.
The transition from the bridge to "the sunshine bores..." is a showcase in dynamics, so brilliantly executed, that I suspect it to be art by accident
It's dark but not that dark. Not as dark as Midnight Rambler, Gimme Shelter or Sister Morphine. It was probably written after they stayed up all night partying somewhere in or around Nellcote. They've got together to write a song, the Meditteranean summer sunshine is fierce and they're just coming to terms with the day. Hey, we've all been there.
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Eleanor Rigby
Ive always wondered what the point of the Taylor solo at the end of the song..while the sound is being lowered and at the very end..
I wonder how long the song continued on and if it ended with one long jam..
be nice to hear.
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Eleanor Rigby
Ive always wondered what the point of the Taylor solo at the end of the song..while the sound is being lowered and at the very end..
I wonder how long the song continued on and if it ended with one long jam..
be nice to hear.
I'm pretty sure he played along all the way, but that they decided to have two rhythm guitars instead, until the ending..
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Eleanor Rigby
Ive always wondered what the point of the Taylor solo at the end of the song..while the sound is being lowered and at the very end..
I wonder how long the song continued on and if it ended with one long jam..
be nice to hear.
I'm pretty sure he played along all the way, but that they decided to have two rhythm guitars instead, until the ending..
but why introduce the little trill so late..just seems pointless and doesnt add much to the song.
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Eleanor Rigby
Ive always wondered what the point of the Taylor solo at the end of the song..while the sound is being lowered and at the very end..
I wonder how long the song continued on and if it ended with one long jam..
be nice to hear.
I'm pretty sure he played along all the way, but that they decided to have two rhythm guitars instead, until the ending..
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Eleanor Rigby
Ive always wondered what the point of the Taylor solo at the end of the song..while the sound is being lowered and at the very end..
I wonder how long the song continued on and if it ended with one long jam..
be nice to hear.
I'm pretty sure he played along all the way, but that they decided to have two rhythm guitars instead, until the ending..
That reminds me of the old joke that Taylor would solo from A to Z - from the start of a song all the way to the finish and they would just snip out the bits they needed and throw out the rest.
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DandelionPowderman
He probably didn't. Wasn't his track audible on the Nicky Hopkins-mixes, btw?
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DandelionPowderman
He probably didn't. Wasn't his track audible on the Nicky Hopkins-mixes, btw?
Yeah you hear more of his sliding doublestops (or whatever its called)earlier in the track, but not more of the solo at the end.
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Eleanor Rigby
Ive always wondered what the point of the Taylor solo at the end of the song..while the sound is being lowered and at the very end..
I wonder how long the song continued on and if it ended with one long jam..
be nice to hear.
I'm pretty sure he played along all the way, but that they decided to have two rhythm guitars instead, until the ending..
That reminds me of the old joke that Taylor would solo from A to Z - from the start of a song all the way to the finish and they would just snip out the bits they needed and throw out the rest.
He he
He probably didn't. Wasn't his track audible on the Nicky Hopkins-mixes, btw?