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Socrates1
I always forget all the times Keith played bass in the studio. I think Keith was the driving musical force up until the Undercover era. Probably Bill's greatest riffs were from the 60s. Under My Thumb may have been his greatest moment. You have their classic 60s sound on that one, with Keith on guitar and Brian as the utility player.
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JerkyLittleGIJoe
Undercover-yes...ER- no, that was Ron Wood
Robbie Shakespeare on Undercover.
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StonesNYc
Bill played on so few tracks with The Stones after the 1960's. Keith played most of the good ones.
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StonesNYc
Bill played on so few tracks with The Stones after the 1960's. Keith played most of the good ones.
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StonesNYc
Bill played on so few tracks with The Stones after the 1960's. Keith played most of the good ones.
Bill is on every track of Sticky Fingers, so you must not think much of Brown Sugar, Bitch, or Moonlight Mile. He is on the intro track to Exile, Rocks Off.
He is on Angie. On Black and Blue he is on 6 of the 8 tracks, including Hot Stuff, Hey Negrita, and Memory Motel. On Some Girls Bill plays bass on every major track except Some Girl itself and Shattered. She's So Cold, Start Me Up, Waiting On A Friend, Harlem Shuffle, Mixed Emotions, Blinded By Love, Terrifying, Slipping Away, these must have been shit recordings per your estimation.
Please provide a list, Happy, etc., where Keith played bass, because they'd have to be better than the songs listed above.
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roller99
If you could ask Bill Wyman anything, seeing as there's so much controversy here, what would it be?
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tomk
Sad that Keith (or Mick) has never really acknowledged, or even realised, how important he was to the band.
There was a Bobby Keys story lately of how him and Keith were in the Caribbean hanging out, listening to old Stones music and they both were marveling at how great a bass player Bill was. Maybe it took some distance. Maybe it took realizing what their sound lost when he retired.
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StonesNYc
Bill played on so few tracks with The Stones after the 1960's. Keith played most of the good ones.
Bill is on every track of Sticky Fingers, so you must not think much of Brown Sugar, Bitch, or Moonlight Mile. He is on the intro track to Exile, Rocks Off.
He is on Angie. On Black and Blue he is on 6 of the 8 tracks, including Hot Stuff, Hey Negrita, and Memory Motel. On Some Girls Bill plays bass on every major track except Some Girl itself and Shattered. She's So Cold, Start Me Up, Waiting On A Friend, Harlem Shuffle, Mixed Emotions, Blinded By Love, Terrifying, Slipping Away, these must have been shit recordings per your estimation.
Please provide a list, Happy, etc., where Keith played bass, because they'd have to be better than the songs listed above.
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Come On
Ronnie also is an old-school-bass-player from the sixties...superb as Always...
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roller99
I have another question for all you experts here. How does everyone know that Bill didn't play on a bunch of these tracks, that his work was wiped out and re-done by KR?
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roller99
I have another question for all you experts here. How does everyone know that Bill didn't play on a bunch of these tracks, that his work was wiped out and re-done by KR?
I don't think anybody said Bill's bass was wiped and redone by Keith or Woody on anything. On tracks where Keith is credited as having played bass, it was probably just a matter of Keith having an idea and maybe Bill was not around so he just went ahead and did it. Bill's playing has always been excellent so I'm sure that if his bass part already existed, there would be no reason for someone else to redo it.
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Come On
Ronnie also is an old-school-bass-player from the sixties...superb as Always...
what do you mean by 'old-school bass player from the Sixties' ?
he did play bass then but not sure what was old-school about it..
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roller99
I have another question for all you experts here. How does everyone know that Bill didn't play on a bunch of these tracks, that his work was wiped out and re-done by KR?
I don't think anybody said Bill's bass was wiped and redone by Keith or Woody on anything. On tracks where Keith is credited as having played bass, it was probably just a matter of Keith having an idea and maybe Bill was not around so he just went ahead and did it. Bill's playing has always been excellent so I'm sure that if his bass part already existed, there would be no reason for someone else to redo it.
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lem motlow
records mean nothing-the true test of a great band is live-
bills greatness lies in that lockdown rhythm section-richards-wyman-watts
nobody and i mean nobody has ever played like that .three guys in lockstep,the guitar player setting the tempo and the bass and drums following the rhythm of a guitar and moving and shifting with it.
it's in time/out of time you dont know what the fck you're even hearing.all you know is it's a runaway freight train with a madman in eyeshadow at the wheel-
class dismissed.