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Do you know where my copy was released, Mike?
I thought it was a british release...
Near the bottom of the page: [www.iorr.org]
video: [en.wikipedia.org]
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DandelionPowderman
Do you know where my copy was released, Mike?
I thought it was a british release...
Near the bottom of the page: [www.iorr.org]
video: [en.wikipedia.org]
It's none of those. "Made in England" 1968, with only SFM and No Expectations.
I think my copy is the UK release, made for export to Denmark.
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DandelionPowderman
Do you know where my copy was released, Mike?
I thought it was a british release...
Near the bottom of the page: [www.iorr.org]
video: [en.wikipedia.org]
It's none of those. "Made in England" 1968, with only SFM and No Expectations.
I think my copy is the UK release, made for export to Denmark.
There were a few singles that were pressed in England for export and yours is one of them. It originally came with a picture sleeve. See here: [www.45cat.com]
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Hats off to Silver Dagger and with sssoul for two brilliant posts!
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Hats off to Silver Dagger and with sssoul for two brilliant posts!
Indeed! Was is the pure brilliance of those two posts, which made me wordless, or what, but I seemingly missed this week of Rene's talk...
This is the soundtrack song of that crazy year 1968... The Stones probably would not be so urgent and reflecting the zeitgeist as they then were with this song. If there is ever a use for the term 'relevance', it applies just here. If the Beatles had it with "All You Need Is Love" a year earlier, and the Stones never ould quite fit to the scene of flower power, the violent happenings, student radicalism, and teh counter-culture aggression of 1968 were just like made to fit to their sound. Like they were waiting the times to change and be right for them and their raw, blues-based, primitive sound...
As a song this must be one of the most brilliant fruits of classical Jagger/Richards teamwork, both of them simply in top of their game. All those experiments, Keith providing roughly the music and Mick finishing the melody line and giving the lyrics - trying to initially create an original-sounding r&b number, even though more naturally ending up doing pop ballads, then heading for any wild idea in pop music spectrum and experimentalsim - all of that is brought happily home here. The result is straight to to the point, every little detail in recording is a sign of brilliance and determination - so mature, so original. This is a bastard child of Delta and Chicago, an up-dated realization of the blues masters urge to capture the moment and feel. Have Keith Richards ever put all he knows so perfectly on those magnificient chords with that idiosyncratic timing and touch of his - has his his guitar sounded ever so threatening and mean as it does here - just with an acoustic? Or has Jagger sounded so mean with such an apt lyrical content - every line being like a provocative statement of its own? But still one can hear traces of the Swingin' London and LSD trips on the way to get there. And probably some listenings of THE VELVET UNDERGROUND AND NICO.
The threat, danger, aggression, provocation - both the lyrics and music going hand in hand, making the same point. "Street Fighting Man" is one of ultimate rock and roll recordings - and one of the key songs in creating the idea of the Stones as world's most dangerous rock and roll band.
It is the original studio version I have talked about. And there is the live version, an animal of its own, so wonderfully world-premiered in YA-YA'S - a gig highlight ever since, many times played as a final number, the band putting there all energy they ever have, every last drop of energy they have, when the show reaches its orgastic climax.
Without "Street Fighting Man" the legacy and idea of The Stones would be much lesser. Despite the fact that Jagger (ROLLING STONE interview, 1995) doesn't seem to appriacate the song very much any longer, or that the band has dropped the song from war horses list to be played every night.
Did I say I like it? Hmm, yeah...
- Doxa
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CMH516
Never understood why this one didn't achieve "War horse" status. Always a live highlight and clearly one that modern day Keith loves playing.
The Ya Yas version may be Taylor's finest moment as a Stone.
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EJM
Keith needs to be "on" for this one so maybe Mick is not always sure it's secure live. Also - the politics....
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CMH516
Never understood why this one didn't achieve "War horse" status. Always a live highlight and clearly one that modern day Keith loves playing.
The Ya Yas version may be Taylor's finest moment as a Stone.
It did, as it was their encore. Eventually, they chose to omit SFM to avoid too many warhorses, it seems.
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CMH516
Never understood why this one didn't achieve "War horse" status. Always a live highlight and clearly one that modern day Keith loves playing.
The Ya Yas version may be Taylor's finest moment as a Stone.
It did, as it was their encore. Eventually, they chose to omit SFM to avoid too many warhorses, it seems.
I think Mick took the decision in the 90s because he felt the lyrics were dated. He didn't have to wait long for them to become relevant again with anti-globilisation marches and sit-ins, and general anger against the banking institutions and general capitalist fat cats.
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Never understood why this one didn't achieve "War horse" status. Always a live highlight and clearly one that modern day Keith loves playing.
The Ya Yas version may be Taylor's finest moment as a Stone.
It did, as it was their encore. Eventually, they chose to omit SFM to avoid too many warhorses, it seems.
I think Mick took the decision in the 90s because he felt the lyrics were dated. He didn't have to wait long for them to become relevant again with anti-globilisation marches and sit-ins, and general anger against the banking institutions and general capitalist fat cats.
But why did he choose to open with it on all the arena shows on the Licks tour?
It is a bit of a mystery how they eventually treated this gem...
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Let's see for ourselves on the next leg of the tour
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GasLightStreet
They clammed it big time on the URBAN JUNGLE tour.
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Naturalust
Can't think of another tune where acoustic guitar was used to such stunning effect. I often wonder with awe just what was in the air in 1968 that caused such a huge number of great songs to be conceived and recorded. An amazingly fertile period for good rock and roll, imo. peace
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Can't think of another tune where acoustic guitar was used to such stunning effect. I often wonder with awe just what was in the air in 1968 that caused such a huge number of great songs to be conceived and recorded. An amazingly fertile period for good rock and roll, imo. peace
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Can't think of another tune where acoustic guitar was used to such stunning effect. I often wonder with awe just what was in the air in 1968 that caused such a huge number of great songs to be conceived and recorded. An amazingly fertile period for good rock and roll, imo. peace
so true
Yes. "Street Fighting Man" really uplifts acoustic guitar to another level as a rock and roll instrument. A leading instrument to drive a hard rocking song, which leaves no hostages. It was novel then and as rare ever since.
It could be as well Keith's greatest rhythm guitar constribution on a record ever. As that Wall Street Journal article - I recommend everyone to read it, if not yet done (thanks Kyle M) - Keith also knows hitting something essential there.
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bitusa2012
Posted before, and I know I must be odd - but I like the Hyde Park 2013 show the best....yep, even better that GYYYO and all other versions I have ... the way Keith goes out onto the runway whilst driving the riff down, down, down, DOWN ... gee I love it. There is just something about that version...don't know, its just primal - and PRIME Stones