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Silver Dagger
As guitar solos go they don’t get much better than that sublime, searing, beacon of sound
that shoots like a laser beam from Keith’s guitar to our speakers at 2.52 for 40 seconds and that simply floors everything in its path.
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marcovandereijk
I don't know where to begin this track talk. Words can never describe what is going on
when this song is played.
I love this occasion, where all original musicians involved in a live setting.
It proves all persons wrong who say that A Quick One While he's Away was the highlight
of the evening:
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with sssoul
"B-52G 58-0256 collided with the refueling boom of Troubadour 14 (KC-135A 61-0273).
The boom penetrated the bomber’s fuselage, broke structural members and the left wing broke off.
The B-52 exploded. The tanker, on fire, went into a steep dive. At 1,600 feet (488 meters), it also exploded.
The four crew men aboard the fully-loaded tanker were killed. Three of the seven men on the B-52 ejected,
and the co-pilot, who was not in an ejection seat, literally fell out of the disintegrating bomber.
The navigator’s parachute did not open and he was killed. Three others were unable to escape and were also killed.
As the B-52 broke apart, the four nuclear bombs it carried in the bomb bay fell free."
[www.thisdayinaviation.com]
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with sssoul
There was a good discussion on the forums for that on-line Stones course about that very puzzling line
about troubadours, which we've discussed a few times here as well: [www.iorr.org] , [www.iorr.org] , [www.iorr.org]
Then someone pointed out a 1966 military aircraft accident that was huge news in Europe at the time,
in which four nuclear bombs got dropped on Spain. One of the aircraft involved was called - dig this - Troubadour 14:
"B-52G 58-0256 collided with the refueling boom of Troubadour 14 (KC-135A 61-0273).
The boom penetrated the bomber’s fuselage, broke structural members and the left wing broke off.
The B-52 exploded. The tanker, on fire, went into a steep dive. At 1,600 feet (488 meters), it also exploded.
The four crew men aboard the fully-loaded tanker were killed. Three of the seven men on the B-52 ejected,
and the co-pilot, who was not in an ejection seat, literally fell out of the disintegrating bomber.
The navigator’s parachute did not open and he was killed. Three others were unable to escape and were also killed.
As the B-52 broke apart, the four nuclear bombs it carried in the bomb bay fell free."
[www.thisdayinaviation.com]
Anyone willing to imagine a 1966 Jagger not-quite-listening to the news when that was reported
and forming an indelibly resonant mental image of troubadours and Bombay that stuck with him
even after he got the real story straight? and that image, plus words with a mouth-feel too good to waste,
came to mind when he needed a romantic, resonant, historical, wicked line?
Someone should ask him :E
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Silver Dagger
This from the NME's 20 Things You Didn't Know About Sympathy For The Devil
At the original recording at London’s Olympic Studios, the chant of “woo-woo” started in the control room,
kicked off by producer Jimmy Miller and a group including Anita Pallenburg, Marianne Faithful
and a coterie of “elite film crowd” who’d turn up at the studio to sing along to whatever the Stones were recording that day.
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marcovandereijk
Posted before on this board for sure, but it deserves a place in this track talk:
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duke richardson
guitar players- ...what do you think? the attack, the tone , the playing.. Keith's best?
I think so..but I aint a guitar player
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duke richardson
guitar players- ...what do you think? the attack, the tone , the playing.. Keith's best?
I think so..but I aint a guitar player