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GasLightStreet
100 Years Ago certainly does have hit-potential. It's a great song.
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DonParker
Basically it's a riff that has been played by Hendrix a zillion times before.
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DandelionPowderman
All artists have used that chord-progression. Hendrix certainly didn't invent it
I thought maybe he meant the short opening riff, though.
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DandelionPowderman
All artists have used that chord-progression. Hendrix certainly didn't invent it
I thought maybe he meant the short opening riff, though.
Yes, that's what I meant, my answer to Chris Fountain above. You also can hear Keith do it on SFTD, on YaYa's, the verses, and Hendrix, earlier, the Wind cries Mary etc. Sounds great.
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All artists have used that chord-progression. Hendrix certainly didn't invent it
I thought maybe he meant the short opening riff, though.
Yes, that's what I meant, my answer to Chris Fountain above. You also can hear Keith do it on SFTD, on YaYa's, the verses, and Hendrix, earlier, the Wind cries Mary etc. Sounds great.
It's an old country lick, though. It's nice anyway
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Redhotcarpet
He sott of did it on Mercy Mercy which the Stones covered and copied
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He sott of did it on Mercy Mercy which the Stones covered and copied
That's a different lick.
The Stones ignored chords and did an easier and simplified version of Covay's Mercy Mercy.
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GasLightStreet
100 Years Ago certainly does have hit-potential. It's a great song.
There is a major difference between a great song hiding in an album and a hit single with hooks that you end up hearing being played in shops or on radios of cars driving by.
I like it, but it's just not the kind of song that would have been a hit in 1973.
You may not like Angie, but it went to #1 on the singles charts. So it's hard to argue that 100 Years Ago would have been a "better" single.
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GasLightStreet
100 Years Ago certainly does have hit-potential. It's a great song.
There is a major difference between a great song hiding in an album and a hit single with hooks that you end up hearing being played in shops or on radios of cars driving by.
I like it, but it's just not the kind of song that would have been a hit in 1973.
You may not like Angie, but it went to #1 on the singles charts. So it's hard to argue that 100 Years Ago would have been a "better" single.
Of course 100 Years Ago wouldn't've gone to #1 like Angie did, which is the case for "better". Aside from that aspect, as good as Angie is, and it is excellent, it still sucks! 100 Years Ago is a million times better!
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GasLightStreet
100 Years Ago certainly does have hit-potential. It's a great song.
There is a major difference between a great song hiding in an album and a hit single with hooks that you end up hearing being played in shops or on radios of cars driving by.
I like it, but it's just not the kind of song that would have been a hit in 1973.
You may not like Angie, but it went to #1 on the singles charts. So it's hard to argue that 100 Years Ago would have been a "better" single.
Of course 100 Years Ago wouldn't've gone to #1 like Angie did, which is the case for "better". Aside from that aspect, as good as Angie is, and it is excellent, it still sucks! 100 Years Ago is a million times better!
Ha ha I don't agree, but I know what you mean. Good description.
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GasLightStreet
That's it, a love/hate for Angie. It is a great song. I just hate it. It's too schmaltzy. Look at what Mick said about it: It was definitely a change of pace for us, almost like a reaction to the harder sounds of Exile.
The problem is it's too much of a reaction to EXILE. Or even the wrong kind of reaction.
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HMS
They only did Angie to have a hit-song. But it is a shit-song. Exile produced no hit so they tried as hard as possible to create a chart-topper. They sacrificed their sound, their roots, their credibility, absolutely everything to have a chart-topping hit again. As they wanted a hit they´d never never ever released 100 as a single, 100 would have peaked at No 48 in the charts, I tell you.
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HMS
They only did Angie to have a hit-song. But it is a shit-song. Exile produced no hit so they tried as hard as possible to create a chart-topper. They sacrificed their sound, their roots, their credibility, absolutely everything to have a chart-topping hit again. As they wanted a hit they´d never never ever released 100 as a single, 100 would have peaked at No 48 in the charts, I tell you.
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HMS
Although Angie turned out to be the huge hit they hoped for, they do not very often perform it live, that makes me think they are not so very fond of it.
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Although Angie turned out to be the huge hit they hoped for, they do not very often perform it live, that makes me think they are not so very fond of it.
They sounded quite inspired when they played it live in Brussels '73. They gave it all they got, heart and soul, Jagger & Taylor in particular.
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HMS
They only did Angie to have a hit-song.
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HMS
This is very good indeed. So much better without the schmaltz of the original studio version. Mick´s performance is very impressive and so is the guitar-playing. Is this the version we can hear on the official Brussel-download? Was it part of the first or the second performance?