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Elmo Lewis
If it is truly a raw blues album, I think it will be great.
But..... here are a few things that could mess it up:
1. Clapton playing more than Keith and Ronnie.
2. Don overproducing it.
3. If it is a "return to blues" in name only ala Rod's last 10 "I'm getting back to mandolins and acoustics" albums.
Also, I'd love a couple of (bluesy) originals with the standards.
I just can't stand anything he has done (Dylan, Nelson, Black Crowes etc), and I was hoping they would get someone new for this album who could get the boys out of their comfort zone, not to do something new, but to do something that is less bombastic. Bigger Bang is the worst Stones album. Overproduced, in-your-face, very loud and full, weak songs that feel like outtakes...
There was a time when Jack White's name was quite often mentioned as a possible producer... That would have been interesting...
Unfortunately Don Was is still not past tense.
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Elmo Lewis
If it is truly a raw blues album, I think it will be great.
But..... here are a few things that could mess it up:
1. Clapton playing more than Keith and Ronnie.
2. Don overproducing it.
3. If it is a "return to blues" in name only ala Rod's last 10 "I'm getting back to mandolins and acoustics" albums.
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Rocky Dijon
A guess (educated or otherwise) would be that releasing the blues album six months before an album of new material is a marketing decision. That way you can spin the new material as the product of the band returning to their roots and reconnecting to their past. That works better than releasing a pricey 2-disc set that won't sell huge numbers anyway or offering the blues disc as an iTunes exclusive and run the risk of people saying they prefer the old blues songs to an album of new material. This marketing plan lets both releases stand alone and support one another independently as part of the prepackaged story "we got back together for the 50th anniversary and after playing live for four years, went back to our roots did this record and then look at what amazing new material resulted once the band was on fire." [Never mind the fact that most of the songs will have been written and demoed with Matt Clifford six years before they were released and that the rest of the band just added overdubs. And in fairness, yes, Keith did some demos with Steve Jordan earlier this year as well.]
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jumpontopofmebaby
The band in a circle playing the blues in a studio with Eric "slow hand " Clapton sitting in on a few songs. Then throw in Mick on the harmonica.
Nothing could screw this up....this will be as good as it gets.
And what I have waiting for ..for a long long time.
Agreed. Not only am I looking forward to this but I'm already hoping for the expanded version to be released with a dvd of the sessions. I mean, the album is going to have +/- 12-15 tunes on it. Yet they supposedly recorded over the course of three days. How many other tunes did they play? How many alternate versions of the same tunes? Yeah, sign me up for the expanded version, outtakes and bootlegs of those three days. I'd put that right up there with any recordings of the jam sessions that Keith organized with Bill back in 2012 ('11?) on my list of Holy Grail recordings.
Peace,
Mr DJA
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lem motlow
i said they would never do a blues cover album because Keith said he wouldn't do one for a solo record.
i went back and looked on the "ask Keith" section of his website and he said something like "i can't be furay lewis or robert johnson and there are other cats out there who do that stuff really well,it's only a part of what i do"
i wonder what changed his mind?maybe because it was the stones,i don't know.if we're lucky they won't use the clapton stuff because the guys a walking cliche`and they'll throw a couple of rockers on there-then we got us a good old fashioned authentic rolling stones album.
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lem motlow
Maybe they could call it "spontaneous desperation" wonderboy,ha ha
yeah, the image is Keith being more the blues guy,even though Rocky Dijon pretty much dropped a hand grenade on that notion in his post on page one.
The only thing i don't like about this is that we're going into our 12th year of no new Jagger/Richards.like alot of people i wanted to think maybe they'd gotten closer again late in life but it's not looking good.
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BoognishAlso, Charlie's stiff drumming could ruin it.Quote
Elmo Lewis
If it is truly a raw blues album, I think it will be great.
But..... here are a few things that could mess it up:
1. Clapton playing more than Keith and Ronnie.
2. Don overproducing it.
3. If it is a "return to blues" in name only ala Rod's last 10 "I'm getting back to mandolins and acoustics" albums.
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Rockman
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Stoneage
"Authentic"? How authentic can a bunch of billionaire limeys singing the blues be? Have they even ever seen a cotton field?
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"Authentic"? How authentic can a bunch...
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Whale
So did anybody find the interview with Don Was on the Le Figaro site?
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Elmo Lewis
If it is truly a raw blues album, I think it will be great.
But..... here are a few things that could mess it up:
1. Clapton playing more than Keith and Ronnie.
2. Don overproducing it.
3. If it is a "return to blues" in name only ala Rod's last 10 "I'm getting back to mandolins and acoustics" albums.
Also, I'd love a couple of (bluesy) originals with the standards.
I just can't stand anything he has done (Dylan, Nelson, Black Crowes etc), and I was hoping they would get someone new for this album who could get the boys out of their comfort zone, not to do something new, but to do something that is less bombastic. Bigger Bang is the worst Stones album. Overproduced, in-your-face, very loud and full, weak songs that feel like outtakes...
There was a time when Jack White's name was quite often mentioned as a possible producer... That would have been interesting...
Unfortunately Don Was is still not past tense.
A Bigger Bang was more under-produced than over-produced. Unfortunately, it didn't sound that well, imo.
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Stoneage
"Authentic"? How authentic can a bunch of billionaire limeys singing the blues be? Have they even ever seen a cotton field?