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Lovely interview! But we need a few more songs from you for the new album, Keith.
Keith already used all his stuff on Crosseyed Heart, how many original and new songs can he write on 1-2 years?
He wrote 12-13 songs on a 10 years frame (2005-2015), the best we can hope is 1-2 new Keith songs and the rest will be "the best" of Mick's solo demos from the last 5 years.
He could write 3 or 4 simple rock songs in a week, if he bothered, I'd say. It's Mick who does most of the shaping anyway, isn't it?
It looks like they want GREAT and DIFFERENT stuff this time, a Bridges To Babylon style but updated 20 years.
After the boring/generic ABB and the blues album, they are looking for a more different stuff than than simple rock songs.
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KRiffhard
... 'High or Low' (BTB sessions) ...
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KRiffhard
... 'High or Low' (BTB sessions) ...
I don't think I know of that one. Does it exist? What bootleg please, if you have that info?
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KRiffhard
... 'High or Low' (BTB sessions) ...
I don't think I know of that one. Does it exist? What bootleg please, if you have that info?
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Richards has his own answer to the issue. "I'm black as the ace of @#$%& spades, man," he says, deadpan. "Ask any of the brothers." He continues, "I didn't know what color these people were, as a kid. I don't think of blues as being of any particular color at all. Obviously, its history. But there were white slaves, as well. There have been plenty of work songs from way back. Try Egypt. Quite Jewish, actually. You know, people have been doing this since history began."
please tell me he didn't really say that-oh ...damn.he's been living in this bubble for so many years that it's like austin powers where he shows up in the future and still thinks he's a hip cool guy.
or your old crazy uncle that doesn't know that people just don't say things like that anymore .he actually means well but...i'm just gonna cringe now.
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maumau
yes that would be great, at least in theory.
I have to give credit to Mick for the fact that he wants to put forward something that would not be immediately recognizable as "stones sound" as he is quoted saying in the RS article. It is a good ambition for a band that wants to be "alive" not only in concerts/archive/retrospective.
having said that I must admit I have serious doubts and problems about what Mick's tastes are and what he considers relevant in today's music. I remember being excited about the choice of the Dust Bros as producers for BTB. They had been praised for their work on Beck's Odelay the year before and it was a great move on Mick's part to call them, in theory. Because actually their contribute was I think minimal and watered down by the band's dynamics. They were not much more than a trademark on the booklet.
So what's on Mick's mind soundwise? He has never been "intellectual" or "trends savvy" as Bowie or Reed or others. So I am a little bit nervous about the eclecticism he says he wants for the next album.
I am eager to take the risk and listen though!
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hopkins
He didn't know 'what color these people were' when he was a kid because the artists weren't right there on the front cover of most every album he ever had. It's complicated.
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Richards has his own answer to the issue. "I'm black as the ace of @#$%& spades, man," he says, deadpan. "Ask any of the brothers." He continues, "I didn't know what color these people were, as a kid. I don't think of blues as being of any particular color at all. Obviously, its history. But there were white slaves, as well. There have been plenty of work songs from way back. Try Egypt. Quite Jewish, actually. You know, people have been doing this since history began."
please tell me he didn't really say that-oh ...damn.he's been living in this bubble for so many years that it's like austin powers where he shows up in the future and still thinks he's a hip cool guy.
or your old crazy uncle that doesn't know that people just don't say things like that anymore .he actually means well but...i'm just gonna cringe now.
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gotdablouse
Yeah, I'm not sure what the issue is, political correctness ? It's not like he used the N word, right ?
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maumau
yes that would be great, at least in theory.
I have to give credit to Mick for the fact that he wants to put forward something that would not be immediately recognizable as "stones sound" as he is quoted saying in the RS article. It is a good ambition for a band that wants to be "alive" not only in concerts/archive/retrospective.
having said that I must admit I have serious doubts and problems about what Mick's tastes are and what he considers relevant in today's music. I remember being excited about the choice of the Dust Bros as producers for BTB. They had been praised for their work on Beck's Odelay the year before and it was a great move on Mick's part to call them, in theory. Because actually their contribute was I think minimal and watered down by the band's dynamics. They were not much more than a trademark on the booklet.
So what's on Mick's mind soundwise? He has never been "intellectual" or "trends savvy" as Bowie or Reed or others. So I am a little bit nervous about the eclecticism he says he wants for the next album.
I am eager to take the risk and listen though!
i didn't read the article because i don't click on anything to do with rolling stone magazine but if mick is saying he wants to do something "different" "original" or "contemporary" -i can promise you the record will suck.
how many times does he have to learn the same lesson over and over again? when he tries to "take the music somewhere new" it takes the music into a ditch.
there are three kinds of songs-
1.good
2-just o.k
3.terrible
making something different doesn't change any of that.bridges was different,superheavy was different.
making some original sound has no bearing on whether it's any good or not.
he should be worrying about singing from the heart,playing like they mean it and making songs people really want to hear.keith would probably want to spend more time writing with him if he'd loosen up and just write,jam and make good music instead of trying to create these artistic and political statements that nobody cares about.
if jagger wants different because he"s bored with the stones sound then pack it in and go reform superheavy,just don't put us through another failed attempt at reinventing the wheel.
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do u feel bad? it's ok not to care for the stones anymore
guess I know what Keith means... He's soulful, loves music, he's really cool, etc. identifies with, hangs with, etc...Quote
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"I'm black as the ace of fucking spades, man. Ask any of the brothers."
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The Rolling Stones Share Update on That Other New Album
11/17/2016 by Joe Lynch
Evan Agostini/Invision/AP
The Rolling Stones, from left, Ronnie Wood, Keith Richards, Mick Jagger and Charlie Watts attend the opening night party for "Exhibitionism" at Industria on Nov. 15, 2016 in New York.
The Rolling Stones, still going strong after 54 years, are set to release their all-covers album of blues classics and deep cuts, Blue & Lonesome, on Dec. 2.
While a new Rolling Stones album in 2016 might seem like a small miracle in its own right (their previous LP was 2005's A Bigger Bang), there's actually yet another new Rolling Stones album on the horizon…albeit, a very distant horizon.
The Stones started working on new, original material during the Blue & Lonesome sessions, but ended up veering off on a blues tangent almost immediately.
"The reason we hit into the blues stuff was we were in a new studio and in new rooms, it always takes a while to adjust to sounds," Keith Richards tells Billboard at the opening party for the New York edition of their career retrospective Exhibitionism. "So I said to Ronnie [Wood] and Mick [Jagger], 'Let's just hit into the blues,' something we're all familiar with to get the sound together. It came together so quickly and so well, suddenly Mick said, 'Well in that case, let's do this Howlin' Wolf song,' and one led to another and before we knew it we had an album without any intention of doing it."
"That's what we were working on when we decided to cut these blues songs," guitarist Ronnie Wood tells Billboard of the unfinished originals. "The blues songs that we played we hit it once or twice maximum and cut it, so we had an album in two or three days. The new material will take a while to sit and reshape."
As for when the always-busy Stones might get back together to finish that album of originals, Mick Jagger tells Billboard it could be a while, but it's on the docket. "I was working on it quite recently. We've got a long way to go, but I think it sounds really great and I'm looking forward to carrying on with that."
When asked if the Stones might return to the new songs in 2017, Jagger says, "Yeah, I hope so"; Wood also predicts "next year" will see them back in the studio.
Richards, however, is slightly less optimistic about when it might see the light of day: "Well, man, you know, I'm not Nostradamus," he laughs.
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mattstones
I don't find anything offensive about Keith's comments. It is not racist at all.
This over the top political correctness is exactly what people around the world are getting totally sick and tired of.