Tell Me :
Talk
so did I !
Resotele
The music and lyrics of this song are unreal. This song has always grabbed me tight. Keith's bratty riffing matches up quite nicely Mick's phrasing. Then that solo. It lifts you up, takes you to another place. Then it ends with a smack, back into Keith's bratty riffing.
Love it, love it, love it.
Are you saying that Jimmy is a monkey man, schillid?
The First Barbarians played segments of it live in 1974, though.
Totally agree. Always wondered how they would have arranged it for the '69 tour.
Here is what dandelionpowderman was referring to, you can hear bits in the song Shirley.
[youtu.be]
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 2016-11-18 01:19 by MingSubu.
That's how I see it too. Reveling, defiant, bemused--and hoping for an equal game partner--in down n dirty hedonistic decadence.
-swiss
It was rehearsed in 72 in Dallas though...
So true! LIB starts and finishes with two absolute masterpieces: not greats songs absolute masterpieces!
I wonder if anyone else in the rock has ever achieved such a tour de force?
I forget which instructor gave this recommendation for assembling a portfolio in the graphic arts (illustration, advertising, etc.):
Put your BEST PIECE FIRST.
Put the SECOND-BEST PIECE LAST.
Good advice...
And in 1969, the year of release!
Check out the great book about the 1969 USA Tour The True Adventures Of The Rolling Stones by Stanley Booth...
From www.nzentgraf.de :
28th October - 1st November: Laurel Canyon, California, basement of Stephen Stills’ house. Rehearsals for the upcoming US tour. Incl. songs played on the tour and
- Bad Boy (Eddy Taylor) -31.10.69; unverified
- Monkey Man (MJ/KR) -31.10.69; unverified
Don't Lie To Me.
www.rsundercover.eu
That's awesome! Never consciously thought of it that way, but instinctively it totally feels that way!
Talk about your favorite band.
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Re: What is Monkey Man About?
Posted by:
DandelionPowderman
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Date: November 17, 2016 13:55
I went straight to Amazon and bought it!
Re: What is Monkey Man About?
Posted by:
resotele
()
Date: November 17, 2016 14:37
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DandelionPowderman
I went straight to Amazon and bought it!
so did I !
Resotele
Re: What is Monkey Man About?
Posted by:
DandelionPowderman
()
Date: November 17, 2016 14:44
Quote
resoteleQuote
DandelionPowderman
I went straight to Amazon and bought it!
so did I !
Resotele
Re: What is Monkey Man About?
Posted by:
MingSubu
()
Date: November 17, 2016 14:51
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Silver Dagger
One thing's for sure - it's one of Keith's finest guitar moments.
The music and lyrics of this song are unreal. This song has always grabbed me tight. Keith's bratty riffing matches up quite nicely Mick's phrasing. Then that solo. It lifts you up, takes you to another place. Then it ends with a smack, back into Keith's bratty riffing.
Love it, love it, love it.
Re: What is Monkey Man* About?
Posted by:
schillid
()
Date: November 17, 2016 16:11
Jimmy Fallon skipped the Exhibition press conference the other night. His car pulled up to the pink carpet towards the end of the press conference. Jimmy's a good sport, even offering to *climb over the barricade to go across the street to pose for selfies, sign autographs.
I think Jimmy's arrival might have been a diversion so the Stones could leave little building across the street where the mini press conference was wrapping up through the back door undetected, drive around the block and enter the Exhibitionism show through Industria's back door.
Monkey Man
Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 2016-11-18 00:21 by schillid.
I think Jimmy's arrival might have been a diversion so the Stones could leave little building across the street where the mini press conference was wrapping up through the back door undetected, drive around the block and enter the Exhibitionism show through Industria's back door.
Monkey Man
Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 2016-11-18 00:21 by schillid.
Re: What is Monkey Man About?
Posted by:
keefriff99
()
Date: November 17, 2016 16:16
All I know is it's one of the few Stones songs that gives me goosebumps EVERY time I listen to it, and that's down to the instrumentation. Great lyrics, but it's the riffs, slide work, piano and drums that grab me by the balls every time.
Re: What is Monkey Man About?
Posted by:
DandelionPowderman
()
Date: November 17, 2016 16:25
Quote
schillid
Jimmy Fallon skipped the Exhibition press conference the other night. His car pulled up to the pink carpet towards the end of the press conference. Jimmy's a good sport, even offering to climb over the barricade to go across the street to pose for selfies, sign autographs.
I think Jimmy's arrival might have been a diversion so the Stones could leave little building across the street where the mini press conference was wrapping up through the back door undetected, drive around the block and enter the Exhibitionism show through Industria's back door.
Monkey Man
Are you saying that Jimmy is a monkey man, schillid?
Re: What is Monkey Man About?
Posted by:
slakka
()
Date: November 18, 2016 00:36
First played live in the freekin 90s!!
Thats the only sad and tragic element.
Thats the only sad and tragic element.
Re: What is Monkey Man About?
Posted by:
DandelionPowderman
()
Date: November 18, 2016 01:08
Quote
slakka
First played live in the freekin 90s!!
Thats the only sad and tragic element.
The First Barbarians played segments of it live in 1974, though.
Re: What is Monkey Man About?
Posted by:
MingSubu
()
Date: November 18, 2016 01:18
Quote
slakka
First played live in the freekin 90s!!
Thats the only sad and tragic element.
Totally agree. Always wondered how they would have arranged it for the '69 tour.
Here is what dandelionpowderman was referring to, you can hear bits in the song Shirley.
[youtu.be]
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 2016-11-18 01:19 by MingSubu.
Re: What is Monkey Man About?
Posted by:
tumbled
()
Date: November 18, 2016 03:21
I feel a need to bathe now
Re: What is Monkey Man About?
Posted by:
swiss
()
Date: November 18, 2016 05:46
Quote
matxil
I think it's comparable to Jumping Jack Flash, a surrealist fairy-tail, rather bleak (more like Christian Andersen than the Grimm brothers), basically saying "I'm a freak, I'm weird, I'm a complete mess, but I'm doing alright anyway".
That's how I see it too. Reveling, defiant, bemused--and hoping for an equal game partner--in down n dirty hedonistic decadence.
-swiss
Re: What is Monkey Man About?
Posted by:
35love
()
Date: November 18, 2016 05:59
"It takes one to know one"
and quite possibly, just maybe,
the best recorded song, ever.
I've said that once before, about Tumbling Dice.
In the top 10 of all time at least, to me.
Hard to narrow down these masterpieces in rankings.
and quite possibly, just maybe,
the best recorded song, ever.
I've said that once before, about Tumbling Dice.
In the top 10 of all time at least, to me.
Hard to narrow down these masterpieces in rankings.
Re: What is Monkey Man About?
Posted by:
dcba
()
Date: November 18, 2016 16:08
Quote
slakka
First played live in the freekin 90s!!
Thats the only sad and tragic element.
It was rehearsed in 72 in Dallas though...
Re: What is Monkey Man About?
Posted by:
MingSubu
()
Date: November 19, 2016 18:37
I think it was Sean Egans book, Let It Bleed, where it was mentioned that this track was recorded in Olympic's studio 2. Giving it a glossier/cleaner feel.
Re: What is Monkey Man About?
Posted by:
slakka
()
Date: November 19, 2016 21:44
Quote
MingSubuQuote
slakka
First played live in the freekin 90s!!
Thats the only sad and tragic element.
Totally agree. Always wondered how they would have arranged it for the '69 tour.
Right on!! I want it from Hyde Park and every after!
Re: What is Monkey Man About?
Posted by:
treaclefingers
()
Date: November 19, 2016 21:56
this amazing tune isnt even the best on the album...Let It Bleed plays like a greatest hits set.
Re: What is Monkey Man About?
Posted by:
HankM
()
Date: November 20, 2016 15:47
I'm a cold Italian pizza... ah... that's not really true... but... I could use a lemon squeeza
Re: What is Monkey Man About?
Posted by:
dcba
()
Date: November 20, 2016 16:58
Quote
treaclefingers
this amazing tune isnt even the best on the album...
So true! LIB starts and finishes with two absolute masterpieces: not greats songs absolute masterpieces!
I wonder if anyone else in the rock has ever achieved such a tour de force?
Re: What is Monkey Man About?
Posted by:
schillid
()
Date: November 20, 2016 20:54
Quote
dcbaQuote
treaclefingers
this amazing tune isnt even the best on the album...
So true! LIB starts and finishes with two absolute masterpieces: not greats songs absolute masterpieces!
I wonder if anyone else in the rock has ever achieved such a tour de force?
I forget which instructor gave this recommendation for assembling a portfolio in the graphic arts (illustration, advertising, etc.):
Put your BEST PIECE FIRST.
Put the SECOND-BEST PIECE LAST.
Good advice...
Re: What is Monkey Man About?
Posted by:
HankM
()
Date: November 20, 2016 21:29
LIB starts and finishes with two absolute masterpieces: not greats songs absolute masterpieces!
crazy great album... seriously crazy great album...
Live with me... that bass line... wow!
HONK HONK!!
crazy great album... seriously crazy great album...
Live with me... that bass line... wow!
HONK HONK!!
Re: What is Monkey Man About?
Posted by:
RipThisBone
()
Date: November 20, 2016 22:28
Quote
dcbaQuote
slakka
First played live in the freekin 90s!!
Thats the only sad and tragic element.
It was rehearsed in 72 in Dallas though...
And in 1969, the year of release!
Check out the great book about the 1969 USA Tour The True Adventures Of The Rolling Stones by Stanley Booth...
From www.nzentgraf.de :
28th October - 1st November: Laurel Canyon, California, basement of Stephen Stills’ house. Rehearsals for the upcoming US tour. Incl. songs played on the tour and
- Bad Boy (Eddy Taylor) -31.10.69; unverified
- Monkey Man (MJ/KR) -31.10.69; unverified
Re: What is Monkey Man About?
Posted by:
RipThisBone
()
Date: November 20, 2016 23:03
video: [youtu.be] MONKEY MAN with CHARLIE WATTS!
MSG 2003 official video MONKEY MAN focusing on CHARLIE.
What a drummer.....
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2016-11-20 23:11 by RipThisBone.
MSG 2003 official video MONKEY MAN focusing on CHARLIE.
What a drummer.....
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2016-11-20 23:11 by RipThisBone.
Re: What is Monkey Man About?
Posted by:
Britney
()
Date: November 21, 2016 02:01
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Rockman
Don't Lie To Me.
www.rsundercover.eu
Re: What is Monkey Man About?
Posted by:
ghostryder13
()
Date: November 21, 2016 06:29
that's what i always got from it too but forsome reason i always felt like Live with Me & Monkey Man were like a 2 part story.Quote
swissQuote
matxil
I think it's comparable to Jumping Jack Flash, a surrealist fairy-tail, rather bleak (more like Christian Andersen than the Grimm brothers), basically saying "I'm a freak, I'm weird, I'm a complete mess, but I'm doing alright anyway".
That's how I see it too. Reveling, defiant, bemused--and hoping for an equal game partner--in down n dirty hedonistic decadence.
-swiss
Re: What is Monkey Man About?
Posted by:
swiss
()
Date: November 21, 2016 08:48
Quote
ghostryder13that's what i always got from it too but forsome reason i always felt like Live with Me & Monkey Man were like a 2 part story.Quote
swissQuote
matxil
I think it's comparable to Jumping Jack Flash, a surrealist fairy-tail, rather bleak (more like Christian Andersen than the Grimm brothers), basically saying "I'm a freak, I'm weird, I'm a complete mess, but I'm doing alright anyway".
That's how I see it too. Reveling, defiant, bemused--and hoping for an equal game partner--in down n dirty hedonistic decadence.
-swiss
That's awesome! Never consciously thought of it that way, but instinctively it totally feels that way!
Re: What is Monkey Man About?
Posted by:
tookthatname
()
Date: November 22, 2016 16:07
Read somewhere years ago that a monkey man is a singer-frontman for a band. Makes a lot of sense for Mick
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