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Rockman
For me the Dylan reference has always been an odd claim. There's so much going on with that cover that the claim seems spurious at best. People always love to find meanings where they aren't. Is there ever a quote from the Stones to back this up?
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schillid
Is that the same as a burro? And is a burrito a small donkey?
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nightskyman
Was not the original cover, featuring a marijuana cigarette, screwed up?
I've never heard that, or NeddieFlanders's (love that name!) claim that the working title was Charlie Is Good Tonight, but I've been wrong before.
I've never heard that about the album title either but Ethan Russell took this as a potential album cover only to have it turned down by Mick because of the joint on the hat's brim.
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grzegorz67
It's always struck me as bizarre that the band should go all the way to Birminghsm to film this on a completed but at the time (1970?) not yet open section of the M6 motorway. I know that spot very well and pass it every time I go to my native Scotland, 3-4 times a year. It's now a complete nightmare and full of traffic jams
The Brummies on here will know this spot even better than me.
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grzegorz67
It's always struck me as bizarre that the band should go all the way to Birminghsm to film this on a completed but at the time (1970?) not yet open section of the M6 motorway. I know that spot very well and pass it every time I go to my native Scotland, 3-4 times a year. It's now a complete nightmare and full of traffic jams
The Brummies on here will know this spot even better than me.
It's actually the Gravelly Hill Interchange aka Spaghetti Junction, construction of which started in 1968 and was finally opened to traffic in May 1972.
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wonderboy
Probably because Mick and Charlie like working together. Charlie is interested in design issues like stage design and album covers, and him and Mick click together personally.
I thought Charlie smacked Mick in the face as he didn't like being referred to as 'the drummer'.
It was "my drummer," and the alleged punchout occurred about 25 years later, during the making of Dirty Work.
Charlie was an angry heroin addict.
"Don't ever call me your drummer again. You're my @#$%& singer." - Charlie Watts
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lem motlow
as eddie murphy once said"ya'll some funny mthrfckers"
i love bob dylan but this is like one of those conversations you have when smoking a joint with people who grew up in the 60's -"you see man.it's a use of dylan imagery,like they brought the donkey and the glasses just like the song ".. as if the stones were thinking about some of dylans word salad when they made the cover of ya ya'a...
here's what the cover is-even thought the little guy is a donkey they are using him for a "pack mule"-the pack mule was used to carry supplies,water, food and whatever was needed for a journey.armies even used them to pull small cannons in the old days.
the stones are using the "pack mule" to travel putting their equipment on his back-the picture is literally taken ON THE ROAD.a happy charlie along side of course.a mule is a cross between a male donkey and a female horse and they are strong as all hell.[once when visiting texas i asked why everyone who had horses had a mule standing around with them.the reason was they protect the horses-they will kick, bite and do everything they can to scare off or even fight off wolves and coyotes.]
this photo began the tradition of the band using images of travelling in anything to due with a tour[blimps,chinese working ladies pointing the way for rv's,planes with eagle talons,flatbed trucks]but it all started with the little donkey playing pack mule with the bands equipment on the road with charlie.
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It was "my drummer," and the alleged punchout occurred about 25 years later, during the making of Dirty Work.
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grzegorz67
It's always struck me as bizarre that the band should go all the way to Birmingham to film this on a completed but at the time (1970?) not yet open section of the M6 motorway. I know that spot very well and pass it every time I go to my native Scotland, 3-4 times a year. It's now a complete nightmare and full of traffic jams
The Brummies on here will know this spot even better than me.
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schillid
Is that the same as a burro? And is a burrito a small donkey?
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emotionalbarbecue
Burro means donkey. There is other spanish term for Donkey: Asno
Burrito is little donkey.
Mula means Mule. You can equally use "Mula" or "Mulo"
Caballo means Horse
Yegua means Mare
Donkey x Mare = Mulo/Mula
Horse x Mule = Burdégano
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James Kirk
The greatest album cover of all time