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The album is perfection. Is it the only post 60s album with Wyman on every cut?
Is that what he claims? I don't buy it...it sounds like a very well-rehearsed piece of music to me. The Stones aren't exactly natural "jammers". It's brilliant no matter how it came about, but then the Stones and those around them are known to embellish.Quote
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I've always found the comments from Mick Taylor etc about 'everyone was putting down their instruments' blah blah blah to be complete bullshit - does it SOUND like anyone put their instruments down?
NO.
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Its perfect in its imperfection, and it is a truly improvised jam at the end,where everyone is listening and playing off each other. It's Charlie that keeps it going into the jam, and Keith picks up next, then Bill - which is a nice example of their unique musical relationship, and how an improvised piece of music is built. Bobby and Taylor provide the leads, and the others intertwine around them.
There's no right or wrong when jamming, It's a jazz approach, but with a more blues-based style of music.
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GasLightStreet
I've always found the comments from Mick Taylor etc about 'everyone was putting down their instruments' blah blah blah to be complete bullshit - does it SOUND like anyone put their instruments down?
NO.
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GasLightStreet
I've always found the comments from Mick Taylor etc about 'everyone was putting down their instruments' blah blah blah to be complete bullshit - does it SOUND like anyone put their instruments down?
NO.
Couldn't it be that the original take was - cleverly - edited, like most of their studio cuts?
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I still can't believe that we had to wait (with the exception of it being performed in 1971 as a one-off per set list fanatics claims) until the Licks Tour to finally get this tune in concert.
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Its perfect in its imperfection, and it is a truly improvised jam at the end,where everyone is listening and playing off each other. It's Charlie that keeps it going into the jam, and Keith picks up next, then Bill - which is a nice example of their unique musical relationship, and how an improvised piece of music is built. Bobby and Taylor provide the leads, and the others intertwine around them.
There's no right or wrong when jamming, It's a jazz approach, but with a more blues-based style of music.
Several posters above seem fairly certain this ‘improvised jam’ was rehearsed but you won’t even deign to argue the point – well, every iconic band deserves a few legends I suppose and this one is harmless enough (but dude don’t be a gazooney!).
I guess Stones fans can be divided into two types: those who think the jazzy coda elevates ‘Can’t You Hear Me Knocking’ to the level of masterpiece and those who think it’s unwanted sedation. I’m firmly in the latter category. This, I think, is a case where the opening riff is simply too overpowering and seductive for the song’s own good. That riff is all that I want. I don’t even care much for the ‘Help me baby, ain’t no stranger’ part either because it deprives me of that riff. They should’ve just looped the first verse and chorus a la ‘I Don’t Know Why’ into a relentless 5-minute ejaculatory guitar frenzy.
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GasLightStreet
I've always found the comments from Mick Taylor etc about 'everyone was putting down their instruments' blah blah blah to be complete bullshit - does it SOUND like anyone put their instruments down?
NO.
Couldn't it be that the original take was - cleverly - edited, like most of their studio cuts?
C
Of course. The jam section might have been substantially longer, and they could have edited it and used the best part.
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CYHMK is a good song to have playing in the background when you're laundering money and/or dealing drugs. I don't know why, it just seems to fit.
Yes! It's been used several times in films in the same capacity.Quote
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CYHMK is a good song to have playing in the background when you're laundering money and/or dealing drugs. I don't know why, it just seems to fit.
Have you seen the opening sequence of "Blow" (2001)?
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I've always found the comments from Mick Taylor etc about 'everyone was putting down their instruments' blah blah blah to be complete bullshit - does it SOUND like anyone put their instruments down?
NO.
Couldn't it be that the original take was - cleverly - edited, like most of their studio cuts?
C
Of course. The jam section might have been substantially longer, and they could have edited it and used the best part.
They were really good at editing. The worst studio edit is Everything Is Turning To Gold. But CYHMK doesn't sound edited anywhere. Neither does Miss You (the LP version, that is) even though everyone knows it's 300 minutes long on the master.