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crumbling_mice
HP Sauce....never underestimate HP Sauce. Keith never travels without it, Bill was also quite fond of it. Classic English condiment and I also would never be without it! HP sauce was the secret ingredient to Exile,,,,and pretty much every other Stones album!
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crholmstrom
Another great one that I always thought would work well live was "Soul Survivor". The jam out at the end is awesome. I've never heard a live version. I actually really like the 1 with Keith singing on the extra disc.
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Another great one that I always thought would work well live was "Soul Survivor". The jam out at the end is awesome. I've never heard a live version. I actually really like the 1 with Keith singing on the extra disc.
Me 2. But then there's nothing about this album I don't like.
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GasLightStreet
Charlie... this is hilarious.
Charlie Watts (December 2009): Nixing a proposal to perform Exile On Main Street live
It would have been great. Universal - I had to think which record company we were with - Universal suggested we play the whole album from start to finish, but some of them are quite difficult to do, unfortunately. Ventilator Blues has never quite worked, see, there's a difference between playing a song and performing it, and Mick is a performer. Ventilator Blues doesn't give him much to go on. A few songs, like Hip Shake, you could do in a club quite easily, but when you get out there in front of 50 000 people - well, it's not quite one of those, isn't it? You're better off doingAll Down the Line. Or Tumbling Dice, that's very popular.
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GasLightStreet
Charlie... this is hilarious.
Charlie Watts (December 2009): Nixing a proposal to perform Exile On Main Street live
It would have been great. Universal - I had to think which record company we were with - Universal suggested we play the whole album from start to finish, but some of them are quite difficult to do, unfortunately. Ventilator Blues has never quite worked, see, there's a difference between playing a song and performing it, and Mick is a performer. Ventilator Blues doesn't give him much to go on. A few songs, like Hip Shake, you could do in a club quite easily, but when you get out there in front of 50 000 people - well, it's not quite one of those, isn't it? You're better off doingAll Down the Line. Or Tumbling Dice, that's very popular.
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There is a solution to (almost) everything. They could have done it like Bill Joel compiled his live album Songs in the attic back then: Play a portion of the songs in an stadium, others in an arena and the rest in a club and segue it together. But what would be the use of playing EOMS without Mick Taylor? And isn't it too late in their 70's to perform the entire double Album in decent Quality? No offence in these two questions (and again: it has nothing to do with Ronnie!) but they are serious.
Besides that, I would still not be sure if Let it loose would work live at all. To me, it has always been a Studio production that could not be repeated even close oon stage. Same goes for Turd on the run.
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Monsoon mentioned Just Want to See His Face not working - not even in a club. I beg to differ, it would be amazing in a small club - a full blown gospel romp.
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Monsoon mentioned Just Want to See His Face not working - not even in a club. I beg to differ, it would be amazing in a small club - a full blown gospel romp.
Yeah it would sound great... with a choir of 40 black women "borrowed" from the nearby church. A "full gospel" arrangement of that song would be kick-ass, whereas a straight "album-like" version of JWTSHF with just the band and Chuck on organ would be a bit lacking (imo).
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Monsoon mentioned Just Want to See His Face not working - not even in a club. I beg to differ, it would be amazing in a small club - a full blown gospel romp.
Yeah it would sound great... with a choir of 40 black women "borrowed" from the nearby church. A "full gospel" arrangement of that song would be kick-ass, whereas a straight "album-like" version of JWTSHF with just the band and Chuck on organ would be a bit lacking (imo).
It would work in a very small club sold out with 80 drunk men.
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Monsoon mentioned Just Want to See His Face not working - not even in a club. I beg to differ, it would be amazing in a small club - a full blown gospel romp.
Yeah it would sound great... with a choir of 40 black women "borrowed" from the nearby church. A "full gospel" arrangement of that song would be kick-ass, whereas a straight "album-like" version of JWTSHF with just the band and Chuck on organ would be a bit lacking (imo).
It would work in a very small club sold out with 80 drunk men.
Can I please get on the guest list for that show?
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Hairball
Monsoon mentioned Just Want to See His Face not working - not even in a club. I beg to differ, it would be amazing in a small club - a full blown gospel romp.
Yeah it would sound great... with a choir of 40 black women "borrowed" from the nearby church. A "full gospel" arrangement of that song would be kick-ass, whereas a straight "album-like" version of JWTSHF with just the band and Chuck on organ would be a bit lacking (imo).
It would work in a very small club sold out with 80 drunk men.
Can I please get on the guest list for that show?
Only 80 people...first round is on me.
And then for an encore they could play "100 Bottles of Beer on The Wall"...we'll be there all night!
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RipThisBone
Strange Gram was cut out of the pictures.
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DandelionPowderman
Remember «~original»
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RipThisBone
And why not record them with a cassette player at least or in the basement studio?
It's strange that nothing has ever leaked in all those years by Keith and Gram (and Mick) together.
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And why not record them with a cassette player at least or in the basement studio?
It's strange that nothing has ever leaked in all those years by Keith and Gram (and Mick) together.
According to Greenfield's book on the Nellcote days, Mick didn't get along with Parsons at all. Gram was very wasted most of the time and eventually Keith and Anita asked him to leave the premises. He and Keith never spoke again.
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wonderboy
It'a amazing they stuck together in such circumstances.
Forced to leave their home country, in debt, beset with legal issues, still dealing with the trauma of losing Brian -- in most bands the bass player and drummer would have gone back to England and the two leaders would have fought. Somehow they held it together.
I do believe it exile was ultimately not the best thing for any of them. It made them gypsies and made things like recording far more difficult, in that now you couldn't ring up your band members and ask them to come 'round to the studio in London; now you had to get everybody to agree to meet in Germany or the Caribbean. Again, it is amazing Charlie and Bill went along with this.
I don’t think it was amazing at all.
They were young, and needed the money.
What a hardship, good looking and famous in the glorious south of France -
I wish I was exiled to France with a job residence in a stone mansion on the water. Well, I’m too old now but...