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"“That session is incredible,” says Rubin. “You’d have to ask Mick why he never chose to release it.”
Huh huh... Mick is allergic to anything that looks feels or sounds like nostalgia or bygone eras. Blues covers from the 50's played with a retro feel? Yuck!
He probably accepted to record with the RD just for fun and to smoothen the relation with Rubin (which were somewhat difficult acc. to witnesses).
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"“That session is incredible,” says Rubin. “You’d have to ask Mick why he never chose to release it.”
Huh huh... Mick is allergic to anything that looks feels or sounds like nostalgia or bygone eras. Blues covers from the 50's played with a retro feel? Yuck!
He probably accepted to record with the RD just for fun and to smoothen the relation with Rubin (which were somewhat difficult acc. to witnesses).
Quite a few covers wound up on WS, too...
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Huh huh... Mick is allergic to anything that looks feels or sounds like nostalgia or bygone eras. Blues covers from the 50's played with a retro feel? Yuck!
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"“That session is incredible,” says Rubin. “You’d have to ask Mick why he never chose to release it.”
Huh huh... Mick is allergic to anything that looks feels or sounds like nostalgia or bygone eras. Blues covers from the 50's played with a retro feel? Yuck!
He probably accepted to record with the RD just for fun and to smoothen the relation with Rubin (which were somewhat difficult acc. to witnesses).
Quite a few covers wound up on WS, too...
You mean, like the last album he released with his band, The Rolling Stones..?
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I could be way off, of course, but I suspect Mick is omnivorous when it comes to devouring music. It's all about what moves him at the moment. He feeds off energy whether musical, sexual, adulation, or chemical.
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"“That session is incredible,” says Rubin. “You’d have to ask Mick why he never chose to release it.”
Huh huh... Mick is allergic to anything that looks feels or sounds like nostalgia or bygone eras. Blues covers from the 50's played with a retro feel? Yuck!
He probably accepted to record with the RD just for fun and to smoothen the relation with Rubin (which were somewhat difficult acc. to witnesses).
Quite a few covers wound up on WS, too...
You mean, like the last album he released with his band, The Rolling Stones..?
Last or latest?
How many covers were there on WS, btw, 4 or 5?
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"“That session is incredible,” says Rubin. “You’d have to ask Mick why he never chose to release it.”
Huh huh... Mick is allergic to anything that looks feels or sounds like nostalgia or bygone eras. Blues covers from the 50's played with a retro feel? Yuck!
He probably accepted to record with the RD just for fun and to smoothen the relation with Rubin (which were somewhat difficult acc. to witnesses).
Quite a few covers wound up on WS, too...
You mean, like the last album he released with his band, The Rolling Stones..?
Last or latest?
How many covers were there on WS, btw, 4 or 5?
I think just 3; well if you count "Molly" then 4.
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... 4 covers
Use Me
Think
I've Been Lonely For So Long
Handsome Molly
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I could be way off, of course, but I suspect Mick is omnivorous when it comes to devouring music. It's all about what moves him at the moment. He feeds off energy whether musical, sexual, adulation, or chemical.
Not philosophical? Well, as long as he's satisfied...
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... 4 covers
Use Me
Think
I've Been Lonely For So Long
Handsome Molly
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I love the album WS, but I would like it better without the first 3 covers on it. Handsome Molly can stay, is great with its trad irish sound, like Long Black Veil or Wild Colonial Boy.
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Rocky Dijon
You mean like this one (for which the version with Mick's vocal exists):
[www.youtube.com]
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Thanks kovach, great/sad article.
I've told a longer version of this story here before, but here's the short version: I grew up with Les Butler in Santa Monica.
As his sister says in the article, Les (as we knew him) "loved music, surfing, skateboarding, bike riding and smoking pot."
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“They (Red Devils) were edgy, rocking and grooving" - Rick Rubin
“Oh man, they were quite an outfit to be reckoned with" - Billy Gibbons
“We went out for 120 days straight and there were all kinds of illegal things going on – drugs, fights, hookers, cops, jail, you name it.
One of us was bound to end up dead. Lester had actually clinically died four times in previous years" - Bill Bateman
“It got to the point where Lester was doing crack at every town we went through,”- Jonny Ray Bartel
I can only add that he earned a reputation well before joining the Red Devils.
And pardon for speaking ill of the dead, but he became sort of a shady scoundrel, especially when he started dealing coke.
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Jagger and the Red Devils cut 13 tracks that day, scorching covers of vintage blues tracks and all but one of them still officially unreleased.
Would be nice to see an official release, but at this point it seems doubtful...at least there's all the bootlegs.
RIP Les
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Huh huh... Mick is allergic to anything that looks feels or sounds like nostalgia or bygone eras. Blues covers from the 50's played with a retro feel? Yuck!
Agreed, if the Jagger-Red Devils sessions had a chance of seeing the light of day, Mick would have put one of the tracks on his solo anthology and talked to Rhino Records about releasing the entire package if the solo anthology sold well enough. Even more to the point, he could have released one of the Gary Moore tracks as a b-side to a single from WANDERING SPIRIT. And if he'd done that, he could have made the b-side available as a download with the solo anthology years later. There was as much a chance of that happening as the Stones booking sessions at an award-winning British studio renowned for its refurbished vintage equipment to cut and release a blues album. That's like saying Mick would organize and headline a blues festival in 1992 or play a set of old blues songs at the White House for black history month in front of the first black president of the United States. Face it. The guy is way too much focused on chasing trends to ever do that. Just ask Keith.
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Huh huh... Mick is allergic to anything that looks feels or sounds like nostalgia or bygone eras. Blues covers from the 50's played with a retro feel? Yuck!
Agreed, if the Jagger-Red Devils sessions had a chance of seeing the light of day, Mick would have put one of the tracks on his solo anthology and talked to Rhino Records about releasing the entire package if the solo anthology sold well enough. Even more to the point, he could have released one of the Gary Moore tracks as a b-side to a single from WANDERING SPIRIT. And if he'd done that, he could have made the b-side available as a download with the solo anthology years later. There was as much a chance of that happening as the Stones booking sessions at an award-winning British studio renowned for its refurbished vintage equipment to cut and release a blues album. That's like saying Mick would organize and headline a blues festival in 1992 or play a set of old blues songs at the White House for black history month in front of the first black president of the United States. Face it. The guy is way too much focused on chasing trends to ever do that. Just ask Keith.
He DID put one of the tracks on his solo anthology. I was listening to Mick's session with the Red Devils on You Tube just last night and recognized it immediately from the anthology. I will look tomorrow and update this post with the title. That was a great session, as are the Devils sessions with Lester. Would have loved to have seen them, but I guess they have gotten back together with a singer from Holland. Anybody seen them, or heard them?
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Mr. H -- can u post the link where u talked about this in more detail?
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