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I know what you mean about TIC voodoolounge13, vocally Keith hadn't quite found his voice, a far more polished overall sound on his two solo albums that followed.
That's what i meant in a earlier post on this thread, had Mick and Keith stayed solo or created a new band they would have become better and more productive song writers ( as observed with Wondering Spirt / Crosseyed Heart) than we have experienced on the Stones albums that followed. I think both Mick and Keith shine when they collaborate with others, is it fair to say they have had a complete breakdown in their working relationship since Voodoo Lounge, that was the last combined effort.
It's a bit sad that they can't even finish the forthcoming album, doesn't take much guessing to assume they can't agree on anything, even when it comes to finishing unfinished tracks from previous albums.
Personally i don't think this new album will ever be released while both of them are alive.
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Rocktiludrop
I know what you mean about TIC voodoolounge13, vocally Keith hadn't quite found his voice, a far more polished overall sound on his two solo albums that followed.
That's what i meant in a earlier post on this thread, had Mick and Keith stayed solo or created a new band they would have become better and more productive song writers ( as observed with Wondering Spirt / Crosseyed Heart) than we have experienced on the Stones albums that followed. I think both Mick and Keith shine when they collaborate with others, is it fair to say they have had a complete breakdown in their working relationship since Voodoo Lounge, that was the last combined effort.
It's a bit sad that they can't even finish the forthcoming album, doesn't take much guessing to assume they can't agree on anything, even when it comes to finishing unfinished tracks from previous albums.
Personally i don't think this new album will ever be released while both of them are alive.
I follow what you're saying. It's as if other outsiders provide each of them with the needed spark to be creative again, because the other is not doing that at this point in time. It's as if they've become too protective of the image - as they each see it - than they are of creating new output. Despite the argument others make about solo artists vs. bands, folks like Bruce, Neil Young, and Macca keep producing and releasing new stuff all the time, and the first two just put it out regardless of it's reception, and I give them both a lot of props for that.
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Rocktiludrop
I know what you mean about TIC voodoolounge13, vocally Keith hadn't quite found his voice, a far more polished overall sound on his two solo albums that followed.
That's what i meant in a earlier post on this thread, had Mick and Keith stayed solo or created a new band they would have become better and more productive song writers ( as observed with Wondering Spirt / Crosseyed Heart) than we have experienced on the Stones albums that followed. I think both Mick and Keith shine when they collaborate with others, is it fair to say they have had a complete breakdown in their working relationship since Voodoo Lounge, that was the last combined effort.
It's a bit sad that they can't even finish the forthcoming album, doesn't take much guessing to assume they can't agree on anything, even when it comes to finishing unfinished tracks from previous albums.
Personally i don't think this new album will ever be released while both of them are alive.
I follow what you're saying. It's as if other outsiders provide each of them with the needed spark to be creative again, because the other is not doing that at this point in time. It's as if they've become too protective of the image - as they each see it - than they are of creating new output. Despite the argument others make about solo artists vs. bands, folks like Bruce, Neil Young, and Macca keep producing and releasing new stuff all the time, and the first two just put it out regardless of it's reception, and I give them both a lot of props for that.
Yes its as though since 94' Mick and Keith just cancel each other out.
But we get the tours and im just happy they continue, its a phenomenon that they still perform at this level to audiences this size at 78 years of age.
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GasLightStreet
It's a bit odd, though, their not getting along, considering how many songs recorded for SG and ER, what work they did on TY, the 1981 tour, as well as them getting together in October and November of 1982 to record demos for UNDERCOVER, just under three months after the 1982 tour, as well as all that they recorded for U. The great divide occurred in 1983 with Mick's push for the direction that U took and then the Stones signing a new record deal that also happen to be the same time Mick signed a solo deal, which everyone knew about, according to Mick, as I recall, and Mick starting work on his first solo album that fall.
Keith's behavior leading up to TATTOO YOU is probably the key factor - based on so many things published, he was supposedly a barely functioning obnoxious drunk honking on coke while establishing his relationship with Patti.
Then there's the 'Mick had carried the band for quite a while due to Keith's heroin train' thing and the 'I'm back' bit from Keith and Mick's supposed unhappiness with giving up control.
It's rather well documented that their fighting escalated during the ER mixing sessions and carried on into 1981.
All of that on top of Ronnie's ridiculous drugging and trouble and Charlie wanting to quit.
Bill just chewed gum.
It is amazing that they continued on and were able to record and perform.
Perhaps the fighting is an aspect of life they never learned when younger, or not very well, about how to handle oneself, so there's a childish aspect to the fighting, clearly on Keith's part, with their character being so different and Mick's much more reserved and clear maturity in handling his emotions etc. Maybe Mick evolved and Keith stayed rather adolescent.
Seems that way.
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It's a bit odd, though, their not getting along, considering how many songs recorded for SG and ER, what work they did on TY, the 1981 tour, as well as them getting together in October and November of 1982 to record demos for UNDERCOVER, just under three months after the 1982 tour, as well as all that they recorded for U. The great divide occurred in 1983 with Mick's push for the direction that U took and then the Stones signing a new record deal that also happen to be the same time Mick signed a solo deal, which everyone knew about, according to Mick, as I recall, and Mick starting work on his first solo album that fall.
Keith's behavior leading up to TATTOO YOU is probably the key factor - based on so many things published, he was supposedly a barely functioning obnoxious drunk honking on coke while establishing his relationship with Patti.
Then there's the 'Mick had carried the band for quite a while due to Keith's heroin train' thing and the 'I'm back' bit from Keith and Mick's supposed unhappiness with giving up control.
It's rather well documented that their fighting escalated during the ER mixing sessions and carried on into 1981.
All of that on top of Ronnie's ridiculous drugging and trouble and Charlie wanting to quit.
Bill just chewed gum.
It is amazing that they continued on and were able to record and perform.
Perhaps the fighting is an aspect of life they never learned when younger, or not very well, about how to handle oneself, so there's a childish aspect to the fighting, clearly on Keith's part, with their character being so different and Mick's much more reserved and clear maturity in handling his emotions etc. Maybe Mick evolved and Keith stayed rather adolescent.
Seems that way.
A deep pleasure to read a post that holds forth the nuances like this.
I have sometimes speculatively wondered if a more favourable reception to UNDERCOVER might have made Mick interested to tour on the basis of that album and, besides, given Mick incentives to do a serious follow-up to the Pathe Marconi albums instead of wanting to record a solo album. Where UNDERCOVER may be a not so easily approchable album for all listeners, a possible follow-up or two could have been different that way. Thinkably, the relation between Mick and Keith might have been less bad as a consequence. And possibly, instead of DIRTY WORK as the band's next album, we would have left with more albums in the vein of the Pathe Marconi ones instead.
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Witness
The Pathe Marconi albums are the albums recorded in the Pathe Marconi studio in Paris.
Look at those details in the Album Talk threads for SOME GIRLS, (in part) for EMOTIONAL RESCUE and for UNDERCOVER. (Now I discover what I was not aware of, and I did not have that album in mind, quite the contrary. Even DIRTY WORK was in part recorded there.)
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I wonder, ten rounds, featherweight, back in 1983. Who would have won? Jagger or Richards?
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Witness
The Pathe Marconi albums are the albums recorded in the Pathe Marconi studio in Paris.
Look at those details in the Album Talk threads for SOME GIRLS, (in part) for EMOTIONAL RESCUE and for UNDERCOVER. (Now I discover what I was not aware of, and I did not have that album in mind, quite the contrary. Even DIRTY WORK was in part recorded there.)
A large chunk of Tattoo You was also recorded there. I thought all of SG and DW as well? Wasn't it ER that was also recorded in LA and Bahamas, as well as at Pathe Marconi?
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The Pathe Marconi albums are the albums recorded in the Pathe Marconi studio in Paris.
Look at those details in the Album Talk threads for SOME GIRLS, (in part) for EMOTIONAL RESCUE and for UNDERCOVER. (Now I discover what I was not aware of, and I did not have that album in mind, quite the contrary. Even DIRTY WORK was in part recorded there.)
A large chunk of Tattoo You was also recorded there. I thought all of SG and DW as well? Wasn't it ER that was also recorded in LA and Bahamas, as well as at Pathe Marconi?
Some of your objections I tried to write down in my second post. Maybe so clumsily that you did not notice.
By the way, my use of the phrase was out of laziness. I have for a long time experienced it as there are some common traits about SOME GIRLS, EMOTIONAL RESCUE and UNDERCOVER. One, and probably you, may disagree, but that is how I feel. A continuation of that was what I had on my mind in the former post as a speculation, in case UNDERCOVER had been better received.
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Witness
The Pathe Marconi albums are the albums recorded in the Pathe Marconi studio in Paris.
Look at those details in the Album Talk threads for SOME GIRLS, (in part) for EMOTIONAL RESCUE and for UNDERCOVER. (Now I discover what I was not aware of, and I did not have that album in mind, quite the contrary. Even DIRTY WORK was in part recorded there.)
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After years of running the show, Keith kicks smack and tells Mick, "thanks man, I'm back" and Mick says, "that's great, I'm doing a solo album".
Keith shows him the blade and says F-you Brenda!
Well that didn't go too well, so Mick signs a secret solo deal with CBS, we get WWIII and the carnage that ensues includes She's The Boss, Dirty Work, no tour...wait, yes tour but Jagger solo tour & Prinitive Cool, and even more flotsam and jetsam, and Keith creates the magnificent Talk Is Cheap and takes some expensive winos on tour and when they both realize no one is actually making any money, Mick's Emotions has the band reunite to form the Vegas Stones and here we are.
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GasLightStreet
It's rather well documented that their fighting escalated during the ER mixing sessions and carried on into 1981.
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GasLightStreet
It's rather well documented that their fighting escalated during the ER mixing sessions and carried on into 1981.
Do you have any details about their fighting during the ER mixing sessions? Somehow this seems to have escaped me. I remember having read that Keith spent a lot of time producing alternative mixes but that there was an escalating fight is new to me.
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Taylor1
Keith’ssolo and Stones music since 1981 pales in comparison to his earlier great music.His solo work is boring , uninventive recycled r&bmusic.There are no Jumping Jack Flash or Gimme Shelter on any of them.At least Mick tried to be more adventurous even if he falls on his face a lot
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I wonder, ten rounds, featherweight, back in 1983. Who would have won? Jagger or Richards?
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Taylor1
Keith’ssolo and Stones music since 1981 pales in comparison to his earlier great music.His solo work is boring , uninventive recycled r&bmusic.There are no Jumping Jack Flash or Gimme Shelter on any of them.At least Mick tried to be more adventurous even if he falls on his face a lot
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Jagger is, on one hand, a hard-working professional and pragmatist/realist, and on the other, very flip, offhand, and dismissive.
Keith is like a mafia member who believes he's taken a sacred oath of loyalty, and can be very domineering about his retrograde musical standards while at the same time working in a chaotic state waiting for inspiration to strike.
They're both concerned with their control of the band and their image, in different ways.
The conflicts between these two styles were inevitable, although they each give the other something they lack. I think it worked when they were younger because Keith was more in tune with the spirit of the times instead of trying to preserve something fading away and because Mick was less guarded and willing to just roll with things.
Human relationships are interesting, especially creative ones.
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Send It To me
Jagger is, on one hand, a hard-working professional and pragmatist/realist, and on the other, very flip, offhand, and dismissive.
Keith is like a mafia member who believes he's taken a sacred oath of loyalty, and can be very domineering about his retrograde musical standards while at the same time working in a chaotic state waiting for inspiration to strike.
They're both concerned with their control of the band and their image, in different ways.
The conflicts between these two styles were inevitable, although they each give the other something they lack. I think it worked when they were younger because Keith was more in tune with the spirit of the times instead of trying to preserve something fading away and because Mick was less guarded and willing to just roll with things.
Human relationships are interesting, especially creative ones.
All redundant, done before.Nothing new or inventive. Much prefer Mick’s attempts at electronica and danceQuote
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Keith’ssolo and Stones music since 1981 pales in comparison to his earlier great music.His solo work is boring , uninventive recycled r&bmusic.There are no Jumping Jack Flash or Gimme Shelter on any of them.At least Mick tried to be more adventurous even if he falls on his face a lot
Make No Mistake
Hate It When You Leave
You Don't Move Me
Words Of Wonder
Suspicious
Robbed Blind
Locked Away
Take It So Hard
Wicked As It Seems
Nothing On Me
Demon
How I Wish
Boring? Some bore easily, it seems...
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Taylor1
Keith’ssolo and Stones music since 1981 pales in comparison to his earlier great music.His solo work is boring , uninventive recycled r&bmusic.There are no Jumping Jack Flash or Gimme Shelter on any of them.At least Mick tried to be more adventurous even if he falls on his face a lot
Make No Mistake
Hate It When You Leave
You Don't Move Me
Words Of Wonder
Suspicious
Robbed Blind
Locked Away
Take It So Hard
Wicked As It Seems
Nothing On Me
Demon
How I Wish
Boring? Some bore easily, it seems...
All redundant, done before.Nothing new or inventive. Much prefer Mick’s attempts at electronica and dance
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Taylor1
Tell me which of those songs is on the level of Gimme Shelter, Flash, Moonlight Mile, Rocks Off, Satisfaction, Heartbreaker, Shine A Light, Tumbling Dice, Happy, Angie, Street Fighting Man?
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Taylor1
Tell me which of those songs is on the level of Gimme Shelter, Flash, Moonlight Mile, Rocks Off, Satisfaction, Heartbreaker, Shine A Light, Tumbling Dice, Happy, Angie, Street Fighting Man?