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Yes. It's great that the studio version of Rambler is as minimalistic and repetitive as it is. That puts the focus on the groove rather than some melody lines. Some soloing by Taylor over it would not have made it better. Even though it's great what he did liveQuote
Taylor1
Why didn’t they let Mick Taylor add guitar on some other tracks on Let it Bleed? Like Midnight Rambler Let it Bleedand Love in Vain?Same reason.They liked what they had
I think there are some catchy and sweet solos/guitar interludes by Ronnie on the Some Girls album. Also this B-Bender solo on Dice that he did for the last 20 years is more memorable than the one on the original recordQuote
IsakSun
He couldn't have come up with the same great ideas, when he was playing the songs live he was copying what they(Perkins and Mandel) already had recorded on the album.
Ronnie hasn't come up with one great solo on a record worth to remember.
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TeddyB1018
Beast of Burden for one. Great solo.
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StonedRamblerI think there are some catchy and sweet solos/guitar interludes by Ronnie on the Some Girls album. Also this B-Bender solo on Dice that he did for the last 20 years is more memorable than the one on the original recordQuote
IsakSun
He couldn't have come up with the same great ideas, when he was playing the songs live he was copying what they(Perkins and Mandel) already had recorded on the album.
Ronnie hasn't come up with one great solo on a record worth to remember.
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stevecardi
I was recently listening to the Paris, Lyon, Knebworth and El Mocambo shows from 1976-1977. They got me to thinking: as much as I love Wayne Perkins and Harvey Mandel’s work on B&B, I wonder why Mick and Keith didn’t let Ronnie replace their parts on “Hot Stuff,” “Hand of Fate,” and “Fool to Cry.” Ronnies playing on those songs from 1976-1977 show he was more than capable of adding something great to them. And in the end, it’s his picture on the album cover.
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StonedRamblerI think there are some catchy and sweet solos/guitar interludes by Ronnie on the Some Girls album. Also this B-Bender solo on Dice that he did for the last 20 years is more memorable than the one on the original recordQuote
IsakSun
He couldn't have come up with the same great ideas, when he was playing the songs live he was copying what they(Perkins and Mandel) already had recorded on the album.
Ronnie hasn't come up with one great solo on a record worth to remember.
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GasLightStreet
Possibly his finest moment in regard to a slide solo is in Out Of Tears.
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GasLightStreet
Ronnie's live solos have been outstanding, for me from 1994 to at least up through the LICKS tour, on Tumbling Dice, Start Me Up, Shattered, Dead Flowers. But he's not really a soloist.
Possibly his finest moment in regard to a slide solo is in Out Of Tears.
Ronnie's playing in this version of Start Me Up, including his melodic lines toward the end with the variations on the bending he does, is excellent.
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matxil
Very good version
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GasLightStreet
Ronnie's live solos have been outstanding, for me from 1994 to at least up through the LICKS tour, on Tumbling Dice, Start Me Up, Shattered, Dead Flowers. But he's not really a soloist.
Possibly his finest moment in regard to a slide solo is in Out Of Tears.
Ronnie's playing in this version of Start Me Up, including his melodic lines toward the end with the variations on the bending he does, is excellent.
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GasLightStreet
Ronnie's live solos have been outstanding, for me from 1994 to at least up through the LICKS tour, on Tumbling Dice, Start Me Up, Shattered, Dead Flowers. But he's not really a soloist.
Possibly his finest moment in regard to a slide solo is in Out Of Tears.
Ronnie's playing in this version of Start Me Up, including his melodic lines toward the end with the variations on the bending he does, is excellent.
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Testify
There are great solos by Ronnie, however in the B&B the respective guitarists had already played on those songs, who by the way did a great job, so it wouldn't have made sense to do otherwise.
Ronnie is not the classic lead guitarist, nor was Brian and Keith is not, they are great guitarists, but solos were never the most important thing for them.
My guitar teacher always told me, unlike what you think, the most difficult and important thing is to play the rhythm guitar, everyone does it, but few do it well.
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Shott
I like the solo on Blinded by Rainbows if that is Ronnie I always wondered.
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MelBelli
Keith is not as far from this as it might seem (if he could use this guitar and rig today). But you’d still be missing the key ingredients of Charlie and Bill:
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(International Rock Awards broadcast, 1990. Frankfurt? Hanover?)
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matxil
Very good version
Indeed. Could be even the best live version of "Start Me Up" I ever have heard. Generally, I think when they opened the shows with it during 1989/90 tours they put so much effort, thought and concentration into it that it really worked well, and I see that as an expection in the history of "Start Me Up" played live. Usually they rush it through with no much concentration (1981/82) or just play it autopilot-like by saving energy as a sure crowd pleaser (almost any version since 1994). Or something. I don't know what is the problem. Probably being so damn simple and archaic as a tune, relying so much on their most obvious cliches, it is pretty difficult song to play convincingly live, even for them (and any no-Stones band, please don't even try). But in 1989/90 they showed it could be done.
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There are great solos by Ronnie, however in the B&B the respective guitarists had already played on those songs, who by the way did a great job, so it wouldn't have made sense to do otherwise.
Ronnie is not the classic lead guitarist, nor was Brian and Keith is not, they are great guitarists, but solos were never the most important thing for them.
My guitar teacher always told me, unlike what you think, the most difficult and important thing is to play the rhythm guitar, everyone does it, but few do it well.
Ask your teacher about Brian's rhythm guitar contributions to the early 64/65 Stones music. I personally think they are very contributive to the total mood of the songs. As were Keith's often sharp and short "solo" interceptions. Add Bill and Charlie's solid rhythm and that's how we got the best R&B/R&R band the 60s brought along