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bv
The tour is over now. As long as people may talk and discuss with manners, and not start another hate campaign here, I will allow this thread to be open. Political campaigns and hate will be deleted.
My own personal comment on this matter:
I did not miss Brown Sugar at all during the tour. I love what they do, they are so powerful, and they have so many great songs, I was so happy to hear the songs they performed on this tour. They are performing artists. Nobody may demand or request what they do. I got to hear BS one time in Boston, at the rehearsals, no worries, they may do it anytime, if they feel like it.
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Taylor1
Replace it with Salt of the Earth, Too Tight,Silver Train,Hand of Fate.
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Taylor1
Replace it with Salt of the Earth, Too Tight,Silver Train,Hand of Fate.
moonlight mile,love is strong,she was hot,saint of me,down home girl
She Was Hot ,is a great oneQuote
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Taylor1
Replace it with Salt of the Earth, Too Tight,Silver Train,Hand of Fate.
moonlight mile,love is strong,she was hot,saint of me,down home girl
All these, but especially Saint Of Me!
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Nikkei
What Keith also said was he's "trying to figure out with the sisters what the beef is" which does suggest that the idea to suspend it did not originate within the band. So while it may be true that "nobody may demand or request what they do" there's probably image advisors that have considerable influence on their decisions.
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Nikkei
What Keith also said was he's "trying to figure out with the sisters what the beef is" which does suggest that the idea to suspend it did not originate within the band. So while it may be true that "nobody may demand or request what they do" there's probably image advisors that have considerable influence on their decisions.
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Rocky Dijon
The self-censorship began the minute Mick dropped "hear him whip the women just around midnight" in 1972. Much like Keith and his outlaw image, the bad boy pose is largely just that...a pose. Lines that amused them while writing the song or made them think they were courting controversy for the sake of publicity, sales, and street cred when releasing the album later seem like something they weren't comfortable with personally or made them think it would do more harm than good, commercially. The constant teasing and failing to deliver on the promise has always been there for the band. What can a poor boy do when he's certainly not going to fight in the streets and overthrow the government with violent revolution? He sings in a rock and roll band and in the end, it's nothing more than rock and roll whether we like it or not.
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Rocky Dijon
The self-censorship began the minute Mick dropped "hear him whip the women just around midnight" in 1972. Much like Keith and his outlaw image, the bad boy pose is largely just that...a pose. Lines that amused them while writing the song or made them think they were courting controversy for the sake of publicity, sales, and street cred when releasing the album later seem like something they weren't comfortable with personally or made them think it would do more harm than good, commercially. The constant teasing and failing to deliver on the promise has always been there for the band. What can a poor boy do when he's certainly not going to fight in the streets and overthrow the government with violent revolution? He sings in a rock and roll band and in the end, it's nothing more than rock and roll whether we like it or not.
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Rocky Dijon
The self-censorship began the minute Mick dropped "hear him whip the women just around midnight" in 1972. Much like Keith and his outlaw image, the bad boy pose is largely just that...a pose. Lines that amused them while writing the song or made them think they were courting controversy for the sake of publicity, sales, and street cred when releasing the album later seem like something they weren't comfortable with personally or made them think it would do more harm than good, commercially. The constant teasing and failing to deliver on the promise has always been there for the band. What can a poor boy do when he's certainly not going to fight in the streets and overthrow the government with violent revolution? He sings in a rock and roll band and in the end, it's nothing more than rock and roll whether we like it or not.
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Rocky Dijon
The self-censorship began the minute Mick dropped "hear him whip the women just around midnight" in 1972. Much like Keith and his outlaw image, the bad boy pose is largely just that...a pose. Lines that amused them while writing the song or made them think they were courting controversy for the sake of publicity, sales, and street cred when releasing the album later seem like something they weren't comfortable with personally or made them think it would do more harm than good, commercially. The constant teasing and failing to deliver on the promise has always been there for the band. What can a poor boy do when he's certainly not going to fight in the streets and overthrow the government with violent revolution? He sings in a rock and roll band and in the end, it's nothing more than rock and roll whether we like it or not.
Rocky Dijon, you make some good points on lines written to amuse themselves and to create an image. However, I would add that even though they were certainly not social activists or revolutionaries in the ordinary sense, their sexual exploits (see Mick, and to an extent, Bill) and drug habits (see Keith and later, Ronnie, and for a time, Charlie) certainly placed them in a leading edge position within the counterculture of the times. More than a few of us fell under those influences, although usually to a lesser degree. The hair and androgynous clothing was another elment that marked them, onstage and off--yes, part of the times, to an extent, and yet pioneered by them, not accepted by the "mainstream" society.
The rebel image wasn't all fantasy.