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pftw04
All the 3 albums of Keith Richards are great. The guitars and vocal wise its rocking. However, the drumming was too loud. But otherwise its great. Had it continued, Expensive winos might have been a great band, barring the drum. Its too loud whoever played it
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pftw04
All the 3 albums of Keith Richards are great. The guitars and vocal wise its rocking. However, the drumming was too loud. But otherwise its great. Had it continued, Expensive winos might have been a great band, barring the drum. Its too loud whoever played it
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WorriedAboutYou
I think the Palladium concert is the best way to enjoy the Winos. Great tracklist and production.
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windmelody
This is an interesting thread: I listened to "TIC" and "MO" for thousands of times, I loved both albums;,by now the love is not that strong anymore. The Winos certainly had their moments, but I think their potential was limited. They started running out of ideas on the second album, which is rather early.
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ribbelchips
On a song like 'Hate it when you leave' it's way, WAY too present. Even get's me on my nerves.
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pftw04
All the 3 albums of Keith Richards are great. The guitars and vocal wise its rocking. However, the drumming was too loud. But otherwise its great. Had it continued, Expensive winos might have been a great band, barring the drum. Its too loud whoever played it
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pftw04
All the 3 albums of Keith Richards are great. The guitars and vocal wise its rocking. However, the drumming was too loud. But otherwise its great. Had it continued, Expensive winos might have been a great band, barring the drum. Its too loud whoever played it
Yes, the loud drumming was strange and took some time to get used to. For example in "Hate It When You Leave". But I have grown to like it. And yes, all of his solo-albums are great. Not as great as the greatest of the Stones albums, but definitely much more enjoyable, interesting and good fun than any Stones' albums from the past 40 years or so (apart from a few gems on them here and there, among which some are Keith's songs anyway). I find it a great pity that he didn't make more of them. Maybe he will do one more? (I doubt it but one can hope.)
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RaiseTheKnife
I think Steve's style of drumming was perfect for Keith's solo efforts.
With the Stones he's not a good match, their sound is now broken and lacks all that swing and roll. I'm sure many other drummers would've blended more nicely into the Stones sound so it's unfortunate that Steve's friendship with Keith made him the first option.
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Love all the Keef's albums, the only bad thing about them is that the Stones do not play this songs in their shows.
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Send It To me
"The drums were quite loud" was Mick's criticism of Talk Is Cheap, if I recall correctly.
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WorriedAboutYou
I think the Palladium concert is the best way to enjoy the Winos. Great tracklist and production.
The official London-show is pretty good, too, but I agree – the Palladium-show is fantastic.
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WorriedAboutYou
I think the Palladium concert is the best way to enjoy the Winos. Great tracklist and production.
The official London-show is pretty good, too, but I agree – the Palladium-show is fantastic.
The London show is excellent, especially as the snare is mixed a little lower than on other recordings. Still frigging loud though.
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ribbelchips
Why weren't the studio albums released under the name (Keith Richards and the) X-Pensive Winos, by the way?
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ribbelchips
Why weren't the studio albums released under the name (Keith Richards and the) X-Pensive Winos, by the way?
For the same commercial reason why the covers only feature close-up photos of Keith: this is nothing but a Keith Richards solo album, folks. The X-Pensive Winos is a footnote there and one that would only harm the commercial value of the product if too much stressed. Some no-commercial live album is attributed to them, but otherwise it only exists in talks (and we know what TALK is is like). They were Keith's solo band or a group of musicians he played with in his solo projects that he likes to call with a funny name. But let's be honest and forget romantics here: it was all about maestro Keith. His ego trip, if we like.
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