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hbwriter
I want to share a story that Dave Mason told me as we were writing his memoir, which comes out this fall by the way.
When Traffic was recording at Olympic Studios with Jimmy Miller, most of you probably know that Mick came in to observe those sessions and thus wound up bringing Miller over to their studio to work on beggars banquet. That’s basically how Dave wound up playing on a couple of songs on the album. Everybody was just hanging out. But Dave told me how, as the Stones were completing their sessions, he went over to Jagger and said something to him to the effect, "this really feels like the first official Rolling Stones album. The one that you have been building up toward. The one that really incorporates everything you are about." And he said Mick laughed and said, "I think you’re right." I enjoyed that insight because Beggars really does feel like the beginning of a much different era for the Rolling Stones
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24FPS
It is indeed totally different from what came before it. From black and white to Technicolor. It's a little primitive in parts but without it we wouldn't have had the sublime Let It Bleed.
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Big Al
Just to add to my above points: I do wonder whether Beggars Banquet had the same appeal to, say, a 13-year-old girl, as Satisfaction, or Get Off of My Cloud would have done. I suspect not.
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Taylor1
It’s interesting that Beggars Banquet didn’t sell that great in America when it was released in 1968 as it only reached number 5 .Whereas Satanic Majesties reached number 2.I think Brian was as dominant as Keith musically on Majesties as Keith.
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Big Al
Just to add to my above points: I do wonder whether Beggars Banquet had the same appeal to, say, a 13-year-old girl, as Satisfaction, or Get Off of My Cloud would have done. I suspect not.
Probably not, but those girls - and boys as well - were all growing up with the band like the whole rock culture did. What is peculiar for the 60's is that what started as a pure teenager pop phenomenon, lead by the Beatles, evolved into something else (that had a more lasting power).
The result is funny people like us, decades and generations later: listening seriously to the very same pop music as we did as a teenager - or music someone listened as a teenager...
- Doxa
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1963luca0
Your fanbase grows with you: who could wish more than this?
I can’t see The Rolling Stones or Bob Dylan trying to please the teen-agers, in the 80s or even later.