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Beelyboy
ooder's discography is amazing and unique.
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Beelyboy
ooder's discography is amazing and unique.
Just check out his latest offering "I, Flathead" - it's brilliant
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Amsterdamned
THE UGLY TRUTH ABOUT THE ROLLING STONES
From Old Gods Almost Dead by Stephen Davis:
Ry Cooder arrived at the Let It Bleed sessions in May 1969, brought in by Jack Nitzsche to fill out the Stones' sound. Cooder was put up in a little apartment near Earls Court. Some felt he might be asked to join the Stones as a perfect foil for Keith and were disappointed when he wasn't. Playing his fluid slide-guitar themes and original interstellar riffs, bursting with new ideas and approaches to the music, Cooder was involved in long taped jams with Mick, Charlie, Bill, and Nicky Hopkins that contained the germs of many Bleed-era arrangements. (Excerpts would be released 3 years later as Jamming with Edward on the Stones' own label.) On May 16, Cooder played on a band version of Sister Morphine (with different lyrics), as well as adding mandolin to Love in Vain. The Stones also worked on Midnight Rambler and Monkey Man, and Ian Stewart played piano on the fatalistic new Let It Bleed, which seemed to sum up the general gloom at the end of the 1960s. It was the antithesis to the Beatles' quiescent song Let It Be.
Cooder didn't like what was going on. "The Rolling Stones brought me to England under totally false pretenses", he told Rolling Stone a year later. "They weren't playing well and were just messing around in the studio. There were a lot of very weird people hanging around the place, but the music wasn't going anywhere. When there'd be a lull in the so-called rehearsals, I'd start to play my guitar. Keith Richard would leave the room immediately and never return. I thought he didn't like me! But, as I found out later, the tapes would keep rolling. I'd ask when we were going to do some tracks. Mick would say: 'It's all right, Ry, we're not ready yet.'
"In the 4 or 5 weeks I was there, I must have played everything I know. They got it all down on these tapes. Everything. Brian was still alive then, definitely a phased-out person, a sad character. Sometimes when we'd begin playing, Brian would grab a harp and start blowing into a mike. But most of the time he just sat in a corner, sleeping or crying. Jagger was always very contemptuous of Brian and told him he was washed up. They're bloodsuckers, man."
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Amsterdamned
It's sad that Ry doesn't look back on at least some of his work with the Stones with pride (& it's even sadder the way Brian was towards the end [Sleep city]
Well he said this in 1970,I don't know what he thinks about it now...
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mckalk
What did Ry Cooder, Mick Taylor, Bill Wyman, Gram Parsons, etc.etc. ever write that compares with the Jagger/Richards legacy?
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stoned in washington dc
oh wait didn't he record the buena vista social club.....?
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stoned in washington dc
oh wait didn't he record the buena vista social club.....?
Buena Vista is one great piece of art! Ry could be made saint for that project alone
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