Robert Greenfield quoted 'Blame It On the Stones' to introduce the chapter in STP that covers the arrests in Rhode Island.
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Quote71Tele The performance of L&G is great. Unfortunately the camera was on Mick Jagger's backside for 75% of the film, so you can rarely see what the Stones are playing. I would love to have all the raw footage and re-edit this. Awwww, yeah! My only complaint about L&G--too much Jagger!
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Quotejohnh Hi, what about "Just my imagination" and "Harlem Shuffle".. maybe not blues but obviously just as important an influence? Also I thought the version they did of "Honest I do" around the "Stripped" period was wonderful john I did not know about 'Honest I Do.' Where did you hear it?
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While waiting for the mailman to deliver a 'Best of Slim Harpo' CD, I realized that Exile on Main Street was the last Stones album to include a song by one of the band's early influences--in this case, Slim Harpo's 'Hip Shake.' I miss those bursts of Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Jimmy Reed, et al that showed up on earlier records. The Stones introduced me to many blues a
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From the gang over at Rocks Off. I'm looking forward to this one. Aside from Greenfield's article "Goodbye Great Britian" from Rolling Stone, there isn't much on the 71 UK tour. This my favorite Stones era. They'd left the pop star schtick behind and got down to business being a kick-ass rock n roll band. New Book Explores Rolling Stones' Exile and Transi
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Christmas 1970. Ya Yas
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Never liked this number. Not at all. It's all piano and drums...BANG! BANG! BANG! Pretty boring.
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Quote24FPS A couple years back there was a DVD boxset of Brit Invasion Groups with the Small Faces/Gerry&Pacermakers/Dusty Springfield/Hermans Hermits. There was steam building for a second one and the Zombies, Hollies, Kinks and others were rumored. But the market dropped out for such things and only the Hollies edition made it out as a stand alone product. (And a Pretty Things DVD biography
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QuoteNoCode0680 Looks like a classic case of Carpathian Kitten Loss. I think this is Sonny Barger
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I watched this last night. Entertaining program, but if you're hoping to see some 'live' DC5 material, forget it. It's all clips of them miming to the records--even when they're shown at, apparently, a concert, the soundtrack is a record. Nice to hear Sir Paul's thoughts and recollections (after all he was THERE), but could've done without Bruuuce, Whoopie, and
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QuoteGreen Lady Now this is linked from that and vice versa. And here's the Eileen Atkins thread Any 'Doc Martin' fans out there? Eileen Atkins plays Ruth Ellingham, the title character's aunt. Have always loved this number...the imagery and the wistful feeling. Really dig the sort of Who-ish ending!
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My very first Stones show was in '75 when they were opening with HTW. A horrible opener IMHO. Honky Tonk is for later in the set, when everyone is good and loose and all the drunks can sing along on the chorus. It's waaay too saggy and slow for an opener. Not enough punch. Even back in '75 with all the excitement of seeing my favorite group for the first time I remember thinking &#
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Saw Ginger Baker with Masters of Reality at a little club in Milwaukee in '92 (?) '93(?). Got there early and found a table right in front--not 20 feet from the man himself. Aside from 'Sunrise on the Sufferbus' (what a great title!) I didn't know MOR from Adam, but what a great show. And they didn't make a big deal about Ginger at all--he was just the drummer. He to
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I was fortunate enough to see the Feat with Lowell George at the Oriental Theatre in Milwaukee in 1977. Love all the early stuff--Dixie Chicken takes me back to a very happy time in my life. Saw the post-Lowell band a couple of times and I think I had one of their CDs, but they never really did it for me.
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QuoteEleanor Rigby Think the 1969/1970 live versions are the only live versions that do the original justice. Ripping song. Studio version brilliant. ..but there's something about the Altamont version that is scary! Yes! The more recent live versions just go on waaaay too long. Why do bands do this? (Including just about every band I've been in.) They figure if a 3-minute song is go
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QuoteLongBeachArena72 The Stones are a 52-year-old band that peaked creatively within the first seven years of their existence. After 15 years they were finished as a band who could make pop records that mattered. But, somewhat improbably, during the past 25 years they have fine-tuned a REMARKABLE engine, the most lucrative live act in the history of pop music. There is no market for recor
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Quotelatebloomer The following night Bruce played nearly 4 hrs which included nearly 30 mins of stories....!!! This reminds me of John Lydon's comment, something along the lines of: "The man plays three-and-a-half hour shows! Does he hate his audience?"
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Why, what is Bruce doing?
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I continue to be gobsmacked by the inane questions David Letterman comes up with. Standing onstage at the Ed Sullivan Theatre--Ground Zero of rock and roll's Big Bang--with the only surviving members of perhaps THE most important band of the "rock era" (as Casey Kasem would say), and what does he ask them? "How many theatres did you play in before this one?" Paul: Uh,
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QuoteDandelionPowderman Read Mac's book "All The Rage" (especially the part about Mick Jagger and payment). He was great on the 1978 tour as well. I second this emotion! "All the Rage" is a great read. It's as if Mac is sitting right there, pint in hand, telling you his story. And what a story it is. (Hint: If you order the book from Mac's website, he'
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I'm wondering about the starburst carpet the Stones played on for the '69 tour. I seem to remember reading somewhere that it didn't survive Altamont and likely wound up in a Hell Angels clubhouse somewhere. But photos of the 1970 European tour show them playing on that same carpet. Or is it a 'spare?' Anyone know anything about this? (While we're at it...whatever hap
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QuoteCousinC Quotemighty stork What the heck is sandwiched in the high hat? LOL I thought about that too. Seems like they tried to deaden the drum sound. Even the hi-hat? Looks like there's something on the drum heads, too.
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I Just Want to See His Face/Let it Loose: I'm 15 years old, in my bedroom at the farmhouse we lived in in 1972. Exile on Main Street is brand new, Robert Greenfield and Ethan Russell are chronicling the American tour for Rolling Stone, and I'm beginning my love affair with the Stones. It's summer and it's raining. Through the open window I can smell newly mowed grass. It was a
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QuoteRWFish As I recall from the time; the album was delayed because the vocals for some of the songs had been accidentally erased. Mick Jagger was in Australia and the band had to wait for him to return to rerecord his vocals. I always wondered if this was the reason for Keith's vocals on 'You Got The Silver' There is a boot version of 'Silver' with Jagger on vocals.
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Quotecrholmstrom The Keith "your patience is appreciated, a drug free america comes first". taken in same complex where i work in 1972. That's very cool. Is the bubbler and everything still there? That image has long been one of my favorite Stones pics. I cut the pic out of Rolling Stone when it was first published in '72 and hung it up in my high school locker for 3 years,
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I think she acts like a 12-year-old who just got her first 'big girl' bra. 'Hey lookit! Boobies! Hahahaha! Look at meeee....please!' And the rubber granny panties sure make her butt look weird.
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QuoteGreg Not a song really, but the Brazlian bootleg-DVD of Ladies & Gentlemen has about five minutes of sitar music and chattering roadies against an almost black screen before the Stones hit the stage - just enough to finish your first beer and get another one. Writing this makes me realize i haven't seen it in probably 5 years. The official L&G release opens with this, too. Lov
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Motown?? The Box Tops???? Archie Bell & the Drells???? Whoa! Not even close to bubblegum.
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I saw Chuck Berry in Milwaukee in the early 80s. To this day, that show remains the sloppiest, most unprofessional and disappointing concert I've ever seen. He continually stopped songs to berate the unfortunate local band that was bravely trying to keep up with his odd song keys (B flat, anyone?) and arrangements. Other songs were aborted for no apparent reason. After less than an hour of t
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QuoteHavo Geordie? Sure the singer was b. johnson (later Ac/Dc.. rembember "Looky Looky"? from Giorgio maroder?? thats was "bubble gum music!" I don't think there's any connection between Giorgio Moroder and Geordie, but it's definitely Brian Johnson.
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