What I miss the most is Charlie's light, swiinging touch. Steve Jordan is a little too "heavy" on this track for me. Charlie also had this knack to almost never repeat a bit within a song. While I love a high-hat-hit-and-close, for example, which Steve has in here, Charlie would dole those out so sparingly. Not sure why this jumped out at me, but perhaps a brief diversion fro
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Heard a cleaner version -- thank you Patrick B! -- and I was able to enjoy the instrumental interplay so much more than my first listens. While the song is not going to top any Greatest Hits track listing, it's a hoot to hear these guys still doing what they do. Decades ago (like 1981, Ha!) when the "last tour" questions started becoming ubiquitous, Keith would often say some
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Quotewickerman wickerman@interia.pl Thanks in advance for better audio clip! I would love a higher quality recording. Thank you kindly! TeaAtThree leethomsen1967@gmail.com
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As a Song: It's a blues stomp, for sure. Enjoyable enough. Feels like a fast version of something that would end up as a B-Side of a single - a la Fancy Man Blues or Cook Cook Blues from the Steel Wheels days. I know it's surely a low quality rip, but what I dislike about this -- and so much of modern recordings --is that there is no room for anything to breathe. One of the beauties
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Can someone repost in a public manner?
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Quote1962 ...and Sucking in the Seventies: Whip 100%
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How can it be 10 years? Time is flying by. T@3
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QuoteWhale 2. why is his 1981 solo album so hard to get? was there never a reprint? Because it's terrible. A bunch of mediocre riffs in search of a song. My favorite line from the AMG review says, 'Wind Howlin' Through' asks if the listener can hear that, but little more." Gimme Some Neck is 10,000 times better, even with the brittle production. TeaAtThree
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GasLight Street, Erm, the jeans aren't exactly the reference point for the title... T@3
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Yet another way in which the Grateful Dead machine far exceeds our favorite band. Quarterly (imagine that!) releases of previously unreleased live material, accompanied by a video of the loquacious and wandering Dave Lemieux, and, for the most part, monthly emails. I too am disappointed by the Stones' Halloween T-shirts, Father's Day gift collections, cleverly named rum offerings etc
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Claudine LP Necrophilia LP Big ones for me
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Similarly, the one "challenge" of Spotify of not finding one release is outweighed by access to everything else. I've listened to and enjoyed uncountable music that I never would have risked buying in its physical form back in the day. TeaAtThree
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I've been thinking about this recently for a number of reasons. My wife and I are both book people, and we have over 2,500 books in our bookshelves and more in the garage. I have 1500 CDs and maybe 600 vinyl records. Both my parents died within the last two years, and we sold off all their books for under $100. I bought a 2022 Volvo with no CD player and don't have a CD player or tur
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Jimmy Smith and Wes Montgomery
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It's the other direction but John Philips Pay Pack and Follow is a late 70s record with a bunch of the Stones on it. Some of it sounds like it could be on Black and Blue. T@3
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You sure couldn't put Mick's helmet-head up front, and Charlie is looking rather ghoulish (and rail thin). And Bill is still sporting the same shirt he wore on the "Si Si Je Suis un Rock Star single."
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Lurked for several years before registering 17 years ago according to the database, which seems wrong because I wrote a reviews No Security shows if not BtB and Voodoo as I recall... I for one, LOOOOOVE that it looks exactly like it did when I started, and I applaud BV for his tireless commitment to this place. TeaAtThree
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Brussels or London '73 and a theater show in '78. Started in '81 at age 13 and saw everything thereafter. T@3
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My first show was '81, and on many tours I caught shows early in the tour on the East Coast -- 81 (night two), 89 (night four) and 94 (first night) especially. I would say that the 81 tour offered the most significant EVOLUTION of the performance quality of any tour since. Those early shows were rough -- though energetic -- and by the time they got to Hampton they were absolutely smoking,
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That was an amazing read. The author had to really do a deep dive and clearly has knowledge of the band's catalog and history. The only clunker I saw what that they have played "Sway" live, but I will certainly forgive that since the liner notes of Rarities had numerous mis-attributions. How embarrassing was that? Thanks for sharing! T@3
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Keith's Sympathy solo from Tokyo '90, edited to perfection on Flashpoint is an 1990 high point. T@3
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QuoteGasLightStreet Holy crap, it's a good thing they left Gimme Shelter at rehearsals. That was awful. Play With Fire is awesome! It's really bad but it's killer! Ha ha - Ian didn't know what key Tumbling Dice was in! I like the the Gimme Shelter. The keyboard riff kinda works, and Ronnie's lead mixes the 73 style lead with the 78 blistering speed. T@3
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It's Only Rock 'n' Roll! T@3
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Underrated from the early decades: BETWEEN THE BUTTONS -- So unlike anything else in the catalog. Very British of the time, with some stomping rockers like Miss Amanda Jones, All Sold Out, and My Obsession. AND the British version Has Back Street Girl and Please Go Home. Wow! GOATS HEAD SOUP -- though as many have pointed out, it seems to be rising over time. It has a very consistent feel a
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QuoteRockman in those days they were part of the creative process...not just guys who clocked in to add a few fills and horn solo. YEP !!!! ..... sure were This image, perhaps more than any other, just seems to encapsulate my vision of the Exile sessions. You can just feel the moisture seeping from the walls. TeaAtThree
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QuoteTravelinMan Quotefrenki09 QuoteLeonidP QuoteTravelinMan Quotegotdablouse How is this not cringy ?! Was it just an "accident" ? Nope What are the odds that any of Wyman's solo stuff would have seen the light of day had he not be a Stone ? Well who knows, maybe the man who claims he's behind JJF has JJF v2 up his sleeve for the new album ;-) Never heard that
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Indeed, an epic continuation of the Greatest Rock and Roll Band in the World. They continue to defy the odds and show that 80 year-old guys can rock. We are so lucky to have hitched our wagons to these stars! TeaAtThree
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BV, You had started talking about significant changes to IORR about a year ago, looking to hand off the reins to the next generation (that may sound familiar to other Americans like me!). Instead, you hung in there, maintained the site the way we all comfortably have known it all these years, and carried us through one more North American Tour. I imagine you never dreamed your career woul
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Sweet Virginia for the harp! At Santa Clara we got both LARS and MR, but neither is a guarantee. TeaAtThree
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