I have only one important message for you today: thank you! During the past 43 years I have been able to thrive as a Rolling Stones fan. And the main reason I am able to say that is because of you. When I discovered your paper fanzine, I thrived on finding out more about unreleased Stones related recordings, books, magazines and all kinds of cool information via the Tell Me forum provided
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Best song representing the core and essence of the new album. Great vocal delivery and guitars. Cool solo followed by bridge about "dreary streets of London not promising much" and with beautiful harmonies.
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Mess it Up is such a great song, in my view only surpassed by Whole Wide World on the new album. Thanks to being intrinsically a great song it comes out well also in the new remix, but with a different remix it could have been even better. But I love it.
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I also think that sonically and productionwise Hackney Diamonds is closer to Undercover than anything else. In the context of time both albums sounds fresh and contemporary but both albums fail to go the extra mile compared to Stones' most classic albums, I think, mainly because the solid top notch song material is not there to begin with. On Undercover, the band squeeze out everything from
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Long As I Can See the Light by Creedence Clearwater Revival on the flipside of Lookin' Out My Back Door from 1970. It's of course written by John Fogerty who also plays the Wurlitzer electric piano and saxophone in addition to an amazing vocal performance.
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Muddy Water’s Rollin’ Stone from 1950 is the supreme version of all variants reaching magical heights with to-the-point badass attitude and guitar playing. The dynamic interplay between his vocals and guitar is stellar with a beautiful call’n response riff after each verse (Oh Lord / Oh Well / Oh Well He’s a); which is not really heard prominently in any other version (Stones included). He reuses
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Hackney Diamonds is a stunning album. My top-three picks are (more or less) riff based Whole Wide World, Mess it up and Live by Sword. Going back in time the new album beats Bridges to Babylon from 1997 but falls short in comparison with Wandering Spirit from 1993. It feels like MJ contributes more than on any other Stones album to the songwriting input. Keith of course plays really well on the s
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I like Mick n Keith’s rendition of Muddy Water’s classic Rollin’ Stone from 1950 (in turn based on older song Catfish Blues). They demonstrate their outstanding skill set as live performers of classic acoustic blues with a cool sonic setting by Andrew Watt. But I’m surprised they omit the song’s main call’n response riff that Muddy does after each verse (Oh Lord / Oh Well / Oh Well He’s a). For m
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Great song, in the top three of all songs on the new album. Classic Stones working around a riff, cool lyrics and an excellent bridge. Love it. Great to have Bill and Charlie onboard creating the best possible groove. Cool handclaps. Excellent barrelhouse piano from Auntie Reg (Elton John).
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Thanks for sharing. Great interview, pretty funny on many occasions. Snippets of new songs sounds promising. Interesting to hear about early songwriting and songs they gave other acts. Great to hear him talking about his father, Anita and Charlie. Auntie Reg'. Surprisingly to me, talking about SftDevil Keith brings in Marianne Faithful to the songwriting even claiming she wrote half of it. H
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I don't know her music well enough to fully appreciate it but I hear the influence of Street Fighting Man in this version of Rubberband Girl.
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Just noticed the release date 20 october co-incides with the producer Andrew Watt’s birthday. Funny co-incidence, I presume. Sorry if it’s already been brought up.
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Thx for sharing, Rockman. Superb interviews. The Andrew Watt interview is the best. Hats off to AW for - at a relatively young age - connecting so well with especially Keith. Super interesting to read about his gift to Paul McC and the story about recoding the Muddy Waters number. Historical achievement. Great producer.
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Great to hear the new single. With a cool production they squeeze the maximum out of a simple riff that lands a bit behind their greatest work. Taking Mick's superb vocals for granted, the standout highlights are the overall production, Keith's bass and solo/licks together with the long outro. There's some simple but not really standout piano making me dream about what some other c
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Arctic Monkeys tonight in Luxembourg
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Last weekend BBC4 showed a good multi-part documentary "They All Came Out To Montreux" about the life of Claude Nobs and the Montreux Jazz Festival. There were some short testimonials from Keith referring to his stay in Montreux (?) in the 70s and his friendship with Claude Nobs to whom he paid homage. There was some footage with Muddy Waters and ZZ Top and various other greats. It is a
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Great topic as there is such a wealth of exciting material to choose from. My favorites in no particular order would be: SFTD Let me go Union Square from Rain dogs by Tom Waits if we extend to include live work then I would add the following two: Around and Around from Love you Live Your cheatin’ heart with Jerry Lee Lewis
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One of the greatest bands ever. Bell made some really strong melodic songwriting contributions. The first album is a masterpiece with sublime guitar parts and all well played. I love their harmonies. So beautiful.
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I'm gonna see the Arctic Monkeys twice this year. Great music.
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Bill German's "Under their thumb" is great and a must.
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Top ten in chronological order: The Undertones, 1983, Hultsfred, Sweden Johnny Thunders & Syl Sylvain, 1984?, Hultsfred, Sweden Chuck Berry, 1984, Norrköping, Sweden Nomads, 1985? Hultsfred, Sweden Waterboys, 1987, Roskilde, Denmark Telephone, 1987, Roskilde, Denmark Echo & The Bunnymen, 1987, Hultsfred, Sweden James Brown, 1988, Sofiero Slott, Helsingborg, Sweden Rolling Ston
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It was a great listen; especially since I missed the program before the extended cut. Interesting to hear especially Mick J talking about i) showmanship & watching Little R on an early tour 30 times and ii) the creative process & songwriting acknowledging invaluable contributions from the likes of Billy P and Nicky H while also claiming it's "debatable" they therefore shoul
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Happy Thanksgiving! By the way, in October 2022, the Council of the European Union approved a request from the Permanent Delegate of Türkiye to the European Union to change the way we refer to the country from “Turkey” to “(Republic of) Türkiye.” This currently only applies to documents in English. For the time being, the name of the country in other languages remains unchanged. So when Turke
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My copy arrived yesterday, and the book is an amazing labor of love with attention to detail. Will enjoy it for a long time. Many thanks to Erwin!
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Great version. Marcus King has done some great music; one of the best acts to emerge lately.
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Amazingly gifted guitarist with some hauntingly beautiful playing and vocalising. RIP
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Great videos. It was a blast listening and watching. Great playing and singing.
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video: The documentary "Le doc Stupéfiant: L'histoire française des Rolling Stones" was aired 20 June 2022 on French TV. It is available on streaming in France. Despite not living in France, I managed to set-up an account and stream it with a French VPN connection. Sumary: the documentary is entertaining, interesting and quite good but maybe not top-notch. It did not conta
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The Screaming Blue Messiahs were quite popular back in the 80s. A few years ago, I think that they weren't on Spotify, but yesterday I found them there and listened again reviving memories. What a great band, with great songs, cool vocals and spot-on crunchy electric guitars and interplay with drums and bass. Dubbed as rockabilly from hell. Vic Maile, who produced Dr Feelgood's two firs
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Låter kul. Lycka till! / Sounds fun. Best of luck.
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