Happy Birthday Darryl! I'm relatively certain that it doesn't bother you when people on boards like this ignorantly rip your playing. After all, you've been kicking ass with the Rolling Stones for 16 years now, and they've been doing what exactly? Oh, that's right, whining online so the same thirty people can read their worthless opinions over and over again. Keep kick
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Suffice to say we disagree. And, suffice to say that your request that I "listen" to Satisfaction from 1969 is laughably ignorant and, frankly, a bit @#$%&-ish. And, this will apparently come as a shock to you, but people other than yourself have gone to these...what did you call them...Operas? Some of us have experienced quite a few of them. What any of them have to do with Gi
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You made a reference to Mozart. Nothing says Rock and Roll like Mozart. How the hell is what Taylor does throughout the '73 tour interesting? It sounds like he's bored; like he wishes he was playing in a different band.... If only there was proof of this. If only he made some decision in the mid-seventies that..... Oh, yeah. That's right...he quit the greatest rock and rol
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Taylor was great. But his playing towards the end of his tenure with the band started to bug me. Too many notes for my taste. And yes, I love the Brussels show too, but man!...seriously MT, every song doesn't have to be crammed to the gills. (if the songs were fish, that is.) Knocking the interplay between Keith and Ronnie is just silly. There is definitely a chemistry to their playing th
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My girlfriend and I were at the South Bend show. Yeah, the set was a bit truncated, but the performance was fuc*kin incredible. Bob was clearly enjoying himself and the band was cooking. Yankee Doodle/Rainy Day Women was inspired, as was This Wheel, but the band really hit the groove during Highway 61. Friggin incendiary. And Dylan was clearly up to the task of fronting such a killer ensemble. Aw
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Please explain, in detail, how the @#$%& GODDAMN ROLLING STONES THE GREATEST ROCK AND ROLL BAND EVER BY LEAPS AND BOUNDS AND LEAPS could have made their #1 song, "Miss You", a better song for you to listen to in a live setting. We're all dying to hear your informed opinion. And, hey, why not post some of your kick ass music so we can all bask in the glow of your unyielding brill
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Did Taylor's "musical vision" include releasing unbearably awful music after he quit the Stones? Why am I asking? It must have!!
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Everything I've ever read or heard states that Charlie is drumming all the way through Tumbling Dice, but that Jimmy Miller was asked to play some fills on the outro after the original tracks were recorded. I don't know time frames here, and I don't know if Charlie just wasn't around, or if he couldn't get the feel, or what... If you listen closely to the outro, it doe
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For the record (or cd, mp3, digital download, etc....) I never said anything about rimshots, much less something idiotic about them. That quote should be attributed to the person who was responding to me...after I responded to them.
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So, they wiped Charlie's tracks completely? Or did Miller kick Charlie off the kit after the last verse and rush in there to save the day?. Please explain. It really sounds like the fills are overdubbed, regardless of who is keeping the beat at the end. It's no biggie either way. I just had never heard that Miller was playing all of the drums at the end of Tumbling Dice.
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Dude, or dudette, Rock and Roll is all about the feel and I've never heard anyone play that type of music with anything resembling Charlie's. The Stones do not need defending. I have played with jazz virtuosos and blues shredders who understand perfectly well that they can't play like Keith or Charlie, just as Charlie and Keith can't play like them. I don't know any ki
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Yeah, Jimmy Miller did some of the fills in the outro to Tumbling Dice...so what? Most of Exile is patched together with duct tape and elmer's glue, anyway. Which is one of the reasons it remains such a fascinating album to listen to. I don't get what people are saying critically about Charlie's sound or his playing. I've been playing drums for 30 years, professionally f
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You do realize that plenty of "fans" in 1981 openly bashed the Stones for not sounding as good as they had on previous tours, right? And the corporate sponsorship of Jovan meant they were sellouts. No longer dangerous. Family entertainment. Caricatures of themselves. Those people were wrong then, just as you are wrong now.
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I disagree. Not Vegas. Not Mickey Mouse. Just different. I prefer '81 in most cases, but that doesn't mean I can't appreciate a great show like Saitama. You seem to imply that if a person likes the Stones current lineup and sound, they don't know what they are talking about. That is absolutely idiotic. Also, please make a mental list of the bands that you believe play be
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Damn straight. "Undercover" kicks ass on SAL. Killer, urgent groove.
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He does it because he's Bob Dylan. Also, where can we hear some of YOUR music? Love to hear how it holds up compared to Bob's.
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One of my favorite things to read on these boards is when people rip on Keith's playing and then state that they know what they are talking about because they play guitar. Keith has written and performed many of the greatest songs in the history of popular music. His talent is absolutely massive and his influence on music will endure forever. Please understand, when you pick up a guita
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How brave of you to state your honest opinion. A true pioneer!!
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No. The Stones still kick ass and provide a singularly unique sound live. MT doesn't. There are plenty of virtuoso guitarists out there better than MT. Why the fascination?
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Thanks. That was great. Charlie is one of the few drummers around who understands the surges within the rhythm of a song. He kicks ass at the "Roll" in Rock and Roll.
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I was thinking the same thing. Nothing special about his playing here. Seen chops just like it dozens of times in Chicago blues bars. No biggie.
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When, exactly, were the Stones "dangerous"? In 1972, as jet setting millionaires? Perhaps 1975 with Jagger's phallus riding and Billy Preston's frilly keyboards and dancing? Maybe 1978, with Jagger's faux punk persona? The Stones are the greatest rock and roll band in the world. Dangerous? Nope. Never have been. Never will be. Just another silly myth perpetuated by fan
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"Family Entertainment"? That seems to be a favorite term of yours. Does it actually mean anything? Remember the video that accompanied HTW in 1994/95? The one with the full frontal nudity and fellatio? Seems a bit more "adult" than the phallus riding in '75.... But, maybe you're from the deep south, and co*ksucking is just another thing to do at a family reu
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"Charmed Life". It's on his greatest hits cd.
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Keith and Charlie are enormous. Jesus.
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Oh...another "fan" pining for the band to sound like it did 37 years ago. Sweet. What a sad, sad fantasy. If you can't hear the difference between Chuck B. and the Stones in those two clips, get your ears checked. And see a psychologist while you're at it.
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Jeff Tweedy, Feb. 14.
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Dude...Charlie came in on the wrong beat on that one. Not Keith's fault. Plus, they made mistakes like this decades ago. (See She's So Cold, Wembley '82) The Chuck Berry stuff really is sad, though. But, the Stones are gloriously ragged in the clip you showed. Not sad. It's called Rock and Roll. It shouldn't be pristine.
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It seems to me that '89/'90 was the absolute nadir of the Stones' live existence. Too polished, too safe and they didn't have enough experience with finding their unique groove while keeping BPM in mind. They barely even sounded like the Stones to me. '94/'95 was a step in the right direction, as was '97-'99. '02 was even better, although Keith's
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