According to legend he told Decca's Dick Rowe (who turned down The Beatles) to sign a certain band who played in Richmond. Thanks George.
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QuoteHis Majesty QuoteTaylor1 His Majesty, do you think there are any recordings that exist in the Stones vaults or elsewhere of additional unreleased music Brian may have created for A Degree of Murder? I really doubt it. One reason being he didn't even record enough for the film, the director had to re-use some of the exact same recordings in different places because of this. An argumen
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QuoteMrEcho Quotewiredallnight Why should I buy vinyl records in mono? It's like buying a VHS cassette in black & white. Stereo for consumer use was first introduced in 1958. In the late 1950s and in the 1960s most LPs were usually released in separate mono and stereo versions. Singles were always in mono up until the late 1960s. In the late 1950s stereo LPs had a market share of well
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1964 Radio Luxembourg acetate audiophile release, massive ABKCO box of out takes, Gomelsky film, the Curly Clayton acetate, all the Regent Sound song demo acetates, a properly researched Decca era recording sessions book similar to Mark Lewisohn's Beatle book. Unfortunately I'm not sure that there's a big stash of Brian era footage waiting to be discovered but if there is, a blu r
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So far I have The Beatles winning 3-0. Out Of Our Heads is the 4th USA Stones LP, Beatles For Sale was the 4th UK LP for the loveable mop heads. After a gruelling schedule going back more than 2 years, the fabulous foursome can be forgiven for running out of a bit of creative steam which they certainly did at the end of 1964. Beatles For Sale reverts to the 8 originals, 6 covers formula of thei
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Now vs A Hard Days Night ? In my opinion, Now is the strongest of the first 3 US Stones albums by quite a considerable distance. With the exception of Surprise Surprise and Everybody Needs Somebody To Love, I like pretty much everything on this one. Heart Of Stone is the first really great Jagger / Richards number. It’s so good it actually sounds like it must be a cover. Proof that little by lit
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The problem of comparing The Beatles and Stones in this fashion rears it’s unkempt head again. Playing very different styles of music and at completely different stages of development, it’s really gonna come down to which you prefer. If you like the Everlys, Arthur Alexnader and girl groups you’ll probably love the Fab4’s 2nd LP and if Chuck is the man then it’ll be the Stoners for you. With
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QuoteTaylor1 I love the Beatles, but John and Paul were good at lifting musical ideas from others.Like John lacking from Hey Baby for Please PleaseMe. .To say their music is great ,yes it is. But complex? No .Complex is Bach or Clementi Complex in pop of the day terms. Agreed re Bach. Charles Ives is even further out at times. Not sure I'm hearing Hey Baby in Please Please Me. Maybe the i
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George Martin probably had next to zero involvement in the Please Please Me songs in terms of arrangement let alone creating. There was no time. The songs / arrangements came in fully formed. You can hear the Star Club tapes - they've got their act sorted. Not to say Martin wasn't key at various other times. For (relative) complexity check There's A Place - the harmonies on "
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Comparing the two toppermost of the poppermost bands debut LPs is tough for a number of reasons. They are at completely different stages of development and playing very different music from each other. The Stones LP came a year after The Beatles debut and by the time the Stones LP was out, the Beatles were close to finishing their 3rd and best early period album, the entirely Lennon-McCartney c
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1964 Radio Luxembourg acetate released in full (Bill has it as far as I know) and an agreement between the Stones and ABKCO for someone with decent knowledge of the band to go through every surviving tape / acetate from 62 - 69 for a multi cd set of Stones 'n' Jones rarities followed by a decent vault trawl for the Taylor / Wood years. A blu ray of all surviving 1960's footage.
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QuoteKRiffhard "I'm not sure I should say it, but they're a blues cover band, that's sort of what the Stones are" Dear Paul, with these words you have been disrespectful and you have shown that you don't understand a @#$%& thing about a truly eclectic band that has played - unlike you - every musical genre. And unlike you, they have never bored anyone. E
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QuoteVideoJames This is true, I have the "Studio" recordings from the Olympic Studio sessions for the London Palladium Show. I have three different takes of "It's All Over Now". One take has the guitar mixed way up front. All versions I have of "It's All Over Now" have vocals. But the version of Connections I have is just instrumental no vocals. I believ
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QuoteRockman Never met one ….but whats a genius anyway ??…. Over the years met dudes who are clever at one thing but then on the other hand cant even heat up a can of tomato soup … Tony Asher (who wrote the lyrics for Pet Sounds) apparently once said of Brian Wilson - "Genius musician, amateur human being" ! Brian himself once said. "I'm not a genius I'm just a h
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QuoteThe Sicilian I never knew that the Yardbirds opened for the Stones. Did anyone here see any of those shows? I didn't (too young) but I've always hoped that a tape exists somewhere waiting to leak or be discovered. One of the Yardbirds (maybe Dreja or McCarty) said it was like World War 3 with Beck and Page duelling stereo lead guitars, one either side of the stage. The thought
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Tutti Frutti - Little Richard Great Balls Of Fire - Jerry Lee Lewis I'm Looking For Someone To Love - Buddy Holly Summertime Blues - Eddie Cochran Say Mama - Gene Vincent Train Kept A Rollin' - Johnny Burnette Rock n Roll Trio Dynamite - Cliff Richard and The Drifters Jungle Rock - Hank Mizell Shakin' All Over - Johnny Kidd and The Pirates Brand New Cadillac - Vince Taylor
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QuoteDEmerson Watched Echo in the Canyon on Netflix last night, the Jacob Dylan produced oDE to the mid-60s California sound, as elDEr hippies of yore (CS&N, Jackson Browne etc.) wax nostalgic about what a groovy time it was, and as the younger generation (Beck, Cat Power) look at amazement at old vinyl LPs as though finding ancient relics. Plays a bit like The Rutles ‘Can’t Buy Me Lunch’ at
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Can anyone who's bought this tell us if there's any recording data for the tracks / tape box pictures etc.. in the book please ?
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Quoteschillid Brian Jones, 1965 Photograph by Dennis Hopper We have photos from all the December 65 sessions and Brian's clothes rule it out as being from those sessions. I think the photo was taken at the session that took place at RCA from Friday March 11th through the night to March 12th 1966, the final Aftermath session. There is a description of Brian's clothes and a phot
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Yep some good photos there thanks. Anyone else think that picture of Brian was taken at RCA in March 1966 at the Aftermath sessions ? Certainly looks like RCA and I can't think of another occasion where he used a sitar with hair that short !
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not to hand but I think it's the lyric from the verse (top line on sheet in photo) I'm sick and tired of the smile (2nd line) that you give when you don't come back at night
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one from the first day of Aftermath sessions, 8th-9th December 1965 another one from (probably) the 2nd day of Aftermath sessions 9th-10th December 1965 and another (probably) from day 3, 10th-11th December 1965
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QuoteRockman Haven't posted pics here before so hopefully this'll work.... I think that photo Rockman posted is from the second day of sessions at RCA that started on the 9th December 1965 lasting to the early hours of 10th December. Here's one from December 8th (the first Aftermath/Could You Walk On Water session) which carried on through to the 9th December....looks like i
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Quotedandelion1967 QuoteRockman Brian Jones ------- Jack Nitzsche ------------ Mick Jagger ---- 1966 Marimba and harpsichord, so they're recording "Ride on, baby" Ride On Baby is from the December 1965 "Could You Walk On The Water / Aftermath" sessions. I think this pic is from 1966 (August at RCA ?) so they could be recording Yesterday's Papers which has bot
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That's the best new thing I've heard from them in decades. Good length for a song too - just over 3 minutes. A proper single and much better than the previous one.
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Satisfaction Around and Around Get Off Of My Cloud The Last Time I'm Moving On 2000 Light Years From Home We Love You Parachute Woman Have You Seen Your Mother Baby Jumping Jack Flash
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Aftermath Satanic Majesties Out Of Our Heads Between The Buttons The UK versions of each. I don't have much interest in the band post Exile but that's my problem.
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QuoteDandelionPowderman Bill's Tune was officially released as the opening track on "67 Sessions". It's not the same tune as In Another Land. Thanks for the response and agreed, Felix Aeppli (who along with Nico Z. has one of the very best Stones databases online) and I had to agree to disagree on this issue so I was interested what others here might think. I don't
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It's usually said that In Another Land was originally recorded under the title Acid In The Grass / Bill's Tune which may well be true. The song I've posted below (the one with Brian playing a harp) is usually referred to as an early / working version of In Another Land. On the face of it, it does sound like In Another Land but I'm convinced they are two completely different
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I didn't realise till a few minutes ago that The Drifter's Under The Boardwalk was produced by Mike Leander who was Decca A & R working a lot with Marianne Faithfull, Billy Fury and many others. Apparently he was sent / went to the USA specifically to give them the "British sound".
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