Quoteslewan QuoteStoneage They are both nostalgia acts by now playing mostly 40-55 year old hits. very unlike the Stones, of course, who are mainly focused on fresh songs from their latest albums Naughty, naughty.
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Go to YouTube and watch Jeff Beck's five song set with Rod at the Hollywood Bowl last summer. In-f'ing credible.
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I know what's being said. Go listen to Brian Wilson's group, and then listen to Mike Love's 'Beach Boys'. Brian has incredibly competent musicians and singers. (And he adds Al Jardine, Dave Marks-early Beach Boy, and Blondie Chaplin to the mix) It wouldn't have hurt the Stones to try and add some talented musicians to their mix, as long as the 4 left are still on sta
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I really like the Dolby Atmos format. I heard Goats Head Soup in Dolby Atmos last week and it really gave it depth and separation. I went to the ABKCO website and they advertised that the first few albums, and Let It Bleed, were available for streaming. That's fine, but I can't find them on Apple, where they were supposed to be available since last March. Has anyone one downloaded a
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Saw him at the House of Blues in Los Angeles about 2001. He was then the vocalist for the revered group Los Super Seven. Great singer.
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I'm so happy that my ears find Hackney Diamonds to be a great album. Their finest since Wyman quit. And the bass sound and execution is superb. Lucky Me. I know it's great, to my ears, because I play it from time to time. I've probably heard it over ten times by now, the entire album. I don't think I listened to Voodoo/Babylon/Bang twice all the way through.
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I don't know about the story how he became the Rolling Stones bassist after Bill Wyman left? Anyway, what a career! Auditions. Charlie picked him. A drummer picked a bass player. Can you imagine letting Charlie pick a guitarist?. One of their stranger decisions. It's never really worked out except for the assurance of having a bass player for the stage shows. Wasn't used on one
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QuoteBig Al Wouldn't it be wonderful if Bill could be dragged up on stage for a cameo, next year? Just a couple of numbers at an isolated show, like London. It won't happen, but it'd be nice thing. Age aside, I don't think the keenness is there after his experience in 2012. Probably. He did his two studio songs recently without any of the other Stones being there. There appe
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Just listened to Live By The Sword last night. The secret of success to the Hackney Diamonds album was using quality rock and roll bass players. I hope they continue that with the next album. There's one more Charlie/Bill cut in the can. Love to have Bill play on more Stones songs. 89. Wow! Good health, Bill.
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I believe it's supposed to cover Sullivan's support of black artists. The complete Beatles and Stones appearances have been available for years on DVD.
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Hackney Diamonds is a great Stones album. Maybe their most pleasing work since TY, or even Some Girls. I have listened to it repeatedly. I have not listened to a Stones album repeatedly since Steel Wheels. I noticed any actual news on a new album stopped on the first page of this post. I can see where unreleased songs from certain periods didn't fit the feel of the album. That's bee
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Thank god Darryl wasn't available. (If that's entirely true.) Those fresh bass parts really make the album. I would be initially disappointed if I heard he was playing bass if there's a next record. Keith, Paul, and Bill really stand out, giving a Stones record what it hasn't had in decades. Maybe he's okay for the road, when you can't really hear the bass in a live
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I was eleven. Whenever I think of Satisfaction I remember these rude stroking gestures a male classmate would make behind the teachers back while he mouthed Satisfaction. I don't remember it being that monumental, good, yes, but there was so much good music in '65. I think I paid more attention to Get Off of My Cloud and the third song of that mid-sixties grouping, Nineteenth Nervous Br
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What is it with people not giving Jagger his due? Who found Rupert in the first place? Who kept the band together while Keith was shooting half of Afghanistan into his arm? Just because Keith seems more approachable, and we know he can be as phony as anyone, Mick gets cut down. Mick has the right to keep employees like Lowenstein at arms length.
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I think Anita should publish a book for the sheer historical perspective of it. Who knew Brian more intimately? The danger of course is that it would be colored in her favor, but she is very intelligent, and understands self destruction.
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Thanks for posting. Bit of a tart, but interesting.
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Loyal too. I think he was the only one to stay with Debbie and Chris in Blondie after the other two split.
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Just dropped in to see if there was any progress on Black and Blue actually becoming a Super Deluxe release. Doesn't look like there's any news on that front.
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QuoteStoneage Quote24FPS QuoteTaylor1 How could Ron have been so poor that he had to survive on painting? I thought he was worth hundreds of of millions I'm a little confused by the interview. I don't think it says what specific period some of the Stones were broke. I remember reading in Bill's Stone Alone that by '69, Charlie, Brian, and he were broke because those three di
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QuoteStoneage Quote24FPS QuoteRockman Same as Live By The Sword is not for sissies …… Bill was right, there's hardly any space for him to perform on that cut. (Although I still like it.) Now I'm curious about the other one he did with Andrew. Maybe he can bounce around a bit more on that one. Well, Bill is considered a swordsman (informal). Maybe that's the reason they picked h
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I'm currently moving through the 27 CD set of the '74 North America Tour with the Band. Yes, most of the songs sound the same, but every once while you pick out a gem. A different arrangement that works. The problem with a lot of it is that he's almost angry, spitting out a lot of lyrics. It doesn't work on Lay Lady Lay, where he sounds like he's pissed, and not in love w
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My stupid ears. They lied to me and told me the GHS sounded best on a Japanese SHM CD. I sat there and listened and had a whole new experience with what I always considered a jumble of an album. Now it sounds like a soul experience. Coming Down Again indeed. Damn my ears!!!
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The last GREAT tour. Age slowly caught up with them after that. Get Off My Cloud got turned into a waltz. People now go for nostalgia.
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I don't think they've been 'great' since 1999. Everyone since seems kind of the same. They've speeded up a little with Jordan on drums, but you're losing some of the detail with Charlie gone. The last Stones concert I attended was in 2013, and it was okay. I decided that was the end of seeing them. Especially since they want $200 for the nosebleeds. They want you to
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I never liked the Dead. It's not the instruments, it's the vocals. Then I got ahold of 'A Night At The Family Dog' DVD. For those of you unfamiliar with the 60s San Francisco scene, the Family Dog was a venue like the Fillmore. The DVD set is full of SF groups like Santana, the Jefferson Airplane, etc. Anyway, there were some Dead cuts. The difference is that Pigpen was the vo
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I wish everybody could hear the new remix of GHS on a Japanese SHM CD. I think that combination turned it into a whole listening experience for me. It's like a soul album. I remember thinking the vinyl back in '73 was mixed very unevenly.
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QuoteRockman Same as Live By The Sword is not for sissies …… Bill was right, there's hardly any space for him to perform on that cut. (Although I still like it.) Now I'm curious about the other one he did with Andrew. Maybe he can bounce around a bit more on that one.
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Quotegeorgie48 Quote24FPS I don't think Mick's vocals were mature enough to handle That's How Strong My Love Is in 1965. But he is killer in 2005 at the Olympia in Paris on Four Flicks. I remember it was in 2003 Absolutely great, but personally I liked the Zirkus Krone (Munich) rendition even better (goose bumps) Correct on the year. Ever since they started releasing vault mat
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I don't think Mick's vocals were mature enough to handle That's How Strong My Love Is in 1965. But he is killer in 2005 at the Olympia in Paris on Four Flicks.
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As someone who lived in Atlanta in the early 70s and saw the original Allman Brothers, it was hard for me to listen to them without Duane. I have come to appreciate Bett's guitar playing. But with Duane, Gregg, and Dickey gone, I don't see what is the point of a reunion.
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