They no longer have 30 second song samples with their reviews, and the site is so crammed with pop-ups and advertising it's often impossible to read anything. Used to be a great resource, now it's pretty useless.
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QuoteMathijs Are there any known pictures of Keith and Gram after Summer of 1971? Gram was kicked out of Nellcote in ~July 1971, and he wasn't very welcome on the 1972 tour so I wonder if they actually met in 1973. Mathijs According to Robert Greenfield in "Exile On Main Street : A Season in Hell..." once Gram is booted from Nellcote, he and Keith never see each other again.
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I didn't know Daniel or have the chance to attend a Stones show with him, but thanks to one of those little coincidences that life sometimes throws at us, I've gotten a glimpse of how he touched the people in his life. With the recent passing of James Phelge, I realized that I'd never gotten a copy of his book to add to my Stones library. I found a copy in "very good"
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Quotesbetz Guitar work is mediocre, drumming is too loud. Am I the only one who thinks this is a totally vanilla song??? Vanilla and thoroughly forgettable. There's nothing in the song--not a riff, not a drum lick--that makes me want to hear it again. I don't get the feeling that they were even in the same studio together when they recorded it. "Hey, Keith. When you come u
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I think this is the first time I've ever heard of Charlie having a sibling.
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Quote1963luca0 There’s a nice book telling much about the tour and Liverpool as well. Robert Greenfield’s if I remember well. Bye, Greenfield's book is "Ain't It Time We Said Goodbye." Covers the '71 Goodbye Great Britian tour and maybe a little bit of the move to France (it's been a while since I've read it.)
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One of my favorite albums...not just fav Savoy Brown, but all time. I was 14 years old in '71 and wandering around our local record store with a couple of bucks burning a hole in my pocket. I grew up with a steady diet of AM pop radio and was pretty unhip to much beyond that. The Raw Sienna cover caught my eye. I had no idea who Savoy Brown was, but the cover was kind of cool. Looking at the
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Ordered my copy (#508) last week from the Geir website. Can't wait! Anyone care to guess what shipping time to the States might be?
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I won't comment on the sound from a cellphone Facebook feed. I thought it was interesting that Steve had the front head of his kick set up like Charlie: hole dead center. As a drummer, I will say this is an unusual set-up these days. Drummers who port their front head typically put the hole off to the side to preserve some resonance from the head. The dead-center hole was popular in the 70s
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QuoteTaylor1 Quotewith sssoul Quotecaschimann Jimmy Miller on drums? No Charlie here? Is that a thing I missed out during my 40 years Stones-fanship?? And if: On which other tracks you may be know (from 1962 to 2005) Charlie is replaced by someone else? Thanks! Maybe you were exposed to the knowledge, but blotted it from your memory banks? Some other studio tracks without Charlie: YCAG
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Mountain was my first concert: July '71 at Milwaukee's Summerfest. An odd bill, with John Sebastian and Poco as openers. I spun the Nantucket Sleighride album endlessly that summer. RIP to a guitar monster.
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Quoteskl127 No way is this stuffed, or tired, it is probably strung, another Jagger’ism unclear line I'm feeling so stuffed, I’m so distracted, ain't touched a thing all week, I've always heard this as: "I'm feelin' so starved..."
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Jimmy Winston, a founding member and original keyboardist of Small Faces, passed away over the weekend. This leaves Kenney Jones as the lone survivor.
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Which is more difficult? I don't know...how long is a piece of string? I'm a drummer. Yes, maybe a lot of people could whack a snare drum in time to a piece of music, but listening to any song will tell you that's not all there is to it. Take a relatively simple song like JJF. Your right foot is playing a particular pattern while your right hand is playing a different pattern and y
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Hortense Ellis, Alton's sister, cut some great rocksteady material. Her covers of Neil Sedaka (Breaking Up Is Hard To Do) and Dusty Springfield (Breakfast in Bed) are excellent!
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Quotejbwelda Get Yer Ya Yas Out had at least one track (Love in Vain?) recorded elsewhere than MSG. jb Yes, I believe LIV was recorded at the Baltimore show.
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Outstanding photos of the band at the height of its power!
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I've got a friend who's addicted to brake fluid. "Don't worry," he says. "I can stop anytime."
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Happy Birthday, Stu! We miss you. One small quibble with the otherwise excellent article above: Mick Avory has said that while he remembers rehearsing with the band a time or two, he never played out with them. The identity of the drummer at that first gig is an ongoing mystery. Some have suggested it may have been Carlo Little, as he was a popular session/fill-in drummer at the time. If yo
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I was thirteen when this song was all over the radio, and I had a huge crush on the older (16-17) sister of a friend. She'd sometimes drive us around to someone's house, the beach, wherever, and I'd always grab the shotgun seat.Whenever I hear this song I can still see her: driving barefoot, in denim cut-offs, with her hair in a ponytail, singing along. Sigh. RIP Ann.
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I think "Still Life" is a perfect title for this one. I was at the Chicago (the arena was actually in Rosemont IL) show where Start Me Up was recorded. After a strong opening with UMT, the rest of the album just isn't that exciting to me. Haven't listened to it in probably 30 years.
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Keith looked like he didn't know the camera was on!
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Quotevarilla Where does Charlie keeps all his gear? Does he have a drum kit at home? I seem to remember reading a bit from Charlie some years ago where he was talking about his dislike of touring, and he said something like: "If I want to play my drums, I have to go on the road with the band. I can't play them at home." The Stones used to have a facility in London (Bermondsey, I
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Fairytale of New York. The Pogues with Kirsty MacColl.
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Judith Durham with The Seekers. Remember "Georgy Girl"?
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I was looking for some info on Stu and Rocket 88 recordings when I ran across his obit in the LA Times. What a mangled bit of history! "In 1961 Stewart, Keith Richards, Bill Wyman and Charlie Watts became the first Rolling Stones when they performed near London. A fifth member, Brian Jones, who is also dead, was added soon after. Within months Stewart had been replaced by Mick Jagger, and
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What I gather, from Greenfield, is that the Dallas rehearsal wasn't planned but called, at Keith's insistence, after a "subdued" performance in Kansas City.
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I've always loved Charlie's drumming on UAWCPM...especially the crisp little roll that kicks off the song.
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Probably in the minority here, but I'm bored to death with this song. I could easily go the rest of my life without ever hearing it again. (Along with LSTNT and Satisfaction.)
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