The only one I never got on with is Mess it Up. All the others I love, I had it on earlier this week while cooking, it's a good record for chopping, slicing, peeling and searing, with smoking breaks and wine on the side. The tracks are so well crafted for the Stones, lovely bits from Keith and Ronnie especially. Can't wait for the new one, however it pans out. Also, the Zydoco trac
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I'm reviewing this album for the magazine Songlines (world and folk mag) and I can say that the Stones cut is fast, spiky, rollin', vuttin', lean and hugely enjoyable - a shaker and a mover - accordion guitar harmonica mash ups.... Mick in French. KInda only hear Keith on guitar but may well be wrong there as Ron is deffo in the credits.
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Very sad, and a such a terrible roll call of the absolute greats leaving us alone on this broiling mad planet - we will not see their likes again - lucky to have been passing through at the same time. I saw him twice, doing Smile, and other great stuff, I was so lucky....
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It's astonishing that these treasures have not been released to us, like, 20 years ago, or at least when the Bedspring Symphony had an official download. Even at ath lo-fidelity, the Palais performance is awesome. The good news is that, tapes that predate 1973 used some kind of whale extract for superior adhesion, so they are in a better condition than post-1973 tape. Eddie Kramer told me t
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I agree re the excellence of the Bigger Bang cover. I'd get David Bailey back, just as they began with those great early covers (& Goat's Head). He's alive, they are. Let's do it!
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QuoteBarkerboy2 It is The Rolling Stones mate. Stop talking nonsense. It was a great album too. If you didn't like it, that's fine, but you have told us so many times now, we're all bored. It sure IS. A great late album from the Stones, with maybe one more to come, it seems, which this thread should be celebrating, not burying in stupid argument that's not even on-thread.
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God the people who hate HD really cannot let it go, can they. Fine, hate the album, and spare no detail as to why it is so very bad, and how awful and deluded anyone who likes it is. I've really enjoyed it from day one, even if it is a long distance from the big four. 'I haven't listened to it in probably close to a year now. I have no desire to' hardly sounds like 'att
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Well this has veered of topic, and in the wrong key. I played Hackney Diamonds to death in its first year of release, I think I hadn't had as much fun taking in a new Stones record with repeated playings since Tattoo You and when I put it on these days, it still excites me - it's obviously Keith deep in there on Get Close, there's a nice London feel to Depending on You and Whole
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I love Ron, and I love the sound of his and Keith's guitars, in the late 70s and early 80s especially.
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Picking up this slender thread 17 years later .... Always Suffering has become one of my favourites of B2B, along with the two closers from Keith. I love Keith's guitar work, the solo and especially the beautiful and melancholy new riff he drops in right at the end, about five seconds of it, heading in the fade, Charlie really walloping the drums. I love the idea of him on backing vocals.
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There's a very funny footnote in that book Sympathy for the Drummer: Why Charlie Watts Matters about a complete train wreck they achieved at the beginning of Star Star - it is indeed chaos, but beautifully resolved. I'd love a good recording of it all....
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Ronnie's X account posted this yesterday... promising?? Fifty years ago this month, the Rolling Stones issued a press release confirming that Ronnie Wood would be joining them on their upcoming Tour Of The Americas (TOTA). Ronnie's first show with the Stones would take place on his birthday that year, and this year we are celebrating his 50th year with the band with something very
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Quotedkwalika Mick also does the theme song "Strange Game" for the series Slow Horses (2022-), which is starting Season 5 on Apple TV+ this summer/fall. Great show with Gary Oldman. That's a great song, great show too. And the books. I wonder if that London feel crept in to Hackney Diamonds after writing Strange Game - Whole Wild World, Live By the Sword.
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The snippet sounds great. And I loved the New Orleans Let it Bleed mash up with Dwayne Dopsie. Maybe that could be the B side...
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Quotedrewmaster I love the rawness and funkiness of this track, as others have mentioned. I especially love when Charlie kicks in at 1:27. But at the break at 2:05, it's like all of a sudden, all the momentum suddenly disappears! What the hell?? Maybe it's the editing, like Skipstone said. Drew From 3.27 to the end is some absolutely great and unfathomable Rolling Stones es
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I'd love him to do Tin Angel, to a Film Noir assemblage methinks ....
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'now they try to fit in with what they think is going to go down well with young listeners,' I don't hear this at all. They experiment with what is current, and see how that can be folded in to their sound, and have done for decades. This worked out brilliantly on Hackney Diamonds, which is a diamond of a Stones LP. 'Phoney and sad'? I think that's the fans, s
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That UMT Altamont footage is still so bloody scary - that lycanthrope in the process of bodily change on the stage right next to Jagger and the short haired gum-chewing Angel, who also looks like the angel of death except harder. And that groove, and the tone of Keith's guitar. Incredible.
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Here's a link to a post I write this morning, about meeting Marianne a couple of times, for writing work, when she was in The Black Rider in 2004, and when she was making her last album of poems from Byron and Shelley an co, in 2021. A wonderful woman and artist, I can't believe she has gone, but she has, and a whole world of wonders is trailing out behind her, and soon they too will be
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QuoteSwayed1967 QuoteDandelionPowderman Quotededospegajosos Lyrically, Too Tight and DMTH are braindead twins or pull-string sister dolls, both the progeny of a once gifted lyricist who for the last 40 years or so hasn’t given a crap... If you agree with that then the lyrics to Too Tight and DMTH should make you wanna puke into your boots. They'e nothing like with other, lyrically, you'
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Unbelievably brilliant. Thank you for that link!!
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QuoteI think I see Roger Waters over Jimmy Page's shoulder in that second photo. Dave Gilmore was there, so that can't be Waters. They shouldn't invite deranged racists like him into civilised company, anyway.
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Indeed they have... Madame Tussauds meltdown. It's terrible photoshop work. And it bugs me, as the ersatz unreality AI starts taking over the whole damn show, it seems, or will soon do so. Whereas the photos inside have been left as is, which is SO MUCH BETTER! Nice article. Nothing especially new, but a good read, indeed....
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If it was Photoshop, whoever did it should be sacked. It looks very much like a really awful, low-grade off the peg AI filter applied for no good reason at all to a perfectly good vintage photo. Mick Taylor's hair! Looks like the shag pile from the toilet of a specialist mid 70s brothel in Munich It's unbelievable what art editors do to source photography these days. They seem to want
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The Liverpool Every Grain of Sand is gorgeous. I loved the Palladium shows a couple of years back with Drayton et al, and I doubt I'll score a ticket to this tour, but the recordings sound great on the songs I really like(I could without ever hearing again the revamped Baby Tonight and the other minor songs from yesteryear) but R&RW seems to be the gift that keeps giving on stage, and
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Good enough piece, but I can't get along with the subheading 'He helped shape classic songs by the Rolling Stones, the Who and the Beatles but his influence on music has been largely ignored. A new documentary aims to correct that.' It's not been 'largely ignored' at all, he has long been celebrated in many articles and interviews, and in the book that came out ye
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Thanks, I didn't realise the first link was a crock! A record well worth your time, and Robbed Blind is just one highlight....
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THis is a fabulous album - and just a few months since releasing The Border, which I also loved. But this is a step up - son Micah Nelson stripping it down a bit. Robbed Blind I love, but the whole album is brilliant! Here's to the nonogenerian (?) supremacy! Reviewed it for The Arts Desk which went live today - a link for anyone interested .... thanks. Willie Nelson's Last Leaf on t
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QuoteRnTGo to a show and get back to us. No way a video can do his sound justice. I've been to plenty thanks. Palladium 2022, second night, is the most recent. Excellent night. But that was with Charlie Drayton in the band, and Dylan prominent more on voice than piano in the mix. Not sure if l'll be able to one of these 2024 shows but I'd love to, it'll be another intense
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QuoteRnT Saw him in Antwerp last night. The Lotto Arena is a great venue for live music. Bob was dominant indeed, a bit too much imho.... Thanks for the review. I have been following this tour's progress on Expecting Rain, but even though I am a massive Dylan fan, and some of what I have heard is really compelling, the level of worship in those reports is just getting to be too much - they a
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