Quote24FPS 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. I agree. There's plenty to snipe
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Quotejamesfdouglas Quoteblivet There was a rather fascinating interview with Jagger about how the business of the Rolling Stones is structured some years back in Fortune, but that's about it as far as I know. Found it. IIRC there was also an accompanying interview with Jagger along the lines I indicated. Questions about the nuts and bolts of the business, like "Is it a partnersh
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Quotejamesfdouglas QuoteBraincapers whether Mick is upset or not I do find it odd, and unprofessional, that their accountant has written a book about their finances. Yes, absolutely. While it DOES provide us fans with a competely different angle of the band's story/history - enough perhaps for some of us to consider buying the book (it kept my attention reading the excerpts) I would guess,
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I don't really care all that much about technical skill. Most of my favorite guitarists aren't great technicians. But I think that something about being in the Stones really stifled Wood. There are occasional reminders of how good he was in Faces, but for the most part he seems to have adopted a secondary role, sort of just making himself useful on the sidelines, being careful not to st
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Purely based on cover art, my favorites are Through the Past, Darkly and Made in the Shade.
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I'm repeating myself, but Abkco ought to re-release the radio station promo album for Record Store Day. It's even got an RSD stock number, for crying out loud. There was a commercial "collector's item" release in Australia in 2005, so it's not as if the idea has never occurred to anyone.
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Quote24FPS What or what did Brian do to piss them off so much? Love to know but no one speaks specifics. Whatever it was it seems cumulative and kept happening and caused estrangement. Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Jones. I wonder if it wasn't one thing but a lot of different things. Even we outsiders know that he kept extra gig money for himself without telling the others, fathered several children
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When True Adventures came out I was living in Europe, and due to lack of access to the English-language music press I didn't get the message that it was actually a good book, and not one of those quickie cash grabs aimed at naive fans. I hadn't thought about it in years, but I've just ordered a copy, and I'm really looking forward to reading it.
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Quotealfstone L.A. January 18th, 1973 Nicaraguan benefit concert gig in full soundboard, is now my holy grail. That version of No Expectations in particular. Smoking versions of Route 66, It´s All Over now, and Stray Cat Blues among others. Same. To my mind this is the band at its zenith.
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QuoteGasLightStreetWhich presents an issue that they oddly felt threatened in regard to royalties. For ONE SONG on an album. Possibly a throwback to the Allen Klein days of getting screwed over That has got to be a huge part of it. They were swindled out of their life's work. I can't imagine the mental and emotional scars that must leave on an artist. Even if it wasn't con
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QuoteGasLightStreet QuoteSilver Dagger QuoteSpud It will be welcome . But it was a great sounding record to start with... ...so the bar is set quite high for anybody looking to improve it with a remaster. Exactly. What Stones album sounded better than this? EMOTIONAL RESCUE. I agree that ER sounds really good, and unlike B&B it contains songs I actually want to listen to.
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Quotepowerage78 I've always wondered what was going on with Mick's very worn shoes and mismatched socks in this photo. There must be a story there.
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QuoteTheflyingDutchman To put things in the right perspective: Schocking Blue's "Venus" was quite obvious plagiarism. Strange that it never led to a lawsuit. Thanks for bringing this up. I did a little searching and found "The Banjo Song", which I had never heard before. It really is surprising that no one ever brought suit. The melodic lines are identical, and the perf
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Quoteerbissell That being said, has anyone seen Keith break a string at a show? Yes, at one of the Anaheim Stadium shows during the Some Girls tour. I was kind of surprised a crew member didn't hand him a replacement guitar immediately, and maybe Keith was too, because he looked pissed off.
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Quotekeefriffhards Hard to understand why Mick would feel so strongly against someone for so long, especially when you are worth half a billion pounds, what's to feel bitter about, that's for people who have nothing for their efforts like Taylor. Klein stole the rights to Mick and Keith's creative work. That goes beyond money.
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QuoteProfessorWolf no love for the stp stage? Great design, but I wonder how many people in the audience could actually see it. I remember reading that the panels were made of white mylar, and were so slick that they had to be washed down with Seven-Up before the show so Jagger could keep his footing.
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I can't identify them specifically, but there are a bunch of trippy effects going on in the "It's so mesmerisin'..." section of "Rocks Off".
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I check in here every day without fail, and this site has been an invaluable source of entertainment and information over the years. Thank you, bv.
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Quotebitusa2012 Yeah, I just don’t get that the, you know, ACTUAL ROLLING STONES, don’t hear what some of you hear in Daryl’s playing. That is… nothing. Our heroes must be tone deaf to hear his non-contribution. It's not uncommon in rock and roll for musicians to prize technical qualities that their fans couldn't care less about. Lester Bangs did an interview with Lou Reed where Reed
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Quote71Tele Good points, DP! The bridges are indeed one thing musically different about these songs, as well as the three-guitar onslaught (which I have mentioned). Also agree about Wood's role. On that note, I am not known here as a Ron Wood fan (that's an understatement!), but SG really shows how they integrated Wood into the band and at the same time created a "new" Rolling
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QuoteIrix Quoteblivet I've seen a copy of that letterhead. I think someone even posted it on this board. It's here - . But this letterhead from Rolling Stones Records has no date on it. I see what you mean. Still, looking at the logo on the letterhead, it's easy to imagine Braun having an "aha" moment when he compared his fax image of it and the Aldridge illustr
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QuoteIrix Quoteblivet I guess it's possible that Pasche took inspiration from the "Day Tripper" illustration, and told Braun so when Braun was tying to put together the album package without having Pasche's artwork directly available. Seems to be possible. The best would be if Bill Wyman could find in his RS archive a very early letter from Rolling Stones Records wit
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QuoteIrix Quoteblivet Mystery solved! It describes how the T&L logo was redrawn by Craig Braun's company, early 1971 in New York City. But it does not explain why the logo by John Pasche (created in 1970 in London, UK) has a very similar shape & geometry compared to Alan Aldridge's illustration (1969). OK, but at least we now have Braun explicitly stating in so many wor
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QuoteIrix Quotegeorgie48 The 100% clear distinction of both the eyes and stripe(s) on John Pasche's design(s) are highly distinctive and absolutely unique. But both designs (A. Aldridge and J. Pasche) are very, very similar in shape & geometry. Compare it here - . You can of course believe in coincidences if you like. Mystery solved! This is from a Vanity Fair interview with C
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Although I've made an effort to purchase whatever necessary in order to own all of their officially released tracks, I'm not a "collector" in that I felt no desire to own all of the color variants of the Some Girls cover, nor did I buy the album again when the revised cover art was issued.
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"On Rolling Stones Records and Tapes". Someone was really having fun with the retro theme.
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I'm sure I've mentioned this before, but I was a teenager back when it was released, and despite it being a huge hit, to this day I have never once heard it on the radio.
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QuoteGreen Lady QuoteCaptainCorella Jagger WAS present at the anti-US rally in Grosvenor Sq in London (where the US Embassy was at the time), and that was in 1968. See That's when he went down to the demonstration to get his fair share of abuse. It's been a long time, but if I recall correctly he said in an interview back in the 70s that he had wanted to participate because he t
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QuoteDoxa QuoteDandelionPowderman Could be Jane Rose, could be anyone If it is Jane's, that's a bad sign. It means Mick is not there... - Doxa1 Are they supposed not to get along?
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I've probably said this already, but a reprint of this would make a great Record Store Day item. It's even got the ideal serial number prefix.
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