Quotetwo4fun111 QuoteMrMonte Quotetwo4fun111 I just came back from the show...couldn't get a ticket in my 85-150 range....but I was in the inside ticket box office area and heard the first 4 songs...sound quality was really,really, really good...slight breakdown during the vamping section on IORR but they fixed it within about 8 bars or so....was then asked to leave and go outside during Gim
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1) I'd always assumed it was Mick Taylor on the Leslie guitar. Was so pleasantly surprised to find it was Keith. Definitely one of his greatest performances and compositions. It's over five minutes of brilliant guitar and not a single power chord or hint of a solo, just variations on the arpeggiated riff, these wonderful fills and one of the best closing riffs by anyone. 2) Maybe
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This video reminds me of the band Stillwater in Almost Famous. Third rate 70s arena rock. No tune, really bland riff, no feel whatsoever. People knock The Eagles but they're several degrees better than this.
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Quotewhitem8 Well by all accounts he was board by George's songs. And often resented having to spend time on his stuff. Big egos in The Beatles. Also, there was probably some envy as well involved, especially on the later George songs that were so darn good! In an interview Lennon talks about how George used to follow him around when he was 15, even when John was on dates... Lennon recounts
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1) Mick looks really, really old in the interview. 2) '78 was the last time they looked really cool. Keith still looked great, Mick still looked young. They really aged a lot between '78 and '81. Mick could still relate to the crowd in '78. He was getting f-ed up before the shows like the fans were. He had a friendlier vibe than he ever did after. That's not a cr
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Pink Floyd's Animals isn't inaccessible but given that it followed two immensely successful LPs and didn't contain any songs suitable for airplay (two are a minute and a half apiece while the others are at least 10 minutes long), it's extremely non-commercial.
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The cover of Can't Get Next To You was a complete train wreck when I saw them in Indy on the VL tour. They were completely out of sync with each other.
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In a Rolling Stone interview from '78, Jonathan Cott asked Mick about misogyny and quoted many of the songs mentioned here. Mick said, I didn't write all those lines, you know.
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I like how he introduces Mick T's solos first by calling him "boy" and then "little man" - Mom, Mick's calling me names again!
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Mick Taylor did some brilliant stuff but stepping into that band at their peak was like batting cleanup for the Yankees - you can have a mediocre year and still drive in 125 runs. A lot of guys could have played a solo as good or better as he did on Shine A Light.
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"it also would be unusual for keith (or anyone) to lay down vocals on the track just for a couple of bars at the opening, before the song really even starts. On a track like "Sway," where he sings but doesn't play, he does a backing vocal throughout the song." Yes although Sway and Time Waits For No One both have choruses in which it'd be more natural for him to
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I would bet a good sum of money that the opening Ohwoahmymymymymymymymy...is Keith. The main reason being that the voice sounds exactly like his and not like Jagger's. There are other instances where KR did some background vocals on songs he didn't play on - Sway, Time Waits For No One, and Can You Hear The Music come to mind. And did he play on Fingerprint File? He sang on that too
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Aha - found this thread discussed a few days ago.
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I've been listening to "Winter" a lot recently and it's of course brilliant. Am I hearing it right as "And the restoration plays have all gone around"? What on earth does that mean?
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That is a really long and interesting interview. Keith may have been asked more questions about Bill Wyman there than in all other interviews combined. Interesting how he says that he wrote Start Me Up, Tops, Waiting on a Friend, and Slave while Worried About You was 50/50, thus implying that the others were his alone and not collaborations, which almost certainly isn't true.
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Yeah, it's painful to listen to - sounds like someone at karaoke doing a Mick Jagger impression. Particularly the fade out - everytime I hear it, I'm begging him to stop singing for just a couple seconds. But I love the other new vocals he did for the reissue.
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My intial impression re: Following the River was that it was awful but now I love it. It's schmaltzy and some of the words are bad but it's really good schmaltz. And even though his voice is thin, it's one of Mick's best vocals in a long time.
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I would say very little thought was put into the credits - they simply listed every core member as having played on every song and added the names of extra personnel (Plummer, Perkins, Preston, etc) that were credited on the original release.
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The backing track is almost identical to the released track, so apparently they had this brilliant complete track from Nellcote to which they just needed to add a couple small details (like words and a tune!) A pretty fascinating way to work - it reminds me of some of Jagger's complaints about Exile in that some of it had to be done at the last minute (the last minute being a relative term
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I've only listened to it twice but so far it seems pretty awful. Disregarding the cliched lyrics, lousy singing, and fake soul of the backup vocals, it just isn't much of a song. It wouldn't be interesting as an instrumental either. I can buy it was from the Exile era but they were bound to have written a few turds over the span of recording for so long. Dancing in the Light
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He had a lot of tug and sniff action going on in the beginning of the interview. The allergy season? Maybe.
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Yes, the bass and drums absolutely swing. Maybe as good a solo as Keith ever played. And he was only twenty when they recorded it - I mean he was such a natural. Yes, he may have played every lick he knew but he let them breathe and tied them together as well it could be done.
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Anyone I've ever given a Big Star compilation to has loved it. They have the same reaction as when hearing Kinks stuff from 67 and 68 ("How have I not heard this?") The Chris Bell CD "I Am The Cosmos" is great. When the movie "Nick and Norah's Playlist" began with his song "Speed of Sound" I thought this is going to be the greatest movie ever.
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Oh, I agree that Mick T was wonderful on Sticky Fingers. Sway, Knocking, Moonlight, etc are incredible. The Dead Flowers solo noodles and it's hard to believe that Keith, who played such beautiful country licks on Wild Horses, would have played it.
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I always assumed it was Taylor on lead on the studio Dead Flowers because I couldn't imagine Keith play a solo that lifeless. Sort of sounds like Mick T going out of his comfort zone and playing countryish licks without much feel.
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Mixed Emotions!
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Thanks for posting. Sounds like a Keith riff where Mick is working on coming up with the lyrics and melody. Watts and Wyman were so good then and the photos are great too.
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Quotejlowe Having said that the recordings they made in that time are still impressive..I think it proves that unlimited time on your hands in the studio doesn't necessaraly lead to better "product" Agreed. Get Off Of My Cloud is a classic and some of the others are great songs even with their flaws. A couple years later they probably spent a week on the percussion on Gomper
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Saw this for the last time last night at a screening in Louisville. And...it's pretty boring. If you're a fanatic, you'll want to see it but it's easy to see why it wasn't released. The live footage that's in the movie is great but there's very little of it. The interview with Charlie is one of the high points - he comes across as extremely modest, thoughtfu
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The liner notes credit Dr. John as singing back-up but the piano was played by Nicky Hopkins. One of his greatest performances. Still not sure whether it's Keith or Mick T. on guitar. It's a brilliant part but simple so either could have played it.
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