the stones are no longer interested in relevance or exploration of their unique collective gift. they have settled into a unfathomly profitable and idolized lassitude. whether neil, or dylan or U2 can ascend back to their previous artistic/commercial/critical zeniths is almost beyond the point... for me, the point is, they're still trying to say something else, something additional. not
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Thw whole thing nets out as a downer for me. The stones are energetic enough to do a real tour, but not ambitious enough to get in the studio for 1-2 months and try and come up with a new album. And still no truly bringing mick taylor back into the fold. Bullshit. Nostalgia entrepreneurship... The stones have been the finest stones cover band for 20+ years now. What a waste. They need a producer
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Quotezgubi finally, Rome one of the better ones. oslo is so beautiful. classic. pinkpop is subversive. zürich very cubist. lisbon, düsseldorf and tel aviv also very nice.
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Quotegeordiestone Continuing from my message above. Springsteen and Dylan are the focus of their music, if either went on the road with a different band behind them it wouldn't matter too much but the Stones are a group who live all over the place so logistically getting together for a tour must be hard enough let alone a n album too. They'd be tearing each others hair out! You'd
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Quotelox Great, great concert! Of the 7 shows I saw since 2012, this one is easily number 2 (after London, o2 #2). I must say that I am quite surprised by the less than enthusiastic reactions of some, but I think this concert was much better than Berlin! I really enjoyed the setlist changes, "Let's spend the night together", "Worried About You" and "Streetfighting Ma
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QuoteRoyalPurpleStones Quote24FPS QuoteRoyalPurpleStones Quote24FPS They would need big time instrumental help to do an at least artistically pleasing album. Doom & Gloom is a good example. They pulled off an interesting sound, using their limitations, but it wouldn't work over 12 cuts. They need new blood in the studio, just like they need it on stage. Jack White produced, with Mick Ta
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i thought the critique was better than anything rolling stone has published since 1974, and could certainly be the centerpiece article of a magazine of true merit for rock musicologists/archaeologists like MOJO. irrefutable in nearly all of its observations. but i think all of you guys go too easy on the stones. i find it a disgrace -- A DISGRACE -- that they have the energy to put a de-facto
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QuoteFanOfGRARBITW QuoteBob C. Good story. Chuck is great. I don't know why people on this site put him down. Chuck IS great. He is a great musician who can oversee arrangements of songs,and many other functions besides just doing his duties as the piano player. My problem is that despite his admirable talent - and he is very talented, I play the piano a bit but I doubt I could ever play
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A great article that explains the death of song-writing collaboration between the glimmer twins. I am now as saddened as I am enlightened. They just left town. I did not pony up the rent money for the nose-bleed seats.
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Quotejazzbass Quoteohcarol 40% increase in the national dept!.... 50% of the country could care less! Wow! Unemployment over 7%... GDP down! A health care plan that puts the tab on 60% of the people because the other 40% don't even pay taxes. Wow.... yeah put him back in office. How ignorant and uninformed can people be! Numbers don't lie only people do! Mick could of done a better job!
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QuoteKurt Quotemickscarey Worth seeing anyway I politely disagree. I'm sure that the music will be great,as the remaining cast of characters are top notch pros. But...the ticket-buying fans must, at some point, speak loudly and proudly with their wallets. Buying a ticket to this "sham" only encourages the industry to continually screw with the public. At least it will s
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100% agreed. although steely dan ('73-'80) *WAS* rock, pristinely, jazzily, done, but rock-n-roll nonetheless. laura nyro? guns-n-roses, red hot chili peepers... both influential, immensely popular, both put out two must-own albums (counting 'use your illusions 1&2' as one album) for any rockologist with a real library, but 'hall of fame' inductees?
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another horse trader with keith. another corpse. Design: The Man Who Broke the Record on 'Let It Bleed' By ALICE RAWSTHORN (International Herald Tribune) -- LONDON — When the Rolling Stones were preparing to release an album in 1969, Keith Richards asked a friend, Robert Brownjohn, to design the cover. The title was to be “Automatic Changer,” so Brownjohn photographed
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fantastic post. i bought the deluxe set because its something I dreamed of the stones putting out for years but turd is totally on the mark here. unfortunately my financial situation is precarious and the only luxury i afford myself is music. having gotten the u2 achtung set and comparing it to this set is really a disappointment. in these really hard times for so many of us the value for the mon
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i love under the radar. it has a sleaze and a hardness about it and that ole stones maliciousness that i can't get enough of. it's like the stones remembering how to be the stones. that being said, plunder my soul is like a miracle out of the blue. there is something about that song that blows away the last 30 years of up and down and makes it all feel like its the peak years again. the
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QuoteRocky Dijon Well Keith claims to agree with you and Mick seems to like the guy. I think its a question of if they bother to make another album and if they can bear to do something different than just keep working with Don Was. Their comfort zone for the past 20+ years has been huge. They don't seem to like taking chances or mixing things up. no.no.no.no. please no more don was. enough
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just burned turds ABB selection and listened to it. sounds great. fantastic job. totally different experience. material is not the best ever, but not sub-par either. the way the turd sequenced it it sounds whole, like a tight little rock album should. some great stuff on it imho. stones shoulda released this and it woulda been a very different story. sure that a lot of fans would hold this on
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QuoteTurd On The Run Kind of a mess. Jagger looks fit, but he's still in that mode from Shine A Light, where he mistakes frantic, kinetic movement for intensity of performance. It is as if proving that he is ageless is the point of his performance...and this has become self-parody. Quotebustedtrousers-5, does that bring us back to even? I saw about thirty seconds of it, which was enough.
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Quotelamemodem2 QuoteBeauforde God, I'm actually shocked at your ignorance of the facts. Really? You do understand that "local stations" aren't NPR, right? The only point I was trying to make is that NPR doesn't run on taxpayer money. They aren't on the public trough, as you put it. As for the parent company, CPB, sure, they got $422 million in 2010. And almost
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Quotelamemodem2 QuoteBeauforde Exactly. Juan Williams, liberal talking head, is fired by NPR for comments condsidered not politically correct...I get that left-wing propaganda organization's programming shoved down my throat on AFN 24 hours a day and I am often disappointed at how biased, intellectually dishonest, and Liberal-skewered their coverage, perspective, and opinions are. There is s
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QuoteMKjan NPR is painful cause they can broadcast great pieces once in awhile, so we know they are capable, but the NPR broadcasts in many regions are the rantings of monotone feminists in search of a lynching. They could expand the topics much more, and address equality issues across the globe that affect all genders and races, all ages and national identities, and not the disproportional crap
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great great great stuff. thank you.
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QuoteDandelionPowderman QuoteBeauforde Quoteproudmary From the beginning, it was Jagger who created that androgynous swagger, that sinister sneer and the quirky phrasing of his vocals and lyrics. As Whoopie says in the movie, JJF, 'These are some weird-ass lyrics....' That was Jagger, not Keith. The weird-ass lyrics helped create the Stones dark mystique. Even as late as Some Girls, the
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Wonderful, wonderful reading. Mr. Richards does have the talent to turn a phrase. This is the kind of stuff I can read for hours. Can't wait to read the entire opus.
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Quoteproudmary From the beginning, it was Jagger who created that androgynous swagger, that sinister sneer and the quirky phrasing of his vocals and lyrics. As Whoopie says in the movie, JJF, 'These are some weird-ass lyrics....' That was Jagger, not Keith. The weird-ass lyrics helped create the Stones dark mystique. Even as late as Some Girls, there is an edge and nastiness to the lyri
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Quotetwenny revlights Yeah I know you could find this info buried in one of threads announcing a new Wingless Angels album, but I think it deserves highlighting because, with all the talk about what Keith supposedly cannot do anymore, this track shows off wonderfully what it is that Keith and only Keith can do. Since I don't think this skill has an agreed-upon name, I'll ha
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Very impressive. Good to great sales worlwide. Magnificent. This sets them up for a big success if they ever choose to return with an album of new material in 2011-2012, just in time for their 50th anniversary(!). That tour and that album will be a media event!
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QuoteTurd On The Run I've written and directed music videos...this is quite possibly the most beautiful music video I have ever seen. It is Steinbeck's 'The Grapes Of Wrath' set to music...the images are so evocative and so deeply touching. I actually don't care if Jagger's voice is thin...at an age when the only noise most of their contemporaries can make
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...I don't know what the hell he has been doing for the last 15 years, but I never knew he had this in him.
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Astounding much we knew, but fascinating. Not so sure gram's death wad "accident". Sounds like preoccupy. Keith loved and abandoned him. Mick was a jealous control freak. The true personalities behind the icons.
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