Anyone out there celebrating (if that's what one is supposed to do) the "Day of the Shining Star" today?
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Great version, especially MT's soloing. The track is running a bit slow though.
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Quotetreaclefingers In fact, making it illegal seems to exacerbate the problem, and create an entire criminal culture to go with it. + 1 The Mafia would not have developed the way it did had it not been for prohibition in the USA in the early 20th century.
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QuoteNoCode0680 She's not ugly, but I don't think anybody would look twice at her on the street if they didn't know she was Mick Jagger's kid. I would.
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QuoteCome On It's time for your choice! The car or the..... I hope they're not PIP implants.
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Don't expect to find any bargains... Here are a couple of recent threads from the Les Paul Forum which might be of interest: LPF Denmark Street LPF London
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FWIW, I've never been particularly enamoured with Welcome to New York (apart from the cover maybe).
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QuoteGravityBoy So it does. I think it's probably a Champ between Ike's legs (you know what I mean). lol!
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QuoteGravityBoy Quotexke38Fender Champ (Silverface)? Does a Champ have a red light on the right side of the control panel? I'm gassing for one of these now. I've got a Fender Mustang II that is supposed to emulate both these amps (The Champ emulation is pretty good on clean). But you can't beat the real thing. Yes it does. Fender Silverface Champ
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QuoteGravityBoy OK one for the gear heads. It's a Fender Telecaster Thinline Mick is playing. What is the amp? ________ Edited: I'm guessing Fender Princeton :-) Nice warm tube shimmer to it. Fender Champ (Silverface)?
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According to this, the archives include footage of the '81-'82 Tour: BBC News Does anyone know what that might be?
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Quoteslew Yes, without them spreading the word it would have taken some of the old bluesers a lot longer to be recognized by the musical mainstream. To quote BB King from the GYYYO bonus disk: “I’d like to dedicate this number to […] the Stones; if it hadn’t been for them, none of you would have heard of BB King.”
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The Velvet Underground didn't make it onto the list.
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They might well have a point here though: White Zombie: (...) Singer looks like a Zombie (Not a good role model for impressionable children)
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Somehow the line: "20,000 grandmas wave their hankies in the air ... screaming it's not fair" came to my mind.
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QuoteBärs The writing might be lazy, but live it offers opportunities for fun interplay and interesting musical details. Check out Stockholm 1995 I Go Wild was definitely an (unexpected) highlight when I saw the Stones in Berlin in '95. It turned into a Wall of Sound kind of thing, with the band working itself into an awesome groove.
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QuoteThe Sicilian He says he will insure it for 2 million dollars but what is the real value? As a heavily modified '54 Les Paul with aftermarket pick-ups probably around $5k in the current market. As the guitar on the cover (or at least used on) one of the best-selling albums of the 70s - who knows?
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How about this one:
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QuoteDandelionPowderman Some mistakes in there, but an overall good tutorial. BUT: Most importantly, for every guitar player out there - find the right sound first Keith's tone on his Custom Tele on the 75/76 Tour was awesome.
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Mick is better off having Abramovich as his neighbour, rather than Abramovich's ex-oligarch "colleague" Mikhail Chordokovskij.
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The world mourns the loss of one of its most charismatic, best dressed and coiffed leaders.
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QuoteRockman Back in (say) 1965, anyone predicting that Solomon Burke would cover a Stones song forty years later would probably have been instantly committed to a lunatic asylum. ....Yeah ya reckon??? ...remember Otis cut Satisfaction around that time and Stones covered Solomon's Cry To Me on Out Of Our Heads in 65 .... You're right, I hadn't thought of Otis' version o
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Back in (say) 1965, anyone predicting that Solomon Burke would cover a Stones song forty years later would probably have been instantly committed to a lunatic asylum.
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Here's some rare footage from 1981:
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QuoteDandelionPowderman Quotexke38 Naive question: Doesn't the compressed download file size result in an - in the case of a sounboard recording noticeable - loss of quality when played over a hifi system? The compressed mp3-files, yes, but not the lossless flac-files. Thanks!
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Naive question: Doesn't the compressed download file size result in an - in the case of a soundboard recording noticeable - loss of quality when played over a hifi system?
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QuoteSwayStonesMick’s 25,000 midnight-blue Aston Martin DB6 was involved in a collision with a Ford Anglia belonging to the Countess of Carlisle in central London Another typical example of the aristocracy shamelessly flaunting their ill-gotten wealth. Had they not learnt the lessons of the French and Russian revolutions?
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Is the "almost jazz" version of Miss You circulating anywhere (sounds intriguing)?
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Under My Thumb, 11 June 1982, Munich, in the pouring rain.
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