They need to do a couple of things going forward, quit carrying on as if this one album is the end all and be all. It’s not a secret what’s happening, Keith wants a more traditional album and Mick wants something more contemporary. Just release two records six months apart.do a couple of showcase gigs near the end of the year to get some attention and release one for the holidays. Then if al
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QuoteMelBelli Quotelem motlow QuoteNilsHolgersson She’s playing football stadiums in the US two or three nights in a row. Nobody has done that. Not Zep, not the Floyd The Who, U2 or the Stones. The Stones never played stadiums two or three nights in a row? Check out the tour itineraries from 1989-1997. I have, it’s not even close.the old rock bands mostly played a single stadium and in a str
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QuoteNilsHolgersson There’s a reason she’s the biggest star in music right now and it’s not even close. At one point Taylor Swift actually occupied the entire top ten singles chart.let that sink in, I think the Beatles had 4 songs in the top ten in the 60s.others have had 2 maybe She’s playing football stadiums in the US two or three nights in a row. Nobody has done that. Not Zep, not the F
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QuoteTheflyingDutchman QuoteDiamondDog7 Jeff Beck was a huge John McLaughlin fan! He admired him and was truly inspired by him. John's playing is a little bit different today than in the 1970s. Less frantic and loud unfortunately. But he's still a god to me! His performance was awesome! Thank you for the great picture! I think that Mc'Laughlin at the RAH was the only g
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If you’re ever in Texas at some point you’ll see a flag, sign, T-shirt or something with a picture of a cannon and the words “ come and take it”. In the 1800s the settlers in the Texas territory had a cannon in a small town. The Mexican army informed them they could not possess this weapon and must give it up, one guess what the response was. Jerry Hall is from that exact small town, Gonzales
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When I was really young one of my first concerts was Mahavishnu John McLaughlin and Carlos Santana. I was basically a little kid tagging along but I still remember it like it was yesterday. Have you ever seen a heavyweight fight where they trade blows back and forth and you think someone is going to go down but no one does and the crowd just explodes?It was like that. 90 minutes of full blast
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The biggest mistake the Stones ever made was getting angry at Bill and trying to get him to stay and having this “ you’re in or out “ attitude. If they would have just asked him to play on the records on the rare occasions they made one they could’ve sounded like the Stones. Those rhythm sections from the great bands are irreplaceable.Bonham/Jones, Moon/Ox , Mitchell/Redding, and yes even Rin
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Brian Jones played on every Rolling Stones record from the 1960s Brian started The Rolling Stones, he put the group together and named the band The Rolling Stones. No matter how many times those two divas try to rewrite history that is what happened. His multi instrumentalist ability defined the 1960s Stones. If not for that they would have been lost and looked like a dated RnB club band in a
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QuoteGasLightStreet Quoterollmops QuoteGasLightStreet Quoterollmops 1978 version in rockinghardandfast: Rockandroll, Mops As good as that is, with it's franticness and energy, it's still lightyears away from 1969-1971's swagger. They essentially ruined it in 1972 and never opted to get back to the sex of 1969. It's basically been a disaster ever since. You are righ
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It’s a bit unsettling to see Joe playing just OK. The unspoken truth of the last 25 or 30 years of rock and roll is the disciples have been surpassing the masters for a long, long time. To think Joe Perry was not a better guitar player than Jimmy Page or Eric Clapton since at least the mid-80s is almost comical. To think those sorry self parody Keith Richards solo albums were anything close
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Yeah, I think it’s over.just a gut feeling, we might see a couple of showcase sort of gigs but it seems when Charlie passed that ended The Rolling Stones. Sadly it reminds me of when Keith Moon died, I saw The Who exactly one time afterwards and never went again. And they were really good just as the Stones were with Steve Jordan,but it’s just not that ….. I don’t have a word for it.that feel,
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QuoteDeathgod Don’t understand all the hate for Streets of Love. I love it and the crowds seeing it live seemed to as well I must admit, it’s awful bad and the cliché lyrics are awful sad. And I ah ah ay think it su su sucks that Mick wrote such a lazy song. He walks the Streets of Love where a thousand songs have the same damn name. Give him one more chance not to be as lame.
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Quotebv Please do not waste space on off topic small talk here. This thread is about tour 2023 rumours, not about the way they play, how to announce shows etc. Think of our inane ramblings sort of like that music you hear when you make a call and are put on hold. Annoying but better than dead silence.I know, not by much.
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I just wanna say - How lucky are we to have Bob fckng Dylan still out there making music?!! Haven’t seen him in years, 70s Blood on the Tracks and Desire? era and then with Tom Petty, so it’s been decades really. I gotta catch him again soon, to be honest I don’t really give a shit what it sounds like.
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QuoteGasLightStreet Quote24FPS QuoteStonedRambler The announcement is legendary by now. I couldn't imagine a Rolling Stones concert without it anymore. It's kind of embarrassing at this point. The band chunking out the hits over and over for mucho dinero is long removed from the dark, dangerous, super energized band that first earned the moniker on stage in 1969. You could still sa
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Quotemkbbcmr Quotejazzbass When I think of the Beatles, I think of something so great, so influential, it borders on mythical. To watch a performance like the rooftop concert is to bear witness to greatness. A band so legendary and a moment so iconic, and fleeting, it's almost "Jesus-like". They were so huge that they transcended music and pop culture to mainstream, global, househo
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Before he turned 40 the list is ridiculous it’s so good, just too many to mention. After 40 he became more of a proper singer, he hit notes, saved his voice and really did some great stuff live and in the studio but was at times a bit contrived.instead of letting it fly and spilling his guts he came off as reciting lyrics. That said, a million great moments during live shows on Angie, Wild
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The good thing to me is they knew when to stop and hopefully did an autopsy on the last few records. Mick had clearly lost his fckng mind at some point. He actually said “ it can’t be that hard playing bass in The Rolling Stones” when Bill left.I thought he was joking but he PLAYED BASS on about five songs! In his defense he thought what was released as Bigger Bang ( that sounds like the title
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QuoteDalgtor I didn't realize throngs of fans greet them at their hotels like that. I think most of us look at the battleship through a keyhole, not realizing just how big of a deal the band is. There is a certain sense of pride in some of us knowing that our favorite band is idolized by musicians who in some cases are rock and roll legends themselves. In the end we’re just junkies
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It will be ok and fun to hear what they come up with but don’t get your hopes up. Keith once said Mick Taylor was a great guitar player who found out the hard way that’s all he is. Mick and Keith are great songwriters who are gonna find out the hard way that’s all they are because the guys who made those old records ain’t here anymore. No Bill, Charlie,Brian, Nicky, Bobby, Stu, Billy, Mick T ,
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You’re right, you’ve convinced me Led Zeppelin sucks. I look forward to your next posts which are gonna be about what? How Muhammad Ali wasn’t that great of a fighter? At least when I attack the Beatles everyone knows it’s trash talking, no one actually believes the Beatles weren’t any good. You on the other hand seem to really believe what you’re saying, proving with each post that you are
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I saw Charlie Watts walking toward his drums when the beat for Sympathy For The Devil was playing. I read online that Keith Richards had a guy under the stage playing his parts. Seriously, I’m not saying this couldn’t be true, but we’re not talking about Jaco Pastorious bass lines here.it’s almost punk level playing, it would be bizarre that someone who spent their life being a musician could
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Just because Mick Mars attorneys wrote up a statement claiming all this doesn’t make it true. We’re talking about millions of dollars at stake,People tend to go scorched earth sometimes. I could see a sound effect or vocal track but why would they not play the Bass and Drums,guys have been playing for decades, I’m not buying it. I’ve been watching some videos of them to see how John 5 did an
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Quotedcba Quotelem motlow I have a brother and good friend who swear Jimmy Page is the best guitar player who ever lived, I’ve never really had a strong argument against them. Too bad he - more often than not - came up with what Stu called "bullshit Chinese riffs". I think Page cant help it : give him a guitar tuned in open G he produces the strange-sounding Dancing Days. Now thi
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I have seen the rooftop concert, I can’t lie.that was pretty damn good.
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A friend turned me on to them and my first live show was just as A Night at the Opera was being released. I swear to you, and I know this sounds strange in the internet age but I’d never heard one song and never even seen a picture of them. They were doing the theaters, 2-3000 seaters. If a spaceship had landed in my backyard and aliens walked out I couldn’t have been more shocked.just th
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QuoteNICOS I'm totally not interested in a new version of the original Let It Be movie, it doesn't showed the atmosphere of the Peter Jackson version I haven’t seen either one but my understanding is the new version shows them all happy and being buddies and the old version shows them down and miserable so the Beatleheads are happy and like the new one better, is that correct? But
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In Ronnie Woods book he describes a meeting he had with Peter Grant, Bonzo , Robert and John Paul where they asked him if he was interested in maybe replacing Page. I’ve often wondered if he dreamt this or if they were playing a joke on him or what. Nobody loves Ronnie more than I do but can you imagine that awkward moment at rehearsal- “Ok, let’s start with The Song Remains The Same and follo
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Quotesouldoggie Lem, nice to hear from you, I had no idea you were at the Cleveland 78 show...yes, I remember Tosh handing out the spliff to the crowd...I have brief snippet of film showing just that (probably why I remember it so well)...heck you may be in the 15-minute silent super 8 footage I took that day for all I know. Remember the weird almost circus act that appeared above the stage ri
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QuoteKoen I don't think I have ever heard of John 5. I did see John 3:16 at the Olympics. He’s been around for a long time,best known for being in the Marilyn Manson band but he’s worked with everyone from Rod Stewart to David Lee Roth and i think KD Lange for a bit. He’s currently the guitar player in Motley Crue. When a guitar player instantly knows who Paul Kosoff is you know the
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