¨Mick and Marsha Junt ...¨ Well, there are worse ways to misspell her last name.
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Thanks to this thread, I just popped down the hill to Amoeba to pick up Got Live ... as a gift. It's a shame the Record Store Day sticker doesn't come off, though. PS Just realized I paid 99c more than OP did. Ugh!
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A very good film. I believe Mick actually wrote that particular Youtube'd scene.
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Unusual scheduling, great show: Imagine if the Pilgrim Fathers had killed a cat instead of a turkey, we’d all be eating pussy today - Mick
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The premier of South Australa will hold a news conference later today, according to Oz brekky TV. Presumably there will be some controversy about the reported $500,000-or-so taxpayer subsidy to bring them to Adelaide.
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I'm not sure how deeply RR was attached to Hail! Hail! Movies go through a lot of incarnations before they get made - if they get made at all. That's my polite way of saying he may be overstating his involvement and/or that Taylor Hackford "went in another direction." I interviewed Hackford at length when the DVD came out a few years ago, and he did not mention this -- not
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@Mr DJA Correct. I may post some Mike Love portions in a few days ... The whole 10,000-word transcript is in the book, which was originally going to be called "Defending Mike Love" - until wise folks told me would be commercial suicide!
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Maybe the speech wasn't his finest moment, but you have to remember the context. Look at the first half of the quoted portion. McCartney and Ross blew off the event. Mike got a lot of applause when he called out their stupidity. If he had stopped there, he would have been a hero. But he went on too long, and maybe that's a moral for the Stones? Anyway, there is an art to a graceful e
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I should admit there is no Stones content: hard to surpass Bill German for surreal personal experiences. I will send u a physical copy once I'm done.
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Thanks, Treaclefingers, you are too kind! dg
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Quotetreaclefingers I recall being dismayed the first time I turned the vinyl over and played side two. ALL SLOW SONGS?!?! Very quickly though this became an essential part of the catalogue for me, and amongst my favourite. Same here! I bought the cassette in 1983, aged 14, and was initially underwhelmed by Side 2. But the songs, as a unit, took on a soothing, meditative quality especially
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Oh, you won't have to wait long! I'm downsizing my CD collection and am shocked at its apparent worthlessness. Boxed sets, even. DVDs are even more useless. Sell 'em all now.
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Sloppy wording on my part. By ABKCO-era intellectual property, I was thinking of the Out of Our Heads/19th Nervous Breakdown artwork. The Hyde Park photo presumably they just license direct from the photographer.
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Quotecrholmstrom Black Sabbath is doing that with Bill Ward too. Sad. That was at Bill Ward's request. Agree the Sabbath dysfunction is sad, especially in light of their massive new album. It is vaguely possible that Bill Wyman refused to grant permission for his likeness to be used. He can be airbrushed from post-ABKCO artwork, but messing with ABKCO-era intellectual property probably inv
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The artist is obnoxious. No one in their right minds is going to spend $7,500 on his hideous creation. The gorilla was an embarrassment, a lame attempt at corporate rebranding. I hated seeing it pop up on the video screen during the show, like subliminal advertising. I felt bad for Mick when people laughed at him drowning in L'Wren's gorilla coat. But he has only himself to blame: His f
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The Belzer/Lou Reed photo was never posted on this site - too scary - you have to click on OP's Daily Mail link.
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Quotelatebloomer I do continue to hold out on Downton Abbey, which my daughter has been bugging me to watch. Now, if a Stone goes to that season premiere.... Sir Mick Jagger Finds Satisfaction with Downton Abbey
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Quotejazzbass Are Belzer and Lou Reed homos? It's a very unusual photo, I give you that. The only charitable explanation for Lou's hipster messenger bag is that it might be loaded with meds related to his recent liver transplant.
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I guess it was someone's first time seeing the Stones: By 'Gimme Shelter' the band had really found their groove. Jagger wiggled and squiggled, firing sonic electricity between him and guest vocalist Lisa Fischer, a session singer from New York, not Adele or Florence Welch, as had been rumoured earlier. Still, she did Merry Clayton proud. Read more at
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Those confetti machines never work properly, looks like the one on Keith's side shot its load in one pile.
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Sorry to get off topic, but to reply to your question -- as of 2009, straight from the horse's mouth: Peermusic administers the Buddy Holly catalog, but it is a split - a) world, excluding USA, Peermusic administers certain songs on behalf of MPL; b) world, on other songs, Peermusic owns 100%. For example, Peer has 100% of Everyday, but 50% of Think It Over, as it doesn't have Norman Pe
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Quotestonehearted Is this to indicate that Jagger/Richards also don't have the rights to their material from 1971 to 1983? If so, then no wonder they've concentrated so heavily on touring since then. My fairly educated guess is that EMI administers - as opposed to owns - the '71 to '83 catalog. No way is Prince Rupert going to extricate the Stones from Klein and then
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Yeah, just saw this statement from ABKCO about the confusing BMG statement: In light of today’s announcement by BMG concerning its involvement in music publishing interests in songs written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, ABKCO Music, Inc. wishes to reiterate that ABKCO, and ABKCO alone, owns and controls 100% of the worldwide copyright to the original 1963-1971 publishing catalog of Jagger
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Publishing is a really arcane business, where teams of people literally count pennies. This deal will have no influence on future recording plans. It seems as if Promopub is being wound down, and exploitation of the copyrights is being outsourced. I am a tad confused, though, as to why BMG would administer the ABKCO catalog. That would be done by ABKCO itself - unless(!) - the ABKCO compositions
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QuoteHairball I was also at the 4 So Cal shows (and Vegas), and would agree that Grohl was quite good at Anaheim...something I wasn't quite expecting to be honest. But no question LA # 2 was the tops, and if that's the last Stones show I ever see then so be it. Absolutely no question. I also felt the same after LA # 2 - thrilled to be part of the magical experience; sad that it was
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I met her at the premiere party for "Cinderella Man" in LA, in 2003. She's beautiful, but has that "don't f--- with me" look of disdain and boredom perfected by models and minor actresses. I bravely tried a few conversational lines about human rights, blah-blah, but she was less than impressed and walked off with her coterie of female assistants. I should have serena
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FWIW, for completists, I just got sent the soundtrack CD for the film. It includes Merry's version of "Gimme Shelter," which I thought was a bit anticlimactic, and a few tracks with Lisa.
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Lotsa Stones content in this Flippo obituary:
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Quotenightskyman I read a book by him on the Stones many years ago. He seemed to have a chip on his shoulder, I remember part of the book to be a rant of some sort vs. other rock journalists which I did not care about. Anyway, RIP Chet Flippo. Not true. He just exposed some of the phony-baloney journalists who were covering the Stones and writing BS. I specifically recall esteemed newsm
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+1 (on original post) - belatedly stumbled upon him last year, when he did a gig in Pioneertown, near Joshua Tree. One of the best shows ever.
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