My wife would say she’s a cranky old mom too, and she laughed all the way through his new special. She runs hot and cold on Maron, too. I think that the idea that Maron would feel let down is supposed to be on Maron, not on the Stones. The Stones never make me feel old, but last time I saw David Bowie (his final tour I guess), I felt sad, like I was seeing nostalgia. I think it’s because the St
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QuoteMaindefender QuoteTeddyB1018 Though they have a brilliant written catalogue, the Stones have often been about the performance, even in their heyday. Exile is a great example. What? Please explain..... Some of the Exile tracks are not individually up to their top standards as compositions (thus only one hit single), but the music (playing and singing and arrangements) is continually inter
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Though they have a brilliant written catalogue, the Stones have often been about the performance, even in their heyday. Exile is a great example.
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The new special is very good, much better than the last one. As for the Stones bit, it sounds like he could be posting here.
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Quote35love QuoteTeddyB1018 The Peter Greenaway one with the Stones is way better. This one? I didn't watch this whole thing. Yes, but here’s better quality. Jagger looks especially fantastic.
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QuoteRockman Tell me Mr Charisma What will your next trick be Slagging Sgt Pepper Snorting your old man's bones Or falling out of a tree Hold on Mr Charisma You got something tasty up your sleeve Something to bash your best friend's brain ...(jagger?) Or have we been deceived I wish it was a riff I wish it was a riff, a riff as stiff as a Teddyboy's quiff I wi
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The Peter Greenaway one with the Stones is way better.
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In this lyric, Mike is trying to push Keith to write something great. It’s not unlike his old Don’t Bang the Drum, which was a song about pushing himself to write something of societal value instead of only strutting onstage and beating his chest. It’s acidic, no doubt, but in the straight talking tone of “Life,” or say, Miles Davis’s autobiography.
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Keith Richards would agree, which is cause for optimism. Mick wants to make a Stones album too, which is also cause for optimism. Think of it like a big budget movie, where the director, the producer, the writer, the actors and the studio all volley for influence over the final product. It’s not a perfect analogy.
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QuoteRocky Dijon "Scarlet" which Don Was described as "a hit then and a hit now" that was reworked in 2010 but has thus far never seen the light of day is a good guess. Perhaps. Don raved about it to me when he expected it to be on the Exile bonus disc. It’s a KR originated song, but apparently turns out to be from the GHS era. Not sure why this would have necessarily had to
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QuoteHairball QuoteTeddyB1018 QuoteHairball OK - I was confused by your comment that "MT played stuff that wasn’t used..". MT tried some things on other tracks that were not used. Interesting, I don't recall ever hearing that - I thought it was only Plundered he was brought in to play on. Would be interesting to know which of the other tracks he might have worked on, and even
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QuoteHairball OK - I was confused by your comment that "MT played stuff that wasn’t used..". MT tried some things on other tracks that were not used.
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It was commonly known that MT played on Plundered My Doul, but the description above that Mick Jagger offers was not exactly accurate. Mick Taylor was asked to step into the studio, but it was with Matt Clifford he worked.
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QuoteRocky Dijon No. to any official Jagger/Richards/Clifford credits. Matt has had co-writing credits on several songs on GODDESS IN THE DOORWAY (he's credited as musical director on the album and arranged and co-produced most of the tracks) and he co-wrote Mick's duet with Brad Paisley. He was also an arranger on "Continental Drift" on STEEL WHEELS and "Angel in My
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Again, I don't think KR's issues are with Mick's songs per se as much as the process. He wants the band to records playing the songs together, as they did with Blue and Lonesome. Of course, those songs were fully written, so it's a bit different, but what Keith doesn't want is to just sprinkle his "fairy dust" over Mick and Matt Clifford's demos. Keith at
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QuoteHairball Quote35love I've seen that clip of Keith (radio interview) and I am aware of the opposite statements made at the time As far as I know (?), that quote is only a printed interview from that particular issue of Uncut (April 2010), but if there is also radio interview/clip, it would be cool to hear! And it's not like he was against the idea of bringing in Mick Taylor, i
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I believe that KR is holding out to have the group record basic tracks as a unit rather than overdubbing onto Mick’s demos. I don’t think he necessarily has objections to the material as such, but to the entire process. With Ronnie’s surgery and the Fall tour, it cleared the way for Mick to put out these tracks, without the imprimatur of the Stones, or crediting Don Was. Keith timed his album to
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Perhaps finishing the album was delayed by Ronnie’s surgery. The Stones audience will prefer a “conservative” Stones album, if that means rock, country and blues. The streamers will ignore pretty much whatever they do.
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QuoteMaindefender QuoteTeddyB1018 Ahem. "Saddled with The Rolling Stones." Jagger is saddled with Mick Jagger Unfortunately Mick thinks that sometimes. To quote my late manager, a good friend of his, "Mick is embarrassed that he became famous as a rock 'n' roll star." If true, that's sad, because there are very few of them up there with Mick Jagger. As fo
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Ahem. "Saddled with The Rolling Stones."
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Thanks for the link.
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Quotegeorgelicks I can tell from my source that both songs were from the Stones' sessions for the new album, both Ronnie and Charlie are on it but Keith refused to play, just like he did not play on Saint Of Me. Both songs were re-worked as Mick Jagger solo songs, Universal wanted something out to test the market and keep the hype about the new album and Mick was happy to put something ou
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I liked Hang Fire better. Similar lyrical sentiment. Mick really seems to have an issue managing to put music himself to his words. Instead he crafts a "track," which he has become decently adept at. This method does not mesh with writing alongside someone who creates tunes, or hears music first. Thus the dilemma.
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Hairball, that is a cool brainstorm, combining the two songs, putting the England Lost metaphor in context and taking two half-ideas and making more of them.
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Nah. When the group seems to have decided not to rush the album for this year (presumably because they weren't set on the overall tone), an opening became available for Mick to put out his solo single. It makes sense. I don't believe it has anything to do with a record company reaction. The Stones are past that.
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Their own recent documentary suggests 1982, if one takes the second half as everything that's happened since the final apex.
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The soundtrack version of Memo From Turner is fantastic. Maybe it's the film context, but it works in a way the lyrically similar Family does not quite.
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QuoteLongBeachArena72 QuoteDandelionPowderman Raises eyebrows? I don't know. But Keith mainly put his finger on the unhealthy sides of hip hop: the guns and the killings. That was his message in the interview, if memory serves. And he praised it's forerunner: Jamaican dub. "Rap — so many words, so little said." He added: "What rap did that was impressive was to show
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An album takes either a load of promotion or a gimmick. Unless Mick fits in a lot of time, a solo album will probably be ignored by the public and given the stink eye by the media, as it doesn't really have a raison d'etre. The Brexit single can stand on its own, and be publicized as such, and not carry a lot of pressure to succeed. I don't have any actual info, just my guess.
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Quotegotdablouse QuoteBowieStone Quotedoitywoik I guess that Mick and Keith's Paris 2002 leftovers ended up on ABB and Ronnie's tracks ended up on I Feel Like Playing. I guess not. Those 2002 sessions sound like one of the worst sessions they ever done. And leftovers from that (the released songs were already poor) for another album? No, they rightfully abandoned it. I don't
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