Bill was always kind of wistful for the earlier days of the band, when they would sing backup vocals and such. There's a TV performance of 'Time Is On My Side' that has one of the Stones singing backup quite horrible, and I can't see if it was Bill or maybe Brian. I wondered if they made Bill quit singing because of Brian's mistake, or vice versa. Hell of a musician, that
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Brian disappeared before most of the world knew anything about him. I remember the July 4th weekend of 1969 hearing over the radio that Brian had died. They played Satisfaction afterward, and I assumed that he must have played the main riff. I was still into the Beatles more and it wasn't until 1972 that I really got into the Stones history. There was a large softcover book, maybe published
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I can see a few of the songs from BTB being trotted out and expanded on stage, like My Obsession. One thing I am tired of in their live act is the absence of new blood in the side musicians. Chuck Leavell is serviceable, but there's no Preston or Hopkins brilliance there. I'd love to hear them use a vibraphone and really play Under My Thumb right. Of course that would require a bass pla
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I don't lionize anyone who brings children into this world and then abandons them. John pretty much abandoned Julian. It's more important to raise your children right than it is to be a rock star. Mick has done his own share of damage in the abandoned children field. I don't care if he has supported them financially, that does little for the day to day need of having parents be the
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I always found this haunting because it's Brian's swan song on slide and says "I have no expectations to pass this way again." I'm sure it wasn't written with Brian in mind, but it might as well have. I could not foresee this thing happening to you.................
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8 years later I saw something similiar with G&R opening for the Stones at the same L.A. Coliseum. For some inexplicable reason Axl decked himself out in buttless leather chaps. No one threw bottles, but it sent waves through the crowd of 'What is this m-fer doing?'. So, maybe it was a homophobic thing. It's hard to imagine Prince being so naieve that he would think appearing in
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See, that's where you lose me. Brian "....lacked the talent the rest of the band had." It seems everyone else in the group agrees that he was more talented than the rest of them when the band started. Charlie still marvels at the slide solo on 'I Wanna Be Your Man'. Keith played the rock solos, Brian played the blues solos, and voila you had the Rolling Stones. 'Tim
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Sure, it would have been a MUCH higher profile tour with Rod Stewart handling lead vocals. But, honestly, COULD Rod handle the vocals for such a band at this late date? He hasn't sang raucous rock and roll since maybe the 80s. And I know Ronnie Lane is revered by his fans, but his songs are not the ones the average fan associates with the band. Maybe they could have called the band something
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Good. This is the way it always feel before they do something. And you just know they're plotting the next couple years as we pine. Hmmm.........how do we do a financially successful tour with this economy? Charlie, got any ideas for a stage?
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An earlier post said that for them the band ended in 1974. I have a friend who said they ended when Brian was gone. I feel their albums ended for me when Bill left. But on stage, they are still magnificient. Those road years have only honed the knife edge. I've been reading that they're a 'parody of themselves' by long forgotten rock scribes since 1969! They are the real deal.
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Anybody heard the 'Degree of Murder' soundtrack? Interesting? No?
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I don't know who you've been seeing on stage, but Keith sounds great. The constant touring was doing him good. I thought Ronnie was not as dynamic on the ABB tour as he was on the Licks tour a few years earlier. Obviously Keith must contribute greatly to songs, or Mick would be pushing for a little more recognition. They have been quite tight lipped about who wrote what for the most par
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I see Bill's not on the cover. So I guess Mick Taylor is back in their good graces, and they'll continue to pretend Bill's 30 years with the band didn't exist. I'm still mad at them airbrushing him off the rarities cover.
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Brian's future if he hadn't died would have depended entirely on him getting it together. He was so ahead of his time, music wise, fashion wise. He was into the Warhol scene, and bored by it, before most people were aware of it. Maybe he could have been ahead of his time and gotten into rehab and/or psychotherapy. He obviously needed to get his health back, including his mental health.
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My guess is that they would never call it the Last Tour. They'll let everybody else call it that. They might integrate the 50th anniversary idea. Bill has already shot down the idea of another tour. If Mick Taylor was involved I think it would be for limited dates. When did ABB end? The late months of 2006? I think they've gone away longer than usual because of the economy and that insi
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Bill Wyman, 'Imperturbable' indeed.
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There's a mellotron sitting at the Cleveland Rock and Roll Hall of Fame identified only as being used by the Rolling Stones in the 1960s. There is no attribution to any individual member of the group. There is also a dulcimer in the paltry Rolling Stones section that is not identified as to who owned it, or what songs it was played on. Although I love the Hall, and have spent considerable ti
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Not bad, but I don't like the way the bass thuds.
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I won't be seeing this in a theater. I saw 'Shine a Light' at an AMC theater and the sound sucked. I'd rather enjoy it at home on my surround sound with a beer and a smoke.
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Q: What did one fan say to the other at a Dead concert when they ran out of dope? A: Boy, this music sucks.
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I find this deification of Mick Taylor fascinating. He contributed his bit to the Stones and then he moved on. I don't know the guy so I can't say how how sorry I feel for him having a hard time getting his life together. It was great to hear him contribute to Plundered My Soul, just as it was great to hear Wyman's bass again on a Stones cut. I doubt either of them will appear on t
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Did see the TCM broadcast version a couple weeks back. Does not age well. Will look for the Hampton broadcast on a boot.
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Band of Gypsys Get Your Ya Yas Out David Live Before the Flood (Dyland and the Band) Ellington at Newport 1956
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Any song they don't sing on.
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Whenever I can hone in on what Woody is playing on stage I'm not disappointed. He's the utility guy. I guess the complaint would be is that he is not distinctive. Brian on slide is a wonder to behold. Taylor could be fast and fluid. Woody is so talented and can play lap steel and all that, but there's nothing in his sound that stands out. Now, I suppose and argument could be made t
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Hmmm, maybe Bill wasn't the only one in the group with a yen for youth: 'I can see that you're 15-years-old (13 on GYYYO) No, I don't want your I.D.'
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Must be my ears then. I wish I could enjoy out of tune, sour milk vocals, straining for something I can't fathom. My Deadhead friends even played me some disco sounding Grateful Dead material from the 70s. Wow. That's a new low. Roll away, roll away the dew..................
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Menace and Power. 'I'm Movin' On' is the best of the Brian era Stones. They were never more exciting.
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I know these two guys who keep pushing the Dead on me, knowing I don't like them. The sad thing is, the more I hear, the less I like. They played me some covers, 'Good Lovin'' was one, and I nearly upchucked. The Stones could take a cover and make it theirs. The Grateful Dead sound like that garage band down the street you hope doesn't play at the party you're going
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'Back Street Girl' would be beautiful.
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