Same way you get to Carnegie Hall: Practice, practice, practice.
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I went both nights in DC. Although my purchased tickets for the second night were in the 400 level, my buddy and I were able to sneak down to the floor and saw the show from about the 25th row. Yowsah! That second night was as good a Stones show as I've seen (22 total).
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Meet the Beatles. My mom bought it for me in 1964, when I was four. I took it to nursery school for show and tell, but the teachers wouldn't play it. They said it was inappropriate.
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Quotedcba The Ramones : Mosrite + Marshall. Live, definitely. But by their 4th album Road to Ruin, they expanded their sound significantly in the studio with guitar leads (played by Ed Stasium) and later added a dash of hardcore (e.g., Warthog).
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"See you next year." Mick Jagger at the end of several 1978 tour shows.
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The Allman Brothers Band, although they drifted into a more countryish sound in 1973-76 when a certain pianist named Chuck took the place of one of the greatest guitarists that ever lived, and then returned to the original sound. However, one could play their first album (1969), Shades of Two Worlds (1991), and the most recent studio album, Hittin' the Note (2003), without much of a dif
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Bangin' broads that wouldn't have looked at them twice if they weren't worth hundreds of millions of dollars each.
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Keep dreaming. My guess is that it's already over.
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Maybe this will cause the removal of his Parrothead drivel from the NO Jazzfest schedule. One can only hope.... No, I don't wish ill on the man personally, but I cannot stand anything about his music. It'd be a damn shame if Aretha cancelled twice and Parrottwat went on.
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I play several stringed instruments with a modicum of proficiency and wail on the harp. I've sung in bands off and on for 35 years.
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I'm reminded of a lead from an old Rolling Stone article from about 1974 on Carly Simon, about a year after No Secrets came out (the one with the erect nipple cover and You're So Vain). The lead went something like: Ben Taylor has it made. All he has to do is cry, and Carly Simon will put her breast in his mouth. The rest of us could scream, cry, beg, and plead, but Carly Simon
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The Arena disc is a bit sloppy early on, but gets a lot better once they hit their stride. I was lucky enough to have attended that show.
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The few Motorhead ballads (Don't Let Daddy Touch Me, Lost in the Ozone) are cringe-inducing. Screw versatility, Motorhead should be fast and loud all the time. When they stick to what they do best, Motorhead kicks serious ass.
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King Crimson
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The T-Bone Burnett Treatment sounds mighty similar, no matter who the named performer is. Muddy bottom end, heavy atmospheres, etc. Even so, this new Gregg Allman album is mighty tasty.
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I pre-ordered my copy this morning. Yippee! When it arrives, I'll unload my boots from that tour, but hang onto the official releases.
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When did he bust up his beak? I thought he passed out into the amp in 1979.
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Dave Matthews Band (the only difference between DMB and DUMB is U) The Cure Oasis Bon Jovi Kiss Boston/Styx/Kansas/REO Speedwagon (they're all the same band) The Eagles (yes, Don Henley must ...)
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The original Allman Brothers Band may have been the best electric small group of any kind ever produced by the United States. Fillmore East and the deluxe Eat a Peach are absolute musts. Because of death and disfunctionality, they've been through many lineup changes, including 1973-76, when a little known pianist named Chuck Leavell was with them. But the current lineup (which still has
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When it's finally over for the Stones, people can always go on Phish tour. Isn't that what Deadheads did after Jerry died?
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Can't imagine a bass player with a solo LP? Tell that one to Paul McCartney, Jack Bruce, John Entwistle, Perky Wyman, etc.
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QuoteRockman Ya that Just Another Rider is a bitta cool soul ..... And heck the cat was married ta Cher twice so he's gotta lotta stuff ta write about He was only married once to Cher. She withdrew the divorce petition that she filed after nine days of marriage. Gregg, however, has been through about a half dozen marriages and a live-in relationship with then-17-year-old, soon-to-be p
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I've seen both Jagger and Iggy a bunch of times, and I'm big fans of both of them. But I'm not willing to go on record as stating that no one is a better frontman than Iggy F-cking Pop! There might be some that are/were his equal, but no one tops Iggy Pop. Yes, Rollins is a mere mortal, but he speaks truth here.
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Quotekeefriffhard4life Quoteab Civil War and a few others kicks ass. The best songs would have made one really good CD. Use Your Illusion was the beginning of the end. Once Axl fired Izzy, GnR was toast. Then we waited. And waited. And after 15 years got ... the randid, overblown t-rd known as Chinese Democracy. In six and a half years of living with my wife and blasting music in the s
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I'd concentrate on The Yes Album, Fragile, Close to the Edge and Yessongs. Avoid everything else. The live set, Yessongs, is the best thing they ever did. The songs come to life onstage more than they ever did through Eddie Offord's sterile production of the studio albums.
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I second the Felt Forum recommendation.
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Quoteskipstone Nothing wrong with hot chicks now... besides, no one said you had to be "smart" to go to a Stones show. Hey, hot chicks rule. Hell, I'm convinced that hot chicks make the world go 'round. Look carefully up in the sky, what's spinning that globe? An Amazon extraterrestrial. Really.
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I tried to find the old Saturday Night Live skits of Paul Shaffer impersonating Don Kirshner, but to no avail. Those were priceless.
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Please let it be Steelers-Packers. Anything but Coach Toe Jam and his Stinking Dogs, i.e., Rex Ryan and the Jets. By the end of the day Sunday, I hope Rex Ryan has indulge his notorious foot fetish by sucking on nasty athlete's foot fungus. Then again, that may be what he's into. Bring on the bunions, Michelle!
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Wyman has his share of mistakes in Rolling with the Stones. He's got them playing Let It Bleed regularly on the '70 European Tour, when it was never played onstage until '81. He's got them playing Some Girls, Johnny B. Goode, Fool to Cry, Memory Motel, Get Off of My Cloud, and It's Only Rock 'n' Roll occasionally on the '78 US Tour, none of which were eve
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