Just what has Don Was contributed during his tenure as their producer? It often seems that his main job is to run shuttle diplomacy missions between Jagger and Richards, who aren't in the studio at the same time all that often. Given that new albums seem to be a series of compromises between Jagger and Richards, I don't know how much the choice of producer matters.
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If you're copying Mount Rushmore, you're limited to four heads. So I'd go with... Muddy Waters Howlin' Wolf Chuck Berry Elvis Presley
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Quoteboston2006 QuoteRockman .........IKE Turner ?? Ike Turner's passing inspired one of the all-time bad taste headlines in the New York Post: "Ike Beats Tina to Death."
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"I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy." Tom Waits on Nighthawks at the Diner
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The E Street Band was road tested by December 2009, having spent the previous fall playing full album sets at every show. While most of the full album sets was the Born to Run album, they played Greetings, The Wild The Innocent, Darkness, The River and Born in the USA at least once each. A full band Nebraska set would have been interesting, but they didn't go there. It's cool on th
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Whip it out in his honor!
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It's all quiet here.
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I'd be Always Suffering while it was on, no matter who sings it.
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Fondly. Great riffs last are eternal.
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The tour should start where they usually start: In some lesser market college town in the eastern United States (e.g., Philadelphia, Washington, or Boston) where the local rubes wouldn't realize that they're paying top dollar to see a glorified dress rehearsal, zits and all. That way, the Stones can work out the kinks in front of a bunch of zombie, dullard halfwits who don't know
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The Pit was the sh-t!
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There's nothing enduring about it. Five years on, I don't find myself playing it, in its entirety or in excerpts. Ever.
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After she cancelled for the last two years at New Orleans JazzFest, I was not feeling the love for Miss Aretha. But this terrible news has me feeling a lot more forgiveness. Get well, baby! Years ago, I wanted to form a band called Urethra Franklin. Never did. Then I wanted to call that band The Incontinentals (we were all in our 40's).
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Not their best night. I'd go with the LA Forum '75 show that's been circulating instead, with the Paris '76 footage thrown in as bonus material.
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Not to make any resolutions.
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Bottom line: buy music for its listening value, not for its potential speculative value.
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My understanding is that US copyright protection was extended largely at the behest of Walt Disney's estate through the efforts of their congressman, the late Sonny Bono (yes, that Sonny Bono), who was on the House Intellectual Property Committee back in the day. Copyright law was intended to protect original works of authorship in a fixed medium of expression for a limited period with
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I knew I should have given up drinking this week!
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I'd have included the Winos' version of Gimme Shelter that was a B-side to Eileen with the live tracks. To make space, I'd pare those overly long versions of Too Rude and Happy down to more reasonable lengths. A seven-minute version of Happy, with all that banging on the same two chords (A to D), is fine as a show closer in a theatre, but it's interminable in the middle of a
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Joe Strummer and Mick Jones had a good squabble there for a while about 25 years ago, but made their peace on the second BAD album.
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Demand after the first pressing of the Fun House Sessions was sold would seem to indicate that it was a mistake to limit that pressing to 5,000 copies. Concern about the resale value of the original pressing seems a bit dweeby and elitist. I buy music because I like it (or at least have a curiosity that warrants further investigation), not because I think that, somewhere down the road, I migh
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Yes, I finally have the Fun House Sessions box. I passed on it 11 years ago in an effort to appear civil and moderate to a then-girlfriend who did not rock. The relationship tanked within a few years, and I had no Fun House Sessions box until today. The original 5,000 copies sold out quickly. I looked high and low, but could not find a used copy at a reasonable price. Learned a valuable le
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I stand corrected: While Springsteen's solo acoustic and Sessions Band shows didn't include Born to Run, every E Street Band show I've seen has included it, as did the three that I saw with his 1992-93 band. The only warhorses that Springsteen played solo or with the Sessions Band were wildly rearranged. Recently, Highway 61, Thin Man, and Rolling Stone have been in Dylan'
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It's Waddy on the solo and Keef on the open G rhythm.
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I got my copy of the 40th anniversary Live at Leeds and Hull today. The hardcover book is lovely, but the Leeds remasterings are the same as were done in 1995 for the non-Tommy material and 2001 for Tommy. So Shakin' All Over from Leeds remains edited (i.e., no Spoonful excerpt in the middle). The vinyl LP from Leeds includes an unedited version of Young Man Blues, instead of the edited v
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I only download unreleased recordings. When a favorite previously unreleased recording is commercially released, I buy it. I'm not comfortable with people copying commercially available CDs, though I recognize that goes on all the time. It's only fair that artists should be paid for their work. If one person buys a CD and lets two of his friends copy it, that's two units of los
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Free Willie!
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Quotecolonial Quotemr_c_ox Good. I read this on a news site a couple of days ago. Its a bit extreme and unfair on the horse. What if its a Beatles fan?? mr.cox.. I actually know of a Racehorse owner/trainer that names all his horses after Beatles songs..yea'.. He digs a pony. So did John Lennon.
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They've already got everything, including the substantial sum of money I've spent on their concerts and recordings. And what they don't have, they can send a minder to buy. So I wouldn't buy a Stone a Xmas present.
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The problem is that what some call warhorses are what others call signature songs. One could argue that the Stones are held in such high esteem and can charge top dollar for concert tickets because those signature songs are part of their legacy. Maybe Jagger doesn't think he can justify charging top dollar for tickets without playing the signature songs. Every major act's got �
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