QuoteRockman Rock, guy in the red sweater.... drummer for BAD COMPANY, right? Aaaaahhh No idea ... but I sure don't wanna know his tailor..... It's Bjorn Borg, isn't it?
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QuoteKeefintheNight82 Janis Joplin--I can't believe this is supposed to be real great soul/blues singing. It is to everyone but me I guess. She's my blind spot too. Call that singing?!
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Quotetatters Their only hope of playing to large numbers of people in the states would be to go out on a summer package tour with TWO other 70s bands of equal or greater name recognition, play large outdoor amphitheaters, price the pavilion seats at $35, and the lawn seats at $10. I think 'name recognition' is an interesting issue. Are people choosing not to buy Faces tickets because
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QuoteMILKYWAY Quotetomk Must be a real fan if you want Dylan to autograph Self-Portrait. +1. Now someone can start a new thread: What Bob Dylan album would you like autographed? I'd get him to autograph Biograph, for the pleasing rhyme.
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Interesting that NME is recommending bootlegs. For legal reasons, magazines in Britain (not sure about the US) have tended to avoid this in the past. For instance, you could never buy or sell a bootleg in the NME's advertising pages. I wonder if any ramifications may result from this article...
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QuoteWelsh Stone In an interview the other day Rod suggested Kelly Jones, but he would most probably be too expensive. I'd like to see Spike from the Quireboys. I've just read that interview. Rod blames "scheduling problems" for his non-involvement in the Faces reunion. Hmm. I can't imagine Kelly Jones would be too expensive. I think that might be Rod having a dig.
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Quotestoned in washington dc Quotetatters Quotestoned in washington dc only other option for US getting a good double bill such as j geils band for 10 shows at 4000 seaters.. thats the maximum That could work, but would they be willing to suffer the indignity of being the opening act? They WOULD have to be the opening act for anyone they would be paired with who would be a big enough attracti
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Quote71Tele QuoteGangster-of-love I bet also on poor ticket sales. The price range was from 55,- € up to 100,- €, depending on the venue. A lot money for a band which is out of the touring business for 35 years. ... and which is missing its most identifiable member. Perhaps it's a good thing that the LZ reunion tour without Robert Plant didn't take place...
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Does Mick Hucknall mean anything in America? Did Simply Red have hits there?
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Dylan, to me, was the most washed-up person ever by 1985, so the Live Aid fiasco came as no surprise. I was well into my R.E.M. phase by then. Nowadays, I actually think Dylan was pretty interesting in the mid '80s...
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On behalf of us Rod Steiger fans, I'll nominate The Pawnbroker. Once seen never forgotten.
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Some of the lyrics in 2000 Light Years are wonderful. "Freezing red deserts turn to dark..." Was that Jagger? "Gold coast slave ship bound for cotton fields" is the best opening line in rock 'n' roll, in my opinion.
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QuoteFreeBird Saint Of Me The sleeve says Gimme Shelter is from Live Licks. It isn't, is it?
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Quote71Tele I like the overall lazy blues vibe, but this is what happens when the instrumental break comes along: Absolutely nothing. It's the musical equivalent of a four-way stop where nobody wants to go first. Yes, that is a real "eight bars of piano!" moment, if you remember the Dr Feelgood song. Presumably Woody didn't think of it as a Stones song when he laid down his
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Wembley 1990. Some of the crowd were definitely more interested in the England v. Germany semi-final. I seem to remember quite a few holding radios to their ears, and a couple of loud cheers breaking out at inappopriate moments..
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QuoteRocky Dijon I like "Don't Stop" a lot and also thought "Rain Fall Down" and "Plundered My Soul" were very good singles. I liked "Rain Fall Down" too. Good atmospheric stuff.
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Tubby Hayes - 100% Proof. Excellent mid '60s British jazz.
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Well, judging from some of the wording in the story ("reportedly top of organisers' wish-list... also in the running ... would be perfect for...') very little of that bill seems set in stone. Or none of it, actually.
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There'll be lots of dads there, as chaperones, so you should blend right in. Just stand next to one of the girls and try to look related to her.
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QuoteMathijs QuoteThricenay I like the slight hesitancy in the guitar-playing after the first '... we make a beautiful team'. It's as if Keith and Ronnie are both thinking about starting a solo, but then decide not to. That part always comes accross to me as 'we have no clue what to do here'. This track never developed any further than its demo stage. Mathijs I
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I like the slight hesitancy in the guitar-playing after the first '... we make a beautiful team'. It's as if Keith and Ronnie are both thinking about starting a solo, but then decide not to. Great tempo, too.
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Ronnie Wood says in his book (p. 115 of hardback edition): "Keith admitted to me that his first choice to replace Mick Taylor had been Steve Marriott, but the Stones agreed that what they really needed was a lead and rhythm guitar player, and eventually settled on three names - Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton and me." Hmmm. Here's what Pam Marriott, Steve's second wife, has to s
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Apologies if this has already been discussed a million times - I'm new here (hello!). The Marriott '75 audition, where he was supposedly Keith's No. 1 choice, but couldn't help himself upstaging Mick. Did this actually happen? Is it apocryphal? Or maybe it was a jam session between friends and not an audition at all? Marriott's biography All Too Beautiful isn'
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'Relentlessly dreary' album covers? Between The Buttons?!
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To the poster who asked if The Sex Pistols took the roof off... (above) If you mean the roof of Greens Playhouse (later the Glasgow Apollo), the Pistols didn't play under it. They were supposed to, in December 1976 on the 'Anarchy' tour, but the gig was cancelled by Glasgow's city fathers. There was a rather good quote from the chairman of the council's licensing c
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