Odd, that you can play just two medium-sized shows in one venue all year and still be nominated by a major media outlet as best live act. That's like being given a Oscar nomination for a film that screens for 2 days in one town. James Brown used to be called the hardest working man in show business, but The Stones are being congratulated for being a hardly working band in show business.
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Quotehbwriter what is interesting to me is that this footage reveals how jagger's moves were changing from '72 -much more fey and bowie-esque - less tough guy - more mascared waif David Bowie and Gary Glitter are to blame for that. Oh, and perhaps Lou Reed as well.
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QuoteDoomandGloom "Silver" was a happy accident. Mick's vocals were accidently erased while he was on holiday and Keith decided to give it a try. The funny thing about You Got The Silver is that, apart from being one of Keith's better, more soulful vocal performances, the version he sings on is only 2 minutes long, whereas the Mick vocal version is almost 3 minutes long. I
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People have expressed surprise and disappointment that such a song as SFTD should be associated with MB, but even back then The Stones always associated themselves with pricey cars. Or have we forgotten what it means to be a rock star in the first place? Recall also that when Lennon was writing Revolution he was also driving a Rolls Royce--or, should we say, being chauffeured around in one.
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Quoterunaway In the latter half of 1971 the group crossed paths with the Who, and was asked to join the British rock legend on a European tour, which continued into 1972. Impressed by the power of Golden Earring's music, Roger Daltry told the band that it was too good to be an opening act. This eventually led to a recording contract with Track Records, a subsidiary of MCA. It was Track Recor
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Quote2000 LYFH Quotegeoffc A good band, but DC seems to have been greedy and controlling in the extreme - despite co-writing many of their hits, Mike Smith ended up dying a poor man, through no fault of his own. Didn't know that about Mike Smith (I think he was a favorite of the teen age girls). How did Dave Clarke make his millions? Was he the songwriter of the DC5 catalog, which I doubt
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It is often overlooked, by U.S. listeners, that the DC5 were scoring top 10 singles in the UK as late as 1970. Hope your best-of collection spans the full range of their output. No. 2 in 1967 No. 7 in 1968 No. 7 in 1970 No. 8 in 1970
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Robbie Krieger is hugely underrated and is often overlooked whenever any aspect of guitar playing is discussed.
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QuoteEdith Grove Quotestonehearted Alexis Korner (right) and Cyril Davies (left) founded the British R&B movement at Ealing Jazz Club in 1962. Don't forget that is Charlie in the background. Thanks for pointing that out EG, I wanted to see if anyone would notice.
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A few more images from The Ealing Club, then and now.... Alexis Korner (right) and Cyril Davies (left) founded the British R&B movement at Ealing Jazz Club in 1962. Blues renaissance at The Ealing Club: Paul King of Jump 66 gets down for some low notes on the double bass. Third Cortez perform at The Ealing Club on 26 April 2012. The bar area at The Ealing Club at the Red R
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Quotemitchmitchell It is also the first and only time they experimented with Charlie Watts playing drums in front of the band, with Jagger and Richards to the side and back. Not sure Watts liked the arrangement and it wasn't used again. They seem to have done this a few times that year, probably at the behest of television producers. Charlie was also up front on one of the Ed Sullivan sho
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I hear a lot of Who/Small Faces in that clip, which would make sense as The Birds arose on the R&B Mod scene around West London. That lead singer sure moves and sounds like Daltrey in that clip. He even resembles Daltrey facially and has his hair done the same way as Daltrey did at the time. I don't hear Stones/Yardbirds, I hear The Birds patterning themselves after the top two Mod band
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Quotemitchmitchell Check out this video. Is Jagger singing live or is it mimed? And why is Keith's guitar plugged into an amp when it seems like a taped instrumental? Jagger is obviously miming in that clip. The vocal arrangement comes right from the studio track, including the harmonies. Jagger is clearly mouthing out of synch with the words. In a mimed performance, the drummer
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By the time you've typed into the Google search again "Alice Cooper no more" the lyrics option pops up and takes you to various song lyrics sites, such as absolutelyrics.com, metrolyrics.com, and so on. Some sources say "Smithy", which would crowd the enunciation of "he", while other sources have "Smith". Is Smithy a real surname? I used to be such
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Quotewindmelody I just found out the Stones played many concerts in which they were not totally clean. I feel betrayed! How could I have known it? Just a look in Keith's bloodshot eyes or Mick's cocaine glaze would give it away. But in the case of The Stones, their substances were hardly "performance enhancing", and I'm sure you will agree from seeing clips of the 5 sho
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West London blues band Jump 66 are among the new generation of bands contributing to the recent blues music revival of The Ealing Club. The following clip is their set from the Ealing Blues Festival on 21 July 2012. jump66blues.com 1. Who Told You? [00:00] 2. Don't Do Me No Favours [4:30] 3. Walk Right In (The Walking Blues) [8:50] 4. You Call Everybody Sweetheart [12:15] 5. Fee
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QuoteEdith Grove Quoteflacnvinyl Brian and Keith are playing guitars that are great for miming songs that could be played live. I love seeing early footage but hate miming clips. Wish they could have played live on every show.. Do you know why they mimed so much in the early days ? My theory is that early television technology wasn't developed enough to broadcast/record amplified music
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Theodor W. Adorno September 11, 1903 – August 6, 1969) Oh, I see. Well that explains why The Beatles broke up when they did, because Mr. Adorno died after writing the songs and music for the Abbey Road album. Now, at last, it all makes sense. So what's next? Now you're probably going to say that the walrus was Paul.
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Quotemr_c_ox Cream Baker (Sweet wine) Bruce (Sunshine of your love) and Clapton (Badge, alot afterwards) Ultimately the arrangement that we all come to know and love is down to the band as a collective unit, so doesn't that undermine the importance of the songwriter as an individual? The thing about Cream was that they were a 3-man group with 4 songwriters. They got a lot of their ly
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UK singer Georgie Chapple performs her single Gone at The Ealing Club on 19 December 2012.
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QuoteDandelionPowderman Quotelatebloomer Quote24FPS QuoteTheDailyBuzzherd Well now, that's Kinky. Yes, but still not a drug death. Marc Bolan went the old fashioned Eddie Cochran way of car crash. Moon might be the first major British drug death in rock; one that actually affected a major group. There's just nothing comparable to American Rock being beheaded by 4 major artists at thei
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Funny Boner wrote her first million seller as a solo artist, #3 in UK and #2 in U.S. .
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Quotemikeeder Pete's own book was like Keith's a disapointment. Reading what he wrote here he could have penned a masterpiece. The trouble with Pete publishing a memoir is that he has editors insisting on cutting it down from its original 1000-plus pages. It probably was a masterpiece in the beginning, but in the end was whittled down to just a piece, as the publishers were targeting
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The UK band JOS were among the contemporary artists who helped support the launch of Creative Ealing at The Questors Theatre in December 2012. Here is JOS performing a December 2012 set at The Ealing Club.
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The recent revival of The Ealing Club as a musical venue has come about through the dedicated work of local figures who formed The Ealing Club, a community interest company promoting the musical heritage of the area as well as regular gigs of blues and contemporary music. Since then, Creative Ealing has been formed, "a consortium of creative arts venues in Ealing working together to pub
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The new song has a good sound, lyrics, and vocals. Burdon has been consistently good in later years. His album My Secret Life in 2004, Soul Of A Man in 2006, and Athens Traffic Live are all worth repeated listening. The live album Athens Traffic has a great cover of the Talking Heads song Heaven:
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When The Stones played China a few years back and they were prohibited by the Chinese government from playing Start Me Up and a couple others, Mick said to the press: "That's okay--we have 400 songs to choose from." The exact count? And unreleased as well? I don't know about anyone else, but I'd need a free afternoon or so to count them up.
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Quotecarlorossi Quote24FPS I can't think of any rock and roll cocaine deaths off the top of my head Maybe not directly, but I have a feeling that Entwistle did enough that he did long term damage to his heart, and it finally did him in. I'm sure smoking didn't help, but the dude wasn't that old. Yes, Entwistle's death was the result of cocaine. Maybe not an overdose,
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Quote24FPS Quotemickschix Thanks for posting that! Pete does tell it like it was, and I am currently reading his biography. I believe that most rock/pop stars in the 60's were totally unfazed by the real danger of drugs. They just were so young and thought they were immortal. No one DIED at 27...they thought, and then the big ones began to drop like flies. You'd have thought that after
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