QuoteRoughJusticeOnYa Yeah; great read! Thx - Good thing from Bill... Nice man at heart, if you do stuff like that - no doubt. Maybe it's because he became rich and famous slightly later in life than the other Stones, but it often seems as though Bill is the only one of the bunch who remained a normal human being.
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QuoteDoxa To continue a bit.. If I recall right Gillet in his THE SOUND OF THE CITY, an early account of history of rock and roll, made a remark that even though the Beatles had a bigger impact over-all in pop music, and how it changed the world, their concrete impact on rock music was more short-time than that of the Stones that had a larger stylistic impact on the whole idea what a rock and rol
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QuotestonesruleI believe that the Stones live were the best band in the world when the lineup was Keith, Charlie, Bill, Mick Taylor, Ian Stewart and Jagger. Amen.
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I've never gotten around to buying a copy of Got LIVE If You Want It, and although I own No Security I don't think I've ever actually listened to it. Except for Steel Wheels, everything album after Undercover has gotten one spin and that's pretty much it. "Doom and Gloom" is not bad at all, though. I find myself actually wanting to listen to it again, which has no
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I think the songs and performances are all good, and for the most part much better than anything they released subsequently. I can't put my finger on it, but I think the production, the overall texture of the album doesn't have much energy. There's nothing wrong with it, but it's just sort of there. If Goats Head Soup had been recorded like Black and Blue was I think it would
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QuoteBrstonesfanU2 and it's pompous leader are at least to me not in the same league as the Stones, The Who, Petty, or even Springsteen. "Pompous" is the perfect word.
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It's odd. I've been a Stones fan since the early 70s, and I suspect I am not alone on this board in having at one time considered Keith Richard the coolest guy ever. Yet I had no interest in reading *Life*. Something about the excerpts just sounded too much like the musings of a bullshitter with no capacity for self-reflection.
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Quote24FPSI've never understood how that particular genre has lasted so long. It seems like a fad that should have lasted 2-3 years, like rockabilly, a subset. Everything that needed to be said was said, much better, by 1982, with 'The Message' by Grandmaster Flash. ... I think my biggest beef with rap is that it blotted out the sun from shining on black singers who can real
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QuoteKoen Bowie or Keith? Bowie, but I see what you mean. Rock Dreams is a great book.
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QuoteTurning To Gold I actually think it would be kinda fun, for someone to do a Stones mini-series or made-for-cable biopic, in the vein of "Dewey Cox," Velvet Goldmine, or Mark Wahlberg's "Rock Star" movie -- do something that was completely and utterly WRONG but handled all the Stones legends and myths as if they were facts -- ie the Mars Bar incident, Swiss blood tran
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QuoteNICOS Quote24FPS Phelge's book mentions Brian fooling around with Bill's bass when they used to leave their equipment some times at the apartment Mick/Keith/Brian shared. It was intimated that Brian was considering taking up the bass so they could dump Bill and become a quartet, ala the Beatles. There is no indication that anything ever came of it, or that Brian ever had any intere
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Quoteusetobesampeg BTW RE: “ Starbucker, Star,Star Etc” I was sure the line was “Two Ton Kisses” not “Two Tone”, I always thought it was "two-tongue".
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QuoteKaisan Would love to have a Sticky Fingers Deluxe Edition with some bonus tracks. And, like DandelionPowderman wrote, I would love to have some more deluxe editions from other albums like Beggars Banquet, It´s Only Rock´n´Roll, Goats Head Soup and even from the "new" ones like Voodoo Lounge, Bridges To Babylon or A Bigger Bang. They have made a practice of polishing up tracks fro
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QuoteTurkuStonesFanhe played it like here you go I know you want to hear this but I don't want to play it. This perfectly encapsulates the attitude. To give the Vegas Era its due, the Stones must be pretty tired of a lot of their material by now, and I suspect that at some point it became clear that the only realistic alternative to performing the songs the crowd came to hear in a grudging
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QuoteMileHigh I have never seen this, quite amazing. I find there is a funny kind of subdued feeling in the clip. But OMG the Stones live in 1965, like a high school dance band! (almost) My absolute favorite YouTube comment was attached to a promo video from 1969 or thereabouts of our boys performing Gimme Shelter. The comment said something like "I don't get it. How did they ev
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Quoteswiss Quotetreaclefingers QuoteStraycat13 Quotedcba QuoteStraycat13 "]Choose to hope. Climb up out of the debris of your life, flap your bony wings, and announce to the world that you've entered a new day. God has programmed you to hope, to overcome, and to win!" I suspect Mick is a fierce atheist! I don't. I suspect he believes in God. Otherwise, he wouldn'
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Quotetriceratops QuoteStraycat13 Quotedcba QuoteStraycat13 "]Choose to hope. Climb up out of the debris of your life, flap your bony wings, and announce to the world that you've entered a new day. God has programmed you to hope, to overcome, and to win!" I suspect Mick is a fierce atheist! I don't. I suspect he believes in God. Otherwise, he wouldn't be searching
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Quotestonehearted Quoteblivet QuoteTitle5Take1 Oh, incidentally, the Stones wanted R. Crumb to draw an album cover, and he turned them down. Any more info about that? Why did he turn it down? He doesn't like their music. Or any modern music. “I thought their band was lame. I’m stuck on old music, from the 1920s and 30s — most of the covers have been for that kind of music, whether wit
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QuoteTitle5Take1 Oh, incidentally, the Stones wanted R. Crumb to draw an album cover, and he turned them down. Any more info about that? Why did he turn it down?
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Quote24FPS The piano tinkles away without expressing anything other than a fun night at Shakey's Pizza Palace. No kidding. The piano playing on the "Brown Sugar" video was so inappropriate for the song that it was positively jarring. Honestly, I don't get it. These are all professional musicians with decades of experience. Why would any of them want to do the song that way?
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Quotebuffalo7478 QuoteStoneage Seems like Sir Michael is very easily bored. He got bored with the blues and here with "hard rock". One thing he never gets bored with though are fixed set lists. He just loves to belt out Honky Tonk Women, Miss You and Satisfaction in the same manner at every concert... good point... I like to criticize Mick as much as anyone does, but come on, putt
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Quotedcba Chuck's hardcore fans might disagree but imo his creativity took a dive down in the mid-60's. Much like our boys he had a fantastic decade of songwriting (1955-1965) but after that the well dried so to speak. And there's nothing to be ashamed of in not being able to sustain world-class creative output. Marcel Duchamp said in an interview late in his life that one reas
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The Rolling Stones is probably the most extreme example I've ever come across of the whole being more than the sum of its parts. Beyond thinking that Wymans' first two were fun, I don't much care for any of the band members' solo stuff. In particular, I was genuinely surprised at how tuneless and uninteresting Richards' first solo LP was. I just couldn't bear l
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QuoteTornAndFried Great interview. ALO is extremely intelligent and offered some interesting insights about both his role in the creation of the Stones image and career, and the pop music scene of the 60s. Has he ever written a book? Several.
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Quotetreaclefingers QuoteTooTough QuoteMore Hot Rocks Didn't mick say something about Wyman being to old to be there or something like that during the first show at Washington DC? I think he's giving him another jab. "There wasn´t so much talk about health-care since Bill left the band!" I was there, and I thought it wasn´t really funny, because I missed him (and still do
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Quote71Tele QuoteRedhotcarpet He left in the early 80s and officially in the mid 80s. I dont think he will ever use Stones to express any personal views or feelings again. Maybe a ballad or something. He never left officially. I'll admit to paying very little attention to the Stones' output after Wyman left, but even I am aware that "Highwire" and "Doom and Gloom"
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Quotehbwriter ...................... this is how the Stones presented it on their facebook page, ................ - ................. What's interesting to me is that they all follow the same template: Shocked, support Mick, back on stage soon. In my opinion this suggests they were all written by the same person, who varied the language a bit.
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QuoteJJHMick Sorry for just reading this thread now again. And which one would you have dropped from IORR? You didn't ask me, but "Short and Curlies" is no masterpiece. "I Wanna Get Me a Gun" in its place would have improved the LP.
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QuoteGreen Lady It will be interesting to see how many they find. I'd have thought most of the first-generation fans were in their 60s, but maybe it was different in Germany. Yeah, in the US the first generation of their fans was drawn from the early wave of the post WWII baby boom. Slightly younger than the Stones themselves, in other words.
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Quotestonesrule ...Australia is where Mick has relatives he always enjoys seeing and is the country of Mick's mother's birth. I was such a huge fan of the Stones when I was younger that I read everything about them I could get my hands on. I'm amazed I never knew that. Thanks!
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