QuoteLongBeachArena72 But I think you can also say that Mick TRIED, that he kept his ear to the ground, tried to assimilate dance music of various kinds into his own sensibility. Sometimes the results were embarrassing, sometimes they were OK. You can say he lost his way, I suppose, that he should have stayed "locked in" to his original inspirations, which is my perception of the path t
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QuotekammpbergRegarding solo songs - I thought Jaggers' God Gave Me Everything track was amazing and was going to be a huge classic track. But nothing happened and the album died. Thought that was his best solo single. I've given most of the Stones' solo output a pass, so I'd never heard that one before. Not bad at all. My guess is that it didn't go anywhere because,
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QuoteTeddyB1018 Andrew Oldham says their last real anthem was It's Only Rock 'n' Roll. I don't care for it myself, but I think ALO is forgetting "Start Me Up".
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Quotekeithglimmer Didn't Keith refer to it as the tequila sunrise & cocaine tour in his book? Thanks for doing my research for me. I guess they didn't make everything up.
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QuoteThe tour later became known as the "The Tequila Sunrise Tour" -- a reference to a Cuervo cocktail the brand says was poured at a private party in San Francisco before the tour began, according to Cuervo agency McCann, which created the ad. Has anyone ever heard the 72 tour referred to that way?
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Quoteroller99 Quoteblivet Quoteroller99 Marshall may take the secret to his grave, but he really doesn't care, and the fact is he was high most of the time. His wife however won't take the secret to her grave, you should see her posts on FB. Could you provide a link to these posts? You are referring to things as if they are well known, but this is all brand new to me. Here are a fe
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Quoteroller99 Marshall may take the secret to his grave, but he really doesn't care, and the fact is he was high most of the time. His wife however won't take the secret to her grave, you should see her posts on FB. Could you provide a link to these posts? You are referring to things as if they are well known, but this is all brand new to me.
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Quoteroller99Craig was challenged on his claims and went completely silent. I don't understand. He doesn't seem to be claiming to have done anything beyond have someone on his team redraw Pasche's design based on a small, unclear facsimile copy sent from London.
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It's Craig Braun's redrawing of Pasche's design that looks so much like the girl's mouth in Alan Aldridge's illustration. Pasche's design is similar, and he may have been influenced by Aldridge's drawing, but Braun's version looks like he deliberately decided to make a copy of Aldridge's work in Pasche's style.
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QuoteLongBeachArena72 While it's a good, serviceable rocker--and Perkins is great on it--I remember thinking at the time: this is the first time I ever laughed at a Mick Jagger performance. His delivery is fine but the "persona" he adopted (a bad bad man who killed a man and put him underground) is so far at odds with his mid-70's jet setting persona as to be ridiculous. He�
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I guess I wouldn't pay very much, now that I think of it. I know how this is going to sound, but I was given two tickets to a Stones concert about 10 years ago, and I didn't go. I was kind of surprised to discover that I just wasn't very interested. Part of it was that I was given the tickets the day of the show, and I had a previous commitment, but I didn't try very hard to g
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QuoteNaturalust I can only imagine part of the issue with this record was Keith's declining condition, after 7 years as a junkie I think he had pretty much taken all the could get creatively from heroin and was starting to experience the downhill slide. The point where the drugs became as important or more to him than the music. This record kind of represents everyone else coming in to carr
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Quotedrbryant All I remember from Steel Wheels was how great it felt seeing them. Like many, I was convinced we would never see the Stones on tour again. In retrospect, the sound might be a little "sterile", but at the time, it sounded tight and polished, with both Keith and Ronnie playing well. Mick's vocals were a real revelation - it was clear that he was working really hard
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QuoteTurner68 In reality, the Stones did not continue without Wyman. Sure, they kept the name, but it was never really the Rolling Stones after Wyman left. It amazes me that you've got on one side people who feel that it's entirely obvious that Wyman's departure made a fundamental change to the band, and on the other people who think that anybody but Jagger-Richards is disposable
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QuoteHis Majesty QuoteRoughJusticeOnYa "If Brian Jones, Bill Wyman, Charlie Watts, and myself had never existed on the face of this earth, Mick and Keith would still have had a group that looked and sounded like the Rolling Stones." (Ian Stewart, according to Stanley Booth - in: 'The True Adventures of The Rolling Stones') Only partially. Probably would have ended up s
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Quotewith sssoul Cool - thanks Deltics! That first one (fauns?) is a bit iffy (especially whoever that is on the far right ) but the centaurs are all right! Did they kibosh it because Keith came out looking 700% hotter than anyone else? :E If I'm remembering right it was Keith who objected to the faun/centaur idea. He thought it was "poofy" or something like that.
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Quotedrbryant I saw them in 1975 on their final tour, with Tetsu on bass and Jesse Ed Davis on second guitar. It was absolutely brilliant. I saw them on that tour too. It was a great show. I'm so glad I got to see them play.
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Quote24FPS I think the problem the older fans, like myself, have, is that they didn't replace Bill with a rock bassist. For all his alleged technical proficiency, Darryl Jones plays, with the Stones, like a soulless hired gun. I don't think the Stones themselves really understood how good Bill was. Although I think you'll notice going over albums like Goats Head Soup that Mick seem
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QuoteJozo Anyway, authentic or not, I need more Stones in the museum and all this will make a nice frameable piece. As Green Lady pointed out, even if the photo wasn't actually signed by all the band members, it's still "authentic".
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QuoteMrThompsonWooft QuoteRaiseTheKnife Fillers which comes to mind: ''I Just Want to see his face'' on Exile. ''Cherry Oh Baby'' on Black And Blue. ''Short And Curlies'' on It's Only Rock N Roll.' ''You Gotta Move'' on Sticky Fingers. ''Tie You Up'' on Undercover. ''Hea
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Quotebitusa2012 Quotekeefriffhards Quotebitusa2012 Still Life by.. you know. NO WAY !!!! its the atmosphere, when they belt out under my thumb and lets spend the night together, its unbelievable, the audience in the recording makes that one tops with me., I find it just too rushed, thin in sound and wheezy. Just dreadful album. It's only redeeming song is Going to a Gogo, and THAT'
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QuoteRedhotcarpet When I read Bill's book and the story of the riff I knew exactly what he meant by first being hailed for doing a great thing (in the studio) - in my case a good input in a creative process - and then, the day after or possibly the day(s) after that hear the two leaders of the group say: hey what a great thing I (they) came up with, did you hear that? And I remember what
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Quote24FPS Quoteblivet Sometimes I wonder how the Stones managed to produce such great music when the principals don't seem to have anything like a good understanding of what made it great. There's wanting to replace Bill with "a black bass player" in 1970 or whenever it was... Ah, the infamous 'Busta Cherry'. Since deceased I believe. I didn't know they had
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QuoteSweetThing Someone wanted to fire Ronnie in the 80s - but I don't recall where that really originated = though the 2nd part of that claim was the dreadful notion of replacing him (temporarily?) with George Thorogood. Sometimes I wonder how the Stones managed to produce such great music when the principals don't seem to have anything like a good understanding of what made it great
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QuoteRedhotcarpetAnd what Bill said in that interview is just that. He was on his own. If Keith or Mick had an idea, chords maybe with some words, the band and the producer would develop that. Yes, there are plenty of Jagger-Richard(s) songs, even classic recordings, that are nothing special as songs. It's the production and performance that makes them great. "Street Fighting Man"
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QuoteLeonidP by the way, they do have a regular bass player on board, is it that fair to say to him 'you can't play 5 songs'? On the occasion of the return of an original member to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the band, I'm sure Darryl would have understood.
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QuoteTitle5Take1 Quoteblivet it's probably also the explanation for why the rubber stamp title graphic on the US edition is different from the one everywhere else. Click through the pics to see original U.S. rubber stamps >>> Thank you. I didn't realize there were more photos. Cool, now I've got all the answers!
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QuoteNICOS Quote5stringTele QuoteGasLightStreet... How come that's never been talked about before? At least I've never once read anything about it.There is a thread here somewhere (I think it was a couple of years ago). So that explains why the original tongue isn't in the US editions and how the double gleam got done, becoming the 'new' tongue which is the most w
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I've never really followed the numbers, and this is really interesting to me. I honestly had no idea that Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd were more popular than the Stones, in terms of units moved. I had assumed that Sticky Fingers was one of the best selling records of all time. Even just within the Stones catalogue, I'm amazed that Some Girls sold more copies than Sticky Fingers, and I gu
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It's hard to say when Jagger is pulling the interviewer's leg, but (I think in Rolling Stone) he said he saved everything, and that his daughters would take stuff of his to wear when they went out. He used the omega shirt as an example.
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