QuoteRocky Dijon Quoteschillid I love The Carpenters... I thought Karen had a perfect voice, but her brother was a cheesy hack when it came to harmonies and string arrangements. Weird Al performing "Close to You" at The Apollo Theater in Harlem was a sublime moment that all should expereince. Used to hear the Carpenters in the 70s as a youngster, but now as an oldster that
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No, but eventually members of the Stones will.
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I'm proud to say that I couldn't name a single popular song recorded since 2000.
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Someone above posted: "Led Zeppelin was formed to take advantage of the huge audience in the States to hear that type of heavy blues music played by bands like Iron Butterfly..." Not necessarily true. LZ was formed because Jimmy Paige's fellow Yardbirds were sick of the hard rock direction he was taking them in during their later post-Jeff Beck era. They had a version of Dazed a
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If you're being kind, you'll say that George Lucas "borrowed" from Akira Kurosawa's 1958 film, The Hidden Fortress, to create Star Wars. If you're being blunt, you'll say that George Lucas has essentially built his career on being a rip-off artist. Never got past Empire Strikes Back myself, and never had any desire to revisit those first two films. Howe
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George Martin: "Well, boys, I'm really not too crazy about your drummer. How about I bring in this fellow named Alan White, and Charlie can play tambourine." Keith: "I don't like your tie."
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This "new Stones album" is so old by now, it should be released as a "remastered deluxe version" with bonus tracks plus a retrospective "making of" documentary video.
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At a show in 2013 they played One More Shot. Fans cheered wildly at the opening chords -- everyone thought they were about to get Street Fighting Man. The enthusiasm quickly muddled down with confusion, with only mild polite applause when the song was over. Doom and Gloom didn't go over much better; just short and tepid applause after, not like what follows their better known greatest hi
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QuoteRollingFreak QuoteLazarusSmith ****book recommendation**** geoff emerick -- HERE THERE AND EVERYWHERE: my life recording the music of the beatles this is soooooo good; very light, "inside," informative look at the fab four in the recording studio from the self-effacing sound engineer who was there from the beginning. i'm really enjoying it! Geoff is amazing. Not surp
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As if one could really be "bad" or "good" or even somehow different and better than others regarding something even animals know how to do right. Competition by Charles Bukowski we live by the harbor now and at night the ships often blow their foghorns she's a light sleeper she will leap up sitting straight up in bed... "DAMN!" "what is
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If you like Goodfellas, you really haven't lived until you've heard the Joe Pesci "funny like I'm a clown?" scene... in German:
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Al Pacino "over the top"? It seems he invented that particular "style" once upon a time: "You're out of order! This whole court's out of order!..."
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QuoteHairball Somehow Rap and The WHO just don't belong in the same sentence Pete made it work pretty well for the "Gateway Remix" of Who Are You:
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Trying not to look too much like Ed Begley, Sr.
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Quoteloog droog QuoteMongoose How many of you, in 1989 were thinking, "yeah, 2020, they'll be great!" ? Nobody in their right mind. Yet the artists themselves were surely counting on it. There's that interview clip from the early 70s that was included in the Shine A Light movie, where Mick is asked if he could see himself performing into his 60s and he replies,
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There was a time when they seemed to have outgrown the need for a producer's guiding hand: beginning with It's Only Rock n Roll right on through Tattoo You. Coincidentally, it's only when they brought in "associate" producers like Chris Kimsey et al. that their long decline became evident -- Undercover, Dirty Work, Steel Wheels, etc. Should have just kept Kimsey as the
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They set out to make a new record of originals, and from these sessions they turned out Blue and Lonesome instead. If they still had people around them they could take sage advice from, like ALO, Jimmy Miller, or Glyn Johns, rather than a yes-man lapdog like Don Was-Who-Isn't-Really-What-It-Is-About, then they could learn something from this. For new material that makes a lasting impre
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An interesting thing about Macca's recorded output since the Beatles broke up: no other ex-Beatle has sounded more like the Beatles. You hear it in the musical arrangements and particularly with the sound of the guitars, beginning with Maybe I'm Mayonnaise, which sounds like it could have been on Abbey Road if recorded a few months earlier. Lennon completely stripped everything do
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Be honest, though: If you could choose for 2020 between the recording and release of a new Stones album or another new leg of the never-ending 50 & Counting tour, you'd choose the tour every time.
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QuoteJimmyTheSaint Never liked the guy, to be honest. Mr. Diamond is certainly talented and has earned his accolades. And I would be interested to hear some of his lesser-known album tracks. Because his hits just don't do it for me. Brooklyn Roads, produced by Chip Taylor who wrote Wild Thing among many other tunes of the period: Glory Road: And The Grass Won'
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Would you let your daughter (or grand-daughter) attend a class taught by the manager of a Rolling Stone?
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^^^^^^ Interesting... However, rock and roll hasn't been "reflective of popular tastes" for at least 20 years now, and as for "younger people" rock and roll currently appeals mainly to middle-aged folks and older. This discussion is a bit like arguing over the relevance of Big Band jazz musicians in 1975. And after another 10 years, when most if not all the remai
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Down The Road Apiece: "Mama's cookin' chicken fried in bacon grease" That stuff'll kill you.
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^^^^^^ Tom-a-to, tom-ah-to...
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Quotegeorgie48 The original Beatles had George Best on drums I guess that's why they fired Pete Best -- because you can't have 2 Georges in the same band, it would confuse the fans.
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Quotegeorgie48 Figures, figures, figures ... does anyone know how many albums Beethoven, Bach or Mozart (just to name a few) have sold so far? It wouldn't surprise me that any of them make all pop/rock/rap/blues artists look like beginners. A friend of mine, from the Dutch Beatles fanclub, and I sometimes make jokes about all those comparisons between the Beatles and the Rolling Stones.
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QuoteGasLightStreet A few aspects the Stones will always have over The Beatles: More studio albums More singles - but less #1s - Beatles had 72 charting singles, the Stones 56 More live albums More live videos More music videos (promotional videos for singles etc) More money More hits comps More reissues More tours More venues More money More tour posters More money Except that M
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It seems the Davies brothers are recording new songs together; Ray calls it "Project Kinks": Ray Davies Talks ‘Arthur’ Reissue, ‘Project Kinks’ Reunion Project by Andy Greene,Rolling Stone The Davies brothers have been largely recording with drum machines to flesh out their demos, but Ray hopes to call in Kinks drummer Mick Avory soon, despite Avory’s famously combative relations
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Since my comment from page 377 got buried in that unexpected thread merger, pardon my re-post; but since we in this thread repeat ourselves ad infinitum, then why not?: nteresting discussions above about when the "creative" basis of the band began to splinter apart, and it seems to be agreed that Undercover was the last in a long line of something essential -- even though half the al
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Interesting discussions above about when the "creative" basis of the band began to splinter apart, and it seems to be agreed that Undercover was the last in a long line of something essential -- even though half the album was the Stones sounding like the Stones and the other half was the Stones trying to sound like the 1980s. Up until that time, the Stones were pretty much a self-con
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