Hey everyone, I'm new here and a huge Stones fan. How sad to lose Mac and Bobby in one week. Just finished listening to Coast to Coast / Overtures and Beginners. Mac was great on the keys,indeed.
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QuoteNICOS No way to change it ........Just make a new one and delete the wrong one..... Yeah - I did think of that. I guess sometimes we humans just like to make things more complicated than they are.
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OK - I'm new here and now I realize I misspelled my desired user name. HonkeyTonkFlash SHOULD BE SPELLED HonkyTonkFlash. The control center lets me edit everything in my profile except my user name. Anybody know how to do this? Thanks
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Quotelatebloomer QuoteBastion QuoteHonkeyTonkFlash I suppose I'll be in the minority here but I prefer live versions of any Stones song. Don't get me wrong, the studio versions are great, but even if they are technically greater than the live versions, there's something about live Stones that just knocks me out; that energy, the roar of the crowd - it all reminds me of what a gas a
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QuoteDandelionPowderman I find this Mick quote from 1989 very interesting: "A lot of (the band's adventurousness) had gone by the boards in the last few years... (T)he whole idea of pushing the envelope a little bit. We became a hard rock band, and we became very content with it. The ballads got left a little behind as well. The hard rock thing just took over, and we lost a little bi
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As to the album this thread pertains to, I never strongly disliked anything on it. I liked it when it came out and I still do. I guess what I'm getting to is rather than try to dissect and analyze every little cymbal crash, I'd just say..how can I put this? Um...it's only rock and roll.....but I like it.
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I suppose I'll be in the minority here but I prefer live versions of any Stones song. Don't get me wrong, the studio versions are great, but even if they are technically greater than the live versions, there's something about live Stones that just knocks me out; that energy, the roar of the crowd - it all reminds me of what a gas actually being at a Stones concert is all about.
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Why not get this thread back on topic - great Ron Wood solos: Imagination (live) Summer Romance SFTD (Love You Live) Brown Sugar (Love You Live) Hot Stuff (LYL) Neighbours Black Limousine Undercover Tie You Up Out of Tears Blinded by Rainbows Happy (LYL) Shattered (Still Life) Pre-Stones I Wish it Would Rain (Faces Live) It's All Over Now (Faces Live) Jealous Guy (Faces Li
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Quotetreaclefingers Quote71Tele HOW WILL I POSSIBLY GO ON? Listening to Celine Dion Or maybe Barry Manilow......Michael Bolton......Truly these are the times that try men's souls.
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QuoteJames Kirk This might have been news in 1984, but in 2014? Looks like the Holiday Inn and local bars are going to find another has been to play to crowds of 20-25 people. Bands like this are the real life Spinal Tap. Possibly the worst genre in the history of music. ><
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Yes, OMG, say it isn't so. Facebook just informed me that Ratt is losing their frontman. Shite, I didn't even know that band still existed. What did they have, one hit? Oh well, I never did follow those kinds of bands anyway. It just struck me funny that Facebook splashed that across my screen as "trending." Does anybody care about Ratt anymore? Oh well, at 54 I follow the
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Quotelatebloomer QuoteHonkeyTonkFlash This whole thread could be replaced by some simple statement like, "Some people prefer the Stones with Mick Taylor; some prefer them with Ron Wood; same applies to each guy's guitar solos." Why do people have to fight back and forth? Taste is subjective. Nobody has to be "right." Now, where's the fun in that? Yeah, I get
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This whole thread could be replaced by some simple statement like, "Some people prefer the Stones with Mick Taylor; some prefer them with Ron Wood; same applies to each guy's guitar solos." Why do people have to fight back and forth? Taste is subjective. Nobody has to be "right."
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QuoteLuxuryStones QuoteDandelionPowderman .... let's get real - NONE of the musicians in the Stones is nowhere near rocket science-level when it comes to music. The secret behind this band is, and has always been, that the sum is bigger than its individual parts. The music they make TOGETHER is what counts for millions of people. Bravo! Nailed it! This has been my take on the St
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<Soon? A couple of months will have passed till the first show. If you or I lost our spouse, we'd be lucky to get a week or two before we had to get back to the daily grind.> Sadly, you are correct. Personally, if I lost my wife or one of my kids, I'd be a wreck and in no shape to work within two weeks. Our work culture here in the USA is too obsessed with the bottom line and v
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QuoteMartinB "I just like the twin guitar attack of Wood and Richards much better than the individual approach of Taylor and Richards" "Me too." Me three. It's just a matter of personal taste in how one likes their rock and roll served up. I just happen to prefer my rock and roll rough, "ragged but right," down and dirty ala Keef and Woody at their best, n
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I can't imagine going through such a tragic loss and being ready to get back in a routine so soon. They are scheduled to resume concerts in May if I read their website correctly. That's right around the corner so they would have to start rehearsing soon just to get warmed up again. But everyone handles grief differently and maybe Mick will be eager to get back to his music as it may be
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<Posted by: DandelionPowderman () Date: April 23, 2014 11:45 Well, instead of chastisising the man, let's hear some good Woody-stuff. Others may close their ears smiling smiley> Thanks for posting! Good stuff!
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Just wanna say it's pretty damn refreshing to see a topic discussed here that really deals with something IMPORTANT. Who wants to guess how many pounds of pharmaceutical "refreshments" have gone up Keith and Ron's snouts?
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QuoteRedhotcarpet So how did Keith damage his good looking nose? I know the story of how he fell asleep and fell. But I also know the other stories of how he fell and climbed etc. What do you think is the real deal? Anita (in the state she and Keith was back in the late 70s) punched/pushed/hit him? Marlon accidentally hit him with some toy? I have no idea, just speculating. According to Keith,
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Quotekahoosier Jeeze am I the only one that enjoys RW's solo on CYHMK, he navigates just fine thank you so much. I am reminded that historically the group did not play this song live with Taylor, because after an attempt they could not get it to work. I also know that through the years set lists get trimmed as the group decided what works and what does not , and Mick has become an infamous n
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<"Which is all total bullshit. Throughout the 1972 and 1973 tours Keith's role got diminished greatly. He ended up playing rhythm solely, hardly playing riffs and leadlines. Ronnie really kicked him up the ass on the 1975 tour, pushing Keith back to his famous lead and riff guitar playing, with Wood being equal to Richards. If there ever was weaving it was from from 1975 to 1978, and
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From the perspective of 2014 I can see where IORR has some weaknesses. However, when it first came out I was so star-struck by the Stones that pretty much anything they did sounded great to me. Hey - I was 14 at the time and it was the second LP I ever bought in my life, GHS being the first. Even today I do still like most of the songs, though I can now see where they might not measure up to Banq
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QuoteHanns Rainsch Wish list: Let It Loose Soul Survivor Coming Down Again Do You Think I Really Care? Plundered My Soul Down In The Hole The Storm Jigsaw Puzzle Losing My Touch Sleep Tonight Slave Time Waits For No One Everything Is Turning To Gold Winter Hide Your Love 100 Years Ago (has been done once or twice in '73)
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Quotelatebloomer Dance part 1 Dance Part 2.....Geez you made that too easy, lol!
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At the ripe old age of 13 I was thrilled beyond words to have scrounged up enough money to buy my very first LP - Goat's Head Soup. I'd already loved the Stones since I first heard them at age 5 and I haven't failed to feel a certain thrill whenever there's been a new Stones album to buy. Sadly that has not happened in almost ten years now (AB but downloading Hyde Park Live c
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Wo - There's so many. Like others have said, "Guitar God" solos ala Eddie Van Halen, or so many other "technical virtuosos" have never been Ron's (or Keith's) thing. He plays in a simple bluesy style that - at it's best- makes the listener FEEL something. That emotional connection is what any art form is about for me. It would be hard to compile a full lis
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Quotestonehearted <<these tours are not The Who, which was something completely different.>> If Keith Moon were alive today, there is no way he would be playing at the level he did in 1975 or before anyway. Just be glad that Pete and Rog are still willing to tour and celebrate the catalog, and we should be grateful for that while it lasts. Same with the 50% original line-up of the
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My POV on the Stones? As someone else said, they are the soundtrack to my life. I remember being about 5 years old and hearing the (then) brand new Satisfaction on my sister's transistor radio and knowing I was hearing something special. I had no idea what their lyrics were all about but the music just blew me away. Then my older brothers started bringing home the albums and I was transfixe
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Ya gotta figure....Chuck's forte was always 3 chord boogie tunes. His best work had some pretty damn clever lyrics. But after awhile, how many variations can one do on such a simple template? If he strayed much from the I-IV-V patterns, he'd be accused of not sounding like Chuck Berry anymore and he knows it. I think at some point he knew he'd done his best work so why try to to
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