Mick has still a great voice (about 80% of once used to be, that´s a lot for a 76years old guy). His singing at the Fonda is great. Look how poor McCartney sounds or even more lamentably Roger Daltrey and be glad that Mick´s voice is in the shape it is in. He sounds like a man in his 30s. Marvelous, wonderful. At the age of Mick Sinatra had practically no voice at all! Mick does a wonderful job
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by trying to improve something that is already perfect they ruin it.
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There is a version on the Wild Horses CD single released in 1996 that is much better than the MT version.
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Quotesaltoftheearth Besides that, it was the contemparary Fashion of the early 1070s to have a brilliant guitar player perfoming impressive solos. It's all hindsight now to state that Mick Taylor overplayed in concert. That is the big problem.. The Stones plus a brilliant guitar virtuoso...it just does not fit together, does not make any sense.
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Quotesaltoftheearth Could you please indicate which songs were supposed to suffer? Almost all of them... only one song comes to my mind that profits live from the MT treatment...Angie.
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QuoteTheflyingDutchman QuoteHMS QuoteTheflyingDutchman There's no use in writing tons of post about a musician you don't think much of. it is my undisputed duty to right a wrong Thank You, HMS, Thank You!. One of the very best examples for a song that does not need the MT treatment. He destroys the original mood of the song.
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QuoteTheflyingDutchman There's no use in writing tons of post about a musician you don't think much of. it is my undisputed duty to right a wrong
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QuoteOpenG Musically the stones live during 1969 thru 1973 with Taylor in the band was the best lineup how can one argue with that is beyond me Taylor played way too much. He was - maybe still is - an excellent player but in those live years he often played too much stuff on songs that do not need that kind of playing. Some songs do even suffer from his playing hundreds of notes not belonging
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QuoteTornAndFried the band was at their creative zenith while Mick Taylor was in the band I´d like to say their creative zenith were the London Years.
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QuoteSomeGuy QuoteHairball Quotepowerage78 Wood Stones era will never be the gold Stones one. Period. This concisely sums it all up. Agreed. Humbug At least in terms of money the golden years started in 1989! Musically the Wood-era has no less highlights to offer than the Taylor-years. I could give you a detailed list anytime. Once again, the Taylor years showed the (temporary) declin
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QuoteTravelinMan HMS, Jagger, Richards, and Watts are irreplaceable. Anybody else is, although it isn’t the same without Bill. thank you for considering me irreplaceable ...too much honour however.
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...and I´d like to add that Taylor was the part of the Stones that could be replaced most easily, because he never was an integral part. Any skillful guitarist could have replaced Taylor. Ronnie Wood is an integral part because of his unique interaction with Keith, Ronnie and Keith are two of a kind, they are weaving - creating a unique sound. Ronnie is irreplaceable for the Stones-sound. Won
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BB, imo does not represent the "new band". They still sounded like guys from England. The "new direction" that started with LIB and was brought to perfection with Sticky Fingers was mainly to pick up elements of american rockbands that were successful by the end of the 60s. On Sticky Fingers (and all albums that were to come) they no longer sounded like guys from England. They
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The transformation into a "effectively new band" happened before MT arrived on the set. It happened with Let It Bleed, an album with only minor MT-input (he only played slide on Country Honk and electric guitar on Live With Me). And some of the most important songs of Sticky Fingers are in fact left-overs from LIB-sessions, as far as I´ve been told. So Taylor was not the motor of t
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Although i don´t think that Western Stars is an important addition to his catalogue I have to admit that his voice is in very good shape, in fact he sounds fantastic. His voice doesn´t show his age at all.
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If DW isn´t a Stones-album because Charlie does not play on some tracks, then a couple of other albums aren´t Stones-albums too, because Bill does not play bass on a lot of tracks... I never cared in detail on which DW-tracks charlie is on drums and on which who-knows-who. I think most people don´t even know about that. And it seems nobody can really tell on which tracks he´s actually not play
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QuotePhillyFAN This is from the Rolling Stone magazine interview " Jagger Remembers" What about the contribution of Mick Taylor to the band in these years? I think he had a big contribution. He made it very musical. He was a very fluent, melodic player, which we never had, and we don’t have now. Neither Keith nor plays that kind of style. It was very good for me working
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QuoteTheflyingDutchman QuoteHis Majesty QuoteTheflyingDutchman I remember reading an interview with Bill Wyman :" I got a call from Mick Taylor suggesting the idea continuing the band with him, me and Charlie only". I said: forget it". I'm not sure if Bill's memory served him well. Hah, if true it shows it's just not a conspiracy by a member with a very vivid imagi
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The new album is boring as hell. And those orchestral arrangements make it even worse than Devils & Dust which I always thought is his most boring album, but now Devils & Dust has to step back.
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Taylor almost dragged the Stones down like a stone... On albums GHS & IORR their rudeness seems to calm down due to his non-Stones-like-soloing on some songs. His style is so different from what is the original Stones-sound, he almost ruined the band soundwise. Occasionally he fits, when there was a certain flavor demanded, but mostly he does not fit. When they finally got rid of Taylor and r
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QuoteStoneage Hopefully they will stop touring and concentrate on the last album of originals. And then they really deserve a retirement. They won´t stop touring as long as they are able to perform. Keith said he can´t see no reason for stopping. Retirement? Not the Stones, they will give rust no chance. To perform keeps them alive and well (at least it helps). And it seems to be less challeng
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QuoteGasLightStreet QuoteHMS Dont believe in expanded versions, they will give us unreleased concerts instead...i think we havn´t heard the last of 1981 yet... Next vault release surely will not be from 1994-199... You don't believe in expanded versions? Why? They exist. I don´t believe in expanded versions of Love You Live and Still Life, for reasons you explained in your last post. An
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Dont believe in expanded versions, they will give us unreleased concerts instead...i think we havn´t heard the last of 1981 yet... Next vault release surely will not be from 1994-199...
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At this stage of their career they won´t play any new songs live prior to release. Mick surely would like the audience to know the songs so people don´t have to judge a new song based on a probably poor live version. And he would have had these songs released at least a week or 10 days before tour start, imo. That is what a perfectionist like Mick would do, imo. So any day now we would have to
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2024? This is ridiculous
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Quotekeithsman Yes pragmatic indeed, but even when it's the last show of the tour, still he holds back, and you just come away thinking, well that's just how he sings now, or you come away with the feeling it's all business as usual, like it's more business than it is Rock & Roll, and a part of me thinks this feels like it's acting at being Rock. The Stones are old
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Indeed, I like Lowdown but I wouldn´t say it´s better than anthing on DW... one of the better tracks of B2B anyway. She Saw Me Coming is "too much in the face" for my taste. B-side-track at best. I do not very often skip a track when listening to a Stones record, but in case of She Saw Me Coming I often do.
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The Stones want to get paid - so it must be 20,000 people x $300 a ticket...and that´s a cheap calculation...
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QuoteGasLightStreet I'd love to see something different, or even recent, like Dancing With Mr D or If You Can't Rock Me or maybe something newer that's never or hardly been played, like She Saw me Coming or Lowdown. I had to read twice You are always saying that Dirty Work is nothing but a pile of you-know-what and then you´d like to hear Lowdown? Maybe you should give DW one
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