One day at a time. Could end at any minute for any number of reasons. Only thing I wonder is if we ever see them segue into playing small venues where the guitar players can sit down and not have to travel.
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Thanks, Title5, I love that piece. Keith is such a legend -- a mythical character, you could say -- that it's refreshing to hear him described as a man who wants to see Niagra Falls, catch up with friends, has a boy underfoot, a woman who cares for him, and yes, this unique musical skill. ... I also think that as much as Keith was influenced by the blues, you hear in the music as much of
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Seems like a lurid re-telling of things we mostly know. Like, Mick Jagger was the manager of the Rolling Stones -- um, yeah, and this is supposed to be a bad thing? And if Mick 'uses people', why is he still in a band with a guitarist from his school days, a drummer for 50 years, Ronnie for 40 years (and God knows he could have kicked him out several times if he was that cutthroat) a
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Wild Horses and Brown Sugar at Muscle Shoals -- best recording session ever? The band at their absolute peak? Those records sound great. I remember reading that Charlie wanted to take the drum microphones with him.
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I can only add to the speculation, but I believe the simplest explanation: they invited him back because they thought it would spice up the tour and generate some buzz, but didn't keep him because that would have meant adding him permanently and they (Mick and Keith) don't really feel a bond with him musically or personally.
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MOJO PRESENTS… Life Companion – 15 Tracks That Shaped Keith Richards (sept 2015) I've got this CD, and the last track, although noted as 'The Nearness of You' is actually 'Goodnight Irene.'
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Good on Woody. Played a big role in keeping the boys together all these years.
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'The Stones are a garage band in their seventies.' LOVE that description. I remember reading that when Mick Taylor first played with them he couldn't believe how sloppy they were. But that's the magic of this band. In the studio, they worked their asses off to make great records. A song like 'All Down the Line' rocks on the record, but it took them hours and prob
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'which affects the amount a person can consume without it necessarily impairing his functions' There is some truth to that, in that some people can consume large quantities alcohol and *appear* to be fine and to actually walk around and appear to be themselves. It's also true that if someone is impaired all the time then that begins to appear normal. But heavy alcohol and drug
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Not in the same league with most of you -- I only saw them once, on the Steel Wheels tour in Raleigh, N.C. in Sept. 89. I had to look it up to refresh my memory -- boy, they played a lot of dates on that tour. They were in St. Louis the very next night and played six shows in nine days in that stretch. I wonder how much sleep Keith was getting! I had the feeling at the time of 'See them now
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Very cool. Even got that bobbing head thing Keith used to do.
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An album of straight covers would be interesting. More than just blues, though. Get Mick to sing a C/W song straight, a couple of old Motown hits, take a shot at a couple of contemporary tunes, something disco, something rockabilly. Could be fun.
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Generally, I think Mick wants to go fast, Keith wants to slow it down. I think I remember a clip from the 1969 tour it which they launched into Honky Tonk Woman and Keith immediately dialed it down into a slower groove and Mick looked at him, annoyed. My brother is a guitar player and told me the thing about their great records is that they tempos are a living thing and often change within the
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Keith's first child was born shortly after Brian died, and Keith was by most accounts a pretty devoted dad for all his problems, and perhaps that colored his subsequent feelings about Brian. When they were young they probably looked up to Brian's adventures with fatherhood; after they had experienced more of life probably not as much.
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Love this one. Feel like they stripped down to being a raunchy, guitar band; Keith and Ronnie were clicking; the new songs gave them some extra spark; love BOB. Kind of a comeback from the excess of the '75 tour and you could feel them trying to make a statement.
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Correx -- saw the Steel Wheels tour stop in Chapel Hill, NC.
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Was 16 in 1977 when a friend introduced me to them -- he an 8-track tape of Hot Rocks and we drove around for hours listening to that. Compared to the hard rock of the time -- Zep, Foghat, other crap bands -- the Stones not only rocked but they had melodies and musicianship. About that time I started listening to old Kinks and Who and became sort of a 60s snob and only bought albums from that
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Great video, thank you. It's amazing the technology that now that links us together and lets us see things like that. It's fascinating how these four men naturally join together arm in arm for photographs. They've spent their entire lives doing that. All that attention and people clamoring, I think I would find it a bit frightening and not want to do it. QuoteMidnight
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annajulia, just knowing what I do about addiction, if he was drinking and taking pills then he absolutely did not have his act together. If an addict is using (especially mixing all kinds of things) then he is abusing. Compound that with the fact he was hanging around with lowlifes and you had a recipe for disaster. Fwiw, I believe Keith could just as easily have died of some kind of misadventu
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That's a spot-on, fair assessment of him, imo. He seemed to me like one of those addicts who was never going to recover and unlike Keith he didn't have an instinct for survival and a moral core. And as Mick once said, at the time they just didn't know how to help him.
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