She put out two albums this year. Girl stayed busy.
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I remember in the mid-70s the new AOR station had a thing every hour when they had song challenges. Once 'Cherish' went head to head with 'Stairway to Heaven' for several days. It was a time when there were radio stations that would play John Denver and David Bowie.
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I'd thought they were spoofing our Bill.
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QuoteMariuana Those parts about the Rolling Stones don't look too nice do they. Especially Mick and Keith. He sounds like someone who is actually proud of the fact they tried to talk him out of leaving but it did not work. I think the fact that they held the door open for several years and Mick and Charlie tried to coax him back speaks well for the Stones.
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I don't think this is a new interview, just a collection of things he's said in the past. I feel a bit sorry for him in that people only ask him about the other more famous people he knew. Not many interviewers are asking about the things he's done and his feelings about them. A lot of us are probably more interested in his thoughts about his own bass playing than the oft-told s
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QuoteGasLightStreet This one is pretty good. Looks like the crowd hung on to its Keith break. That's good, thank you. He really wanted to nail that, you could tell.
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QuoteNilsHolgersson I read that Charlie was actually a roadie when the Rolling Stones started and they had no one to play the drums, so Mick taught Charlie everything he needed to know about drumming and since then he's the drummer I read the opposite: that Charlie is the real power in the band and Mick and Keith are terrified of him.
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Quotejbwelda I can tell you it is interesting to see the Germans evidently have a word for taking a cigarette break: Zigarettenpause. jb The Germans probably have 10 such words, depending on your mood while taking the break -- wistful, melancholy, regretting something in one's youth, regretting having taken such a poor lover, regretting the sausages one ate for breakfast, etc.
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Sticky Fingers -- great cover, but more of an Andy Warhol project than about the Stones. Exile on Main Street -- again, great cover, but it's about Robert Frank.
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Black and Blue, Let it Bleed, IORR.
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'un-together' is probably the best explanation for his career stumbles I've read.
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Quotesteffialicia Not feeling it. Agree.
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QuoteRockman .....there's no fence ..... Yeah, but that's a bigger moat than what Keith had.
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Twenty years from now, when the Boomers shuffle off and these boots and boxed sets go to their kids and grandkids they will mostly be worthless. A few extremely rare pieces may have value, the rest is going to landfills.
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Quotegoingmad my favorite version you got me rocking, Copacabana That's great.
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Just listened to album and live track -- live, it's definitely better. Like people have said, I think they realized it was a song they could develop, it was fun to perform and people liked it.
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It's a good song. I actually like more than Start Me Up as a Stones-by-numbers rocker. The lyrics at least are organized and have a point and a nice flow. They're Dylan-esque compared to SMU, She's So Cold and She was Hot.
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Quoteloog droog This is what I heard: It was stock Bruce schtick. The usual overblown "intensity" and dramatic faux-passion. Musically, too many guitars, everyone's playing and nothing's distinctive with no space in the sound between instruments.* Then the band hanging all over themselves at the end, as if they were totally spent after a four-hour show. He wa
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QuoteBig Al Quotewonderboy Keith is pretty woke. He has a better understand of the meaning of 'black' than his critics. I’m not sure about that, necessarily. He likes his old blues records and is friends with Steve Jordan. I’m not sure how many seventy-something’s from Kent would consider themselves to be woke. It’s an annoying term, anyway. Yeah, I was kinda being ironic about 
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Good read. The Commander at work. Clearly a very charismatic man. I think he knows exactly how to motivate people.
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Keith is pretty woke. He has a better understand of the meaning of 'black' than his critics.
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Not sure how much revenue his catalog will be creating as his audience shuffles off but these things are generally priced as assets that can be sold to the next buyer in a few years so who knows. It doesn't feel right to be selling old music when there are so many young musicians out there. Again, I don't understand modern economics but nobody cares what I think. LOL.
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Van Halen is not a band. Dominated by the guitarist. CCR is not a band. One man did all the work. Nirvana not a band. Cobain and any two guys would have had the same impact. See how silly this argument is.
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QuoteMisterDDDD I could show up at a Bruce Springsteen concert and they could switch most of the members and I'd have no clue that they did or care really. That's the measure.. would people pay the same and fill the stadiums if it were Bruce and The F Street Band? Yes. The band isn't the draw. At all. He could put any backing band behind him. He's a solo act essentially.
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I don't see Springsteen as a solo act. He's the band leader. He found musicians who accepted their roles and didn't fight for attention and credits.
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The best American bands tended to present themselves as X and the bandmates. So I would say Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band. I have some reservations about Springsteen, but he's put out some brilliant albums, he's had amazing longevity, he's great live and he's captured a large part of the American experiences. Springsteen lite would be Tom Petty and the Heartbreaker
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QuoteKoen What’s next, Keith getting the Nobel Prize for medicine, because he is still alive? Better yet, chemistry!
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I consider him part of the Jack Kerouac/Lenny Bruce moment that was submerged by the boomers.
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QuoteNate Like it or not certain people will always be given a pass for bad behaviour be it because they are beautiful,talented or charming in one way or another When thinking of Maradona the vast majority of people will remember what he did on the football field first and foremost so your statement about his bad behaviour overshadowing his wonderful and highly successful football career
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Looking beyond the headline, he liked most of the songs and had something original or unique to say about many of them. Reading between the lines, it's interesting that he notes he was writing Indian-themed songs well before George Harrison. And by pointing out how well produced the Beatles were, he is bemoaning the Kinks often inferior sound engineering.
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