It´s all over now. I was 11 (years young). Since then, the world´s never been the same.
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I remember very clearly the day when the album had just come out and was played on the main shopping street of Frankfurt. If you can´t rock me hit the street! I was coming from my holiday back to medical school and just felt good hearing this magical, outta sight, far-out thang. Of course, I bought the album immediately and played it all thru the weekend - making some of my less Stones fans fr
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B&B I never liked; it was like a disaster after It´s only R&R which I have grown to like more and more, day by day. Hand of Fate somehow sounds or feels like a sequel to If you can´t Rock me, sound and musicwise. I was there when our lads opened their ´76 tour in Frankfurt. Hand of Fate was one of the highlights, absolutely. Ronnie Wood (never my favorite; my friends remember me tryin´
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(I can´t get no) Satisfaction
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No offence, mates, if our lads want to keep going and folks want to see them, fine with me, absolutely. Didn´t want to hurt anybodys´s feelings, let alone prevent someone seeing the dudes live. I was just expressing my feelings about them; been a fan from 1964 on, when I heard It´s all over now for the first time and realized that`s the Real Thing. And most of all - who cares about my op
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Actually, please, no more tours. An odd club show, maybe, with MT, but no more warhorses tours again. Please, don´t grow up gracefully, said Pete Townsend when our lads were inducted into the hall of fame, 25 years ago. Please, call it a day gracefully, don´t embarras yourselves and your fans like - I don´t want to point out anybody, but there´s no lack of examples.
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Honky Tonk Wimmen - one of the great Stones singles. If Jumpin´Jack Flash was the re-birth of the band, then HTW was their second coming, with the new line-up hitting the media, the streets and everybody. Remember hearin´it pretty soon after it came out and then throughout August ´69 AFN would play it several times a day so it kind of epitomizes that summer.
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None, Please, never in my sweet short life!
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Rod "The Mod" Stewart covered it the next year, 1975, on his first post-Faces solo album, Atlantic Crossing. That version, nice though it is, doesn´t quite match the Stones version, let alone Dobie Grays´s. Originally planned IORR with one side covers and the other originals? That´s NEWS, as far as I´m concerned - and good news, hoping for the DeLuxe edition to see daylight one da
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From the Album Aftermath, 1966: "It's not easy It's not easy living on your own It's not easy It's not easy living on your own And it's hard (it's not easy) And it's hard (it's not easy) And it's a pretty hard thing (it's not easy) It's not easy living on your own All of the things that you used to do If they're d
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What I really would like to hear is You can´t catch me, with the original Keith solo (wonder if he could play it again today?); Chuck´s original doesn´t include a guitar solo so this is something special.
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Quotestonehearted <<How many movies did Orson Welles direct after Citizen Kane?>> The follow-ups were critically acclaimed. Touch of Evil, 17 years after, is considered a classic and plays in art houses to this day, as does his 1962 adaptation of The Trial. Besides, there's more to his story than just the mere fact of his best-known director's credit--he was in and ou
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He DID write and record songs into the late 70´s, Rock it being released in 1979. Maybe his creativity slowly ran dry like it tends to do or maybe he just got a bit frustrated - we the crowds and buyers wanted to hear the familiar stuff over and over again. He did´t get much airplay in the 70´s with his new records either. How many movies did Orson Welles direct after Citizen Kane? Yet he
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Oh you poor fellow, you´ve been reading too many of Keith Richards` tell a tale fabrications. Johnny Johnson wrote all those great songs, right? In that case, Richard M. Nixon wrote Star Spangled Banner, The wind cries Mary, Purple Haze, I can´t get no satisfaction and Like a rolling stone.
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All I want for Xmas is a rock and roll electric guitar...
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1. They were good (and still are) 2. They started to write their own songs (who got the credit and who didn´t etc is a story of its own) 3. There were lots of good bands around, who didn´t write anything - Manfred Mann, Animals, Searchers and so on - but they didn´t survive, let alone playin´at nostalgia events and doin´their 60´s set over and over again. 4. They created something original and
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Here´s what I experienced last night: Chuck came onstage 10 pm sharp. The crowd (2000, sold-out venue) went wild. He started with Roll over Beethoven and managed to play the intro (which isn´t the easiest one among his famous intros) OK, also the the rest, including the solo and singing went all right. The tempo of his R&R numebers has been slowed down to 2/3 of the originals, which ac
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Just don´t let the same dog bite you twice, as Chuck himself says. Just don´t go again. THe program says Chuck Berry tonight. Nothing else. It doesn´t say: he´s still in his teens, he will play his hits note by note, he´ll do the Duckwalk AND Scoot, he´ll have Johnnie Johnson, Ebby Hardy and Willie Dixon backing him. What the hell are you expecting from a 87- year old musician, really? A
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I´ll give you my report on the show tomorrow, still 4 hours for him to go on stage. But regarding this, one might hesitate to use the the word, discussion: I´m not expecting to see a 30-year young newcomer to do Roll over Beethoven, Maybelline, Too Much Monkey Business and You can´t Catch me with Johnnie Johnson and Ebby Hardin and inventing DuckWalk while bored during the simple solo of M
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Going to see him tomorrow nite - if the gig won´t be cancelled. Yesterday´s gig has been a disaster, according to press reports, because of his ill health - he had fever (why I don´t know) and hickup and couldn´t actually sing. He even apologized stating that "this isn´t just because of my age". But most of the crowd were just as satisfied as they are.
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I remember "Frost over England" back in ´66: "The Rolling Stones composers Mick Jagger and Keith Richards are going to buried at Westminster Abbey - alive."
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Saw them on the opening night of the ´76 tour in Frankfurt. Horrendous, absolutely. Poor Ronnie Wood did his best, but he looked like one of the Faces, acted like one and played like in the Faces - which is great, but just doesn´t suit the Stones. Mick Jagger the reggage soulman, not his best impersonation. Charlie & Bill were solid as usual, but while being the greatest sidemen, they can´t s
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I am an MD with European training. There is more magic than truth, but anyway, also a slight amount of truth in his advice. In the end, the result is just the same. It works a bit faster, but you wouldn´t have noticed it hadn´t he "warned" you. Hope your teeth are just fine!
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NME Pollwinners Concert May 1968, absolutely!
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The thing is, Keith´s facial hair doesn´t grow much. He probably has to shave only twice a month or so. That´s one of the reasons his moustache looks soooo ... pathetic. Those pictures from the days in France in 1971 show him at his most hirsute, having not shaved for a month or so. If he´d like to have a beard, he´d have to wear a wig.
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You can´t catch me
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Mohammed Ali, aka Cassius Clay boasted I´ll come back in a pink Cadillac to make bets on Kentucky Derby Day. And he also did it!
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I doubt the versions of this Live cd are the same as were on the original "Got Live If You Want It!" EP. On the other hand, the audio of Satisfaction live in the film sounds identical to the version of "Have You Seen Your Mother Live" LP, later re-named and re-issued as "Got Live If You Want It" CDs. Listening to other sources of Satisfaction played live in 65 &
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On my way from Frankfurt in July 1973 I made a stop in Stockholm and found "Skivgrossisten" on "Drottningsgatan". I bought "Live´r Than You´ll ever Be", "Beautiful Delilah" and "We never got it on ´till Detroit", vinyl LPs of course. The quality, soundwise, was rather oscillating, but somehow the experience opened a new, wide world. It was almo
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The tambourine in Satisfaction is stupid and the tambourine in The Last Time is great? Do you know it´s the same instrument, Mathijs? (oc you know, was only kiddin´) But I think the tambourine in both tracks is essential, it could be heard loud and clear back then in ´65 on mono radio speakers as well as on am car radios. THe cutting, ripping hypnotic quality of BJ´s riff in TLT AND t
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