Not trying to defend Mick, but if anything he would have identified himself as Church of England in 1990. The Balinese wedding was just an off the cuff decision where he happened to be at that particular moment. It wasn't announced or planned in advance for friends and family to attend. His kids with Jerry were baptized Church of England as well I believe. The Buddhist interest seems to
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I enjoyed "Heartbreaker" and "Fingerprint File" in concert just as I enjoyed "Out of Control" in concert two decades on. Those are times where they seemed to enjoy themselves most. "Can't You Hear Me Knocking?" approached that on the LICKS tour, but couldn't escape unfavorable comparisons to the studio version.
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I like Bernard Fowler, but having him sing the Biz Markie sample in concert was contrived compared with his impromptu duet with Mick on something like "Sex Machine" in the past. They seemed to want to go for the "Lucky in Love" extended mix vocal interplay, but it just didn't seem natural. The problem with playing new singles live started with "Mixed Emotions&quo
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Great! Thanks for posting.
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No, no...that was SHE'S THE BOSS.
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Agreed, the extended mix is much better than any live version.
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I think it's more a publisher's concern. Traditional Arrangements (Trad. Arr.) usually means either author unknown or the track is not covered under a publishing agreement. Someone has to get the royalties and the publisher is the necessary conduit. The Stones didn't claim they wrote it. They listed it as traditional and credited the entire band with the arrangement and correctly l
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The remix with the badly looped acoustic guitar track? I preferred the Harlem Shuffle and Winning Ugly remixes.
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That's reasonable. The only slight issue would be credits sometimes refer to something played on an earlier take or something buried in the mix. I agree the slide is definitely Taylor. I can believe the opening riff is Jagger, but I wouldn't be shocked to learn it is Keith. Not an important point to me, I love the track.
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The guitars on the studio track are the only listenable part to my ears. The live arrangement in 1989 (identical to the arrangement Mick played on his solo tour the year before) is dreadful. All I hear are keyboards covering for guitars (even worse than the live intro to "Sad, Sad, Sad") and the awful backing singer finale that was also done on Mick's solo tour. Definitely not a &q
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I'm not insisting Keith's on the track. Either way, it's a favorite. Photos from the EXILE sessions don't honestly mean much to me unless I hear the audio with video footage and can say definitively that's who played on it. I can believe it is only the two Mick's, but I see no point in declaring it when I don't know for a fact. The photos could be them playing a
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I believe that Mick, Jade, and Chris Jagger all practice Buddhism to a degree. I don't think it's a secret or deeply personal. There have been references to it over the past decade.
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Mick's been practicing Buddhism for several years now. He came from a family that switched religions several times. It's not surprising he's done the same in his own life and that includes his periods of atheism as well. Buddhism came his way shortly after his disenchantment with the Kaballah. Jade was instrumental in getting him involved in Buddhism.
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24FPS, thanks for making me do a spit-take. I'll apologize on your behalf to Trevor Lawrence, but that was damn funny.
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I don't care whether Keith is on it or not (and don't know whether he is or not, for that matter), it's always been one of my favorite Stones tracks. A missed opportunity that this arrangement was not played at Joe Robbie Stadium in 1994. There's nothing wrong with a respectful blues cover, but not performing their brilliant transformation of the song was unthinkable.
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I'm one of the critics of this album, but the thing is if it's an official release, I want it. My BIGGER BANG is 19 tracks adding in Under the Radar, Don't Wanna Go Home, and Hurricane. I do think that like GODDESS IN THE DOORWAY, the album would have been stronger if sequenced differently.
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I went with Doxa's standard. I have no problem with approaching the UK releases for a British band as the definitive catalog.
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1. LET IT BLEED 2. EXILE ON MAIN STREET 3. BEGGARS BANQUET 4. STICKY FINGERS 5. AFTERMATH 6. BETWEEN THE BUTTONS 7. SOME GIRLS 8. TATTOO YOU 9. VOODOO LOUNGE 10. BRIDGES TO BABYLON 11. EMOTIONAL RESCUE 12. GOATS HEAD SOUP 13. OUT OF OUR HEADS 14. THE ROLLING STONES No. 2 15. THE ROLLING STONES 16. IT'S ONLY ROCK 'N' ROLL 17. BLACK AND BLUE 18. UNDERCOVER 19. STEEL
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Thanks, Stonescrow. T&A - you are always welcome over for Christmas dinner. Christmas and food are always relevant on a Stones board. It's in BV's list of Acceptable Topics.
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I'm Skipstone's friend. It just wouldn't be Christmas without Skipstone and the wife and kids over for dinner.
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The 2nd Crowes album is a masterpiece, but Chuck certainly didn't hurt the first one. It's a fine debut.
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Quoteskipstone Buying a new Stones record is not equivalent to paying for a new roof No, that's a concert ticket.
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Chuck is often very good on organ in the studio (i.e. Harlem Shuffle, Mixed Emotions). Some of his piano playing in the studio can be very good, too (i.e. Rough Justice, You Got Me Rocking). It depends on the track and what he uses. The plink-plink onstage does get old, but it is no more stale than what the others are playing. The spontaneity is largely absent from their concert performances (the
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Mostly Harmless.
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I would expect there will be new music. Whether or not it will be a new studio album or just a handful of songs, I don't know. There are some indications of recording sessions starting in November that seem credible. As for people who think they should stop, just don't buy anything else from the band. I'm not the biggest fan of their last studio album either, but the "pl
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Death knell for the Crowes? Chuck was the keyboard player on their first album.
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Crumbling Mice's Lisa Fischer hand gesture joke made this thread worthwhile.
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I get what you mean now as well. As for TATTOO YOU, I agree since a great deal of overdubbing occurred, not just refreshed mixes. I seem to remember an interview with Jagger (it might be CREEM again) where they refer to Kimsey and Clearmountain getting the same sound as the Miss You 12" where the tracks sound like they're mixed with cocaine in the grooves of the vinyl. Jagger seemed to
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I don't think this was a press release. USA Today just picked up on the French news story and rehashed it. This will bring it to more attention in the States, but it doesn't change the fact that Charlie's comments were off the cuff and the media are treating it as An Announcement when it amounts to very little. I think Charlie cancelling gigs in November is more telling than anythi
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The credit on the TATTOO YOU LP sleeve is for re-mixing the same on IORR's sleeve for "Fingerprint File." I believe the reason is because they utilized a different engineer than who originally mixed the track as with Glyn Johns on "Fingerprint File" and the entire TATTOO YOU project.
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