QuoteDiscoVolante Didn't Anita beat up Brian as well? As Keith said, he did both of them a favor by taking Anita away.
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QuotePalace Revolution 2000 QuoteCarnaby Brian with his Gretsch Anni. You call that a weak rhythm? if I didn't make it clear I was saying that Brian Jones IMo was a good rhythm player. "I have always thought they played exactly what was good for the song". I love the 'fat' sound coming from Brian's Gretsch.
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In a way, I'm happy DiscoVolante started this thread because I think he represents the majority of Stones fans here in America who have no inkling or understanding of who Brian Jones was. They are of the 'classic rock station' variety of Stones fan with little knowledge of the band's real history and their importance in the 1960's. And here's a little advice for Di
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QuoteDiscoVolante QuoteHis MajestyWhat from the Taylor era is better than Satisfaction, Ruby Tuesday, Paint It Black, The Last Time, 2000 Light Years From Home, Jumpin' Jack Flash, Street Fighting Man etc etc? There isn't anything better, it's just different, more rock orientated and with fancier guitar solos. Yes there are a lot of better songs than the ones you're mentio
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QuoteMathijs QuoteChrisM QuoteMathijs And your point is? Mathijs Yet another Jones/Taylor/Wood comparison? I think Brian is overrated. Or underrated. Let's discuss. Mathijs Mathijs, you've been funny today.
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QuoteMore Hot Rocks Something is strange when someone starts a thread with "Oh Please" Oh please . . .
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QuotemickschixI'm not a Brian fan because I separate the man that he was from his musical abilities. I see him as a mean, envious, vicious person with dreams of grandeur. He was a woman-abuser( not forgivable), and a guy with a huge Napoleon complex...little men sometimes suffer from this! He was small in many ways. I understand completely why Mick and Keith lost patience with him and fortun
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QuoteCome On High and Dry! Surely Brian on acoustic. Nope, that's Keith all the way.
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Quote24FPS I'm a big fan of the 1920s jazz musician Bix Beiderbecke. He would elevate songs (that other people wrote) with his otherworldly cornet solos. He was respected by black jazz players, esepcially Louis Armstrong. Bix did write a couple compositions on piano, notable 'In A Mist'. He was described as a dreamer who only cared about music. And he drank himself to death on the
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QuoteCome On A band is always as good as their singer so how about that Jagger is underrated? ??
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QuoteDandelionPowdermanOh yeah, I remember But do we know for a fact that he did? If you ask me, likely. The only 'proof' that Brian played an acoustic guitar on any Stones track come from the album credits (ABKCO), several of which list Brian as having played an acoustic.
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QuoteDandelionPowderman Quoteneptune Here is clear evidence that, yes, Brian Jones played acoustic guitar on a Stones track. Did anyone doubt that? There was a heated debate about this on IORR about a year ago, and there was a claim that Brian never played acoustic guitar on a Stones record.
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Here is clear evidence that, yes, Brian Jones played acoustic guitar on a Stones track.
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QuoteCome On I've played harp for 42 years now and there's nothing special with either Brians or Micks harp-playing to be honest... Look What You've Done, I Just Want to Make Love To You, and 2120 S. Michigan Ave aren't special?
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QuoteBärsI don't think anyone in the Stones or Beatles, or Elvis or Dylan etc. qualifiy as geniuses. Of all the above, the only person I would consider a genius is John Lennon. Brian is no genius, but he was a very clever and inventive musician.
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QuoteDiscoVolanteApart from being a well dressed icon of the 60's and a founding member of a band which became so much better when he wasn't in the band, what did he do? Wow.
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QuoteKingbeebuzzIt would not have hurt the Stones to issue an album of early unreleased tracks and clearly promote it as a dedication to Brian. Rock history is in danger of forgetting his contribution. "DiscoVolante's" comments would not have been made had Jagger & Richards dealt with Brian's contribution differently in passed years and it would be nice to think they were
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QuoteWry Cooter I'd say he was an adequate to pretty good harp player -- I think Jagger is better. Jagger was nowhere near as good as Jones on harp. Not even close.
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QuoteHis MajestyThere's 3 guitars and those chops ain't that different from Brian's part for Off The Hook. Those chops don't sound at all like the ones on Off The Hook.
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QuoteletitlooseWhere did Brian play fantastic guitar on a Stones record? Recommendations are welcome. Little Red Rooster, I Can't Be Satisfied, The Last Time, and No Expectations, just to name a few. Several people on this site have said those are 'amatuerish' guitar parts, so I'm in the minority in saying they're fantastic.
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QuoteHis Majesty Quoteneptune QuoteHis MajestyIt's not slide on DHG. Keith plays the lead guitar and solos. It may not be slide (I'll have to give this another listen because in spots it sure sounds like a slide), but the lead on DHG is surely played in a slide-like manner. That style fits more Brian the blues slideman than Keith the rocker. No, the solo and some of the other lead
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QuoteHis MajestyIt's not slide on DHG. Keith plays the lead guitar and solos. It may not be slide (I'll have to give this another listen because in spots it sure sounds like a slide), but the lead on DHG is surely played in a slide-like manner. That style fits more Brian the blues slideman than Keith the rocker.
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QuotePalace Revolution 2000 I was just reflecting on Brian while driving and listening to "Down Home Girl". I assume that is Brian playing the solo. I don't think we have ever touched on that topic/solo here before. IMO it is a weak solo; I think Brian was stellar writing parts; fixed melodic lines. His forte wasn't "we're in the key of E, Brian; take a solo.."
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Quotecc nothing from the Wood era is "Americana," Everything from the Wood era is Americana.
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Quote71TeleI think Taylor's joining was incidental in that development. The Stones were going along with the "back to roots" wave that swept Britain in '68 and also discovered their signature "Open G" style template soon after. Taylor in fact was probably the most experimental of the five, if you consider some of the stuff on GHS and IORR, though nowhere as much as J
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Quotemarvpeck "I love that period of the Stones when Brian Jones was really at the top of his game and was infusing all of that experimentation into what they were doing. They lost a lot when he went away." Well, I think Mr. Buckingham is 100% right. The Stones lost some magic with Brian's departure. They became an Americana style rock band with MT joining them, and have pretty
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Quotemarvpeck "I love that period of the Stones when Brian Jones was really at the top of his game and was infusing all of that experimentation into what they were doing. They lost a lot when he went away." Lindsey Buckingham has long been a fan of Brian's, stating a few years ago that Brian added a 'European' flavor to Stones tracks. I have great respect for Lindsey
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Many of the concert boots from the Brian era are of terrible quality. The one I would love is the 68' NME Pollwinner's, but that of course has not surfaced. Too bad. My favorite would be the 65' Pollwinner's because Brian's guitar is nice and loud.
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QuoteZack Stanley Booth always maintained that playing I'm Free was quite disingenuous of the Stones on the 69 tour. I find it hard to believe the big fat rhythm guitar alluded to on the studio version was not Keith. Feel free to disagree. There are two guitars on this song, the lead picking part and the shimmering rhythm. It's my guess that Keith does the lead and Brian the
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QuoteDandelionPowdermanErr, there are two lead breaks. The first one is Keith playing sixteens on the D-string. The other ones ("sting it...") is Brian on slide. I can´t hear an acoustic on this one at all. Yeah, you're right about the two breaks. But it sounds like Brian on both on the same guitar, which might be an acoustic as well. Keith's acoustic twangs away in the ba
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