One of Brian's finer efforts on slide. Bill wasn't so shabby on bass here either.
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QuoteDandelionPowderman René: I don't think Keith plays an acoustic on this one. Listen to his lead break, as well as all the licks in there. The lead break is Brian on electric slide. The licks are mainly Brian's electric slide (the call) and Bill's bass (the response), with Brian being much more prominent. Keith just plays acoustic. Rene's got it right.
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QuoteMathijsThe Stones have always been an exponent of the music of the day, they never where forerunners for any genre at all. What? Hello, Mathijs, is anybody home? The Stones never forerunners for any genre? Does blues-based rock ring a bell? They were the fathers of the blues-rock movement in the early 60's and legions of bands would soon be copying their sound, using slide guitar,
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Satanic is a delight to listen to. Very underrated if you ask me. And, yes, I love Gomper! Satanic is 2000 light years ahead of anything from the Ron Wood era.
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Happy Birthday, Brian. I raise my 3rd glass of red wine to ya. It is my firm belief that you made the Stones what they were . . . dangerous, wild, the anti-Beatles. You made the difference. Lennon, Dylan, the Byrds, Townshend, and Hendrix flocked to you. The world might have forgotten you, but those who remember how great you were will give you a kind thought tomorrow on your b-day.
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I love Jeff Beck. Great musician. They were doing revolutionary stuff back in '66.
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Quoteskipstone The 1995 version certainly is true to the original - and it blows their first version out of the water. The beauty of what the Stones did with is in 1995 (along with Spider And The Fly) is the sound of a band that has matured, the bull taking his time to go down and @#$%& all the cows... It's the sound of the Stones playing the blues that they loved at the proper speed. I n
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QuoteCBII Just not the same band without Johnny Thunders. In a way, I agree. I don't see the point of a Dolls reunion when most of the band is dead and it's so many years later. Why couldn't they do a reunion when I was in college in the early 90's?!
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QuoteRip Thisthe book is his honest assessment...I applaud him for that.. and we can come up with our own conclusions. . Honest assessment? Really? The book was nothing but a grand attempt by Keith to further prop up his legacy as the TRUE rebel rock star of the Rolling Stones, the TRUE blue hero of the band. Honest assessment? He throws Brian, Mick, Scott Cantrell, Mick Taylor, etc. under
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QuoteMathijsAnd yeah, I still maintain that the acoustic is Keith, it just totally sounds like him. Brian did play harmonica on the first version, and the second version was a quick demo with Keith only. That latter version was released. I will say it's Brian on the acoustic because there's not one instance of Keith's typical folksy run of notes here, just simple strumming of cho
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I've always thought the acoustic on Satisfaction was great, adds a really nice texture. I know Mathijs in the past has said it was Keith playing the acoustic, but I doubt it.
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QuoteDoxa Wonderful, vital version! That is how the songs sound like when a living, breathing and inspired band is playing with the idea. Not like this awful Rolling Stones cover band that has not any connection to the song: - Doxa Neither have a connection to their brilliant 1964 original cover version. Both are bland as hell.
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QuoteHis Majesty Quotecc QuoteHis Majesty So, do we think Brian played on the pre-recorded new arrangement? Sounds like there's 2 guitars, one doing the riffing and chords, the other soloing, piano in there as well. well, it's got keith on that lead, right (sounds like his style on BtBs), so if brian's playing, at least he's high in the mix! The main riffing guitar so
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QuoteTumblin_Dice_07I know Keith paints the Jones-years as a dual-guitar weaving thing but Brian did play mostly rhythm, except the slide stuff of course. The rhythm parts for each player were usually different and complimented each other, and I think that's what Keith is getting at. Brian did play a lot of lead guitar parts such as on The Last Time, Cloud, Mercy, Mercy, etc., but he didn
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I'd like to add that Brian added so much to the Stones' stage presence back then. He had an incredible amount of charisma that only Jagger and a few others from the first British Invasion could match. Keith would in essence replace Brian as the no. 2 most charismatic Stone after his departure from the group in 1969, but it just wasn't the same. The void has never been filled.
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QuoteHis Majesty Fukking magic! Wooooooooooossshhhh the energy from that jumps out from the screen. They were so good then!!! I agree 100%. The Brian Jones Era Stones are so underrated.
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Quoteskipstone He'd just be another bitter old has-been. Like Keith?
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Quotewith sssoul >> if they're going to do something for Stu << who is this "they" you're referring to, neptune? the Stones are not the "masterminds" of the Stu tribute album - Glyn Johns, who was a good friend of Stu's, seems to be the main "motor" behind it Oh please. Mick and Keith performing on this tribute means they are t
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QuoteHis MajestyHow popular is Brian? Impossible to answer, but everyday there's a lot of people all over the world who listen to music which Brian was an important part of and enjoy the he'll out of it! . . . and will think Keith Richards played those parts! Case in point, several music magazines that have credited the Little Red Rooster slide to Keith. How popular is Brian, you as
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QuotetonterapiKeith's more recent verdicts on Brian seems to be the one that counts for most people and with that in mind I would be surprised if the majority of the fans think that Brian deserves a record like that. If most Stones fans don't think Brian deserves some sort of tribute from the band, then I think there's something wrong with them. Brian wasn't this smallish f
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QuoteHis MajestyBrian's idea is the foundation stone. Don't tell that to Keith or Mick. Little Boy Blue turned into the Rolling Stones. Brian was brought along for the ride.
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QuoteHis Majesty The band continuing is in a round about way a tribute to Brian, it's unlikely that they even see it like that, but it is. Yes, the Rolling Stones became huge and are still relevant, but how popular is Brian these days? I remember going to a Stones show in 2003 and wondering what percentage of the huge audience even knew who Brian Jones was. I guessed probably about 20%.
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C'mon, Mick and Keith. If Ian is going to get a tribute album, how about the guy who actually started the whole thing and was an official member of the band? Remember, boys, how important and popular he was? Are you guys going to continue to ignore this elephant in the room? Come on, Keith, drop the hate and grow up. You're not 19 anymore. Mick, stop focusing on what brought down
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Quoteswiss QuoteKoen Please put all your comments here: Koen The combined thread on Keith's book is too unwieldy. I am dying to discuss various aspects of it (not anything as broad as "Dis book stinx and dat's the truth" ) but actually getting into analysis of specific parts of it, particular stories, Keith's perspective and point of view, his voice, literary style
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My biggest problem with the book is Keith's inability and/or unwillingness to really get into what happened in the studio (ie. who played what, ideas for arrangements, etc.), especially in regards to their 1960's material. Yes, Keith talks about some of their hits from that era, but not about the nuts and bolts of how the music was created. The general impression of the book is that h
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I love the live version of Route 66 on December's Children. Great energy, especially from those two guitars. Brian's rhythm guitar is what Keith would dub the 'roll', killer stuff. I feel the Stones reinvented rhythm guitar, first by Brian in the early 60's and then Keith in the early 70's.
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QuoteLeonidPQuotewith sssoul you're overdoing it, Doxa - really that sums it up perfectly Here are ssoul and Leonid Brezhnev, like usual, protecting their hero Keith Richards. Whenever someone questions the character of Keith "The Great", they, like firemen, have to arrive on the scene and furiously douse the flames with their endless rationalizations. I happen to agree 100%
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QuoteBliss Well Keith certainly seems to believe it. Was he hallucinating? Yeah, too much paint-thinner in the air.
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QuoteMKjan QuoteneptuneWhat makes a man world famous and rich since he was 19 speak so viciously ill of the dead? honesty. Honesty? I think it's cowardice. Instead of admitting responsibility for being an absentee father and carrying weapons (which led to the death of a minor in his own home), Keith instead calls the said minor a 'prick'. That's just nothing more than def
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This indeed is a dark chapter in Stones history, with a family suffering through such a tragedy. Yes, Scott Cantrell was perhaps a troubled youth, but he didn't deserve to die. And Anita beating the rap so easily leaves me feeling a bit angry. This is eerily similar to Brian's death, one determined to be suicide and the other 'death by misadventure', mysteries which have pe
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