It took me a while but I just got the LA Forum DVD. Boy was I pleased with that release because they totally fixed the sound by synching the mobile truck stereo recording to the video. The audio of what I assume is the July 11th show makes such a difference that the July 11th show sounds like such a better show. I used to think Jann Wenner was crazy for praising this show so much in Rolling Stone
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I was at the SARS gig in Toronto. I was within 200 feet of the stage. In fact Mick Jagger walked through the crowd right in front of me during The Guess Who's set. AC/DC appealed to a wider demographic at that show. They were the band more people were there to see. It was a very hot day. By the end of AC/DC's set, they had the crowd totally on their side. There is only so much energy a
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Jack White explains this in Stones In Exile quite well. At the beginning of the song Ventilator Blues as the guitar intro is played and Charlie hits the high-hat in rhythm, everything in music tells you that the kick drum is coming but when the vocal begins there is no kick drum and the verse is sung over that rhythm Charlie needed Bobby Keys (peace be upon him) to clap out as he played it. As JW
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Albert Lee is an excellent picker - one of the few British guitarists who plays in that style. Emmylou also used James Burton before Albert Lee. I figure he could give Albert a run for his money.
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Bob Dylan Hate - Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 Love - Lenny Bruce
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QuoteKet Superstar by the Carpenters Machine Gun by the Commodores Sing by Travis I agree Superstar is brilliant. When she sings "Oh baby, baby, baby, baby, oh baby" that is a great moment in pop music
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Bob Dylan is the last guy anyone would expect to be involved in something like this. I think that is why he did it. That and the undisclosed sum of money
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Quoteventilatorblues Quotestewedandkeefed MMMBop by Hanson It's a catchy song. When Hanson came to Melbourne they made an appearance at a local shopping centre, my then 14 year old daughter was smitten by them so I took her to see them. Unfortunately they performed in the lower level car park, so, surrounded by screaming teenyboppers in a concrete cavern we couldn't hear a note they
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Stu did not play much piano on TOTA. Usually On Star Star.
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MMMBop by Hanson
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QuoteSharksWillCry Whip Comes Down from Sucking in the '70s is up there as far as officially released stuff goes. I must say I agree. I prefer the longer version from the FM broadcasts and it's too bad this version does not have the Brown/Rockefeller verse but the interplay between Keith and Woody is exceptional.
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It was recorded at Essen in October 1973 - the middle show of three I believe. Two songs are from the evening Hamburg show also in October of 1973 (Star Star and Heartbreaker). I believe both sources are audience tapes though the Essen portion is often mistaken for soundboard. Probably the best pre Mike Millard Stones audience tape
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I've seen most of the bands I wanted to see. I regret not seeing Talking Heads, Warren Zevon and The White Stripes (though Jack White still plays most of those songs so that's not as big a regret). From Mongoose's original list I recommend Fogerty, Prince and Green Day. Green Day absorbed the Ticketmaster fee and I paid $25 per ticket and took both my kids. That's caring about
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I agree with Doxa's assessment. I would rank 2012-2014 as #1 in the so-called Vegas era. For me 1989 was #2. I've seen some good shows over the years(Toronto 1998 where I was in second row for B stage and heard Keith straight out of his amp) but the general playing on this tour is much better. I credit Ronnie Wood's sobriety and his general contribution to the show. When I saw them
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Bootlegs are based on the concept of forbidden fruit tastes better. Anybody who is around a recording studio with access to the tapes knows this. So some recordings are leaked by underlings in the studio. Or some studio stuff used to get put on cassettes and circulated among the musicians and gradually fell into the hands of other people. Some soundboards are merely cassette recordings done at th
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I bought it because I was at that show. The tape used is in stereo. It's a bit tinny but certainly listenable.
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Quote71Tele I think the Dead phase is the worst period for Dylan. He was in bad shape and musically adrift at the time. Frankly I can't think of more different artists in many ways. Dylan was never a hippie. The fact that Deadheads show up at Dylan shows has always been an annoyance. I never could stand that band, and still can't. While I agree Dylan's collaboration with the Dead
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I think if you are talking great blues records, one shouldn't be choosing too much from after 1965. Start with the Smithsonian Blues albums. You will hear the originals and find out where your favourite line or lick from your favourite white band was ripped off from
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Quotekowalski Essential albums for the 60's catalog to me : The Rolling Stones (first UK album), The Rolling Stones No. 2, Out Of Our Heads (UK version), Aftermath (UK version), Between The Buttons (UK version), Their Stanic Majesties Request, Beggars Banquet, Let It Bleed, Get Yer Ya-ya's Out!, The Rolling Stones EP, Five by Five EP, Got Live If You Want It EP, Singles collection (aka
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In May I began a listening program of all of my official cds from AC/DC to ZZ Top. With many artists I have complete catalogues. So I worked my way through the entire Stones catalogue but the thing I realized is I much prefer the way the Stones sixties catalogue was released in England. The Rolling Stones No. 2 is better than any configuration of those songs put out elsewhere and this goes double
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Quotetreaclefingers Unfathomable that Lou Reed isn't already in there. Obviously must be through Velvet Underground. It is pretty amazing he isn't in as a solo artist. Just listened to his entire catalog. From New York on he was particularly strong. No one did what Lou did.
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QuoteRollingFreak Exile. An incredible album, but its never my number 1 despite the fact that many others consider it theirs. Whether you like it or not, its got a few songs that are filler whereas their other 40 minute albums are concise masterpieces. Sorry. Someone had to say it. You may have had to say it but you are wrong. Along with London Calling, Exile is the one of only two perfect d
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Quotedcba The 6-cd box looks interesting : 2nd new versions of "I shall be released" "See You Later Allen Ginsberg" & "I'm a Fool for You"! According to Expectingrain.com "Banks Of The Royal Canal" seems to be renamed "The Auld Triangle", "One Single River" is "Song for Canada" & "See That My Grave Is Kept
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Will vouch that Toronto August 19 1994, the only Wild Horses I ever witnessed, was a good one. L.A. July 13/75 is good. Agree the Knebworth version is pretty good
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I was at this show and the other one two days later. First Stones show without Wyman. Counting Crows opened up and the Stones certainly came out with an interesting and diverse set list though I cannot report that their playing was mind-blowing. First Not Fade Away since 1966, new Voodoo Lounge songs, live premiere of Memory Motel, Monkey Man had been played at RPM Club in Toronto but was first t
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Greil Marcus is good. My favourite book about rock 'n' roll is by Fred Goodman and it is called Mansion On The Hill about the collision of rock 'n' roll and commerce. The funniest writer about rock 'n' roll is Rob Sheffield. In Rolling Stone Record Guide he has some beautiful lines. He describes Bob Dylan At Budokan as "immaculately frightful" (quoting Deso
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Of all the post Wyman recordings the Stones have done this is one of my favourites. Why? The humour. Poor womanizer Mick adopts the role of the victim with his tongue firmly planted in his cheek.
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Quotesteini Casino Boogie Petrol Blues Turd On the Run Tie You Up (the pain of love) The undertitle appears of course but i don´t think he ever sings "Tie You Up" but "Tie Me Up" is sung. Actually Mick does sing Tie You Up towards the end of the song. Actually he shouts it.
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Have tickets for Toronto. Eyeing the Louisville and Detroit dates.
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Quotedeadegad Have you seen the Elvis Comeback television special from 1968? Well at one point during it Elvis just sits around with his band and plays the guitar and makes some funny self deprecating commnets here and there. Now that was good music! That might have been Elvis' key to returning to music if he had had better managment. He could have left the Hollywood glitz and cornine
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