Toronto 2 - MY chance to see Stones with Mick Taylor. CYHMK was not one of the better ones but MR was. Plus Woody was great. Best time I ever saw them since Wyman left.
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QuoteAquamarine Quoteslew JamesfDouglas is spot off Freddie Mercury in no way is better than Mick Jagger. he has a better voice technically and that is where it ends. They're both amazing frontmen/showmen, with different styles. One doesn't have to be better than the other. Add Springsteen to the trinity, too! Freddie Mercury may have been a great frontman but unfortunately h
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QuoteDandelionPowderman QuoteJustin I can't say I'm surprised by most of the comments here because most of these comments reek of typical "classic rock" mentality. In a genre comprised mainly of guitar heroes/gods, it's no surprise why Presley is generally misunderstood to most classic rock fans. The lack of songwriting, the crappy 60's movies, Vegas and whatever f
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QuoteEddieByword I don't think that photo of Mick coming out of the restaurant did him a disservice. Lou Reed once wrote "there's a bit of good in everything". Rightly or wrongly over the decades Mick has had to wear the reputation of a "take or leave it - heartbreaking heart of stone". The report that he had tears rolling down his face in the restaurant an
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QuoteMKjan QuoteGasLightStreet Quotemighty stork QuoteGasLightStreet He'll never be a Rolling Stone. That's it. It's just the 4 and will remain the 4. Mick, Keith, Charlie and.........Mick Taylor? Taylor isn't a Rolling Stone. Oh yes he is. Agreed. Keith said he was in 2012 when asked if Taylor would be invited to rehearsals.
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Quoteliddas Frank's purpose was to provide a point of view that would balance the flashy "superstar" public image of the Stones. To do so he chose the form of documentary, but the film is not at all an "objective" account of the STP. Keith's comment on the use of black and white is spot on: B&W does add drama. C Peter Rudge commented in the Bob Spitz book ab
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QuoteMax'sKansasCity Quotenovica QuoteGazza Colombia, Jamaica and Afghanistan were three countries that probably helped shape what many of us see as their 'Golden Era' Yeah, that is a pretty damn funny Gazzaism Agreed. Funniest thing I ever read on IORR.
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Agreed. Funniest thing I ever read on IORR.
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QuoteRockinJive loved it. Probably the best halftime show so far. Agreed. Best half time show ever. Bruno surprised me with his talent and the jam with RHCP was amazing.
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Time Waits For No One seems a logical choice. Or Winter.
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I think Hatred was one of the best things the Kinks ever did. Talk about art imitating life.
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Quoteflilflam I nearly threw up listening to Howard Stern just talk about seeing the Hyde Park concert on Showtime over the holidays. He sounded exactly like the average fan Mick Jagger must be painfully aware of. Howard said the setlist was fantastic, with hit after hit. Howard has said in the past he hates it when groups play anything but their most known songs. He went on to say it was great t
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Jack White works like Bob Dylan does. He even uses tape in the digital era because it makes the band concentrate on the performance knowing it can't be fixed later.
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I think the original idea behind this post is accurate. In fact in 72 Jagger said "We're not very hard working really. Some bands stay on the road all the time. The Stones played 250 gigs in the seventies. The Who and Led Zep had similar numbers. Some musicians romanticize the time spent on the road but in the seventies they made sure demand was bigger than supply.
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I cannot add GHS to any essential list primarily because I really think Dancing With Mr. D is pretty bad. I like the early Brussels version and all that but I think that song is one of the weakest Stones opening songs ever. Put Criss Cross in its place and I am more open to including GHS as an album I really love but I can't get past that opening song on the album as is.
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you are not the first to point out how Stonesy Pay In Blood sounds. Closer to a Some Girls era sound with the pedal steel
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QuoteDandelionPowderman The BU vocals on the studio version of Miss You are fantastic, imo. Ronnie sings there as well. Backing vocals on Just My Imagination are even better.
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There was a book by Jimmy Guterman Greatest Rock & Roll Records (Every Picture Tells A Story is #1) Exile is #3. He says Keith Richards proves he is the greatest backing vocalist in rock n roll history on Exile because he is the only vocalist to sing in several keys at once. Great quote. Captures the essence of what the Exile Keith vocals sound like.
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I Drink is a great song
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QuoteChris Fountain I prefer the Tots sound over Hunter & Wagner because their vesions seem to sound closer to the studio versions and still provide ample & respectable lead guitar. Obviously, H & W can tear down the building with guitars as the forefront. However, the mood has to be correct in order to listen. Don't get me wrong, I love R & R Animal/ LR Live and listened
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QuoteTeddyB1018 Quotestewedandkeefed Since Lou's death ITunes has released a live album. I downloaded it. It sounds like it is all one source. Called Rock On The Wild Side. Over eighty minutes. Has Ecstasy on it so it is from 2000 or later but it does not match up to any setlist I know about. Anyone know anything about it? It's a comp. It's taken from a minimum from the DVD'
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QuoteRollingFreak You mentioning it now is the first I'm hearing about it. Honestly, its a great friggen setlist. I'm tempted to say its a compilation, because what are the chances he would play Kill Your Sons, Romeo Had Juliet, Ecstacy, and The Blue Mask all in one show? Seems like thats too big of a collection which he rarely did. Does it sound like a compilation since you've dow
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Since Lou's death ITunes has released a live album. I downloaded it. It sounds like it is all one source. Called Rock On The Wild Side. Over eighty minutes. Has Ecstasy on it so it is from 2000 or later but it does not match up to any setlist I know about. Anyone know anything about it?
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I think there is a case to be made that of all the sixties icons that made music in the 1980s, Lou Reed had the best decade. Growing Up In Public may not be that great but beginning with The Blue Mask (my favourite song is The Gun on that record), Lou had a great run (Mistrial excepted). Agreed Fernando Saunders makes Legendary Hearts sound great (The Last Shot my fave). New Sensations is a great
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The setlist at the Rock And Roll Hall of Fame is not the right list. Rolling Stone covered the Morgan's Cove show. That is where most of the wikipedia set list comes from.
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The setlist documented in Robert Greenfield's article "Goodbye Great Britain" does not list "Can't You Hear Me Knocking". The rest is accurate including the two song encore.
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The Faces bootleg sourced as Detroit 1974 is actually from San Bernadino 1975. The complete King Biscuit broadcast is on wolfgangsvault.com. The most common bootleg is called Rhythm And Booze. Overture And Beginners is from the Anaheim 1973 broadcast which is also on wolfgangsvault.com in slightly extended form. The British cassette version also had I'm Losing You on it which wasnt on the vi
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QuoteGazza Quotewindmelody Just got me a ticket for Düsseldorf. Can anybody who has seen one of the scandinavian concerts tell me if Dylan started at eight o'clock or if he was retarded? I need to book a train home. The 'Retarded Tour of Europe' took place in 1991. Most people though just assumed he was plastered. He's been mostly compos mentis since the mid 90s.
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Bob Dylan's Too Much To Ask. Surely the thread means that the phrase has not shown up in the song until the end so Virginia Plain qualifies but many of the others do not.
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Absolutely ridiculous that Warren Zevon is not even on the ballot. The Replacements were a great band and at seven albums I can understand why people don't think their career was substantial enough but if you are talking about rock 'n' roll attitude, The Replacements fit the bill. I saw them open for Tom Petty in 1989 at Canada's Wonderland outside Toronto. They went on record
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