QuoteGreen Lady Quotegeorgie48 QuoteGreen Lady Quotegeorgie48 QuoteElmo Lewis More change between 1962-1970 than the 52-year period since then. Music, movies, fashion, etc. Most (but certainly not all) of it was positive. Anyone who considers the Beatles as a mere boy band has lost their mind. The term boy band was totally unknown in those early sixties. But in retrospect The Beatles (basic
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Quotelem motlow It’s one of the things that’s always amazed me about Jagger,how other people project their fantasies on him. Sleeping with Keith and Mick T is a new one,good lord. it’s creepy how they take comments from Anita or Marianne and try to make it mean something else. I remember when that Bowie ex had to admit him and Mick were fully clothed and passed out. “We’ll I thought they wer
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QuoteCaptainCorella Quotegeorgie48 But in retrospect The Beatles (basically all other young, mostly British bands) started of as boy bands. Nonsense. The Beatles started as a group of lads interested in playing music together, and they served a (very) long apprenticeship playing the clubs in Liverpool and Hamburg. "Boy Bands" are put together by money seeking managers. The
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I remember being in Hamburg on October 2 1973 at the first of two Rolling Stones concerts in the Ernst Merck Halle. I was about 5 meters from the front of the stage and in the middle. On the left of me was a French guy with a cassette recorder. Occasionally he asked me to hold it (maybe getting another cassette). In between we helped getting a girl, who had fainted, away from the crowd. We (seve
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QuoteGreen Lady Quotegeorgie48 QuoteElmo Lewis More change between 1962-1970 than the 52-year period since then. Music, movies, fashion, etc. Most (but certainly not all) of it was positive. Anyone who considers the Beatles as a mere boy band has lost their mind. The term boy band was totally unknown in those early sixties. But in retrospect The Beatles (basically all other young, mostly Br
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QuoteElmo Lewis More change between 1962-1970 than the 52-year period since then. Music, movies, fashion, etc. Most (but certainly not all) of it was positive. Anyone who considers the Beatles as a mere boy band has lost their mind. The term boy band was totally unknown in those early sixties. But in retrospect The Beatles (basically all other young, mostly British bands) started of as boy
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With all the great photo's you took, it would have been a shame to leave them fading away on the Internet. Best of luck!
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QuoteBig Al Love Me Do is great. I think reaching #17 for your first release isn’t too bad. Thinking about it, it’s almost other worldly. We think of the Beatles battling it out against the Stones, Who and The Kinks, etc. For their debut release in ‘62, the U.K. competition was more along the lines of Cliff Richard and The Shadows, Billy Fury and some bloke called ‘Elvis’ Different times indeed.
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You actually meant to say: 10 Stones songs the Beatles should have recorded. 1. Give me your hand and I hold it tight (actually they changed it "a bit" by releasing "I wanna hold your hand" 2. Hear it (actually they incorporated the high voices in some other song(s) 3. Yer Blues (after Brian Epstein died. Was it a Lennon/Richards song?) 4. She's a rainbow (isn'
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QuoteDandelionPowderman Stu was their road MANAGER. That doesn't mean that he carried all their guitars and amps by himself. His job was to organise gigs, travel schedules, check what equipment was needed on the different venues etc. He had his van, though, but i bet they all carried their gear until 1969, when the tours became more professional. I'm absolutely in line there with
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Get well soon! A nice "medicine": ... some great Rolling Stones songs!
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Quote24FPS Is this a joke? Their hair was half that length in 1965. Where is this 'statue'? And why would Brian be carrying a guitar around? They had roadies. No offense, but in 1965 the whole idea of specially employed roadies carrying their guitars wasn't there. Maybe Ian Stewart would have carried some equipment at some time, but that would be it. But there plenty of example w
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QuoteTheGreek QuoteSpud Of course it's not a "Punk" album But as Mathijs said " the punk movement reenergized the Stones, it kicked them up the arse and slapped them in the face." Being mocked as dinosaurs by punk rockers, must have half irked and half amused ... prompting a bit of " ..we'll show you who can play the most rough and ready, spiky Rock
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iPhone, iPad and iMac. Obviously I enjoy my iMac (27") by far the best. Downloaded clips sound great and many times great photo's are shown! The last couple of years even magnificant photo's! A real joy! Please leave the site as it is!
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Instead of creating a new thread, I put my question in this "El Mocambo" one. My favorite El Mocambo song for decades has been "Crackin' Up". But ... I mean the version that appeared in the Love You Live album. I very much enjoy the "Live in El Mocambo" CDs, but ... the Crackin' Up version on there (off course it's the same recording) is somewhat
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Quoteexilestones video: Nice clip !!!
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Renting Nellcote is indeed "not being poor" Renting a fancy appartement in Paris is indeed "not being poor" ... and so on. But being forced to leave your home land due to a huge tax bill ... is being poor. Well, the Stones survived and that's what counts, really
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Quotemajomuc Hi you all ! Finally finished a proper album of Berlin photos here: Hope you enjoy ... I very nice piece of "labour of love". A great way to remember a great concert. I even found us (me and my daughter) back on some photos at microscopic level
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QuoteNilsHolgersson He thought he was pretty out of shape in 1979,1980, so he started doing a lot more exercising and you can see that on the American Tour 1981 where he's running all the time Not only 79/80 but already in the early mid seventies Mick felt his condition wasn't up to what you may expect from him being the energetic frontman of the Rolling Stones. In recorded interviews
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Great experience! Even more so because my effort to get entree tickets for 14 people who went to China that year in vain (no Stones concert in Beijing due to SARS) was rewarded! They only had to show their passports with China visum in it at "the hotel" Although all clubs shows were almost equally exiting, Vredenburg is nr.3 on my list following Orpheum (Boston) and Zirkus Krone (Mu
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It's nice to read that Julian has found his way back to music. For sure he has inherited some of his dad's talents. I learned that he is the proud owner of the original sitar that Brian Jones used during the recording of Paint It Black (Brian owned a couple more). He could use the sitar to add a special sound to his music. Brian would have loved the idea. Best of luck, Julian
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Hey NathanLaze, Are you a frustrated "word philosopher" who tries to tickle Stones fans with silly questions like a snobbish "do they still think the world is flat?" Also, "fortune" telling is not exactly what you're talking about: Brian's death is no fortune, Hunter's death is no fortune. I would call that misfortune. Stones fans in general are
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QuoteNathanLaze QuoteRocky Dijon Patterns are always clear after the fact. right. now imagine neither of these "facts" happened. i mean, not one of them. "Imagine" is a word that John Lennon used many times in his famous song. But he basically said that all those things were facts. And looking back to what happened to him, imagination leads to nothing. Digging int
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QuoteNathanLaze so what about the "circus" That is indeed a creepy one. Some (or maybe many) things "are written in the stars", as they say. Even Mick may have felt uncomfortable on this line in retrospect. I personally experienced that a prediction I made (not meant to be a prediction at all, but more a concern) about a politician might get a bullet through his head due to
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Quoterayrad QuoteNathanLaze ... that black man drew his knife ... wasn't it Meredith Hunter at Altamont?? ...eating eggs at Sammy's... Sam (Sammy?) Cutler was the Stones' 1969 tour promoter, isn't it ? .. drowned that Jew in Rampton ... wasn't it Brian in his pool ? ...And the young girls eat their mothers meat from tubes of plasticon... food in tubes
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QuoteProfessorWolf i don't think the song has any specific overall meaning but here's my best guess on some of the lyrics When the old men do the fighting and the young men all look on i assume about the "old men" sending the "young men" to fight in vietnam And the young girls eat their mothers meat from tubes of plasticon I always looked at
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Quotevibrolux I guess I'll jump in here... Obviously, they don't need the money. Promoters are greedy bastards but that's not this thread so there are only 2 litmus tests: 1) Do they enjoy getting out and playing every 4 nights to a stadium full of adoring fans. Apparently yes. 2) Are there plenty of people who enjoy going to these shows. Apparently yes. I don't
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QuoteNICOS I just want to post this "The Aftermath of the Rolling Stones' Drug Trial (1967): I'm really impressed by this YouTube channel "Yesterdays Papers", they put a lot of know how in it and great videos and pictures. Most of all I already know...except the part of A L Oldham didn't know this was the reason of the split with the Stones...................
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QuoteGreen Lady QuoteHairball Here's an excerpt from a Rolling Stone magazine interview/article from 2013 previously unpublished, but was then published on Aug 25, 2021 - the day after Charlie passed away: Charlie - RIP From RS writer Mikal Gilmore: "Keith Richards tells me, more than once, that Watts is essentially the reason that he still plays with Mick Jagger, and the reason t
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Keep on rolling, Bard! Just like the Rolling Stones. The future still looks bright
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