Quotestonehearted QuoteDoxa QuoteDandelionPowderman QuoteWitness QuoteDandelionPowderman Main Offender came before WS. At the same time as Slide On This, if memory serves... I seem to remember that Mick, conscious that he had made a brilliant solo album, took care that it should not impair MAIN OFFENDER's possiblities and waited for some time to release WANDERING SPIRIT. Yep, but he was
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QuoteDandelionPowderman Main Offender came before WS. At the same time as Slide On This, if memory serves... I seem to remember that Mick, conscious that he had made a brilliant solo album, took care that it should not impair MAIN OFFENDER's possiblities and waited for some time to release WANDERING SPIRIT.
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GODDESS IN THE DOORWAY needs no excuse, but is a distinct expression for Mick Jagger's non-Stones music, whereas MAIN OFFENDER probably springs from Keith Richards' need at its time simply to make some music
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QuoteEdward Twining QuoteDoxa I believe you are spot on Doxa, Mick and Keith's solo efforts have been a great deal more satisfying than their work within the Stones post UNDERCOVER, despite there still remaining for me within those solo projects, many shortcomings. My thoughts have always been that the band should have called it a day after the 81/82 tour. My impression is that a ma
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QuoteDoxa QuoteDandelionPowderman Or, turning things around a bit; how things became more versatile BECAUSE of the Mick and Keith conflict at the time. Rumours say that the album practically is their two solo albums... Well, I think that the best tracks in BRIDGES TO BABYLON - it is very uneven album - are so good because they are mainly solo efforts by Mick and Keith, That is, no cheap comprom
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"Always suffering" (!) How I wish I could have experienced that one. (By the way, this is the song I have wondered whether could find the Stones of today and Mick Taylor cowork on the same level and lift the song to unseen heights.) One song few seem to appreciate! Possibly my favourite song from after 1989! It is not necessarily an isolated musical highly innovative song, I gathe
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In my evaluation, too, Dandelion Powderman, BRIDGES TO BABYLON is their most ambitious album since, say, UNDERCOVER, and I like it very much, too. Or possibly one must seek even further back in time as to ambition, only that UNDERCOVER is such a great album. The more safe A BIGGER BANG I like perhaps even more than BRIDGES TO BABYLON.) As I have written in other posts, I see VOODOO LOUNGE as the
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Quotekleermaker QuoteWitness I would like to ask: What alternative routes and how could this band really have followed? The Rolling Stones should have remained true to their own artistic standards they had in the golden era. They simply just didn't and turned into a visual show. It seems to pay off in dollars and euros though. Living Madame Tussaud dolls. It is not given what kin
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QuoteGazza ....................................... There's no incentive to spend months working on a new album when a) they wont tour behind it or play the songs from it for more than a few weeks, b) their target audience of rich 60 year old nostalgia freaks isnt interested and c) sales will be underwhelming. ..................................................... That might complete the
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QuoteSlick jagger took a calculated risk in 1989 by selling out and going vegas. he wanted to maximize money by making the shows appealing to as many people as possible. he tossed the smaller number of hardcore fans aside for the larger number of lightweight fans. now that vegas stones has been done and established, he is not about to mess with the formula, gotta give the lightweight fans what th
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QuoteDandelionPowderman Whip Nice "ringing" guitar sound (enhanced by the drums) as some sonic wall gave me a flavour of some other period than the studio song's and lifted my experience, both due to the version in itself and by the difference.
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Quotesabata Memory Motel The musical and non-musical - emotional - aspects of the song and its rendition unite on a higher level. Most moving. With a fresh impact. (This song, in my outlook, in fact, one of three real gems, and among these three, this one the very best, from an album I have to admit that I am a little reserved to. However, a live presentation of other songs might modify
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QuoteDandelionPowderman ...recently delivered this on stage. Well, I don't know what kind of discussion you want or call for here, Dandelion? However, it seems that to a discussion you did not wish to continue in a particular thread, you all the same feel the urge to make a point addressed to some of the participants. Very well, when I for one as a minor poster, have written about t
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QuoteHis Majesty QuoteDoxa So for me the issue is that do we want this safe and sure old concept to carry on till the end, or do we need some fresh blood and dareness to the mix. - Doxa ....................................................... Various things are different on this tour... It's stripped down minimal stage set up, less constant backing musicians, a rejuvenated Ron Wood
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QuoteDandelionPowderman QuoteWitness QuoteDandelionPowderman ............................ But are the Stones really trapped? They are 70 year olds doing the best they can to give us - the fans - a good show. They play ER, Sway and other obscure songs, but stick to the most popular songs they know the majority of the fans love. I don't know if I'd have done different if I were in the
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QuoteDandelionPowderman ............................ But are the Stones really trapped? They are 70 year olds doing the best they can to give us - the fans - a good show. They play ER, Sway and other obscure songs, but stick to the most popular songs they know the majority of the fans love. I don't know if I'd have done different if I were in their shoes... I think that they, espe
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QuoteDoxa Actually I'd like to ask from the people who actually were there, during, say, 1973 European Tour or in those moments during American Tour when Taylor "went over the top" like is so many times argued in hindsight by Wood-era born fans, that did you really think so at the time? That Taylor is "playing too much" or "noodling" or "shaking the boat&
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QuoteDandelionPowderman QuoteWitness QuoteDandelionPowderman ................................................. About improvising. The Stones have always improvised a lot, during all eras. For me, the most impressive things happened on the albums - and with Brian's different instruments. Of course, there were lots of great stuff with Taylor too, as well as with Ronnie - up till 1982.
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QuoteDandelionPowderman ................................................. About improvising. The Stones have always improvised a lot, during all eras. For me, the most impressive things happened on the albums - and with Brian's different instruments. Of course, there were lots of great stuff with Taylor too, as well as with Ronnie - up till 1982. Not including UNDERCOVER, released
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QuoteDandelionPowderman Quoteduffydawg The Rolling Stones is NOT "The Greatest Rock and Roll Band in the World" The Rolling Stones with MT is "The Greatest Rock and Roll Band in the World" Capeche? "We recorded about three albums with the same people we're using now. Like Let It Bleed... And Mick (Taylor) was in on only half of the last sessions in Munich, fo
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Quotestonesrule Witness, are you a teacher? I understand that you found my post most boring. Or unreadable. No, I am not.
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I have to do a serious post, where some posters in this thread are funkeeping as their line of arguing. As a first approach to a stance, that must at present be an over-simplication, I would say that the turn to recreating the original records on stage was both bold and necessary when the Rolling Stones were to do a live come back at large venues in 1989. A new professionalism, as I have calle
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I have not read so much of this thread and run the danger of expressing what might already have been said by other posters (later edit: as even in the preceding post to mine). After first yesterday having delighted in the Mick Taylor guitar solo of that moment's inspiration (instead of rendering a copy of one flawless and perfect version from the past or another occasion), Quoteandrewt
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QuoteBowieStone QuoteBungo Drop em both and plop in Out Of Control and I Go Wild. Out of Control live always works for me. But I thought the audience reaction was pretty lame when they played it in the o2. Probably that's why they dropped it. A pity. Then what you get, if you insist in dropping the two (comparatively) new songs, is, of course, two more warhorses in addition. We must be
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How wonderful it could be if various such impulses might sift into Mick Jagger's song writing and musical arrangements leading to new explorative and daring songs from the band in the best Stones tradition.
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QuoteTorres ................................................ The common denominator here for me is the lack of an artistic component. To go on like this now, for the sake of pure entertainment, can only mean that either they consciously discard the importance of a legacy and do what it takes to maintain themselves popular to big masses, or that they were never so much aware of their cultural dim
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I bought one of those, in order to be free of uncertainty about obtaining a ticket to the first Hyde Park concert as well
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They "should", or rather could (as I have posted earlier), as an alternative, make it a traditional double album's length. Record 1: Suitable live versions, preferably with younger guest artists, possibly gaining new strata of customers of Stones albums . Record 2: A studio album (preferably with, but even without Mick Taylor) of new songs. A studio album that then will get l
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My reading of your post is that you are in the process of starting to take a Woodist stance in the discussion about who has been the most adequate guitarist of the Stones in addition to Keith Richards. With that as starting point you invite posters to answer if they would go (or have gone) to concert of this "50 Years and Counting"-Tour in case Mick Taylor had not been a special guest.
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Quotecrawdaddy Not sure on that one as being a guest and hoping for 3,4 or maybe even 5 songs is special. Knowing that he will be on every song at every gig...........will the feeling change? Didn't take me long to realise that would be the ideal world farewell tour for The Rolling Stones. I don't want to know anything about a declared final tour. I don't want to know anyt
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