They will continue until the day comes when one of the core three - Mick, Keith or Charlie - becomes too ill and slowed down by age to perform. Then THAT will finally be it. I don't care what anyone says - they will never continue without one of those core three.
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Jagger is a fine singer when he wants to be , but I've always felt his vocals are so much better in the studio than live. Live, he tends to shorten words and phrases and sometimes sound as though his singing is an afterthought. But in the studio, he almost always hits the mark -- and that's been especially true on recent Stones albums. Whatever your opinions are of 'Voodoo Loung
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I love the Kinks, but I'd put the Who ahead of them. After 'Misfits', the only really good album the Kinks put out was 'State of Confusion'. I'd also rank Pete Townshend before Ray Davies as a songwriter. But unlike the Who, they did have the decency to know when to quit.
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"Too Tight" is a great @#$%& song. It should have made the setlist LONG ago, along with "Too Tough", that great, unheralded rocker from 'Undercover'.
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DandelionPowderman Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Did you hear "Honkin' On Bobo" (With You Gotta > Move etc.)? > > Sure did, and I thought it was a lousy album. I've dug when Aerosmith has done their versions of the blues in the past, but on that album, they do the blues in a screeching heavy-metal style that sounds jarri
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Regardless, New York always gets the best and longest shows from our guys. It's a fact going all the way back to '69. And I live in Milwaukee !!
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CreedenceLives Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Trane has so many great live albums: Live at > Birdland is murder. Live at the 5 Spot with > Thelonius Monk is Monk's very best tape (most of > monks cds are yawners)... Trane's Live at Newport > is fair, but I always come back to The John > Coltrane Quartet at the Vanguard 1961, his
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1) UFO - Strangers in the Night. IMHO, nothing has topped it ! Surprised that more of you haven't mentioned it. 2) Thin Lizzy - Live and Dangerous 3) Stones - Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out ! If only this would have been the full concert, this would be # 1 easily. 4) Allman Brothers Band - At the Fillmore East 5) Dylan/The Band - Before the Flood 6) Jerry Lee Lewis - Live at the Star Club
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All this crap about the Crowes having no classic songs tends to look an important fact. Which is this -- IT"S PRETTY HARD FOR ANY BAND TO HAVE A 'CLASSIC' ROCK SONG THESE DAYS WHICH WILL LAST THROUGH THE AGES BECAUSE ROCK IS DEAD AS A MOVEMENT AND A REFLECTION OF POPULAR CULTURE !!! Face it, guys, it's true. The combination of rap & music videos pretty much killed off
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'Revolver' by the Beatles. Started with the best !
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It's hard to have respect for anything related to rap. It killed rock 'n roll as a cultural force and movement, and I will forever hold that against it. Plus I would argue it's not music -- it's a lot of ranting and raving about urban, dysfunctional living.
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jumpinjackgreg Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Aerosmith is a far better band than the Crowes. > And don't knock on Aerosmith's last 2 albums. Nine > Lives is a fantastic album. One of my faves by > them. Just Push Play was quite poppy I know but it > did chart well (#2). 9 Lives was #1. Aerosmith is > still a very very popular b
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mark Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > RockR......one word you used makes any band > alright...."tradition"......kind of infers the > Stones made their own mark and will not be topped. > That kind of discussion is fine with me.....as > long as we are not saying any current band has the > history...or will have....to top exactly wha
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The Crowes are on tour right now and, from all reports, smokin' the stage.
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If that's true, then they are no better than the Who touring without John Entwistle. Somehow, though, I don't believe it --- Keith has said in the past that the Stones agreed to be finished if anything would happen to either him, Mick or Charlie. I guess it's a different story if something would happen to Woody !!
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I'd give the Crowes the nod over Aerosmith. Especially after the last two albums Aerosmith has put out.
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Koen Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Don't forget all the blues and jazz musicians, so > what about Chuck Berry? > > What about him ? What original songs has he come up with since about 1964 besides the horrible "My Ding-a-Ling" ??
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I was trying to think of what band that is currently out there, or has been around for a while, is best qualified to carry on the Stones' tradition of bluesy, raunchy rock 'n roll should the Stones finally decide to "pass the torch", so to speak. The band that seems best qualified to uphold the tradition, I think, is the Black Crowes. Great blues-oriented/Southern rock tradi
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Rutger Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Bruce Springsteen Unquestionably. And the three greatest male artists in American rock ever.
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I saw Bill Wyman & the Rhythm Kings on their first and, to date, only American tour a few years back in Milwaukee at the Potawatomi Casino, and they put on a fabulous performance. I would LOVE to see them again, but they only seem to play European dates now. Does anyone know why they don't tour America any more ?
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As much as I love The Who, unless they release a new album ...please, no more nostalgia reunion tours ! Now if they get their act together to put out the long-rumoured new studio album, then that's a different story.
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Queen was a great band in the '70's who lost it in the '80's and were right on the verge of becoming a great band again in the '90's with 'Innuendo', their last album. Unfortunately, Freddie's death took care of that, RIP. But without Freddie, they are nothing. This tour smacks of pure opportunism and nothing more.
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I think he's quite content to become a grizzled, wisened, old saloon country singer in his persona -- and that suits him fine at this point in his life. And, actually, I think his vocals have improved since B2B while his playing & movements have gotten a bit worse and less lively. I notice he doesn't smoke nearly as many cigs on stage as he used to and that, combined with perhaps
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RankOutsider Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > 3.) The other problem I see on this board is that > some people have just seen them live too many damn > times and feel like it's The Stones responsibility > to keep them personally entertained. Sorry boys, > they're not your personal/private band and they > have much bigger fish to fr
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Yeah, I think they could satisfy ALMOST everyone if they did three pretty simple things. Unrealistic perhaps, but these three would do it: 1) Have a three-tier pricing system for tickets. Let's say $90 for the best seats, $55 for the so-so ones, and $35 for the nosebleeds. They don't need to charge more than that based on their accumulated wealth and the tough economic times we a
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Easily Bill. With his memory, he would have the best, most entertaining and probably most truthful anecdotes and stories.
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tatters Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Having Fun With Elvis On Stage. It's a live album > that contains no music, only his between-song > patter. I'm not making this up. It was released in > 1974. The worst album of all time. Period. Yeah, that's definitely Elvis' worst. But the worst album of all time has gotta be 
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If not a full tour, I would be willing to bet that Chicago and L.A. will soon follow.
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StonesTod Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > bigbang Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > Thumbs down on The Who and Springsteen. > > > > BOWIE belongs on Rushmore way before either > of > > those two. > > > Thumbs down on all three. Gimme the Grateful Dead. I would ag
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Exactly. I just can't picture Paul Rodgers singing "Bohemian Rhapsody" or "Love of My Life" !!
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