I've had the same experience trying to figure out Replacements riffs ... at times I can't even figure out the chord changes because the guitar is so unusual, and Tommy Stinson's bass lines are often melodically out there too. however, I do think that, in rock music, if he makes it look easy, it has to be easy. Once you figure out what "it" is. what is Westerberg up
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QuoteTitle5Take1 I like the Winos' stuff, but one of the great delusional statements was in ACCORDING TO THE ROLLING STONES where Keith said the Winos "was probably one of the best rock 'n' roll bands in the world." agreed. I love both of those records, but I wouldn't even call the Winos a real band--rather session players gathered a couple of times over 5 years to
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Quote71Tele Quoteangee Two of the songs on the Slow Train Coming album are among my favorite Dylan tunes musically, the title song and "You Gotta Serve Somebody". I'm not someone who was overly sympathetic to his conversion or beliefs. What's the other one? I love "I Believe In You". great songs all 3 ... though I prefer his live performances of them to the
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Quotetatters He has placed 10 singles in the Billboard Hot 100. "American Pie" is his only #1, but "Crying" (#5, 1981) was actually a bigger hit than "Vincent" (#12, 1972). "Castles In The Air", the B-side of "Vincent", charted on its own, and a 1981 remake also charted, reaching the Top 40. hmm, I've never heard any of these "hits&q
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QuoteRoscoe I have NO doubt that Don can take it. When he is asked what 'American Pie' means he usually responds: "It means I don't have to work another day for the rest of my life." Yup, he can take anything we dish out and laugh about it all the way to the bank. boy, there's someone dedicated to his art... puts what the Stones do in some perspective. Though
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Quotetatters The line "Jack Flash SAT on a candle stick" could be an allusion to Mick's perceived homosexuality. Maybe this is what "enraged" Don so much. Coincidentally, I always thought he was saying that his hands were clenched in FISTED rage. LOL wonder what crusty ol' Don would say about Dr. Freud?
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QuoteSleepy City David Bowie ... is much closer musically to the RS than all the hard rock acts that people are often comparing them to on here. good observation.
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Quotebmuseed -never hesitated to jump into a fight to defend a friend or himself isn't that more like the behavior of the pack, not the "Alpha"?
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Quote71Tele On a side note, why the hell can't they get Charlie's snare drum to sound like this on their records anymore? I don't think they try to.
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this is more about taylor, but it seems pretty good:
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great song... Graham Parker also covered it, in the '80s, along with "I Wouldn't Treat a Dog (The Way You Treated Me)."
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it's amazing that he thought this was the approach that would win him Jackson-level superstardom as a solo artist. He seems just totally coked up and sloppy. I guess that's part of his appeal as a true blue rocker, but with the faceless, alarmingly trend-oriented '80s backing, he seems without any context. When Tina joined him, at least there was some entertainment. plus, how br
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no way, and they're not even that much younger. My mother developed a fondness for the Beatles, but it was after the fact.
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Quote24FPS I'm sorry if I've stepped on the toes of those who were teeny bops when Alice was coming up in the 1970s. Now I realize that Alice was your Monkees. I get it. Excuse me, I'm going to go stroke my gravitas-laden ego and shoot my opinion on another off-topic thread. sorry, grandpa, AC's best records came out before I was born. Like I said, it's not your opinion
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re: not including the pictures in the frame - copyright, perhaps? I would guess this was an instruction from the school. The fair use conditions are probably different for seeing the pics displayed as part of a talk and for having them online potentially in perpetuity. Not that I'd interpret the situation the same way, but I'd guess that's their thinking.
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so the answer to "why thread-crap?" is: to stroke your gravitas-laden ego by "expressing your opinion" even on off-topic threads (and even when they're based on fossilized impressions from decades before) and to concoct ridiculous justifications for it after the fact. Great, carry on!
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QuoteRocky Dijon The interesting part to me is when he discussed LIFE and the criticisms of fans against the book (something hardly unknown here), he notes that the Keith of LIFE described (by others) as arrogant and pompous is not the guy he knew. It's fair to say that Keith and Ronnie have both been through changes over the last 15 years or so, Mick may be constant but I can understand him
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I'm not a big fan of Alice Cooper, but why come into a thread about his upcoming release and crap all over it as if your opinion's worth anything more than someone else's? Clearly this news is of interest to Alice Cooper fans. The potential connection to Stones fans is not obscure.
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QuoteThe Stones That was a pretty interesting presentation, although I was a bit irritated with Bill constantly talking about how old he was when he did this and that. Too bad it wasn't possible too see the pictures he showed due to the camera angle. he didn't seem quite able to gauge his audience, which was college students. I agree, after 1 or 2 age references, we get the point an
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QuoteRocky Dijon I think we're kind of missing the point here. He never said he's struggling financially today, he didn't have a regular job when he was in his teens to his early thirties becasue he supported himself with subsciptions to two officially sanctioned newsletters he wrote and published (BB and Connection) and also sold articles to magazines like Spin. In that respect, t
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QuoteBig Al QuoteRocky Dijon the Singles Box, a new Best Of, and then Some Girls Deluxe Edition. I'll be curious if the Best Of is just the Dressman promo CD, HOT STUFF given wider distribution. What is the tracklisting for this compilation? what is the purpose of this compilation?
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nice guy, his speaking style reminds me of Jerry Seinfeld (and he makes a "Seinfeld" reference in his talk). seems like a smart guy... you'd think he'd be more self-aware about his pro-keith bias. I mean, he says outright that there became two different factions, and he was in keith's faction, so concluding that mick was the less nice of the group is circular reasoning
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QuoteStonesTod Isabel Wilkerson's "The Warmth of Other Suns" - wonderful chronicle of the largely undocumented migration of southern blacks away from jim crow laws during the 20th century....highly recommended reading.... won many awards and universal acclaim. And probably a slight Stones connection--does she discuss the blues at all?
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QuoteTitle5Take1 THE POLITICALLY INCORRECT GUIDE TO GLOBAL WARMING by Christopher C. Horner that shows, among other things, that Al Gore is a tendentious moron. yeah, but that's the important part--your opinion of Gore. The actual issue is beside the point to the politics. climate change, who cares? Better to be proudly un-PC and congratulate yourself.
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Quotevirgil 1. The Turner Diaries 2. The Lebensborn Experiment just so you know someone knows the reference--assuming you're just a troll, not a neo-Nazi.
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QuoteThe Stones The Deer Park by Norman Mailer and this site about mixed martial arts I'm looking forward to seeing Shogun vs. Jones next week. how's the Mailer, and read any others? I've been wanting to make time for The Executioner's Song but hard to do... Armies of the Night is a classic.
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Quoteduke richardson Bonhoeffer by Eric Metaxas Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a great theologian and an incredibly courageous individual. I would like to know if anyone else has read of him on the board here? He stood up to @#$%& and was martyred. heard of him, yep.
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Quotestones78 "The Revolt Of The Masses" by J. Ortega y Gassét, but I just can't seem to get started. interesting--what's motivating you to read it? A class?
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the part I don't get is the hooking up to an "extension speaker." Is there an out jack for that on the tape recorder? Or did they open the tape recorder up and improvise something?
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I've written this before, but I don't think that, with the way they work, especially keith but also mick, the lament of "not saving" songs for the band makes sense. Don't they both basically write on demand?
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