Quoteswimtothemoon When I Saw the Eagles a couple years ago, I basically left the show thinking they take Themselves too seriously. The Eagles take themselves too seriously? Imagine that! I'm with Jeffrey Lebowski: I HATE THE EAGLES, MAN! Having grown up in Southern California in the 1970s, I could not escape them. They were everywhere with their nasal platitudes and tinhorn philoso
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Wee bit of trivia: "Charlie Is My Darling" is a Scottish folksong. That's where the name comes from. video:
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QuoteRip This I laughed a lot...and remembered even more...what a run this show has had...classic Gilda... You know this "classic Gilda" is a big joke on Patti Smith, right? Patti has revived her carrer and become an official 1970s cool person from New York. But she was a big joke when "Candy Slice Gilda" came out in 1979.
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The song came out during the miserable depths of the Bush-Cheney years. I appreciated the song. My favorite rock singer couldn't resist taking a swipe at those morons. I needed that. It helped me through those dark times. I hadn't thought about the song in some time, and seeing the words "Sweet Neo Con" today made me sick all over again.
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Any band that sings "Highway to Hell" doesn't get to carry a torch, the greatest R&R band torch or any other torch. I always thought, if the torch were to be passed, it might to go Willy DeVille. But I'm weird that way, and besides, Willy DeVille is dead, lying horizontally in his grave, which means he can't carry a torch.
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Wouldn't it be great if they did a cover album -- 12 for their favorite blues, rock, and country tunes?
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QuoteSilver Dagger A magnificent call to arms for the world's restless youth... QuoteDoxa This is the soundtrack song of that crazy year 1968... The Stones probably would not ever again be so urgent and reflecting the zeitgeist as they then were with this song. If there is ever a use for the term 'relevance', it applies just here. I've heard this kind of stuff before ab
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You could make a similar list of songs Charlie Watts didn't play on. Jimmy Miller was an excellent drummer. He played on some of the best songs on "Exile." Hell, he played the cowbell on "Honky Tonk Women."
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Have you seen your mother, baby, standing in the shadows?
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I always assumed that the name "Jumpin' Jack Flash" had its origins in the well-known nursery rhyme: Jack be nimble, Jack be quick, Jack jump over The candlestick However, debating this point with somebody, he pointed out that I probably got that idea from Don McLean, whose 1971 hit "American Pie" refers to Mick Jagger as follows: Jack be n
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Quoteryanpow Sounds like he was paying attention to the music too : "Ron Wood was the rhythm guitarist replacing Mick Taylor; Billy Preston was really shooting-off at the keyboard; Keith Richards was on lead guitar and he and Ron were doing some sub-glancing lilting highs against each other's edges but Keith held a firmer more natural ground, albeit an easy one which allowed Ron to come
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Amen to that. Below is the ad Johnny Cash's manager's paid to put in Billboard Magazine in 2000. Cash's album won a grammy but it couldn't get played on the radio because modern country radio utterly and completely sucks. I'd love to see the Stones put out an album of country covers. Jagger's older voice is suited for singing country. Maybe the Stones can turn Ame
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She ought to call her act the Jess Greenberg trio.
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QuoteDandelionPowderman Why haven't I heard an outtake version of this??? Outtake or semi-finished? Here it is:
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Whatever happens, they should get a producer who challenges them. Somebody like John Philip Shenale who will get more texture in the sound. Here's an idea: an album of covers. As they get older, they play country better. I'd like to hear Keith play more acoustic guitar.
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Ronnie Wood's greatest contribution to the Rolling Stones. The way I heard it, Woods came up with the slide riffs. I like how some of the words are in Spanish. And it tells a universal story (poor man seeks sexual gratification at a discount rate and is repelled by haughty streetwalker). The outtake is better than the version on Black and Blue, IMHO.
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English tabloids are disgusting. Imagine the creepy photographer stalking her, drooling because he caught her smoking by a trash bin.
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Syliva Robinson - "Pillow Talk"
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QuoteDandelionPowderman QuoteNICOS James Brown........ I can't remember the year "65 ? 64, but he really didn't, right? James Brown and the Famous Flames most certainly surpassed the Stones at the T.A.M.I. Show in 1964. Keith Richards admitted it. From Wikipedia: "In interviews, Keith Richards of The Rolling Stones has claimed that choosing to follow Brown & The Fa
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QuoteMrThompsonWooft QuotePietro QuoteKoen Quotestonesrulethe true End of Innocence for music lovers throughout the world. What on earth does that mean? Good question. My innocence ended long before John Lennon's murder. John Lennon was one of 12,000 Americans killed by gun violence in 1980. It's a serious problem here -- was a problem in 1981 and remains a problem today. About
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I remember all the speculation about who would replace Taylor. The oddest name being bandied about was Roy Buchanan. Supposedly they invited him to join, he declined, and for a time he had the nickname "the man who tumbled the stones down." He would've been a strange choice. He was American and he didn't look like a Stone -- he was bearded and pudgey. But he was a darn good
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Great find! Thanks for posting. It gives more meaning to Watts' "You're my singer, I'm not your drummer." I always though Watts' drumming means as much to the Rolling Stones' sound as anything. Watts is a jazz drummer in a rock and roll band. It's one of the secrets of the Stones' sound.
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QuoteKoen Quotestonesrulethe true End of Innocence for music lovers throughout the world. What on earth does that mean? Good question. My innocence ended long before John Lennon's murder. John Lennon was one of 12,000 Americans killed by gun violence in 1980. It's a serious problem here -- was a problem in 1981 and remains a problem today. About 24,000 Americans die each year b
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The Jive Bombers!
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I'm showing my age, and yes I bought it. What I remember: Arguing with a friend, another Stones fan, whether "Monkey Grip" referred to heroin. It did and he was right. All the great musicians that were put to waste on the album -- Dr. John, Betty Wright, Leon Russel. To show you what a sucker I am, I also bought "Stone Alone," his next solo effort. I remember the
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QuoteLeonidP QuotePietro QuoteLeonidP Foo Fighters cover Miss You last night (this morning, actually), live at the Cubby Bear, Chicago: Not too shabby! Not too shappy? That sucked! And what kind of performer drinks out of a plastic cup in the middle of a song? "Miss You" relies on the harmonica and sax for much of its magic, not to mention somebody who can really sing. Da
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Beautiful song. Thanks for posting.
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Party time here in San Francisco! And it's Halloween to boot! Wild times in the wild town! Madbum is a beast! He mowed the Royals down!
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I think it's safe to say that Mick Taylor was a child prodigy. Nice interview with him. He has a sense of humor -- didn't know that.
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BTW, "You're a rag trade girl, you're the queen of porn, you're the easiest lay on the White House lawn" was a dig at Jagger's ex-wife, Bianca, who had been doing interviews for Andy Warhol's "Interview" magazine, including an interview at the White House with Jack Ford, President Ford's son.
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