Saw the Ramones there in 1978. I was standing right in front of DeeDee and he let me pluck his bass throughout the show.
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The Stones covered Johnny Winter's "I'm Yours and I'm Hers" in their famous 1969 Hyde Park concert. It was the opening song:
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Quotestanlove Guess opinions very very. I think Jizaw Puzzle is one of the worst songs the Stones ever did. Can't believe many people wouldn't think the album would not improve with JJF instead of that song.. Agreed. "...and the queen is bravely shouting, 'What the hell is going on!'" "And all those grandmas who with their dying breath scream, 'Thanks.&
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Live and learn. Thanks for the info. But it's a shame they didn't put those songs on albums. Beggars Banquet would be a masterpiece if you swapped "Jumpin' Jack Flash" for "Jigsaw Puzzle." Likewise Let It Bleed might be the greatest Stones album ever if you swapped "Honky Tonk Woman" for "Country Honk."
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Marketing, I get it. But I don't recall any Beatles hits never appearing on their albums. I can't think of any other groups from the 1960s who left their greatest hits off albums.
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"Jumpin' Jack Flash" and "Honky Tonk Women," arguably the Stones two greatest hits, were never on albums (apart from greatest hits albums, that is). Why is that? JJF would have fit nicely into Beggars Banquet and HTW on Let It Bleed. Does anybody know why they decided not to put these two songs on albums? It would have helped sell the albums, certainly. (I know &quo
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QuoteNICOS I think it's a great funny and happy song....I love the swing in it ...Oh, it's a shame Ah but it's funny She crashed your car She spend your money Agreed. I especially like the lyric you quote. A sense of humor is always a good thing.
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I'm offended. You're offended. I'm more offended than you. Being offended is the major pasttime of Americans these days. Frankly, I find it offensive.
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Quotecrholmstrom My personal fave: "You make a dead man come". Hahahaha Mick Jagger didn't invent that one. In "Shave 'em Dry Blues," Ma Rainey sang: I got nipples on my titties big as the end of my thumb, I got somethin' 'tween my legs 'll make a dead man come
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I drove through Altamont Pass last weekend (on the way from my home in SF to the Sierra Nevada). Every time I drive through the pass I think of the doomed Stones concert. What a horrible place to stage a concert! The Stones were incredibly naive. Imagine hiring the Hells Angels as security guards! I have to think that, as Englishmen, they didn't have a clue what the Hells Angels were about.
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What is with you people? If you wanted to name the top 5 American bands on IORR, you might start with American bands that inspired the Rolling Stones -- bands that, you know, the Stones stole ideas from. Or bands whose songs the Stones covered. The Temptations The O'Jays The Miracles The Coasters The Flying Burrito Brothers
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Lennon is not qualified to know what a good guitar solo is. The Beatles weren't good with solos. The kazoo solo on "Lady Madonns" comes to mind. Sheesh.
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The performances in the early seventies were drug fueled and reckless. You see the same type of recklessness on our highways today. Wow! I've never heard anyone compare a musical performance to highway driving habits! I still say the early 1970s were the best. Mick Taylor on guitar. Keith Richards playing with his guitar over his belly instead of his knees. Mick Jagger standing in
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QuoteRichard from Canada I'm thinking the 1972-73 tour was perhaps the last great one they would do.. The live band in the 1972 tour of North America and the 1973 tour of Europe were the best. Anybody with ears knows that. All you have to do is listen to the recordings. The horn section complemented the band nicely. They had finally become good musicians. They played on smaller stages, so
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QuoteRolling Hansie You really expect anybody who knows to answer your question ? Maybe somebody does know. BUMP
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A friend of mine, an American, was in London when Elvis died. Walking down the street, he saw a headline on a newspaper: THE KING IS DEAD. He thought, "That makes sense. They have kings in this country." Then he remembered that the current monarch was a queen, not a king. He hurried back to the newsstand and learned that Elvis Presley had died. Speaking for all Americans, I ca
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"Till the Next Goodbye" (1974) from It's Only Rock n' Roll is one of my favorite Stones sings. Jagger could've spent more time with lyrics, but I like the acoustic guitars, especially at the beginning. The song doesn't have a guitar solo. Where the guitar solo usually is, after the second chorus, you hear Nicky Hopkins' piano in the foreground and Taylor's
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Pardon me if someone mentioned this before, but a fascinating documentary called "Muscle Shoals" about the FAME recording studios in tiny Muscle Shoals, Alabama just came out. The Stones recorded "Brown Sugar," "You Got to Move," and "Wild Horses" at the studio in 1969. (Parts of the recording session are preserved in the film "Gimme Shelter" and
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Seriously? The White Album is full of chocolate sweet gooey tones and novelty songs. Exile is a masterpiece.
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I think it pretty much goes without saying that the Stones' Golden Age was the Jimmy Miller years, 1968 to 1972, when Miller produced their albums. Their best touring years were 1969-1973, when Mick Taylor was in the band. All else was either a prelude to the Golden Age (albums produced by Andrew Loog Oldham!) or a harkening back to that period. As I die-hard Stones fan, I always hope
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Quotedcba he middle-class guy writing about the dirt without really living it IS 100% Jagger. But that's not true about Lou. The guy lived what he sang about (even though when he wrote "Heroin" he hadn't tried it yet). Wanna a Lou Reed story (told by John Cale). Reed used to pay visit to a black priest, regularly. When Cale wondered why he'd do this Reed replied "c
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Quoteseitan If Elvis would come today, if he was a new artist in 2013 - he would be a fat karaoke singer in a pub and nothing more What's a pub? Is that like an English bar or something? Elvis would not have sung in a pub. He was American. And he had way, way too much soul and spirit to every sing karaoke. You're not listening when The King sings!
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Quoteseitan QuotePietro I know this is a minority opinion, but he was a hack. His best album, "Transformer," owed more to its producer, David Bowie, than it did to him. What really bothers me about him is that he was the American baby boomers alter ego. He wrote about taking drugs, going uptown in NYC to buy heroin, etc., which amounted to a cheap thrill ride for all the boomers to g
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Love the Groovies. I live in San Francisco. Want to start a spirited debate? Ask a Dead head what the best band from San Francisco is. Why, it's the Groovies of course!
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Bettye LaVette - Salt of the Earth
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I know this is a minority opinion, but he was a hack. His best album, "Transformer," owed more to its producer, David Bowie, than it did to him. What really bothers me about him is that he was the American baby boomers alter ego. He wrote about taking drugs, going uptown in NYC to buy heroin, etc., which amounted to a cheap thrill ride for all the boomers to get their second-hand chi
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Interesting interview with Jagger about "Gimme Shelter." "Well, it’d be great to have a woman come and do the rape/murder verse,’ or chorus or whatever you want to call it,” said Jagger. “We randomly phoned up this poor lady in the middle of the night, and she arrived in her curlers and proceeded to do that in one or two takes, which is pretty amazing. She came in and knocked o
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Not another Stones album? Why not? The next one could be a masterpiece. I still hold out hope. They are talented, afterall. I think they should focus on country music. As they age, their country gets better and better.
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Wow! Thanks for posting this.
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You might like this. The Funk Brothers were the in-house band at Motown. The Andantes were the in-house backup singers. This recording of "Heard It Through the Grapevine" strips Marvin Gaye from the recording so you can hear just how good the Funk Brothers and Andantes were:
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