Quoteduke richardson that first album is great. Yeah, the first CSN album is Stills' baby.
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Bloomfield is one of my favorite guitar players, very versatile. Someone described the uniqueness of the BBB...a raucous, unapologetic white blues band. The band's music lacked the deferential reverence that other white musicians gave to the blues.
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QuoteSighunt You want to know something that truly irritates this Rolling Stones fan? Check this out, per what is described on Amazon-on 11/11/16 there will be released a 36 (count 'em) box set of Bob Dylan's 1966 live recordings. In looking at the song list for all the shows- with some exceptions here and there, the set-list is pretty standard across all 36 discs! Sooooo, why c
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One of the most enduring examples of recorded music in RnR history. When the deluxe version was issued what a delight it was to assemble a complete show in the correct running order. For over 40 years this album has never let me down. It is a joy to listen to. The setlist is a homage to the roots of the band's music, American blues and CB RnR, with an English band's unique and matur
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QuoteHis Majesty Seems very tame and polite. It's sexy, for a number of reasons.
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I am not a guitar player, but I think the Pittsburgh '72 soundboard recording would be a good one. There is almost complete separation of the guitars in the L-R channels. Want to play with Taylor? Turn the balance one way. Keith? Vice versa.
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Quotegeorgelicks Top 200 Album Sales US: Week Ending June 22, 2017 TW|Artist|Title|Album sales|Retail sales|Independent sales|Mass merchant sales|Non traditional sales 169 The Rolling Stones - Ladies & Gentlemen 1,893 34 559 0 1,300 This is the sales chart, not the Billboard 200 which includes streams. Not much people interested on the last bunch of live sets, less than 2,000 copies
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QuoteMathijs Just listened on Spotify -better quality than expected, but still quite muffled. Decent show at best. Mathijs Yeah, too bad they did not cull a show from 4 shows after Texas. There were some terrific performances later in the tour as the band headed to the finish.
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QuoteCaptainCorella Quotevox12string Love Chip Monck's idea of having the spots BEHIND the band pointing up to the mirror above them. Absolutely! It's an idea that's so simple that it's genius. It's surprising that it had not been used before, or since. It has to make things a lot easier for the setup - everything other than the mirror is easily accessible at ground
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QuoteMathijs Best: Wembley, September 9, 1973. Second best: July 13, 1975 LA Friday. Worst: any version after 1997. Mathijs I had not listened to this Wembley GS in a while. Whew! Some shows Taylor has live fingers and this is one of them. The YCAGWYW from this show is one of my favs as well. Kudos, again, to the recorder.
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This is the highlight of this show and recording: Keith sets a somber tone and Taylor provides the tears. There is loss here as we hear this band enter the last year of its stage performances. The performance notwithstanding, I am grateful for this recording and would pay big money to see this show again (I sat behind the stage, Taylor's side). There is something about Taylor and R
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Love this Sinatra story:
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For when the grandkids stay with us we bought a suitcase-type record player and gave them access to our record collection. What did they play over and over? The Beatles, of course. We had to explain the gaps between songs and where you found the song list, etc. They were amazed that you played BOTH sides of the record. So, we bought a player for one of the girls to have for her own, along wi
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From Wiki: Some of the performances, as well as one of the two photography sessions for the album cover featuring Charlie Watts and a donkey, are depicted in the documentary film Gimme Shelter, and shows Jagger and Watts on a road in Birmingham, UK in early December 1969 posing with the donkey.[5] The actual cover photo however was taken in early February 1970 in London, and does not originate
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Very few musicians have had their music travel into interstellar space. Chuck Berry is one of them on Voyager I. What's the old joke? What did the first message say from intelligent life in space. "Send more Chuck Berry!"
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Generally speaking, The Who's live sound has not aged well for me. I find some of PT's solo stuff more interesting. Empty Glass is terrific as is his collaboration with Lane, Rough Mix. But then I saw them on TV, live on stage with the expanded line-up and I thought it was great. The sound filled out for me. It was musically more interesting, less overpoweringly bombastic. I feel
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I always thought it odd that nothing from the Stones' '72 tour ever showed up recorded by Graham. You would think there are tapes of those shows somewhere.
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This is an interesting clip of an all-star ensemble from Wembley '84. But the point is Hynde looks like the happiest person on earth, ever.
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I understand that some think Dear Doctor is filler. A tongue in cheek country waltz does not have the kick of say...JJF. But lyric-wise it is as good as any song J-R ever wrote. It tells an amusing story, it has appropriate images and there is not a word out of place. Few other J-R lyrics are as cohesive.
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During the 11/27/69 performance of "I'm Free" Taylor breaks new ground for the band with that short sweet 20 sec solo (I was delighted that that performance was included in the "Ya-Ya's" deluxe release). His tone and touch has no precedent in the band's history. To my mind the only possible exception for sheer prettiness is Brian's slide work on this song
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<<It was only three short years since the Stones toured the States in 1969, but it may have well been thirty. No more screaming crowds or 30 minute sets as was the standard in 1966. Audiences could now hear the music being played and they were listening. The 1969 tour was triumphant return to live performance with a band again capable of touring.>> This is ChrisM's introductor
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A Change Is Gonna Come is one of my favorite songs and it grabs my heart. The weariness in the singer's voice does not convince me he really believes a change is gonna come, but he's too proud to give up.
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Santana opened for the band for Nicaraguan Benefit Concert in '73 at the Forum. I missed them. I saw the Stones, although I "arrived" late to the proceedings. It took a while, but as a local I snuck in. Not a nice thing to do for a benefit concert, I know, but I did not have $100 at the time. I sat behind the band on Taylor's side.
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QuoteHairball Yes pmk, the Forum has been fixed up and rather nicely I might add. Like you, I saw many concerts there back in the day, but not dating as far back as you. From the mid-late '70's on, the Fabulous Forum was home to some of the best concerts I've ever seen. The ARMS Benefit in 1983 ranks close to the top (Clapton, Beck, Page, et al), but there were many others that
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EC at The Forum. That touches home. I grew up in the immediate vicinity of the Forum and saw many shows there, many without a ticket. Local knowledge. Saw him with Blind Faith there way back when. I doubt if they played more than 8 songs, but they played the cr*p out of them. And, yes, there was a drum solo. Saw the Stones there in '69, '72 & '73. I read the place was f
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QuoteHankM Ron Glass was also in a great in his role as Shepard Book in the short lived sci-fi series called Firefly and Rest in Peace Mr Glass His passing precludes any chance we will ever learn Shepard Book's back story. Something was going on with his character that the show never got to get to. If you have not watched Firefly, look it up. Watch the episodes in order and enjoy.
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The Beatles was the right band to spearhead the British Invasion to a nation traumatized just three months before. Like Arnold Palmer was the right golfer to bring the sport to the TV age. It was a fit of talent, personality and timing. For example, the Stones was not that band. Their first go around in the States was not nearly as successful.
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I remember the shock, horror and grief of the assassination and the joy of seeing the Beatles on the Sullivan show. But it was many years later that I realized that those two events were just three months apart. It's all in the timing. That band was the right band at the right time. They brought a fun breath of fresh air to a grieving nation. Those songs, those voices, their smart sense
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Some time ago now I saw Levon Helm and his band at a small club east of Sacramento. They did a version of Wang Dang Doodle that knocked my socks off. How many version of that song have you heard and by how many bands? Why was this one a revelation? Levon got the tempo just right. It made me realize why the blues/boogie numbers like this back in the day were so popular with kids and so danger
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It was late 1960 when my family took that trip down Route 66 and moved from Chicago to LA. So, it would have been the season of 1961 when I discovered the Dodgers and, of course, Vin Scully. To my list of baseball heroes (including Ernie Banks) I added Sandy Koufax. Later when I moved from LA I listened to Dodger games on my computer to get Vin's call. I even got to pay my respects to him
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