<Has anyone a strong opinion on Ronnie Wood's history in the band. Do you think he has improved or hindered or kept them the same?> What? You like throwing a match on gasoline? I'll bite, to answer your questions: Yes. I think you will find opinions that run the gambit. From: Woody is a great guitarist and a perfect fit who saved the band. To: Woody is a mediocre guita
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<Oakland 11/6/06 - a fine version on the B stage> I took a peek at this one while I was walking out. Keith hamming it up on Silver and a dismal UMT did it for me. I did not want to fight the crowds to BART just to hear the war horses, particularly SFTD. I haven't been able to get through that one in years. I think Imagination is and always has been a complete guitar bore, a lo
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Saw him and the band perform Pet Sounds in Oakland earlier this year. Yeah, what a big powerful sound and all those grooves! There is a lot going on up there. Wonderful!
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<Yes, it's such a shame that they released that Paris version of YCAGWYW, it's even slaughtered - they edited the song with 4-5 minutes.> And some people think Taylor over played! Good grief! I think Taylor's longest live solo with the band was on one of my fav YCAGWYWs, i.e., Wembley 9/8/73, 1st. No sax solo. It's all Taylor with Jagger's whole hearted approv
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The last (make-up) show of the '99 NS Tour in San Jose. Jagger pointed out that the show was being filmed and the audience roared at the cue. But the performance was miserable in that dishonest, stagey, trying too hard sort of way. It was like a bad porno film with lots of action, but no real passion. I said after that show that that film would never see the light of day. As of this wri
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Yeah..."Ya-Ya's" is my personal favorite as well. I like the slower, sexy, stealthy tempo of the earlier versions. After that the song went frenetic, then bombastic. The live version now with the flashing lights and Jagger's spazz dance is simply cheezy. It's a sure fire concert hit, but it's a very cheap thrill.
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Keith's best? Mmmmm? 11/8/69, 2nd, comes to mind. A strong, classic performance.
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I have strong feelings about that phrase as being more of Keith's self serving band promotion. It implies a timeless richness and texture to the guitar playing that it does not deserve. I view it as an attempt to define the band's sound as being greater than the sum of its parts. It isn't.
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IMO the Tarantura release is superb. They got to the original tapes. I suspect that this new release may be a knockoff of that.
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To paraphrase Bob Dylan when The Basement Tapes were released: "I thought everyone already had it." But it is an interesting question. I too am curious to know how much interest there would be. I'd also be interested in how such a release would be reviewed in the media. The band might be a bit queasy thinking about that.
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When Exile was released a LA radio station played it in full with breaks for the side flips. I was in a busy laundromat racing back and forth to tend to my clothes and catch the next side of the new album. I got scolded by a lady because I was holding things up because I was not going leave my VW Bug's radio until the side was over. If the '69 tour was an ambush, the '72 tour
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2nd Show at the Forum, perhaps someone can confirm this image I have locked in my head: After the long wait the band finally hit the stage and plugged in. To those slower, sexy opening chords of JJF Jagger did a little "warm-up" exercise. As I remember it, he locked his fingers, stretched his arms above his head and gave a hip thrust or two, saying (in body language) "He we go
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I do not mean to hog up this thread, but I keep thinking about that night... The guy next to me lit one up and shared it with me and my date. He was from Downers Grove, IL. The name of the place brings a smile to your face, but I knew it very well. Before we took that trip down Rte. 66 to LA we lived in IL. I had Aunts, an Uncle, Gramps and cousins who lived in Downers Grove. What are the
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I have 2:00 a.m. as a marker in my head, but MCDDTLC is probably correct that the whole second show started around 1:30 a.m. or so. That makes more sense. Cool that you were there too. I enjoy your posts. I had just graduated from Inglewood Hi at the time. Great for me that the band played there. I lived only a couple of miles away. One other impression I had about Keith's playing:
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The Forum, Inglewood, Nov. 8, 2nd show. I sat on the floor, a touch right of center, a little over halfway back. There were four acts, B.B., Ike & Tina and Terry Reid for TWO shows that night. It was a mess. 15,000 going in, then 15,000 trying to leave with another 15,000 waiting to get in. Who knows how many other people were there without tickets? You get the picture. B.B. and Ike &a
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Some years ago now I spoke with Taylor's then manager, Claude, who told me about Taylor being back stage after a London Stones show. He told me Ronnie and Keith were happy to see him. He told me that Ronnie called Taylor afterward and asked why he didn't come to the party or something like that. He said Charlie was Charlie and I only have a sense of what that meant. But he said Jagg
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I love Taylor's playing because I think it's brilliant. I can't stand Ron Wood not because he replaced Taylor but because he is IMO at best a minor, mediocre and very average guitar player. I say at best because I have seen and heard him be absolutely terrible and stand there like a deer in the headlights. He is a guitar player of no consequence, a poser and a sycophant. His jo
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I've heard enough of Taylor on the songs he's previously played live. To the many good other choices I'd add Wild Horses, but a side of me would like to hear Taylor on post-Taylor era songs so people could hear what could have been done with them. Pick some. Any one. But a perverse side of me would really like to hear him on a Some Girls set. The whole album, in fact.
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Enough of the Taylor weight jokes. He has all his hair and does not need to dye it. Oh yeah, he can still play, too.
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There is a soundboard of this show available, but for Taylor fans it is a disappointment. You have to work pretty hard to determine if and what he's playing. But there is one song that stirs my imagination...Beast of Burden. Taylor has an idea and plays a simple little ditty that is audible, that is playful and gives the song some swing. It is the only example that I know of of what Some
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What I do to counter depression after the last Stones show I saw is to put on the Brussels '73 performance of Tumbling Dice; or listen to BB or "Ya-Ya's" or LIV from L&G or ADTL from 7/26/72; or watch the TAMI show from '64 to remind myself why I liked the band.
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The best document from the Brian era that I know of is the TAMI show from Santa Monica in '64. Both the performance and the camera-work is wonderful.
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That footage is...priceless. The sound is wonderful. Again, the question (like the many partial soundboards from that era) where's the rest of it?
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I was thinking about the comment that Wyman was a bigger loss to the band than Taylor...it might be true. As good as he was (is) Taylor was not irreplaceable. It's just that for many of us Ronnie was not the guy. Wyman on the other hand...Yeah...he's sorely missed.
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During one of the Seattle '72 shows Keith's brain jumps a track during MR and he clearly plays a few bars from CYHMK. As I recall there is an equipment glitch and the song breaks down before resuming, then he plays it. Taylor frequently uses the song like a jazz musician as a vehicle for the members of his band to take solos. Those versions are long and rambling and you have to wai
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I'm not sure how I would have reacted to the movie if I'd seen it back in the '70's, but I first saw it much later in life and I thought the scene around the band was vaguely creepy and depressing. I recall a scene in the movie where Jagger (I think with Taylor) is being driven around in the middle of nowhere and Jagger says something to the effect "at least we are away
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Sitting in the last row of a stadium I felt Jones' bass thumping in my chest last November and I can't say that I thought he added much interest to the band's sound or the drive of the songs. I do not have the vocabulary to describe Wyman's playing other than to say his playing was so appropriate, his choices impeccable. He knew when to play, when not to play, when to stay i
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According to Wyman in 1969 the band was broke. It hadn't toured in three years. The '69 tour was the most important tour of its career. It was backing a masterpiece album released the year before. The tour would introduce another yet to be released masterpiece. It had a new lead guitarist who had previously only played one show with it. According to Nico's site it rehearsed f
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Yes, that is a better recording than I remember and Taylor does have "live fingers" that show. It is a blistering GS, indeed.
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The Pittsburgh soundboard is notable for the almost complete separation of the guitars in the left and right channels. It is perfect for you guitar players who want to tune out Taylor and play along with Keith; or vice versa. I also call this recording "Stones 101" because it is so instructional about what each guitar is playing. There are so many variations boot-wise for the Phill
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