QuoteDandelionPowderman I'm sure you can manage a few more, kleerie. Will get you in wonderful shape before the tour and I try and I try and I try ....
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QuoteDandelionPowderman Ronnie's steel guitar playing on Far Away Eyes, and the unbelievably gentle and subtle stuff he does on Beast Of Burden should make his long time critics do 10 push ups every time they say he can't play Actually I do 10 push ups every day, in fact even 11 when I feel like it. Believe me, it keeps you fit.
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QuoteDandelionPowderman Quotekleermaker QuoteDandelionPowderman Should have been named "New York"... Spot on Dandy, and it reflects my feelings of the album accurately. SG is musical fast food: it tastes well for a short period of time and then one's stomach starts to protest You have to know that I loved the album during the first weeks, maybe even months! But after that tim
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QuoteDandelionPowderman Should have been named "New York"... Spot on Dandy, and it reflects my feelings of the album accurately. SG is musical fast food: it tastes well for a short period of time and then one's stomach starts to protest You have to know that I loved the album during the first weeks, maybe even months! But after that time my appreciation went downhill. Well, B
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QuoteDandelionPowderman It's good Well, that seems to be democratically decided then. I think I'm an oldfashioned elitist, because I'm not part of the masses that seem to decide if something is good or not.
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QuoteDandelionPowderman If you don't like funk or country I get you, kleermaker. If you do, I don't know what to say. Remember, there is a reason why 8 million people bought this album... What reason?
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QuoteDandelionPowderman Quoteslew Dandelion - I think SG has more than four outstanding songs. Miss You, When the Whip Comes Down, Just My Imagination (I LOVE their take of this song!!!), Far Away Eyes, Before They Make Me Run, Beast of Burden and Shattered are all outstanding in my opinion. The only clunker is Lies. I agree that all the songs you mention are great, but I would include Lies a
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Quote71Tele Quotekleermaker Quote71Tele Quotekleermaker Quote71Tele Quotegimmelittledrink Plus, what's the point of creating watered-down disco/punk? To show the Stones were still relevant? If you make really great music, it doesn't matter if it's in vogue or not - eventually it will be recognized for what it is. I remember when punk supplanted disco and Mick said something to
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Quote71Tele Quotekleermaker Quote71Tele Quotegimmelittledrink Plus, what's the point of creating watered-down disco/punk? To show the Stones were still relevant? If you make really great music, it doesn't matter if it's in vogue or not - eventually it will be recognized for what it is. I remember when punk supplanted disco and Mick said something to the effect, "Hey, we&#
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Quote71Tele Quotegimmelittledrink Plus, what's the point of creating watered-down disco/punk? To show the Stones were still relevant? If you make really great music, it doesn't matter if it's in vogue or not - eventually it will be recognized for what it is. I remember when punk supplanted disco and Mick said something to the effect, "Hey, we're the orignal punk rock
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Quotegimmelittledrink Their really great music is timeless, not trendy. Exactly. And SG is pre-eminently trendy music. Like gimmelittledrink rightly said: "they showed they could put their own stamp on current musical trends (disco and punk)." We all know what happened to disco and punk. Those music styles haven't survived and couldn't stand the test of time. You may find SG
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Well Doxa, for me the 82 tour was formally indeed a goodbye tour (actually the 76 was). But nonetheless I have bought all their new albums after 1982, so don't say (after having made that wrong 'observation') that you think I'm not a true Stones fan. I have them all, Dirty Work, Steel Wheels, A Bigger Bang, Voodoo Lounge, Bridges to Babylon, Emotional Rescue, Exile Bonus CD, U
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<(By the way: I have made the observation that the people who are so fond of, and committed to, the one and only "golden era" Stones, or Taylor years, seem to have difficulties appriciate not only "punky", post-Taylor, neo-era STones, but also pre-golden, pre-Taylor-era Stones. I take that attitude a bit too narrow to appreciate the musical vocabulary of the Stones in its t
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Doxa, you certainly can write, but it seems to me that you don't understand anything I've said so far at all. We're talking from totally different points of view. You're constantly mentioning terms like "career-saving relaese", "made the band quite irrelevant to recent scene", "did not gather much new listeners", "the Stones were totally irre
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Tele, a serious (not ironically meant) question to you: Do you understand anything of the comments of Edward, pmk251, gimmelittledrink and myself? Can you imagine that we don't consider this album as "the new Beggars Banquet", like Doxa does, but as "musical fluff" as pmk251 called it, or "bubble gum music" as gimmelittledrink qualified it?
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Quotepmk251 I understand the appeal of SG. It is an imminently accessible record. And after the previous band releases anything that had some focus was welcome. But it is a record without secrets. You "get it" right away and when you tire of it you are done with it. It's musical fluff. It gave rise to two concert lowpoints for me: Miss You and Imagination. The latter song is
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Well, one remark must be made: Some Girls is absolutely not the Rolling Stones back to basics. It's much rather the contrary.
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I won't spoil all the fun here. Just some questions to Doxa and Tele. Doxa, you said: "Let's just say that it is the BEGGARS BANQUET of the 70's - it saved their career and gave them a new life." Could/Would you explain that and what "new life" do you exactly mean? And how long did it last? Any opinions on the title of this album? Tele, you actual
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Unique footage of the Rolling Stones in Hamburg 1970, some concert fragments included:
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Unique footage of the Rolling Stones in Hamburg 1970, some concert fragments included:
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Patti Smith in London, Roundhouse. Concert duration: 1 h. 46 min. Audio quality: very good audience
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Many thanks mtaylor, Pep and Smokey! A first quick impression: both Mannheim and St. Etienne are better than the Manchester concert (which is in excellent audio). Can't say anything about Stockholm because of not being able to download from Dime.
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Quotepepganzo I've got two shows from 1975. They are brilliant. 1975-04-30 St Etienne France 1975-05-05 Rosengarten Mannheim WestGermany Do they have a decent audio quality, because the Göteborg one is unlistenable?
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Quotepepganzo Quotekleermaker And here is Taylor with Jack Bruce at The Old Grey Whistle Test in June 1975. The best audio (from the album) is combined with the already existing video from this gig. The audio quality is now top notch. A gig to remember! The setlist is as follows: 1. 00:20 Can You Follow; 2. 02:15 Morning Story; 3. 07:35 Keep It Down; 4. 13:00 Pieces Of Mind; 5. 19:05 One; 6
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QuoteLuxuryStones The JB/MT band always toured with a drummer, the entire band, Kleer. I saw them at the pinkpop festival in '75, I remember it as a great performance. If you want to read some details I can recommend "Jack Bruce, composing himself". A very interesting, funny read, and some details about the collaboration between Mick Taylor, the other members, and of course the lea
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QuoteDandelionPowderman QuoteLuxuryStones The JB/MT band always toured with a drummer, the entire band, Kleer. I saw them at the pinkpop festival in '75, I remember it as a great performance. If you want to read some details I can recommend "Jack Bruce, composing himself". A very interesting, funny read, and some details about the collaboration between Mick Taylor, the other member
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QuoteDandelionPowderman Quotekleermaker QuoteDandelionPowderman Was he a full band member or hired, kleerie? As far as I know they were all full band members. Bruce (Jack) told about his wish to write songs with Taylor and Bley as a songwriting team during that OGWT-interview with him and Taylor that took place after the European and UK tour. Looks like a band thing to me and thus full membersh
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Here is the best audio from the album of this gig (The Jack Bruce Band with Mick Taylor at The Old Grey Whistle Test in 1975) combined with the already existing video. A great combination. The setlist is as follows: 1. 00:20 Can You Follow; 2. 02:15 Morning Story; 3. 07:35 Keep It Down; 4. 13:00 Pieces Of Mind; 5. 19:05 One; 6. 25:40 Spirit; 7. 33:15 Without A Word; 8. 42:10 Smiles And Grins.
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And here is Taylor with Jack Bruce at The Old Grey Whistle Test in June 1975. The best audio (from the album) is combined with the already existing video from this gig. The audio quality is now top notch. A gig to remember! The setlist is as follows: 1. 00:20 Can You Follow; 2. 02:15 Morning Story; 3. 07:35 Keep It Down; 4. 13:00 Pieces Of Mind; 5. 19:05 One; 6. 25:40 Spirit; 7. 33:15Withou
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QuoteDandelionPowderman Was he a full band member or hired, kleerie? As far as I know they were all full band members. Bruce (Jack) told about his wish to write songs with Taylor and Bley as a songwriting team during that OGWT-interview with him and Taylor that took place after the European and UK tour. Looks like a band thing to me and thus full membership.
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