Happy birthday, Keith...thanks for rocking my world.
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My whole family sat in our living room around the stereo waiting for WLUP in Chicago to play the whole Emotional Rescue album the day it was released. We had always liked the Stones, but they became #1 after Some Girls. I'll never forget hearing She's So Cold for the first time. An amazing riff with great tone and delay. Charlie's perfect use of a Chinese cymbal, Bill's bum bu
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I was listening to WXRT in Chicago today. A song ended and the DJ started talking, "Bobby Keys, the..." and I knew what was coming. Immediately my heart sank. I only wish he could have read these tributes before he left us. Thanks, Bobby, for all the magic.
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Thank you for thousands of hours of enjoyment, Mick! Happy birthday, and many more.
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I noticed it and prefer the original two-times. I'm guessing Mick cut to the chorus early in rehearsals a couple tours back and nobody spoke up about it and they just kept playing that way.
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QuoteMunichhilton I like Bill's work on Rip This Joint and All Down The Line Bill Plummer plays upright bass on Rip This Joint, not Bill Wyman. So once again a non-Wyman song has a likable bass part.
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Wow. For 34 years I was mistaken. I thought Shattered was a classic, fun high energy rock song, with smart, witty, current-event lyrics, awesome drum sounds and drumming, cool Mick vocals, great Keith and Ron backing vocals, hand claps, audible ghost vocals from the guide track (for those of us who listen for that), and a one-of-a-kind guitar solo. Thank God for all these comments on this Stones
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Farthest: From Chicago to LaS Vegas - 1,751 miles November 18, 2005. Most adventerous, Champaign, Illinois to Pontiac, Michigan November 30, 1981. 5 guys left campus and we picked up 2 girls at Purdue University and 7 of us drove to Pontiac, Michigan in one car. We drove back to Champaign after the show. 401 miles each way. My first Stones concert. Closest: Double Door in Chicago. 3.2 mile
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Here is my favorite Stevie Ray Vaughan song although it's actually The Vaughan Brothers with his brother, Jimmy. Released after SRV died. I saw the show the night before he died and we watched helicopters leave that night after the show and we were commenting on how we would never go up in one in that fog. They did again the next night and we lost Stevie Ray. Even if you don't like him,
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Quotetheimposter Pardon me MadMax, I thought I was pretty up on my British slang, but can you tell me what "footy on telly" means? I realize telly is television - but footy? Either way I imagine I have already experienced it. Great song, to stay on topic. Too bad they never gave it a go at any of the theater or club shows from the last 15 years. "I'm getting bored when th
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Prodigal Son is Open E tuning EBEG#Be, or to put less stress on the guitar, use open D tuning DADF#Ad with a capo on the 2nd fret.
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I was invited to The Eagles concert at Soldier Field in Chicago 3 weeks ago. The entire west side upper deck was empty and covered with tarps. The stadium was only 2/3 full and they only played one show in Chicago. They have more album sales in the U.S. than the Stones. $225 ticket prices and $8 beers are getting old to watch a giant screen TV because that's the best view of the band. I h
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Already Over Me Always Suffering Anyway You Look At It Back To Zero DIRTY WORK FIGHT Hold Back Low Down So many great unreleased tracks and they somehow found these to be Stones-worthy.
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Quoteaudun-eg QuoteNickB I have to agree with you Audun on the Rocks Off intro riff. If I remember correctly on live licks it sounds as though it's in standard tuning. This guy's got it. Not perfect of course, but... Standard tuning anyway. Right notes, but he should be playing the B5 Chord at the 7th fret, 6th string, no need to play it way down at the second fret when you'
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Quotesaulsurvivor He plays eighth notes in bursts on the kick in the songs originally mentioned in this post. He also does that live on occasion, especially the last two tours. (See JJF at the Olympia and Street Fighting Man at Twickenham and a plethora of other examples from the ABB tour.) Charlie is my favorite rock and roll drummer of all time. I've been playing drums for over 30 years
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Mick's backing vocals make the song! (I don't hear Keith.)
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In high school I heard the Some Girls album at a party and Charlie's double time kick drumming on Respectable, Lies, and When The Whip Comes Down and stopped me in my tracks. He used this again on Summer Romance and Where The Boys Go. Has there been a discussion about Charlie's drumming on these particular tracks? Do any of you connect with these 5 songs through Charlie's kick dru
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I have been a huge Stones fan for over 30 years and have 6,000 Stones songs on my iPod. I have never bought an AC/DC album (I have 5 AC/DC songs), but I read this entire thread and the AC/DC side is winning the argument about popularity. The top selling iTunes Stones songs are all on Hot Rocks, released on December 20, 1971. If the Stones broke up within a year of the Beatles, their iTunes top 24
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Wow, great quality sound on these. Thanks, Urbansteel! Even on my little laptop speakers I can hear Charlie's double time kick drum during the chorus in Summer Romance.
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QuoteFoolToCry have a look - maybe it´s the version you are looking for? Does anyone know what boot this youtube version is on?
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Let It Loose (Or as my roommate in college thought "Betty's Lou's letting it all come down")
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To get back to the original question, NASCAR fans in the USA are as fanatical as Stones are fans around the world. Michigan Int'l Speedway has sold out 300,000 seats, 4 times a year, going back many years. The last race in June had about 120,000 people. That drop is directly related to gas prices. Even thousands who had bought (expensive) tickets opted to stay home instead of burning up expe
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Can't You Hear Me Knocking intro. (I made a 20 second mp3 if anyone wants it emailed.)
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It's great that your passing your love of the Stones down to your daughter! There are some mean-spirited people on iorr these days. Ouch.
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I had heard of the album, but couldn't find the album in 1980 while in college. I climbed through dorm room window to borrow it from a guy I heard had it, who was away for the weekend. I taped it onto a cassette and listened to it, stunned that it was the Stones. I had heard Fool to Cry of course, but that was it. Memory Motel was what grabbed me after the first couple listens and I played i
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This is my favorite unreleased Stones tune. It makes you wonder if songwriting credit is a reason some of these great songs remain unreleased. Short of that, it boggles the mind how Mick and Keith released Indian Girl and Down In The Hole but not Misty Roads.
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Mick did a great job of saving ATPTB with Amy forgetting words and singing in her own key. Despite all the criticism he gets lately, Mick is definitely a pro.
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I Am Waiting Casino Boogie I Don't Know Why Talkin' About You No Use In Crying
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I see my neighbors who are in their mid-60's and they are pretty boring. If the Stones were my neighbors, I'd look incredibly boring and I'm nowhere near 60.
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