I'll take J. Geils over a lot of people already in. Full House is one of my top five greatest Live albums ever made.
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Quote71Tele Quote24FPS The point about the Anne Frank House is that it was/is in a quiet, normal neighborhood. And one day Nazis burst in and took the family away to die. It's not supposed to have flashing lights and a gift shop. (Save that for Dachau). I somehow missed the gift shop at Dachau. That's my dark humor. I consider the place to be a sacred. I was taking a bus there with
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The Beach Boys 50th Anniversary tour is bogus. It should have been this year. They recorded the record 'Surfin'' in October of 1961. Brian Wilson is quoted as saying, "When the Beach Boys got going in 1961...." It seems like they screwed up 2011 and now they're horning in on the Stones having 2012 to themselves.
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You can tell they didn't have the desire to push this project as much as they did Exile. No one showed up on Jimmy Fallon in the States to promote it. It seems like all the big promotions are being stored up for the 50th Anniversary Tour and whatever goes with that. Sales of the Some Girls CD may suffer for that.
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The point about the Anne Frank House is that it was/is in a quiet, normal neighborhood. And one day Nazis burst in and took the family away to die. It's not supposed to have flashing lights and a gift shop. (Save that for Dachau).
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"He just did the right things in the right spaces." Finally, a perfect description of Bill Wyman's contribution to the Rolling Stones. It sounds so simple. Obviously it isn't.
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QuoteAmsterdamned The most annoying thing to me are the f*cking tourists that are too stupid to take the sidewalk (yes I know, they are a bit small) strolling in the middle of the streets taking silly pictures that have been taken a zillion times before. Where is the AF house? Where is the van Gogh museum?? Where is the RL district??? My advice to all tourists: buy a nice DVD about Amsterdam. Sta
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I never went there for the weed/hash exclusively, but it didn't hurt. And it created an atmosphere of Adult freedom. I'm sure the French & Belgians fighting in the streets of Limburg aren't getting high and doing that. It's alcohol that makes those a-holes infest the Red Light District in packs, tapping on working girl's windows with their rings, and blathering idioti
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After a long, respected reputation as a guardian of personal freedom, it looks like Holland will finally ban foreigners from buying pot in coffee shops, starting in the Southern provinces in 2012, and making it to Amsterdam by early 2013. Some people think allowing pot is a slippery slope to harder drug use. I contend that allowing the Dutch government to take these steps is a slippery slope of m
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I don't remember Keith wearing whatever a German Mother's Cross is, but I remember Brian wearing what we called a Surfer's Cross in the mid-60s. It was some kind of Nazi medal and my school principal, who spent time in Stalag 17, did not like the trend.
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The Anaheim stop on the No Security Tour was killer. Charlie was on.
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I saw two of the L.A. shows. The first one was the infamous one where Axl bitched about band members doing heroin. It's hard to get good sound in a place like that so I would put my fingers in my ears so I could only hear the notes being played by the guitars. I was quite impressed. They did blow away the Stones that first night. I went to the final night and the crowd was a little mysti
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Now that our greedy little hands have gotten so much this year, with so much more to come, what do you think is next? Exile & Some Girls have been played out now, with both LSTNT & Live in Texas released (along with 'new' songs on reissues). We got Brussels and a handful more of download Google concerts are promised. I think a concert with Brian Jones would be the most start
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The Beatles core had been together 4-5 years before they stepped into a recording studio. The Stones were barely together a year before they did. Although their early efforts are astonishing, there were some clunkers thrown in there. Aftermath is their first assured album, where they were even a little jaded. "Your eyes and your hair, I wore it last year........"
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Love Wyman's bass on this song in '78 and '81.
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Why would this topic have to be banned? Are we not grown ass men and women who can talk about whatever we like? The Stones are an all inclusive act, incorporating different strands of pop music into their base sound for 49 years. What? Are we only supposed to listen to Beggars Banquet through Exile?
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Some people think the Stones suck after Brian. Some think they suck after Mick Taylor. I think they suck after Bill Wyman. In the studio. They still pack a punch live. Jagger can still write lyrics like no one else out there, but the current studio crew has let him down.
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I hope we don't get any crap like 'Don't Stop'. I'd have to go dig out my Forty Licks to even see what those songs were. They left absolutely no impression, except that the Stones couldn't cut it in the studio any more. My guess is they'll half-heartedly put out some single disc of warhorses for the three people who don't have them yet.
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Please, SomeGirlsXX doesn't have to be banned. It's healthy for he/she/it to see that people do not agree with him. I have a feeling, and it's only my opinion, that the poster only likes the very narrow band of Mick from 1968-1974. The Stones were much, much more than a blues rock band. Brian was almost Oscar Wilde in his flamboyance, and just as eclectic in his pop tastes. Call hi
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I would love a communal album, where they play mostly blues and forget those crash-bam-boom drums up front. A warm sound, with Mick Taylor in the mix and Bill Wyman encircling the whole thing. Mick T and Bill wouldn't have to go through the rigors of a tour and the band would be free to play all the warhorses one last time. I cringe thinking of them coming up with some kind of attempt at a s
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Quote71Tele It has always seemed rather perverse to me to remember John on the anniversary of the day he was murdered. I'd rather remember him on his birthday or just any time I hear one of his great songs.
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It really wouldn't matter at this point if Mick Taylor rejoined the Stones. He wouldn't be altering a sound, because the Stones don't really have a sound any longer. There's very little originality in the studio, with most of it being weak retreads of earlier riffs. Although Wood is still with the band, and he did a great job on 'Rough Justice', his contribution kind
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I always dug More Hot Rocks (Big Hits and Fazed Cookies). It introduced me to the band on a deeper level, including songs never really available in the States. It's also the most Brian-centric of the compilations.
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It's an interesting question. We only know Mick Taylor from basically one ear of the Stones sound. A great era, obviously, but before they went into reggae, disco, punk, and a less melodious rock. Of course it would be hard to believe the old Mick Taylor would simply have adapted, and could play just about anything. But who knows what the 2012 model would be like? Some of the later songs req
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QuoteSilver Dagger I've always been a little bit baffled why the Small Faces never made it bigger in America. I guess their cheeky chappy cockney personas were too odd for the American market. While the Stones, Beatles, Yardbirds, Who and Animals launched a thousand soundalikes, I can't think of any US group that tried to emulate The Small Faces. Does anyone know if they were popu
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It made me think, rather sadly, that the Beatles never got to celebrate their own 50th anniversary. That again would be up for argument. Was it 50 years from when John & Paul met, July 1956, when George joined, or when they started calling themselves the Beatles, in 1960 or 1961?
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That website the Stones have is a bit retarded. They didn't even list Bill Wyman as part of the 1963 tour. They list Ian Stewart as a member from 1962-1985. He was only an official member for a year, maybe. I thought Bill didn't quit the group until January of 1993, not 1992. The have a Sample Set List for 1963 without listing any samples. Why post such a thing if it has no info?
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If we're talking audio only, nothing tops Brian on I'm Moving On from December's Children. It is the group at its most powerful and manic.
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Nicky Hopkins plays organ on this, too? Along with Bill? That disappoints me. I always thought it was Bill's greatest bass part ever until I found out Keith played it. (Although it sounds very Bill). Then I found out Bill played organ on it and I figured he did that crazy little jazz coda at the end that I love. So Bill did or didn't play it? Did Nicky play it? It's really good and
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Quotemitchflorida1 QuoteThe Sicilian Quotetonterapi QuoteThe Sicilian Then he insults Mick by saying that he is popular with the men instead of the women. I don't think it was meant as an insult. It's a joke - a typical "young man" joke. Even though Brian said it on TV I promise you that they all said those kind of stuff backstage. I realize the joking part, but not in 1964.
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