Mick's voice is not going to magically revert to 1968. Some people, and you know who you are, do nothing but bitch about how his voice is nasal and mannered. I don't hear it, but you must have incredible ears. I just heard the updated Plundered My Soul and Sophia Loren and they were magnificient. The only jarring thing is the female background singers, which they never used in the old d
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Quoteshortfatfanny thank you for posting dead.flowers...here´s another one,didn´t want to open another dirty thread... Talk about polishing a turd. Dirty Work ended up being their second worst album of the 80s, eclipsed in infamy only by Undercover.
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Quotejimbean I'd imagine the Beatles 1969 concert setlist as: 1. I Got a Feeling 2. Dizzy Miss Lizzy 3. Back in the USSR 4. While My Guitar Gently Weeps 5. Yer Blues 6. Lady Madonna 7. Don't Pass Me By 8. Don't Let Me Down 9. Oh Darling 10 Old Brown Shoe 11 Help 12 Golden Slumbers/The End ENCORE: I'm Down That set sounds a little more realistic. The first prop
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Quotedcba "How Did Keith Kick Heroin?" He didn't, he did what a lot of junkies do : he replaced the big H with alcohol and blow. In the case of Keith it's giant amounts of alcohol and blow. I thought he was already doing a lot of coke. It looks like he really kicked up the alcohol. It looks like cigarettes and booze is what's caused the weathering on his face.
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QuoteStonesTod QuoteHillside Blues QuoteStonesTod any predictions on what will be on the 2058 new stones album? I hear Fiji Jim will be included on that one. let's see now...jagger will be 115 then...hope his overdubs don't ruin it.... I hope he's extremely nasal and mannered.
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He first got some major help in the States? (See Respectable) Then it seemed he was on the right track to quit for good. Anyone who has quit cigarettes knows the routine. You quit a few times, sometimes for a long stretch or two, relapse, and then you're finally fed up or weakened the habit enough to finally kick it. Only Keith Richards could be seen as relatively clean after he quit junk
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So, there were only 2 singles, not 3 as anticipated. The Album cover he held up didn't have the same titling as the final product. And his head was bookended by dicks.
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The first concrete news. Now, let's see how many pages this spins into.
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It was/was not Brian's band. Mick can/can't still sing and is/isn't nasally and is/isn't mannered vocally. Keith is a creep/great guy. Ronnie is the best guitarist the Stones ever had/hasn't played for shite since 1982. Mick Taylor is the greatest, or at least one of, the guitarists the Stones ever had. Charlie has lost a step/is out honing his chops on the jazz circuit.
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Someone has found the '68 NME footage? I thought it didn't exist.
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QuoteCome On Mick Jagger was No.1. Rock-voice 1964, No 2 1965 (after Dylan) and then No 1 again till you heard the sweet voice of Neil Young...I guess his sinking on the list after 1973....<<< Really? All downhill since 1973? So who's been the number one rock voice all these years?
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Maybe Bill & Brian were brothers in misery against the Mick/Keith/Andrew machine. Charlie didn't seem to gravitate towards either camp, though his situation had more in common with Bill's. It seemed like Wyman & Watts hung out a lot together on the road.
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I remember something from a large, paperback type book from 1972 that pretty much had the back story of the Stones to that point. In it there was a claim that Mick's distinctive voice came from an accident on a jungle gym when he was a kid. He supposedly bit the tip of his tongue off and that contributed to his unique sound. An old story from a long time ago.
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It's sad all around. Michael Jackson was hounded off the American stages in the 90s when the first trouble with pedophilia accusations happened. He never appeared in America again, live. I remember coming to Europe sometime in the late 90s and I was shocked at his popularity there. I thought, "So.........they don't care about sexual child abuse here?" I was more than a little
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I love Mick's mannerisms, now and then. The nasal quality to his voice gets better with time. Mick's voice has never had the vulnerability/emotional power of a John Lennon. I think there's always been a slightly distant/pop singer quality to Mick's voice. Mick has always sounded in control. Mick never seems personally involved in a musical performance, or overwhelmed emoti
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Brian might have gotten closer to Bill as the others pulled away from him. James Phelge's book has Brian playing around with Bill's bass, with the idea of replacing him and turning the Stones into a quartet after Brian saw the popularity of the Beatles. Brian seemed to piss on everybody eventually. We don't know what Brian said or thought about the others. Charlie seemed to intimat
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Here it is. Kind of 'I Go Wild' sort of? Another throwaway that breaks no ground. I'm not even sure Wyman's slinky, enveloping, warm, melodic lines could have saved this.
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Nobody mentioned 'You Got Me Rocking'? Pretty successful song, as it's the last song since Start Me Up to achieve a sort of warhorse status, being played on practically every tour since '94. It's even opened a few along the way. But really, there's some entertaining stuff on the album, but it's a shameful attempt to sound like the Stones. I really enjoy the lyri
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Steel Wheels is their last great album, with only a couple clunkers. No, it didn't save the band. They lost Bill and they were never the same again in the studio.
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Please. Taylor was there for the absolute pinnacle of the band. It's just that we've learned to appreciate those first few years of Ronnie's involvement. It's not like Ronnie has lifted the band to new heights in the last 20 years. We'll never know how Taylor would have handled the left turn the band took into reggae and disco. It's not like he was a musical stiff. H
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Band of Gypsys was the first live album I loved. (It's still my favorite). But yeah, all the compositions on BOG were new. How odd, looking back. I can't think of another live album where all the tracks were new. I've heard studio versions of some of those songs and they're not as good as the live cuts. GYYYO blew my mind, it was so good, and probably the first time I heard, a
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An astute businessman, Mick has realized now is the time to rob the vaults while the group still has the broadest fan base. Things that looked inferior are looking great in retrospect. Remember they didn't release Rock and Roll Circus in its day, and let the footage rot in somebody's barn. And that had John Lennon, Eric Clapton, Keith & Mitch Mitchell performing a Beatles song! I
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What a great find. 1975 seems to be the mystery tour, where there doesn't seem to be a lot of useable footage. If they an updated '25 X 5' type documentary, they need stuff like this to include. Fans don't care if it's just snippets. Actually I'm hoping that there's some unearthed '75 concert footage, or they magically figure out how to upgrade the L.A. For
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It's great to see the passion some people have for the band, which I share. Sure, some of it is repetitive and silly, but it's a small price to pay to participate in this forum with some real fans.
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It's not hatred for Robert Cray, it's indifference. You shake your head and think, 'How can white people play better blues than this guy'? It's like the conundrum of Bill Wyman being a more soulful bass player for the Stones than Darryl Jones. George Benson was super smooth too, but he could turn on some emotion. Robert Cray, as technically good as he is, lacks depth. Onc
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QuoteJustin Quote24FPSI live near Hollywood Boulevard and Highland, near Grauman's Chinese Theatre. I've always said that if I lived closed to Amoeba Records...I'd be there almost every day....is that the case with you or do you try to stop yourself from going all the time? I used to go there all the time, but I've acquired so much that there's not a lot I need. I
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QuoteGlam Descendant Ashby also directed HAMPTON '81. That's the one that should have been released. I watched LSTNT in a theater in 82 and found myself dozing off. Ever since I acquired Hampton '81 I watch it all the time. Something tells me the same will be true of Stones 'At The Max' when I get a hold of Atlantic City '89.
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This has become inevitable. For years the record companies issued very few CD singles, and removed them from the market ASAP. They made it impossible to get the one decent track on a $12.99 CD. (Much more in Europe). At least an entity like Virgin records had listening posts where you could sample a CD. And, to be honest, I haven't bought a CD of new material that had some kind of coherency
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Wow, I sure hope Mick recovers the voice he hasn't had in 40 years some time soon, or............................he'll only be the current fantastic performer that he is today. The more nasal the better. And you can't over pronounce enough for me. Mick Jagger, 2011, this year's model rules.
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QuoteTippyToe I'm thinking maybe Mick told Keith at their meeting last month that he would have to get his chops together if he wants the Stones to tour next year? Oh sure, Mick would tell Keith to get his chops together if he wants to tour next year with the Stones. I'm sure that's how Mick talks to Keith.
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