That would be a gas, to see the six Stones (Mick, Keith, Bill, Brian, Charlie, Stu) playing Richmond or anywhere they were on stage a couple hours banging away on Bo Diddley covers and Jimmy Reed.
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We'll be lucky to get Mick and Keith in a room for two weeks to write songs. Then they'll bang it out in the studio and maybe we'll get a decent song or two and the rest will be as forgettable as the last 3 albums. At least that's been the trend. It wouldn't do any good to have Bill be on a cut unless he was there, with Keith, with Charlie, through the whole process. That
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The Stones themselves have been selling ESTABLISHED 1962 for many years now. I like the Beatles comparison too. Were they not the Beatles with Pete Best? It's probably best to stick with July '62.
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Quotevermontoffender I do find it odd that so many people who have followed the band since '94 seem to hate it so much.... I don't hate the current incarnation of the Stones. I love them live. I overlook the bass now instead of focusing on it and enjoying it. It's the studio, where subtlety is needed, that I miss Bill the most. For a stone faced, stand in one place, Buster Keaton
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QuoteNaturalust Quote24FPS Excepting Charlie, you can tell the greatness of a Stone by how much Keith tries to diminish them. why that's rather nasty 24FPS, maybe true when he was addicted and insecure but now that he is less addicted and indifferent I'll bet his relationships to the band have matured a bit. peace. With all respect I am referring to the current day Keith. He trashed
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Videotape can be absolutely brilliant if you've got a good master and good restoration. All the Ed Sullivan stuff is videotape. I recently saw the very first videotape presentation on American broadcast television, a 1958 variety special with Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra. The images were so sharp they nearly popped off the screen.
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Quotejjsteve stones should have stopped when wyman retired. I think that's taking it a bit far. Can you imagine the headline, STONES QUIT BECAUSE BASS PLAYER SPLITS? And they didn't ask him to leave, in fact they tried tenaciously to get him to change his mind. For all we know they might have put out overtures to him for a few years after he left. They had to shoulder on. I remember
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I tend to agree with Crumbling Mice and BillWebster that they might have subordinates peek in from time to time. Think of Comic-Con. I don't know if Europeans in general are aware of Comic-Con, a yearly convention in San Diego that started small with true comic book geeks and grew into a huge multi-media event. Now it is a vehicle to test and preview new superhero and science fiction related
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I'm just LMAO at Keith's gut in the Brown Sugar rehearsal. Time to lay off the Shepherd pies.
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So.........the UK still had prime time programming in black and white by late 1968? Anyone know the date of the broadcast? Last live TV appearance (or was it pre-taped?) of Brian Jones? Yes, thank you for uploading it.
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I know the other Stones would comment on his wicked humor. Would love to know what he really thought of certain people.
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They should have called it Mick Jagger, with just the fastest glimpse from a far distance of some guys he hangs out with.
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Excepting Charlie, you can tell the greatness of a Stone by how much Keith tries to diminish them.
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I still think Mick's impressions over the years would be interesting. Just wouldn't expect it to be minute to minute history of the Stones. I really enjoy him being interviewed, but I'm not sure he enjoys it. Maybe someday, but without all the hype that he'd be revealing the dirt on people.
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QuoteStoneage I remember Bob Dylan saying that the Stones are a funkband now without Bill. Very true, his bassplaying was a key component in the mix. And he was very easyspoken and down to earth. Really the opposite to Mick in that sence. To be honest, I don't quite get what Bob is talking about. Check out Hampton '81 and tell me who is the funkiest bass player on earth? I think what
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It's a freakin' 50-year-old band. It's just about impossible to compress all that into one period. I love James Phelge's book about the early days. I love Stone Alone about that period. Do the last 20 years really warrant a book? The Stones aren't making new inroads so much anymore as celebrating the past. Which is fine. Bill German's book is about a time and place t
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I think he sort of filled that Ringo part in the beginning. He wasn't as glamorous or as good looking as the others and therefore people felt they could identify with him more. Of course this is nonsense. He's as complex, maybe more so, than the others in the group. He had piano lessons when young. He was an electrical enthusiast who built his own amps and reshaped a bass and tore its f
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Concerning internal TV feed -I am not sure about the mid-70's, but since the early 80's many stadiums have this facility, but it always is requiered to be switched off when the Stones (and any other band for that matter) due to copy and publishing rights. Mathijs That may not always be the case. Springsteen opened the Staples Center in L.A. in 1999. A little ways into the concert
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QuoteMathijs Quote24FPS Paris 76 should be doable, but LA 75 is trickier. We've pretty much agreed that LA 75 is from the internal TV feed at the LA Forum Sure not. There was no internal TV feed at the time, and the film was shot for the Stones own use and possible release. Mathijs I'm only going by a rather recent thread (I can never find old threads) where some one stated th
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QuoteStoneage So, after four pages: What is the consensus? Indian Girl is a great Stones classic? It seems pretty split to me. Some people don't even seem to understand the song. And some people just legitimately don't care for it.
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QuoteFather Ted Quotemrfancyman And next year the special Tattoo You box with upgraded Hampton 1981 as supporting DVD/CD release. Well, it looks as if there comes no end in this dream. Mr. Fancyman Now you're talking...and then a remastered LA 1975 and Paris 76. Paris 76 should be doable, but LA 75 is trickier. We've pretty much agreed that LA 75 is from the internal TV feed at
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For me all of their eras have validity. The earliest Stones are great. The Mick Taylor years are great. Even the early Ron Wood years are good. They petered out for me in the studio when Wyman retired, but they are still a great live group.
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Quotebarbabang I have a question about the SNL dvd's. Are the SNL season dvd's with the music as it was played in those episodes? I heard that that the dvd's on sale now don't contain the music anymore. If it does I would certainly buy it. You would certainly buy the DVDs if they didn't contain the music anymore? Or you would buy separate DVDs with just the music on
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I guess we all have our own ears. I love the lyrics to Winning Ugly. It's a great sports song that could have been used at events if they'd bothered to work on it more. I think that's why SOME people view the Undercover album as a failure outright, while SOME view Dirty Work as a failure to come together and make a coherent product.
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QuoteRolling Hansie Quote24FPS Their worst live television appearance ever. Very helpful answer for mrrockandroll Thank you, with deep appreciation and sincerity.
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God. Brian seems so normal there, with his head on straight.
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QuoteWilliamPatrickMaynard Agreed about health issues related to obesity. I see some extra weight carried around in the photos, I'm not seeing her as obese or even close to it. Is the presence of any body fat the new definition of the word? I was also thinking about some people I know, relatives and friends, who were obese and suffered the last few years of their lives. And the ones who ar
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QuoteStoneage Start me up. Because it's their freshest hit (only 30 years old...). But if they play it exactly the uninspired way the have played it the last five tours they can leave that one too! Does that include 'No Security'? My absolute favorite rendition of Start Me Up was in '99. Keith played the first three chords and then just stood there for a while as the audienc
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People think you're being mean when you have a negative reaction to obesity. Sometimes it can be because you remember how physically beautiful they might have been and you truly miss that. That being said, it's also a matter of health. Diabetes, rapid aging and lack of mobility are serious matters. You don't look at Mick Taylor, stuffed into some old overcoat, and think, "He&#
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Their worst live television appearance ever.
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