The further up front a warhorse is, the better. Jumping Jack Flash is best delivered as an opening. I hate those last couple songs where Satisfaction or Brown Sugar get turned into these speeded up monsters shrilling faster and faster, with little reference to the way the songs really sound. It's more like a message to run now, get to your car and out of the parking lot before the other 60,0
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Quotebig4 It could be considered the last classic Stones country-styled ballad. There's an empathy in Jagger's voice on the song that takes it beyond camp IMHO. Blinded By Love is pure genius.
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Yeah, these lyrics are hilarious. Little Indian girl, where is your mama? Little Indian girl, where is your papa? He's fighting in the war in the streets of Masaya All the children were dead, except for the girl who said "Please Mister Gringo, please find my father" Lesson number one that you learn while you're young Life just goes on and on getting harder and
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What's really called for is something along the lines of 25X5 for the 50th. They've had another 25 years to dig up footage. Of course the last 25 are nowhere near as rich as the first 25.
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Ah, opinions. I thought it was a classic Stones cut when I first heard it, and still do. Maybe the Clash and others were a couple years ahead of reporting on the problems in South America, but the Stones have a bigger megaphone. This is really the thematic predecessor to Undercover of the Night (the song, not the album). I think Indian Girl is wistful and daring, compared to the some of the very
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But, if those releases are relative successes, why would they stop? It's too bad we've already moved beyond the CD boxset. That would have been a great way to gather and sell outtakes, rarities, etc.
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QuoteGazza Amazed that Beggars Banquet is so low. Well, it doesn't have any hit singles (Street Fighting Man was banned in a lot of places). And the group was really moving into new territory that took some time to be appreciated. They didn't tour in 1968 or even make TV appearances (at least not here in the States, their traditional biggest market). I don't even know where, or i
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I have no idea if the Stones were that good or not in 1978, and I saw them! My condition in Cleveland that day left me in no position to be judging them. I remember digging Sweet Little Sixteen. The Cleveland concert was just such a weird vibe. The crowd seemed to like them. Can't wait for the Texas DVD. Hot damn.
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Nice. And it looks like there's a DVD with it.
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Quotetreaclefingers QuoteGazza The most obvious place to go for me regarding archive AUDIO releases would be a series of multi-disc CDs of shows from certain 'classic' eras. It makes me think of the situation with Pearl Jam several years back, where they released every show, if memory serves, from the tour on different, separately released CDs. It would be a boon for fans, just
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Gets my vote.
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However you feel about Lady Gaga, or her brand of music, Alice Cooper was never up in her league. She is a superstar now, and he was an afterthought. Many people consider Lady Gaga Gaga an artist who will keep reinventing herself. As for gender bending, the only gender bending Vicent Furnier did was naming his group 'Alice'. Little Richard, Mick Jagger, had already blurred the line of s
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The rehearsals are far better than the actual performance.
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Fantastic news. Cross your fingers that it sells enough to encourage further releases.
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QuoteCome On The thing with Stones and their covers is that they always did a version that's better than the original... please show me one example where this is not true .. Under the Boardwalk Like A Rolling Stone They seem to do much better with songs that are not that well known and could use a little cleanup.
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Quotesoulsurvivor1 Emulate the Beatles? How do you figure...THe Beatles were playing pure POP at that time & The Stones were playing Blues & Blues based Rock. Soulsurvivor You Can't Always Get What You Want? It has orchestration and swooping vocals. And Satanic Majesties had just been panned as a weak attempt at Sgt. Pepper. The Beatles were also playing some Blues based rock on
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What about Brussels 73? The bass is a little low, but other than that it's a damn good recording.
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Did anybody on this board actually see them on their truncated tour? I meant to catch them at the Wiltern in L.A. and didn't make it. I don't know if they'll ever go out again. Hope they filmed it.
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QuoteNICOS Great raw song ....love it Too bad the Stones TV appearance was shot in color, but no longer exists that way. Wow. That band has always had ears for an obscure song that they could juice up and call their own. I guess Harlem Shuffle was the last good cover. They turned 'She Said Yeah' into hyperpunk. A good 10 years ahead of its time.
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When I first saw them, among the regular rotation of British Invasion acts on the Ed Sullivan show, they didn't particularly stand out. I remember my father's sarcastic comment, calling them 'The Strolling Bones'. They were just another flavor of the month, no better no worse than Freddie and The Dreamers, the Seekers, Gerry & the Pacemakers. I definitely didn't eleva
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Yesterday at L.A. Live there were booths for various vendors. Had Estrella Damm wheat lager. Moniette(?) prosecco. A cold Peroni beer. Ending with various repeated trips to the Citron vodka booth. Today is a little fuzzy.
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What a no-brainer product for the Stones. A complete compilation of their promo videos. I don't know what goodies they have in store for the 50th, but that should be the easiest to do, even if they steered clear of the Klein product. (Which I understand might be blurred now because everything is under the UM umbrella now?)
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I don't know if there was a fondness for the OGWT announcers in the U.K. or not. As an American I found the DVDs to be a pain because you just wanted to see these classic performances and you had to wait and then finally try to fast forward past these people who just nattered on and on before you could see the performers.
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The staging was more impressive farther back. It was a friggin' Rolling Stones mouth with the tongue as an extended stage.
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Mixed Emotions - I was visiting Indianapolis during a humid August, driving a borrowed van with a crappy radio. Then I heard those drums and I instantly knew it was them. Then the bass bubbled of a couple Wyman high notes and I knew the boys were back.
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Revolver came out during a relatively rough patch for the group. The teenybop singles group had expired, to be replaced by the Monkees (fall of '66). Paperback Writer was not a monster hit. They really took an artistic chance on Revolver. But it still took hits to sell a record then, thus Yellow Submarine. Although we can denigrate some of Paul's songs on Revolver now, they were essenti
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I can see it now. Just as we have those who love Undercover and Dirty Work, because that's when they discovered the Stones, we'll have an even younger group who will say, "What's the big deal about Bill? Darryl rocks, man."
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What? It's a hundred degrees in Burbank today. Summer ended?
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Hybrid Cali med, half-sativa, half-indica. Actually I'm taking a 30 day break, but that's the last I smoked.
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Thank you, thank you. I was there. I distinctly remember when Mick picked up that flag that was thrown at him. He didn't know what to do at first and then he twirled it like a cheerleader for a while. I remember all the shoes and clothing that were thrown at him. There was that 'tongue' that jutted out from the stage that he danced on, but I don't remember Keith or Ronnie ever
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