I'm a flea-bit monkey, all my friends are junkies As for the line from "Rocks Off," I always thought the line was, "The sunshine froze the daylights out of me." Clearly, that's not the case, but I always felt "froze" made it a better line.
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As long as something is a business, as the music industry most certainly is, there will always be people attempting to make money from it. A lot of cash was made off Elvis, the Beatles and the like - and it wasn't necessarily made by the artists. The musicians that arose in the late 60s during the peace, bells and hare krishna era - the Woodstock Generation - had almost an aversion to cas
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The winter weather here in the eastern U.S. made me recall the No Security Tour, a Stones tour so different than the ones we've seen in America over the last couple of decades. It was indoor arenas in the winter instead of outdoor coliseums in the summer/fall, and while it was lacking the intimacy of a club tour, it was still better than sitting amongst 50,000 or 60,000, fighting traffic, e
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Seems like the "Bridges" Appreciation Society - but I couldn't agree more. I'm not a fan of "Flip the Switch," but if I skip that track from the get-go I can sit back and enjoy the best Stones album since "Undercover." I love the experiments, unlike ABB which sounds like the Stones trying to sound like the Stones. "Control" is the highlight, b
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The Stones album recorded at the Spectrum in Philly in July '72. I know it wasn't released because of the differences with Allen Klein. But did it ever have a working title? I had always heard it was to be called "Exile on Broad Street" (the street on which the Spectrum resided.
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