QuoteHis Majesty Sounds very Folk like. I would have thought that a more driving continuous rhythm on Acoustic would be a better fit.
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QuotePalace Revolution 2000 Saying the "and I try" repetitive part is a rip off of Dylan's "Hard Rain" line "and it's a hard.." - is just ridiculous. Rearranging and altering and grabbing bits from other songs goes on all the time. Even Dylan did it. Chuck got his famous Johhny B. Goode intro from Loius Jordan's guitarist, and that and T-Bone W
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I wouldn't compare Mick to Jim, very different. Mick is no John Fogerty or Robert Plant either. Mick has a voice that is very interesting because it's not a great voice in a strict sense and it seems to have 3 different things to it, the different low register (on Ruby Tuesday), the mid register and his falsetto which he should have left to the Bee Gees. Mick is best in the mid
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Quotedrewmaster I know I’m gonna be Exiled from the IORR for writing this, but I gotta be honest, I don’t especially dig Rocks Off. I mean, it’s okay and all, and there are some nice country-blues licks in there, but I certainly don’t get what all the fuss is about. So sue me. The opening riff sounds tentative and mushy, and when Jagger comes in he sounds beaten down and depressed. To be sure
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QuoteHis Majesty I was surprised by the taylortite thing here when I joined. Yeah, I wasn't expecting it either. When I first heard the Stones in the 70s, I heard Satisfaction first and was captured by the riff and then I heard Jumpin' Jack Flash and Brown Sugar, so I eventually bought some old used Stones albums and Sticky Fingers. To me, the 60s has a sound and the earlier St
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QuoteRoss "Paint It Black" had to be inspired by... It does walk up and down the minor scale using the same notes and mostly the same timing until the end where Keith has it resolving to the V7 instead of the bVI (ie Em to B7 instead of Em to C). The Supremes "My World Is Empty Without You" was on the charts a few months before "Paint It Black" was recorded
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If Mick was a total Ahole, he could push Keith off the Brown Sugar credits, as Keith's intro is neither part of the melody or lyrics. But that wasn't likely to happen because Mick and Keith are the driving forces of the Stones and so they share credits on just about everything either one does with the Stones. If Keith suggested one word to Mick and Mick used it, then Keith should
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Those arpeggios on the break just don't fit in.
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I think Keith's intros are great and I wish Keith or even Ronnie would play the JJF intro for once. The intros I'm talking about occur only once at the start of the song and introduce the song and they never appear again. A continually occurring riff like in Satisfaction or The Last Time are not really intros. JJF and BS have an intro and an outro. The way Mick and Keith wor
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As I said above, Keith does his thing with the chords but those chords were chords Mick came up with, the break, the verse and the chorus. Once the chords are there then someone can arrange them and play them in their style, which is what Keith did. The Brown Sugar intro is like other Keith intros, where it's just a intro setting up the song like JJF or whatever. The Brown Sugar int
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I don't think Keith needed much input from Mick Taylor on Brown Sugar. Keith could do all the parts and the solo went to Bobby Keys and the sax which was a great move because it adds to the New Orleans thing which happens to be in the lyrics.
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QuoteDandelionPowderman Quoteelunsi QuoteDandelionPowderman Quoteelunsi QuoteDandelionPowderman QuoteDiscoVolante I've always seen Sticky Fingers (and Goats Head Soup) as a Jagger/Taylor album; while Let it bleed and Exile being Keith's. Brown Sugar Wild Horses CYHMK YGM Bitch IGTB SM DF Sway and MM are probably the only songs that somewhat fit your description. Maybe not
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Quotetriceratops QuoteSilver Dagger I think the term was invented for Ian Anderson. No one has "the balls" to get up on stage looking like that today. IOW Ian was not lacking in testosterone. Yeah, and I think he's just about showing them.
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I think it's called "Cxck" Rock" Cod-Piece Rock? Steve Morse is a very good player but he lacks the musical personality that Blackmore had/has. Same thing goes for Keith. No one really cares what scales Keith knows, they mostly care about the music which is full of Keith's musical personality. Well, some do seem to care when Keith hasn't been practic
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QuoteRedhotcarpet Yeah and c'mon now, even the production idea is similiar with the rhythm parts where the motif pauses and the restarts. Each night as I sleep Into my heart you creep I wake up feeling sorry I met you Hoping soon that I'll forget you When I look in the mirror And comb my hair I see your face Just a-smiling there Nowhere to run Aha!, Keith&#
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Some Jon Lord (Deep Purple Keyboard player) quotes On Ian Gillen: “Astonishing voice, but mad as a box of wasps.” On Ritchie Blackmore: “He’s a lot nicer than his reputation. He’s a pretty good guy. . . Sitting in front of a log fire with a glass of wine there’s no better companion.” On Mick Jagger: “Mick’s a chameleon. You never know who you are going to get.” On Ke
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There is something really wrong about the Hall of Shame and I think it's mainly due to music critics and the like, making up the 800 voters or whatever it is. Rock/Pop music critics are mainly FOS and I havn't read too many that had a good grasp on rock developments that were important. Bill Haley should have been one of the first in, but he wasn't There were basically 3
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Not bad but what happened to 1955 to 1965? Chuck Berry etc.
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QuoteHis Majesty Quotehowled Yeah, that lead guitar in "Pay Your Dues" is pretty wild for that time and reminds me a bit of the Baker Street solo for some reason. I don't think it would be Keith (or Brian) and it sort of reminds me of Ollie Halsall. Maybe Jeff Beck? If it's Keith playing the lead, then he could have been the first EVH if he kept playing like that.
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Yeah, that lead guitar in "Pay Your Dues" is pretty wild for that time and reminds me a bit of the Baker Street solo for some reason. I don't think it would be Keith (or Brian) and it sort of reminds me of Ollie Halsall. Maybe Jeff Beck? If it's Keith playing the lead, then he could have been the first EVH if he kept playing like that.
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Probably the best Keith interview I've read, and in the Wall Street Journal of all places? If Keith would do the same sort of thing about JJF in the Financial Times then that would be great.
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Radiohead got sued by Albert Hammond for Creep.
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Smoke on the Water riff comes from a 60s Bossa Nova tune, Maria Moita. Jimmy Page's riffs and sections of songs come from so many places that I'm not going to list them.
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All use the same riff but Ricky Nelson came first. Ricky Nelson - Summertime Blue Magoos - (We ain't got ) Nothin' Yet Deep Purple - Black Night
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QuoteDandelionPowderman A "dark version" of both We Used To Know and Hotel California - released prior to the Tull track The Nick Drake "Day is Done" song is interesting and it would be one of the few songs that does have a resemblance to "We Used To Know" and "Hotel California. The main difference is the 6th chord which is a C in "We Used To Know
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QuoteThommie Quotehowled Welcome to the Hotel California. Ian Andersson has been talking about that: SF: Your song “We Used To Know” is certainly an influence on “Hotel California.” Can you talk about that? Ian: It was a piece of music that we were playing around the time… I believe it was late ’71, maybe early ’72 when we were on tour and we had a support band who had been signed u
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Well, I'm your Venus I'm your fire at your desire.
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Welcome to the Hotel California.
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I stopped listening to the Stones before Black and Blue came out and recently getting up to speed since then, I'm glad I dropped off before Black and Blue because IMO the Stones just got weaker and weaker and what is the most surprising is how in their weakest periods they end up making the most money, go figure. I think Mick (and Keith) having a go at a solo thing was probably a good thi
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