Thanks for the likes for the Arts Desk review - wish they'd do a deluxe with some of those Toronto sessions ...
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My new favourite Keith album....
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A bit OT, but I'd I am launching a poetry book from a small indie Australian press tonight at the London review Bookshop in Bloosmbury London - free entry and free wine while it lasts - and one of the poems is dedicated to the Stones, in particular, the Stones' fade-outs - some of the best in the business (eg Stray Cat Blues, where they go into a different rhythm right at the end... It
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Thanks Mitch - you're right, I forgot about the Exile deluxe Aladdin...
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Hi, I've reviewed the set including Get Your Leeds Lungs Out for The Arts Desk - the live tracks and embryonic Knocking are the best of the extras. It went up this morning - here's the link:
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It's not the studio version without the jam, it's a completely different studio take and it's fantastic though it does peter out
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Thanks, a great read, especially about the Budapest concert - I can well imagine. Talked tpo some Russians Ukrainians once about rock n roll in the soviet union - rock around the bloc - and thihnjgs like the Bones, flexi-discs made on old xrays. The penalty for possessing rock music. There must be a psychic connection between the band and the audience like that, and it just draws out the magic an
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Iorr-ers might be interested in reading my Huffington Post review/feature on LA75 and Hampton 81. Favourites? 1981 Tumbling Dice and both sets' You Can't Always Get...
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IORR-ers might enjoy reading through this review and appreciation of LA 75 and Hampton 81 on my Huffington Post blog. The music is mighty, mighty fine...
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I hear lots of jurors on here, plenty of hanging judges, hardly any fans. Nothing seems to make most of the posters here happy. I come on iorr to get news, reviews, advance information. But a lot of it is so dispiriting. Some of the posters here are in need of clinical intervention, I fear. I don't get it. For quite a few decades of his life Keith Richards gave everything of himself to give
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How Charlie Watts comes in on the drums is unbelievably great
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One of their great covers, and brilliant when they pile on it in those live recordings
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"Not true. Keith has given the entire band crap since day one." Not true - that's just a sour lie. He did, however, provide the band with the songs to make em last a lifetime and a sense of timing that makes those simple-sounding riffs so amazing, even if that extends to uh a concert sense of timing that might be a few hours out of joint...
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You've all hopelessly failed the Higher Stoner Studies course by failing to mention the most monstrously heavy stoner album of all time - brown noise, white noise, and all the colours of the rainbow in between. I am, of course, talking about Hawkwind's Space Ritual - the best live rock n roll album ever released, and the best stoner experience bar none - take it from Lemmy - 'take
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Todd Snider's new album, Agnostic Hymns and Stone Fables, includes the song Brenda, a love song to the Stones, with possibly the shortest and m,ost acute bio of the Glimmer Twins' dynamic in these two lines: Mick jagger was born on a Monday morning Keith Richrds was born on a Saturday night' This Q&A session up at the Arts Desk reveals some of the uh studio habits of the
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Wrote this late last year, after downloading the Brussels flac. It remains a revelation. Fond memories of Camden Town bootlegs on C60 Maxwell cassettes....
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