True ragged brilliance, and kicks off an epic side 4...
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Quotedrwatts Release of the year! Let the complaining begin... Complaining is what holds every thread together ... ! LYL is Vegas/sloppy/soulless The cover is bad/garish/disappointing The mix is a crime/brickwalled to death Now that it is finally becoming available, El Mocambo is no longer the Holy Grail it has always been for fans but one enormous disappointment on an outrageous four d
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It does sound a little reverb-y - but nevertheless fantastic!!!
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Love You Live was the first Stones album I ever heard, and the first versions of Stones songs I ever heard. My brother bought it when it came out, I think for his 21st. Hearing the percussion, the Fanfare, that French voice the crowd, the announcer..."Le Rolleeng Stones!!!", that sort of a shuffle on the drums from Charlie and then those chords, pulling as strong as oxes, the cattle
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You do have to wonder, sometimes, if this the fan site for people who REALLY REALLY HATE the Rolling Stones.... I like the extras disc a lot, especially Shame Shame Shame and Drift Away, and play it regularly, as I do the Goats Head cuts, and Some Girls extras. I'd love to get a Black and Blue expanded - with the 11-minute Hey Negrita, and that fantastic, 12-minute (or so), instrumental M
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Proggy, flute-bothering, soggy codpiece-wearing grade-A tosser. the C-list dissing the A-list. It's unedifying.
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I like some of his work - went to see the John Dee opera - but was never much of a Blur fan, and liked Gorillaz only when they had Mark E Smith on, but what in god's name has he done with his HAIR? Some kind of specially aged mullet ...
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QuoteHis Majesty Old people continually promoting old music is also killing the chance for new music to be heard and develop in the way old music did. Perhaps, but there were loads of old people promoting old music in the old analog days too. The new music and the new audiences were too powerful for them. There is lots of new music that is good in different genres, but there isn't the sa
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No words. Sobs.
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Days of Rage - The Rolling Stones Road to Altamont is on Sky Arts tonight - anyone seen it already? video:
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QuoteGerardHennessy QuoteMadMetaphoricalMax If we're going to bring the mighty Hawkwind into this, I thought I'd link to the documentary I made about them back in the noughties ... Hawklords are pretty good too ... video: Excellent point and my very sincere compliments on your top class documentary on The Hawks. Essential viewing for anyone with even a smidgin of interest in
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If we're going to bring the mighty Hawkwind into this, I thought I'd link to the documentary I made about them back in the noughties ... Hawklords are pretty good too ... video:
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That bitter, sneering tone takes me back to almost all the writing about the Stones by British music hacks in the late 70s and 80s, and on into the 90s - but the Stones outlived them and all their publications. Roll on, boys...
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Upstairs at Ronnies is a nice room - I've seen some really good bands up there, and performed there too - poetry/spoken word nights. A good late night Soho hang. What a great way to celebrate Charlie Watts. Probably better than the 606 Club, though that is very near to where it all began, just behind Edith Grove, near the river. Even greater would be a few days in Chiswick Studios ...
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Fraid that Natalie Williams is playing tonight, two sets, and through till Weds. She's the daughter of a really good English poet John Hartley Williams, who used to teach at the Free University in Berlin. She's very much a Ronnies regular. As Omnicron things are now - bedded in and spreading fast - I can't see, for a nanosecond, the Stones assembling in a small room in London bef
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Sweet Summer Sun 2022 - it's be ten years since their 2012 stage return at Hyde Park and I'd bet on them returning their next summer, if they're returning to the stage anywhere (and I'm sure they are...).
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Here's my take for The Arts Desk on the Tattoo You reissue in its various formats - I had a streaming link for the concert, and now have the 2CD set and I love it, though I still prefer some of the original, unadorned bootleg versions, especially of It's a Lie, which just bounces! But I'm loving it. First CD edition of the album - I only have the original 1981 vinyl otherwise, bou
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Start Me Up - Ronnie's solo, for me and my ears, is brilliant, white noise on a fast track, with double vision and a smoky trail, it's got pain and exultation built into it. Ditto Rambler and You Can't. What an unbelievable band all round, these latest videos capture a great, great show. This tour is going to be one of their most singular. I'd give anything to get over to LA
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The ugly, sour spirit in some of these posts, especially on that moment they paid tribute to Charlie on stage ... what can you say? I need opinions like that like I need a hole in the ground. Braying and naysaying from fuzzy mobile phone footage ... "worse than a tribute baaaand" ...Really? You don't deserve ears. You don't deserve rock and roll.
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Interviewed Bootleg Series co-producer Steve Berkowitz the other day about sourcing and assembling the new 1980s Dylan set with heaps of Mick Taylor, and he had a lot to say. Here's the review feature of the set on The Arts Desk while the transcript of the interview's on my Art Poetry Music wordpress site ... video:
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That Mike Edison book is great, I read it a year or two ago. Link to a review I did of it for International Times - one of the excellent Stones books and a great, enlightening read! http://internationaltimes.it/why-charlie-watts-matters/
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NO! It's all over now. Has to be.
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I would have loved them to include the 12-minute Munich Hilton instrumental - it's hypnotically fab. May it be attached to a Black and Blue expanded? Munich Hilton
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MY review up on the Arts Desk site - it was a short visit to the Shadow Kingdom, but with some fantastic music, I thought, and trickery...
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Stuff and nonsense. Largely because there's no Hawkwind Space Ritual here - or the great Love You Live.
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There's a strong thread running between the 70s and the 90s, esp as the 70s returned to influence the latter decade after the shiny-floor 1980s that dropped the previous decade in the bin, but the rise of smart handheld media in the mid 2000s, along with social media, cuts off this decade and much of the 2010s, from anything that happened before in human societies. Plus the 90s and early nou
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Sometimes it feels like 2,000 light years away.
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Wonder where and when that Ronnie and Weller pic was taken. It can't be in the UK, we haven't seen a blue sky like that for days, weeks, months! The country's Summer download stalled sometime in March and we're going straight into autumn, it seems ....
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Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None was originally titled Ten Little N-word (though never in the US) - presumably based on the older counting rhymes, which were probably obsolete by the time it was published in 1939. The British title only changed in 1985. Ten Little Indians is an alternative to those number rhymes. I'd guess the lyrical inspiration was from there, more than the
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None thank god. I hate that song. But still three to watch...
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