It's just a concert souvenir as far as I'm concerned. A friend who was also a big Stones fan sold it to me for $5 because he never listened to it. I just wanted it to keep my collection up to date.
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QuoteHis MajestyWhat do we get from the later period you are focusing on, a lot of songs, but comparatively little in the way of amazing songs and music. Yes, they remain skilled craftsmen in their way, but nothing they've done post-Taylor has amazed me the way, say, "Gimmie Shelter" did the first time I heard it, or fascinated me the way Exile on Main Street does. Those are the
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Quotestonesrule So what made the Stones less interesting after 72-73? The heavy drug scene or ?? I doubt all that weed, coke and heroin helped matters, but really I don't think anyone could have continued to produce at that level of quality for very long. Five or six years at the absolute top of your game is a pretty long time.
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QuoteBellajane The Mick Taylor years...followed closely by Brian Jones..nothing after that. That's pretty much where I am. There's good and even great stuff on either side, but "Jumpin' Jack Flash" through Goat's Head Soup really speaks to me. The World's Greatest Rock and Roll Band.
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Quotetreaclefingers During the process, especially while working on the Some Girls-era material, Was was impressed by Mick Jagger's memory. "There were songs where there wasn't a vocal and Mick remembered how the song went," Was says. "He remembered it. He just never got around to singing it. He hadn't forgotten what the lyrics were." And this is the same Mic
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QuoteKet Well I am one of the people that hates SW, to me this is their worst album... I wouldn't go that far, but to my mind it's possibly their worst album cover. Neck and neck with Sucking in the Seventies. The Voodoo Lounge cover is pretty crap too, now that I think of it.
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Quoterunaway It was great seeing The Stones in Paris " Steel Wheels Tour". The songs I do like from this album are; Terrifying Rock and a Hard Place Can' t Be Seen Almost Hear you sigh Continental Drift We may have been at the same concert. Parc des Princes, right? I think in Europe it was the "Urban Jungle" tour.
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QuoteSpud Had to chuckle. The Stones "weren't suitable" for "light entertaintment". ALO then came along and tried to make them suitable for light entertainment ...until it became apparent that not being suitable for light entertainmemt might be a good thing >< They must have made some kind of impression on David Dore, though. He encourages Brian to contac
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Quotebuffalo7478 Less is more with the Stones. They work best with 2 guitars, bass, drums, keys and vocals. Nothing else needed If Bobby trots out once in a while and adds sax to a song...it would be all I'd add. Maybe the backup singers, extra horns, etc cover up for the sloppiness of certain parts of shows, but I'd rather the rough edges than Vegas. I wasn't fortunate e
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QuoteHis Majesty QuoteChrisM A step in the right direction I think. I prefer the Stones stripped down to the basics... Now for those backing singers and horns. Why two guitarists? Surely one is enough?
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QuoteCousinC Good track! In a way Keith was on his peak in 67-69. He still hadn't found his own - rather limited - player identity and felt challenged from all those new guitar gods. In 67-69 Keith still tried hard . . Yeah, my take on the Let It Bleed LP is that he showed he could play "lead guitar", but he didn't particularly enjoy doing it. It didn't come natural
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The paintings are by Andy Warhol, by the way.
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Quotestonesrule blivet, I warmly congratulate you on your intelligence! Assume Rolling Stones re your favorite band? Who else do you like? Why thank you, stonesrule, although I have to confess that my prudent buying habits may have less to do with intelligence than with being possibly as big a cheapskate as Mick Jagger himself. Yes, the Stones are my favorite band. When they were on top
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Probably not that much compared to the other people on this board. I've got most of their catalog. I don't have Got Live If You Want It, the last compilation I bought was Sucking in the Seventies, and I refuse to spend a fortune on the Brussels Affair deluxe set when all I want is the CDs. Otherwise, I've got it all, and I've seen them play live three or four times (never indo
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Quotechop It's not over because there are still gobs of money to be made Yeah, they know they could tour Europe and other parts of the world and at least triple what they've taken in already. I suspect the only factor now is whether they are physically up to it. They are all old men, after all. Jagger is in by far the best shape of the bunch, of course, and is a truly impressive speci
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QuoteDandelionPowderman It should be added that the only band member that sincerely tried to talk Bill out of quitting was the one he had the most difficult relations to: Keith... It's quite telling that they didn't replace him. When he left it meant there was one less person in the band. I understand that of course this way the pie only has to be split four ways, but even so, a lo
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Quotelem motlow the stones are a business-there was a time when i didnt like it when fans would say this,my answer was always "well they're doing the same thing they always did,so the motivation doesnt matter" but when it comes to making a record the motivation does matter. theres no money in it.why bother working on the thing,mick and keith putting up with each other,spendi
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QuoteCristiano Radtke Quoteshattered This may be very strange to some, but I would smell the inside of the sleeve before sliding out the record for the first time. I have this strange habit, too. Same here. Thanks for reminding me of something I'd forgotten all about. LP vinyl did have its own distinctive aroma. There's a blog I read sometimes whose owner mentions occasionally that
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Quotebob r Ronnie, Ringo and Steve Stills were there because they were friends of the Band and were hanging out at the concert-- they were invited to come on and jam at the end-- none of them were expected to appear- it was just something extra for the fans ( and the Band ) As I recall, Ringo and Ronnie were prominently mentioned in the radio ads for the film. Very misleading in that they only
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Quotekleermaker Though I find Some Girls a plastic, superficial and mediocre album, I think BOB stands out and can be considered to be the last really great Stones song. When Some Girls came out everyone was all over it, but I never quite saw what all the fuss was about. I played it over and over, trying to get into it, because the consensus was that The Stones Are Back, Baby, but honestly, I d
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QuoteMrMonte Quote24FPS Jagger seems happier away from the Stones. The Stones seem like a job and he's contracted to be with these certain people he's not really interested in playing with anymore. I hate to say you're right, but I think you're right. Luckily, he fulfills his part of the contract awfully well. I think he does like playing with them somewhat, though. When
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QuoteVideoJamesNow i'm going to listen to the Stones do ... Love Potion # 9 Does this actually exist? I could have sworn I once saw a bootleg containing this track years ago, but until just now I've never found another reference to it. I was starting to believe I had confused it with "Fortune Teller".
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QuoteBellajane Marilyn Manson is kind of cool. Definitely an attention grabber. But he chose it to get attention. In the case of the singer for the Rolling Stones, his stage name is what everyone actually called him all his life. I suppose everyone on this board knows this, but when he was young he wanted to be called "Mike", and didn't like being called "Mick", so
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QuoteLieB QuoteCarnaby With the exception of Ya Ya's, all the Stones live albums could have been better. And, we all have the bootlegs to prove it. That's true. Stripped was very well done, but except for that one and Ya-Ya's, most of the Stones official live output (prior to the Archive series) was kinda lame. The Long Lost Decca Live album or whatever it's called from 197
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Quotetreaclefingers QuoteRockinJive How much more is it worth unopened? I've no idea but I'm sure a king's ransom. The problem is that there's no way to know for sure until you've actually opened it, thereby spoiling the 'sealed' nature of the album. Schroedinger's LP.
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Quotegeorgie48 when did the Stones come up with their first variation on the "classic" red tongue&lip version? Was it in connection with the Steel Wheels tour or even earlier? At least as far back 1980. Take a look at the sleeve for the single of "She's So Cold".
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QuoteGlam Descendant QuoteDoxa It looks like it was THROUGH THE PAST, DARKLY that Jagger has in his mind when writing to Warhol. - Doxa Exactly. AW just couldn't get it together that fast (he was still recovering from his shooting) so they used his work for SF. I remember reading a biography of Warhol (sorry I can't be more specific, but it was years ago), in which at one poi
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QuoteDeanGoodman Sloppy wording on my part. By ABKCO-era intellectual property, I was thinking of the Out of Our Heads/19th Nervous Breakdown artwork. The Hyde Park photo presumably they just license direct from the photographer. There's a shirt shown with the Sticky Fingers promo shot featuring Wyman right in the middle. As usual, it's impossible to figure out the logic -- if any --
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QuoteRockman And...as you can see above, the idea sticking some lips on an animal - albeit the above being mythological - wasn't even an original one........ YEAH Big Ange wins that one ... I would have preferred one of his paintings without the added lips and tongue. I'm tired of every Stones project having to have an associated variation on the theme of the logo. It's a te
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