MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE ! It's so NICE to hear, someone, giving the MERRY CHRISTMAS greeting ! BEST WISHES TO EVERYONE HERE,
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Ignorance, courtesy of nbcdfw.com.... Ben Affleck To Screen Film At United Nations Ben Affleck spent his weekend lending a hand to “Operation Gratitude,” an organization that assembles care packages to send to military service men and women deployed overseas – and Ben’s not only helping out our troops – the actor is set to screen a film he directed about refugees in the Congo at the United
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Is THIS what we are talking about ?
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This could be an interesting "twist" to the SMALL FACES reunion move by Ronnie. Courtesy of contactmusic.com... MICK JAGGER's former wife JERRY HALL refuses to answer the door to ROLLING STONES guitarist RONNIE WOOD - because of his affair with a Russian waitress. Rocker Wood, 61, left his wife of 30 years, former model Jo, for 20-year-old Ekaterina Ivanova earlier this year
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QuoteSilver Dagger This is utter shit. A pox on the Beatles/EMI for holding back. They are the worst example of a band neglecting modern technology in order to give fans better sounding albums. The have always treated their fan base like CRAP.
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Quotetatters Amazon is now taking orders. $345 for the DVD. $432 for the Blu-Ray. Such a deal! TORRENT IT !
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To me an interersting producer would be Andrew Loog Oldham ! Getting back to the basics!
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Rolling Stones, The - 2120 South Michigan Avenue Label: Chess (2) Catalog#: Chess 64 Format: CD, Album, Unofficial Release, Digipack Notes: (The Unreleased 1964 Blues Album) The Rolling Stones "Confessin The Blues"At Chess Studios, Chicago, dubbed from the original master tapes. Tracks 1- 13, 16 -23 are in glorious stereo tracks 13-15, 24-27 are in glorious mono. For more
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the Oldham book intimates that Marianne was in, what is now called an abusive relationship, to the point, at one juncture, she had her jaw wired. She just has that look of a victim, of someone taken advantage of. Fragile. Sad.
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the Man has a cottage industry doing them, and in spite of a different subject, they are going to be "safe".
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That's what sells it !
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Quotejlowe Lets not forger Brian was also involved in what has now become known as "World Music" long before it became somewhat trendy. It has been suggested he could have gone down the Mike Oldfield route but any speculation has to take account of his general health. That would have needed dealing with for him to create anything. I've read about the Creedence thing before...a bi
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What gets me is that the Beatles carp about the bootlegs, over the years...don't they get it ? Basically, there were successful, and don't have to do anything to "sell" their, but it has to "smart", knowing how much ALL the $$$$ they have lost, just because of their stupid behavior. When you REALLY listen to their music, it's Pure POP Crap...the Stones hav
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A couple of books that I have read, lately, really "take the piss out" of the Music Busness, in general. One of the more memorable quote, from Pete Townshend, in Andrew Loog Oldham's 2STONED, says about the Summer of Love, on page 347.... Haight-Ashbury was like a @#$%& tourist dive. We came back with psychedelic posters and beads. It was just empty, it was stupid. What was
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Quoteleteyer Don't know if this was already posted, but find it very funny. "BONO was booed and heckled at the MTV Europe Awards after he suggested that The Beatles were Irish. He told a packed crowd in Liverpool: "If it wasn't for the Irish potato famine, John, George, Paul and Ringo would have come from Dublin." Bono made the remarks while presenting a lifetime
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For the "IT'S BEEN 39 YEARS, AND I WILL DO/SAY ANYTHING TO SELL A BOOK" DEPARTMENT... Courtesy of reuters... Rolling Stones insider pins Altamont fracas on cops Fri Dec 5, 2008 12:42am EST LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - December 6 is a day that will live in infamy in the annals of rock 'n' roll. On that day in 1969, the Rolling Stones gave a free concert at the Alt
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QuoteMatti QuoteBaboon Bro...and check Perfect Strangers for the EXCELLENT groove they created in 84... Yes, Perfect Strangers is a very good album. The live chronicle of this phase of their long career, is just as good too ! Overall, they have been VERY generous to their Fans, on video and cd releases, of their ENTIRE career...as we know, this is rare.
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Gee, he's almost like...normal.
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Quotegeorgelicks No Stones next year... Oh well, I think we will survive ! I'm SURE there the won't lose ANYTHING, in taking a break ! Maybe it's time, right, for a break after that Scorsese thing.
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I think Mick & Company, LTD., is MORE than happy to get ANY free publicity, from ANY Personality THAT Has the following that Britney has, worldwide. To them it's just Business, and the more their Brand is bandied about the Media in positive ANY way, it's fine with them. Britney is pretty harmless fun. Britney ISN'T the DEBEL (i.e. DEVIL) Incarnate, that socalled serious
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She's a REBEL...but at least she shows she has good taste.
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QuoteHis Majesty QuoteEdith Grove Wasn't it less than a month between Mick & Keith's meeting with Brian at Crotchford, and Brian's death? Seems like not much time to actually get a band together and start creating. Was Brian thinking about a side project before his firing? Perhaps... Bill Wyman, Stone Alone, p. 621 (paperback edition): "Towards the end of May [19
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Talk about rolling those BIG eyes, hey ? video:
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It's interesting that the Stones, after Brian Jones' departure, "picked" an artist who was more akin, in musical taste to Brian Jones, than to someone, that, would go for the long haul. With Mick Taylor on wages, it seems on the surface, that he was just temporary, in someone's mind, anyway.
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QuoteNICOS Thanks for posting this stonesmf get a better picture of his musical taste You're welcome. I'm wondering if, ANYWHERE, ANYONE has any fragments of what Brian Jones wanted to do, on recording tape or written music.
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How's this, courtesy of Andrew Loog Oldham, in his book 2STONED, page 372, 373. "Brian had seemed to handle his break from the Stones in a remarkably sober and practical manner, at least on the surface, and I had admired this newfound aplomb from my distance. I hoped that the surface had some substance and that Brian intended to use the split for positive change and not abuse himself
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As per ROCK ON WOOD..the Origin of a rock & roll face by Terry Rawlings (Box Tree, 1999, page 172, 173)..incidentally this book is said to have been made with the complete cooperation of Ron Wood, and often quotes Ronnie on a number of things. "Mick Taylor - a genuinely gentle man- had been with the Stones for a little under four years. He was a gifted guitarist, but had never man
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QuoteTseverin At least the mouthy monobrowed Manc now realises that the Stones are the ones worth emulating, not the pop band that split up almost 40 years ago. I guess you're right, I mean who is going to say his band is like...JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE ?
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