LA FORUM Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Here's a topic; when Mick sang @#$%& in 1975, > when we see it on dvd today and adore him for > being Mick, I as a straight male don't really > identify with this song. > Do straight women, very generally speaking, and > this is probably a moron question because its so > individual, s
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atip Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Whether you like his music or not, a good man. > The streets of Bakersfield have lost their icon! > RIP, Buck. What's not to like about Buck Owens music?? I think most people haven't heard his best music, songs such as "Above and Beyond", "Kickin' Our Hearts Around" "
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What a loss. I took some road trips to Bakersfield and saw him play a number of times at his Crystal Palace club, where he would perform every weekend. (The shows would be broadcast on the local radio station, which he owned.) That club is a great place, filled with walll-to-wall memorabilia. He was king of the hill in that town. I recommend his three disc box set on Rhino. For a rock f
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StonesTod Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Jagger the "hardest working man in showbiz"? > Gimme a break. JB earned that title the "hard" > way. Blasphemy. Sure he did. I'd never argue that. James is the King of them all, y'll. But if we're talking right now, 63-year old Mr. Mick Jagger is out there kicking
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At the Forum in '75 I heard Mick doing his low growling "Fat Albert" voice during the extended mid-section of Midnight Rambler for the first time. You hear him do it at the end of Hand of Fate as well. '75 at the Forum was great. So was 2006. It's a wonderful life.
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Mick and Keith traded places a few years ago. In the late '70 through the 80's, everyone bagged on Mick, said he had become a "self-parody." Keith was viewed as authentic, whereas Mick was considered a phoney. At some point, the Keith-isms got a little old. He started to look like a self-parody. And Mick got his act together, released a great album (Wandering Sp
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There never was anything "rock and roll" about Madonna. She is a pop star whose entire career is more of a throwback to '30's Hollywood style. There is nothing authentic about her. She's an exercise in hype and marketing. What really annoys me about her now is that you can bet the ranch that she will be inducted into the Rock Hall of Fame the first year she is e
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Bobby Womack!!! john r, you are a kindred spirit! I agree that the Anthology collection is an excellent intro to The Womack. (Try to find the earlier version with the same tracks called Midnight Mover--The Bobby Womack Collection (Bobby Womack Story on the spine!) I like the packaging better on that one. Great tracks like "What Is This" (which Peter Guralnick called The Rollin
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Last week Stevie Wonder was on American Idol coaching the contestants on how to perform his songs. Then he got to perform one off his new album. This program gets a huge music audience. It even got better ratings than the Grammys. It would probably be an excellent way for the Stones to promote A Bigger Bang. Would I like to see it? Hell, no.
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"Down the Road Apiece" by THE ROLLING STONES "the drummer mans a cat they call Charlie my boy..."
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Keith perfected his gypsy/outlaw look in '72. (with those bleached streaks, he pretty much invented the Joe Perry look for Joe, who had quite a long run with it)
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In '75, Keith had new teeth and looked pretty fit. But Charlie had a better haircut in '69.
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Koen Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > He did more than the pink panther. "The Party" is > also a gem. Yes! "BIRDY NUM-NUM!!"
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loog droog Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > > 1 9 7 2. Let me add 1968 to that as well. This is the year where Mick becomes as visually arresting as Brian, and Keith sheds the last remants of his Ernie Douglas (from My Three Sons) dorkiness. There are some shots of the group in '68 where they just too tough--they define rock and roll.
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Han Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I wanna rock and roll, wanna sell my soul > sail the TV round the swimming pool > I want my name in lights > a la Johnny B. Goode > be an all night loon like Ronnie Wood > > (chorus from Quo's "I don't remember any more") We have a Ronnie Wood reference!!! If you take the t
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Little bit of "Winter" in that one--the line about wrapping "my coat around you."
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I like it on the El Mocambo side on Love You Live where Mick says, "If you feel like dancing........ ....wait."
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Crazy Arms was a Ray Price hit that Jerry Lee Lewis did.
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Pete Townshend said he wrote a song about Brian after he died calling him "the man who died everyday." Did it ever surface?
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Potted Shrimp Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Ballad of a thin man (Dylan) is about Brian. > I think that's the legend based on the story that Dylan would taunt Brian about that. I recall that it actually was about a reporter from Time magazine.
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Ringo Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Watch them play Happy, and you'll understand - > it's the hottest piece of rock on screen I've ever > seen. I saw L & G dozens of times in the '70s, and after awhile I noticed there were some backing vocals at the end of "Happy" where no one was near a microphone! All of t
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The "Great Line" post mentioned the line about Charlie in John Hiatt's song "Slow Turning." I was thinking about other songs that referenced the Stones: "Behind the Wall of Sleep" by The Smithereens talks about a girl in a band who stands "just like Bill Wyman." David Bowie's "Drive in Saturday": "..when people stared in J
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I don't know if most people are in tune to "the Stones have left the building" mentality, or if they are just sheep (and want to go home), but I thought that the Stones performance that night deserved a longer and louder ovation than they got. A friend of mine saw them in Long Beach in '72 and swears that the ovation lasted 20 minutes after the show ended. There was no enc
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john r Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > It may seem like sacrilege, but I always preferred > the white RSVP cover to Beggars Banquet (perfect, > especially w/ the great layout inside as contrast) > to the rather dated toilet cover... I agree. It would have become dated right away, too. Look at the reference to LBJ--Johnson left office in Jan &
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During the Rio movie and the Forum show, I noticed Mick has verbally distanced himself from the Rambler character. When did this start??
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The Sicilian Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > > How I got turned on to him, I was watching a > rented movie (don't remember the name) that he > made the soundtrack for That was probably McCabe & Mrs. Miller. Also: Kristofferson worked in a studio in Nashville as a janitor while Bob Dylan was recording Blonde on Blonde.
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I agree that parts of Four Flicks are so frantic that they become unwatchable. But as far as "relaxed" direction....to me it just seems to go slack. It doesn't reflect the tension in the music. Some of the framing of the shots in the stadium parts have so much empty space as well...it's too loose. I
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Look for a copy of "Message To Love", the documentary of the entire 1970 Isle of Wight Festival that finally came out in 1995. It's an alternate-universe version of the Woodstock movie. (There's also a video of The Who's complete performance there) Like "Rock n Roll Circus", "Festival Express" and "When We Were Kings" it's grea
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Saw this film twice in a theatre when if first opened, and I remember being disappointed by it. The scene where Keith swings his guitar at the fan happened on that tour, but it was during the pay-per-view show on Keith's birthday, not in the film Let's Spend the Night Together (it was shown in Video Rewind as well) Hal Ashby was a great director (go to imdb.com for the credits) an
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