If there is one Ian McLagan record to get, it has to be his 1980 album Bump In The Night. It starts out solid with "Little Girl" featuring Ronnie on bass. But once that guest star turn is done, and when the second track, "Alligator" begins you're at another level. The band leans in and it just kills.."I'm not a woman hater..." WTF!! Sweat, drama,
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Quoteslewan somehow (but only somehow) Ringo seems to be The Beatles' equivalent to Ronnie Wood… At the end of The Last Waltz both made micro-appearance cameos--just brief close-ups during the group finale--that got them listed in the promotion alongside all the other artists who were spotlighted as they performed their own songs. They didn't really add much other than representing t
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Quotedcba Since Johns never took drugs his memories should be 100% reliable, but... "There is another story showing my total incompetence during the making of Let It Bleed. Jimmy Miller and I were mixing “You Got the Silver” and he had the idea of putting reverse echo on the lead guitar. This is achieved by turning the tape upside down and playing it backwards while putting echo on the gu
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Glyn Johns has been around since the very beginning and personally knows the Stones as people. He was right there working and sweating with them as they made their classics, so it's not like he's awe-struck by these "legends" the way I imagine someone like Don Was would be. For that very reason (and the great sound he gets in the studio) I wish he would work with them aga
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QuoteBig Al Quoteloog droog Mick, Keith and Ronnie ought to call themselves "The Stones" when they tour. Drop the "Rolling" part of the name, and then just keep rollin' on... No! When I attended Hyde Park, i attended a most fabulous Rolling Stones concert. As long as there’s Mick and Keith, in my opinion, it’s the band. Not that long ago the mantra was, "
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Quoteroryfaninva Interestingly, Glyn was introduced to Ronnie Wood while producing "Ooh La La" for The Faces What?? So he didn't speak to Ronnie during the sessions for A Nod Is As Good As A Wink?
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Mick, Keith and Ronnie ought to call themselves "The Stones" when they tour. Drop the "Rolling" part of the name, and then just keep rollin' on...
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Respect, admiration, and appreciation for the life and work of Lamont Dozier. Every time a H-D-H song is being played it has enhanced the moment for me, whether I've been actively listening or just hearing it in the background from someone else's radio. Music taken to a higher plane, creating a shared experience of elevation for us lucky listeners. Condolences to his family and a
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QuoteHairball Or...imagine if in 1969 Brian took an extended sabbatical to clean up and clear his head, and then eventually came back after Mick Taylor quit the band in 1974. There was a short-lived humor magazine in the 70's that tried to compete with National Lampoon called Apple Pie. In issue #7 (January '76) there is an article written in the style of a People magazine featu
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Writer David Dalton, who put together some of my favorite books on the Rolling Stones has passed.
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A great album, for sure. Produced by Jimmy Miller. When you look at what became of the line-up of Delaney & Bonnie and Friends...Mad Dogs and Englishmen, All Things Must Pass, Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs...and Bobby Keyes and Jim Price playing for the Rolling Stones, Delaney and Bonnie are the cornerstones of an entire era of classic rock.
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Perhaps the more immediate question is, Who Will Finish The Stones? Or will they continue on and on as a touring avatar show?
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QuoteTaylor1 Quoteloog droog QuoteRip This I find Murdoch to be a vile man. His business model has done more harm to American life in terms of dividing us than uniting us. He is clearly a detestable human being. Yep.No one cares about your opinions about America’s problems.If this were the proper format I’d enjoy debating with you who is really destroying America
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QuoteRip This I find Murdoch to be a vile man. His business model has done more harm to American life in terms of dividing us than uniting us. He is clearly a detestable human being. Yep.
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Frankly, I always hated seeing fireworks at the end of a Stones show. I thought they functioned like an "Applause!" sign at a TV show taping. Used to goose a response out of the crowd. Pandering to a crowd coming for spectacle--not music--who couldn't name all the Stones if asked. For people desiring a sensory experience, the new trend instead of fireworks is drone li
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Goin' Home Waiting On A Friend Moonlight Mile What To Do All About You Infamy
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The King of No Set-Lists: NRBQ
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Quotehbwriter At 2:13 we see Mick Ali McGraw (Steve McQueen in is the house, too). A bearded McQueen--who can be seen on Ali's left, and later again at 2;42--would normally be the coolest guy in the house. But that night the award goes to Mr. James Cagney--Hollywood's O.G. "Made it, Ma! Top of the world!!"
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QuotePalace Revolution 2000 Who is Dean Goodman? Was he the Vjay on MTV? The guy who ruined Live Aid for me? You're thinking of Mark Goodman, the "bro" of the original five MTV V-J's. I'm trying to think of how he could have "ruined" Live-Aid, other than just being the proto-typical Jock who liked Rock that he always was. Mark was the only person on
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Recently saw David Letterman's bandleader Paul Shaffer conduct the Long Beach Symphony Orchestra (in one of their POPS series shows) in a performance of Jack's "The Lonely Surfer" instrumental that was so faithful to the original recording that it brought me to the edge of tears.
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Two really good clips on the "Expecting Rain" website today that I thought were worth sharing: "Summer Days" performance that is just ON FIRE!! 1963 TV performance of The Ballad of Hollis Brown
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Brian looks great...and Keith sharing the mic with Bill onstage!
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I love "Tops" and Mick Taylor's work on it. But I can't see how it launches a "Beatles vs. Stones" argument. "Tops" isn't obscure because the Beatles catalog took all the wind out of the room. More likely the reason is because of the abundance of riches on Tattoo You, where it competed with "Start Me Up" "Waiting On A Friend"
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I've never seen Bill Maher quite as star-struck with anyone as he was with Rod Stewart last Friday. His fawning approached Jimmy Fallon proportions. Got a little awkward with that tug-of-war at the end...
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QuoteDandelionPowderman Utterly brilliant! It's unfathomable that this has gained dust in a basement for so long. Other documentaries made from buried treasure like this have surfaced in the recent past, such as Message To Love: The Isle of Wight Festival 1970 (and then the one that followed with the entire set by The Who), the concert segments of the Muhammad Ali/George Foreman film
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The guy is a kind of a doofus, and yet his admiration for old rock stars is easier to take than the over-the-top fawning of Jimmy Fallon. Corden's McCartney segment was really, really well done. If he could do a similar thing and take Mick and Keith through the old neighborhood I think it would make great viewing. "Hey look who's here...it's Andrew Oldham!"
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QuoteRollingFreak Crosby's burned every bridge. Well...yeah.
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QuoteJavadave As far as his liver transplant, he describes how he intentionally moved to a state with no helmet law for motorcyclists, in his case, Montana. Apparently the death rates from accidents are significantly higher in states with no helmet laws, and your chances of getting an organ donor are much more likely. I worked with a guy who did exactly that. He looked pretty sick and retir
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Quote24FPS Doesn't he come from money? He started life on third base, and somehow he screwed it up. I just hope he has enough dough to not suffer his last years. His father Floyd was a cinematographer who worked on films like High Noon. Whether that means that David came "from money" and was born on third base is a matter of opinion. Maybe second base? 30 years ago I would
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