QuoteT&A when you hate both teams almost equally, you do ask yourself: "why am i watching this, again?" Amen! Baffled by which team I dislike more...
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QuoteT&A Quotetomcasagranda Electric Mud was a great album. you're weird Yes, in fact it is a great album. Not a substitute for the earlier stuff, but vastly underappreciated nonetheless. It offended the purer-than-thou "blues scholar" crowd. Was blasting Buddy Guy's Sweet Tea today. What a beast that record is...
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So dark, so cruel. And all the more so for coming in such a pretty package... Isn't that why it's not more widely known/loved?
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QuoteNoCode0680 The first time I heard this song is actually one of my more vivid memories from my youth. Not so much because hearing the song was some revelation or anything, although I did love it. I know it was either '97 or '96, because when I saw them at Texas Motor Speedway on B2B tour Monkey Man was on my wishlist for the set so I had heard it by then. Anyway, I was driving ar
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Quotehbwriter i'm interviewing him in a few weeks about his Well done. Called his management the other day to get in a request--any tips along those lines? He's such a tricky subject: Clearly very sensitive, seems to live in a small coccoon of adulation. There's also the delicate matter of his having risen so high before crashing and burning in a way few others have. Would
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Amazing how distant that era looks from 2013. I've always preferred "Sex Drive" to the clumsy topicality--the clumsy everything, really--of "Highwire."
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Very, very happy to learn of Keith's involvement in this project. Article features some lovely quotes from The Riff:
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Quotekeefriffhard4life i am a bit letdown if this becomes the confirmed tracklisting. where are all of the unreleased songs nash said stills had? i thought i saw an interview were nash said stills had several albums worth of completed songs from the 70,80's and 90's. right now i only see 6 song titles that i don't recognize and the rest of the songs with an * next to them must be d
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Quoteredsock I'll flip it around and ask why in the world did they cover Drift Away? It's not horrible, but I've always been mystified by that. So true. Such a perfectly mediocre song/recording (Dobie Gray version). Can't for the life of me figure out why it's so well-loved, much less why the Stones would do their own mediocre version.
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One more pick of the day: Levon Helm, Keith Richards and Rick Danko with Scotty Moore and D.J. Fontana, "Duece and A Quarter" from All The King's Men (Sweetfish Records, 1997) Great shots from the sessions in Levon's barn:
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QuoteTheGreek Quotetomk I remember reading on a Band fan site years ago that at Danko's memorial service, Robertson come in through the side door of the chapel (or wherever it was), gave his eulogy, then exited through the same side door and left; meaning he didn't want to deal with Helm who was also there. They did say that Robertson gave a very moving eulogy. Too bad they only seeme
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Quotekeefriffhard4life QuoteRev. Robert W. Quotekeefriffhard4life still uncertain if i want to drop the $60+ dollars for the MUSICAL HISTORY boxset and i still need to get the 4 cd LAST WALTZ boxset No contest for me: A Musical History is a feast and a worthwhile investment--especially if, like me, you're missing any of the albums (Stage Fright, Northern Lights, and Islands, in my case). M
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Quotekeefriffhard4life still uncertain if i want to drop the $60+ dollars for the MUSICAL HISTORY boxset and i still need to get the 4 cd LAST WALTZ boxset No contest for me: A Musical History is a feast and a worthwhile investment--especially if, like me, you're missing any of the albums (Stage Fright, Northern Lights, and Islands, in my case). Meanwhile, the Hawks material--with and with
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Quotechrism13 I absolutly love "Out of the Blue" ...off the Last Waltz. Great Robertson vocals. Agreed. Wonderful, forgotten track.
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"Didn't get me no trade...never wanna be like Papa, workin' for the boss night and day."
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Quotesweet neo con Quote71Tele Because Jagger is always looking at current trends, he didn't want to be left out of the whole mid-80s phase of awful music. valid....but it may be the same motivation (trends) that produced albums that we deem to be masterpieces. In his mind, he may have been following a trend (or trying to stay one step ahead of one) when making Beggars Banquet & Some
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QuoteDandelionPowderman I like many songs on Dirty Work: Harlem Shuffle One Hit (To The Body) Had It With You Sleep Tonight Fight Too Rude Some of the rockers have Tattoo You-quality, imo. Not bad at all. Mick wasn't at his peak, but heck you can't always get... Agreed 100%. I'll take Dirty Work--even with production missteps, some weak material, etc--over the b
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QuoteMickRichards Has Parachute Woman been played live other than R&R Circus? I always thought it to be one of the best bluesey,raunchy Stones songs. Orpheum, Boston, Mass. 2002. Sounded great. I went out of my mind...
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QuoteNICOS Moon light Mile........can'y remember the movie though. Must say that the Tannenbaums Miss Amanda Jones was great "Moonlight Mile" was used beautifully in...Moonlight Mile. (Dustin Hoffman, Jake Gyllenhaal, Susan Sarandon--2003?) A lovely scene between Gyllenhaal's character and the girl played by Ellen Pompeo. A devastating non-Stones track used for their scen
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Don't know how to do the linking thing. Sorry to re-print an earlier post, but here's my response to the "apples and oranges, etc." cop-out... A few years ago, my brother-in-law and I were getting to know each other, talking music and so on, and he decided to throw a big one at me: "You know, the Stones are great and all, but they don't really compare to Led Zep
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I remember the summer of 1989, just out of high school and living in New York City for the very first time. Went to a Tuesday class and then jumped onto the 2/3 down to the wonderful Tower Records just up from Lincoln Center. Marched in, grabbed Singles Collection: The London Years and headed for the register. Once there, my heart jumped as I spotted Rolling Stone with a beautiful black-and-white
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Quoteclapton71 The problem is the people complaing are the people who have seen them over 30x. Of course you want to mix it up. I have seen them 23 times and I don't like to hear certain songs( i.e. miss you/smu). But I know most of the crowd have not seen them 3-5x every tour. So, I know what to expect and look for things I didn't see last show. I would love to bring my son( 9) to a sh
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Ha! I don't think this was a fumble along those lines. It sounded like he was actually trying to improv a specific lyric...or did I dream it up?
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Hello? Anybody?
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Hi all- I haven't watched or heard anything from the show since last night. Was it my imagination or did Keith open "Before They Make Me Run" with different lyrics?
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How about Townes's brilliant "Dead Flowers" on the Roadsongs album? Semi-famous for its use in The Big Lebowski.
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QuoteJumpinJackOLantern I see a ray of light at the end of the tunnel. Mick has said he wants to do a new Stones album. Yes, they need to become "artists" again. About all we can do is keep the pressure on them and hope they see the light before it is too late. There are those of us who would keep "artistic" pressure on the Stones. I myself exercise two very feeble options t
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QuoteCineplexed Here's a few things that made the brooklyn show great for me: -- Keith playing real rhythm guitar again without all the dopey posing. He actually played the full intro to BS. When was the last tour he did that? And he sounded absolutely fantastic on Rambler...IORR...GS etc. I wanted to cry. -- the guitars sounded really loud and meaty. Stones records always put the g
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QuoteCindyC you can get right behind it, section 112 at the $500 price on t/m right now, at least one ticket, didn't check for 2. Still too much for me. Just took my boy on a cruise and xmas soon, so I have to hold out for lower ones. Pretty sure I'll be missing out on these shows, but what can you do I guess. CindyC- I was walkin' through the cold today, on Atlanti
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QuoteMunichhilton Well put Rev. They are at top strength right now, but why pay $7 a minute to see them play Miss You again? That was exactly my dilemma (which was going on until a few minutes ago). At that moment when it headed into the warhorse run, how much better than, say, the Beacon or Roseland or Giants Stadium '97 #2 would it have to be for it to make any sense at all? One
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