Hackney Diamonds is a great Stones album. Maybe their most pleasing work since TY, or even Some Girls. I have listened to it repeatedly. I have not listened to a Stones album repeatedly since Steel Wheels. I noticed any actual news on a new album stopped on the first page of this post. I can see where unreleased songs from certain periods didn't fit the feel of the album. That's bee
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Thank god Darryl wasn't available. (If that's entirely true.) Those fresh bass parts really make the album. I would be initially disappointed if I heard he was playing bass if there's a next record. Keith, Paul, and Bill really stand out, giving a Stones record what it hasn't had in decades. Maybe he's okay for the road, when you can't really hear the bass in a live
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I was eleven. Whenever I think of Satisfaction I remember these rude stroking gestures a male classmate would make behind the teachers back while he mouthed Satisfaction. I don't remember it being that monumental, good, yes, but there was so much good music in '65. I think I paid more attention to Get Off of My Cloud and the third song of that mid-sixties grouping, Nineteenth Nervous Br
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What is it with people not giving Jagger his due? Who found Rupert in the first place? Who kept the band together while Keith was shooting half of Afghanistan into his arm? Just because Keith seems more approachable, and we know he can be as phony as anyone, Mick gets cut down. Mick has the right to keep employees like Lowenstein at arms length.
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I think Anita should publish a book for the sheer historical perspective of it. Who knew Brian more intimately? The danger of course is that it would be colored in her favor, but she is very intelligent, and understands self destruction.
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Thanks for posting. Bit of a tart, but interesting.
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Loyal too. I think he was the only one to stay with Debbie and Chris in Blondie after the other two split.
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Just dropped in to see if there was any progress on Black and Blue actually becoming a Super Deluxe release. Doesn't look like there's any news on that front.
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QuoteStoneage Quote24FPS QuoteTaylor1 How could Ron have been so poor that he had to survive on painting? I thought he was worth hundreds of of millions I'm a little confused by the interview. I don't think it says what specific period some of the Stones were broke. I remember reading in Bill's Stone Alone that by '69, Charlie, Brian, and he were broke because those three di
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QuoteStoneage Quote24FPS QuoteRockman Same as Live By The Sword is not for sissies …… Bill was right, there's hardly any space for him to perform on that cut. (Although I still like it.) Now I'm curious about the other one he did with Andrew. Maybe he can bounce around a bit more on that one. Well, Bill is considered a swordsman (informal). Maybe that's the reason they picked h
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I'm currently moving through the 27 CD set of the '74 North America Tour with the Band. Yes, most of the songs sound the same, but every once while you pick out a gem. A different arrangement that works. The problem with a lot of it is that he's almost angry, spitting out a lot of lyrics. It doesn't work on Lay Lady Lay, where he sounds like he's pissed, and not in love w
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My stupid ears. They lied to me and told me the GHS sounded best on a Japanese SHM CD. I sat there and listened and had a whole new experience with what I always considered a jumble of an album. Now it sounds like a soul experience. Coming Down Again indeed. Damn my ears!!!
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The last GREAT tour. Age slowly caught up with them after that. Get Off My Cloud got turned into a waltz. People now go for nostalgia.
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I don't think they've been 'great' since 1999. Everyone since seems kind of the same. They've speeded up a little with Jordan on drums, but you're losing some of the detail with Charlie gone. The last Stones concert I attended was in 2013, and it was okay. I decided that was the end of seeing them. Especially since they want $200 for the nosebleeds. They want you to
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I never liked the Dead. It's not the instruments, it's the vocals. Then I got ahold of 'A Night At The Family Dog' DVD. For those of you unfamiliar with the 60s San Francisco scene, the Family Dog was a venue like the Fillmore. The DVD set is full of SF groups like Santana, the Jefferson Airplane, etc. Anyway, there were some Dead cuts. The difference is that Pigpen was the vo
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I wish everybody could hear the new remix of GHS on a Japanese SHM CD. I think that combination turned it into a whole listening experience for me. It's like a soul album. I remember thinking the vinyl back in '73 was mixed very unevenly.
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QuoteRockman Same as Live By The Sword is not for sissies …… Bill was right, there's hardly any space for him to perform on that cut. (Although I still like it.) Now I'm curious about the other one he did with Andrew. Maybe he can bounce around a bit more on that one.
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Quotegeorgie48 Quote24FPS I don't think Mick's vocals were mature enough to handle That's How Strong My Love Is in 1965. But he is killer in 2005 at the Olympia in Paris on Four Flicks. I remember it was in 2003 Absolutely great, but personally I liked the Zirkus Krone (Munich) rendition even better (goose bumps) Correct on the year. Ever since they started releasing vault mat
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I don't think Mick's vocals were mature enough to handle That's How Strong My Love Is in 1965. But he is killer in 2005 at the Olympia in Paris on Four Flicks.
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As someone who lived in Atlanta in the early 70s and saw the original Allman Brothers, it was hard for me to listen to them without Duane. I have come to appreciate Bett's guitar playing. But with Duane, Gregg, and Dickey gone, I don't see what is the point of a reunion.
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There's really no one left of the 'aging rockers' I have a desire to see. I would have gone to a Brian Wilson concert, but he appears to have been retired by his health issues. McCartney's voice is shot. The last one at full power was Jeff Beck. Bucket list, nostalgia, hey, people can do what they want. It's their money. But come on, rock and roll is on its way out.
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My father did some session work as a dreamer in New York in the mid-1950s. He said they got paid $47.10 a side. They also gave bogus names and social security numbers to evade the tax man.
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Hackney Diamonds is great. I know because I'm still playing it every few weeks. I've played it many more times than Voodoo/Babylon/Bang combined. I'm so glad they finally got the bass right, after years of non-consequential bottom to the band. My god, how could anyone grouse about McCartney and Bill Wyman on the same record? Plus Keith on Angry, and Ronnie on a cut too. I really th
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First off, they wouldn't have to wait until the 50th to release a deluxe Black and Blue. I just looked at my Deluxe Goats Head Soup and it was released in 2020, not 2023. And the Exile Deluxe was 2010, not 2012. I don't see them releasing a new album for some time. I think they would want to expose Europe to it on stage, even if it has to wait until 2026. I'd still like to know
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QuoteChrisL Quote24FPS I hope the prices aren't way, way out of my league. I can hope can't I? Same. OMG! I just looked up seats for the Los Angeles shows. 710$ for the furthest seats from the stage! Over a thousand for a decent seat! That's obscene. And his voice is not as strong as it was! F this, and F the price gougers.
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I hope the prices aren't way, way out of my league. I can hope can't I?
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Quotekeithglimmer I don't recall the stones hosting SNL in 78. They were musical guests but didn't Ed Koch host? Also not sure about Lornes claim that the Toronto bust was a mere side effect of Mrs Trudeau being in the hotel. I've always heard that Keith tossing his burnt spoon in Anita's purse to be found by customs after fixing on the flight over was catalyst for them raidin
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A compilation I made of the Dylan and the Band tour from 1974. A few of the cuts were from Before the Flood, but many were from the new giant 17 or 18 CD set of previously unreleased songs and shows. Really good. Dylan is ferocious on some cuts, which doesn't always work on others. Almost all the Knockin' on Heavens Door and Lay Lady Lay tracks were too over the top. And there were a fe
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QuoteRollingFreak Just caught this doc on a plane recently. Was a bit disappointed, though I guess there's only so much they can do with the footage they have from back then. Actually shocked how MUCH footage there is of Brian with them. Didn't have cameras all over in 1966, so I guess they make the most of it. Interviews and such were a little lacking. Felt like it doesn't paint a
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Footnotes? Maybe D.Jones, but certainly not B.Jones. B.Jones is part of the very ethos of the Stones. The look, the sound, the attitude. And Mick Taylor will be seen as a crucial part of their golden era on stage. Ron Wood's legacy is still to be sorted out, but it's already known as a person he helped them continue through all the changes at a high level as Keith's abilities decli
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