Or this: www.timeisonourside.com Prepare to spend quite some time on there...
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How The White Stripes aren't in the top ten, with either Elephant or Get Behind Me Satan, is anyone's guess. Declan
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Hmmm, really not sure about all this. I absolutely love the Stones but I just don't know if Keith can sustain another tour of the same dimension. An old geezer perched on a stool playing his guitar in a pub is quite feasible. 2 hours a night, however, of high energy on a huge stage in front of thousands of people, as one enters one's late sixties, is another matter entirely and I just d
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I remember it got a geat review in the NME. At the time, the paper was overdosing on The Beatles because Noel and Liam Gallagher were in there every week at that stage, usually ensuring every couple of sentences that we knew how integral The Beatles were to our existence. It was good, then, to read the paper giving a good review to the Stones (even if they did give up a fair part of the review, i
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I apologise for the negativity in such a positive thread, but the Shine A Light Version is bloody terrible. Staid, unimaginative, one-dimensional. Every other version I've heard is better than that one - I quite like the one on Stripped. I nearly always play the song myself, with a little harmonica break in the middle, when I play acoustic sets in pubs. It's a good one because a lot
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Reni of The Stone Roses. He didn't sing lead, but he was the only backing vocalist in a band whose music had a lot of harmonies. The 'Blackpool Live' DVD showcases how great he was, because his drumming is hugely energetic and it all involved a huge amount of work - Ringo tapping away while singing 'Act Naturally' it ain't (and I'm a Ringo fan). Great drummer
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I take your point hb, but I must take issue with this: "the fact that Mick's a bonafide NYer sets him apart from those other acts". He may have lived there frequently and performed at venues all over the city, but to say he's a New Yorker is simply wrong. However international he might be, the man was born and brought up in Kent and London and he still lives in London
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Great to hear Pete's on-stage tirade which opens Disc 1, though. Might not be worth paying for the box just to hear that, but it certainly sets the tone excellently. I bloody love The Who. Also, have the High Numbers songs on Disc 1 ever been released elsewhere? I'm The Face and the other two or three? Not sure. Declan
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That's the one - thank you, with sssoul.
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Hello, Sorry to be a pest. A while ago there was a thread on here called something like 'Then and Now'. It contained old photos of places with a Stones connection, and then the same places photographed more recently. I've tried to look for it and I've done a search but, perhaps because I'm not sure of the exact title, I haven't found anything. And it's not
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Hello, Does anyone know whether the three released examples of Jiving Sister Fanny (Metamorphosis, The London Years and the '68-'71 Singles Collection box) are the same version of the song? I'm not aware of any other version, but I'm not completely sure. And which has the best sound quality? Thanking you, Declan P.S. Anyone know if there's a good tabbed ver
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I've seen the Scream a good few times; on one occasion (the night Kurt Cobain's death became known in 1994) at Brixton Academy they were absolutely brilliant - I went back a couple of nights later. But I just cannot see the point in a song like Country Girl. Yes, it's nice and upbeat and rock n'roll, but is so generic it's almost like Lesson 1 in a course of How To Write
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That is utterly pants. Mick O' Jagger indeed.
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I'm a massive Stone Roses fan, but Ian Brown is the epitome of a frontman who is not a good singer. Very bad nearly all of the time when performing live.
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That was a good listen (although 'Money for Nothing' and 'What's Love Got To Do With It?' !?!? Do me a favour, Keith!). Thought I'd heard, or at least heard of, most of the great soul singers and writers, but Freddie Scott was a new one for me. Great tune.
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"Rumors"? That would be "Rumours", I believe. English band (at the outset, anyway).
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www.myspace.com/thestansermons That's mine. Hopefully, CindyC won't think that what she's hearing is "shitty music blast(ing) out"......... Declan
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Thanks to all! Helps me out a good deal. Declan
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Hello, I know that this is old news, but I'd like some help from the Dylaners on here, if you all please. Putting aside the versions of Dignity just released on Tell Tale Signs, what is the story with the other two previously available versions? (Maybe there are more, but there are two of which I'm aware - I'm not including Unplugged.) I know about the difficulties there were r
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The modern Cavern IS in fact on the site of the original - just not the ENTIRE site. When you walk through parts of it now, you are actually walking where the original was. The soundman explained this to me before a gig I played there last year. Declan
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I like this song, always have. Useless lyrics, though. Declan
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My mate has a theory that once a band gets to a certain level of record sales, they end up sounding like U2. Coldplay, The Verve's latest, Kings of Leon. He may have a point...
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Ealing Jazz Club, 10 minutes away. (Rather un-fantastic nighclub now called Club Azur - or 'Club are-you-sure?' as the locals like to call it...)
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Hello, I can recommend the Perry and Janovitz books, too. Both written by men who are obviously big fans. They're both musicians too, so they write with authority on the music, but not to the degree where non-musicians would be excluded. I've not yet read A Season In Hell, though I do own it. It's received some fairly negative reviews on here. Philip Norman's 'Th
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QuoteSilver Dagger Not overly impressed. The wife bought it but it's manufactured soul for the now generation. File under Joss Stone etc. All worthy but I've heard it before. It's join the dots together soul. I have to say that I agree largely. She can obviously sing and the four or five songs I've heard are catchy enough, but there doesn't appear to be a great deal o
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Me neither. Has a good groove and momentum, and would work well live, but not a great 'song'. For me, you can't beat A New Decade and This Is Music as opening tunes on A Northern Soul - McCabe is absolutely brilliant on those sort of Verve tunes. Top guitar player.
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You may notice that Ashcroft wryly introduces Bittersweet Symphony as "a cover of a Staples Singers' tune"! Good on him!
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QuoteSpud Poor sod will probably get a medical bill from ABKCO. That made me laugh loud! Excellent! And good on the fellow - hope he lives for many years yet.
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What the hell is Keith doing in that second photo? Was he playing a city infested with the plague? Or was he trying to remain anonymous ("who's that bloke up there on the stage with the guitar?" )? Or maybe this was his reaction to the fact that the Mick Jagger Circus Show (TM) had got so big. Whichever, he looks quite the clown. The man is a geetar player who stays in fancy hotels
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That was top - never heard it before. I think I'll go off and learn it. Declan
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