Seems like KR will indeed perform Gimme Shelter ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Keith Richards Honors Merry Clayton After Car Crash By JOE COSCARELLI OCT. 20, 2015 The session singer Merry Clayton, best known for her fire-starting vocal runs on the Rolling Stones’ song “Gimme Shelter,” was still reaching new highs when she was involv
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QuoteMel Belli Jon Pareles piece on Keith just went up on NYTimes Mobile. On the go, so have link only: Thanks for link. Some choice quotes from his interview: "Mr. Richards hopes to reconvene the X-Pensive Winos for at least a handful of shows before the Rolling Stones go back on the road. He’s also impatient for the Stones to make another album. “My favorite dream is to get the R
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Some fun trivia for a Friday evening. Imagine your life according to the Rolling Stones. Using only song title from the Stones, answer these questions. Try not to repeat a song title. Using Stones song tiles to describe my life was a lot harder than I imagined. (A friend of mine used Dylan's song titles and came up with her list in <5 minutes) Here's mine: Describe yours
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QuoteWitness However, the big question still remains as I hinted at in an earlier post: Will various Stones fans select the same five songs that you do from said later albums? Well - this is exactly Jagger's and only Jagger's burden to carry. A few years Lem here inimitably noted how many a Stones fan wanted their "own little personal Mick Jagger" who responded to their ind
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"And if things had been different All of your children would look just like me" "Yeah, I got that sinking feeling, whose potatoes are you peeling? Can't you hear my poor heart squealing?" "Some girls give me jewelry Others buy me clothes Some girls give me children I never asked them for"
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Quotestones40 As withsssoul has stated the line 'Troubadours killed before they reach 'Bombay' has never been explained and is really difficult to understand unless it has a hidden meaning. Troubadours were aristocratic poet-musicians of S France (Provence) who flourished from the end of the 11th cent. through the 13th cent. Many troubadours were noblemen and crusader knights;
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Eight years ago, gossip columnist Rachel Glucina got the ultimate Stones' scoop when she befriended frontman Mick Jagger. This is her account of that fateful night. So Mick Jagger is lying on the couch beside me in his enormous Auckland hotel suite. He's wearing socks - bright yellow, scare-the-horses socks. "Mork and Mindy yellow," I suggest. He laughs his deep, hor
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Apologies if posted elsewhere but this review is an interesting read. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ignobly Fading Away From the Rolling Stones ‘Brian Jones: The Making of the Rolling Stones,’ a Biography NOV. 16, 2014 Brian Jones is to the Rolling Stones what Leon Trotsky was to the Russian Revolution: organizer, ideologist and victi
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Quotetreaclefingers Quote71Tele Quotetreaclefingers I think we should leave the poor guy alone. If they feel that he adds to the equation, who the hell are we to second guess them? It's not as though this is the first tour with him. He's been 'with' the band longer than Brian Jones and Mick Taylor combined. Then why do people continue to start threads about him with t
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QuoteJustin QuoteDandelionPowderman And if I should add to those myself, I think Mick sings to Chuck's keyboards because of hearing issues. Additionally at some point he must have decided that the keyboards were the best to follow also because the guitar department had become so unreliable in recent years. This is essentially the Raison d'être for Jagger's reliance on Chuck but
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Quoteproudmary OK, I see the thread about Mick's appearance at the festival was hidden here. Again. There is now a sticky about new KR book and the separate thread about his upcoming interview at Tonight where he will promote the same book, obviously. That's great. But every Mick' interview in recent months including at Today - his first public appearance since L'Wren
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QuoteGasLightStreet Lowdown sounds like something Keith laid down with just Charlie. (When we wrote it), I started playing drums in the studio and Keith playing guitar... It was only Keith and me. So I am playing the drums and he is playing guitar. It was quite fun. - Mick Jagger, 1997 Low Down is the first song that Mick and I wrote specifically for Bridges To Babylon. - Keith Richards, 1
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Quotelatebloomer But we are talking about lyrics here, not poetry. Two different genres. As one writer put it, poetry is mainly for the eye whereas lyrics are mainly for the ear. In that context, Mick's lyrics are every bit as good as Dylan's. Here's a very interesting article on Dylan as a poet Bob Dylan: “I’m a poet, and I know it” In 2004, a Newsweek magazine article c
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Quotewanderingspirit66 QuoteDandelionPowderman QuoteOzHeavyThrobber Guys I'm lost and I even tried Hari Chrishna but I cannot see in the NPR interview or anywhere else where Jagger claims co-writing GS. Anyone able to copy and paste what I seem to be not seeing please? He said "we wrote" in the 20 Feet From Stardom"-film. But I didn't interpret that statement as having
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QuoteDandelionPowderman QuoteOzHeavyThrobber Guys I'm lost and I even tried Hari Chrishna but I cannot see in the NPR interview or anywhere else where Jagger claims co-writing GS. Anyone able to copy and paste what I seem to be not seeing please? He said "we wrote" in the 20 Feet From Stardom"-film. But I didn't interpret that statement as having anything to do with the
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Quotestupidguy2 Quotewanderingspirit66 QuoteOzHeavyThrobber Yeah nice contribution to the thread. As a sideline I read lower case just as competently as upper. Jagger has never made comment as far as I'm aware he had anything to do with the composition of it and Richards basically claims it entirely as his own in 'Life'. If you've anything to add that sheds light on Jagg
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QuoteDandelionPowderman QuoteLady Jayne QuoteOzHeavyThrobber Yeah nice contribution to the thread. As a sideline I read lower case just as competently as upper. Jagger has never made comment as far as I'm aware he had anything to do with the composition of it and Richards basically claims it entirely as his own in 'Life'. If you've anything to add that sheds light on Jag
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QuoteLady Jayne QuoteOzHeavyThrobber Yeah nice contribution to the thread. As a sideline I read lower case just as competently as upper. Jagger has never made comment as far as I'm aware he had anything to do with the composition of it and Richards basically claims it entirely as his own in 'Life'. If you've anything to add that sheds light on Jagger having co-written th
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QuoteOzHeavyThrobber Yeah nice contribution to the thread. As a sideline I read lower case just as competently as upper. Jagger has never made comment as far as I'm aware he had anything to do with the composition of it and Richards basically claims it entirely as his own in 'Life'. If you've anything to add that sheds light on Jagger having co-written this I'd be I
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QuoteOzHeavyThrobber "Gimme shelter" for example was solely written by Richards so sort of diminishes his points by making some of these mistakes. Gimme shelter WAS NOT solely written by Richards
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Quotestupidguy2 Yes! I heard that in the first measure...Musically, it has that slightly ramshackle, yet soulful throb..there's a bigness... Except I see PMS as it's older sister, all grown up and wiser... whereas TD was youthful, hopeful and strutting, trying to convince this woman to 'roll me'...roll the dice, take a chance etc.. PMS is filled with all the regret of sins,
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Quotestupidguy2 I remember reading an interview with Thomas where he basically suggests he didn't enjoy the experience ...that Mick wasn't easy to work with or something to that effect. I'll never understand why of all the people to collaborate with, Mick picked this guy. I assume he was hoping for the Carlos Santana effect, and have a massive hit. But Matchbox 20 wasn't ev
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Quoteproudmary TIME interview Mick Jagger on James Brown The legendary rocker talks about the soul king's impact on his life and career Mick Jagger first met James Brown backstage at the famed Apollo Theater in Harlem fifty years ago, when the now-legendary British superstar was a 20-year-old music industry rookie. Singer Ronnie Spector, who introduced them, has said that Jagger was
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Quotelem motlow that is pretty funny. football fans have something in common with rolling stones fans,they blame jagger for everything. seriously though,when you get your ass kicked that bad blaming a fan probably isn't the best idea. Jagger acknowledged his powers "I can take responsibility for the first German goal but not the other six!" LOL
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Quotestupidguy2 QuoteDandelionPowderman QuoteWitness QuoteDandelionPowderman I don't think Mick sounds serious on ID. At times, he sounds toungue in cheek and borderline mocking - while addressing serious subject(s). You may be right, but only to some extent. In case, that is surface. Below there is strong empathy. Empathy with realism involved. Possibly that essence strikes me so effe
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An interesting tidbit on a potential origin of the song June 12, 1964: Unknown Rolling Stones booed in Minnesota June 12, 2014 By Ben Grove Back on June, 12, 1964, when Keith Richards looked like this ……decades before he looked like this… …the Rolling Stones played Minnesota. Of course, everyone knows what has happened since then – the group spanned generations to become one of the
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I don’t believe it either. This clear statement is also quite clearly lies; what is true is that Jagger invented it or planted it or Jagger made him do it. Keith doesn't care about money. He has always been the “you can have the money pal kind of guy”. He has “integrity”. When Keith was working on Life, it was actually Jagger who demanded that Keith write up even more junk about Jagger.
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Interesting tidbit from the NYTIMES "The Stones objected to few of Prince Loewenstein’s initiatives to commercialize their music, even when he licensed “Satisfaction” for a Snickers ad. But in 2008 they rejected his plan for a takeover of the Rolling Stones by an unnamed organization “on the fringes of the entertainment industry,” despite his assurance that the deal would allow the ba
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What a wonderful and rare piece. Todd Snider - thank you!
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