A few pages ago there was a discussion between a downloader/streamer and a hard copy collector. I prefer a new cd even with old material to bits and pieces spread all over my computer. Despite talking about new material there are lots of overlooked songs on dvds and greatest hits boxes, hidden b-sides and by now unavailable ones that could make up a new album for us ccollectors and a general pub
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The fuzz guitar is marvellous. I don't know why they only used it this time and for just a handful of bars. I know Keith hates fuzzed guitars.
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My favourite is Bill Wyman saying: "We're getting better and better. Wait till 1990!" And everybody in the room is laughing. Dolezal and Rossacher are probably best known for their videos of Queen and Falco's Rock Me Amadeus.
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Taken from frenki09's post above: Rolling Stone would never ever give less than 4 starts to a Stones album. They probably deserved the four stars every time. Frank Laufenberg is/was a famous (radio) journalist in Germany. I remember him reviewing Undercover by saying "Undercover is a mediocre Rolling Stones album. But any mediocre Rolling Stones album is better than 99 per cent of
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A note from the current issue of Good Times (sub title: Music from the 60s to the 80s), music magazine from Germany. They have a questionaire and this time Mick Rogers (singer and guitarist for Manfred Mann) was answering. Most underrated band / solo act: "The Rolling Stones"
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A friend of mine is a big name in the HipHop scene in Germany for decades. Last time we met he told me that he had a chat with a 'more current' HipHopper. My friend said: I envy you for your million clicks on Spotify! The answer was: I'd rather sell 100,000 cd copies (his record from the 1990s is close to 900,000...) like you than have a million clicks...
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Our Music teacher at school told us that Ringo was the first to put a blanket in his bass drum. By that he created a sound nobody else had.
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Quotemattleeuk Bernard and Darryl enjoying Hot Stuff in Miami I wonder which page they're looking at. Could be the one with the Angie original picture sleeve.
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Quotedoitywoik Quotestargroover Doing a Springsteen and selling their entire catalogue along with their final recordings may well happen. While this might be envisageable for Mick and Keith (in case they could agree on it) one question arising here is what about Ronnie and the handful of Jagger/Richards/Woods songs. Also, the way I understand the (reports on) the deals that Dylan, Young, Spr
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QuoteCaptainCorella QuoteSonofHarlemShuffler There is another book of Stones memorabilia called “Not Fade Away” by Geoffrey Giuliano which apparently came out thirty years ago. Time flies! I wonder if he posts here and if Matt Lee knows him. It's mentioned in Matt's book. Importantly Matt does not, at any stage, and absolutely correctly, mention Mr G, he gives credit to Chris E
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In 1986 I was studying English at university. We had a lecturer from Cambridge, very 'English' from head to toe and always open to argue about who's better Beatles or Stones. He was into the Beatles. Funny thing was that we were doing a course on phrases, slang and proverbs at the time of Dirty Work. Was it mere coincidence that I suddenly had a clue about what Mick was singing?!
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QuoteJadedFaded The Who were a very good studio band. The Stones are a phenomenal live band. That’s why I’ve seen The Who twice and I’ve seen the Stones 60 times. Mediocre my ass! I disagree, they are phenomenal live too (5 times Who live, 17 times Stones - Join the Who, Ronnie, they don't tour that often?!). Sometimes, I felt the Stones were too much of a show band - watching. The Who a
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My idea why Undercover is not well respected in fan circles is that those Stones prototype rockers are simply weak!: Too Tough, All The Way Down and It Must Be Hell (which is a replay of Soul Survivor). These are the last images one has listening to the whole record. Wanna Hold You too sloppy. Keith hadn't yet realized that he's the balladeer in the band. I think the new sounds are w
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QuoteBjorn Bodytalks...not even a B-side... I regard Bodytalks as a a jam like "Slave" and therefore fit in a Stones album - my opinion.
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QuoteRocky Dijon I'd rather own SLIDE ON THIS, MAIN OFFENDER, and WANDERING SPIRIT. This is, of course, the correct answer, especially as at the time all Stones (Charlie had done Charlie Parker and Warm & Tender and, if you like, count in the just left Bill with "Stuff"...) members were doing solo records. It qould have been a wonderful start for all to establish solo work. T
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Slide On, Wandering Offender would have been the Stones album between Steel Wheels and Voodoo Lounge. If you consider the most featured songs of the time by Mick and Keith (plus the then Ronnie one) the Never Released Stones-Long-Player might have been like this. 999 (5.50) Wicked As It Seems (4.45) Eileen (4.26) Angel In My Heart (3.21) Wandering Spirit (4.16) Bodytalks (5.18) Somebody
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Ventriloquism must have been inspiring to brother Chris Jagger too: He titled his 1974 album as "The Adventures of Valentine Vox the Ventriloquist". The cover has some original photographs and a certain Tom Edwards mentioned - but he doesn't look like the Exile man.
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QuoteRockman It use ta be ..James Dean .... Elvis ... Monroe Now its Frida Kahlo...books..badges..cups...clothes..cushions.. tea-towels A Frida Kahlo tea towel? Where can I buy it? My wife would love it!
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Quoteexhpart Well ...if this thread has done nothing else it made me dig out GHS and give it a listen again. It will always have a special place for me as my first Stones album. Today standout track was Coming Down Again probably change tomorrow but Coming Down Again is wonderful. Delicate piano and lyrics that for the fan actually mean something as Keith sings about Anita I experience the same
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Quoteliddas Truly can't believe the little love Imagination studio version gets here: it is a fantastic track! I don't even see it as a proper cover. God knows what was on Whitfield/Strong's original papers? Temps (and the Funk Brothers) gave us one version, the stones another one. Genius move by the Temps to release a ballad as a single (what the stones later did with Angie)
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QuoteDandelionPowderman QuoteJJHMick Quotenoughties I just had a listen to the studio version of "When The Whip Comes Down" after all these years, on Youtube. I found very little in that song for me. It would have been a commercial disaster if played live. That's my problem with Some Girls - a really great Album that contains the two musical styles I hardly appreciate: Disco and
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Quotenoughties I just had a listen to the studio version of "When The Whip Comes Down" after all these years, on Youtube. I found very little in that song for me. It would have been a commercial disaster if played live. That's my problem with Some Girls - a really great Album that contains the two musical styles I hardly appreciate: Disco and Punk...
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QuoteHis Majesty Maybe because I'm getting older, 44 in May, I've been pondering the closeness of notable events in stones history and getting kind of freaked out about how old these things are. It's 50 years since Brian died. I mean it's becoming near ancient history. Amazes me that the Jones era only lasted as a fully functioning touring and recording band for 3 or 4 yea
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QuoteRocky Dijon One day, you'll realize "Harlem Shuffle" backed with "Had It With You" was a terrific single. "Too Rude" was their finest stab at reggae. "Sleep Tonight" would have fit in nicely on EMPIRE BURLESQUE. The instrumental break at the end of "Hold Back" is terrific if you can skip everything before it. "Back to Zero" rea
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Quotesnorton QuoteCarnaby Ronnie on bass? It is the Jeff Beck Group and not the Faces.
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QuoteHonestman Part 2 I'm down on my knees or whatever! I have Exile on Main St since 1976 and never bothered much about that (what I thought was merely a) fake-Stones-tongue-logo thing...
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What striked me first was the artwork! Cover and inner sleeve stuff: Any bullshit bootleger at the time put more emphasis on that than the official ones...
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Don't expect too much of the movie itself. It is typical German "Autorenkino". Schlöndorff became "commercial" much later. But He Held Anita Pallenberg in high regards: She was a "Kinotier" (a "movie beast") - that got lost due to Keith's more than to Brian's fault...
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QuoteKRiffhard Quoterunrudolph Yeah.love Highwire. Good n vibrant song.hope they will do it live . Jeroen It would have been perfect on 'Steel Wheels' as second single after "Mixed Emotions". I think the war started later than the SW release date...
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"My biggest plan is to get a Keith Moon film started." Me, even as somebody only liking an odd song by Queen, was very impressed by Bohemian Rhapsody. I would appreciate that idea very much. Any title suggestions?! We won't get fools like Keith Moon again?!
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