Around the early to mid 60s there was quite an explosion of blues talent in and around London, and in other British cities. Many of those musicians are still around and playing, and the more of them you hear, the more you realise how much it was a matter of luck (apart from a few truly outstanding people) whether they ended up in a band that was a huge international success, a moderate UK succes
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Baby, baby, baby, you're trout of time...
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QuoteMonicaDe Quotemicha063 I just watched this video again. I was there and it was such a f*ng great concert. Full of joy, happines, power, swing and Rock'n Roll. Absolutely great! Such an energy! Anyone knows how many km Mick does on the stage during each show? I have heard 12 miles (about 19 km) quoted - no idea how accurate that may be and it's probably less in recent years
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It takes a really well trained crew of under-the-stage musicians to play exactly as unpredictably as Keith and Ronnie would if it was really them. How they manage to co-ordinate it all with the onstage moves is truly amazing.
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The "Raving Upon Thames" book mentioned in the article is available here: First time I've heard of it, but the reviews look good.
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Alas, I didn't see the article about the commemorative talk until today, when it was too late to go. A few inaccuracies: Mick and Keith are from Dartford, not Deptford!
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There are a bunch of usual suspects for playing at royal occasions, and the Stones are not among them.
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Looks very promising. Definitely on my toread list.
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Sad news. Farewell to a lovely lady.
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Happy Birthday Keith, and many more of them! It's good to have you with us.
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Spaceport Cornwall will be allowed to host the UK's first space launch after it was granted an operating licence by the aviation regulator. The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) said the site in Newquay could be used for sending satellites into space. Its first mission is expected to be conducted by the Virgin Orbit company in the coming weeks. The mission has been given the title Star
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QuoteCooltoplady Quotetommycharles I remember everyone talking at the time about how stationary Keith was during that show, and I remember watching the pay per view live and having the opposite reaction - we’d previously seen him play some _very_ ropey gigs in 2006/7, then some clips surfaced in 2010 or so of him barely able to strum a note, and so I watched the 2012 Newark show so happy that Kei
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Since I already have the Mono CD box and I'm not into vinyl or other fancy packages, I'll take the ticket.
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Jerry Lee Lewis, notorious US rock’n’roll star, dies aged 87 Artist’s songs such as Great Balls of Fire helped install rock’n’roll as the dominant American pop music of the 1950s. Jerry Lee Lewis, the rock’n’roll pioneer who became one of the most infamous figures in popular music, has died aged 87, his publicist has said. He died of natural causes at his home in DeSoto County, Mississ
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NashvilleBlues: I take it that talking about the making of Brown Sugar and who-played-what is fine, but the argument about it not being played since Miami is still off limits.
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The Daily Mail has been reading too much fan fiction.
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QuoteBig Al Yes, I'm often bemused by the Beatles' labelling as a 'boyband', when they quite clearly do no fit the recognised definition! There were of course no boybands in the 60s, but early in their careers the Beatles (and other British groups) occupied the same kind of showbiz niche that boybands did later, even though they were very different in the way they started.
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Quotegeorgie48 QuoteGreen Lady Quotegeorgie48 QuoteElmo Lewis More change between 1962-1970 than the 52-year period since then. Music, movies, fashion, etc. Most (but certainly not all) of it was positive. Anyone who considers the Beatles as a mere boy band has lost their mind. The term boy band was totally unknown in those early sixties. But in retrospect The Beatles (basically all other y
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Quotegeorgie48 QuoteElmo Lewis More change between 1962-1970 than the 52-year period since then. Music, movies, fashion, etc. Most (but certainly not all) of it was positive. Anyone who considers the Beatles as a mere boy band has lost their mind. The term boy band was totally unknown in those early sixties. But in retrospect The Beatles (basically all other young, mostly British bands) sta
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QuoteCaptainCorella QuoteStonesSmeth99 Comments from Steve Jordan in The Guardian: That article really really contains a lot (not all) of rubbish. To fully appreciate how different The Beatles' sound was you had to have been listening to 1950's bland Payola music for many years. That DIFFERENCE in late 1962 was stunning and on first hearing in 1962 it really stood out. (See lat
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A Google for Fischli and Weiss will bring up lots of images of their clay models. There are scores of them, most quite cartoonish, and most depicting the funny side of a historical situation. The Satisfaction model is one among many and not particularly meant to be perfectly accurate, either anatomically or historically. It's fun.
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The poster for the original West End stage production of Oliver! shows that the picture is before 1966 - Rockman's date of 1964 seems as likely as any. But in any case, the "statue" isn't based on that picture (or on any photograph, probably), and as ProfessorWolf says, the fact that the sculptor thinks the writing of Satisfaction was done by Mick and Brian shows how much he
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Quotetreaclefingers My reading glasses. Started about 2 years ago. Being short sighted, I now need to take my glasses off to read IORR on my phone.
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Desktop computer or smartphone. No, it wasn't designed for a smartphone screen, but it's fine by me. This is a personal site, and trying to throw money at the "problem" isn't going to buy you a flashy new format that won't work on half the world's devices and will be out of date as soon as it's introduced.
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Quoteangieburden It would be easy for us to travel to them as well as they would be staying in one place. Then they could rotate, as mentioned, NYC, Chicago, Las Vegas, London, Germany, etc. Who are the "us" who would find travel to Las Vegas easy? If they do ever take up the residency idea, wherever it is, it should be combined with a properly organised professional paid-for
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Torrents may be the way to go but I have no idea how to use them.
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QuoteSpud ..and this is exactly why they don't need to write great new songs ... It's not what they play that defines them ...it's how they play it . Which is why the setlist-obsessives sometimes get it wrong. Wow, they played so-and-so! Yes, but they made a mess of it, or sounded totally by-the- numbers uninspired. Oh, they just played such and such a warhorse... Ye
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Congratulations on all those posts, and may there be many more to come.
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QuoteHairball Here's an excerpt from a Rolling Stone magazine interview/article from 2013 previously unpublished, but was then published on Aug 25, 2021 - the day after Charlie passed away: Charlie - RIP From RS writer Mikal Gilmore: "Keith Richards tells me, more than once, that Watts is essentially the reason that he still plays with Mick Jagger, and the reason the Rolling Stone
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It ain't broke. Don't fix it.
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