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DiscoVolante
Tss, after Sugar Blue, Mick Jagger is probably the best harp-player there is.
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DiscoVolante
Tss, after Sugar Blue, Mick Jagger is probably the best harp-player there is.
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neptune
But when pressed by the host about Brian's importance to the band, Mick just wouldn't bite. "Brian was really into the music of Morocco . . . but so were we." Mick was perhaps candid with this comment, but he at the same time discredits Brian by saying that he wasn't solely responsible for the Stones' experimental sound. So, then, is Continental Drift a true dedication to Brian?
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Mathijs
Statements of how he was a fantastic multi-instrumentalist, superb slide player, gifted singer and single handedly forming the Stones just aren’t the truth –without taking anything away from him.
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DiscoVolanteDidn't Ron Wood play a sitar guitar live on some numbers? Anyway, it's just a matter of taste. The Open G-straight forward rock n roll-guitar weaving sound is the Stones sound I love and that sound has been working for the past 40 years. And except from Under My Thumb, all those tracks belongs to the psychedelic era. Yuck, I'd rather listen to Dirty Work than that Satanic Majesties crap...Quote
Sleepy City
I have an even harder time picturing Mick Taylor (or Ronnie Wood) playing a sitar on Paint It Black / a recorder on Ruby Tuesday / marimbas on Under My Thumb / mellotron on 2000 Light Years From Home / oboe on Dandelion...
Wouldn't y'all agree?
The guy was a musical genius, & the only person with the onstage charisma to rival Jagger.
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Mathijs
Statements of how he was a fantastic multi-instrumentalist, superb slide player, gifted singer and single handedly forming the Stones just aren’t the truth –without taking anything away from him.
Well, the first two are true, even if the last two aren't.
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Mathijs
Statements of how he was a fantastic multi-instrumentalist, superb slide player, gifted singer and single handedly forming the Stones just aren’t the truth –without taking anything away from him.
Well, the first two are true, even if the last two aren't.
Well, he was an effective multi-instrumentalist. He wasn't really good on any of the more exotic instruments, but he knew how to use them very effectively.
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His Majesty
Nothing more needs to be said really.
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His Majesty
Nothing more needs to be said really.
Ha, you'd wish
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Blueranger
he didn't write any material
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Sleepy City
The only over-rated RS as far as I'm concerned is Mick Taylor, particularly on here. Sure, he was / is an amazing player, but I think I agree with Bill Wyman in that he never really fit in. But Brian is vastly under-appreciated by most RS fans.
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His Majesty
He was part of the Nanker-Phelge song writing credit
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His Majesty
He was part of the Nanker-Phelge song writing credit
But that vehicle was created to give Oldham a share of the royalties, and not specially for Brian, Watts or Wyman.
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His Majesty
He was part of the Nanker-Phelge song writing credit
But that vehicle was created to give Oldham a share of the royalties, and not specially for Brian, Watts or Wyman.
Mathijs
He was still part of it.
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Wry Cooter
He was not a fantastic harmonica player -- any more than Jagger is.
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Blueranger
Yes, but he was not a 'Song Writer'. He was a genius on various instruments. That alone does not make him The Rolling Stones. Then you could say Watts was also a composer on his drums. Jones was an instrumentalist, not a songwriter. Please note that I'm a big fan of Jones.