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They have a new guitar player (in the background) :

Now if they can just get some new singers,they might be ok.

"It's just some friends of mine and they're busting down the door"

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Is this supposed to be the album cover?

SuperHeavy: Not your average supergroup
By Edna Gundersen, USA TODAYPosted

LOS ANGELES — SuperHeavy isn't music's first supergroup. Remember Cream, The Highwaymen, the Traveling Wilburys and Temple of the Dog?
But it may be the first to hatch its own genre, which should come as no surprise considering the ensemble's diverse membership.
As Rolling Stones fans awaited word of the band's next tour ("It's not on the table," Mick Jagger says), the iconic singer and his friend/collaborator Dave Stewart (Eurythmics) formed SuperHeavy with British soul singer Joss Stone, reggae star Damian Marley and Indian composer/musician A.R. Rahman.
Their anticipated self-titled debut arrives Sept. 20 with an indefinable fusion of rock, soul, reggae, blues, pop and Indian music. Reggae-steeped first single Miracle Worker showcases Marley's toasting skills, Stone's strapping vocals and Jagger's sexy yowl. A video will be released this month.
Jagger and Stewart, who co-produced the album and share a passion for Jamaican and Caribbean sounds, cooked up the multicultural concept and sought out sterling collaborators.
Stone, who worked with the pair on the 2004 Alfie soundtrack, was high on the list, as was Marley, youngest son of reggae icon Bob Marley. Rahman, whose Slumdog Millionaire soundtrack had just won Oscars for best song and score, was considered a catch for his pop-exotica sensibilities.
"I said, 'Hey, look, we're going to try this experiment,'" Stewart says. "Everyone turned up without knowing what it was. Mick said: 'This is mad. We haven't written any songs.' We started jamming, and it was amazing. It got to certain peaks where it was, whoa, this is happening."
The group hammered out most tracks over three weeks at The Village studio in L.A. They also recorded off the coast of Cyprus, as well as in France, Turkey, Miami, the Caribbean and India. Jagger and Stewart shaped the sessions into 17 songs.
The results — ranging from dance track Energy to Satyameva Jayate, a Rahman composition that finds Jagger singing in Urdu — defy categorization.
"It's definitely an unknown genre," Jagger says. "But it's accessible and structured. I worry people will think it's some kind of world jam. It's not."
No live dates are confirmed. Nor is a sequel. Yet.
"I know Dave is already talking about the next one," Jagger says. "As far as I'm concerned, it was a one-off thing. But we'll see what happens."

[www.usatoday.com]

As Rolling Stones fans awaited word of the band's next tour ("It's not on the table," Mick Jagger says...

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Not a bad song but it was better if Mick only did the background vocals...........I really don't like his voice this way....way to much forced IMO

...Mick's voice is very very forced

Heard the new "supergroup" on the radio and almost fell out of my chair laughing - it sounded like an amateur band's efforts at, well I can't explain it, but it wasn't rock, it wasn't blues ...

Agreed, Kriffhard. The aural frequency of MJ's 70 year-old subversive, nasal sneer is extremely grating on the ear drums. I just don't think he gets how his over the top affectations are long played out. And he's probably got so many "yes" men and women with their noses up his rear, he could whistle Dixie and they'd tell him it's the best thing since Exile. Time to get real MJ. Who are you at 70? Dig deeper, man.

Also, consider the recording locations:

The group hammered out most tracks over three weeks at The Village studio in L.A. They also recorded off the coast of Cyprus, as well as in France, Turkey, Miami, the Caribbean and India. Jagger and Stewart shaped the sessions into 17 songs.

Wow, they all found inspiration together in these exotic locations, right? Uh, no: this is a digital project, like video-conferencing. .wav files were sent as zip files to studio computers, I'm guessing Mac. I bet their photo shoot was stitched together in PS. It's no "real" band; kinda like the Wizard of Oz behind the curtain, but asking Dorothy et al. for pocket change to get back to Oz. (Of course the pocket change here is I-Tunes.)

This new paradigm of recording is cool, but vinyl-age fans should see beyond the traditional "band" mindset, as this project is smoke and mirrors, marketed as a "band." It's not.

At least die-hard fans will take heart that MJ sees this as a "one off." That could mean the fences will once more be mended and we'll get to hear more music from the Stones. Just hope MJ is in a real, not virtual place for that one.



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Heard the new "supergroup" on the radio and almost fell out of my chair laughing - it sounded like an amateur band's efforts at, well I can't explain it, but it wasn't rock, it wasn't blues ...

I believe it is known as reggae.

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Heard the new "supergroup" on the radio and almost fell out of my chair laughing - it sounded like an amateur band's efforts at, well I can't explain it, but it wasn't rock, it wasn't blues ...

I am quite shocked about the reactions here..wolfi, you are kidding, right?? It wasn't rock, it wasn't blues - how limited is your knowledge of music? It's a nice reggae song, nothing too special, but an interesting listen. I hope the other songs reflect the different backgrounds of the band members in a better way. I am looking forward to the whole album, if you cannot enjoy it simply because it is not 'classic rock' music I really pity you. I have noticed anyway that many members have become really stuck in the past. Always shocking to see old people become like that and I dearly hope that I will once be able to avoid this...

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Heard the new "supergroup" on the radio and almost fell out of my chair laughing - it sounded like an amateur band's efforts at, well I can't explain it, but it wasn't rock, it wasn't blues ...

Imagine that.. the only two musical genres in existence and its neither of them. How could they manage to get it so wrong? Amateurs.

Maybe were not their target group........although I don't know who they try to reach

if only MJ would heed the advice of iorr posters, maybe he could get somewhere with his music. has he not even heard of the internets? one wonders.

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Heard the new "supergroup" on the radio and almost fell out of my chair laughing - it sounded like an amateur band's efforts at, well I can't explain it, but it wasn't rock, it wasn't blues ...

I am quite shocked about the reactions here..wolfi, you are kidding, right?? It wasn't rock, it wasn't blues - how limited is your knowledge of music? It's a nice reggae song, nothing too special, but an interesting listen. I hope the other songs reflect the different backgrounds of the band members in a better way. I am looking forward to the whole album, if you cannot enjoy it simply because it is not 'classic rock' music I really pity you. I have noticed anyway that many members have become really stuck in the past. Always shocking to see old people become like that and I dearly hope that I will once be able to avoid this...

Some people are into super headbanging, some other people are a little bit more into superheavy banging. You Can Get helpfull music to support your favorite sport, ... If You Really Want It ...





this is Jimmy Cliff performing the old Desmond Dekker song

You can get it if you really want
You can get it if you really want
You can get it if you really want
But you must try - try and try - try and try
You'll succed at last - mmmm yeah

Persecution you must fear
Win or lose the battle, get your share
You've got your mind set on a dream
You can it though hard it may seem

You can get it if you really want
You can get it if you really want, yeah
You can get it if you really want
But you must try - try and try - try and try
You'll succed at last - don't you know it

Rome was not built in a day
Opposition will come your way
But the harder the battle, you see
Is the sweeter the victory

You can get it if you really want
You can get it if you really want
You can get it if you really want
But you must try - try and try - try and try
You'll succed at last


so, let's try it, You'll Succeed At Last ....



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Is this supposed to be the album cover?

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As Rolling Stones fans awaited word of the band's next tour ("It's not on the table," Mick Jagger says...

very bad...

No, it would have been Good News if Mick and Keith hadn't killed each other's solo career, careers that would have kept them in high spirits to resurrect the Stones every 3-5 years.

Old geezers playing reggae - is that the future ?

PS: imho, not even good reggae music ...



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Old geezers playing reggae - is that the future ?

PS: imho, not even good reggae music ...

What is GOOD reggae music to you? But don't come up with some off-backstreet-Trenchtown artist only you know. To me it's the old formula: Anything you can do, we can do it better!

Mick Jagger's latest bid to break orbit from Keith Richards
Nick March
Jul 15, 2011
Summary
Will SuperHeavy, the Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger's new all-star band, finally give the ageing rocker an opportunity to escape from his love-hate relationship with his longtime collaborator?


Mick Jagger, the frontman of the Rolling Stones, has, according to Keith Richards, been unbearable for 30 years. Richards made this not altogether shocking revelation last year in Life, his appropriately named autobiography. He would also describe his love-hate relationship with Jagger as being "like a marriage with no divorce".
Looking at the band's output over that same period, it's hard to disagree. The creative spark that once propelled the Stones to the top of the world was extinguished years ago, replaced by an efficient, profitable but largely cheerless union of two of rock and roll's greatest figures.
Indeed, Tattoo You, released in 1981, marked the band's last truly great album. There have been high points since - notably, patches of 1983's Undercover and fragments of 1994's Voodoo Lounge - but the modern era has been largely fallow, a time when Jagger and Richards may have stopped fighting, but they also stopped loving each other, too.
Periodically, Jagger has tried to break free from the ties that bind, only to find out that Richards was right all along: theirs is a marriage from which there is no escape. Or is there?
Last week Jagger announced his latest bid for liberation, this time as one-fifth of a fledgling supergroup called SuperHeavy.
Despite the band's big name, Jagger is the outright star of an otherwise middleweight combination, in which the other members are Dave Stewart, most famous for being one-half of the Eighties duo Eurythmics; AR Rahman, the composer of the Slumdog Millionaire soundtrack; Damian Marley, known in these parts for cancelling his appearance at the Womad music festival last year, and Joss Stone, once a platinum-selling teenage prodigy, but most recently in the news for being the subject of a thankfully foiled murder plot.
Miracle Worker, SuperHeavy's first single, broke cover late last week (an album will follow in September) and while the reactions of Jagger's most ardent fans have generally been warm, the song has yet to seriously trouble the download charts in either the US or the UK. Which is a shame. The track, an odd and not particularly innovative mishmash of styles, features vocals by Marley, Stone and Jagger (whose opening salvo is to declare that "there's nothing wrong with you that I can't fix" - a message for Richards, perhaps?) is, nevertheless, hookey enough to warrant a place on a longish list of tracks to wile away the summer to.
According to a video posted on the SuperHeavy website, the idea for the band came to Stewart when he was in the Caribbean where, he explains in the slightly absurd manner of a mystic rock star: "I went to the top of a hill and when I got [there] a light was kind of coming through the leaves on the trees and I had this flash of how there could be a fusion of music from different parts of the world ... I never actually thought it would happen."
But happen it has, and SuperHeavy could well be Jagger's smartest move for a generation. Of all his work outside the Stones, his one-hit 1985 collaboration with David Bowie is most fondly remembered.
Now with SuperHeavy, Jagger might once again have the creative forces surrounding him to ease the burden of expectation we continue to place on the greats of a bygone era, although only time will tell whether the unusual mix of a performer-producer (Stewart), composer (Rahman), dancehall-reggae star (Marley) and soul singer (Stone) will end up delivering that elusive success or even the fusion to which Stewart alluded to.
One thing we do know: Jagger won't be distracted by his supergroup for long, especially when his best buddy-worst enemy is waiting patiently for him to roll home to the Stones. Even if we hurt the ones we love the most, we can't help returning to them either.

[www.thenational.ae]

"an odd and not particularly innovative mishmash of styles"

Exactly!

Why did they have to do this ?

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"an odd and not particularly innovative mishmash of styles"

Exactly!

Why did they have to do this ?

'couse they wanted to. You know artists do that sometimes - write, paint, compose, play, perform.
What's your problem? You do not like it - do not listen.

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"an odd and not particularly innovative mishmash of styles"

Exactly!

Why did they have to do this ?

So being innovative is the only reason why anyone should make a record?

Thats the last three decades of your favourite band dismissed in one sentence, then.

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'couse they wanted to. You know artists do that sometimes - write, paint, compose, play, perform.
What's your problem? You do not like it - do not listen.[/proudmary]



You forgot, Mary. They owe it to some fans to limit themselves to the only forms of music they're able to grasp.

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Old geezers playing reggae - is that the future ?

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as opposed to old geezers playing the blues?

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Old geezers playing reggae - is that the future ?

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as opposed to old geezers playing the blues?

Eggzactly, what the hell does age have to do w/ it? They are old, no matter what genre they are playing. If you need youth, listen to Timberlake & stop bitching.

It's a pity... I told Mick to do something like this about two years ago, he didn't respond. But I told him to do it WITH the Rolling Stones, to re-invent themselves in another fashion and change the line-up. But now he does it as another project, it's a pity and he's so stubborn, he just doesn't get it that it will be more succesfull under the name Rolling Stones, he just doesn't get it that it's the band's name that will sell and even make it sound better, he thinks that the Rolling Stones should keep playing JJF, he doesn't get it that you can start anew whilest using the power of an old name, which is strange since back in the days they did it themselves on numerous occasions and so did many other bands very succesfully even for their betterment. He just didn't learn from his solo projects that no matter how good it was it is the name that does it and that name is Rolling Stones. Well, as they say, the arrow has left the bow and for me there is no reason anymore to hang around here bothering you with me trying to convince a third observer party (my comments never were intended for you). And as they say in my home country khoda Hafez (God Keep).

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It's a pity... I told Mick to do something like this about two years ago, he didn't respond. But I told him to do it WITH the Rolling Stones, to re-invent themselves in another fashion and change the line-up. But now he does it as another project, it's a pity and he's so stubborn, he just doesn't get it that it will be more succesfull under the name Rolling Stones, he just doesn't get it that it's the band's name that will sell and even make it sound better, he thinks that the Rolling Stones should keep playing JJF, he doesn't get it that you can start anew whilest using the power of an old name, which is strange since back in the days they did it themselves on numerous occasions and so did many other bands very succesfully even for their betterment. He just didn't learn from his solo projects that no matter how good it was it is the name that does it and that name is Rolling Stones. Well, as they say, the arrow has left the bow and for me there is no reason anymore to hang around here bothering you with me trying to convince a third observer party (my comments never were intended for you). And as they say in my home country khoda Hafez (God Keep).

Well, looks like you have it all figured out ... how did Mick ever make money?

A 48 hour exclusive for SuperHeavy Facebook fans ONLY... A sneaky peak into the recording studio..
[www.facebook.com]



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From watching that clip, this looks very promising...I like that
crazy energy.

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It's a pity... I told Mick to do something like this about two years ago, he didn't respond. But I told him to do it WITH the Rolling Stones, to re-invent themselves in another fashion and change the line-up. But now he does it as another project, it's a pity and he's so stubborn, he just doesn't get it that it will be more succesfull under the name Rolling Stones, he just doesn't get it that it's the band's name that will sell and even make it sound better, he thinks that the Rolling Stones should keep playing JJF, he doesn't get it that you can start anew whilest using the power of an old name, which is strange since back in the days they did it themselves on numerous occasions and so did many other bands very succesfully even for their betterment. He just didn't learn from his solo projects that no matter how good it was it is the name that does it and that name is Rolling Stones. Well, as they say, the arrow has left the bow and for me there is no reason anymore to hang around here bothering you with me trying to convince a third observer party (my comments never were intended for you). And as they say in my home country khoda Hafez (God Keep).

For the hundredth time, Mick cant unilaterally 'change the line up' as its not HIS band.

Posts like this convince me more that the lunatics really have taken over the asylum.

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For the hundredth time, Mick cant unilaterally 'change the line up' as its not HIS band.

Are you sure Gazza? I remember reading a billboard that said - MICK JAGGER and his Rolling Stones.