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Doxa
The first song The Stones showed what one could call "professionalism". Partly dure to Chicago Chess studios, their engineers, and probably the band wanting to ve so precise as possible; very inspired performance and recording, and still today is soundwise a pleasure to hear. Yeah, the 'punkish' rawness of their fisrt album, and the singles, especially "I Wanna be Your Man" and "Not fade Away" was gone, but each of the key players showed a mature attitudu. Keith's solo is - I agree with Springsteen and Silver Dagger - one of the best he has ever done (so fresh and distinctive), Jagger's vocals are incredibly vital and colourful - sweet and arrogant at the same time, as someone said. Some much expression there. Charlie and Bill are tight as they can be. But the true gem that still makes it a treasure to listen is Brian's rhythm chords - are they early indications of "power chords" or not but they really capture one ears. That really showed how Brian was the "colourist" just from the straight start. He added something to the basic track that lifted the performace into eternal heights.
Yeah, a classic, historical track. No wonder being their first numero uno in their homeland.
- Doxa
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Doxa
The first song The Stones showed what one could call "professionalism". Partly dure to Chicago Chess studios, their engineers, and probably the band wanting to ve so precise as possible; very inspired performance and recording, and still today is soundwise a pleasure to hear. Yeah, the 'punkish' rawness of their fisrt album, and the singles, especially "I Wanna be Your Man" and "Not fade Away" was gone, but each of the key players showed a mature attitudu. Keith's solo is - I agree with Springsteen and Silver Dagger - one of the best he has ever done (so fresh and distinctive), Jagger's vocals are incredibly vital and colourful - sweet and arrogant at the same time, as someone said. Some much expression there. Charlie and Bill are tight as they can be. But the true gem that still makes it a treasure to listen is Brian's rhythm chords - are they early indications of "power chords" or not but they really capture one ears. That really showed how Brian was the "colourist" just from the straight start. He added something to the basic track that lifted the performace into eternal heights.
Yeah, a classic, historical track. No wonder being their first numero uno in their homeland.
- Doxa
Well, Doxa, what more can I say/add? ><
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Sleepy City
One of their greatest early singles, though I prefer the 1967 'Sunday Night At The London Palladium' arrangement.
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Sleepy City
One of their greatest early singles, though I prefer the 1967 'Sunday Night At The London Palladium' arrangement.
Is there a better recording of this? It sounds like some interesting things are going on. Was this a TV show or a concert?
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Doxa
The first song The Stones showed what one could call "professionalism". Partly dure to Chicago Chess studios, their engineers, and probably the band wanting to ve so precise as possible; very inspired performance and recording, and still today is soundwise a pleasure to hear. Yeah, the 'punkish' rawness of their fisrt album, and the singles, especially "I Wanna be Your Man" and "Not fade Away" was gone, but each of the key players showed a mature attitudu. Keith's solo is - I agree with Springsteen and Silver Dagger - one of the best he has ever done (so fresh and distinctive), Jagger's vocals are incredibly vital and colourful - sweet and arrogant at the same time, as someone said. Some much expression there. Charlie and Bill are tight as they can be. But the true gem that still makes it a treasure to listen is Brian's rhythm chords - are they early indications of "power chords" or not but they really capture one ears. That really showed how Brian was the "colourist" just from the straight start. He added something to the basic track that lifted the performace into eternal heights.
Yeah, a classic, historical track. No wonder being their first numero uno in their homeland.
- Doxa
Well, Doxa, what more can I say/add? ><
The only thing I'd add are Keith's Everlys-inspired harmonies. It's the first RS recording (as far as I can recall) to feature good harmonies.
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michel
Isnt it Brian singing the harmonies here?, at least on the tami show he does
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Rank Stranger
This is the record that got me hooked in 1964, and if there were any doubts about the Stones in my youthful mind, "The Last Time" blew them away, literally!
I agree with all you said, Doxa; but I would like to give more credit to Chess' recording studio!
I really love all the songs they recorded on those two days, and I think that stuff is a giant step forward compared to the studio recordings made earlier.
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Doxa
The first song The Stones showed what one could call "professionalism". Partly dure to Chicago Chess studios, their engineers, and probably the band wanting to ve so precise as possible; very inspired performance and recording, and still today is soundwise a pleasure to hear. Yeah, the 'punkish' rawness of their fisrt album, and the singles, especially "I Wanna be Your Man" and "Not fade Away" was gone, but each of the key players showed a mature attitudu. Keith's solo is - I agree with Springsteen and Silver Dagger - one of the best he has ever done (so fresh and distinctive), Jagger's vocals are incredibly vital and colourful - sweet and arrogant at the same time, as someone said. Some much expression there. Charlie and Bill are tight as they can be. But the true gem that still makes it a treasure to listen is Brian's rhythm chords - are they early indications of "power chords" or not but they really capture one ears. That really showed how Brian was the "colourist" just from the straight start. He added something to the basic track that lifted the performace into eternal heights.
Yeah, a classic, historical track. No wonder being their first numero uno in their homeland.
- Doxa
Well, Doxa, what more can I say/add? ><
The only thing I'd add are Keith's Everlys-inspired harmonies. It's the first RS recording (as far as I can recall) to feature good harmonies.
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Sleepy City
I love the stereo mix on this too! Is this the earliest session where we have true stereo studio recordings?
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Rank Stranger
This is the record that got me hooked in 1964, and if there were any doubts about the Stones in my youthful mind, "The Last Time" blew them away, literally!
I agree with all you said, Doxa; but I would like to give more credit to Chess' recording studio!
I really love all the songs they recorded on those two days, and I think that stuff is a giant step forward compared to the studio recordings made earlier.
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Rank Stranger
This is the record that got me hooked in 1964, and if there were any doubts about the Stones in my youthful mind, "The Last Time" blew them away, literally!
I agree with all you said, Doxa; but I would like to give more credit to Chess' recording studio!
I really love all the songs they recorded on those two days, and I think that stuff is a giant step forward compared to the studio recordings made earlier.
My thoughts as well. I made few yaers ago a blues collection of Stones stuff, and I came to an conclusion that those two days at Chicago were the highlight of their blues education/days, and after those sessions they were ready to do something else, to conquer new things. And under the eyes of their heroes, they were graduated. I guess it was a like a dream come true. But it also marked an end of an era - I guess having already tasted the pop success, they already had their mind elsewhere - they weren't the Crawdaddy r&b band any longer. But those two days they acted like being still one.
There are some incredible cuts there: "Confessin' The Blues" or "Look What You've Done" are among Jagger's best blues vocals ever. Sounds so mature. Brian nails the slide in "I Can't Satisfied", Keith solos in "Down The Road A Piece" are probaly his best Berry licks ever, etc. Not to mention the groove of "Around and Around" or the free-feeling jam of "Michigan Avenue", etc. I would say the band would not be until STICKY FINGERS as tight and precise in their playing as they were in those two days. In the following sessions and years the band started to experiment more and more and trying new things (and turning - partly intentionally - more sloppy and loose), and not looking back as they seemingly did in Chicago. I guess they were rehearsed all their career for those two days in Chicago.
But if we look the policy in releasing the stuff, they seemingly had some trouble there. It was probably "too blues" - an expection being "It's All Over Now" and "Time is On my Side" which had more commercial appeal (well, yeah - they did!). Some great tracks were buried to following album fillers, if not released at all, etc.
- Doxa
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Brian & his vox 12 string guitar playing (miming) 'It's All Over' Now on Ready Steady Go, more info about the particular show here-
[www.iorr.org]
On the live versions we have he uses a 6-string.