Devil is the only song where the KB are prominent. In all other cases, the stones remain a guitar driven band. As for why they don't use a real piano, this is the obvious question that is never asked to CL in the 1,000 interviews he gives every year. C
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Fanny is good, but it never over excited me. The true highlights are If you let me, I don't know why and Memo. C
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Poor sales of Undercover confirm my suspects that the average Stones fan have very bad taste in music C
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One hell of a show!!! One Hit (to the Body) Slave Let Me Go Send It to Me Where the Boys Go She's So Cold Harlem Shuffle Dirty Work Keith set -------- Wanna Hold You / Little T&A / Too Rude All About You / Sleep Tonight -------- Feel on Baby / Down in the Hole Worried About You Black Limousine Had It with You Tie You Up Dance Everything Is Turning to Gold E
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The look in Mick's eyes when he sings the "All I want is you to make love to me" line ... C
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Gallon of beer at the closest pub C
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Re: emotional rescue, I was playing along it with the bass the other day - Ronnie truly nailed a great bass line there - The opening riff just makes the song and such distinctive bass riffs are rare even among the established great bass players. Always loved both the song and the whole LP. C
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Best version is the studio. Close second the best 75 versions (LYL is one of them) - wild! Of the rest of the world, interesting how the song developed during the 69 tour. I like the first idea (Hyde Park). Ya Ya's version is, of course great (but the energy is not close to the 75 version, I think mainly because in 69 devil was too early in the set while in 75 it was the grand finale) Since
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Oh No Not You Again, NY 2005. C
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Most of the posts above miss the point I was trying to make. No argument will ever convince me that the 72/73 verion of the band was "musically" better (or worse) than the band that followed. Deep down it is only a matter of taste. I like this, you like that. Besides, the shows were always consistently great. Sold out venues and enthusiastic fans all the time. In one way or the ot
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There is a sort of general consensus that MT's years with the Stones were the golden era of the band. If you ask me, if there ever was a golden era, it started with Satisfaction and ended with the death of Brian Jones. Actually the Hyde park concert sealed the end of the Golden era and the beginning of the Vegas Era. This has nothing to do with the musical consistency of the band. All the
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Love it for what it is. The only purpose of the release was to exploit what was left of the band as much as possible. There are moments of pure brilliance: black arabs, Anarchy in French, My Way etc. C
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Today, probably 1) Tattoo You 2) Undercover 3) Some Girls 4) Now (US) 5) Exile 6) Banquet 7) B&B C
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I'm happy MT was asked to play Satisfaction and not Expectation. Satisfaction is now developed in a sort of guitar jam, and allows more space to MT's improvisation. The solo on Expectation needs to be CONCISE, otherwise the song is dead. Sort of like flooding a pasta with too much sauce. I am sure that MT can be concise, but what's the use of burning his second slot with only a few seconds of
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OK, fair enough, it ain't exactly fluid or melodic, but I truly love this solo. It has something. The tone, the dissonances, it just sticks in my mind. Usually I get around it playing some odd solo in b major pentatonic, but every time I do so, something is missing! So yesterday I tried to understand what to do. As I said, I'm close, but can't nail it. That is to say, I'm miles away ... C
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The very first part of it. Can't nail it. I'm close, but something's missing. Something wrong with the voicing of the chords. Effects? Help any one? C
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Quotewith sssoul Why in the world did he leave out all mention of how Allen Klein ripped the band off? In the commentary on the disk he said the aim was to present the band's history as an archetypal "hero myth" so it makes no (0) sense to leave out one of the hardest tribulations they went through and (well nigh miraculously) emerged from. Even if it was a case of the band saying &
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Why no reference at all to Ian Stewart? Besides, with the inclusion of Ian's story the end of the film (the tattoo you tour) would have made more sense. C
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So, at the end, we can say that the tix cost 85$ if you have the nerve to wait, a variable fortune if you are anxious ... C
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There are no pictures on this site, only links to other sites. C
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QuoteKeefRichards88 I still am positive that Keith still does not have a cell phone either. I, like him and Charlie and Johnny Depp and the amish people are probably the only people on earth without one. I have no use for one, It is a distraction from life and I think Keith never liked the phone anyway. The cell phone is the greatest invention in the field of communication since Meucci inv
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I am a huge Ron Wood fan, but I love to see also Taylor back in the line up. He is a great musician. And in his worse day a WAY better guitar player than Blondie or Mick Jagger. Yes, he quit years ago. So what? He seems very happy to be back, and the others happy to have him back. C
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I think that the ipod or similar device - in the high capacity versions - is the greatest invention in the sound systems market since the Sony walkman. Sure, when I am at home and I have the time to play some music, nothing beats my old fashioned sound system with double amplification, great speakers etc.. But in the past 10 years or so this has become more and more a rare event. How many time
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I've always played the studio version of Star Star in F, and it never occurred to me that it could have been sped up. I think it was done in F to start with: it's a tonality that Jagger likes, and I hear no open strings. C
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I do not hear any similarity at all. Melody line and rhythm are completely different. In any case there must be at least 1 million songs based on that same chord progression. C
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Well, quite obvious to me: Ron is the star of the show! C
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A HUGE wild original talent! He is up there with the greatest. C
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QuoteRockman No cool with Stones shows BUT turned up a week late to a Buddy Guy-Jnr Wells show back in the 70's..... Man that one stung ... miss read the date on ticket ... Still laugh at how we thought we were so lucky scorin' a park right out front of Venue...And then walking to main doors and thinking we were first there ... dumb and dumber Happened to me too, Pearl Jam concert some ye
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Quotechop I'm likely in the minority here...but does anybody else really either dislike the blues or are generally indifferent to them? I know the Stones consider themselves some sort of outgrowth of the blues and try to be keepers of the flame for little known (or underrated) blues musicians. But as hard as I try, I just can't get into this genre. Some of it is good, Dark Was the Night, Cold
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Thank you! C
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