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stonehearted
It's Only Rock 'n Roll is one of their most underrated albums--woops, sorry! Wrong thread.
When I saw your thread title I thought you were referring to the present tour, as in "Is Mick Taylor the reason they don't record a new album?" or something.
Plunder My Soul--that's the two Micks working together, quite creatively and with impressive results.
Creativity is like a wave--you have your crest and you have your trough. The mid-seventies was a trough period for a whole generation of musicians turning thirty and thirty-five--largely due to the prevalence of cocaine in the recording studio.
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treaclefingers
yes by all means, let's blame MT.
Finally, after MT they were free once again to get all 'creative' for us.
Oh Cherry Oh Baby!
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No. Blame it on Richards' heroin problem.
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DandelionPowderman
Is Mick's vocals and Taylor's guitar impressive on PMS?
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funkydrummer
No Keith's overuse of open-G tuning was.
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funkydrummer
No Keith's overuse of open-G tuning was.
Well, he didn't play a lot of open G in the studio or live between 1976 and 1989. On the SW-album he only plays it on Mixed Emotions.
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No. Blame it on Richards' heroin problem.
Was he the only one with a heroin problem?
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funkydrummer
Ummm, well I haven't played along with SW for a while, but from what I remember nearly every track on that was open-G! Boring simplistic open-G riffing...
In fact I have to say that it was Steel Wheels that "broke the spell" for me, because I was a teenager and had recently worked out the open-G/open tuning "secret" and it was a bit like knowing there was no Santa Claus, because I could see how simplistic their approach to songwriting had become.
Bang out some open-G, Mick does some scat singing, writes the lyrics - another song that sounded vaguely like everything else since 1968.
I have heard some call this "style" - but I call it laziness - I wish they had stopped this approach but it has only become worse over time.Quote
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funkydrummer
No Keith's overuse of open-G tuning was.
Well, he didn't play a lot of open G in the studio or live between 1976 and 1989. On the SW-album he only plays it on Mixed Emotions.
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ab
No. Blame it on Richards' heroin problem.
Was he the only one with a heroin problem?
No, but he was supposedly the only co-leader of the Rolling Stones with one.
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Not true, but there are two numbers: Sad Sad Sad and Hold On To Your Hat - but the open G playing there was done by Mick. Keith played the solo guitar in standard tuning.
PS: You can do A LOT with open G-tuning, that isn't Stones related. Lots of wonderful chords and possibilities, also for lead guitar playing.
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funkydrummer
OK regardless of whether it was Mick or Keith - the open-G thing is all over SW in general. SSS and HOTYH are just two - from memory Rock and a Hard Place is another, Almost Hear You Sign another...only perhaps a couple of the ballads weren't...as I said I haven't played along for a while...it is basically the Stones "sound" but they only play a couple of chord variations and thus it all sounds the same.
I agree that open tuning has immense possibility but it has always angered me that the Stones have barely bothered to explore them.Quote
Not true, but there are two numbers: Sad Sad Sad and Hold On To Your Hat - but the open G playing there was done by Mick. Keith played the solo guitar in standard tuning.
PS: You can do A LOT with open G-tuning, that isn't Stones related. Lots of wonderful chords and possibilities, also for lead guitar playing.
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71Tele
1. Lack of inspiration for new material.
2. The breakdown of the Jagger-Richards partnership.
3. Keith Richards' substance abuse.
Those three things contributed to a decline in quality.
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BigAl
No, it's more because the two music visionaries of the band started looking and going in different directions for inspiration.