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Post by mickthecactus on Sept 16, 2018 21:16:24 GMT
I can’t believe there isn’t a Rolling Stones thread!
Just watching their 2015 concert from Hollywood doing the Sticky Fingers album.
Remarkable.
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 17, 2018 0:40:10 GMT
There's a really big one ~ it's called "YouTube". Gawd, it is SOOOO easy to give you a hard time. I don't know if Casimira remembers this, but many years ago we were in one of those stores that sells stuff to organize the home & Beast of Burden came on the canned music. We were forced to rock out.
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Post by bjd on Sept 17, 2018 6:10:00 GMT
I saw the Stones live in Toronto when I was in high school. I had friends who were president and vice-presidents of the local Stones' fan club so they got a bunch of tickets that they were allowed to sell. I think they cost $4, although that was a lot for me at the time. The girls also came to school with photos taken with the Stones backstage. We were all very impressed.
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Post by questa on Sept 17, 2018 6:33:56 GMT
In my wicked youth I lived in an old shared house with a couple of mad R S fans. The roof was old galvanized iron and what ceilings still existed were thin plywood. They had set up speakers in every room...even the toilet, and they were loud.
When they played "Satisfaction", from out in the yard you could see the roof pulsing up and down to the beat. Friday nights were "party nights" and people would come from afar to see the phenomena of the "dancing roof".
Great thread, Mick.
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Post by kerouac2 on Sept 17, 2018 7:54:00 GMT
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Post by kerouac2 on Sept 17, 2018 7:55:41 GMT
Actually I was looking for an interview of Mick Jagger that I never forgot where he said something along the lines of "we won't be doing this when we're 30; we'd look like complete idiots."
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Post by Deleted on Sept 17, 2018 12:54:38 GMT
I remember that moment in the store vividly Bixa with very fond recall. I was in that store many times after that episode (the store closed it's doors a mere month ago) and Beast of Burden came over the ratty speakers. I looked for you and was forced to rock out all by myself. If I recall correctly, when we were there we weren't side by side but some distance away and met in the middle. It's one of those songs that just begs to be danced to and one time I was driving on the Causeway and unconsciously put "the pedal to the metal", got pulled over, and the kind patrolman let me off with a warning when I explained to him my "reasoning" for driving 80mph. Clearly, he must have been a Stones fan. I've been to 2 Stones concert's. One was in 1978/9, the other sometime in the late '80's. Both memorable in their own right. I've always loved their music for it's wide range of styles and also their generosity in crediting the musicians who influenced them and, their genuine love of their craft. (I also know a couple of musicians who have done studio work with Keith Richards and they all cite what a really fun yet serious musician he is to work with.)
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 17, 2018 21:32:23 GMT
I was there in spirit. Everyone who knows (& loves) me knows my abiding love for this song, which really cannot be turned up loud enough for my taste ~
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Post by questa on Sept 17, 2018 23:27:43 GMT
(know you and not love you, Bixa?...How could such a thing be possible?)
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 17, 2018 23:35:03 GMT
I just snorted.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 18, 2018 1:48:02 GMT
Serendipity aside now, SYNCHRONICITY (more Jungian, and what I have been keenly studying of late), I was just out with some friends, we were having cocktails at a local bar which I really like because there's no TV blaring, and they have no blaring "canned" music, (these days , or, so it seems because I rarely frequent any clubs around here unless it's to hear live , usually local music.)
This establishment still has a jukebox, and, as we are almost about to leave, on comes...…..Beast of Burden.
I asked the bartender if he wouldn't mind "cranking it up a couple of notches". He prevailed and a half dozen of us "rocked out" Then I went on my very merry way on home.
My husband and I btw Mick have both always been rabid Stones fans. Much of our "courting days" revolved around many of their songs and my husband endearingly dubbed me "The Girl With The Faraway Eyes".
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Post by Deleted on Sept 18, 2018 2:19:16 GMT
After 5 tries I clearly am still that inept to inset a f'n youtube video. So, I will enjoy the remainder of the evening doing what the Stones said and that will be PLAY IT LOUD here in the comfort of my home.
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 18, 2018 2:49:02 GMT
Dear A Little Bleary and A Little the Worse for Wear ~
All you have to do is copy the url for the youtube video, then paste that in the message box here. That's it!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 18, 2018 20:40:00 GMT
I was a tad bleary eyed...
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 18, 2018 20:51:12 GMT
Yes, one of the greatest intros in the history of music. I never get tired of it & it keeps it up through the whole song. I love how he stays in that accent through the whole song. I find it interesting that my favorite is disco Stones and yours is redneck Stones.
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Post by mickthecactus on Sept 18, 2018 21:38:04 GMT
Miss You or Far Away Eyes?
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 19, 2018 1:04:03 GMT
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Post by kerouac2 on Sept 19, 2018 16:04:31 GMT
I own a grand total of one Rolling Stones album: Let It Bleed. It is the only one that I ever wanted.
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Post by fumobici on Sept 19, 2018 18:14:59 GMT
I thought the Stones were generally at their best doing rockers. They did a series of interesting original radio hits in the mid-sixties with the bulk of the albums those were from being blues and soul covers. They really hit their stride for me beginning with the Beggar's Banquet album launching a string of great albums, Let It Bleed, Sticky Fingers, then exile on Main St. that stand above all their previous and subsequent work. Mick kinda lost me when he got into the NYC dance club/disco scene. Obviously they still did some great work but it they never again found the level of song writing and studio performance of those four.
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Post by kerouac2 on Sept 19, 2018 18:29:40 GMT
My roommate at USC went to the infamous Altamont concert and he returned from it an a completely traumatic state. This was good for me, because he was filthy rich and he no longer wanted to stray far. So he and I went all over Los Angeles in his Triumph Spitfire to the record stores (Tower Records, Licorice Pizza...) which was incredibly enough one of the major leisure activities in those days. They all sold the same things, but we would just flip through the LPs for hours, buying one every now and then. Young people would find such activities insane these days, just as we find their obsession with Snapchat and all that other stuff insane now. Oh, but this car was so much fun... I don't think we listened to the Stones on the radio all that much... assets.catawiki.nl/assets/2017/12/28/8/a/3/8a3acd48-c428-4c59-87a6-3fd118986152.jpgSometimes we would stop at his parents' house ("It used to belong to Dick Van Dyke.") and I felt like I was on another planet.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 19, 2018 18:32:29 GMT
Yes, one of the greatest intros in the history of music. I never get tired of it & it keeps it up through the whole song. I love how he stays in that accent through the whole song. I find it interesting that my favorite is disco Stones and yours is redneck Stones. No, I think you are going by the one or two songs that just happen to be sentimental favorites. For instance, both T. and I love "Shattered" and have the lyrics "down pat". It's one of those songs that is fast moving and the lyrics are such that you really have to almost learn them over time. Much like Warren Zevon's "Werewolves of London". (another perennial favorite song of ours.) They're fun songs. I never tire of hearing them. I also love some of the Stone's covers such as their version of The Temptations song "Just My Imagination". (this was another one of our "courting" days songs. T. would change the words from the line "of all the girls in the world" to "girls in NY".)
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 19, 2018 18:58:20 GMT
Yes, I should have specified that I did not mean "favorites of all time", merely favorites within a subset.
I think this is the first Stones song I ever owned, on a 45 ~
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Post by Deleted on Sept 19, 2018 19:12:25 GMT
Just out of curiosity do you remember what was on the "B" side of the 45?
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Post by mickthecactus on Sept 19, 2018 19:24:48 GMT
I thought the Stones were generally at their best doing rockers. They did a series of interesting original radio hits in the mid-sixties with the bulk of the albums those were from being blues and soul covers. They really hit their stride for me beginning with the Beggar's Banquet album launching a string of great albums, Let It Bleed, Sticky Fingers, then exile on Main St. that stand above all their previous and subsequent work. Mick kinda lost me when he got into the NYC dance club/disco scene. Obviously they still did some great work but it they never again found the level of song writing and studio performance of those four. Yeah, sorry about that Fumo. I did try to contact you but you never rang back. I’ve still got those leather shorts you wanted.
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 19, 2018 21:33:23 GMT
Just out of curiosity do you remember what was on the "B" side of the 45? Ha -- same wave length. I googled it before posting that video & the answer was "Congratulations", but somehow that doesn't seem to me to be right. I’ve still got those leather shorts you wanted *snork*
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Post by kerouac2 on Sept 20, 2018 4:57:02 GMT
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Post by bjd on Sept 20, 2018 5:09:42 GMT
I liked Time is on my Side, but have no memory at all of Congratulations.
Kerouac, when I was a teenager, one of our Friday evening activities was going to downtown Toronto and looking at the records in the two big main stores: Sam the Record Man and A & A. It wasn't just limited to LA as an activity. But we went by streetcar and subway, not sportscar.
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 20, 2018 6:28:40 GMT
June 1964. The Stones released their version (taken almost directly from the Irma Thomas version) in September 1964.
And this is interesting ~ apparently the arrangement with horns used by Otis Redding is the one Keith Richard originally intended for Satisfaction.
Holding up pretty damned well after 53 years ~
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Post by mickthecactus on Sept 20, 2018 9:15:40 GMT
Favourites- Gimme Shelter,Street Fighting Man, Sympathy for the Devil.
More to follow.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Sept 20, 2018 19:40:15 GMT
When I was growing up you were either a Stones fan (cool) or a Beatles fan. I was 7 in 1963 and thought that the Beatles were wonderful. I thought that Mick Jagger was awful, hated the way he jerked and twitched about and thought his voice was terrible. Obviously born a nerd and not cool. Quite liked them as I got older but I only know their hits....whereas I still know the words to many many Beatles songs.
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