Posted on 11/29/2016 7:16:27 PM PST by Mariner
It shouldn't be a surprise, really, but still it's a bit startling to hear just how well the Rolling Stones can play the blues. Strip away the glitz, the oversized stages and the pyrotechnics, and you're left with two terrific guitarists, a frontman who can play an exuberant harp — and a drummer named Charlie Watts. No wonder Blue & Lonesome sounds so solid.
Their first studio album in more than a decade has the simplest of concepts: Put the guys in a studio for three days, give them a songbook heavy on Jimmy Reed, Willie Dixon and Howlin' Wolf, and play it live, without overdubs. The album is noteworthy for what it is not: It's not a museum piece, not a tribute album, not an exercise in nostalgia, even if at times the sound harkens back to the blues covers that filled the Stones' first few albums.
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Yup exactly. 12 bar 1-4-5s. Not creative at all when you’re copying songs that have been around forever.
read my #18 on this thread
“Have you seen them play live?”
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Way back in the day.
I’ve been to Jackson CA several times and still live a stones throw from there...pun intended.
How do you know the song is set in Jackson CA vs Jackson MS?
“As a guy who’s been playing guitar and bass”
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If you’re stuck playing rhythm guitar or bass in standard blues, it usually isn’t too exciting.
“How do you know the song is set in Jackson CA vs Jackson MS?”
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The Glitter Twins wouldn’t have made it out of a MS bar with their teeth still in their faces in the late 60s!
I know they traveled extensively in the south, there’s a picture of them playing pool in Crawdaddy’s in Memphis. Also Keith has spoken serveral times about driving through the US South with a .38, case of whiskey in the trunk and a carton of smokes on the back seat.
There’s a lot of towns named Jackson and the Stones have probably been to most of them.
And from what I've posted here what makes you think that I was ever stuck doing that? In my well versed opinion even most blues lead guitarists are highly over rated. Same stuff over and over and over and over and over and over again. That's what I'm saying. Even Stevie Ray Vaughn had very little range outside of his standard tool kit of blues riffs.
I remember Spring Break at the Colorado River 1966 on AM radio, and the Stones were playing Chuck Berry music.
They have been playing the blues from the beginning. And that is quite a long time.
They should be able to do it well, by now.
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That Doom and Gloom single from a little while back was not very good. I’ll give this a listen later, though.
The Stones didn't indicate which Jackson they were in, so I assume it's the one in California.
I was at Martinez Lake on the Colorado River, about 40 miles north of Yuma, during Spring Break, 1967. The local rock station was playing a lot of tunes by the Monkees, but I don't recall any Rolling Stones songs.
As far as the fishing went, we pretty much got skunked that year. The next year, 1968, I caught a good-sized channel catfish.
“Even Stevie Ray Vaughn had very little range outside of his standard tool kit of blues riffs.”
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Every instrument has it’s limitations and capabilities, but it depends on the musician. He (or she) can stay in the box - or be an explorer and innovator, e.g. Maybelle Carter, Jimi Hendrix.
A musician who plays a lead instrument has more freedom to do the exploring and innovating. But in the barebones, simplest of blues bands - i.e. bass, drums, guitar, - the bass and drummer are locked into each other and the platform for the lead solo.
Well you are super impressed with yourself. I’m not. Rock and Roll was born from the blues and you have a purely technical view and no soul whatsoever. After all of your experience you have yet to comprehend the heart of the thing. If you don’t by now you probably never will. Your loss.
“The Stones didn’t indicate which Jackson they were in, so I assume it’s the one in California.”
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According to Wikipedia, on “Let It Bleed”:
“According to some sources “Country Honk” was recorded at the Elektra recording studio in Los Angeles.”
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“Other sources state that “Country Honk” was recorded at Olympic Studios right after “Honky Tonk Women”, with only Berline’s fiddle part overdubbed at Elektra Sound Recorders Studio”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMf9MsR_Jqo
1964 recording of Stones performing Berry’s “Reelin and Rockin”
Just one example of a British Invasion group, doing R&B.
The Brits really did much the same thing that Elvis and a few others had already done, a few years earlier, and slightly different music styles.
Maybe you just aren’t very good. You cold try jazz, it requires no talent whatsoever.
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