Posted on 05/13/2009 12:53:12 PM PDT by pissant
It was in the Sixties that the Rolling Stones first found global fame – but a magnificent new clutch of re-releases from the Seventies confirms it was then that Mick, Keef and the boys struck artistic gold.
Universal Music recently announced the imminent release of "14 remastered classic albums" from the Rolling Stones. It is a laughable claim. They may well be The Greatest Rock And Roll Band In The World (a title they conferred upon themselves when introducing live shows in the late Sixties), but I don't know if anyone but the most rabid fan could name more than a handful of Stones albums still worth listening to in their entirety, particularly when the list of the latest reissues excludes their Sixties heyday.
Yet, the imminent first batch of re-releases from the Seventies (Sticky Fingers, Goats Head Soup, It's Only Rock N Roll and Black and Blue) serve as a potent reminder of exactly why the Stones have endured. For a golden period, they released a series of albums almost untouchable in the pop pantheon as examples of free-flowing, high-spirited, elegantly extemporised blues, country and rock and roll. And, it was the replacement of the increasingly dysfunctional multi-instrumentalist Brian Jones with lyrical, technically audacious, young guitarist Mick Taylor (19 when he joined) that resulted in that golden period.
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I have Rock and Roll Circus on DVD.
John Lennon, Keith Richards, and Eric Clapton are playing some blues and have a violin player at the microphone. Yoko shoves him aside and starts screeching, utterly priceless.
I’d have to put “The Last Waltz” in the top spot myself.
I have seen hundreds of concerts by dozens of great bands. But, no one, NO ONE, could touch The Who. They were, by far, the best band I have ever seen live.
They blew the doors off the place.
Perhaps, but the man who wrote the vast majority of those classic riffs was none other than Keith Richards.
Amen, bro! Gabba Gabba Hey!
Well, yeah, but whether it was by chance or Taylor’s chops, their golden period will always be when he was on board.
“John Lennon, Keith Richards, and Eric Clapton are playing some blues and have a violin player at the microphone. Yoko shoves him aside and starts screeching, utterly priceless.”
Yeah, I remember that. If by “priceless” you mean “bloody awful”, well, yes, it’s priceless. :)
The real tragedy of John Lennon’s death is that Mark David Chapman emptied his pistol and not one shot hit Yoko.
Tagline.
“Sorry, but at their [The Who] peak, nobody touched these guys”
I completely agree, The Who>>>The Rolling Stones (no offense intended Stones fans)
Actually I think that was Keith and his Telecaster in open G doing that riff ....> Stones-Live
I had my doughts about the “Greatest” label until I saw them only five years ago in Chicago.
With the exception of the lame “Start Me Up” as the lead song, it was like being at “Get Your Ya-Ya’s Out”.
Let It Bleed.
he was too much of a short timer. Their Golden period, IMO, was between 1965 and 1978
Honky Tonk Woman can’t be played too loud either.
“Anyone who has seen the Stones live when they were “on”, knows their claim to be “The Greatest Rock & Roll Band in the World” is accurate.
They simply BURN THE HOUSE DOWN and blow everyone away, from 8 to 80.”
Hmm. I like their recordings a lot. But I saw a concert about 10 years ago that was as mediocre as it gets. Too many fireworks and explosions. The music got buried in the theatrics. It was as if they didn’t think the music was good enough and had to add dancing girls with pasties so noone would notice. I was really disappointed.
Saw them live Rich Stadium, Buffalo NY 1976
Monkey Man
Taylor, young, soft-spoken, faithful to his wife, fled the Stones in part because he didn't want to be party to their indulgant lifestyle and also because he was treated horribly by the band, particularly Richards, who was jealous of his virtuoso guitar skills. Ron Wood was a lackluster choice to play lead. Their music was never again as exciting. Where would the Stones have gone had they decided to replace Taylor with the late Rory Gallagher, an Irishman with incendiary guitar skills, as they were considering at the time? Sadly, Wood, whose best work was behind him, was recruited instead.
No one ruled the 70s like Elvis in the 50s or The Beatles in the 60s did. Popular music became fractionated into various subgroups like punk and disco etc. As to who the biggest artist was you could make an argument for Zep or the Bee Gees or even Elton John. On a global basis Abba could be thrown into the mix as well.
Yep I’ll take the Who.
I saw them do “Quadrophenia” in ‘96.
Gary Glitter was The Godfather,
and Billy Idol was The Punk.
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