Posted on 06/07/2021 9:36:11 AM PDT by mylife
David Bowie
Oasis
Prince
Elton John, he never really got on with the ‘Your Song’ singer, “An old bitch… his writing is limited to songs about dead blondes,” Richards once said of the Rocketman without so much as a second thought.
Led Zeppelin, “The guy’s voice started to get on my nerves. I don’t know why; maybe he’s a little too acrobatic.”
Metallica
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I guess I always thought of Zep as a teenybopper version of The Who.
The technical competence of the players seemed like another CBS Records put on - like a hard edged Monkees.
The first album in ‘68 was OK; was really out there for the time. But they just sorta devolved into a money making operation concentrating on hits, using the stock riffs like you mentioned.
It’s all fun of course; Page had the right idea: he spent the whole time drunk/stoned/screwing, so it worked out for him. But not very musically significant.
Rush sounds like them..
I liked Noel’s first solo album and one or two additional singles. But since then, I miss the sneer of Liam’s voice on songs.
When i saw the Stones i was bored out of my mind.
The difference in the excitement in the crowds was night and day. When the lights went down for Zeppelin the roof was blown off the Garden. The Stones? Not so much.
Yeah me too. One voice I never got used to...and that guy from Jersey, Springsteen. Keith missed SpringsteenIn this interview, perhaps, but in his autobiography he nailed it:
"If there was anything better around, [Springsteen]'d still be working the bars of New Jersey."**The Springsteen Sucks AND he is a Douchebag ping list!**
Title is a bit clickbaitish — doesn’t sound like Keith truly “hates” them. He’s just taken a few shots over the decades at his contemporaries, probably after downing more than a few shots of Jack.
Taupin wrote just the lyrics. Some early Elton is good, but I agree with Keef that “Your Song” is sappy, as are a few others. I lived in the Hollywood Hills back house of the widow of Elton’s legendary bassist Dee Murray for a while in the ‘90s. She told me some crazy tour stories.
Keith on Bonzo: “John Bonham thundering down the highway in an uncontrolled 18-wheeler.”
He says that like that’s a bad thing. lol. But yeah, JB is about as unlike Charlie Watts in style as it’s possible to be. And Zep in general was kind of the anti-Stones. But I love both.
Bowie’s second album (The Man Who Sold the World, 1970) is an overlooked gem, imo. No hit songs, but a dark dystopian tour de force, and Mick Ronson (as usual) plays a mean guitar. Yeah, Bowie was an act like Keith said, but a very talented one.
As far as Keith’s criticisms of the others mentioned, I have no quarrel with them.
Not saying he’s not talented. I just thought his voice sucked. But musicians have told me Robert Plant sang well. Just my opinion but I like Led Zeppelin. I just don’t like the singing at all.
CSN&Y are amazing. It’s all taste in a way. I like the Beach boys also, but some people like the Monkees :>)
I’ve yet to find a single song by the Stones they were able to elevate live.Well, then, find a high quality audio of "Brussels Affair, Live 1973." The electric version of "Angie" is unique and spectacular.
What Stones tour did you see at the Garden? If I could time travel I’d see them in ‘72, with ‘69 coming in second. Mick’s voice on the ‘75 tour was way off form.
Yea, and he’ll outlive them all, probably.
*snort* 😝
Hell yeah. Talk is Cheap (‘88), imo, was not only the best solo album by any Stone, but compared favorably to the last good Stones period in the mid-late ‘70s, and better than anything they did since. I gotta check out the remaster. Unfortunately I was out of town in CO when Keith and the X-pensive Winos played the Hollywood Palladium in ‘88. That would’ve been something to see.
Disco *gasp*. Shirley you jest.
I saw Zeppelin at the Garden. I saw the Stones at the Palladium in NYC in ‘78 and was shocked how flat the audience was.
What era of Zep were those concerts? Were they during Paige’s heroin years? Even they would probably admit those were some lousy performances.
A woman I once knew back in the late 70’s said the Stones sucked as musicians, but were great poets.
She might have been onto something.
Did you ever see their move - “The Song Remains the Same”?
Man, the blonde they revealed at the end of that song, melted my teenage heart.
woodbutcher1963 and wardaddy - Prince played a New Year's Eve concert at Nashville's spanking new hockey stadium for four hours and then popped up in the Irish bar Seanachie's (long closed now) and played over three more for the sheer joy of it. There was a man.
*Page’s
I’m a Doors man myself. All American.
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