Well, perhaps next winter. I'll put it on the Christmas hint list. Besides, I need to recover from my surfer spending. Now I keep eyeing those Birdwell competition jackets.
"Muse Sick-N Hour Mess Age" was their finest hour and ten minutes, real storming the reality studio stuff.
I'm not familiar with that one. Believe it or not, I credit my wife with turning me on to Public Enemy several years ago (shortly after we met). It was just something I'd never gotten into. Now I am a huge fan of this one and Fear of a Black Planet (in some ways, an even better sounding album, to my ears). I probably just wasn't ready for it when it first came out--still too much of a closed-minded rocker dude at the time.
I wonder what Mick and Keith could come up with if they put their heads together and made a Beastie Boys styled hip-hop track? (To my knowledge, the Stones haven't attempted hip hop yet, have they? I haven't kept up much with their work post-Tattoo, though.)
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Tour photo, I think, no? I remember seeing photos of Jagger that summer in that shirt and those shoes. I love what they were doing with percussion on the tour, with Ollie Brown.
Ha ha. Love it. Bianca's reading Creem and Keith is reading High Times. Ronnie's probably pondering another tumbler of Jack Daniels, and Charlie looks like he just wants to take a nap. Worth a thousand words... .
But yah, Ronnie sounds absolutely horrid on my '75 TOTA LPs. On the official release, he sounds almost flashy. The magic of the studio overdub...
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Keef did have a spot problem early on, didn't he. And yeah, nice shirt, Mick! Say what you will about the later rock-star stylings, I think they looked best when they were going with more of an Ivy college boy kind of look.
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Fascinating review, really, in spite of the bad writing. The cornerstone: "No, it was all too big; there were too many people; you couldn't respond to the music because it couldn't respond to you."
I mean, that is a perfect description of the problem, of what happened, circa '75 or so, the wall that seemed to go up in no time between the Stones and "the kids," as it were.
/\ what bad writing C.? love him or hate him Martin Amis never wrote a bad sentence in his life, that review made me laugh ....?
I'm liking it better this morning on second read. Point taken. I love the line about Mick's "strangled, monotone" vocals. I remember how horrible the boots from that tour sounded.
Goats Head Soup. I loved it from the start. I've loved it over the years. In fact, I probably listen to it more than Sticky Fingers and Exile.
A review from those pretentious hippy twats aRS, loathe their work though I generally do, did a fair job on the album's release of summing things up.
"The Stones never worry about contradicting themselves." It's one of the things I loved about them back in the day.
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/goats-head-soup-19731108
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one of the best things I've ever seen, a dedicated fan's heartfelt compilation video tribute to the dance.
Rolling Stones - Dance Little Sister
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tj2sUck6-Ng