Take Sides: Nicky Hopkins vs Ian Stewart

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Battle of the 6th Stoneses! The unattractive pianists!

Nicky Hopkins: played on "You Got the Silver," "Loving Cup," "Jigsaw Puzzle," and so much more. Toured with the Stones from '68-'73.

Ian Stewart: The original 6th Stone -- though chronologically he was, in fact, the second. Plays on "Brown Sugar," "Sweet Virginia," "Stop Breaking Down," and almost every Stones album pre-1986, including the truly awful ones.

So -- Nicky has the advantage of only being a Stone during their prime, but Stu stuck with them through thick and thin and even "Undercover."

I think I gotta give it to Nicky, just for "No Expectations." But it's tough.

― A|ex P@reene (Pareene), Tuesday, 20 September 2005 21:21 (eighteen years ago) link

Was the Kinks' "Session Man" written about Nicky Hopkins?

― k/l (Ken L), Tuesday, 20 September 2005 21:26 (eighteen years ago) link

Was it? I know he played on "Sunny Afternoon," and lots more. Seems appropriate, if so.

― A|ex P@reene (Pareene), Tuesday, 20 September 2005 21:53 (eighteen years ago) link

His name was proposed as an answer to the question Who Was Session Man Written About on a multiple choice quiz in Trouser Press, but I never found out what the right answer was.

― k/l (Ken L), Tuesday, 20 September 2005 21:55 (eighteen years ago) link

Wasn't Ian Stewart a Nazi? He loses then.

― I Oppose All Rock and Roll (noodle vague), Tuesday, 20 September 2005 21:55 (eighteen years ago) link

Google sez:
Also present was 'Session Man', Ray's tongue-in-cheek 'tribute' to pianist Nicky Hopkins who had played on numerous Kinks' sessions. Who could resist its lyric - "He's a session man, a chord progressian, a top musician" - nor its sense of irony.

As this thread indicates, session guys continue to get no love.

― A|ex P@reene (Pareene), Tuesday, 20 September 2005 21:57 (eighteen years ago) link

Ian Stuart was a nazi.

Ian Stewart was just unattractive.

Though Ian Stuart did get his start in a Stones cover band, if I remember right.

― A|ex P@reene (Pareene), Tuesday, 20 September 2005 22:01 (eighteen years ago) link

Ian Stuart was a nazi

sorry for being pointlessly stoopid. I'm pissed. and any excuse to laugh at the dead nazi cunt.

― I Oppose All Rock and Roll (noodle vague), Tuesday, 20 September 2005 22:04 (eighteen years ago) link

"Boogie With Stu"!

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Tuesday, 20 September 2005 22:06 (eighteen years ago) link

Whereas Ian Stewart got his start in the actual Stones, but was kicked out for being too ugly or dressing too straight, but then brought back in around the back as roadie/sideman.

― k/l (Ken L), Tuesday, 20 September 2005 22:07 (eighteen years ago) link

xpost:
Yeah, "Boogie with Stu."

― k/l (Ken L), Tuesday, 20 September 2005 22:07 (eighteen years ago) link

I don't think Stewart was unattractive.

― Masked Gazza, Tuesday, 20 September 2005 22:16 (eighteen years ago) link

but does he look like a Stone?

http://www.rocksoff.org/ian-stubio_archivos/image005.jpg
http://www.rocksoff.org/ian-stubio_archivos/image013.jpg

― A|ex P@reene (Pareene), Tuesday, 20 September 2005 22:20 (eighteen years ago) link

For balance, here's Nicky Hopkins, looking very Stones-y:

http://www.rockstar.it/img/Nicky_Hopkins.jpg

― A|ex P@reene (Pareene), Tuesday, 20 September 2005 22:23 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.out-take.co.uk/images/new_press/Mojo_Photo.jpg

― Masked Gazza, Tuesday, 20 September 2005 22:26 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.out-take.co.uk/images/new_press/1.jpg

― Masked Gazza, Tuesday, 20 September 2005 22:27 (eighteen years ago) link

But, yeah, he's looks less Stonesy than Hopkins.

― Masked Gazza, Tuesday, 20 September 2005 22:28 (eighteen years ago) link

Looking appropriately Stonesy is the reason Ron Wood is an "official" Stone and Darryl Jones never will be.

http://home.swipnet.se/rollingstones/pics2/keith_ron_darryl.jpg

― A|ex P@reene (Pareene), Tuesday, 20 September 2005 22:46 (eighteen years ago) link

Ian Stewart has the same facial bone malformation dealie that Jay Leno has.
Management and label-types thought he didn't look like a Stone, but I suspect that had an issue with the dude's chin, from what I've read.

― Brooker Buckingham (Brooker B), Tuesday, 20 September 2005 23:36 (eighteen years ago) link

That picture makes it look like Darryl is still learning the songs from Keef whilst onstage.

― k/l (Ken L), Tuesday, 20 September 2005 23:38 (eighteen years ago) link

I think Ian Stewart looks a bit like Morrissey, actually.

― A|ex P@reene (Pareene), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 00:32 (eighteen years ago) link

Don't tell Morrissey that, or he'll slap you!

― k/l (Ken L), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 01:21 (eighteen years ago) link

four years pass...

...to the original question: Nicky

God, his playing on "Loving Cup" is just resplendent.

― john. a resident of chicago., Sunday, 4 April 2010 21:15 (fourteen years ago) link

He's amazing throughout on this live set that came out last year:

http://www.glidemagazine.com/hiddentrack/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/jerrycover-400x356.jpg

― Mark, Sunday, 4 April 2010 21:56 (fourteen years ago) link

Read something interesting recently about another Stones's session man: http://www.bwcitypaper.com/Articles-i-2009-10-29-232276.113121_Session_Man.html

― King Creole Love Call (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 4 April 2010 22:35 (fourteen years ago) link

great article!

― are we human or are we dancer (m coleman), Sunday, 4 April 2010 23:27 (fourteen years ago) link

weird, i always thought Nicky Hopkins was black for some reason

― Melvin van Osterlow, Jr. (res), Sunday, 4 April 2010 23:51 (fourteen years ago) link

Top two of the too numerous to mention great moments in that article
2) "Posing" with Mick and Charlie
1) "Borrowing" James Burton's guitar

― King Creole Love Call (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 4 April 2010 23:54 (fourteen years ago) link

Nicky Hopkins' Tin Man Was a Dreamer is a GREAT album...

― iago g., Monday, 5 April 2010 00:55 (fourteen years ago) link

Hopkins

― my full government name (WmC), Monday, 5 April 2010 01:00 (fourteen years ago) link

six years pass...

Read something interesting recently about another Stones's session man: http://www.bwcitypaper.com/Articles-i-2009-10-29-232276.113121_Session_Man.html🔗

Wondering what this was about, since link got broek. Guessing Wayne Perkins.

― Disco Blecch and His Exo-Planettes (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 23 February 2017 23:08 (seven years ago) link

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