Rolling Stones: Classic or Dud

i had always thought the stones released their first single in 62. i feel like a fucking idiot. i also had thought their first single was "as tears go by," which i see now is not true.

i feel like a fucking idiot.

OK

gonna see them for (only) 100 dollars!

you can start being jealous now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AKez2s_K5Q

Thought this revive would be about the 45 anniversary of Brian Jones' passing.

https://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpf1/t1.0-9/10455186_10152591232778287_2316212642802061970_n.jpg

he looks old in this pic

will never understand why this guy was a babe magnet. He looks like he demanded a horned toad be implanted into his face.

he was?

he sure was!

...so was Wyman...salt grains, please.

coke grams, please

all of the, were babe magnets, weren't they? i mean it's the stones!

i'm pretty sure any troll ass wanker in a rock n roll band could get extinction level event levels of trim in the 60s and 70s

http://www.punmaster.com/wyman.jpg

"You know it!"

http://www.deathroe.com/ktml2/images/uploads/ChoiceSux/DeadRoaches.jpg?0.7183861447097172

still searching for more booty

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/standard-pictures/article7328407.ece/alternates/w620/Treasure%20Hunt:%20Former%20Rolling%20Stone%20Bill%20Wyman%20says%20he%20finds%20metal-detecting%20more%20interesting%20than%20rock

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_S4cwgRYb1mQ/TOWEyBlw5rI/AAAAAAAAAbs/cX7yi2mAoVc/s1600/rsbowling.jpg

Bowling for Booty

i thought part of the point of the rolling stones was that they were grotesquely ugly but still luridly sexual. you can't be too pretty if you want to seem dangerous.

mick & keef were totally handsome back in the day!!

mick especially

brian looked like a dancing gnome though, creepy fucker

"grotesquely ugly" was strongly worded. they just looked like people but they tried to play up a savage dandyism that is antithetical to normative handsomeness and brian looking like he had a "horned toad implanted in his face" is in line with this aesthetic.

Plenty of pics of BJ looking pretty but in the one above he has bags under his eyes befitting a 60-year-old. Nice stereo though.

My god, is this bands '60s discography such a mess! Not musically, more that they haven't tidied it up like The Beatles did in the '80s by sticking with the UK versions and handily putting what was left over on the Past Masters compilations.

There used to be this 24-hour Chinese restaurant in midtown Atlanta that was legendary back in the days when we used to rage. It was walking distance of a bunch of punk houses, perfect for 5am helpings of the best vegetarian food you ever had in your life. One of the servers was ALWAYS there, day or night, any time you showed up.

It was a little ghetto and was actually right next to a hotel, by the off-ramp onto the interstate. Out front there was one of those concrete garden statues, of a duck, with his head missing.

First thing you saw when you walked in, on the wall, was a framed photo of Mick Jagger taken in the restaurant, with what looked like the owner and his wife beside him. Starting right underneath him and going up at a 45 degree angle were stick-on letters spelling out ICK JAGGER

lol

nice

Listening to Between The Buttons tonight, and man... could they just not be bothered to tune the bass properly before recording 'She Smiled Sweetly' or something?

The untuned weirdness is how it is good no?

Wyman would have spent more time tuning, but iirc he had a hot chick waiting in bed.

The untuned weirdness is how it is good no?

― Eyeball Kicks, Tuesday, February 9, 2016 1:26 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

No, it sounds like shit!

Wyman must have already been with the hot chick, 'cuz Keith plays bass on it iirc.

LOL Bill always had his hands full.

Coincidentally i found this really good article on Bill Wyman's non-Stones production experience during the late 60s. It is mostly about a really amazing record called "Introspection" he produced by a band called The End. Bill was recording so many psychedelic masterpieces he didn't have time to tune his bass.

http://billwyman.com/audio/the-end-introspection/

I've got to say that the Stones have put out some pretty good archive show material. The Marquee Club 71, LA Forum 75 and Texas 78 live sets are all quite ace. The sets are varied and some really good versions of some Stones album tracks.

marquee stuff is so good

this looks pretty cool!
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/12/12/recreating-rolling-stones-history
(Keith lives in Weston, Connecticut and my stepdad has seen him multiple times going to get cigs at the package store in his red pickup truck!)

He's apparently also a regular at a bar in Westport, CT, and as long as you don't ask him about the Stones, he'll drink with ya! (dm me for name)

So it looks like Abkco put up a bunch of mid-sixties Stones alternates up on Youtube last month for copyright preservation: http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCT0-yq9GmqHaREng77mwB0A/videos?sort=dd&shelf_id=0&view=0

Very rough early version of "Dandelion":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3y9u4XG_3s

Can't believe they never released this version

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frF84BbYPUI

lol

Are we sure that's not Pussy Galore?

Garage-Tastic!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4tkxMeZuuA

Makin bets on Kentucky derby day

^^^

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MICK! You wrote some terrible songs!.

Lol. Good list, although I don’t mind Dancing With Mr. D

It's only rock and roll is a pretty dumb song, but I still like it. Lyric is pretty duh, but the production is ace, lots of details in the murk. Probably partial as it was my first Stones tape (8 track) as a kid, so I heard it a ton.

I know "It's Only Rock and Roll" is only rock and rock and roll but i like it

the other Mick looked good in a sailor suit
https://78.media.tumblr.com/aa9fcb18d884c350430d552a60569aee/tumblr_o64b62Vsff1smsmqro1_500.gif

It's Only Rock n' Roll is one of their most boring albums but I don't understand why anyone wouldn't love the title track which is hilarious

I love that (A) "IORnR" the song was written as a Slade cop, and (B) it was recorded at a hijacked session for ILX's favorite Ron Wood album (to do).