Supposedly, Hendrix and Brian were pretty tight, and Hendrix' take on the situation was that Mick & Keef were just jealous. But he likely didn't hear the whole story.
― Dancing with Mr. T (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 6 April 2012 19:20 (twelve years ago) link
Not looking good for my #1 at all.
― Dancing with Mr. T (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 6 April 2012 19:21 (twelve years ago) link
When my sister postgraduated a few years back I took her and my parents out for a celebratory dinner at Claridge's. It was very nice.
My dad and I were lounging on the couches in the lobby afterwards, rather decadently we fancied, while the girls went to the ladies. This statuesque brunette sashayed down the stairs in a bronze dress while we gawped - utterly gorgeous. So much so that we only spotted the old wrinkly guy beside her at the last moment, all loose-limbed confidence and casual nods to the doormen as the couple disappeared outside to their taxi.
Of course it was Mick. We didn't talk or anything, or even get much of a look - he just monkeyed past, looking pleased with the world. I found out later he'd been living there for a year after Jerry Hall had finally kicked him out for good, so we'd basically been eating in his kitchen and hanging out at his front door.
Thirty seconds later my mum & sister came out the bathrooms, all enthusiastic about the vast selection of hand creams they'd been trying. When we told them what they'd missed they barrelled out the doors after them, but they'd already gone. As they're both massive Stones fans and it was my sister's big night, it was all too cruel.
― Ismael Klata, Friday, 6 April 2012 19:24 (twelve years ago) link
Thanks folks, very inciteful! I knew none of this.
― grandavis, Friday, 6 April 2012 19:24 (twelve years ago) link
my privilege
― Ismael Klata, Friday, 6 April 2012 19:25 (twelve years ago) link
Hah, that was a good story indeed.
― grandavis, Friday, 6 April 2012 19:28 (twelve years ago) link
5. Rocks Off – 881 points (35 votes, 2x #1)
http://i41.tinypic.com/24m9tzp.gifhttp://www.youtu.be/_lNP-x94-SE
http://www.timeisonourside.com/SORocks.html
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Friday, 6 April 2012 19:33 (twelve years ago) link
"so he was the 'bez' of the Stones?"
From the "brian jones - really?" thread.
― grandavis, Friday, 6 April 2012 19:34 (twelve years ago) link
My #1! xpost
― Raymond Dubious Davies (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 6 April 2012 19:34 (twelve years ago) link
rocks off would've been my #1 if i ever voted in these.
― JIM THOMETHEUS (zachlyon), Friday, 6 April 2012 19:35 (twelve years ago) link
ah, my only Exile vote; best moment on the album is when the drums come in, after the opening riff & Mick's purr/growl.
― Euler, Friday, 6 April 2012 19:36 (twelve years ago) link
the horns are the best anything ever all time
― JIM THOMETHEUS (zachlyon), Friday, 6 April 2012 19:37 (twelve years ago) link
...the sunshine bores the daylights out of me!
― nicky lo-fi, Friday, 6 April 2012 19:37 (twelve years ago) link
Now I wanna hear "Rip This Joint"
― nicky lo-fi, Friday, 6 April 2012 19:38 (twelve years ago) link
of all the many many covers only the Feelies come close to doing it justice....
I like the ones by the Avengers, Social Distortion, Firewater, feedtime. Pretty hard to mess this song up, though I guess W.A.S.P. accomplished that, ha ha.
― Fastnbulbous, Friday, 6 April 2012 19:38 (twelve years ago) link
Satisfaction, part ii, and this time i believe it
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Friday, 6 April 2012 19:41 (twelve years ago) link
"Rocks Off" my #6! The horns the horns the horns. Love the vocals on this one too.
― grandavis, Friday, 6 April 2012 19:42 (twelve years ago) link
http://youtu.be/94e6aZiTRE0
― Raymond Dubious Davies (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 6 April 2012 19:43 (twelve years ago) link
kick me like you've ki'icked befoh-ohi don't even feeel the paaaain no moooore
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Friday, 6 April 2012 19:43 (twelve years ago) link
inventing g'n'r in that pic btw
I'm zipping through the days at lightning speed Plug in, flush out and find the fucking feed
― Raymond Dubious Davies (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 6 April 2012 19:44 (twelve years ago) link
I need to repeat that sunshine line in all caps, if I may, because it's so fucking great
THE SUNSHINE BORES THE DAYLIGHTS OUTAAAA MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 6 April 2012 19:51 (twelve years ago) link
Excellent! This was my #6 and I was starting to think it wasn't going to be here.
― Godzilla vs. Rodan Rodannadanna (The Yellow Kid), Friday, 6 April 2012 19:53 (twelve years ago) link
When Max Weinberg was assembling his Let There Be Drums compilations, he really wanted "Rocks Off" on the 70s edition. But licensing was insanely complicated/expensive. Watts got wind of what Max was trying to do, and personally stepped in to clear the licensing for "Rocks Off."
― Dancing with Mr. T (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 6 April 2012 19:54 (twelve years ago) link
Just to sidetrack on Jones again, the post below from the Brian Jones thread sort encapsulates his dichotomy to me...the myth vs the man. All of what's said below is true, but without the dark undertones of drug use, obsessiveness, jealousy, violence and just general all round fragility it becomes a mythological story of a nice guy done wrong, taken too soon. Wheras to me, Jones' story is of a talented but petty, violent, jealous obsessive unpredictable and fragile dude just completely swallowed by fame. I can't buy into the hippy prince/cock robin stuff.
You can't help but feel sorry for him. Originally - way back at the beginning - it was his band. He was the most creative musical thinker in the group if not the primary songwriter. ... Then Keith stole his girlfriend - the beautiful Anita Pallenberg - and he got kicked out of the band. Then of course, there is the whole mystery surrounding his death. Something about dodgy death certificates or something, I can't remember. I used to know all the conspiracy theories but hey I've forgetten.― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Sunday, June 15, 2003 10:59 AM (8 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
sorry for the derail
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 6 April 2012 19:58 (twelve years ago) link
4. Sway – 1017 points (37 votes, 8x #1)
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-sXZ0GRlCgt4/TzVOs0eFO5I/AAAAAAAAPFI/RsRt3Osyh-E/s1600/mtmjkr.jpghttp://www.youtu.be/1Xk8ZLU6bYM
http://www.timeisonourside.com/SOSway.html
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Friday, 6 April 2012 20:05 (twelve years ago) link
waaaaaaaan tooooooooooo threeeeeeeeeee foooooouuuuuur
― Dancing with Mr. T (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 6 April 2012 20:05 (twelve years ago) link
Sway almost sounds like a Neil Young song
― a lot of seriously talentless bassists out there (loves laboured breathing), Friday, 6 April 2012 20:06 (twelve years ago) link
whoa
― Iago Galdston, Friday, 6 April 2012 20:07 (twelve years ago) link
Wow, 8 #1 votes. Huge "Sway" contingent.
― grandavis, Friday, 6 April 2012 20:08 (twelve years ago) link
BAWWWNNAWWWWBAWWWWBAWWWWWWWWWWWDANANANANANAWWWW
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 6 April 2012 20:08 (twelve years ago) link
cult of sway right here
Sway was my #1, Moonlight mile was my #2
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 6 April 2012 20:09 (twelve years ago) link
Sway is an absolute monster.
― kornrulez6969, Friday, 6 April 2012 20:09 (twelve years ago) link
TOO LOW
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Friday, 6 April 2012 20:10 (twelve years ago) link
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, April 6, 2012
^^ OTM
i guess we have lots of other corroborating evidence that BJ was a scumbag, but i wonder just how much we rely on MJ and KR's posthumous spin for our image of him. Keith doesn't have any excuse for stealing Anita from him, and I think it's clear that Mick and Keith wanted him "out of the way". It's amazing how late into 1965 and 1966 performance clips that you'll see Brian at dead center of the stage, taking in the lion's share of the girls' screaming...I don't Mick liked that one bit.
― Iago Galdston, Friday, 6 April 2012 20:10 (twelve years ago) link
Sway is the greaaaaaaaaaaaatest ever
if an alien asked me to describe rock n roll with one song, I would give them this. and then we would open a six pack, smoke a pack of marlboros and have a great fucking night.
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 6 April 2012 20:10 (twelve years ago) link
Sway is the "Life on Mars" of this poll
― Iago Galdston, Friday, 6 April 2012 20:11 (twelve years ago) link
Kind of amazing that such a (deservedly) well-regarded Stones song doesn't even have Keith playing on it.
― Dancing with Mr. T (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 6 April 2012 20:11 (twelve years ago) link
xxxpost but I don't think that they ever saw Brian as a threat because he was such a squirrelly weirdo. That's what I get from the stories, anyway.
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 6 April 2012 20:11 (twelve years ago) link
It could be the best Mick Jagger vocal ever.
― kornrulez6969, Friday, 6 April 2012 20:12 (twelve years ago) link
xxxxpost that's retroactive snark towards Brian, that he was hopeless, a joke, etc....let's face it, Brian may have been bad news but is there any doubt that the Glimmer Twins could be royal pricks? And I say that with luv
― Iago Galdston, Friday, 6 April 2012 20:14 (twelve years ago) link
I found Keith's lack of inwardness or any kind of regret in Life sort of disturbing, actually...the one thing I didn't like about the (self) portrayal. But that's the human riff, obv.
― Iago Galdston, Friday, 6 April 2012 20:15 (twelve years ago) link
THERE MUST BE WAYS TO FIND OUUUUUUUUUUTLOVE IS THE WAY THEY SAY IS REALLLLLLLLLLLLLLYYSTRUTTINGOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUTTT
bawnawnawnawnaw
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 6 April 2012 20:16 (twelve years ago) link
Hmmmm, P. Patty, yer 1 and 2's were non-Keith tunes....I don't think he'd be "happy" about that!
― Iago Galdston, Friday, 6 April 2012 20:17 (twelve years ago) link
Sway is totally middle-of-the-pack Stones to me, but my opinion means little.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 6 April 2012 20:17 (twelve years ago) link
my #1
― mookieproof, Friday, 6 April 2012 20:18 (twelve years ago) link
me too, Johnny--a solid A-, which is middle of the pack for these guys, but way too high here
― Iago Galdston, Friday, 6 April 2012 20:18 (twelve years ago) link
Not part of the "Sway" cult either, but it sure is fun to witness it. I do like it, just nowhere near my top 20.
― grandavis, Friday, 6 April 2012 20:18 (twelve years ago) link
here comes the beatdown!