I was comforted by the fact that ye olde Mickcould still belt it but with the kind of tenderness the moment dictatedIt’s not the song, or even any kind of precision in performance, but for me it’s the reassurance that they can still show up & make me feel correct for loving them all this time
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 20 April 2020 02:16 (four years ago) link
otm
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 20 April 2020 02:25 (four years ago) link
af
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Tuesday, 21 April 2020 03:56 (four years ago) link
New Single (about wanting get laid during a quarantine?): https://rollingstones.lnk.to/GhostTownSo
― "...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 23 April 2020 16:24 (four years ago) link
Kinda dig it, disco Stones throwback vibes
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 23 April 2020 17:37 (four years ago) link
wanting get laid during a quarantine
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 23 April 2020 17:38 (four years ago) link
Mick wants to party, but it’s a party of one lol
― ncxkd, Thursday, 23 April 2020 17:42 (four years ago) link
Mick truly has had to fold up his penis and go home.
― "...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 23 April 2020 17:45 (four years ago) link
this is better than it should be
― Yanni Xenakis (Hadrian VIII), Thursday, 23 April 2020 18:19 (four years ago) link
Surprisingly good!
― Brad C., Thursday, 23 April 2020 18:46 (four years ago) link
yeah it's pretty good!
is it autotuned? the higher register vocals? i was focusing on the lower vocals, first, which are much poorer quality, thinking "why did they leave them in?". but then as i listened to the high side again, it seems like the lower parts are there to add "grit" to the autotuned sheen. could be wrong
― let me be your friend on the other end! (Karl Malone), Thursday, 23 April 2020 21:20 (four years ago) link
Are they still playing the instruments or is this a “concept” of some sort
― ncxkd, Thursday, 23 April 2020 22:25 (four years ago) link
YouTube clip shows them in a studio (Mick’s house?) recording it, so it seems they did.
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Thursday, 23 April 2020 22:46 (four years ago) link
Reminds me of this (solid) forgotten throwaway:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjwIhyMfvRY
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 24 April 2020 00:38 (four years ago) link
i loved highwire
― Pinche Cumbion Bien Loco (stevie), Sunday, 26 April 2020 22:31 (four years ago) link
the live album that accompanied it mixed in crowd sounds from get yer yayas out
― Pinche Cumbion Bien Loco (stevie), Sunday, 26 April 2020 22:32 (four years ago) link
Tunes where Mick plays harp usually work out well.
― earlnash, Sunday, 26 April 2020 23:11 (four years ago) link
that's true
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 26 April 2020 23:36 (four years ago) link
‘Almost Hear You Sigh’ is my lockdown tune of choice
― X-Prince Protégé (sonnyboy), Sunday, 26 April 2020 23:45 (four years ago) link
mmmmmmmmmmm silky smoothas wine
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 26 April 2020 23:53 (four years ago) link
You guys watched this clip? Holy shit, it's good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBlLbNVBKCc
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 27 April 2020 02:53 (four years ago) link
Not until just now. Thanks!
― Together Again Or (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 27 April 2020 03:19 (four years ago) link
I think you shared that one time on a Some Girls thread or somewhere, which eventually led me to buying that '78 Texas DVD/CD from which it came.
The whole show is pretty hot, but that clip might be the peak.
― "...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 27 April 2020 03:46 (four years ago) link
They have some tour memorabilia in the booklet. The band played a handful of smaller theatre shows under aliases in between stadium/arena dates. The DFW one was filmed for an aborted theatrical release.
― "...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 27 April 2020 03:51 (four years ago) link
amazing clip - does Bill have a broken finger on his fretting hand?!?
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Monday, 27 April 2020 04:06 (four years ago) link
Chet Flippo's tour report (which includes some behind the scenes stuff on that show) is something else: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/the-rolling-stones-the-road-aint-what-it-used-to-be-202953/
― "...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 27 April 2020 04:10 (four years ago) link
78 era stuff is better than that new Ghost Town video/song
― curmudgeon, Monday, 27 April 2020 17:12 (four years ago) link
The best part of that clip is that I am sure the tour budget included private jets, entire floors of hotels, clothes, food, booze, drugs, stage props, security, limousines, all the things you would expect the Stones would require in order to function on the road but:
Stones account, with a green visor, arm garters, hunched over a rolltop desk calls out through the smoke:
"Mick, I've crunched the numbers and we just can't afford another mic stand & mic for backing vox, how about Woody & Keef just share one?"
― chr1sb3singer, Monday, 27 April 2020 18:45 (four years ago) link
McLaughlin is close but he can’t really stretch out; we can’t.
― Together Again Or (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 27 April 2020 18:59 (four years ago) link
Outside that Live in Texas 78 show, the Stones have put out quite a few live recordings worth checking out.
'Ladies and Gentlemen the Rolling Stones' - soundtrack w/ Exile era live show with Nicky Hopkins playing madcap on piano.
'Brussels Affair'- a bit rougher on the sound quality, but at least as good as most Dead shows also from 73. Released as a download, but also out there as a long time bootleg.
'LA Friday Live 1975'- This is a live at the Forum set with Billy Preston on keys. Plays up some funk including a real sleazy version of "Fingerprint File"
This one is notable as the cover looks like a Pavement album.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/24/LA-Friday-1975.jpg
The Marquee Club 1971 is pretty subdued and not quite as good as these but worth hearing if you a big Stones fan. It's pretty much cut right after Sticky Fingers, so it's got some of those tunes in the set.
― earlnash, Monday, 27 April 2020 20:39 (four years ago) link
Mick with guitar will never not look awkward as all hell.
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Monday, 27 April 2020 20:57 (four years ago) link
the Stones gave it everything they had: these old pros, crippled by age and by dissipation, but still holding the flag high
― donald failson (sic), Monday, 27 April 2020 21:19 (four years ago) link
That hoary old journalistic chestnut from '78!
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Monday, 27 April 2020 21:22 (four years ago) link
Wow! Yeah it does
― I eat fast foods (morrisp), Monday, 27 April 2020 21:22 (four years ago) link
The funny thing is that all of the Stones--bar Wyman--were in their mid-30s at the time!
― "...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 27 April 2020 21:25 (four years ago) link
yeah he specifically cites Jagger as 34 in the same para
― donald failson (sic), Monday, 27 April 2020 21:32 (four years ago) link
There's some Lester Bangs pieces declaring the Stones were past it that ran as early as '73.
― "...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 27 April 2020 21:56 (four years ago) link
From that article:
The Stones hit the stage at Will Rogers Auditorium at 10:58 p.m. to a sustained ovation.
Fuuuuuck that. What, did each opener get a full hour to play?
― but also fuck you (unperson), Monday, 27 April 2020 21:57 (four years ago) link
It was Doug Kershaw and Peter Tosh, so...maybe?
Fwiw, it was a summer night in the central time zone, and if you scored a ticket at face value, it was like $5 for the Stones in a 2500 seater.
― "...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 27 April 2020 22:17 (four years ago) link
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee),
tbf he plays and holds it much better now
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 27 April 2020 22:19 (four years ago) link
I'm not the first to argue that Mick playing guitar in part made Some Girls so damn good, and I can hear it on the studio and live "When the Whip Comes Down."
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 27 April 2020 22:23 (four years ago) link
Isn’t Mick playing guitar on Heaven? Cos that sounds great.
― 29 facepalms, Monday, 27 April 2020 22:31 (four years ago) link
Yup.
A second rhythm guitar on most Stones singles and album tracks after 1978. He's essential to "Respectable," "Lies," "Miss You," "Hang Fire," "Mixed Emotions," and those are just the agreed-on classics, I guess.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 27 April 2020 22:35 (four years ago) link
Earlier than that period, he plays electric rhythm on "Sway" when Keith wasn't around, and no one will argue with THAT part
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 27 April 2020 22:39 (four years ago) link
I love Mixed Emotions, it's got such an idiosyncratic, perfectly Stonesy momentum.
― Pinche Cumbion Bien Loco (stevie), Monday, 27 April 2020 22:39 (four years ago) link
Isn't also playing acoustic on "Moonlight Mile"?
― "...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 27 April 2020 22:57 (four years ago) link
Yep!
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 27 April 2020 23:06 (four years ago) link
I’m not sure Taylor remembers the sway session that well. That rhythm part sounds a lot like Keith to me, down to the sus4 flourishes and the open G tuning. I guess mick was playing as much inna “Keith” style as he could.
― calstars, Monday, 27 April 2020 23:33 (four years ago) link
If Keith teaches you guitar things like that are gonna happen.
― 29 facepalms, Monday, 27 April 2020 23:35 (four years ago) link
Jagger gave Taylor credit for writing "Sway" in that '95 RS interview without calling his lawyer about it.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 27 April 2020 23:45 (four years ago) link