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Post by Steel Wheels on Jul 6^th, 2015 at 4:31pm

I'm listening to Voodoo Lounge. 1994. Great album and an even better tour.

Some things stand out on this:

Charlie is recorded very well. He sounds incredible.

Keith's solo on You Got Me Rocking is one of his best.

His playing on Thru and Thru is unlike what he did before. It's completely different and instantly just like him.

I like Darryl's grooves. I thought he was a good addition to the band in the studio and on the stage.

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Post by mojoman on Jul 6^th, 2015 at 5:29pm

albums EXILE
also "got a lline on you"
dvds
ladies and gentlemen
hyde park both of them
and LA FORUM

still coming down from Pittsburgh!!

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Post by sweetcharmedlife on Jul 6^th, 2015 at 5:52pm

Sticky Fingers Live.

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Post by Trey Krimsin on Jul 6^th, 2015 at 6:29pm

Right now, it's Beggars Banquet. It had been a playlist of my Stones favorites from the 70s and the Raleigh Zip Code boot.

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Post by job on Jul 6^th, 2015 at 6:49pm

The Rolling Stones Live in Exotic "Honolulu" on vinyl.

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Post by Paranoid Android on Jul 6^th, 2015 at 7:16pm

GHS is in the car CD player at all times

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Post by sebi on Jul 7^th, 2015 at 11:38am

Sticky Fingers live

Some songs from Dirty work (seems I'm the only one who likes this album)

Emotional rescue (this one is complete underrated in comparison to sg & ty)

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Post by Steel Wheels on Jul 7^th, 2015 at 5:46pm

If you are rabid for Emotional Rescue, you've come to the right message board.

It's required daily listening in my life.

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Post by Steel Wheels on Jul 7^th, 2015 at 5:47pm

And if you didn't figure it out - I'm a fan of Dirty Work as well.

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Post by Holden on Jul 7^th, 2015 at 8:04pm

Steel Wheels wrote on Jul 6^th, 2015 at 4:31pm:

Keith's solo on You Got Me Rocking is one of his best.

Oh God YES! I love the way Mick snarls right before Keith starts the solo, and it's just so freaking mean and dirty. I love the way the song ends too, gives it such a live feeling. I know I'm in the minority here but man I really, really dig the studio version of that song. May even go as far as saying it's up there with Bitch.

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Post by gypsymofo60 on Jul 7^th, 2015 at 9:27pm

Sticky Fingers NEW. Exile, Keep Your Motor Running(otherwise known as The Lost Live Album, Philly, and Houston, 1972), Sonic Barbeque,(Jean Claude Memorial, Europe, Mostly Essen,1973), and Ladies & Gents, Baby Don't Do That, an updated version of the Ladies & Gent's sountrack. I'm doing an old fashioned audio cassette run of the best of 71, to 73, OCD. It's a hoorible affliction LOL.

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Post by Gimme Shelter on Jul 7^th, 2015 at 9:29pm

From The Vault: The Marquee

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Post by gypsymofo60 on Jul 7^th, 2015 at 10:13pm

Gimme Shelter wrote on Jul 7^th, 2015 at 9:29pm:

From The Vault: The Marquee

Oh yeah! Forgot that. Very impressed. Wonderful restoration. I've long had a couple of boots,(DVD, video), but this is superb. I didn't really expect much, but I've been more than impressed. Checked out ordering the three disc Sticky, 200 quid!!!!!! Get fucked! Australia??? What a backwater. No wonder it's at the arsehole end of the planet, perfectly placed geographically to receive the the title of Rectus Pacificus. They didn't explore it in 1770, they stuck a probe up the coastlines looking for polyps. " No polyps Guv'" "OK!" Let's turn it into a penal colony.' It was felons who came here and it's still in the genes. Robbing it's people like there's no tomorrow.

200 quid! You must be 'aving a laugh! I didn't buy any of those deluxe Exile, Grrrr, or Charlie is My Darling box sets. Not because I couldn't, but because they were so damned over priced. Just out of curiosity; where have all the Brits on the board gone. And God! How I miss Sir Stonesalot. He had such an encyclopaedic, and eclectic knowledge of US, Brit' and even Australian music. Any American who listened to Died Pretty was on the ball, well and truly. We used to have some great online jousting, hilarious! Wherever you are my online American jousting friend, I sincerely hope things are well for you and yours. I sure do miss ya.

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Post by WaiteringOnAFiend on Jul 8^th, 2015 at 12:57am

Have a tinny or three of Fosters, for fuck's s*ke.

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Post by gypsymofo60 on Jul 8^th, 2015 at 1:25am

WaiteringOnAFiend wrote on Jul 8^th, 2015 at 12:57am:

Have a tinny or three of Fosters, for fuck's s*ke.

What's your fucking gripe shit for brains?

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Post by gypsymofo60 on Jul 8^th, 2015 at 1:38am

gypsymofo60 wrote on Jul 8^th, 2015 at 1:25am:

WaiteringOnAFiend wrote on Jul 8^th, 2015 at 12:57am:

Have a tinny or three of Fosters, for fuck's s*ke.

What's your fucking gripe shit for brains?

Oh, are u an Aussie? Or are you one of these people that think we all drink that cat-piss here?

Listen, it's a post, Don't be so bloody sensitive wherever u are from. None of this means a damn anyway. It's all opinions. And as Clint Eastwood so succinctly put it once, 'Opinions are like arseholes. Everybody has one.' So as I carefully sip on my Jack Daniels and dry I shall try to be as sycophantic, diplomatic, and politically correct as would seem to be most people are comfortable with.

So -- my dear fellow Stones fan here's to you! Cheers! Fosters indeed! Have you ever tried that God awful stuff?

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Post by Zack on Jul 8^th, 2015 at 5:24am

I just pulled out Love You Live after many years yesterday. Man, is side 4 a letdown after side 3. Every time I listen to it, I try to figure out what Jagger says right before Starfucker without success. Sounds like "nisbit."

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Post by gypsymofo60 on Jul 8^th, 2015 at 10:56pm

Zack wrote on Jul 8^th, 2015 at 5:24am:

He's short of breath. he says; THIS IS IT!

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Post by gypsymofo60 on Jul 8^th, 2015 at 11:11pm

I understand why people dislike much of Love You Live, it's definitely a Stones fan's album. It was the third album I, ummm acquired. Still have my original 1977 vinyl copy. Sounds as good today as it did then.

I used to buy the records, then record them straight away and only listen to the tapes, that's why my vinyl still exists today. I just purchased a new turntable to integrate into my existing system, wow! Was I surprised, as the turntable was a very good one. Ya gotta turn 'em up of course, but fuck the neighbours, neighbours,neighbours, neighbours, NEIGHBOURS, yes I got neighbours, doin' my head in--- all the fucking time.

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Post by gypsymofo60 on Jul 8^th, 2015 at 11:59pm

Zack wrote on Jul 8^th, 2015 at 5:24am:

Another word on Love You Live. It was slated in England, and in Australia upon it's release. You should have seen some of the reviews. Criticised everything from Warhol's cover, to of course the music. At that time the double live album had become a genre unto itself.

Slade Alive! probably kicked it off, although Get Yer Yas Out is often held up as the first successful live LP ever. Live albums were not great sellers prior to Ya Yas, and the Who's, The Who Live At Leeds.Neil Diamond's Hot August Night also did much to promote the double live album.

You see although the Stones badgered Decca to release the Ya Yas LP as a double,(as we finally got it, as intended in 2009) they declined, Decca that is. Deep Purple's Made In Japan also spurred the double LP on. Then of course you got the phenomenally successful Kiss Alive!, and Frampton Comes Alive and, BOOM!

The Stones obviously felt compelled to deliver accordingly, lo and behold, Love You Live. The Stones were in turmoil then, and the songs were horribly rushed as Jagger was so obviously 'Stultified within the Stones bubble.' And yet, despite the very fast nature of side 4, I think it has an addictive quality. I love the way they race into each number, it's like one long jam. Those versions of Brown Sugar, JJF, and Sympathy are among my favourites as far as live versions are concerned. I used to drive down a certain road on Friday afternoons with a compilation tape going, and side 4 of LYL was the end of the tape. I used to turn it up, and drive way too fast on the last leg of the journey. So LYL has very fond memories for me.

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Post by Tumbling Dijs on Jul 11^th, 2015 at 3:38pm

Always wondering with this kind of posts..... doesn't anyone play the first albums from the early sixties anymore? Of course the late sixties till the mid seventies was their best period, but still I play the old ones on a regular basis. I love those early albums dearly, but many of you don't seem to care about them. They are rarely mentioned in this kind of posts. Or am I wrong??

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Post by Teiz on Jul 11^th, 2015 at 5:14pm

Tumbling Dijs wrote on Jul 11^th, 2015 at 3:38pm:

Truth is that while I love their early stuff it never did get much spinning time, with the exception of Now! Might have to do with this: I became a Stones fan around 1989. I was a lad back then, made my money packing groceries and delivering newspapers. So CD's were expensive. The stuff from Sticky Fingers onward were available in the mid-price section, the Decca stuff wasn't because of Klein. So I got Hot Rocks and the first half of the Big Four. Of course, I fixed that over the years but by the time I got all those Brian Age records, the 70's stuff had been a part of my life for years. I was in love with Now! for a while, but it is the one exception.

Back to the original question: I spin Exile at least once a week. I have been doing that for 25 years, the album never bores me. Currently my favorite is that Sticky Fingers Live gem the boys threw on iTunes. Love it..

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Post by Voodoo Chile In Wonderland on Jul 11^th, 2015 at 7:06pm

Paranoid Android wrote on Jul 6^th, 2015 at 7:16pm:

GHS is in the car CD player at all times

I'm a witness, we heard and sang it at PA's car

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Post by Edith Grove on Jul 11^th, 2015 at 7:11pm

Tumbling Dijs wrote on Jul 11^th, 2015 at 3:38pm:

Always wondering with this kind of posts..... doesn't anyone play the first albums from the early sixties anymore?

And we complain about the set lists being so "warhorse heavy." :nooslajaleisk

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Post by gypsymofo60 on Jul 11^th, 2015 at 7:20pm

gypsymofo60 wrote on Jul 8^th, 2015 at 10:56pm:

[quote author=19222028430 link=1436218314/16#16 date=1436351075]I just pulled out Love You Live after many years yesterday. Man, is side 4 a letdown after side 3. Every time I listen to it, I try to figure out what Jagger says right before Starfucker without success. Sounds like "nisbit."

He's short of breath. he says; THIS IS IT![/quoteSorry, I was wrong. It's, "LISTEN."

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Post by Mr. Yeats on Jul 12^th, 2015 at 4:10pm

Tumbling Dijs wrote on Jul 11^th, 2015 at 3:38pm:

I love them as much as the "glory years" stuff.
Been on a big Brian-era jag recently: '64-'67. Damn this band cooked back then. Got Live If You Want it is ferocious. Too bad they couldn't have recorded it better, but what the hell - it smokes.

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Post by Steel Wheels on Jul 12^th, 2015 at 5:37pm

I've been listening to disc one of the Singles Years and Goat's Head Soup.

What is never mentioned around here are the SACD releases that came out roughly 10-12 years ago. I bought a SACD player just for them and it was the best audio investment I've ever made.

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Post by a.completeunknown on Jul 13^th, 2015 at 3:58pm

Between the Buttons! (USA version.)

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Post by lavendar on Jul 13^th, 2015 at 9:20pm

The Best of Mick Jagger and SuperHeavy
I know I like His Voice.
Please don't leave Me Don't you Go.....

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Post by gypsymofo60 on Jul 14^th, 2015 at 4:55pm

Steel Wheels wrote on Jul 12^th, 2015 at 5:37pm:

Here, in Australia; you had to be very, very quick. They were hard to get, and they flew out of the one store here that actually temporarily stocked them. I managed to get Beggars, Let It Bleed, and TSMR. Went on for three weeks. Week 4 Friday night, I want TTPD(HITS 2), all gone no more coming.

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Post by gypsymofo60 on Jul 14^th, 2015 at 5:18pm

Oh I almost forgot. I wasn't that impressed. Now Blu-Ray is supposed to reproduce what an SACD player produced. Nah! Bullshit! Got ripped. Take Keith's attitude. It's alesson learnt. Much like Quadrophonic in the 70s, a quick death. Dat tape anyone? Now they really were the pants.

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Post by lavendar on Jul 15^th, 2015 at 4:39pm

didn't connect

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Post by Trey Krimsin on Jul 16^th, 2015 at 9:15pm

Earlier: Sticky Fingers
Now: Some Girls

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Post by sirmoonie on Jul 16^th, 2015 at 10:49pm

Sticky Fingers - songs like Brown Sugar, Sway, Can't You Hear Me Knocking, Dead Flowers, Moonlight Mile make it Exile caliber. I probably play Sticky Fingers more than every CD/album I own combined.

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Post by andrews27 on Jul 17^th, 2015 at 8:43am

If you listen carefully, Let it Bleed and especially Sticky Fingers are the blueprints for nearly every 1-disc sized Stones album made thereafter, as far as song sequencing goes. Exception would be the fast side/slow side Tattoo You, something you couldn't repeat in the CD age.

Me, I'm listening to B2B a lot, but I've decided that my favorite Stones is Goats Head Soup, and I say it's my favorite album of all albums just to piss off the haters. This leaves out a lot of contenders, like Astral Weeks and Joy Division's Closer, and Exile, but its worth it to revive GHS's reputation, which is better than imagined at the release time. It was also the first current Stones studio album I got as a pre-teen (I already had Hot Rocks and Ya-Ya's).

I remember the great Xmas when I unwrapped Hot Rocks, and how my grandma pitched a fit when my mom bought me Ya-Ya's with two tits on the cover. (For her sins, she had to hear that album endlessly, at full blast.) I remember that Al Green's "Call Me" was on the radio when "Angie" broke and I got GHS. I remember wanting Exile the summer it broke, but somehow not buying it until after I first saw the Stones in 1975, which was the first thing I did after the show. By that time I had a shitpot of other Stones, and really loved More Hot Rocks. Then came my bootleg phase....

How about a Stones Album Memories thread?

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Post by job on Jul 17^th, 2015 at 12:18pm

Sticky Fingers & Goat's Head Soup. Both of which I play FAR more than any other Stones album.

And since we are talking memories...I remember my Dad and I being blown away by this new tune on the radio by the Stones called "Time Waits For No One" as we worked on replacing the cam shaft of his 1971 Chevelle Malibu.

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Post by Mr. Yeats on Jul 19^th, 2015 at 6:19pm

andrews27 wrote on Jul 17^th, 2015 at 8:43am:

Nice post.

And I think Goats Head, along with IORR and Black and Blue, are as strong as the Big Four (BB, LIB, SF and EOMS). So there.

And oddly enough, in Roy Carr's "Illustrated History" book from '76, in his review of GHS he compared it to Al Green saying (roughly) "aside from Al Green, GHS has the deepest grooves in pop music today".

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Post by Gazza on Jul 19^th, 2015 at 6:53pm

andrews27 wrote on Jul 17^th, 2015 at 8:43am:

Go right ahead.....

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Post by gypsymofo60 on Jul 22^nd, 2015 at 10:16pm

andrews27 wrote on Jul 17^th, 2015 at 8:43am:

I don't know if GHS is my absolute favourite, but it's right up there amongst my fav's. It's so highly underrated it's ridiculous. What a record! As for a Stones memories thread, st real memory concerns a Friday evening in 1964, I was 3,(believe it or not), I was playing on the floor with some of my Gran's ornaments; sadly she passed away this week aged 2 weeks off 101. Suddenly there was this huge fuss.

Comments like "corrr, 'ave a look at that gob!" " Oh! Gawd! That's revolting!" "That shouldn't be on TV." My father- "Oi Mum, Come an' 'ave a look at this." My Mother and Gran were cooking in the kitchen.

My Gran went nuts. "OH NO!...They're horrible, horrid I tell you. Dirty, scruffy, lay-abouts." The commotion grabbed my attention, I'd heard of and seen the Stones before, and thought to myself, 'Oh! It's just the Stones.But from that moment on; although I would not start buying their records for years to come I was hooked. Whenever they were on TV I'd be glued to the screen, fascinated by their attitude, and image.

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Post by gypsymofo60 on Jul 22^nd, 2015 at 10:26pm

andrews27 wrote on Jul 17^th, 2015 at 8:43am:

Great to see someone rates CLOSER by Joy Division so highly. UNKNOWN PLEASURES is also very good. For years a Sydney radio station would run a poll of the top 100 songs of the thirty years between 1960,61 etc, to 1990, 91, 92 etc. LOVE WILL TEAR US APART would constantly top the bill. I love DEAD SOULS.

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Post by gypsymofo60 on Jul 23^rd, 2015 at 12:48am

I've also been listening to Paris 1970,(although the sound quality is not great on that.) And the fabulous Get Yer Leed's Lungs Out. The sound quality on that is the business.

It's amazing that in 1971 they could get a boot to sound as good as Leeds. It is definitely one of my favourite boots pre 1978. Following another recent thread concerning the lack of talk about the early LPs, I think we are all in agreement that for their time and place they were top notch. I think only The Beatles early albums surpassed them, and then only production wise, and those fabulous harmonies between Lennon &$ McCartney.

Or maybe deep down we feel those very early LPs are now a bit dated. Of course we would never admit such sacrilege. As great an album such as AFTERMATH was, apart from a couple of real gems like UNDER MY THUMB, I often feel that around the early 80s it, and certain other LPs of that period often felt the same, dated.

This is why I like Their Satanic Majesties so much. It sort of defies, or transcends it's time. I know a lot of people hate it, and I can understand why, but as a one off, experiment, not to be repeated, or followed up, I think it stands up pretty well. Much better than BETWEEN THE BUTTONS (UK version.) Anyway as far as I am concerned, damn the critics, the jaded writers of the NME, Melody Maker, Rolling Stone, etc. Starting with JJF all the way through to SOME GIRLS, 10 YEARS EVRYTHING THEY DID was either good, or just brilliant. I never listen to just one STONES album at a time, I listen to them in eras, like 68 to 71, and so on.

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Post by andrews27 on Jul 24^th, 2015 at 8:28am

I sometimes wonder if the Leeds LP boot (which I have owned a version of since about 1980, with "drag photo" cover*) isn't responsible for the first two songs being "lost." I wonder if the makers didn't squeeze in all that would fit on one LP from a complete recording, leaving off JJF and LWM.

Do all later boot versions of Leeds descend from the truncated dub tape used to make the original LP? I don't think I ever heard a version with as much stage dialogue (including the famous "Get your Leeds lungs out") as on the official release, and I have several downloaded versions of Leeds boots.

*"Leed Stones - The Flamin Groupie"

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Post by Egon on Jul 24^th, 2015 at 10:52am

I usually listen the boys on random,
but my main ones are
sticky
exile
voodoo

And of course rarities,
I have the limited edition where
they photoshopped Bill out of the picture....

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Post by gypsymofo60 on Jul 28^th, 2015 at 9:29pm

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andrews27 wrote on Jul 17^th, 2015 at 8:43am:

That's exactly it! You hit the nail right on the head there. SEQUENCING! That's what makes Sticky Fingers such a great album. Each song segues perfectly into the next. Plus, both side one & side two; pre CD days kicked of with two of their greatest rockers ever. When push comes to shove, although Gimme Shelter is my favourite song and I find it almost impossible to choose a favourite Stones album, I think I would have to back Sticky Fingers. And from my experience, most non Stones die-hards choose Sticky Fingers. It's the pro's who opt for Exile.

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Post by gypsymofo60 on Jul 28^th, 2015 at 9:38pm

andrews27 wrote on Jul 24^th, 2015 at 8:28am:

Yeah! The versions of Leeds, March 1971, or 'GET YOUR LEEDS LUNGS OUT' are all missing the first two tracks you mentioned. That intro does give the LP a disjointed feel at first. But then it seems to just take off. Magic! Maybe there's a better boot somewhere which retained the the proper intro, but I've never come across one yet.

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Post by Paranoid Android on Jul 28^th, 2015 at 11:11pm

Paranoid Android wrote on Jul 6^th, 2015 at 7:16pm:

GHS is in the car CD player at all times

I had the honor of listening to GHS in my car with VooDoo a few weeks back.

I love listening to Winter as i drive to work each morning along the back roads...can You Hear the Music as I hit the interstate for 3 miles...then Star Star for the final 2 miles into my parking spot.

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Post by gypsymofo60 on Jul 28^th, 2015 at 11:28pm

Paranoid Android wrote on Jul 28^th, 2015 at 11:11pm:

Paranoid Android wrote on Jul 6^th, 2015 at 7:16pm:

GHS is in the car CD player at all times

Probably THE most underrated song they ever wrote and recorded. I love that song too. GHS is a brilliant LP. I think in Britain it was released just as this mythological love for Exile was beginning, and it got lost in the emergence of Glam rock, Bowie, Bolan, Elton, Slade, Sweet. I remember buying it on vinyl in 78, a few months before Some Girls was Released, I just couldn't stop playing it. But here we were inundated with the (what I refer to as the masked copies), The bet you keep your pussy clean line was deliberately distorted.

The programme editor wouldn't allow us to play Star Star on our FM Rock Features radio show. Imagine distorting the pussy line when the the phrase starfucker, starfucker goes on and on throughout the entire song. Baffled me.

But yes GHS without doubt is a greatly underrated LP, and Winter is such a magical track. With Wild Horses, Let It Loose, and Moonlight Mile it is without doubt one of their real tear-jerkers. You have very good taste.

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Post by Paranoid Android on Jul 29^th, 2015 at 6:19am

Gypsymofo60...you should check out this thread i started a while back, a couple of months before you joined The Asylum

http://rocksoff.org/cgi-bin/messageboard/YaBB.pl?num=1423007822/24#1

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Post by job on Jul 29^th, 2015 at 9:56am

Thanks to a very helpful person, I am now listening to the Raleigh Zip Code show.

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Post by Paranoid Android on Jul 29^th, 2015 at 1:23pm

job wrote on Jul 29^th, 2015 at 9:56am:

Thanks to a very helpful person, I am now listening to the Raleigh Zip Code show.

Do you hear me and TomL screaming when D&G was NOT played?

BTW...got link?

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Post by gypsymofo60 on Jul 29^th, 2015 at 4:41pm

Paranoid Android wrote on Jul 29^th, 2015 at 6:19am:

Gypsymofo60...you should check out this thread i started a while back, a couple of months before you joined The Asylum

http://rocksoff.org/cgi-bin/messageboard/YaBB.pl?num=1423007822/24#1

Well I actually joined the asylum as you say, way back in 2001. Just haven't had time to keep up until now. Thanks for link man and best wishes. Mofo

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Post by gypsymofo60 on Jul 29^th, 2015 at 5:13pm

Yeah! I really think Mick T was the business. What a sensational player he was, and although I love B&B, and Some Girls; I always thought after Taylor left they lost a lot of melody. Ronnie Wood was OK at first, but over the years he became a liability. Some English rock journo' Barnay something said, after Taylor left, the Stones took the soft option with Wood, it wasn't really a very challenging move. I remember when the change occurred; I knew they'd go for Wood, for better,or worse.

His solo LPs are dismal, he's a liability, and now I just see him as a joke. He really is like some demented cartoon character, his book bored me nearly as much as Bill's roll call of sexual encounters.

Maybe they shoulda taken a risk back in 75/76, and plumbed for a guitarist like Taylor. I have my thoughts on much better candidates but, it would take too long to express. Taylor inspired them to greater heights than anyone. Hands down!

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Post by andrews27 on Jul 29^th, 2015 at 7:30pm

I feel the opposite on all counts regarding Ronnie. I loved his Faces work and guitar on Rod Stewart's early, best LPs. His own records have been spotty but full of memorable highlights that I wouldn't part with.

If he doesn't challenge them enough, it's because they resist challenge, and I think that's been a downer for him over the years. Still, he's made many uncredited contributions to their songwriting. I can't imagine any guitarist lasting longer with them - certainly not the American options they tried on Black and Blue. And Ronnie's longevity may be an uncredited part of the longevity of the Stones: every lost guitarist would have been an opportunity to break up or go on hiatus.

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Post by Gazza on Jul 29^th, 2015 at 7:42pm

andrews27 wrote on Jul 24^th, 2015 at 8:28am:

No. The bootleg comes from a BBC radio (mono) broadcast which was aired about 10 weeks after the gig and it only began at the third song.

The first two songs were never broadcast, so they just never circulated. I think some of the improved version bootlegs in recent years came from pre-broadcast source tapes or a soundboard, but it was the same number of songs. I havent compared the various releases but maybe some of the between song chatter was edited out for broadcast?