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Heart Of Stone Rocks Off Regular Offline Rocks Off Rules Posts: 4,001 Charlottetown Prince Edward Is Gender:	Re: Fav. Stones period by Guitarist (besides Keith Reply #25 - Nov 28^th, 2009 at 10:30am Lantern_High wrote on Nov 28^th, 2009 at 10:21am: If you think that you can close it, how you want Heart. But why so soon? People dont vote? Ok, I'll keep it open, I'm just going by the post before me, time to show the poll results.
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Bitch Rocks Off Regular Offline I always get my Rocks Off! Posts: 4,904 FL - USA Gender:	Re: Fav. Stones period by Guitarist (besides Keith Reply #27 - Nov 28^th, 2009 at 7:56pm I just voted! How many votes are in?
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Kilroy Rocks Off Regular Offline I love this place! Posts: 2,863 Mickville Virginny USA Gender:	Re: Fav. Stones period by Guitarist (besides Keith Reply #28 - Nov 28^th, 2009 at 10:26pm sweetcharmedlife wrote on Nov 25^th, 2009 at 9:10am: Do you really think this is going to be close? If it's not MT by a mile. I'll eat my super deluxe version of ya ya's....Ok I don't have one,but the thought is there. i agree!
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andrews27 Rocks Off Regular Offline Wake up Bowie or we all through!! Posts: 1,644 Pittsburgh, PA, USA Gender:	Re: Fav. Stones period by Guitarist (besides Keith Reply #29 - Nov 30^th, 2009 at 5:42pm Can I vote once each for Brian and MT? I feel so cheap, now.
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Re: Fav. Stones period by Guitarist (besides Keith
Reply #30 - Nov 30^th, 2009 at 7:55pm

Gazza wrote on Nov 26^th, 2009 at 7:19am:

[quote author=texile link=1259152235/0#16 date=1259201759]

The ironic and sad thing about the last comment is that most 'Stones fans' would hardly know Mick Taylor if he walked past them on the street. Thats a sign of not only how badly his own career post 1974 has been managed, but of the revisionism within the Stones organisation in recent years.

Can't argue with that, but that may be why i tend to be defensive about MT - he is the least known Stone....and i think that 'revisionism' has alot to do with fans appreciating the musical distinction of that era.
Even the historically reviled (by critics and fans of the time) albums like GHS and IORR have a certain charm, elegance and softness about them that is much more appreciated now.
And being a musician, i tend to underestimate the value of producers, but Miller was definately part of that era's greatness and i didn't mean to diminish that - i know they do more than turn knobs etc....
but MT is always the underdog in the Stones discussion simply because of his post-Stones status and maybe his own quiet persona...(I remember wondering how that blond guy was in the album jacket of Hot Rocks - he didn't 'fit' and i didn't even know who he was at the time.)
To me, giving him props with the Stones is like heralding an unheralded David to the Stones' Goliath epic.
And YCAGWYW live has never been the same since 1973.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adhj-LCQfMo

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Re: Fav. Stones period by Guitarist (besides Keith
Reply #31 - Dec 1^st, 2009 at 12:36pm

will this finally put to bed the mick t vs ronnie question?

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Heart Of Stone Rocks Off Regular Offline Rocks Off Rules Posts: 4,001 Charlottetown Prince Edward Is Gender:	Re: Fav. Stones period by Guitarist (besides Keith Reply #32 - Dec 1^st, 2009 at 1:05pm yes I Think so, with Mick T. at 66 & Ronnie at 21 votes.
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uncleson Rocks Off Regular Offline Rocks Off Rules You Bastards Posts: 1,169 USA Gender:	Re: Fav. Stones period by Guitarist (besides Keith Reply #33 - Dec 1^st, 2009 at 2:04pm Thats true. But Brian should really have a few more votes. As Andrew said, hed like to vote once for Brian and once for MT. Thats kind of how I feel, though I voted for Brian.
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Bitch Rocks Off Regular Offline I always get my Rocks Off! Posts: 4,904 FL - USA Gender:	Re: Fav. Stones period by Guitarist (besides Keith Reply #34 - Dec 1^st, 2009 at 3:48pm And I voted for RONNIE because he is with the Stones now and I live in the present, not the past. RONNIE can still thrill me now while the other 2 just cant. but They are ALL good!
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Re: Fav. Stones period by Guitarist (besides Keith
Reply #35 - Dec 2^nd, 2009 at 9:49am

I absolutely love Brian Jones, and you can't replace the instrumental sound that he brought to many, many great records. But I discovered him second while growing up in the 1970s, and heard a lot of MT first. That and MT's lyrical sound - as persuasive in its narrower way as Brian's contributions were - is what clinches it for me.

They're both irreplaceable. And Woody's detractors should ponder what the band would have sounded like with other guitarists historically likely to join. Woods is far from decisively to blame for any "decline" in later Stones. (Songwriting? No more than MT.)

BTW, there should be a Woody smiley or two put up in fairness.

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Reply #36 - Dec 2^nd, 2009 at 3:17pm

andrews27 wrote on Dec 2^nd, 2009 at 9:49am:

I absolutely love Brian Jones, and you can't replace the instrumental sound that he brought to many, many great records. But I discovered him second while growing up in the 1970s, and heard a lot of MT first. That and MT's lyrical sound - as persuasive in its narrower way as Brian's contributions were - is what clinches it for me.

They're both irreplaceable. And Woody's detractors should ponder what the band would have sounded like with other guitarists historically likely to join. Woods is far from decisively to blame for any "decline" in later Stones. (Songwriting? No more than MT.)

BTW, there should be a Woody smiley or two put up in fairness.

good points....
I voted for MT because that's my personal musical preference overall - the melody, versatility etc....

but i can't imagine Some Girls without Ronnie, or Under My Thumb withour Brian/
Each one is ireplaceable because each era is so distinctive and separate from the others.

Brian was creative and could play any instrument instinctively, a true musician....MT was MT and Ronnie was more loose, funky and punky....which fit that Some Grils-TY period, the period when i got hooked and which defined them for me initially......
the others came later for me....
so although we all have our preferences, they were all so characteristic of their time.

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uncleson Rocks Off Regular Offline Rocks Off Rules You Bastards Posts: 1,169 USA Gender:	Re: Fav. Stones period by Guitarist (besides Keith Reply #37 - Dec 5^th, 2009 at 2:48pm very well said, texile!
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Heart Of Stone Rocks Off Regular Offline Rocks Off Rules Posts: 4,001 Charlottetown Prince Edward Is Gender:	Re: Fav. Stones period by Guitarist (besides Keith Reply #38 - Dec 6^th, 2009 at 7:17am so far. Brian-46- 27% Mick T.-100-58.8% Ronnie-24-14.1%
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Heart Of Stone Rocks Off Regular Offline Rocks Off Rules Posts: 4,001 Charlottetown Prince Edward Is Gender:	Re: Fav. Stones period by Guitarist (besides Keith Reply #39 - Dec 11^th, 2009 at 6:19pm Poll closed. Brian-48 Votes 26.8% Mick T.-106 votes 59.2% Ronnie-25 Votes 13.9% Mick of course is the winner, Ronnie is the least.
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Question: Fav. Stones period by guitarist (besides Keith)
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Brian Jones. 48 (26.8%) Mick Taylor. 106 (59.2%) Ronnie Wood. 25 (14.0%) Total votes: 179 « Last Modified by: Heart Of Stone on: Nov 25^th, 2009 at 6:44am »