Mel Belli wrote on Mar 5^th, 2010 at 8:43am:



Nice one Mel !!

This thread almost got relegated to page two. Uh oh.

Ok, here's my attempt at Dance Little Sister.
It's pretty rough, don't expect much. I had to ease up on the Bigsby because I kept going out of tune.

What an unusual guitar MT plays here. Sounds like a Tele to me. Lot's of whammy bar vibrato's. Lot's of 'em . . .
And that 'hammer on - pull off' run throughout. Very unusual. Never heard that from MT before OR after this song.
Certainly the most unusual MT solo from his years in The Rolling Stones. The distortion on his guitar is also bizarre.
Sounds like there is a connection loose at times. Very coughy sounding.

This was the first album with produced by the Glimmer Twins, right?
Pretty mediocre mixing on this track, IMO. I can imagine them with their hands on the mixing levers, ready to fade out and then back in. And at some point they turn up Taylor's guitar so that it drowns out the rhythm of the song. I also noticed that a couple of Taylor's parts are overdubbed. I can still hear one note ringing as a new note starts. Poor mixing I think.

I only get about 3 minutes of video recording, so after a few attempts that cut off before I got near the end of the song, I decided to truncate the redundant sections. I wanted to get as many of the solo notes in as possible. I missed a few, oh well . . .


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnVDYOisglI

Hey: how about MT's "I Could Have Stood You Up" solo? Chuck Berry-ish, but never as simple as it seems.

Apparently, the school of rock also doubles as fat camp.

That was mean.

I take it back.

Mel Belli wrote on Mar 11^th, 2010 at 1:23pm:



You gotta admit, they're damn cute.
Pretty obscure choice of songs though, huh?

fuman wrote on Mar 11^th, 2010 at 2:35pm:


Seems to me he was in the same boat as Jeff Beck: couldn't pull off the Clapton two-step of singing and fronting a band as well as being a "virtuoso." MT's first solo album tried for the Beck-ian, muffled-snare fusion sound of the '70s, but I think it arrived far too late to be successful on those terms. Add to that the drug problems. Like Beck, too, MT wasn't heard from, recording-wise, for long stretches. But his chops are nowhere in the same shape as Beck's are today ... That guy seems to have reached a second peak.

Okay, it's up now. Had to change something in the tags, it seems.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iL05GeyXZg

fuman wrote on Mar 15^th, 2010 at 3:16pm:


Good point. Hadn't considered that. Chuck often played in sharps and flats, didn't he?

fuman wrote on Mar 15^th, 2010 at 3:58pm:


Keith's boosting of Johnnie's reputation — and his apparent encouragement of that lawsuit against Chuck — has not sat well with Chuck, I don't think

Happy to do it — as well as watch others doing same ... I'm thinking about introducing some piano vids. It's not my strong suit, but I can fairly well get through some Nicky Hopkins riffs, like the "Loving Cup" intro and bits of "Let It Loose."

Any ideas, guitar or otherwise?

Problem is, I don't have a tripod. I just recorded the right hand of the "Loving Cup" intro (the right hand, at least) with my Droid phone, but I can't get doubleTwist to talk to YouTube. I looked into converting the video file and downloaded Handbreak, but I can't seem to get that software to find any of my media files!

Fantastic stuff

Mel Belli wrote on Mar 15^th, 2010 at 4:44pm:


Snowy Wood (the Beano's Boys version?)
Gimme Shelter live
Shine A Light

Of course, whatever you add would be greatly appreciated.

By the way, who do you think is playing the main rhythm on Star Star?  One channel has a prominent boogie rhythm, the other has a secondary version of this rhythm and the multi-stop "lead" that starts in the other channel and pans to this channel.  (The lead break is mono as far as I recall and is not what I'm referring to.)