nankerphelge wrote on Apr 19
th, 2010 at 9:22am:
I agree.
Didn't take to Plundered right away.
Someone said the vocals sounded like Alfie!
Maybe not that bad, but there was a disconnect -- hearing Mick's late era sound with the ghost of Mick Taylor's slide wailing in the background. The left side and the right side of the brain were confused.
So I took some medicine that helps me tune the right and left lobes nicely, and perhaps not surprisingly, it sounded better each listen.
Then...whoever posted that Dancing With the Stones thingy...may the Stonesian gods bless you!
I went into a full blown 1972 Exile fest.
Recognizing many of the tunes from Hillside Blues (thank your Rick wherever you are) I abandoned my Saturday household chores for beers and Stones all day. I put on my balls in mouth Exile shirt, my Stones hat, and explained to anyone and everyone who would listen to me about the new release, the greatness of the original, the bonus tracks, the making of Exile, the unreleased videos that are coming out, the track order on vinyl, the liner notes, etc.
I woke up in the garage at 4am.
Staggered into the house and made coffee and slept on the couch.
Sunday, I attempted to recreate Nellcote in my basement.
I went downstairs in the morning with guitars, harmonicas, slides, picks, amps, hootch, cigarettes and Cheetos, unscrewed half the light bulbs, took my shirt off, got hammered, checked out the sounds and echos of the various rooms, and had little creative fights with myself all day about the particulars of the tracks I laid down. Since I don't have a studio, everything had to be run upstairs thru the nanky mobile unit - a 2-track 1979 Panasonic tape deck on a lazy susan. It was way cool. Got some good material down, that I plan on mastering in LA soon.
This morning my head hurt....
Good Lord I just watched the video - that could take weeks to sift through all of the footage in there. What is Charlie doing with the freakin' coat hangers???
Somewhere in Oyster Bay a man dressed in Action Slacks raises a stein; and with a little tear rolling down his cheek utters, "Thanks Nanky for being you"
Solid Gold Posting!
LJ.