some (sweet) girl:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2010/oct/17/jerry-hall-life-on-a-plate

For pity's shake... only one response to this dietary honestitty?
Has no one else here nibbled nutritionally on testes?
Bitch?  Lady Jane? ...Gazza?

Shake it up - to an almost silly degree - lovely peoplings....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MqZSW6Bp6A

Is this all we have to talk about ?  

and gimmekeef - me thinks you may protest just a tidsy bit too much

WaiteringOnAFiend wrote on Oct 22^nd, 2010 at 12:03am:


No, not silly.  

I am an indiscriminate disco-hater, and don't call me Shirley. http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s209/leepullen/people-514-leslienielsen.jpgt=...

WaiteringOnAFiend ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsksSWOxq2Y

Marvellous, thanks for the tip-off / inside track.

Joey - let's chin-wag, at your convenience, about your experience(s).
To loosen you up, we could first shake our boogie bodies to the full 10 min version of 'Hey Negrita'.

By-the-by, have the 'members' of this board ever discussed what the Stoonz would have been like if Tina from Talking Heads had become their bassist (as mooted).

Furtherly by-the-by, 'Some Girls' was a splendid disc, absolutely shirley, but I do wonder what our beloved band of mummies' boys would have produced if 'punk' hadn't come along and distracted from the black & bluey grooves.

One day the 1976 Shepperton Studios rehearsal tapes will surface and even Edith will reconsider his tastes and acknowledge the Stoonz key role on the groovy dancefloor.

Anyway, get on down, all...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGOO8ZhWFR4&feature=related

Peace.




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGOO8ZhWFR4&feature=related

WaiteringOnAFiend wrote on Oct 23^rd, 2010 at 12:14am:



That was never an option. The simple explanation is that when asked about a replacement for Bill, Keith quipped that it would be ironic (knowing Bill's reputation as a serial shagger) if they replaced him with a woman.

Lazy and very stupid journalists took this a bit too literally, and Tina Weymouth, being probably the most well known bassist at the time, was the easy option for a non existent rumour.

Tina never even auditioned. Nor, as far as I know, was she ever approached for an audition.

She's always been a ballbreaker

Gazza wrote on Oct 25^th, 2010 at 7:25pm:


I think there was possibly slightly more to it than that, Gazza. A joke's a joke, but a joke can also be rather revealing about the band and their musings. I'm sure, for instance, that Jagger did semi-seriously consider playing bass himself once Bill pushed-off; he does indeed play bass at song-developing sessions with Keith & Chuck.
But my question does still stand : Could Tina have cut the mustard? Could she have put up with Keith's embarrassing references to her as 'the chick'? Would she have helped develop their grooves in exciting ways?
Just thoughts. Sorry.

XX

gotdablouse wrote on Oct 26^th, 2010 at 4:31pm:
Ok, but what does that have to do with the direction their recording career took ? Aren't you confusing this with the 45 minute version of "Jah is not Dead" that Mick played to the record execs when they asked to hear what had been recorded for Some Girls ?
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Apologies, as this is a quicker.shorter version of a reply I wrote and was about to post when my comp decided to switch itself off and 'configure updates'.

I will try to explain my earlier wafflings.
Certainly Knebworth rehearsals were held at Shepperton and certainly very lengthy and rather experimental / playful versions of some tunes were played, one of which was 'Under My Thumb'. I certainly got the impression that they were all being recorded through the mixing desk, albeit onto metallic cassette tapes. It's more a wish / fantasy that they still exist, because I think it was an interesting time for the Stoonz and I would like my memories confirmed that they were - at least some of the time - being very groovy and imaginative in funky, reggae-y and jazzy ways.
Keith (who spoke on CBS on Sunday about his son's death being the worst thing that happened in his life) seemed incapable - or perhaps just unwilling - to do much more than hit ever-so-slightly-delayed smacky rhythm, which nevertheless seemed to work very well in the context of what was being played by the rest of the band, which seemed to be driven/controlled/inspired by Jagger & Preston. Ronald, of course, was up for funkiness; Chuck was honing his off-beats and such things and the Bill W could add nice understated touches to anything. Bill and Ian had the patience of autistic carers, shirley.
Anyway, what was my point? I was just sort of teasing Edith about his dismissal of all '70s dancefloor grooving, but I am fascinated sometimes when thinking baout where the Stoonz could have gone if: punk hadn't come along (and punk bands hadn't criticised the Stoonz) and Jagger hadn't naturally felt it interesting to explore puink music and also tease it; but also if Keith hadn't been - I suspecyt - so essentially conservative and also (?) jealous of Jagger & Preston's collaboration(s).

One final thought, as I've rattled too much already -- I've never, for instance, really felt that 'Miss You' has worked as well as it could do when played live, and I do wonder if things like that would have been different if the Stones' had retained a 'black' keyboardist.


Love To All

Thanks for your understanding, Blousey.
To continue the original theme, Richards might - at least occasionally - talk balls / have a mouth populated by, or spouting, balls.
The 'facile musicians', if he indeed said that, might have included Ollie B... who had (been allowed to) taken, at least, the 1975 live performances up a lovely (percussive) notch or two, or even three.

Anyway, in someways I think this has all been a a bit of a distraction from / a way of avoiding the nitty-gritty, of getting down (groovily) to hearing about Joey's nut-nibbling tale(s). I shall await those, and any further thoughts on the potential or realised or detoured grooviness of the Stoonz.

X

Jerry & Georgia Jagger will be in Melbourne next week. I might offer my testicles to her.