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Post by dino on Sept 21, 2008 7:20:11 GMT -5
A proposito del critico svedese che ha stroncato l'ultimo album dei Rolling Stones dice, definendolo "l'uomo di Goteborg": "Devo avergli fottuto la moglie, o qualcosa del genere. Ce l'ha con me per qualche motivo. Queste cose non mi danno fastidio, per niente. La prossima volta che vado in Svezia manderò un gruppo di ragazzi a spezzargli le gambe".
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Post by manho on Sept 21, 2008 7:53:53 GMT -5
the album must be total shite if they don't even like it in sweden.
maybe keef will get jonny depp and the guy from babyshambles to break the guy's legs?
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Post by dino on Nov 24, 2008 8:35:09 GMT -5
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Post by owen on Dec 13, 2008 11:53:50 GMT -5
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Post by manho on Dec 14, 2008 14:22:42 GMT -5
Bo Diddley
The legendary musician, who died aged 79 on 2 June, is remembered by the Rolling Stones' guitarist, his friend for 40 years
Ronnie Wood
The Observer, Sunday 14 December 2008
Back in the Sixties, when I was with my first group, the Birds, me and the bass player, Kim Gardner, used to really enjoy listening to Bo's songs - funny ones such as 'Say Man' (sample line: 'You look like you've been whooped with an ugly stick'). We loved all the freaky sound effects on his records. His sound, which has been described as the devil moving his furniture, still turns me on today. All those early Bo Diddley recordings on Chess Records are absolutely brilliant.
The first time I met him was back in the Sixties at the 100 Club [in London]. He was topping the bill and the Birds were one of the support acts, but he didn't have a band with him so he asked us if we could back him up. What made him so great was his freedom, his reckless abandon, and the confidence that shone through in his music. He could break and change a guitar string onstage without stopping the song. I toured with him for the best part of a year in the Eighties and we had great fun. I got to know him really well and he was always very affectionate towards me.
Bo was quite a regular guy. He would more or less sit you on his knee, a bit like your granddad, and tell you a story about back in the old days and how he never used to understand racial segregation. 'There's a tap over here for black people and a tap over there for white people,' he'd say, 'but the pipe is joined underneath. It's the same pipe.'
It was an honour to play with him. I'd have the respect to let him take the lead, and he respected me a lot, too, and gave me my own little solo section during the show. He would take my suggestions. I'd say: 'Come on, let's do "You Can't Judge a Book By Its Cover",' and he'd go: 'Oh yeah, you like that one?' I'd suggest 'I'm a Man' and he'd say: 'I wrote that, you know.' I'd say: 'Oh, I thought Muddy Waters wrote that.' 'Nah, he wrote "Mannish Boy".' 'But it's the same song!' He and Muddy Waters had that friendly rivalry all through their lives.
He made me laugh. He was cheerful, positive and very encouraging. He always regarded himself as God's gift to women, thought he was really fantastic looking. You had to be 'a real round mound of sound, y'know' to attract the girls. He wouldn't go for a beer with us after the show, though. He was very rigorous. He'd be back in his room in his underpants and his cowboy hat and his sheriff's badge, ordering White Tower burgers. He'd have five cheeseburgers and four regular burgers. Compared to him they were only the size of a dime. He was a bit like Bluto in the Popeye cartoons.
I'll always remember a piece of advice he gave me. I got him in the dressing room and said: 'We're with this record company called Decca and they're really not doing anything for us. What do you think I should do?' 'Well,' he said, 'go into their office and say: "If you ain't gonna shit, get off the pot."'
It was really just such an honour and a pleasure to meet him. He is part of the DNA of rock 'n' roll, but like many great musicians he never got the credit he was due. It's a shame that he's gone, but you can still hear his influence in music today. The Bo Diddley effect lives on - and I think it'll only get stronger.
guardian.co.uk © Guardian News and Media Limited 2008
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Post by zilla on Dec 15, 2008 20:41:20 GMT -5
There was a video of Ronny & Bo playing on that tour he mentions. It's one of my favorites to watch. Ronny does a killer version of Honky Tonk Woman (which I think is better than any Sotnes version) and of course some of his other cool stuff. When Bo introduces Ronny, he comes out with a cocktail and a lit dig. He looks totally hammered, but he brought the goods to that show. Unfortunetly the tape I have is not in great condition. If anyone knows where a decent copy is please let me know. There is a CD of that show too, though it might be out of print now.
Thanks Nick for the good read...Love that Bluto thing...hahaha
Hahah got to love some dyslectic spellings I have sometimes...above for Stones I wrote Sotnes...get it sot-ness
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Post by cripes on Dec 28, 2008 18:05:31 GMT -5
Check out the folk process here: This May Be The Last Time by The Five Blind Boys of Alabama. I just looked at de wiki and it said Keith first heard it from The Staple Singers. |
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Post by dino on Jan 22, 2009 9:33:17 GMT -5
Red Hot Chili Peppers' Flea has joined the reunited Faces to help the group complete their first album in over three decades.
Speaking to the Daily Mirror at the South Bank Awards earlier this week, Ronnie Wood has confirmed that the RHCP's bassist will join The Faces for their reunion tour, and that they have completed their first album since 'Ooh La La' was released in 1973.
Wood also revealed that the new material was written during a trip abroad he and Rod Stewart took over Christmas.
The Mirror reports that Wood and the band's frontman Rod Stewart visited Costa Rica, Bermuda and Miami to get inspiration, and then wrote the album's songs in three days.
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Post by zilla on Jan 22, 2009 20:52:38 GMT -5
Awesome news.....It would also give me a reason to Stewart for the first time (cause I'd have the Ronnie excuse) since I didn't have the balls to see him before. Thanks dino.....Does this mean we'll see another Keith solo album?
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Post by zilla on Jan 22, 2009 21:03:38 GMT -5
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Post by dino on Jan 23, 2009 2:55:33 GMT -5
what the fuck - toopid journos of my ass
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Post by manho on Mar 25, 2009 17:52:33 GMT -5
 Mick Jagger watches himself performing "Tell Me" with the Rolling Stones on the Red Skelton Show in 1965 while on tour in America some great early stones fotos (and a couple of less interesting beatles ones) from rolling stone. check out the link at expecting rain. |
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Post by manho on Jul 7, 2009 5:24:28 GMT -5
From the archive: 7 July 1969
A glimpse of Britain in 10 years
7 July 1969
Richard Gott, the Guardian
Great crowds arouse curious emotions. What exactly were half a million people doing in Hyde Park for seven hours on Saturday?
Ostensibly they were there for a free concert by the Rolling Stones. In practice they seemed to be registering their presence at some primeval rite. Most of the music, with the exception of a sensational group called the King Crimson, was indifferent. Few people could see the stage. Yet Saturday's "happening" was a great and epoch-making event in British social history.
Although an extraordinary event, it seemed to be perfectly normal. No one there seemed surprised to be there. Those absent were the weirdies. Strange clothes, yes, but no longer looking as though they had been specially put on for the occasion. Much, indeed, had been put off; girls, having cut away as much as possible from top and bottom, are now hacking away from the middle. Navels abound.
To an old-timer it would seem like the climax of an Aldermaston march, though without the politics. For one Surrealist moment it was like being transferred to the Plaza de la Revolucion in Havana with Fidel Jagger haranguing the assembled workers.
"Are you going to cool it?" he bellows with a touch of rebellious fury in his voice. They cool it and listen in respectful silence while he reads a poem to his dead former companion, Brian Jones. Then he bursts into powerful, electronically-reinforced song. The park fills with butterflies and everyone wakes up from their torpor.
The Stones were not good on Saturday, and a restless, exhausted crowd began moving away before the end. But for seven hours they had preferred the discomfort of participation.
In all such events there is a feeling that those who have come to listen are as important as those who have come to play. In that sense, the relationship between pop group and audience is a total one - wholly communion as Ginsberg would have it.
Most fantastic of all was that this was a free concert, an event that seemed to be taking place in a Socialist society in the distant future. The participants, almost all born since the Second World War, had a classless air, and they were less disciplined, less puritanical than the middle-class protesters of earlier days. Today there is no protest, but merely a feeling - perhaps a false one - that a kind of freedom has been achieved in spite of, rather than because of, the activities of Wilson, Heath, and company.
Anyone who wants to have an inkling of what Britain will be like in 10 years' time should have been there.
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Post by manho on Jul 7, 2009 5:30:14 GMT -5
"Anyone who wants to have an inkling of what Britain will be like in 10 years' time should have been there."
ten years later, almost to the day, thatcher won her first general election...
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Post by cripes on Jul 21, 2009 11:19:29 GMT -5
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Post by manho on Jul 21, 2009 16:49:43 GMT -5
i believe that should be Cathy's Clown. I know cos i had the single.
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